Against the GDR would say, though honestly I think Ostania resembles West Germany more than East if you look into more than asthetics.
The main plot is a spy trying to stop the ascension of a Nationalist from a formerly aristocratic family from ascending to power. The existence of a massive class divide where prestigious families send their children off into private academies. The fucked up biological human expirements reminiscent of the Nazis.
To a lib it’s DDR coded, and I suspect that what the authors intention. However similar to figures like Orwell, they’ve made a more succinct critique of capitalist soceity rather than the socialist one they were trying to disparage.
DDR is frequently portrayed as “nazi but with a new coat of pain” and barely denazified. Basically projecting west germany onto the east. So I think you are right.
Against the GDR would say, though honestly I think Ostania resembles West Germany more than East if you look into more than asthetics.
The main plot is a spy trying to stop the ascension of a Nationalist from a formerly aristocratic family from ascending to power. The existence of a massive class divide where prestigious families send their children off into private academies. The fucked up biological human expirements reminiscent of the Nazis.
To a lib it’s DDR coded, and I suspect that what the authors intention. However similar to figures like Orwell, they’ve made a more succinct critique of capitalist soceity rather than the socialist one they were trying to disparage.
DDR is frequently portrayed as “nazi but with a new coat of pain” and barely denazified. Basically projecting west germany onto the east. So I think you are right.