Good question. It could very well be "God Save the Czar!" Although they might have changed it to something more politically correct with the founding of the IEF. What do y'all think?
The Union Forever: A TL
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Good question. It could very well be "God Save the Czar!" Although they might have changed it to something more politically correct with the founding of the IEF. What do y'all think?
Excellent idea RyderWest! Thanks to all who have or are going to contribute.
This is with the approval of Mac Gregor, the current PM of Australia. Enjoy!
Prime Minister of Australia Jonathan Wamsley (1957-)
Johnathan Nathaniel Wamsley was born on April 17, 1957 in Perth, Western Australia to working class parents, his dad a workshop machinist and his mother a loyal housewife. After finishing high school, he immediately joined the Australian Army at age 18 due to the Asian-Pacific War and was sent to fight the Japanese in Malaya during the gruelling Malaya campaign in early 1976, and then was sent to Papua as the situation there deteriorated rapidly. After the war ended in 1980, he went back to Western Australia and got a job as a teacher at Shaeffer College in 1983 and taught there for nearly 4 years before becoming elected to the Australian Parliament at the 1987 federal election for the seat of Montgomery as a Member of Parliament as part of the Progressive Federalist Congress of Australia, a center-left federalist progressive party.
Wamsley quickly rose through the ranks of the PFCA, becoming the leader of the PFCA in 1998, just in time for the 1999 Australian federal election where the ruling coalition of the center-right Australian Democratic Alliance and the right-wing National Australian Front was splintering rapidly. Wamsley and the PFCA took advantage of the split and won the election on June 18, 1999 with a plurality of 109 seats out of 185 in the House of Representatives and 61 out of 107 senators in the Senate.
After reaching the Prime Ministerial office, Wamsley quickly moved to negotiate with Australia's Pacific territories in the New Hebrides, as part of his goals to integrate any remaining territories into Federation. He also spoke of keeping the relationship with the Commonwealth alive and well and also moved to pour money into infrastructure, health and education in the states. Wamlsey was planning to visit the UK in early 2000 to negotiate with British Prime Minister Geoffrey Lever and to calm fears about the breakup of the Commonwealth. He arrived in London on February 29, 2000 and started talks with Prime Minister Lever over trade and tourism, as they started reaching the subject about the Commonwealth on March 4, 2000, the IEF internal crisis exploded into outright civil war......
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Speaking of the Federation of Australia, we don't seem to have a list of Australian Prime Ministers. A quick search through the timeline only mentions Mason Duffy in 1979 and Johnathan Wamsley since June of 1999 . Based on RyderWest's terrific update on PM Wamsley the political parties as of the late 1990s includes at least the Progressive Federalist Congress (centre-left), Australian Democratic Alliance (centre-right), and the National Australian Front (right-wing). Anyone care to take a stab at making a full list?
The party names have a first-half-of-the-XX-century touch.
Is it deliberate?New anthem is possible but I don't see any reason why they would change that. Czar is still head of state.
I think that the ADA-NAF coalition would be similar to the OTL Tory-LibDem one between 2010-15, with one party becoming junior to the senior. I reckon the ADA would be senior to the NAF, but the coalition fell apart and the PFC swept into power. We also know that there is 185 seats in the HoR and 107 in the senate due to me calculating the OTL seat distribution and adding in the new states and territories, and the PFC got a majority, so the majority line for government in the Australian HoR is 92 seats.
You are generally correct in your synopsis. What do y'all think the various factions should be called. I imagine that those wanting independence for their various regions will be separatists, but how about the others? Some suggestions for those backing Kuznetsov and the Motherland Party could be Loyalists, Hardliners, Legitimists. Those backing Pasternak and want a more looser democratic IEF could be Reformers or Confederates. What do y'all think?
The party names have a first-half-of-the-XX-century touch.
You would have to ask RyderWest. I imagine that the Australians usually use abbreviations (ADA, NAF, PFC) or short hand names for them like the Democrats, Nationalists, and Progressive-Federalists. RyderWest what do you think?
I think it is very unlikely that the USA would get involved in purely China-IEF conflict. While the Americans surely do not want Technocracy to spread they aren't happy with the IEF's behavior in Manchuria either. Likely the USA tries to keep both sides from coming to blows. Nobody wants a nuclear war.
I'd suggest Nationalists for Motherland, and Reformers for the opposition. The Reformers could also be in a loose alliance of conviniently with the Monarchist's, who have many different ideologies but they're all fighting for the legitimate Empress.
Motherland Party - Nationalists
Pasternak's Bloc - Reformists or Federalists
Regions - Secessionists or Separatists
This will be very messy civil war. It would be miracle if IEF survives from this. Thee-sided civil war rarely is very clear. Somehow this looks bit OTL Syrian Civil War.
Orthodox State of Russia and Siberia, anyone? Or the Islamic State of Central Asia, more realistically.
Yes, that would work well. I got some other parties to put down, so I'll list them here:
Progressive Federalist Congress of Australia (PFC) - Progressive-Federalists
Australian Democratic Alliance (ADA) - Democrats
National Australian Front (NAF) - Nationalists
Australian United Conservative Party (AUCP) - United Conservatives
Republican Front of Australia (RFA) - Australian Republicans
Socialist Alternative Front of Australia (SAFA) - Socialists
Is this ok?
I don't see how they could. How large are the technocrats in Manchuria? From what it has sounded like so far, it is mostly a fringe political party that only exists due to Chinese influence. If that's the case, then I don't see Manchuria really going so far as to secede, even if a referendum is offered. And I don't see the Chinese even going so far to allow one. If they do, and it fails (which it likely will; Manchurians may not be fond of Russia, but they are farthest from the homeland and have one of the largest populations. That probably makes them one of the more influential members of the IEF.
If secession happens, then they will likely fall further and further into the Chinese orbit. And as it is, the devil they know is bad, but the devil they don't is likely to be worse. (The Technocrats do seem to be a big boogeyman here) So, any referendum will likely see them remain in the IEF. ...That's why I think the Technocrats won't allow it. Wait for a response from the Motherland Government about how they will not allow a referendum, use that as a casus belli to "liberate" Manchuria and properly reintegrate it... Oh, and while they're at war, take the time to reintegrate the remainder of China which had been forcefully torn away a century or so prior. If the Technocrats go along with a referendum and they lose, they forfeit the ability to claim the mantle of liberators.
And, if the IEF is losing the Far East, I don't see how they refrain from going nuclear. If they don't, they lose horribly and all of Asia from the Caspian to the Pacific becomes a Technocrat playground. And I think they still have more warheads, anyway, if I remember correctly.
How about simply "Conservatives" for those siding with Motherland?