"In NewSpeak: The Roleplaying Game, you play as citizens of a world dominated by tech companies.
Through the sleek implementation of augmented reality headsets and a deeply-ingrained social ratings network, these monolithic corporations have gained unprecedented control over the governments of the world, and the people who elect them.
To maintain their power, corporations like Clarity seek to keep the population happy, productive, and unaware of what nefarious machinations really underlie their comfortable society.
In order to keep their consumer force peaceful and complancent, Clarity designed one of the most widely used technological advancements to date, ModNet: a crowdsourced surveillance network that rewards everyday people for flagging anything they think is suspicious, dangerous, or troublesome.
It just so happens that you, the players, are all three of those things. As self-appointed dissidents, it's up to you to reveal the corporations' devious plots, secret agendas, and break down the systems that are oppressing your fellow citizens. You are all that stands between the freedom of the people and the oppressive powers that be."
From the Introduction.