How is the h. g. wells' fictional world in "war of the worlds" similar to the real world?

For the most part, the world in "War of the Worlds" is completely similar to the real one, other than the obviously fictional parts of the story, the world is our earth, with the same countries and cities.

Hope this helped, the question wasn't very clear on how to answer. ^-^

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