iirc the US had been somewhat successfully invading mainland china (what no microtransistor does to a motherfucker) and it's intentionally ambiguous who launched nukes first.
the only places that are doing well (bethesda not understanding how time works aside) would be places that didn't get nuked and didn't get too fucked by the pre-nuclear war or the fallout
corpos do centrally plan a lot, and they eat shit (sears) when they don't.
would be much better to bring that up as a defense of doing central planning on a nation-state level. calling the SU feudal is bonkers.