About seeing the concept of the episode come to life in the real world, Brooker said, "It was quite trippy".[41] He comments that a key difference between China's rating system and the one in "Nosedive" is "that there's a central government assessing things. Being state-controlled, it feels even more sinister", and also points out that the Social Credit System "sounds like an attempt to make the population behave in a particular way".[42]