AHC: 'Taiwan' your country

In this scenario, could you possibly see the House of Windsor “going native” instead, becoming an English-Canadian monarch? How would this impact Québec, I wonder? (For that matter, might the Quebec Act then become a basis for removing the exclusion of Catholics from the throne? The “Church of England” would be a moot point, after all...)

Or would be - were it not for its renaming to the Anglican Church of Canada in 1955 from the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada.

As for Québec - it would be interesting. At this point in time, with the particular development of French-Canadian nationalism (which at the time considered itself as wherever French-Canadians clustered together into communities, no matter if in Canada or the US - with Quebec obviously the core of the French-Canadian nation), you still had people who believed the Crown was the best guarantor of French-Canadian rights - much like how Aboriginal people feel about the Crown's role in the treaties. Actually, you had a split in ultramontane French-Canadian nationalism during this period between an older group of nationalists, people like Henri Bourassa, and the circles surrounding Abbé Groulx, who themselves were at odds with liberals like Laurier, so among some nationalists the position of the Crown would be ambiguous. Of course, as far as Québec itself is concerned, the only people who matter when it comes to the impact of Taiwanizing Canada are ordinary Québécois/es, and as Montréal itself is growing from migration from the rural areas (thanks to the United States closing off its borders, thus plugging up New England as the traditional safety valve) that would be part and parcel of their attitudes towards the élites that govern them. In other words, not until the 1950s would that have some impact on ordinary people (if indeed there is a WWII in which Canada is on the side of the Allies).
 
Smedly Butler and later Douglas MacArthur govern from Hawaii as an authoritarian capitalist after the mainland falls to a Socialist revolution a few years after a successful Business Plot.
 
For Ecuador, the only possibility is the government fleeing to the Galapagos. But since the islands only have around 25,000 people, I don't think it could survive there for long.

Kind of out topic, but in my Gran Colombia TL, the Dominican Republic is one of the states of Colombia, and the government could realistically flee there in case of revolution.
 
For Ecuador, the only possibility is the government fleeing to the Galapagos. But since the islands only have around 25,000 people, I don't think it could survive there for long.

Kind of out topic, but in my Gran Colombia TL, the Dominican Republic is one of the states of Colombia, and the government could realistically flee there in case of revolution.
As i say before we've San Andres as a 'taiwan' island even if far smaller...Venezuela have none unless they got trinidad for some reason
 
Take your home country of residence and create a timeline where their main territory has been occupied by a communist group, but their government has managed to retreat to an island and set up a government there, just like what happened with the RoC.

Oh, for Italy it's easy. Let's say Sardinia and/or Sicily remain under the loving care of the freedom-loving and democracy-abiding Anglo-Saxon liberators, whereas the peninsula falls to the endless night of Stalinesque socialism. Et voilà: pardon, ed ecco!
 
Could Iran have a lot of influence on Bahrain so that the Pahlavis flee there after the revolution (or another)
 
I have two countries. The first is the U.S. I suppose an exile government might be set up in Alaska, plus maybe Hawaii, Guam and other Pacific islands.

The second country is Taiwan. .. which is already Taiwan.
 
USSR cross the Rhine in 1983, the president can't push the nuclear button because neither NATO nor Warsaw pact did it (very unlikely), so the USSR invades France. The government takes shelter in Corsica and creates a French government in exile in Ajaccio. MiGs clashes with Mirages near Marseilles and Toulon.
France had a First Strike Policy. Sadly.
For France the destination would depend on the political nature of the regime
A royalist government could survive in the regions of western France (brittany, Anjou, Vendée ...) under certain conditions.
A Bonapartist government would choose Corsica, of course.
As potential alternatives I think that Algeria and the other overseas territories would be possible but unstable distinations.
Corsica for a post-colonial France or Cayenne are IMO likely, but otherwise, it's gonna be Alger.
 
For Canada, a state comprised of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, PEI, the Magdalen Islands, and Anticosti Island could be viable.

Now imagine King Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Muteesa II of Buganda fleeing to the Ssese, Buvuma, and Koome Islands durring the Mengo Crisis.
 
Turkey still owns Cyprus but loses to communists revolutionaries. The Turkish Government led by Ismet Pasha leaves for Cyprus and creates a highly militaristic government in paranoia due to Communist threats.
 

Nephi

Banned
US government flees to Puerto Rico, like Taiwan native Puerto Ricans aren't happy when refugee Americans crowd them out.

The US consist of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands here. Naval assets from Guantanamo helped them escape and the area was officially claimed for a while.

Hawaii and Alaska were seized by the British Empire officially to keep them from falling to the USSA, but the remnant government only sorta buys that, but not really for Hawaii, after all they didn't return it. Still the Royal Navy did help refugee fleets escape.
 
Perhaps unification ala Germany.
Well, IMHO, it would depend on who takes over post-Communist Norway. I personally imagine that in a "reformist Commies who rebrand themselves as SocDems win first post-Communist elections" scenario, mainland Norway becomes a non-ideological democratic republic.
 

Bolt451

Gone Fishin'
Socialist revolution in Britain in the 20s or 30s following a central Powers victory in WW1 (I'm looking at you, Kaiserreich). British government retreats to Mann or the Isle of Wight? Or the loyalist bits of the Navy retreat to Scapa Flow and a government in exile rules from Kirkwall in the Orkneys? Monarchs get crowned in St Magnus' Cathedral and so on.

I think there was something like this in An Examination of Extra Universal Systems of Government (with the Isle of Wight)
 
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