Opium: What is it? Country or Drug?

Opium, the country in the middle of the United States, and what is now Aztlan and was Mexico. I think Opium as a setting is like sort of a lawless place, and is sort of futuristic, in it's own way. It sort of tells how drug dealers took over the border, maybe with no where else to go, because no country wants drug dealers. Opium is practically used for drug production, and they don't do anything else in it, I think Opium is sort of representing a kind of Anarchy or Dictatorship government, and the name also implies what kind it is as these two types, because usually drug dealers just take over or just leave it alone, and if no one takes over its a Anarchy, and if they do they boss people around. I think this kind of place happens in kinds of books where it describes the world after a major event happened, like a apocalypse or a huge war. After these wars there are the criminals which weren't really involved so they built these areas where the government wasn't really controlling since they were focused on other things, so its like a reform. The government also took some of this to their advantage by using Opium as a border control against illegal immigration, and this probably solved one of their problems, and they constructed a deal where they won't sell drugs to the US or Aztlan which was pretty useful also. Opium can also relate to Aztlan where they reformed, but Opium was created, but Aztlan is now different, and they have opposite meanings, Opium was a good place and now it has become a drug area, and Mexico used to be bad, but now it reformed into a more structured society. Overall I think the setting is like sort of a place that raised during a big world event, where there is no law, and humans are just reforming from that disaster.