The title's a bit of a joke at the Fallout games 'SPECIAL' stats, which technically are the same order in Sindome if you look at it from @stats (though oddly different in @assign ue). Anyway, that's unrelated.
So my theory is this, since most of the Mix is poor and starving, many are homeless and resort to literally scraping for food or in the worst case, eating people. How come this rarely happens for any of the many PC's in Red? In fact, quite a few mixers seem to be doing as well as some corporate citizens. The thing I've started to figure out is that every player character is SPECIAL, they might just not know it yet. They are more ambitious, or more lucky in finding work, than most of Withmore City's population. I don't know why, they don't know why, but they find opportunities where 70+ million people wouldn't. Whether it is some kind of charm they got, or whether it's because they're very ambitious, player characters can have really big downs but they also have a lot of ups that most of Red sector's individuals ever have.
This helps me to smallworld less, even if my character believes he isn't special, at least not until he's significant enough to matter. It helps me not to 'break the fourth wall' and make overly obvious hints at people for seeming small-worldy. In a sense, it gives me a reason to notice certain individuals more and with probable cause.
Also considering cyberpunk is all about samurai heroes, protagonists and big names, I'd say from an OOC point of view, this is fine to consider.
I may be totally off the rails here, but I'd like it if people were constructive in their replies. Anyway, what's your thoughts on this?