Dana asked Adam Bender:

Where is We, the Watched/Divided We Fall supposed to be located? Whether it be the fictional country where places like the Capital are located, or where it would be set in the real world.

Adam Bender These books really could take place anywhere, so I kept location vague by design. That's why I didn't name the nation or capital in which most of the action takes place. Government surveillance is taking place to various degrees in many countries and I didn't want We, The Watched to become a critique of any one specific country. Rather, it imagines where things could go in any nation around the world.

My next novel -- which is not a sequel to WTW -- takes on a more specifically American issue -- Second Amendment rights -- so I've decided to say clearly that it takes place in the state of Arizona in the USA. However, for similar reasons to WTW/DWF, I mostly chose not to use real town names because I wanted to create a feeling that the book's events could happen anywhere.

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