GTA has been known to be based around political events. For example, San Andreas had plot points around the LA Riots and the 80s crack epidemic.

Has there been a US city more politically relevant in the past 10 years than Minneapolis?

Ilhan Omar is the congress member who represent Minneapolis, second muslim to ever serve in congress. Donald Trump brings her up any time he talks about muslims, he uses her to be Islamophobic. Ilhan Omar is Somali-american and there is a large Somali immigrant population in Minneapolis

Around 2019, there was a fraud case around the organization 'Feeding Our Future', which was intended to be a program for feeding school children. Chuds blamed the fraud case on being caused Somali immigrants.

In 2020, there was the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis which ignited nationwide BLM protests. Protestors burned down the Minneapolis third precinct Police Station.

The muslim population of Minneapolis was upset with Biden and Kamala for being complicit in the Gaza genocide. Then there was the 'uncommitted movement' where Joe Biden was on the ticket for the Democrat primary. 19% of people in Minnesota voted for "uncommitted" and 8% voted for Dean Philips.

In 2024, Minnesota changed their flag and there was a chud conspiracy theory that the flag was changed to be the flag of Somalia.

After Biden dropped out, Kamala selecting Tim Walz as the VP candidate put a spotlight on Minneapolis again. This also made Minneapolis into a target for the second Trump administration.

During Trump's second term, there was Nick Shirley making up a conspiracy theory that every daycare center in Minneapolis is actually fraudulent. Driving around to random daycares and demanding that he can see the children.

Then Trump sent ICE into Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge. There was anti-ICE protests. Then ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Also near the end of 2025, we had memes were Somali people adopted Israeli settler rhetoric to mock Zionists. There was memes that said like "Minnesota was promised to us 3000 years ago".

Also there was some talk about Israel about forcibly displacing Gaza people to Somali. I've speculated that the Trump administrations focus on villainizing Somali-Americans could be related Israel wanting to relocate Gazans.

Atlantis

entire state of new jersey

nyc available in dlc

Hear me out, It's Always Sunny GTA clone

Either Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot, or Bemidji. In the winter. GTA but it's a cold weather survival game where you literally freeze to death if you're not in a car, and half the time the cars are freezing to death too.

Edit: there could be a story mission where you're trying to rob a bank in the middle of a blizzard or something, I dunno. And in the early game, half of the city is blocked off because it's under 7 feet of snow, sort of like how they handled the flooding/hurricane closures in Vice City.

Toronto. Sprawl and mega highways, but Canadian. Could have the Ford bros. Could have a Quebecois mafia. Could have Hell's Angels running the mushroom dispensaries for some reason. Get to steal a bunch of gold from the airport. Get to drive in ice sometimes.

Detroit.

Atlanta
16 lane highway & fuck APD

Dallas-Fort Worth
i hate texas and i hate sprawl. would be nice to spend a few thousand hours fucking it up.

I think philly would feel too similar to liberty city.

A return to the SF knock-off would be cool, maybe the bay area at large. Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, or some amalgam rust belt city would be a vibe. New Orleans and the bayous work and rockstar did this in RDR2 already. They also did one of the early, top-down GTAs in London, which could also be fun maybe

But this will be in 20 years so it's a wash

Pittsburgh is a dope pick for a video game, super unique city. Great geography, lots of unique neighborhoods, and you only need to go like three miles to get to true Appalachian hillbilly country and all the fun that comes with it.

GTA Houston. No walking ever

Prohibition-era Chicago.

Any city in the top ten worst traffic.

I think a GTA with actual dense traffic would be really cool. Make it really difficult to run from the cops in a regular car because there's too much traffic at peak times. You have to use bikes and motos if you want to get around easily, or plan around off-peak hours or even using transit. Rockstar would never though because they are cowards.

New Orleans gets my vote, they really haven't explored the south (outside of miami) in detail. All sorts of clowning you can do on confederate chuds.

Detroit

GTA: GTA and it loosely adapts Ford family lore.

Atlanta would be a fun town to rampage through.

Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil