In all honesty, this seems all too real... the whole corporate media feeds you what they want you to know.

That scene with the preacher trying to encourage people to move on from their dead loved ones while the corporate sponsor is paraded like some kind of hero. As an atheist, I don't see this as needing be a religious argument at all.

We have talks about how deregulation has allowed the same companies that create cybernetics (N54 news) are now the ones deciding if it is safe for the consumer. The news, being controlled by the corporate entities of course makes this sound like a good thing.

There's more fun to be had with how NCPD won the right to fire a warning shot into a suspect's limbs as well as detain suspects for up to 1 year without prosecution. It's hard to deny that we are heading down the path of shoot first and losing the presumption of innocence these days.

Of course, it wouldn't be cyberpunk if companies weren't mandating that their employees get augments, and even pay for the augments they're required to get. That is one of the most troubling problems in cyberpunk, because while the other issues we recognize as bad, the whole human augmentation we still don't see as a way to further inequality.

There are actual NPC conversations about border walls in the game. One character says everyone is leaving the city because of people like the other and the other rebuts that they wouldn't be leaving if there was a border wall.

Eitherway, great lore in the game, just seems so real.