the names are made up. it's a college drama made up of modern lit plot points conceived by smart kids wearing their dead highly imbedded pol operative parents clothes & faces. there is no such persons as joe biden or barack obama
example: william gibson's neuromancer:
The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (BAMA) or unofficially The Sprawl, is an urban sprawl that developed along the east coast of America; it contains New York and other former cities. Midtown Manhattan and outlines of old industrial parks around the old core of Atlanta have the busiest data exchange rate.