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Japan surrenders to the United States, ending World War 2. Japan abolishes it's dictatorship and becomes democratic and modernizes. Capitalism is introduced. But what if in an ATL Japan certainly becomes Capitalist and modernizes, but remains Authoritarian, with serious human rights abuses...

As we all know, both China and India are rising (near) superpowers which have thriving economies, nuclear arsenals, first-rate armed forces, and increasing assertiveness foreign policy-wise but this is where the similarity ends as the Republic of China is the world's largest democracy (even...

Despite the fact that some Americans view East Germany as having some sort of parallels with the Third Reich, given the fact that for all intents and purposes it was a single-party state (SED) which suspended some personal liberties and had a powerful intelligence-security apparatus, it was...

I know the idea sounds like an oxymoron at face value, but let's not be lazy and try to imagine how such a regime or society could come into existence. Because this is AH.com, we've made weirder concepts work in the past. Basically, my general idea is that we have a state/regime which is very...