For the character see Max.

Maximum Ride is a set of novels set in the modern world. Max and her flock are genetic experiments on the run from Itex, a globally-present company with branches everywhere. Max and her flock have a website and a blog, where they occasionally post links from websites and comment on world affairs.

Therefore, anything happening in today's America is actually canon for the series, except that the president isn't George Bush, but a Mr. Danning, whom Angel, Max's "baby", meets when she "gets lost" in the White House and convinces to escort her back to her group.