>>718974241
When the game was still Neon Prime, the setting was space australia (former prison colony in space that eventually became a big destination while still being shady as fuck) and you'd fight over mayoral elections

>Welcome, intergalactic tourists, to Fracture -- City of a Thousand Cities™! As you walk down our many historic streets and enjoy our countless parks and museums, you might think that Fracture is just like any other bustling planet-capital in the galaxy. And in most ways, it is. But in other tiny but important ways, Fracture is one of a kind. As a for-instance: When you got off the shuttle at Bowl o’ Blood Spaceport, you probably got robbed. But not for all your money -- around 34% -- and you were given a receipt. Then you started yelling for the police, and you got robbed again. That’s because Fracture is run by criminals. Now, that might sound like a bad idea, but if you read on, you’ll find out it’s actually one of the best darn ways a city could be run -- fine-tuned from centuries of illegality.

https://deadlock.wiki/Neon_Prime_lore

A lot of the characters are direct holdovers from that iteration in terms of not just visuals but personality, they just changed it from space australia to "weird anachronistic mystic new york"