EDIT: Happy to hear Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans is continuing in october!
I watched this 1980's OVA by Mamoru Oshii recently called Dallos, it was ok / nostalgic, about slave miners on the moon who rebel against a dictatorship. I was amused reading the typical user reviews, where the authors clearly don't understand actual society at all:
In fact, I can hardly sympathize with miners' disputations: they don't seem to starve to death, they live on nice, spacious, clean adobe houses with all their families, they're allowed to worship Dallos, they have a beautiful park with frisking swans...
Um,
okaaaaaay, so they're fed and housed and the city is well-maintained, and they get to worship a fake god. What more in life could you
possibly want? Maybe the bit they're rebelling against is the dictatorship /
slave labour thing, and the fact that they're not allowed to go anywhere, and they get shoved into recycling tanks when they die. But hey man, they give you all the protein supplements you want and there's a nice park, so stop whining, slaves! The reviewer then goes on to mention the "ID headbands" (24/7 tracking devices on the entire population), but says they're justified because of the "terrorists" (the rebels). I'm guessing this reviewer would also justify a bit of waterboarding.
It just makes me chuckle, since there are so many unrealistic things in anime that you can pick on, but some people seem to be capable of singling-out stuff that would actually make sense in real life.