At first, when I was trying to pinpoint the style of the novel, I kept saying "Firefly, but in British".



Isn't a lorry a closed up big car? I always envisoned these "trucks" as more of large jeep things. Maybe I'm wrong. But yes. The narrator felt American to me. But I thought of it as set in Britain mainly. Except the scenes with the driving out to the cannibal village, for example. I think it comes down to playing with pop culture, so much of which comes from America. But I may be wrong.

The Cubritannia bit is the main reason I think of it as "set" in Britain (obviously, later on that distinction becomes rather moot, as countries seem to have disappeared).

Perhaps it is due to the blending which stuff does. The narrator tells us at some point that when something is Gone Away, it fades from memory. Or at least that people do. Perhaps things have blended together into a mass of non-differentiated nationality after the war, which is the point the narrator is speaking from.