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I suppose old German Crime Dramas directed by Fritz Lang aren't particularly popular with the wiki box thread's demographics. :p
 
Justice for Elsie Beckmann. *whistles*

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Euthanised seems awfully sinister...
 
With the Illinois' Senate seats occupied by popular incumbents, Peter Fitzgerald and Dick Durban, Barack Obama set his sights on the Governor's Mansion. Pat Quinn, former lieutenant to the disgraced Rod Blagojevich, proved ineffectual in the primaries and lost a four-way race to Mr. Obama. As Governor of Illinois, Obama was lauded for expanding the state's medicare program, among other accomplishments, and won re-election in a landslide in 2014.

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Six For Fitz
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Barack Obama
Who's POTUS in this timeline?
 

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Gone Fishin'
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The High Castle was a satirical British mockumentary broadcast by the BBC on BB2 from 6 May 2010 to 23 June 2016. The third and most recent entry of the In Power series, it followed the Cabinet of Prime Minister David Cameron (played by Donald Cameron) and the day-to-day activities of a Coalition Government. Overall 48 episodes were released over six seasons.

Following David Cameron from his near victory in the 2010 General Election and the formation of his Coalition Government with Nick Clegg (played by Nick Clegg), through to his resignation in the aftermath of a Referendum on Britain's status in the European Union, the show was noticeably bleaker than its predecessors, with critics noting that the previous focus on the frustrations of running Government eschewed in favour for, as Seamus Milne of the Guardian would write, "the anxiety of the public mask and what it means to be a politician in modern society, and the consequences of when that mask slips". Other critics would also point out that the show concerned itself strongly with the interactions between the Coalition partners and the "savage" breakdowns of those interactions, as well as the traditional themes of desperation and political impotency.

Much like its predecessors, the show was frequently written shortly before filming and transmission in an attempt to keep it relevant to ongoing political events. Notable examples of this would include the Falklands diplomatic stand-off, the Arabian Civil War (rendered in-show as the Libyan and Syrian Civil Wars), the offshore banking scandal, and the London Riots. Additionally, as had become tradition many of the actors used their real names, though some, such as Donald Cameron, Gideon Osborne, and Theresa Braisier, would opt to use variations of their names in order to personally distance themselves from the characters.

The show has received a great deal of attention, both critically and politically, famously coming under fire from Prime Minister Durrell. Though receiving warm reviews from the press, the fifth season of the show would prove to be controversial, with the Coalition ending and much of the cast leaving, many finding the subsequent plots to have become increasingly outlandish and silly, such as the infamous 'Piggate' story, as well as bordering at times of wish-fufilment, espeically after the introdution of Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. The development of Michael Gove would receive particular attention among the fan community, who noted a dramatic decline in his intelligence and abilities as the series progressed, as well as the absurdly antagonistic behaviour of Iain Smith. Despite this, the sixth and final season, which delt with the collapse of the Cabinet, a Refrendum on the European Union, and the resignation of Cameron was critically acclaimed, with 33 million watching the series two-part climax, Turning and Turning.

The High Castle has receive several BAFTA nominations, with Cameron receiving attention for his potrayal of the Prime Minister, critics praising his performance of a "charecter perpetually on the verge of loosing his cool", and Nick Clegg for his role as the belittled Deputy Pime Minsiter. The show was relativly successfull, with an American adaptation, obstantly a sequal to Farmer Jimmy, announced in 2017.


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I was reading about that when doing research. Montana is really close to getting another seat. It all depends on Florida in the next Census.
fucking florida. no one likes them and they have contributed nothing positive to america

jk florida is not that bad i'm just jealous they'll have more EVs than us
 

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Previously in In Heaven As On Earth: Esther Wong

In Heaven As On Earth: Walter Akuffo


Walter Akuffo was born to a middle class family in Accra, a distant relation of the briefly ruling dictator Fred Akuffo. Akuffo’s early life was like many other Ghanians in the first half of the 21st century; improving, but still plagued by the problems Ghana faced in its government and economy. Nevertheless, Akuffo’s star rose from an early age; excellent grades in school, and a job as a civil servant in the Foreign Ministry.

He quickly rose through the ranks due to his aggressive handling of tough situations, such as the Ghananian diplomatic response to the 2029 Burkina Faso coup d’état. In 2032 Akuffo was made Foreign Minister of Ghana.

It was as head of the Foreign Ministry that Walter Akuffo publicly detailed his plans to transform the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS from an efficient and reliable regional economic union and NATO-esque military force into a true alliance of states, perhaps even a loose confederation. Under a pliable President Herman Dadjo, who supported the same plan he did, Akuffo laid the groundwork for a new state, tri-lingual, with an elected but rotating head of state similar to the United Arab Emirates. For example, if it was the nation of Liberia’s turn, voters from across the confederation would have only Liberian candidates to choose from that election, but they would have a proportional voice in electing the confederation’s president. Other checks and balances were implemented in the then-hypothetical constitution of the proposed state, to ensure no one country would dominate the state.

Akuffo called this new state the West African Confederation or WAC. The rest of his tenure as Foreign Minister was dominated by his preliminary efforts to persuade the rest of the ECOWAS nations to form the WAC.

In the next election in 2036, Akuffo founded the Unification Party, and ran specifically on his proposed WAC, claiming that it would bring greater prosperity, unity, and peace to the region. He promised that Ghana would not lose its identity, and that it would instead have a new, greater identity as the founders of a new regional power. The Ghanaian voters accepted his argument, and voted him in in a landslide. Interestingly, they also voted in President Herman Dadjo as Prime Minister of Ghana.

Akuffo’s presidency was dominated by reforms of all kinds; legal, economic, anti-corruption, military, and other reforms designed to make Ghana a perfect fit for his dreamed nation. He began the Accra Accords, a series of agreements with all of the ECOWAS member nations to form the West African Confederation. After 7 years of his presidency, Nigeria, the last hold-out, signed the agreements. The 2042 election for WAC President was on, with the first rotating presidential election being held in Ghana itself. In truth, it was a mere formality, with the wildly popular Akuffo winning election to a six-year term with 78% of the vote, in a free and fair election. Walter Akuffo’s dream had finally been realized.

As WAC President, Akuffo worked with the presidents of each province in the confederation, and worked on anti-poverty and anti-corruption programs that reduced poverty by 28% by the end of his presidency and corruption by 51%.

Akuffo also confronted several foreign policy challenges during his tenure, the earliest of which was the Ivorian civil unrest in 2043. Cote D’Ivoire or the Ivory Coast contained prominent dissidents from across the now-confederation, opposing the newfound state. The more militant dissidents formed the terrorist group unimaginatively called the Liberty and Resistance Forces, or LRF. The LRF bombed WAC buildings across Liberia, and even went so far as to bomb the American embassy in Accra, as they believed that the US was bank-rolling the West African Confederation (documents declassified in the early 2100s revealed that the LRF’s belief was absolutely correct). The WAC government responded quickly to the bombings, capturing all of the terrorist leaders within a few days, but not quick enough for American President Esther Wong, which resulted in the sardonically named Esther’s War.

Re-elected in 2048, Akuffo kept up an active foreign policy, sending WAC troops to Venezeula to secure the peace after the Second Venezuelan Collapse, and fostering trade agreements with Algeria, Libya, and Portugal. Akuffo aggressively promoted democracy across Africa, sending troops to oust the dictatorial Biya family in Cameroon in the 2053 WAC intervention in Cameroon.

Akuffo’s second term also saw groundwork laid for the West African Space Administration, or WASA. Akuffo’s efforts would lead to a greater African contribution to the Second Space Race, especially with his insistence on using Vedic technology as a tool and not a crutch. The creation of WASA would eventually lead to a WAC colony called New Accra on Jupiter's moon Callisto.

Term-limited, Akuffo left the WAC presidency at the end of 2054, when it was Mali’s “turn” for the rotating presidency. Akuffo campaigned for Foreign Minister Leopold Keita, a personal friend of his, but Malian Interior Minister Ibrahim Traore won instead.

For the remainder of his life, Akuffo would become an unceasing advocate for African unity and peace, and a strong critic of the civil wars seen in African and on other continents. For a few months in the 2060s, he moved to New York City and hosted a foreign affairs program called Lessons in Foreign Policy, but grew dissatisfied with the low ratings and executive meddling, and moved back to Ghana, where he lived for the rest of his life, dying peacefully in 2085.

Walter Akuffo would be seen by many as a West African George Washington, but by others as an American puppet, his WAC a sham cover for American interests in Africa. His active foreign policy was praised as courageous and aggressive by foreign policy experts, but sometimes derided as expensive and useless, especially in Cameroon, who re-elected a member of the Biya family a mere decade after their ouster. In Ghana, a mild cult of personality formed out of Akuffo’s legacy, with many parents naming their children Walter, and his writings on foreign policy being required reading in Ghanaian schools. The brightest spot of his legacy is that the West African Confederacy endured beyond his death, and the darkest spot is that the LRF also endured past his death, despite the capture of its original leaders. Many saw former WAC president Traore's eulogy for Akuffo fitting.

"Others in West Africa have took empires and ground them to dust under the weight of their incompetence. He took the dust and made it an empire."

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I've decided to do a wee bit of world-building for this wikibox I did a while back.
First off, the incumbent party;

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As the phenomenon of Climate Change stopped being a topic of discussion and an unstoppable force of change, 'farming' became to hot word of the 2070's onwards. Naturally, many political archetypes warped and adjusted to fit this new narrative, both radical and obstructionist. Farmer-Labor was a comparatively young and similarly small party, originally a coalition of the more Agrarian-orientated, socially-liberal factions from various regions. Upon the Collapse of the Big Two, however, many from breadbasket states decided the party not only filled the vacant gaps, but offered a realistic working strategy. While very popular in the west, of course, it had nothing on the monolithic and populist Armiger Party, which still used the archaic reactionary social theory to it's fullest effect. While for a long while it nipped at the heals of the choice of the Upper Crust Electorate, it surged forward when the Long Wind tore it's way across the Hartland, which caused a greater demand for terraformation rights in the Five Texases.
 
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