The previous election, done in an infobox?So, what would people be interested in seeing next? I can't guarantee anything, but I'm open to suggestions for topics to explore.
EDIT: Made a couple fixes to all three revisions.
The previous election, done in an infobox?So, what would people be interested in seeing next? I can't guarantee anything, but I'm open to suggestions for topics to explore.
EDIT: Made a couple fixes to all three revisions.
Yeah, the Municipalists are relatively benign. Still, they're ultraconservative collectivists who want to abolish the nation-state, what remains of privacy and every barrier between church and (city)-state. Municipalists tend to be incredibly nice and compassionate people, but if one believes that synths are people, then the Municipalists want to commit genocide. The Municipalists are fine with homosexuals and transgender people, but they better get married and conform to traditional gender roles. They're capitalists, but they believe that corporations and any other form of "legal fiction" should be eliminated so that enterprise can be conducted between real people. They're anti-institutionalist, because they believe that there should only be one institution, society, that everyone must conform to whether it brings them personal happiness or not. Freedom means something very different to them than it does to our contemporary society.
Also, they want to tear down every building built since 1904, at least ones made in any sort of modernist style, and replace it with some nice historicist buildings. (This made the old logo impossibly ironic).
However, they are nonviolent in both policy and politics, and denounce direct action or revolution. And not all Municipalists adhere to every piece of Municipalist canon. The Metropole Quebecois, for example, reject the Citizen's Manifesto in particular and urban conservatism in general. (Albeit I guess that makes them worse, not better. )
Really, Municipalism is alien and seemingly idiosyncratic, but so is almost every ideology of 2068.
So this, will probably be the last of the Ukraine series for now. I may come back, but I want to go work on some other areas beforehand.
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The 2064 Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections were an important step forward for the country. The Second Black Tide had already sunk Ukraine's leading Neo-Putinist parties, dividing the country into roughly two factions. On one side, you had the progressives, such as the Network Movement, the All-Slav Free Union and other minor parties. On the other, you had the ultranationalists, Including Our Land/Self-Defense and Svoboda. In the last election, the Network Movement and Svoboda emerged as the leading parties. The Network Party promised peace, liberties, and reform. Svoboda promised confrontation with Russia. The Movement ended the election with a fairly narrow edge over Svoboda in the Rada, but the coalition with the All-Slav Free Union and securing the presidency meant that Ukraine would be safe from Svoboda's attempts to establish a United Poland-esque regime. With Neo-Putinism dead in the Ukraine, space has opened up for other smaller parties to rise and share their ideas. However, tensions are still high, both with Poland and Russia, meaning that the appeal of the ultranationalists is not diminished.
This year, six parties crossed the 5% threshold to earn proportional representation seats.
Network Movement: While the Network Movement's ratings were still in the green coming into the election, the party's appeal had fallen since the 2059 elections. In that year, many Ukrainians employed tactical voting to push them ahead of Svoboda in order to secure a moderate government. While the Movement's ratings skyrocketed after the Polish invasion was peacefully prevented, some Ukrainians are feeling buyer's remorse. Transhumanism is still very controversial, and the party's Zentrum ties are also unappealing to many. However, with Our Land/Self-Defence taking Svoboda's place as a threat to peace, few desire a divided Rada and the risk of a nationalist coup. Thus, the Network Movement, is still the largest party in the Rada, even if it lost a number of its seats.
Our Land/Self-Defense: An observer unfamiliar with Ukrainian politics may mistake Our Land/Self-Defense and Svoboda as cookie-cutter maximalist populists. In reality, Our Land/Self-Defense is an old-school ethnic nationalist party, closer to liberal ultranationalists like Russia's Liberal Democrats or China's One China party. While Svoboda's nationalism is rooted in anti-Russian sentiment, Our Land/Self-Defense is for ethnic Ukrainians only, and wants to marginalize the Poles along with the Russians. With the near-invasion by Poland serving as a humiliation to Svoboda, Our Land/Self-Defense has become the leading ultranationalist party in Ukraine, having the greatest positive swing of any party in the 2064 elections.
All-Slav Free Union: The partnership with the Network Movement has been good for the Union. For some Ukrainians, a vote for the Union is a vote for the government without voting for transhumanism, and thus the party has grown at the Network Movement's expense. With the balance of power shifting between the two partners, many in the party have begun to question whether the Union should remain part of the government, or if it should attempt to form a government on its own in 2069.
Maiden Party: Named after the squares in which their forums meet, the Maiden party is the Municipalist party of Ukraine. The fierce suppression of Muncipalism by the New Bolshevik government in Russia forced many of Municaplists to seek refugee in Ukraine, who have become the core of a rejuvenated Muncipalist movement in the country. The Maiden party has had some trouble finding its niche in Ukrainian politics, but have gained some popularity for taking a leading role in local government in Kharkov, Donetsk, and Kiev.
Green-Agrarian Bloc: The Green-Agrarian bloc is a unity list comprised of multiple mutualist, market socialist and unreformed socialist parties. Populist in nature, the Green-Agrarians have benefited immensely from Svoboda's fall, taking votes from Svoboda's "economic voters."
Svoboda: Svoboda has fallen far. One moment, they were at the cusp of gaining enough power to stage a coup, causing enough confusion for Polish soldiers to stream through the borders and prop up Svoboda's regime. The next, they were soundly defeated at the polls, and their ties with the United Polish regime, albeit not their plans, were revealed to the world. It's a surprise that they didn't fall farther, as only vigorous campaigning allowed them to stay above the threshold. Svoboda's politics can be described as a form national anarchism, with heavy emphasis on agrarianism and establishing a "warrior culture."
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The previous election, done in an infobox?
So, climate change basically made most people politically insane?
Also, are there any major purely social democratic or/and paleoliberal parties out there?
Very interesting future timeline idea)
But there is some mistakes with the Ukrainain names. Such as - Petro Bohatenko, not Pyotr, Vira Motruk, not Vera (unlikely, that nationalist use Russian version of name). Also, in Russia and Ukrain short versions of are not official, so Pavel/Pavlo Ozerov, not Pavlik, Svetlana/Svitlana Belenko, not Sveta. And name "Kirill Sokolova" is very strange. Kirill/Kirilo is the men's name, Sokolova - women's surname (men's version - Sokolov).
Jesus. Not sure if I've said this before but your fathers stars series is genuinely something else. You put a heck of a lot of detail into this, and the whole thing is so masterfully crafted it sends a chill down your spine to read. Very plausible stuff indeed, you do some great work in 'looking outside of the box', really do love these future ideologies you craft. Those party logos are really pretty!
Don't know what in particular I'd like to see next, honestly whatever you put out is bound to be interesting. I'd be very curious to read some more about the ideologies of the 2060's for sure. I'd be interested to know what the nations governed by transhumanist parties are like. How are things going over in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Singapore?
In honor of Australia's elections tomorrow, here is the 2013 Australian federal election if it were held under the binomial voting system! What is binomial voting, you ask? Well, in both Poland before the collapse of the regime and in Chile before 2013, each constituency received two MPs. An electoral alliance would receive one MP if it attained at least 33.4% of the vote, and if the majority of the winning electoral alliance was double that of the other one and had a minimum of 66.7% of the vote, they'd receive both MPs. In Chile, this enabled the former pro-dictatorial Alliance to continue to be relevant in their politics despite receiving far less of the vote than the democratic opposition parties' electoral alliance Concertación, and effectively prevented minor parties from emerging while essentially empowering party leaders over the voters. For these reasons, it was abolished. However, under the framework of the Two-Party Preferred vote in Australia's IRV system, both the 2013 and the 2010 Australian federal elections turned out fairly proportional!
The binomial voting system gave us 159/300 = 53%, 141/300 =47%. This is actually far more proportional than OTL's 2013 Australian federal election, wherein the Liberal/National Coalition received 60% of the seats and Labor received 37%. I was expecting it to spew out an amusingly weird result because this system does not work at all in theory, but it somehow works in practice.
Am I dreaming?
It's so beautiful...
Am I dreaming?
It's so beautiful...
In honor of Australia's elections tomorrow, here is the 2013 Australian federal election if it were held under the binomial voting system!
Chile never had any percentage limits, you just needed to be twice as big as the second-placed coalition to get both seats.