One of the beauties is that all the Star Wars stuff like Jedi, Sith, lightsabers, chosen ones, the force, etc are all missing from the show. The only thing you will see is the Death Star, but it's brief. It focuses on the politics between working class, rebels, and the Empire's version of CIA/FBI/DHS. There is also a little bit of "we must pass the Senate bill" type political stuff too. Since it's an undetermined past in a galaxy far, far away, they can freely borrow from real history without worrying about chronology. They mix a bunch of different elements like young Stalin, Cuban Revolution, Nicaragua, Manhattan Project, Battle of Blair Mountain/Coal Wars, all at the same time. Plus since they can just hop on a ship and go to another planet, real geography is no obstacle. There is a Nazi Invasion of France planet and a modern day American midwest planet where immigrants workers are harassed by space ICE.