User blog comment:Jrp04f/Doesn't this show take place during the '60s?/@comment-71.214.50.38-20110126022520

I think I have a good answer, religion doesn't seem too big on there world. On our's Chrisitianity frowned upon science for a long time thus hindering advences in it. I'm pretty sure the Code Geass Earth didn't have that problem.