Editing Scum: We Is Scum (section)

==21st Century Britain==

This game was written in 2009, though the setting it depicts could have been from any time in the last 10 years, and probably will be relevant for at least a few more years yet.

Britain in 2009 is hit hard by the credit crunch, just like anywhere else in the world. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is head of a sinking ship, as the bank systems freefall into crisis after crisis, and the government throws billion after billion into jumpstarting the economy.

In a way, this isn't important for the ''Scum'' game - socially, they exist as far from the halls of Westminster as its possible to be. A good proportion of them would be hard pressed to name more than two politicians, and to them financial planning means borrowing fifty pence till tomorrow for a portion of chips. The setting of 21st century Britian is important to a GM though, as it is effects the world which the scum live in.

The world of ''Scum'' isn't the real world as such, but rather one based on the tabloid perception of it. The Daily Mirror will (between Princess Diana conspiracy theories) rave about the "chavs" on the street who "are a social disease", and will convince you that to go into town on a Friday night is to risk being stabbed and raped by gangs of rat-faced teenagers. The Sun will tell you that police are overwhelmed with bureaucracy, and can't do anything to "keep our streets safe from these scum."

People lock their doors and windows and stay in. If they have to go out, and they see a group of teenagers, will cross the road to avoid them. Because of the media, the nation lives in fear.
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