(I hope you don’t mind me adding to the politics discussion): I’d like to bring up the interesting case of China. As far as I know, there is little mention of the politics between China and his boss in the anime/manga, which is actually a very accurate description of how opaque Chinese politics really is. For example, the last documentary that the PLA has allowed was shot in the 1990s. The citizens who openly protest are silenced, and the rest are kept in the dark, i.e. not told anything.