Cyberpunk's Anarchy In The UK | Full Cyberpunk 2020 - 2077 Lore

The Cyberpunk 2077 universe is set within the USA but that doesn't mean there aren't other stories out there in the rest of the world. Today we explore the history of the UK within the Cyberpunk timeline and what they've been up to over the years.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:16 - Post-WW2
5:22 - Downfall Of The Royal Family
7:05 - Return Of The Royals
9:16 - Restructuring UK
13:03 - 2040 - 2077
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[@WiseFish]

Cheers for watching chooms! Hope you enjoyed this video and look into another country outside of America in the Cyberpunk universe. Let me know what else you’d like to see!

[@Nimbus118]

Would love a video about the state of Africa in Cyberpunk. I know in the lore it’s become sort of a technological and social paradise. Think wakanda but for the whole continent due in no small part to the orbital and space industries on the continent going back to the formation of the EEC. Even in 2077 we see ads for Somalia and other African countries I believe portraying them as paradise on earth.

[@danielhogan6255]

Big thanks to missus fish for this video, always wondered what this side of the pond looked like in cyberpunk!

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

was great loved this video m8

[@SPARTANG294]

Do Japan. It has a pretty hefty section in the Pacific Rim sourcebook.

[@marcosbradanovic9100]

Do the soviet union

[@sadgiraffe6669]

It’s pretty funny if you live in England hearing that nomads are in Englands countryside, if you know anything about the English countryside side it’s that it’s not exactly wide open spaces with space for nomadic tribes to wander. They would be “roaming” for 5 minutes before they come across a quaint village or an impassable hedge.

[@scarry776]

So true, they'd be roaming with fiat 500's or Minis because nothing else can fit through the country roads

[@Johnmichaelmoore2359]

😂

[@oatdilemma6395]

Found the city boy

[@UnclePutte]

I was under the notion that most of that old, small, low-density population centre spread had fallen to the corporations at the very beginning and either paved over by industrial parks or left to become ghost towns as folk were forced to either work and live in urban factories or starve. This forced displacement of peoples from their original, natural habitat by corporation influence is one of the main themes of Cyberpunk 2020 and onwards.

[@ianmaluk1]

It's very much written from an American's limited understanding of the UK. In actuality the nomads would literally just be normal countryside Englishmen who'd have their own independent government, due to having control of the vast production of food in the UK, so imagine the countryside looking like the Shire from LoTR with border control against the cities.

[@samc7486]

it never ceases to amaze me how the cyberpunk team made Britain more of a hellscape than it is today

[@theeffete3396]

Well, Cyberpunk is SUPPOSED to be a dystopia. The people responsible for screwing up Britain now call is "progress."

[@MrBark1969]

​@mando7079 yeah it's awful... absolutely awful. London anyway ( I live here)

[@MrBark1969]

@mando7079 hahaha you'll Want to dïe after a couple of months... horrible people and horrible weather with prices that are too expensive. Each to their own though

[@honestreviews7185]

​@@mando7079unless you're gonna get into a good career ... don't bother! I would rather visit than live there

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

​@@MrBark1969London ain't the entire country pal. Belfast and Cardiff aren't that bad. That be like to going to DC or Paris and saying that solely because of these, the country sucks ass

[@lobbyskids2]

I want to know if greggs became a mega corporation and became the main suppler of food as well as branching off into weapons manufacturing.

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

Greggs branded artillery shells being referred to as "sausage rolls" is something I could picture

[@reece9746]

Fuck this is brilliant. Prob melt you with cheesy beans.

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

@@reece9746 honestly if you bite into that shit piping hot you may as well be eating napalm

[@ADMONIUS]

⁠​⁠@@reece9746Gregg’s branded dragon’s breath shells. It leaves a cheesy aroma afterwards.

[@reece9746]

@@ADMONIUS Don't forget the Gregivistan.

[@GoldmaskisBased]

Unfortunately the prediction that Luton would still be around in the 2020s turned out to be horrifically accurate

[@Mojotasticification]

And now it's considered a city! Funny, I always considered it a toilet

[@Joubes]

The most unbelievable part of this is that Princess Anne would go down without killing half the nation.

[@eagleflies9515]

princess anne would solo adam smasher and it's not even close

[@ZephyrTM101]

Honestly, true.

[@DrNicky-xk1hn]

FOR ANNE WE RISE!!!

[@rikhenry9701]

"Not Blood Likely!"

[@TonyTylerDraws]

One of the things that gets overshadowed by Night City is that the rest of the world of Cyberpunk is just as bad.

[@p5ychojoe138]

Streetkid V even has lines mentioning "If Atlanta was better than night city they would of not come back".

[@TonyTylerDraws]

@@p5ychojoe138 yeah a lot of the other big cities are essentially combos zones akin to Dogtown.

[@celiatiranno6574]

In the book No Coincidences, a Corpo character says that Night City is unequivocally the best place in the world.

[@DylanJo123]

​@@celiatiranno6574Man, that makes the whole universe much more terrifying.

[@helio3728]

@@DylanJo123I believe that a couple places are actually nice places to live unlike night city but to keep such a thing going even the most mundane of offenses are punished extremely harsh

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

"Anarchy in the UK" sounds like a banger title for a punk rock song

[@theeffete3396]

It's coming sometime. It may be.

[@Cuckler]

Chaos UK is a pretty awesome punk rock band, close enough

[@theeffete3396]

@@Cuckler Whooooosh

[@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo]

Someone should make a band with an edgy name like coitus guns and record that song.

[@Gyrfalcon312]

I think some band with Pistols in their name made a song about this. A bit of an oldie, as I recall.

[@rileylong5250]

The Prince Andrew jokes had me cackling, good job Mrs wisefish

[@AesirUnlimited]

Just when I thought the UK couldn’t get any more hellish.

[@reecesmith-saunders907]

Sounds like you've never visited Manchester..... It's kinda like the cantina scene from star wars, just alot more sad and pathetic...

[@CorvoFG]

I live in Bath, I have to go to Bristol for true degeneracy.

[@apostolos8734]

Is it really that bad over there?

[@fireknight2888]

still better than luton

[@onidarkmoon2381]

Might as well call it Hellgate: London. ;P

[@kagetsuki23]

I heard in the radio in the game what happened to China, it looked even more hellish that it is currently in reality. A game in the cyberpunk version of China would be a terrifying experience. I guess it would be like the Mirror Edge.

[@danghoangluong2942]

what happened in China?

[@SergyMilitaryRankings]

What's hellish about China? Yeah they're authoritarian and you can't criticise the government but on average most people live reasonably okay. If you're from the US it's best not to throw stones

[@SergyMilitaryRankings]

What's hellish about China? Yeah they're authoritarian and you can't criticise the government but on average most people live reasonably okay. If you're from the US it's best not to throw stones

[@sylaconnocalys8443]

​@@danghoangluong2942basically the government controls every little aspect of the citizens life. I remember listening to a radio broadcast saying that manual travel is banned and that all vehicles must be automated and tracked "for the safety of the public".

[@avet4952]

​@sylaconnocalys8443 is it accurate to believe what the ingame radio says? I wouldnt be surprised if there was an element of propaganda there

[@antonironstag5085]

Meanwhile, Ireland by 2077 has had its natural beauty preserved by corporations and has become essentially a massive nature park. Dublin is also the only megacity, though its not explained what the conditions there are like.

[@neishab412]

Do you have any links for Irish cyberpunk lore?

[@its_renren7292]

Y'know, ever since I heard a certain news broadcast while driving through Watson, one near the very beginning of Act 1 I grew very curious as to the state of other continents: It was one talking about the last Koala in Australia called Omega passing away due to health complications and how nature and wildlife organisations wanted it gone before then.

[@rubaiyat300]

We do need an update. A lot of the regional splatbooks from the tabletop are uh.... dated visions of the future. Some can be kindly considered baked into the setting/genre and others weirdly accidentally prophetic by being so backwards, but yeah a lot of minor/major developments IRL have made some of the depictions, especially of relative importance and advancement dated.

[@neil4692]

I like how it honours the tradition that it is impossible to get rid of the monarchy in the UK

[@SinRayquaza]

LeL this does not feel like a lore video of Cyberpunk's UK. This feels like a prediction/premonition of what's to come 😅

[@honestreviews7185]

😐

[@comsky4251]

i swear to god if we have a 2nd Brexit over Gibraltar of all places in leaving this damn country

[@Swoiny]

Here before lazershanks

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

Made by people who’ve never been to the UK, nomads? In the UK? Nomads on an island? Yeah, the people who wrote this lore haven’t actually been to the UK or been in the UK countryside, because if they did, they’d have realised its kinda hard to be nomadic on a veritable garden of an island, with human settlement every five minutes,

[@dragonfruitsalad]

​@@pyrrhusofepirus8491its not wrong about the shitter that the UK is currently diving into though thats for sure

[@KingFluffs]

6:15 lmao a cyber nonce spotted at pizza express.

[@sman14GTA]

He takes critical damage from the Overheat quickhack lol

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

Imagine the people in the film "Threads" but in a Cyberpunk setting. That's how I picture it in my mind.

[@jameslyddall]

Threads is the most depressing thing I’ve ever watched, saw it randomly and even though it’s slightly dated boy it hits hard.

[@neilhannan7525]

Hope We Get a DLC like London Cyberpunk or British City in the Universe ❤

[@GhostonGuitar]

I think they said Phantom Liberty was the first and final expansion for 2077

[@demonicthan742]

I doubt we'll ever go past Night City tbh

[@GhostonGuitar]

​@@demonicthan742another game is in development

[@worldofdoom995]

closest you get is Watch dogs legion

[@Ravello1111111111111111111]

Imagine the roadmen gang.

[@user-kv5lq9xm8c]

Modern day UK and cyberpunk sounds inseparable

[@ofulero46]

Man i just found your lore videos a couple days ago and I'm watching all of them! Keep it up, Cyberpunk lore is my new favorite

[@Ozcogger]

Always such amazing work. I appreciate the dive into this lore you've been doing.

[@thealphaomega4888]

Thank you for all the in depth lore you provide. I and many others truly appreciate your work

[@TheTeePineTree]

Crazy how much great content you pump out in such short time

[@Cothfotmeoo]

Really fantastic! Never occurred to me (being an ignorant American) how the world would look overseas in the Cyberpunk universe so I appreciate having my eyes opened to it through this vid! Thank you so much for all the detailed delving you do to make these intricate lore videos and your amazing editing/script work to make them engaging and informative. Well played.

[@TonyTylerDraws]

The sourcebooks are great for that sort of thing.

[@the_arcanum]

Honestly the CP2020 sourcebooks are pretty bad and very far fetched, showing a limited understanding of non US poltics and sociology. Shadowrun regional sourcebooks were way better and many EU game masters preferred using these as a background for rpg sessions. We just edited the fantasy part (no elves or orcs needed thank you very much) to fit our CP sessions.

[@CxerRy96]

I LOVE WiseFish content it's so well produced

[@Layo81]

Thanks I've read a fair few Cyberpunk PDFs but you present this well, with subtle humour.

[@the_arcanum]

Try to find the Shadowrun ones they are better written and more inspiring. Just cut out the dragons and elves nonsense and you've got a very interesting and morealistic setup.

[@CallMeVidd]

It will never cease to amaze me how deep the Cyberpunk lore goes even for locations you never see in any media of the franchise

[@Gyrfalcon312]

As I understand it, R. Talsorian Games had community members from around the world who helped inform the lore of the many, many locales of the universe.

[@MariShowsLove]

Just discovered you and love your cyberpunk vids! Thank you! ❤ you make great content!

[@nightingale8481]

Its pretty cool your wife got involved with this as well, I think the fact the lore is this expansive and the game itself has gotten so much better has really given people a drive to learn about it which is awesome cause ive been really liking theses videos youve made. Great work both of you 👍

[@Gyrfalcon312]

Between Wise here and Watchman Gaming, I've gotten a small handle on how deep the _Cyberpunk_ rabbit hole goes.

[@ogx4185]

love the lore videos so much. I know more history here than irl i swear LOL. Great videos man keep it up.

[@pedalpen9844]

Thanks for putting these shows on spotify. Helps pass time when I'm out of service range

[@Greeneyesamurai]

I enjoy learning about all the countries in the world and how they have changed through the dark future. I would love to see different countries or at least hear more about them for the cyberpunk 2077 sequel. Great video!

[@halloweye4613]

Welcome to the dark dystopian Mrs. Wisefish! It only gets darker from here Chombatta! Really preem video, I haven't seen any or much UK lore so far! As always Wisefish and studios(?) Have produced a quality vid!

[@theeffete3396]

Check out Eurosource and A Rough Guide to the UK, both for the Cyberpunk 2020 game system. That where most of the info in this vid came from.

[@Varizen87]

If Mrs. Wisefish wrote this, let's give her a dedicated comment with some love and respect for her work.

[@SoranotRoxas]

*You kind of forget what is going on in the rest of the world, cause the Night City story is so over the top and crazy.* 😅

[@lightskindjango]

We all appreciate you giving us some real knowledge on that insane universe

[@misterinkeduk]

Thank you Mrs Wisefish for you contribution to this video.... I hope you keep doing more.

[@kylekopsi7039]

Huge shout out to Mrs Wisefish from across the ocean. Love your videos 🙏

[@novacaine_]

S/O to Mrs Wise Fish! Great video as usual

[@Lord_CV]

So nothing really changed from the real world

[@CevicheGato]

It’s more hellscape earlier in the UK than irl UK.

[@beforelifewaschaos]

Thank you Misses Wisefish! Just yesterday I heard the Cyberpunk Story about my Homeland, Germany. I could watch these stories all day, think I found my new favorite Game Universe 😄 And it's awesome to hear about all the other countries in this universe, I miss these stories often in other games sadly 😊

[@sebby324]

As somebody who lives in the English countryside this is essentially just what I see the cities as

[@theminer49erz]

I love all of your Prince Andrew "Adjectives"! "Sweaty Andrew" is prob my favorite!

[@Queygaming1996]

He does it again🤌great video as always mate

[@omnissiah7859]

Fantastic video, love the lore. Could you do Germany next perhaps?

[@eastcoast7794]

Major props to your girl for this script. What amazing videos! Perfect narration, music and videos/pictures. Especially the few pictures from the graphic novel

[@UnclePutte]

Very enjoyable. I've devled through the books, but I never had the ability to summarize as effectively.

[@j377yb33n]

It's interesting how they took inspiration from every era of crisis and conflict that Britain encountered, the industrial age's luddites and the fears spun out from thatchers economic policies... and completely avoided mentioning anything about Northern Ireland or the Falklands or other overseas territories since the rulebook came out in the 80's and would have most likely been banned or subject to the same scrutiny of the video nasties. Could have been interesting since there was a few foreign companies already setting up in ROI and NI during that time. Great video m8!

[@datDrowningFish]

Having just introduced a British antagonist to my cyberpunk red game, I really appreciate this video. Now I need one on France for a player’s character background…

[@grumreapur]

This was awesome thank uou for putting it together. I know for a fact I would be a nomad in this scenario

[@rocksteadyska6933]

The Royal jokes were spot on 😂

[@robbymidgettofficial]

Mike Pondsmith was looking for any excuse to fit 70s British punk aesthetics into his game and I'm here for it.

[@atompunk456]

refreshing to see how other places other than the US and night city are doing in this world

[@kaptenteo]

Awedome video!

[@azora52]

As a Plymouth naitive something about Charles and Andrew meeting their end here makes me smile

[@MaytayMaya]

In the Cyberpunk universe, the SNP are just a bunch of gurellia fighters who have guns and the power to establish independence, but fail at it anyway. Even the indy curse transfers universes.

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

Nomads? In the UK of all places? The UK, a veritable cultivated garden of a country with a village or farm every five minutes? I have a feeling the people who wrote this lore either A. Literally knew nothing about the UK or England, or B. Didn’t think about because if they did, they’d realise being a nomad on an island is ridiculous.

[@ShiftyMcGoggles]

So, Travellers are a thing in the UK. They are a nomadic group.

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

@@ShiftyMcGoggles yeah, and there is only 300,000 of them, now imagine millions of them

[@ShiftyMcGoggles]

@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 so, Essex campsites during the summer, but all the time, and probably with a lot more guns.

[@wardy6224]

Written by Americans what do you expect :/

[@unitdroid5158]

do you think that America had no small towns or farms? likely the same thing happened in the uk that happened there. over industrialization ruining beautiful areas

[@MrZakXero]

So I’ve been watching all of these lore videos and every time prince Andrew is brought I die lmao

[@joshaiken6586]

Throwing my 2 pence in, I love the Cyberpunk universe and I love the immersion of how far do the ripples go.

[@ilove_tommyplays661]

lore about my home this lore is really dark i must thank you for teaching me this dark version of the UK :D

[@Northern_LAD]

The Prince Andrew jokes were on point mate

[@sharudawolf]

Yes exactly the video I wanted! Nice one as a northerner who's DMing my own campaign it's great to know other brits are doing good work on Cp Red. I'm surprised you only called Andrew sweaty. Although KZbin guidelines 😂 god save the queen!

[@Nathan_Coley]

This video somehow popped up on my feed today as a "new release" 3 weeks later. I was like "Ooh new WiseFish release on Night City Wire day!". Edit: Ooh Mrs WiseFish written video 👀

[@mrgibus8278]

Its so neat to hear a game or series has integrated your county into their conntinuity, and in such detail too! Its cool having EVERY piece of popular culture set in america, but it feels almost endearing to hear that someone gives a shit about us here in the UK

[@skullman-us7wn]

London calling, we aint got that swing. ‘Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing.”

[@ninjanoodle0944]

Love that pizza express reference mate 😂😂😂

[@TheIrishTexan]

There was mention of Northern Ireland, but I'm curious what happened in Ireland proper. Is there any lore about what state Ireland i in in the Cyberpunk timeline? I'd love a video about that!

[@the_redline_tv6440]

The Dis-United Kingdom sounds like a cursed Turtledove book

[@nobodyherepal3292]

4:30 that is, the most back-ass democracy I have ever heard. If you can even call it that.

[@fireknight2888]

bro imagine a cyberpunk game about being a nomad trying to take over the citys or working against corpirations

[@licktherock]

In NA at least, Nomads can just reclaim all the abandoned cities in the badlands. I think itd be fun trying to start up a settlement, dealing with raiders and traders, family politics inside your nomad family, and corporations trying to get their fingers in your operations.

[@unknownbenefactor8029]

Imagine a picture of Nomad Druid Netrunner taming cyberdog. Or Scottish Solo slicing corpo security with a tech Claymore. Neo Robinhood with Optical camo and state-of-the-art tech sniper rifle Could have been really nice ideas.

[@DukeofDusk]

Manchester being walled off and i thought it was crowded now 😅

[@NikolaiVolkovski]

I was just thinking yesterday, what does the rest of the world look like in CP? Appreciate the vid 🤘

[@jameslowry8787]

As someone joining the royal guard this video feels like an attack on Britain 😂😂💀

[@CR1SPYofficial]

im from the uk which made this interesting to watch and listen to although it would be interesting to learn about other countries other than ye ole' britain

[@tomasrolter6729]

Are you going to do more content about countries in the Cyberpunk world?

[@innouniversedoineedthis]

That first bit is almost comically close to what actually happened besides the whole nomad thing

[@Jaysin412]

Damn, 5 days ago, how'd I miss this?!?! Sorry I'm late choomba

[@Xehanort10]

5:49 Weird's an understatement when it comes to Andrew.

[@fritzman6483]

The UK’s SAS must be an unholy unit in 2077

[@dracotias]

So it's safe to say there was "panic on the streets of London"?

[@theeffete3396]

And there's panic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside...

[@Adamski707A]

Id love to explore tbe chaos of ireland here because in this time line the conflict in northern ireland probably didnt end and i wonder if the MLA would even try to keep northern ireland after their coup. It just simply staying northern ireland seems like someone saying i aint touching that powder keg as a writer and i dont blame them 😂

[@Wolven6]

It gave me a good chuckle. I like to imagine even the corpos thought twice about starting anything over here. 😅

[@justjack2.049]

Where do you get this lore from? Is this all from part of the rule books or are there novels?

[@heroicbannana8605]

Cyberpunk is like that meme of that dude wearing nightmare goggles, and noticing things look exactly the same.

[@theeffete3396]

Its been a long time since I read my old CP2020 books (especially Eurosource), but I find it amazing how the developers practically predicted real events. With the EEC going from an economic coalition to a totalitarian ruling body (looking at you E.U.), to the veritable collapse of the Royal Family once Charles became king.

[@mikeblatzheim2797]

In what possible way could the EU be considered a "totalitarian" entity? As for the royal family collapsing, there also appears to be a stark lack of evidence to point towards that happening. FYI, transitioning the EEC into a closer political alliance has been the aim from the beginning, and been worked towards since the 50s. So not that difficult to predict.

[@rubaiyat300]

I know the sourcebook was made with an American audience in mind (in a pre Internet age at that) who wouldn't necessarily think of it, but I always wondered what the mirror shade Royal guard was doing given the lore was the Royal family was executed. I would have hope most would have kept their posts and needed to have been taken out, at which point why would their positions remain?

[@senbrisbane5352]

Holy cow this is dark stuff. Cyberpunk is nuts.

[@theeffete3396]

Mike Pondsmith did call it "The Dark Future"

[@Cellmate412162]

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream makes Cyberpunk look like Disneyland.

[@theeffete3396]

@@Cellmate412162 Ironically, the forgetable Cyberpunk 3rd edition had a class that fought with weaponized animatronics from Diznee. We all try to ignore that stupid period in the games's history, and it has been officially retconned as an "alternate" timeline.

[@LostMercenary99]

I lol'd at the Pizza Express comment

[@FUMOFFU666]

to me the cyberpunk UK experience is the flashback and early story of the mindstar trilogy by Hamilton

[@1Nanerz]

I have yet to hear anything about Canada in the cyberpunk lore. Right next to NUSA must have some good stories.

[@VVyzard]

I NEED a game in this setting.

[@michaelbashford2733]

"weird" isn't quite the word I'd use for Prince Andrew...

[@weetytoaster1835]

I want to know what happened to the UK’s favourite colony Canada in this universe

[@njgamer69]

lol the microwave building

[@joejackson5708]

Whoooo! Shout out from middle anglia!

[@amazanta1605]

I’d love seeing cyberpunk in London since Ubisoft did it with watch dogs legion im sure cs projeckt red can

[@joelsubba3778]

Oh no, the Roadman, they’ve taken over oh well

[@raquetdude]

1:01 those green meadows/fields are industrial agriculture from another age, environmental dead zones… plain grass fields look nice but nothing aside from crops/grass grows, not exactly something beneficial to the environment. Just a point on how desolation can appear welcoming

[@bolk3217]

for thoes who read the books is there any lore concerning uk's wierdest friend and enemy france ?

[@theeffete3396]

There is! In the Cyberpunk 2020 game, Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, with France coming in at a close second. This wealth was mostly driven by a new-found personal ambition and nationalism after the Wasting Plague of the late 1990s killed nearly half the population. This new outlook (referred to as "dreampainting") is so strong amongst the youth in France, that if they don't attain their goals, they often commit suicide. Incidentally, this keeps poverty relatively low, which helps to keep their economy stable. High fashion and glitz & glam are practically the cultural norm. Those that aren't rich, try to fake it. Anyone who looks like a 'streetkid' is essentially a second-class citizen.

[@Wolfways]

I wish someone would overthrow the government. We already have a dystopian hellhole city though. London.