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The year is 2100. Decades have passed since the formation of the technations; corporate run countries in the place of where the US once stood.
To the west you have applestan and metadom; flanked on the right by both x-land and microsoftville. On the eastern side you have Amazonia, sharing a southern border with googleberg.
The actual populations of these countries is rather low; with most spare space instead used to build server farms for various artificial intelligence based weapons they use against one another.
All 6 send their mechanised armies inward, in a perpetual war for control of the Mojave desert; now uninhabitable due to the level of heat generated... It is the perfect location for thermal & solar based power generation; an ever increasingly hard resource to reliably acquire...
Don't stop. I was getting into it.
Snowcrash vibes. Not going to say it was a good book, or that it didn't have a few horrible scenes, but it did kickstart cyberpunk and visit a lot of the corporatized post America thoughts.