10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe

This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard about Germany. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.

1. Administration consulting in Germany has firms familiar with administration techniques help steer their customers through the countries bureaucracy without running into problems. It’s said that these companies mean that the wealthy can get past the red tape whilst everyone else is choked by it.
2. As well as several megacorps based out of Germany, there are thousands of lesser businesses that fill the niches not filled by the megacorporations. It’s said that these are the country’s true economic strength, and that there have been regular attempts to damage the smaller companies in order to reduce German influence.
3. Contraband comes through Frankfurt Airport, but thanks to this being Germany, the import of contraband is tightly controlled by the authorities. It’s rumoured that recently a non-German gang tried to muscle into the trade in contraband, only to find they were up against not only local gangs but the government and police as well, none of whom wanted someone unauthorised moving into the trade in technically illegal goods.
4. Frankfurt is the number two European banking city, with London still holding the number one spot. It’s rumoured that Frankfurt is willing to do anything, as long as they don’t get caught, to displace London from the number one position, and have been hiring mercenaries through cutouts to achieve this.
5. German companies monitor specific schools in other countries, looking for potential future employees who can fulfil specific needs. It’s rumoured that some of the companies have decided that it would be easier to own the schools themselves, and have started buying up some foreign schools.
6. Germany has several major political parties, but there are two larger than the others which depend on the smaller ones to gain majorities. It’s rumoured that some of the smaller parties are in truth not as independent as they might seem, as they are indirectly controlled by the two majors.
7. The demand for employees in Germany is rising, but there are too few natives for this, thanks to the Plague. This has led to companies importing employees from other countries and, reputedly, some megacorporations have been pouring more funding into robotic and AI in the hopes of replacing living employees with these.
8. The expansion of Frankfurt Airport in 2011 by the Flughafen AG which manages everything in and around it was not appreciated by the locals. FAG were rumoured to have bought an anti-missile system, and it’s rumoured that recently it’s actually been used on several different occasions.
9. Villages in Germany often have various benefits to encourage small businesses to come to them and cooperate with each other. One way in which they cooperate is in security, which allows small companies to, combined, field as much security as the megacorporations. It’s rumoured that some of these are considering joining forces in their own security company, to really make a mark on the global scene.
10. Volker Mohr made many enemies during his time in power, eventually becoming too radical even for those who agreed with him, but he made a lasting mark on German politics. It’s rumoured that there’s a new group forming on the political fringes that takes Mohr’s ideas as their inspiration, with the aim of doing more with them than he ever managed.

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