Quite frankly, the whole thing lost me with:
A) Seem to remember before it was a movie, author commenting that the whole thing was written as a criticism of the Bush regime.
B) Some character who bakes bread for the combatants or from a family of bakers is named Pita, of all things.
It works for me. We have nothing but globalist or transnational presidents since 1989.
Ya. And the boundaries seem random. Borders usually follow some geographical reference point.