The United States of America, being a former European colony, has completed its transformation into an African plutocracy lead by a strong man figure, just like other European former colonies.
Also, completing the perfect profile for the average US American, it hasn’t realised the country is in North America, a completely separate continent to Africa, so the transition to an African styled plutocracy of the XX century, was quite unnecessary.
Playing devil’s advocate, could it have been used to avoid persecution of these people now that the Emperor has returned and the crazies think they have mandate to “hunt”? There’s a non negligible chance that whoever decided this, lives in California, and thinks of themselves as quite liberal, they’re just too greedy to quit the job at Meta because that 6-7 figure income is worth it even when it means being complicit to the 4th Reich.