AH Challenge: This is Our World

Xen

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With a POD no earlier than 1955 change the world to look like this

As you can see this is a list of heads of state/government in the world and to simplify matters I color coded every thing and broke the countries down by continent.

Red = Communist state
Blue = Democracy
L. Blue = Partial Democracy
Orange = Authortarian State
Green = Military Junta

It is October 1, 2008 and this is how the world looks

North America:
Quebec – President Lucien Bouchard; Prime Minister Mario Dumont
Canada – Prime Minister Martha Hall Findlay
United States– President Christine Todd Whitman
Mexico – President Arturo Montiel
Cuba – Generalissimo Erneido Oliva
Haiti – General Raoul Cédras
Dominican Republic – President Leonel Fernández; Prime Minister Rafael Alburquerque
Jamaica – Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller
The Bahamas – Prime Minister Perry Gladstone Christie
Belize – Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Guatemala – Premeir Óscar José Rafael Berger Perdomo
Nicarauga – President Enrique Bolaños
Honduras – President Manuel Zelaya
El Salvador – President Schafik Jorge Handal
Costa Rica – President Abel Pacheco de la Espriella
Panama – President Ernesto Pérez Balladares

South America:
Venezuela – President Hugo Chávez
Colombia – President Efraín Cepeda Sarabia
Ecuador – President Álvaro Noboa
Peru – President Lourdes Flores Nano; Prime Minister Luis Castañeda Lossio
Chile – President Joaquín Lavín Infante
Bolivia – President Evo Morales
Paraguay – President Oscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos; Prime Minister Blanca Ovelar
Uruguay – President Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera
Brazil – President Germano Rigotto
Argentina – President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Guyana – President Bharrat Jagdeo
Suriname – President Ronald Venetiaan

Asia/Pacific:
Japan – Emperor Akihito; Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi
South Korea – President Lee Myung-bak; Prime Minister Han Duck-soo
North Korea – Premier Kim Yong-il
China – Premier Wang Hongwen
Mongolia – Premeir Sanjaagiin Bayar
North Vietnam – President Trần Đức Lương; Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
South Vietnam – President Nguyễn Công Bằng; Prime Minister Ký giả Trương Minh Đức
Laos – President Lt. Gen. Choummaly Sayasone; Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh
Cambodia – King Norodom Sihamoni
Thailand – King Rama IX; Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-Archa
Malaysia – Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin; Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad
Taiwan – President Ma Ying-jeou; Premeir Liu Chao-shiuan
Indonesia – President Jusuf Habibie
East Timor – President Xanana Gusmão; Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva
Papau New Guinea – Prime Minister Michael Somare
The Philippines – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Australia – President Peter Costello; Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
New Zealand – Prime Minister Bill English
Burma – Chairman Maung Aye; Prime Minister Thein Sein
India – President Sonia Gandhi; Prime Minister N. Rangaswamy
Nepal – King Birendra; Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
Bangladesh – President Badruddoza Chowdhury; Prime Minister Iajuddin Ahmed
Bhutan – King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck; Prime Minister Jigme Thinley
Brunei – Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Pakistan – President/General Pervez Musharraf
Afghanistan – King Ahmad Shah Khan
Iran – Shah Reza II; Prime Minister Mohammad-Reza Aref
Iraq – President Saddam Hussein
Kuwait – Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Bahrain – King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah; Prime Minister Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
Saudi Arabia – King Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Oman – Sultan Qaboos ibn Said Al Said; Chancellor Fahad ibn Mahmood Al Said
Qatar – Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani; Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
United Arab Emirates – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Yemen – President Ali Abdullah Saleh; Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujur
Jordan – King Abdullah II; Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi
Syria – President Bashar al-Assad; Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otari
Lebanon – President Bachir Gemayel; Prime Minister Pierre Amine Gemayel
PLO – President Mahmoud Abbas
Israel – President Amram Mitzna; Prime Minister Ehud Barak

Africa:
Algeria – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia
Angola – President Isaías Samakuva
Benin – President Yayi Boni
Botswana – President Ian Khama
Burkino Faso – President Blaise Compaoré; Prime Minister Tertius Zongo
Burundi – President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cameroon – President Paul Biya; Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni
Central African Republic – President François Bozizé; Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Chad – President Idriss Déby; Prmie Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas
Congo – President Denis Sassou Nguesso; Prime Minister Isidore Mvouba
Côte d'Ivoire – President Laurent Gbagbo; Prime Minister Guillaume Soro
Djibouti – President Ismail Omar Guelleh; Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Egypt – President Sufi Abu Taleb; Prime Minister Atef Ebeid
Equatorial Guinea – President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo; Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang
Eritrea – President Isaias Afewerki
Ethiopia – King Amha Selassie III; Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Gabon – President Omar Bongo; Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong
Gambia – President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh
Ghana – President John Agyekum Kufuor
Guinea – President Lansana Conté; Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré
Guinea-Bissau – President João Bernardo Vieira; Prime Minister Carlos Correia
Kenya – President Mwai Kibaki; Prime Minister Raila Odinga
Lesotho – King Letsie III; Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia – President Varney Sherman
Libya – King Muhammad I; Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi
Madagascar – President Marc Ravalomanana; Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara
Malawi – President Bingu wa Mutharika
Mali – President Amadou Toumani Touré; Prime Minister Modibo Sidibé
Mauritania – President Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla; Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Morocco – King Mohammed VI; Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi
Mozambique – President Armando Guebuza; Prime Minister Luísa Diogo
Namibia – President Hifikepunye Pohamba; Prime Minister Nahas Angula
Niger – President Tandja Mamadou; Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou
Nigeria – President Umaru Yar'Adua
Rwanda – President Paul Kagame; Prime Minister Bernard Makuza
Senegal – President Abdoulaye Wade; Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré
Sierra Leon – President Ernest Bai Koroma
Somalia – President Mohamed Farrah Aidid
South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki
Sudan – President/General Omar al-Bashir
Swaziland – King Mswati III
Tanzania – President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete; Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda
Togo – President Faure Gnassingbé; Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo
Tunisia – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali; Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi
Uganda – President Yoweri Museveni; Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi
Zaire – President Nzanga Mobutu
Zambia – (acting) President Rupiah Banda
Zimbabwe – President Morgan Tsvangirai; Prime Minister Thokozani Khuphe

Europe:
Albania – President Sali Berisha; Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi
Austria – President Heinz Fischer; Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer
Belgium – King Albert II; Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
Bosnia & Herzegovina – Premeir Zlatko Lagumdžija
Bulgaria – Tsar Simeon II; Prime Minister Ivan Kostov
Croatia – President Stjepan Mesić; Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
Czechia – President Václav Klaus; Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek
Denmark – Queen Margrethe II; Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Finland – President Tarja Halonen; Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
France – President Ségolène Royal; Prime Minister Henri Emmanuelli
Germany – President Wolfgang Schäuble; Chancellor Angela Merkel
Greece – King Constantine II; Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis
Holy See – Pope Pius XIV
Hungary – King Otto II; Chancellor Ferenc Gyurcsány
Iceland – President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson; Prime Minister Geir Haarde
Ireland – President Mary McAleese; Taoiseach Brian Cowen
Italy – President Fermo Mino Martinazzoli; Prime Minister Rocco Buttiglione
Luxembourg – Grand Duke Henri; Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Macedonia – President Branko Crvenkovski; Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Montenegro – King Nikola II; Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Netherlands – Queen Beatrix; Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
Norway – King Harald V; Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Poland – President Lech Wałęsa; Prime Minister Janusz Śniadek
Portugal – King Duarte II; Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Romania – King Michael I; Prime Minister Corneliu Vadim Tudor
Serbia – King Alexander II; Prime Minister Čedomir Jovanović
Slovakia – President Ivan Gašparovič; Prime Minister Robert Fico
Slovenia – President Danilo Türk; Prime Minister Janez Janša
Soviet Union – General Secretary Gennady Zyuganov; Premeir Dmitry Yazov
Spain – King Juan Carlos I; Prime Minister José María Aznar
Sweden – King King Carl XVI Gustaf; Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland – Swiss Federal Council
Turkey – President Abdullah Gül; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
United Kingdom – Queen Elizabeth II; Prime Minister Michael Howard
 
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General Mung Beans

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Xen said:
With a POD no earlier than 1955 change the world to look like this

As you can see this is a list of heads of state/government in the world and to simplify matters I color coded every thing and broke the countries down by continent.

Red = Communist state
Blue = Democracy
L. Blue = Partial Democracy
Orange = Authortarian State
Green = Military Junta

It is October 1, 2008 and this is how the world looks

North America:
Quebec – President Lucien Bouchard; Prime Minister Mario Dumont
Canada – Prime Minister Martha Hall Findlay
United States– President Christine Todd Whitman
Mexico – President Arturo Montiel
Cuba – Generalissimo Erneido Oliva
Haiti – General Raoul Cédras
Dominican Republic – President Leonel Fernández; Prime Minister Rafael Alburquerque
Jamaica – Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller
The Bahamas – Prime Minister Perry Gladstone Christie
Belize – Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Guatemala – Premeir Óscar José Rafael Berger Perdomo
Nicarauga – President Enrique Bolaños
Honduras – President Manuel Zelaya
El Salvador – President Schafik Jorge Handal
Costa Rica – President Abel Pacheco de la Espriella
Panama – President Ernesto Pérez Balladares

South America:
Venezuela – President Hugo Chávez
Colombia – President Efraín Cepeda Sarabia
Ecuador – President Álvaro Noboa
Peru – President Lourdes Flores Nano; Prime Minister Luis Castañeda Lossio
Chile – President Joaquín Lavín Infante
Bolivia – President Evo Morales
Paraguay – President Oscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos; Prime Minister Blanca Ovelar
Uruguay – President Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera
Brazil – President Germano Rigotto
Argentina – President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Guyana – President Bharrat Jagdeo
Suriname – President Ronald Venetiaan

Asia/Pacific:
Japan – Emperor Akihito; Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi
South Korea – President Lee Myung-bak; Prime Minister Han Duck-soo
North Korea – Premier Kim Yong-il
China – Premier Wang Hongwen
Mongolia – Premeir Sanjaagiin Bayar
North Vietnam – President Trần Đức Lương; Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
South Vietnam – President Nguyễn Công Bằng; Prime Minister Ký giả Trương Minh Đức
Laos – President Lt. Gen. Choummaly Sayasone; Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh
Cambodia – King Norodom Sihamoni
Thailand – King Rama IX; Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-Archa
Malaysia – Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin; Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad
Taiwan – President Ma Ying-jeou; Premeir Liu Chao-shiuan
Indonesia – President Jusuf Habibie
East Timor – President Xanana Gusmão; Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva
Papau New Guinea – Prime Minister Michael Somare
The Philippines – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Australia – President Peter Costello; Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
New Zealand – Prime Minister Bill English
Burma – Chairman Maung Aye; Prime Minister Thein Sein
India – President Sonia Gandhi; Prime Minister N. Rangaswamy
Nepal – King Birendra; Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
Bangladesh – President Badruddoza Chowdhury; Prime Minister Iajuddin Ahmed
Bhutan – King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck; Prime Minister Jigme Thinley
Brunei – Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Pakistan – President/General Pervez Musharraf
Afghanistan – King Ahmad Shah Khan
Iran – Shah Reza II; Prime Minister Mohammad-Reza Aref
Iraq – President Saddam Hussein
Kuwait – Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Bahrain – King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah; Prime Minister Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
Saudi Arabia – King Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Oman – Sultan Qaboos ibn Said Al Said; Chancellor Fahad ibn Mahmood Al Said
Qatar – Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani; Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al ThaniUnited Arab Emirates – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Yemen – President Ali Abdullah Saleh; Prime Minister Ali Mohammed MujurJordan – King Abdullah II; Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi
Syria – President Bashar al-Assad; Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otari
Lebanon – President Bachir Gemayel; Prime Minister Pierre Amine Gemayel
PLO – President Mahmoud Abbas
Israel – President Amram Mitzna; Prime Minister Ehud Barak

Africa:
Algeria – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia
Angola – President Isaías Samakuva
Benin – President Yayi Boni
Botswana – President Ian Khama
Burkino Faso – President Blaise Compaoré; Prime Minister Tertius Zongo
Burundi – President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cameroon – President Paul Biya; Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni
Central African Republic – President François Bozizé; Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Chad – President Idriss Déby; Prmie Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas
Congo – President Denis Sassou Nguesso; Prime Minister Isidore Mvouba
Côte d'Ivoire – President Laurent Gbagbo; Prime Minister Guillaume Soro
Djibouti – President Ismail Omar Guelleh; Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Egypt – President Sufi Abu Taleb; Prime Minister Atef Ebeid
Equatorial Guinea – President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo; Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang
Eritrea – President Isaias Afewerki
Ethiopia – King Amha Selassie III; Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Gabon – President Omar Bongo; Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong
Gambia – President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh
Ghana – President John Agyekum Kufuor
Guinea – President Lansana Conté; Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré
Guinea-Bissau – President João Bernardo Vieira; Prime Minister Carlos Correia
Kenya – President Mwai Kibaki; Prime Minister Raila Odinga
Lesotho – King Letsie III; Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia – President Varney Sherman
Libya – King Muhammad I; Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi
Madagascar – President Marc Ravalomanana; Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara
Malawi – President Bingu wa Mutharika
Mali – President Amadou Toumani Touré; Prime Minister Modibo Sidibé
Mauritania – President Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla; Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Morocco – King Mohammed VI; Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi
Mozambique – President Armando Guebuza; Prime Minister Luísa Diogo
Namibia – President Hifikepunye Pohamba; Prime Minister Nahas Angula
Niger – President Tandja Mamadou; Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou
Nigeria – President Umaru Yar'Adua
Rwanda – President Paul Kagame; Prime Minister Bernard Makuza
Senegal – President Abdoulaye Wade; Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré
Sierra Leon – President Ernest Bai Koroma
Somalia – President Mohamed Farrah Aidid
South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki
Sudan – President/General Omar al-Bashir
Swaziland – King Mswati III
Tanzania – President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete; Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda
Togo – President Faure Gnassingbé; Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo
Tunisia – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali; Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi
Uganda – President Yoweri Museveni; Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi
Zaire – President Nzanga Mobutu
Zambia – (acting) President Rupiah Banda
Zimbabwe – President Morgan Tsvangirai; Prime Minister Thokozani Khuphe

Europe:
Albania – President Sali Berisha; Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi
Austria – President Heinz Fischer; Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer
Belgium – King Albert II; Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
Bosnia & Herzegovina – Premeir Zlatko Lagumdžija
Bulgaria – Tsar Simeon II; Prime Minister Ivan Kostov
Croatia – President Stjepan Mesić; Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
Czechia – President Václav Klaus; Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek
Denmark – Queen Margrethe II; Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Finland – President Tarja Halonen; Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
France – President Ségolène Royal; Prime Minister Henri Emmanuelli
Germany – President Wolfgang Schäuble; Chancellor Angela Merkel
Greece – King Constantine II; Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis
Holy See – Pope Pius XIV
Hungary – King Otto II; Chancellor Ferenc Gyurcsány
Iceland – President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson; Prime Minister Geir Haarde
Ireland – President Mary McAleese; Taoiseach Brian Cowen
Italy – President Fermo Mino Martinazzoli; Prime Minister Rocco Buttiglione
Luxembourg – Grand Duke Henri; Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Macedonia – President Branko Crvenkovski; Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Montenegro – King Nikola II; Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Netherlands – Queen Beatrix; Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
Norway – King Harald V; Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Poland – President Lech Wałęsa; Prime Minister Janusz Śniadek
Portugal – King Duarte II; Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Romania – King Michael I; Prime Minister Corneliu Vadim Tudor
Serbia – King Alexander II; Prime Minister Čedomir Jovanović
Slovakia – President Ivan Gašparovič; Prime Minister Robert Fico
Slovenia – President Danilo Türk; Prime Minister Janez Janša
Soviet Union – General Secretary Gennady Zyuganov; Premeir Dmitry Yazov
Spain – King Juan Carlos I; Prime Minister José María Aznar
Sweden – King King Carl XVI Gustaf; Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland – Swiss Federal Council
Turkey – President Abdullah Gül; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
United Kingdom – Queen Elizabeth II; Prime Minister Michael Howard
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The Vietnam War ends in a victory for the US and Castro never comes to power. The Soviet Union manages to remain stable somehow.
 

Canis Lupus

General Mung Beans said:
The Vietnam War ends in a victory for the US and Castro never comes to power. The Soviet Union manages to remain stable somehow.
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Not totaly stable, they loose Poland and East Germany.


Anyways, here's a map of this world:

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Marius

Somehow a surviving Soviet Union results in left-leaning Governments in Angola and Zimbabwe losing power. And it somehow butterflies away Thabo Mbeki's recall.
 

yourworstnightmare

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Well, Castro is not in Cuba, so the POD obviously have to be before the Cuba crisis. Still weird to see the Eastern block free and the USSR still around. A successful perestrojka perhaps??
 
DrakonFin

DrakonFin

yourworstnightmare said:
Well, Castro is not in Cuba, so the POD obviously have to be before the Cuba crisis.
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Ah, but according to Wikipedia the man listed as Cuban leader, Erneido Oliva, was working for as a deputy commander to the CIA agent in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion and later become a US Army general, retiring 1993. This means there could be a succesful Bay of Pigs or a later such US invasion, after which Oliva is installed as a US ally/puppet.

Xen said:
Finland – President Tarja Halonen; Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
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Please.. Can't we get rid of Halonen and Vanhanen even in alternate timelines? Granted, Finnish politics is predictable, but I sure hope not this much, at least with a pre-1980 POD.
 

Xen

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DrakonFin said:
Please.. Can't we get rid of Halonen and Vanhanen even in alternate timelines? Granted, Finnish politics is predictable, but I sure hope not this much, at least with a pre-1980 POD.
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I can rework it, by the time I got to Europe, I got a bit lazy.
 

Xen

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yourworstnightmare said:
Wait a minute, both Serbia and Romania seems to be monarchies!! Same with Hungary, Montenegro and Bulgaria!!! move this to ASB now!!
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Why there is nothing ASB about these countries becoming monarchies. There was even some support for monarchies after the collapse of the Communist regimes in the late 1980's and early 1990's. So why move this to ASB when it is possible especially with butterflies
 
Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

Donor
Good God, that must have taken one hell of a lot of research !

Quite a lot of women around, relatively speaking

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
DrakonFin

DrakonFin

Xen said:
I can rework it, by the time I got to Europe, I got a bit lazy.
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Sorry, it was not meant as criticism, rather as a cry of despair.:D Halonen and Vanhanen has been around for millennia, it seems.

Do keep up the good work; like Grey Wolf wrote, you must have already done an admirable amount of research for this.
 

maverick

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Your list of heads of states could be better...people like Kirchner and Chavez taking power were results of flukes and certainly far from inevitable...

Now, about the map...

I don't know...maybe Nixon dies of a heart attack after returning from his trip to Venezuela in 1958, Goldwater takes the 1960 GOP Nomination, does good in the debates, wins, doesn't get troops to Vietnam but he supports anti-Castrist guerrillas in operations far better organized than Bay of Pigs, he then gets troops on the ground...

Blah, Blah, Blah, the Cold war diverges from our own, the Soviet Union stagnates economically but does not invade Afghanistan, eventually withdraws from Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, then is resurgent thanks to oil prices in the 2000s, Venezuela and Bolivia become openly socialist, et....
 
TheMann

TheMann

^ A bunch of others, too.

Aidid would never, ever own the entire nation. After Siad Barre fell, the country of Somalia imploded. Aidid never had the ability to control anything outside of Mogadishu.

Tsvangirai's rise in Zimbabwe was entirely due to Mugabe's late 1990s idiocy and ZANU-PF's endemic corruption. And Tsvangirai was simply the man of the hour, a ell-known trade union leader. If you want to really produce a stun gun, put Roy Bennett as Tsvangirai's right hand man. :eek:

Sierra Leone a full democracy? You're not serious, are you?

Mbeki could stay in power, just have Zuma's supporters on the ANC's NEC not have influence to lever him out of the power seat, or have the ANC implode post-Mandela and have mbeki's faction come out ahead.

Quebec separating would doom them economically, at least for a while. It also would doom the Liberal Party of Canada at least for a couple decades (Trudeau's NEP made them radioactive in the West in 1980) which means Matha Hall Findlay is definitely not ever gonna become PM. Combined with Mulroney's arrogance and bad policies in OTL, The PM would either be from the NDP or Reform parties. That means potential PMs include Ed Broadbent, Preston Manning, Stephen Harper, Jack Layton, David Miller and Bob Rae. Personally, the best bets among those would be Broadbent and Manning, both highly respected, influential individuals.
 

maverick

Banned
I missed the following ASBish elements:

Russia annexing Romania

Kaliningrad (ethnically russian) independent, Baltic countries still soviet

White Malvinas, not being blue like Britain or having any color representing a form of government, thus I assume the islands have been taken over by the Penguins...

Independent Quebec...
 

Archangel

In Portugal's case, this would probably imply that Salazar decides to reinstate a monarchy (a thought he had but didn't do in OTL), with a figurehead king (Duarte Nuno Braganza, the previous duke of Braganza and father of the current one). He would oversee when possible a democratization in the style of OTL Spain, although in a sliglitly more conservative tone.
The lack of a more or less ideologically biased revolution would mean an economically more sound evolution and a better living standard than in OTL, but unfortunately also a later democratization.
 
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