@Tcof
First, as you already know, this country is fictive. In my opinion, just from the first two chapters, this socialist country is compiled from several well known socialist countries, therefore there are references such as names from different countries, e.g. Coldona, Chobirov, Khan, Nguyen, even Myao herself.
Maybe it's an attempt to not antagonize a specific country.
IMO, Myao is a form of word play. It's sounds like a cat voice, and in Chinese, the "cat" is "mao". The rest is self explanatory.