In 2020, most vehicles run on synthetic fuel. Petrochem and Sovoil hold the last viable deposits and plan to keep squeezing out the last as long as prices rise to compensate for cost. Like this dude says, they also manufacture choom out of soy and other cheap crops.

Russia was hella anti-corporate as late as 2020, though who knows about the central asian states nearly half-a-century later.

In the Cyberpunk universe, the USSR survived by basically becoming an economic free-trade zone.

@@nativepoint14 Hmm I guess that makes a little sense for example Mercedes wanted to expand in the USSR

Tell that to VNESHTORG STRUCTURE OF USSR.

Except in Cyberpunk univers it's Neo-Soviet Union where Perestroika went as planned - a confederation of semi-independent capitalist states, something like EU but with united army, where SovOil calling the shots by being basically a state within a state with it's own private army and tighter grip on the oil rich regions than Neo-Soviet government.

Jim Cramer

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