Clary wrote:not Afghanistan. But it might remind you of it
Does Steve work in the India Office? Is it still the India Office, as it was in colonial times??
No, he doesn't.
And it still looks looks like in the old times .... besides in the offices, I think. [But - don't tell this anyone! - most of the civil servants, I saw, must have worked there in the time of the Treaty of Locarno as well!]
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Think, it could be in one of the former Russian republics, Turkmenistan etc