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The one big L for the new Ghost in the Shell anime is Science Saru cowardly changing the names of real life countries with fictional ones. "Ghoranti" isn't committing false flag terrorism, it's Israel!

Do you have translations for the other names? Wanna keep this in mind on my second watch.

The MAG union is most likely a substitute for the USSR, though it may be that weird "Ameri-Soviet" rump state (contextually idt so but there have been some weird translations). Seems to me Volgarena/MAG union = Russia/Soviet Union, based on context. Refs to the American Empire are preserved

Interesting oversight: they *didn't* alter references to Balochistan and Khorasan, despite the fact that they *are* real places, if not countries. But given Baloch separatism you'd think that would be more sensitive, not less. I wonder if the writers just didn't notice.