In the book Allegiant, there is already quite a bit of background information left out, as it's the third book in the Divergent series. However, I have read these books prior, and have a very vivid image in my mind on what this setting is.
In Insurgant, we find out that the setting is Chicago Illinois, in a post acropolyptic setting that because of violent tendencies in the outside world, people were locked in select cities, and all information about the outside world had been erased to all but those who were leaders in sociaty. This was an ethnic cleansing test: the goal of locking everyone inside without any outside world info was to pruify them to have multiple attributes, or be "Divergent". This was a good thing, but the people inside the city of Chicago didn't know that. They were proceuted by one of the branches, Erudity, as the leader didn't want to leave, and everyone was instructed to keep secret their status in sociaty. Much violence took place because of this dicrimination: their personality classification resulted in either being able to be brainwashed, if not Divergent, or killed upon realization, if they were.
The time of this place is very far into the future. There had been scientific tests going on in the real world, to force the need to have these separate societies. However, it can't be too far in the future, as it describes Chicago and the US to still exist, and products like Coke are still around.
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