>>95897490
To bring this a bit back on topic
Here's the various governments/politics, even if the absolute naval blockade means few matters.

>Japan
Split in 3 autonomous regions to prevent a singe-point failure and collapse.
One of the leader (the child) was himself created "without emotion" to lead a region.
Another was part of the navy until the defeat, important plotwise, the third is just extra flavor.
The ground army and the US army (stuck because of nanoboat blockade) are considered autonomous (causes they may have nukes).

>American
Ongoing civil war
Needed for the plot to produce a potential (half-working) weapon against The fog (nanoboat), worries some faction will seek to monopolize it
We recently learned the official president is colluding with fog ships and is no longer human

>Europe
"at war", with China planning to intervene.
England stuck on their Island but hiding a little secret since WWII. A girl who no longer age.

>The fog
That's the nanoboat, until now a monolith simply following an ambiguous order.
Now it has mental models capable of ignoring orders.
Lastest order "show possibilities"

>aside
There's a space elevator taken over by the fog where a few people still live, stranded.