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its america but worse somehow

Counterpoint: it's a balkanized failed state that's lost ground to all of its neighbors. It's worse inside but it's lost the ability to be nearly as bad as the real USA.

Which is what makes this so funny: in Cyberpunk's setting the US ate absolute shit and collapsed while the USSR became a tepid liberal social democracy instead of being couped by Yeltsin, so the shard only makes sense as a prank like when dipshits try to write notes about "forced labor" in chinese and pretend they found them in a shoebox that actually came from Bangladesh or the like. It was probably snuck in by some chud writer, because there seems to have been little to no oversight to consistency with all the little random text blurbs scattered throughout the game, but it does make no sense in context: the NUSA's a failed state and the USSR is liberal.

Wait, fuck, what kind of "books" would come from a dying ancap state and get someone life in prison in a functional state? It suddenly makes sense if one assumes they were importing XBDs or the like.