What ideology would the Technocrats fall into?
I need to dig up my old posts on /r/Kaiserreich, but honestly they can fit in anywhere, except maybe among the Federalists. Technocracy fits in well as another weird non-leftist populist ideology in the Kingfish's court along with Coughlin's Social Justice, Townsend's Old Age Reform, and Milo Reno's agrarianism. (William Z. Foster called them "
panacea mass movements" and viewed them as dangerous potential rivals to orthodox communism.) Howard Scott was personally pro-Soviet and there's a left-wing edge to Technocracy revolving around Harold Loeb and there's
this article about how Marxist Herbert Marcuse shared ideas with them, I guess, so they could be part of the CSA. To add even further confusion- there was a faction of Technocrats or perhaps a spin-off called the
Utopian Society of America, which was based out of Los Angeles. They were basically technocracy ideas + weird Masonic type rituals. I think they might have been associated with Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, so they might even be considered at least Social Democratic if not further leftist. Finally they were also present in Canada, particularly in the west, and the director of the local Technocrat chapter there was literally
Elon Musk's grandfather.
So yeah, economic turmoil breeds crazy schools of thought (as we're seeing with the Yang phenomenon), and the Technocrats can pretty much fit in anywhere. And if the devs did yet another ACW rework and added even more factions... well Howard Scott basically ran a good amount of the movement out of the Columbia University campus along with some other academics, so maybe that could be where a Technate faction could be based at. Come to think of it I guess they could fit into the existing New England as well.
I just realized you wrote "ideology" and not faction. I've already listed some ways they could be leftist, but they could definitely be right-wing as well. Howard Scott kind of became a cultish leader (see current day online Technocracy kooks who still cite his writings) so he could be PatAut. There's also some infamous quotes where he basically endorses ethnic/cultural cleansing of Catholic minorities from North America. (He also became very anti-Vatican later on as he got even kookier.) And as with the aforementioned panacea mass movements in the AUS, there's always a possibility that a populist non-leftist movement might turn hard right. Of course, the weirdo thing about Technocracy is that it's explicitly anti-populist, and pro-elitist, in its ideology, but it's populist in the sense that regular folks suffering from the Depression (I think mostly they were middle class urbanites) supported it because it offered a vision of a better future.