Infobox Challenge #2: Tie Breaker Voting Thread.

Elessar267 said:

If you please, the new challenge:

North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, East and West Germany: nations divided by ideology, all of them, at least in part, due to outside forces.

I want an infobox for an independent country along these lines - a country which has been divided from another fundamental part of their nation due to external forces, which has an ideologically different government from the other side.

Only one infobox is required. The only requirements beyond this are that the PoD must be post-1800, and that it not be a country which was actually so divided in such a way (so, no surviving East Germany/South Vietnam infoboxes, please!).

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At the end of the Second World War, the British Empire was one of three Empires that emerged victorious along with the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Washington. In the subsequent decades, the post-war prosperity slowly chipped away until in the late sixties, it reached crisis point. In 1967, the government of Prime Minister George Sunday accepted an offer from the Imperial Japanese government to purchase Jersey for the sum of £5,000,000,000. At the end of 1967, Jersey became the Prefectures of Jersey:

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At the Second World War's close, the Soviets found themselves in a far weaker position than expected, the Iron Curtain having fallen on the Vistula, and compensated by heavily industrializing occupied East Prussia, turning it into it into a major shipbuilding port. Begrudgingly it was incorporated a the Kaliningrad ASSR in 1947, and divided with East Poland. The remaining German population, around 1,100,000, chafed under Communism, and while German remained in use, Prussian culture suffered heavily due to a near complete saturation of Soviet influence. By 1982 the population was 46.9% Russian-born. Under Gorbachev's reforms in the 1980's, German culture saw a revival when travel bans inside the USSR were lifted, inspiring a large influx of Volga Germans fleeing poverty in Asia to relocate.

In 1991, as the Soviet Union began to collapse, the restless Prussians made a bid for independence and the State of Prussia was established, the self-declared successor to the original kingdom (Kaliningrad was restored to Königsberg). Reunification with Germany proper and Bavaria seemed a given, but feet-dragging by the German government over Prussia's comparative impoverishment, and Prussian worries over Germany's stunted industry, still not recovered from de-industrialization, ensured the referendum promised was suspended indefinitely by the Landtag. German suspicions that Prussia is a hotbed for Neo-Nazi and extremist activities, and the declining, yet politically active Russian minority have also ensured reunification has so far amounted to a mere customs union (Nuremberg Group). Hopes for greater integration become ever more distant, following Germany releasing its claim on Prussia in 1999, and it's EU admittance in 2005.

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PiratePartyist said:

Well, Lapsed Pacifist. You, and your state of East Prussia, seem to have won with a huge majority...

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