Haha its not unfortunately, although the quark is a walking parody of capitalism the entire show. Rom has one of the best episodes where he unionizes the workers in quarks bar and becomes a proletarian hero.

Nah, but the US government and all other global powers had collapsed in Star Trek after the Eugenics Wars of the 90s from nuclear war. Zeffran Cochrane’s contact with the Vulcans lead to rebuilding society. So basically Posadism