Before making edits, please read our Editing Guidelines and our Manual of Style. Also join our Discord server if you want to discuss something! See you there! Established in by Richard Night , it was originally known as Coronado City before its renaming in It is the main setting for the Cyberpunk franchise. Night City is considered a modern multicultural metropolis of the 21st-century, overrun by corporations , corruption, organized crime and gang violence.
Night City has wide streets and dense urban skyscrapers which are home to millions of residents. By , it operates as a city-state, officially owning the title of Free City , with the Arasaka Corporation keeping a heavy influence over it. The metropolis is considered a thrilling and exciting location to visit, as well as an interesting and vibrant place to live for those of means, and a hellscape to the city's disenfranchised.
Richard Night , a successful businessman who during the early s was concerned by the violence and disruption of the impending Collapse , saw himself in an unique position to deal with the forthcoming issue. Working mainly on corporate-funded projects under a notorious company known as Halsey, Ferris and Night , Richard was dreaming to create his own ideal city. For that reason, he decided to depart and start his own development firm, Night International , and began to plan an exemplary metropolis β an environment that would be controlled and ultimately be safe from the ravages tearing the world apart.
His new city was to be completely planned, self-sufficient, and capable of holding off even the most determined criminals. It would boast planned neighborhoods dedicated to preserving the feel of different types of nationalities and cultures, as well as a super-modern corporate center that would stand as a shining beacon of enlightened capitalism. It was ambitious, far-reaching, and visionary in its approach. Eventually, Night managed to secure the unheard-of amount of capital needed to finance such a large-scale project.
With the Collapse, many corporations had been looking to establish their own urban areas β controlled zones free of crime, poverty or debt. A place where the government would be corporate-run, allowing optimum zoning and no anti-business elements to interfere with corporate growth.
