Post Script
This is (not) America
Runaway teen Zoe’s storyline is more tightly authored than other characters’ – at least until its shocking conclusion
Petria is, of course, an invented state. When we interviewed creative director Yoan Fanise in E359, he was clear on the fact that this is a patchwork of many regimes, that developer DigixArt has borrowed elements from across history and across the globe to create a sort of Frankenstein’s monster of fascist states. And yet.
The scenery you travel through is all mesas and motels. You speed down wide-open roads lined with telegraph poles and bisected by Morse-code messages conveyed in yellow paint. There are cacti, and oil pumps that bob like oversized drinking-bird toys. It makes perfect sense: if you’re reaching for road trip iconography, what richer source than America?