Cyberpunk resources

So me and a friend are making a post apoc pnprpg which is post cyberpunk, to do that we need to get the cyberpunk right first. we are familiar with the feeling and aesthetic and the high tech low life things but we need as to how all of society looks, how do the megacorps the goverments and the megacities work all together what percentage of the population is working what percentage is under the poverty line etc etc.
What would be good films/series/books or other mediums that would help get a full view.

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Hong Kong

Kowloon might have been demolished but "coffin homes" are still a thing.

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As for pop culture media here are some suggestions
Ghost in the shell is a good anime, as well as Akira.
Snow Crash is a good book on the subject, it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Shadowrun comes filled with standard template cyberpunk.
1984, Brazil, Fahrenheit 451.
Deus Ex series is spot on. With is philosophy on old vs new, human vs machine.
Gibson is the father of cyberpunk. The Sprawl trilogy is amazing. Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Really captures the street wise sci-fi thats the basis of cyberpunk.
It also covers the subject of drugs really well.
Since drugs go hand in hand with cyberpunk. Enter the Void and Requiem for a dream, maybe train watching are required viewing.
As for the tech, Kevin Mitnik has a book called Ghost in the wires. Very good book on his life. Witch is somehow as cyberpunk as it gets.
Music is a must.
I like my cyberpunk kinda gothed out.
So Kindey thives, emilie autumn, type O negative etc.
Or meme the shit out of it with some future retrowave:
With megadrive, laserhawk, Carpenter Brut. Or any german electronica you can find. U use Kraftwerk for fancy board room meetings.

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A few more movies:
Robot and frank is an amazing concept for a campaign. And old man, ex jewel thief teaches a robot to help him steal. A very good movie.

Lucy, set in a world where drugs are made of pixie dust and magic.

The driver series is also pretty good. although centered around cars the crime overtone makes it pretty cyberpunk.

John Mnemonic is a pretty good concept, but it hasn't aged well

Hardware, Robocop, Dredd, The matrix, The fortress. Escape for New York. All very popular movies and good concepts.

Here is a website that serves as a database for all things cyberpunk.
Most of the stuff is obscure stuff that never left japan. And you'll have to do a lot of sifting thought the shit to find the diamonds
cyberpunkdatabase.net/

You don't watch movies to figure out
>what percentage of the population is working what percentage is under the poverty line

You read statistical almanacs.

census.gov/data/tables/2016/demo/income-poverty/p60-256.html
shmoop.com/great-depression/statistics.html

thanks a lot and i know almost all of it even though i have watched/read very few. do you have something specific that says more about the bigger picture/ all of earth/ how a city works . something more world building. In any case i will both read and watched most your recommended they were on the list anyway

CYBERPUNK NOVELS
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (source of Wired Reflexes, natch)
The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
Hardwired, Walter Jon Williams
When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger
Fairyland, Paul McAuley
Synners, Pat Cadigan
Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling
Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling

"Core Readings"
William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
Bruce Sterling (The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix Plus)
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"The Cyberpunk Movement"
Greg Bear (Blood Music)
Pat Cadigan (Mindplayers, Synners, Fools, Tea From an Empty Cup)
Marc Laidlaw (Dad's Nuke)
Tom Maddox (Halo)
Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware)
Lewis Shiner (Frontera)
John Shirley (City Come A-Walkin')
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"Post-Cyberpunk"
Wilhelmina Baird (CrashCourse, ClipJoint, PsyKosis)
Bruce Bethke (Cyberpunk - where the term came from, Headcrash)
Simon Ings (Hot Head, Hotwire, Headlong)
Richard Kadrey (Metrophage)
Kim Newman (The Night Mayor)
Marge Piercy (He, She, and It/Body of Glass)
Justina Robson (Silver Screen)
Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Interface, The Diamond Age)
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"Cyberpunk Flavoured"
Jeff Noon (Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation)
Greg Egan (Quarantine, Permutation City)
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (neoAddix, Lucifer's Dragon, reMix, redRobe)
Gwyneth Jones (Escape Plans, Kairos)
Shariann Lewitt (Memento Mori)
Tricia Sullivan (Someone To Watch Over Me, Dreaming In Smoke)
Jack Womack (Dryco)

huh.
Well bigger picture on poverty would be something like District 9. It shows the life of alien refugees in as slum.

Actually. A very good example on human interaction I would suggest Metro 2033.
Bit necessarily high tech. But it shows micro cultures that from inside a bigger society. How people form groups and gangs based on ideologies or geological convenience in a somewhat extreme environment.

Watch some documentaries on gangs. Discovery had a good documentary series.
Where theres poverty crime thrives.

I don't have any resources on how a city works. I live in one of the biggest cities in the world. So i just base stuff off of experience.
There are places you simply don't do if don't want to get robbed, raped, killed. And if you need stuff there are places to go and simply ask "HELLO I WOULD LIKE TO BUY THE COCAINE".
If you never lived in a town, i suggest you watch Sheep In The Big City sadly its more realistic than it seems.