It's somehow fuzzy here

Playing with Google Earth the US area has fast food places and monuments and the rest of the world is all fuzzy and you most just get rivers drawn up. You can tell where the closest KFC is to the Washington monument but I don't even know if there's a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts anywhere in Australia. Is this a realistic view of the rest of the world from an American point of view? I haven't checked but is Iraq highly detailed, Afghanistan all blurry (especially around the borders), Canada is just like the US, etc.