Comment by Dylan16807

North Korea in particular is weird because of sanctions, but pick any country in Europe instead: The user might be a past or future visitor to the gas station and need to access the system even if they're outside the US right now. Or maybe they're actually at the gas station but their phone's data is based in Europe.

Even accurate country tracking is flawed in most situations.

If the goal is specifically "is at the gas station right now" then maybe there's a gap in functionality here, but you could make them connect to the wifi.

Also country-sponsored hackers can easily get a real presence in the US. If country level geoblocking became perfect, they wouldn't be slowed down for more than a week.