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{This one is kinda long, so...}

The politics of Czechoslovakia take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the Constitution of the Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, in which the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President of the Republic and the Government. The Government consists of the Prime Minister and ministers and is responsible to the lower house of Parliament (which, on most topics, has prominence over the upper house). The Legislature is bicameral, with the Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecká sněmovna) consisting of 300 members and the Senate (Senát) consisting of 120 members. Both houses together make up the Parliament of Czecholsovakia.

Below the National level, the Constitution stipulates the creation of four self-governing states - Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia, and Subcarpathian Ruthenia - each with their own separate government structures, situated in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, and Užhorod respectively. The state governments share responsibility with the federal government in areas such as planning, agriculture and food, transportation, labor, and industry. The central government, located in Prague, has exclusive jurisdiction over areas such as foreign affairs and defense; the states retain residual legislative authority for all other areas, including healthcare, culture, education, and job training.

The states are governed by a cabinet led by a Chairman of the Government, together with a unicameral legislative body known as the National Council (Národní rada). The states are presidential republics and the relationship between their legislative and executive branches mirrors that of the federal system: the legislatures are popularly elected for four years (five years in Moravia-Silesia), and Government Chairman is likewise popularly elected for four or five years (depending on the state). The Chairman appoints a cabinet to run the state's agencies and to carry out the executive duties of the state's government. However, this has not always been the case; initially, the Government Chairmen were appointed by the National Councils from among their members, as befitting a parliamentary form of government, with the transition to the present arrangements taking gradually over the course of 40 years.

The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, federative and social People's democratic Republic". The constitution provides for separation of powers based on the French model in the national government, while also instituting a Federative system based on that of Germany. A notable concept in the Czechoslovak constitution, introduced in the 1948 Ninth-of-May constitution, is that of the "People's Democratic order" ("lidově demokratické zřízení") - which, while originally conceived as a tool of repression, actually took a form more similar to that of the German Basic Law's "free democratic basic order".

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Kotka

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One small criticism: There's no way either side would want to destroy Jerusalem in this, there's no reason to think it would be destroyed
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Yes, I didn’t agree either with Binshtok’s idea to nuke Jerusalem. Nuking Islam’s third holiest city would make sense.

The only way I could maybe see it as realist would be to drop a small bomb on the Western (Jewish) side of the city, but even with that, I wouldn’t agree with the idea of nuking Jerusalem.
 
Archangel Michael

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ATLANTICA | Royal Family
The Prince in Mercia unlikely to be mourned privately
Despite public mourning at the funeral for Constantine I, many members of the Royal Family are unlikely to mourn his passing

By HELENA ROBBIE SMITH
14/12/2017 11:35 AM GMT

LONDON, England - Even as members of the Royal Family filed into St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, for the funeral of Constantine I, Prince in Mercia, few of them were likely to be mourning for very long, according to anonymous sources in the Hanging Gardens of London.

Constantine I was never a very popular figure in the Hanging Gardens. He was born the illegitimate son of the late Richard V, who was legitimatised as part of his father’s will in 1999. It was reported at the time that his legitimate half-brother, Edward XIII, had no interest in giving Constantine any additional titles or honours.

The animosity between the two branches stretched back to the early 1980s, according to The Viscount Ashbrook, a royal biographer whose most infamous book, If Their Walls Could Speak: Infidelity and Monogamy in the Royal Family was censored by the Government for several years.

“Constantine knew from a young age that he was [an illegitimate child],” His Lordship said in an interview with ATLANTICA. “He wanted the same rights and titles as the rest of the Family, but no one was willing to give him what he wanted.”

A former member of Richard V’s household who has now retired from the civil service said that Richard V always planned on honouring Constantine, but had wanted to avoid courting controversy.

The enmity continued to grow even after Constantine was created the Prince in Mercia. “[John II] never really cared for Constantine,” an anonymous senior staffer from the Office of Royal Communications told ATLANTICA. “He found [Constantine I] to be crass and social climber who cared nothing for the Family or the Empire.”

The Viscount Ashbrook agreed, saying that such opinions on the Mercia branch of the Tudor Dynasty were common in the Royal Household.

One major point of contention has been the exclusion of the Mercias from important events such as Trooping the Colour and the State Opening of Parliament. Constantine’s illegitimacy was apparently never the reason for the exclusion, because Cedric, Prince in Mercia, was frequently found in the Royal Box for Trooping the Colour.

“None of them were ever in the military,” an anonymous senior staffer from the Office of the Master of the Horse told ATLANTICA. “It would be improper for them to have a major role in military events.”

His Majesty John II also never served in the Imperial armed forces, but it was reported that he was planning on undergoing ranger training with The Queen's American Rangers (The Swamp Foxes) before the Black Friday Bombings forced him into the role of Prince Regent.

Prince Constantine I and the then-Earl of Tewkesbury attended the celebrations marking the 70th anniversary Rose Restoration in September 2014, appearing alongside other distant branches of the Royal Family, including the Duke of Monmouth, the Earl of Hastings, and the Earl of Dover. The then-Earl of Oxford, Athelstan de Tudor, was too ill to attend the events.

Relationships between the Royal Family and the surviving Mercias are likewise strained, according to the same sources within the Hanging Gardens. The hurt feelings have been confirmed by anonymous sources from the Princeling Development Group (PDG), the Prince in Mercia’s real estate development firm.

“The Hanging Garden has shut Constantine and Madeline and Michael out of everything,” a member of the PDG’s board of directors said. “They look down on anyone with plebeian blood, even though His Majesty is married to [an Indian].”

The sources within the Hanging Gardens said it would be “too far” to construe the Royal Family’s lack of private mourning as a sign that they were happy that Constantine was dead. “He was a pain in the neck, but he was still family,” one anonymous source said.

Dame Faith Ferguson, Press Secretary to The Sovereign, had no comment on the matter. Members of the Royal Household spoke to ATLANTICA anonymously due to the sensitive nature of Constantine’s death.

Tiger Money will return for its thirteenth series in February 2018 on BBC 2. No announcement has been made for who will replace Constantine as a financier, but it is expected that all three of his children will continue to appear on the programme.

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Black Friday Bombings / King-Emperor John II
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Landgravine Guinevere of Pusan / Margrave Mordred II of Choseon
Eugen Flegel Graf von Weiser / Empress Anna Victoria
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So I was doing some absent-minded wikipedia reading and found out before he met Nancy, Reagan was considerably more to the left, even supporting Harry Truman. So naturally, that got me thinking --

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Are we all just gonna ignore the fact that Marilyn Monroe was President in this timeline?
 
Mav12

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While playing Victoria 2 I got dragged into a war against a Westernized China (for those who dont know what this means in Victoria 2, it means stacks of millions upon millions of mobilized troops you have to fight against and your only hope is the tech difference and to not get caught by a extremely large stack before reinforcements arrive) I managed to land some troops from across the Pacific, and they managed to hold off against a large enough stack for me to get enough score from battles to end the war.

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Georgepatton

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Archangel Michael said:
The enmity continued to grow even after Constantine was created the Prince in Mercia. “[John II] never really cared for Constantine,” an anonymous senior staffer from the Office of Royal Communications told ATLANTICA. “He found [Constantine I] to be crass and social climber who cared nothing for the Family or the Empire.”
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Wow, really? The guy you wouldn't let into your family had to go and make his own way in the world, exploiting all the opportunities that came his way instead of relying on those family connections that you literally wouldn't let him have, John?

What an asshole.
 
Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

krinsbez said:
Is Madeline's photo being captioned "Prince Madeline" a typo or is she trans or something?
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Georgepatton said:
Wow, really? The guy you wouldn't let into your family had to go and make his own way in the world, exploiting all the opportunities that came his way instead of relying on those family connections that you literally wouldn't let him have, John?

What an asshole.
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Well, one thing I haven't yet mentioned is that Constantine's mother came from a family of very well off land owners and developers, so he didn't exactly bootstrap himself to the top
 
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Minnesota, ever in independent spirit and soul, had been friendly to the Freedom Party since its creation, giving a healthy list of politicians from the midwestern state. These included Jesse Ventura, Tim Penny, Dean Barkley, Arne Carlson, Jim Ranstad, and Wiona LaDuke. The current governor, Norm Coleman, kept up the healthy tradition of Freedomnites in the Governor’s Mansion; yet after 20 years of their rule, it was understandable that the people should be interested in a change. There was always a sizable number of liberals opposed to the antics of Ventura and his lackeys, but they never seemed to get enough support by the people to reclaim what had once been a stronghold of the Democratic Party.

By 2010, the Democrats were back in the White House, and while backlash to their sweeping liberal agenda in Washington hurt them greatly in the South, the Midwest was more open to the universal healthcare and union protection of President Feingold. Governor Coleman, positioning himself as a centrist, criticized many aspects of the “new legislation that stomps upon the options and freedoms Minnesotans have in living their lives”, but this proved foolish. Minnesota was greatly helped by these liberal social programs in the wake of the recession and President Feingold himself had high hopes for the 2010 election.

The Democrats found their nominee in Minneapolis native Mark Dayton. The GOP got the less inspiring Michelle Bachmann. The tone of her campaign was set when she stated the campaign was “a mission of God”.

While Governor Coleman claimed that he supported an increase in the state minimum wage, hoping to win some liberal votes with this, much of the campaign focused on social issues. Dayton famously stated that “you cannot vote for a governor who is against the state of Minnesota legalizing same sex marriage. The name of his party is Freedom, yet why does he wish to restrict the freedom of thousands of Minnesotans?” Another strong quote attacking the governor came from President Feingold: “Coleman calls it being pro-life, what he really means is anti-abortion, a safe procedure that the Supreme Court deems legal. The Democratic party gave you the first two female presidents, and you can trust Mark to continue to fight sexism!”

While Coleman and the Freedom Party tried their best, it was clear that their clout in The Star of the North was waning.

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