@mangamerchant well we see just how much involved she is with politics and all that. Also, there should still be many people who will be distrustful of her mother, or those that will try to make use of her mother's standing in the late regime for their own works. At least, that is a basic assumption.
for me personally, because the manga reflects the reality of the system very well, down to the mentality of the leaders themselves, it hits very hard home as I live in a "socialist" country which used to "go full communist" until the 80s. I could have never been able to take this manga non-seriously, even with its obvious SoL element.