List Political Parties of Alternate Countries

[The Jovian]

The European Workers' Concordia:

Established in 1942 as an economic, political and military alliance between the French Worker's Republic, the Iberian People's Confederation, The Council Republic of Bavaria, the German Socialist Union, the Worker's Republic of Ireland, the Socialist Republic of Italy among other European Socialist nations.

Main Parties (The Big Five):

Marxist Labor Party:
Current Leaders: Slavoj Zizek (Parliament), Katja Kipping (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (753/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (192/550)
Current Regional Heads of State: (5/15)
Political Position: Center-Right
Ideologies: Marxist-Luxemburgism, Titoism, Democratic Centralism

The biggest party in the EWC, conservative by European Communist standards it favors a centralized government and economy with some independent economic worker-managed industries. Currently led by renowned Yugoslavian Marxist economist Slavoj Zizek in the European All-People's Parliament and Long-time German Councilor Katja Kipping in the European Central Council. The MLP is currently in a coalition government with the Pan-European Socialist Party.

Worker's Syndicalist Union:
Current Leaders: Jean-Luc Melenchon (Parliament), Martin Schultz (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (609/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (160/550)
Current Regional Heads of State: (4/15)
Political Position: Center-Left
Ideologies: Trade Unionism, Market Socialism, Co-Operativism, De-Centralization

The mainstream left party of the European politics. It favors de-centralization and worker-ownership of the means of production via co-operatives and trade unions. It is also the party of social progress favoring decriminalization of drugs, expansion of civil liberties and is a proponent of identity politics. They are currently the leaders of the opposition to the MLP-PESP coalition government and have began talks with Green Europa to form an electoral alliance for the next election.

Pan-European Socialist Party:
Current Leaders: Beppe Grillo (Parliament), Emmanuel Macron (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (384/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (94/550)
Current Regional Heads of State: (2/15)
Political Position: Center
Ideologies: Democratic Socialism, State Socialism, Pan-Europeanism

The ideological tie-breaker in the Parliament and Central Council. Its politics split the difference between the MLP and the WSU economics-wise and normally support whoever happens to be the most numerous party in the Parliament. In addition the party makes its highest priority be the smoothing of relations between the Concordia's individual nations and cultures, promoting Pan-European unity, solidarity and cultural identity by ensuring that each European nation within the Concordia is given its fair share for contributing to the revolution.

Green Europa:
Current Leaders: Mary Lou MacDonald (Parliament), Enrique del Rey (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (305/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (54/550)
Current Regional Heads of State: (2/15)
Political Position: Left-Wing
Ideologies: Social Ecology, Libertarian Socialism, Democratic Confederalism

The radical lefties of the socialist bloc, the Green Europa movement favors substantial power devolution and de-centralization, direct democracy in both society and the workplace, massive public works projects to create an ecologically sustainable society as well as promoting healthy living and lifestyles. Used to be seen as far-left hippies even by the socialist bloc's standards, the advent of climate change and the mainstream political parties being slow to react to it have given the party a much needed boost.

Revolutionary Vanguard Party:
Current Leaders: Kornelia Ninova (Parliament), Micheál Martin (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (211/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (32/550)
Current Regional Heads of State: (1/15)
Political Position: Right-Wing
Ideologies: Marxist-Leninism, Statism, Vanguardism

The hardline right-wingers of the Concordia, they advocate for total state control over the economy and the abolition of all other parties in favor of a single "one size fits all" political party with internal ideological factions. Sadly for them, Leninism fell out of style after the USSR collapsed in the early 90s and nobody but the most ardent statists is willing to vote for them, with the Marxist Labor Party overtaking them as the mainstream right-wing party. At this rate they'll be lucky to survive the next two election cycles.

Minor and Regional Parties:

Bavarian Socialist Party:
Current Leaders: Katrina Toller (Parliament), Markus Söder (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (64/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (9/550)
Current Regional Heads of State: (1/15)
Political Position: Center-Right
Ideologies: Marxist-Luxemburgism, Democratic Socialism, Christian Socialism

More or less the Marxist Labor Party of Bavaria with a dash of Christian conservatism, widely popular for its role in saving the Council Republic of Bavaria form the Freikorps. Currently the biggest party in Bavaria and the only minor party to have won a Regional Head of State election.

Ulster Unification Front:
Current Leaders: Arlene Foster (Parliament), William Mann (Central Council)
Current Seats in People's Parliament: (23/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (5/550)
Political Position: Far-Right
Ideologies: British Re-Unification, Liberal Democracy, Christian Nationalism

The Ulster region of Ireland didn't take the Irish Revolution well. The Ulster Unification Front wants Ulster to Rejoin the United Kingdom and re-establish a liberal democracy, or as liberal as it can be when they've made calls for an outright Protestant theocracy.

Catalan All-Workers Union:
Current Leaders: Carles Riera (Parliament), Joaquim Torra (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (22/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (4/550)
Political Position: Far-Left
Ideologies: Anarcho-Syndicalism, Anarcho-Communism, Catalan Independence

Ever since the Spanish Civil War ended in victory for the Republicans, the anarchists of Catalonia have been clamoring for the creation of an independent and autonomous Catalonia, completely free in self-determination and self-governance. They are abstentionist and would only vote for one act, the act that gives Catalonia it's independence and recognize it as an anarchist commune.

Yugoslavian Communist Party:
Current Leaders: Aleksandar Vulin (Parliament), Milan Bandić (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (11/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (2/550)
Political Position: Center
Ideologies: Titoism, Democratic Centralism

The brainchild of the late Josip Broz Tito, the YCP advocates for his Titoist blend of Market Socialism and Democratic Centralism. It's popularity has declined following Tito's death in favor of the Pan-European Socialist Party and the Worker's Syndicalist Union.

Liberals For Europe:
Current Leaders: Marine Le Pen (Parliament), Viktor Orbán (Central Council)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (9/2200)
Current Seats in Central Council: (1/550)
Political Position: Far-Right
Ideologies: Liberal Democracy, Classical Liberalism

The resident far-right party of Europe. These capitalist fetishists just refuse to go away. On average they are lucky if they can get a single MP per Concordia state. And this time they got extra lucky when Viktor Orbán got himself voted into the Central Council. They advocate for complete return to capitalist economics and liberal democracy, same as they've done for the last 50 years.

Traditionalist Labor Party:
Current Leaders: Santiago Abascal (Parliament)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (6/2200)
Political Position: Far-Right
Ideologies: White Nationalism, Anti-Islam, Christian Socialism

The other far-right party of Europe, this one being third positionist. Led by the mad Spaniard, the TLP advocates for the complete forced deportation of all non-white individuals to nations out of the Concordia and the establishment of an ethno-state while retaining the Concordia's current economic system. They are infamous for their regressive social policies that border on Christian theocracy.

European Cyber-Socialist Party:
Current Leaders: Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Parliament)
Current Seats in All-People's Parliament: (3/2200)
Political Position: Left-Wing
Ideologies: Direct Democracy, E-Democracy, Libertarian Socialism, Left-Wing Populism

A recent creation of government transparency activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg, it advocates for more citizen control over the machinery of government, more civic ballot initiatives as well as electoral reform to more easily elect and recall candidates from public office.

 

[GenericAltHistorian]

Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (USSR)

PoD: The conspirators of the August Coup of 1991 were arrested and charged for crimes against the state before the coup even happened. Gorbachev decided to return to Moscow earlier than plan due to rumors about a coup plot against him. The New Union Treaty was signed on 20 August 1991 between Russia and the other remaining republics in the USSR, reforming the Soviet Union into the democratic Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. The Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics is often considered to be a more centralized version of the European Union, since each republic has their own sovereignty (priority of national-level legislation to Union-level legislation) and has the right to secede from the Soviet Union. None of the Soviet republics have left the Union nor expressed the will to do so.

Political parties:

Democratic Platform of the Soviet Republics (DPSR)

Founded in 1992, the DPSR is currently the largest and ruling political party in the Soviet Union. A social liberal and Eurocentric political party, the DPSR advocates the further privatization of the Soviet economy and improvement of relations with the West. In recent years, the party has also pursued a policy of non-interventionism, making the USSR more neutral in international affairs.

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

The CPSU is the oldest and founding political party of the Soviet Union. It is currently the main opposition party in the Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People's Deputies. Different from the DPSR, the CPSU advocates a mixed economy, which is largely controlled by the state but still allows the growth of small and medium enterprises in the private sector. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been heavily criticized by some Marxist organizations for revisionism, as the party is largely considered to be a social democratic party and communist only in name.

Unity (officially the All-Union People's Front "Unity")

Unity is basically the ATL version of United Russia but way more bigger and scarier. The party embraces Russian nationalism and conservatism with some authoritarian and anti-Western tendencies as well. Western analysts said that "Unity" tries to impose Russian dominance on other republics of the Soviet Union and considers the USSR to be a version of "Greater Russia" than an actual Union of republics.

Parade of Sovereignties (PS)

Originally a movement advocating greater autonomy for ethnic minorities in the USSR, the Parade of Sovereignties has become a political party of its own in 1999. The PS gains most of its support in the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union and autonomous republics of Russia.

Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU)

The LDPSU, the second legally registered political party in the Soviet Union after the CPSU, was founded in 1989 as a joint project between the KGB and the CPSU leadership and officially registered in April 1991. Led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, one of the most controversial figures in Soviet politics, the LDPSU is neither liberal or democratic, but rather an ultranationalist, Eurosceptic and authoritarian party, which ideology is based on Zhirinovsky's views on a renewed Russian Empire based on the foundation of the Soviet Union.

 

[WotanArgead]

Currently led by renowned Yugoslavian Marxist economist Slavoj Zizek

Did Slavoj Zizek do something useful?

Statism

Lenin wasn't a supporter of Statism

 

[The Jovian]

Did Slavoj Zizek do something useful?

Not really, the Luxemburgists are are seen as the status quo champions of communism.

Lenin wasn't a supporter of Statism

The Revolutionary Vanguard Party is more about copying the USSR's economic system than sticking to Leninist thought to the letter.

 

[WotanArgead]

Not really, the Luxemburgists are are seen as the status quo champions of communism.

It works for me

The Revolutionary Vanguard Party is more about copying the USSR's economic system than sticking to Leninist thought to the letter.

Oh - then it is clear. In such cases, I used to say "Stalinism", but this is not a generally accepted position.

 

[Jedipaladin7]

Federal Union of Nations (FUN)
The Federal Union of Nations was formed in 2214, when the most powerful nations of Earth signed the Federal Charter. The Federal Charter was meant to create a functional way for mankind to interact and defend themselves from the other civilizations of the known galaxy. It reformed the previously existing United Nations Colonial Authority, creating the Federal Colonial Agency, strengthened the international trading system, established the Union Armed Forces, and created the Union Parliament and the office of First Secretary. The nations of Earth have strong control of within their borders and on their colonies, but the Union government has authority in a number of issues. These include trade, military action, important public infrastructure, diplomatic relations, and colonial disputes. The Federal Union has forged strong relations with the Fykari Dominion, Gwynor Republics, and the Derok Starholds.

Union Parliament

Federalist Alliance
The Federalist Alliance is made up of a number of MPs wishing to strengthen the power of the Union government. The Federalists, like all political parties at the Union level, is a big tent group with Left and Right wings. Many Federalists advocate for a stronger military, more robust relations with other interstellar powers, the abolishment of national currencies, reductions in the size of national armies, and the establishment of more Federal colonies.

National Democracy
National Democracy is the main opposition to the Federalists. National Democracy wishes to keep most power at the national level. Most support less involvement in the galaxy and abolishing the Union Armed Forces with a Federal Union Command, which could call up national forces and issue orders of conscription.

Social Union
The Social Union is a Left-Wing grouping of MPs, which support the adoption of the proposed Social Federal Charter, written by the International Congress of Social Democratic, Socialist, and Labour Parties. The Social Federal Charter calls for a radical reformation of the Union, including democratizing large parts of the Union government, adoption of a resolution of economic rights, a bicameral Union Parliament, stricter separation of powers, and establishing a Federal Commission of Social and Economic Development and Democracy.

Colonial Rights
Colonial Rights is a group advocating for the right for colonies to separate from their mother country. The group has the support of a rag tag bunch including communists, libertarians, anarchists, fascists, and many colonial nationalist movements.

National Human Front
The National Human Front is a minor group which advocates for the establishment of the office of Lord General, an all powerful office, the banning of all non-humans from Union space, and getting rid of nations, which they see as an obstacle to Human unity.

 

[Wendell]

Challenge: National-level (rather than regional/ethnic) parties of a federalized/democratized Austrian Empire. I assume the party of government would be a Christian democratic party that would appeal to Catholics and rural voters, with the second-largest party being a socialist/social-democratic party that would perform strongest in Bohemia.

You'd still have parties that were "Austrian" and parties that were "Hungarian" with a POD after 1867, even if they were cooperating. A Belgian party system might be inevitable, albeit with the possibility of greater social cohesion if the populace at large remains religious.

 

[TwiliAlchemist]

Examining the political parties from this Presidential List make by a predictive text generator.

Strom Thurmond wins in 1948
34. (1948-1952) Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat-South Carolina)
35. (1952-1960) John F. Kennedy (Dixiecrat-Massachusetts)
36. (1960-1964) Lyndon B. Johnson (Dixiecrat-Texas)
37. (1964-1968) Woodrow Wilson Peterson (Dixiecrat-Alabama)
44. (1968-1970) Richard Nixon (Dixiecrat-California)
45. (1970-1974) Edmund Muskie (Dixiecrat-Maine)
46. (1974-1976) Ronald Reagan (Dixiecrat-California)
47. (1976-1981) George H.W. Bush (Rising Sun-Texas)
48. (1981-1988) Bill Clinton (Dixiecrat-New York)
49. (1988-1992) George H.W. Bush (Rising Sun-Texas)
50. (1992-1996) George W. Bush (Rising Sun-Texas)
51. (1996-1999) Al Gore (Rising Sun-New Mexico)
52. (1999-2001) Dick Cheney (Rising Sun-Wyoming)
53. (2001-2005) George W. Bush (Rising Sun-Texas)
54. (2005-2007) Mitt Romney (Waxwing-Utah)
55. (2007-2009) Scott Walker (Waxwing-Wisconsin)
56. (2009-2016) John McCain (Vanguard-Arizona)
57. (2016-present) Bernie Sanders (Champion of the 99%)

Major Parties
Rising Sun - Free Market, Moderate on certain social issues. First of the new parties created. Most see it as a political machine for the Bush family, especially after the assassination of Al Gore and the disputed re-election of George W. Bush.
Waxwing - Religious conservative party as well as the only Theodemocratic party in the World. Successor of the old Southern Dixiecrats with a little less racism.
Vanguard - Military Party. A party that only exists thanks to the Scott Walker Electoral Dispute where John McCain overthrew the government to create free and fair elections, after his own presidency of course.
Champion of the 99% - Mostly called the 99% Party by the common folk. This is the first "socialist" party in the United States that has gained any traction since the the repeal of the "American Political Party Act of 1949" in 1976. This allowed new political parties to form. Democratically socialist. The party rose to power thanks to the free and fair elections under John McCain.

Minor Parties
Dixiecrats - Divided between the Southern Wing and the Northern Wing. The Southern Wing is the segregationist, conservative party. The Northern Wing is the desegregation, and moderate party. The only legal party in the United States from 1949 to 1976. After the repeal of the American Political Party Act of 1949, the party lost most of their members to other parties.

 

[Maponus]

What if all of Britain's political parties were one-issue Brexit Parties?

The Deal Party - This party was formed to support Prime Minister Theresa May's deal with the European Union. Lacking allies and with poor control of parliament, the Deal Party is unlikely to remain in power much longer.

Leader - Theresa May

Hard Brexit Party - This Party is a combination of the ERG and the DUP, and advocates for a new, tougher deal that will prevent the Northern Irish backstop. However, in recent weeks rumours abound of a merger with the No Deal Party.

Leader: Boris Johnson

The Common Market Party - The Common Market Party accepts the results of the referendum, but insists a better deal could be struck, if only the Deal Party were to abandon its red lines and agree to membership in the Common Market.

Leader: Ken Clarke

Six Tests Party - The Six Tests Party has a checklist of six conditions upon which it will judge any Brexit Deal. If these cannot be met, the Six Tests Party implies it will ally with the Second Referendum Party, but has not fully committed to this action. The Six Tests Parties negotiations with the Deal Party recently broke down. Voters find the Six Tests Party confusing, but it insists its policies where all decided at the parties conference, so they must be clear.

Leader: Jeremy Corbyn

Second Referendum Party - The Second Referendum opposes Brexit, and believes that the public has changed it's mind and should be given the right to vote against it in a new referendum. However, the Party is divided as to whether it should ally with the Deal Party or the Common Market Party in order to achieve their primary goal, in return for supporting either of those parties deals through parliament. Dark whispers abound that they'd secretly prefer to have no deal on the ballot.

Leader: Kier Stammer

Revoke Article 50 Party - A party of diehard Remainers, who hold to a Burkean ideal of representing the interests of their constituents, the Revoke Article 50 Party believe Parliament should stop Brexit without another Referendum.

Leader: Chuuka Umunna

No Deal Party - The radical Leaver No Deal Party believes Britain requires no deal with the European Union, and that Dunkirk spirit and rapidly negotiated trade deals under WTO rules will see Britannia rule the waves again. They threaten to seize the support base of all three other Brexit supporting parties if the current political crisis continues.

Leader: Nigel Farage

Lexit Party - A fringe far-left Party, the Lexit Party has little sway in parliament. The Lexit Party believes Brexit will allow them greater freedom in constructing Socialism outside the European Union's laws.

 

[nezza]

The Dominion of Ulster:

Following the UWC's strike in 1974 and the collapse of the power sharing administration Harold Wilson orders a gradual withdrawal from Northern Ireland and grants the province dominion status.

Northern Ireland becomes the Dominion of Ulster and effectively becomes a one party state:

The Unionist Party:
Holds 11 seats in the "National Parliament" at Stormont. A right wing, royalist state, it controls the province with an iron hand. The RUC and various loyalist paramilitary groups form the "new" UDA. Led by Ian Paisley

SDLP:
Has the remaining seat but effectively treated as a pariah. Still stands for re-integration with Republic. Led as it were by Gerry Fitt

One Ulster:
Cross-community party comprising of former Faulkner unionists and non partisans. Led by Oliver Napier

 

[PierceJJones]

Political parties for the North American Union. Based on a personal dystopia for a family member but a sort of utopia for me. The member regions are the The United States,Canada,Mexico and the Caribbean (Puerto Rico+ The Anglophone islands and Guyana). The voting system is FPTP, prepositional representatives for the lower house (House of Representatives,650 total) and 2 per state for the Upper house (Senate,170 Total).

Liberal-Democratic Party (English),Partido Liberal-Demócrata (Spanish),Parti Libéral-Démocrate (French)
Ideologies: Social Liberalism,Economic Liberalism,Technoliberalism,Green liberalism and Big-Tent
Leader: President Hillary Clinton (NY)
The dominant party of the North American Union since it's relativity recent founding in 2015. It was a merger as implied by it's name a merger of the old Democratic Party in the US and Canada's Liberal Party and thus inherited it's liberal foundations along with it's deep connections with North America's powerful megacorpations. Compared to being just a fig leaf to their powerful interests. It's base is paradoxically as they run in all American,Canadian and Caribbean seats is made up of both Middle and Upper class Whites and East Asians that tend to have at least some college education and often higher and poorer Black,Hispanic and too lesser extent South Asians. They are generally strong nationally where they run but are strongest on the East and West coasts and the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. Currently they and their ally the PRI have 60% of all seats.

USA House Seats: 250/421
USA Senate Seats: 64/102
Canada House Seats: 34/48
Canada Senate Seats: 9/14
Caribbean House Seats: 10/14
Caribbean Senate Seats: 9/10

Institutional Revolutionary Party (English),Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Spanish)
Ideologies: Economic Liberalism,Technocracy and Big Tent.
Leader: Vice President Enrique Peña Nieto (MX)
Even more dominant than it's Northern counterpart. Controlling over 80% of the house seats and even more Senate seats. It's very much a continuation of the "Perfect Dictatorship" while in principal agreeing with the LDP's values with it's own divergences to appeal to Mexican voters and allow it run Mexico as they see fit. But nationally their more or less an extension of the LDP under a different and familiar name. Unlike the LDP it's more much more like a massive political machine for Mexico than a "real" political party.

Mexico House Seats: 133/167
Mexico Senate Seats 39/44

People's Party of North America (English)
Ideologies: Liberal conservatism,Blue-Toryism,Populism.
Leader: Senator Andrew Sheer (SK) and Representative Larry Hogan (MD)
The main opposition party in the NAU. It's a moderately conservative party that does not opposes the NAU as an institution. But chooses to focus on the "corruption and abuse" found within the union and to a lesser extent the Liberal-Democratic party and it's arrogance and relativity distant nature of leadership. While the mainstream of the party wants reform to make the Union more "clean and responsive". Some within the party want to make the NAU a confederation instead and return sovereignty to the member states along with a general push for states rights. It was founded by Larry Hogan as a more "sane" successor to the old Republicans who opposed the Union and the remnants of Canadian conservative party. It's main support base is found in the interior of Canada and old bastions of "Working class Republicanism" in parts of the Northeast,Rust Belt, and Jello-Belt.

USA House Seats: 108/421
USA Senate Seats: 30/102
Canada House Seats: 9/48
Canada Senate Seats: 4/14
Caribbean House Seats: 1/14
Caribbean Senate Seats: 0/10

Progressive Democratic Party (English),Partido Demócrata Progresista (Spanish),Parti Démocratique Progressif (French)
Ideologies: Democratic Socialism,Social Justice,Left-Wing populism
Leader: Senator Bernie Sanders (VT)
A left-wing opposition party started by Bernie Sanders and broadly trying to rally groups like the Justice Democrats,The New Democratic Party of Canada and the Democratic Socialists of America. It goes further than than the already very liberal LDP on the social issues and is very much opposed to the "Corporate controlled" Liberal Democrats and Big Business in North America in general. While seen internally as the "last best hope" against corporate interests. It's notoriously known to disappoint nationally and disregarded as a serious force.


USA House Seats: 21/421
USA Senate Seats: 4/102
Canada House Seats: 4/48
Canada Senate Seats: 1/14

Republican Citizens Party (English)
Ideologies: Libertarianism,Right-Wing populism, Anti-globalization
Leader: Representative Mark Meadows (NC) (Official),Prisoner Alex Jones (TX)
With the creation of the North American Union came the worst nightmare of a surprisingly large segment of nation that believed in various anti-globalization conspiracy theorizes. Lead by Alex Jones the infamous creator of Infowars and running both the website and the party from prison due to his support for anti-government militias. It has won about 10% of all U.S based seats,Primarily in the Mountain time zone and in Appalachia. Its further right than even the old American Republican party. It's very much anti-immigrant,anti-corporate and wants to disband the NAU. With a sizable support from the Alt-Right,Identitarians and militias.

USA House Seats: 42/421
USA Senate Seats: 4/102
Canada House Seats: 1/48
Canada Seats: 0/14

Partido Revolucionario Nacional (Spanish),National Revolutionary Party (English)
Ideologies: Cardenism,Left-Wing Nationalism and Democratic Socialism
Leader: Senator Andrés Manuel López Obrador (MC)
Allied to the Progressives in the north. Its diverges in terms of area of support. As the see the NAU as a possible benefit to the deeply improvised communities of the Caribbean and Mexico. As such they want to make reforms from the inside in order to benefit ordinary Mexicans and other " chronically poor" people believing helping them will uplift the whole nation. They are also get their support for vocally opposing the corruption of the PRI in Mexico and the LDP Nationally. But have yet built up the political machinery to challenge the PRI in a increasingly wealthy and peaceful Mexico.

Mexico House Seats: 34/167
Mexico Senate Seats: 5/44
Caribbean House Seats: 3/10
Caribbean Senate Seats: 1/10

 

[InfernoMole]

Reposting from here.

List of Presidents of the Republic of Florida:

1. Malik Castaneda (Independent; 2074-2076)
2. Whitney Lawson (Rally for Floridian Progress; 2076-2080)
3. Matthew Pullman (Rally for Floridian Progress; 2080-present)

Political Parties and Presidential Candidates in the Republic of Florida (2088)

Major Parties:

Rally for Floridian Progress (Langfordist): Consider themselves the definitive leader of the social democratic movement in America, which would be true if the founder of their particular brand of "socialism" wasn't also the first trillionaire in the Western Hemisphere. They would probably be more respected if they stood up to Langford Industries more often.

• Myrsa Langford-Grant: The second-youngest daughter of the venerable Mrs. Langford, and an instinctively articulate socialite. With her attractive looks, a history of heroics in the Army, and status as heiress to the Langford Industries, she'd be the likely frontrunner if not for her barely-disguised authoritarian elitism and tendency for political assassi- wait, her mother named her after her Game of Thrones waifu? Holy heck that's comedy gold.
• Adrian Pullman: The nephew of the current President, running a centrist campaign under the ingenious slogan "I'm technically a Langford... but I'm really not!". Totally a relatable candidate.
• Marisa Wong: The ancient Comptroller General of Florida is now running for President, despite people listing all the possible ways this could kill her. At least she sincerely believes she's the "intellectual godmother" of Langford's policies, and, well... a half-baked imitation of the Taiwanese government is... stable, at least?...
• Dan Borman: A man who has headed several government departments for many years (not uninterrupted) and the perfect candidate for picking up conservative voters, at least in his own view. The rest of the Congress is waiting for him to stop switching parties so much and whining over Reform Conservatives not liking the new Imperial Florida Barge Canal.
• Nora Anderson: Relatively inoffensive, a skilled pilot, director of the Florida space program and, as of recently, recipient of a diamond made from the ashes of Michelle Langford's shinbone. That probably means she's going to win.
• Dahlia Mucarsel-Powell: The Administrator of the Monroe-Dade County who has been responsible for the revival of Key West and, shockingly, the only active candidate whose campaign ads don't include a heartfelt reference to Mrs. Langford. As expected, Pullman and Borman are decrying her as an entryist.
• Lana Langford-Grant: Currently a bit too busy flaregunning Fallen Angel cells, lone-wolf Christian terrorists and illegal immigrants at the Magnolian-Floridian border to run a national campaign, but hopeful old men seeking their very own Eisenhower, amazon chasers and assorted genemod fetishists can't help but vote for her.

Reform Conservative: Ostensibly the conservative answer to the Rally, mostly based in Central Florida and some of the more anti-Rally suburbs. Still pissed over that huge coalition snub during the 2085 Congressional elections.

• Henriques Soares Bittencourt: Is it legal for the son/aide of a disgraced minister-general who's related to the Brazilian royal family to run for President of Florida? RC says yes. Huh. Maybe this is what John Jay was talking about when he said "natural born citizen".
• Jameson Sudou: The informal party leader who's absolutely definitely going to keep it that way. He is quite annoyed about Borman's antics and the sudden rise of Bittencourt. It's rather hard to keep up a "soft-spoken statesman" image when you have personally sent several delegates to hospital during the 24th Congress.
• Olin Park: Some schmuck from Miami who's basing his economic policy on the writings of a Korean libertarian economist. Not sure if it's done anything good for New Jersey, but let's see if it'll work for Florida.
• Megan Reeves: Her biggest claim to fame is that she's Rick Scott's great-grandchild, and that's... sad, really, given that she was rated "Second Least Corrupt Mayor" in 2086.
• Hercules Diaz-Balart: Arguably the last of his family to actually reside in Florida, and mostly appealing to the veterans of the Zealots' War and the Second American Civil War; apparently, since he was a (mediocre) sniper for the first two years before going to the infirmary, he counts as a "liberator of Cuba".

Labour: Founded largely by former progressive Democrats, Democratic Socialists and moderated Evergladers concerned with the disturbing rise of Langfordism in Florida politics, the Labourites are quite frequently lambasted by both Reform Conservatives and Rallyites as "syndicalist extremists", even if they're no more lefty than your average European social democrat.

• Gerry Katz: The short, mousy-haired and witty wife of a clerk, suburban food distribution activist and Representative from Hialeah, Gerry is probably most famous for lobbying for several Floridian cheese businesses and arguing with Myrsa over the definition of "tomboy". It's a wonder she's still alive.
• Claude Terrell: Veteran of the Second American Civil War and an ostensibly "repentant" Everglader, Terrell never actually stopped coming to his comrades' beer parties, though he did manage to convince people that his calls to dismember the rich are to be taken in jest. Other than that, the main issues voters probably have with him is that he has a nasty scar across the left side of his head and that he waves his AK-47 around way too much.
• Fernanda Vasquez-Chiles: We shall end the reign of the Langford dynasty and their cronies soon enough, comrade. Labour shall be ethical, guns shall be available to all, and Florida will belong to the people. Just remember that God is with us, Jesus was a socialist, and pay absolutely no attention to the Korean advisers or those weird e-mails.
• Monty Rodarte: Former boxer and current Mayor of Palatka, employing an Obamesque (albeit more populist) campaign to put himself on top. Apparently bought himself a massive villa in Macau, but don't let that distract you from his chiseled bod.

Minor Parties:

Liberal Democratic: It's pretty sad when even the party leader can't say "we're not Rally sans Sinophilia" without whimpering.

Panhandle People's Party: Regional agrarian socialist party that's almost entirely composed of African-Americans and immigrants from the neighboring Federation of Magnolian Communes. Sometimes they're really angry about the "avoid the bullet" policy that Pullman employs towards illegal immigrants, but- ow ow please give us our congressional immunity back we're sorry

Gulf Nation: A rather... strange, ostensibly centre-right, very urban party whose top priority is reclaiming those parts of Florida which were lost to sea (not by restructuring the cities or making artificial islands, as the Rally has been trying to do, but by turning them into underwater habitats) and turning Florida into a thalassocratic state. Political pundits are not sure if they're an actual party or a vanity project organized by some non-Langford businessmen, but the jingoist chants some of their members spout would be quite in line with the Tea Party of old.

Progressive-Green: Pretty bummed about the Marjorie Harris Greenway being remade into a giant mechanized barge, but not everyone gets to be happy anyway

Neo-Prohibition: As far as they're concerned, the only party willing to end the plague of genemods, cannabis and these weirdly-named mushroom/space rock brews on the territory of Florida. No, their nominee isn't a neo-Confederate, stop asking. No, they aren't a sleeper agent for Intermarium or Britain either. Besides, magenta is manly.

Extraparliamentary Parties:

Acción Hispánica: Could've been something more than a dwindling regional party if the Cuban-Americans didn't start migrating to Cuba around the 2040s. When the new generation of Cuban-Americans settled down in America after the Zealots' War, their political positions were so different from the party's views that the party just stopped caring.

Popular Reform: a.k.a. the Party of Our Lord and Saviour, Charlie Crist. Just don't stumble over the rug, okay?

Floridian Section of the International: Wait, you called them "syndicalist extremists"? Hey, Etienne, I think this dude needs a lecture on third-wave intersectional De Leonism-Macedism!

Floridian National Congress ~ Silver Cross: The Father of Florida and the man who led the state towards independence from Feds and Coms alike died near the Presidential Palace under dubious circumstances, the bastard Rallyites have co-opted the Floridian independence movement, and our party members are being accused of fraud by mainstream media, but hey- maybe we can learn something from our Everglader comrades?

Synthetic Rights' League: The legal faction, anyway. The current leadership is perfectly willing to die upon the hill of using Wingdings as a "proper" robotic font, though other synth activists are worried that they might be getting too soft on Langford's treatment of synths.

Everglades Movement: Your average anarcho-syndicalist movement that has its origins in the Second American Civil War and predominates among dissatisfied youth, synths, and immigrants from the Caribbean. The Rally finds them so terrifying that the Movement has been banned at least thirteen times; it didn't work, and the Rally found out that entryism and splintering works way better.

 

[American Socialist]

Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (USSR)

PoD: The conspirators of the August Coup of 1991 were arrested and charged for crimes against the state before the coup even happened. Gorbachev decided to return to Moscow earlier than plan due to rumors about a coup plot against him. The New Union Treaty was signed on 20 August 1991 between Russia and the other remaining republics in the USSR, reforming the Soviet Union into the democratic Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. The Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics is often considered to be a more centralized version of the European Union, since each republic has their own sovereignty (priority of national-level legislation to Union-level legislation) and has the right to secede from the Soviet Union. None of the Soviet republics have left the Union nor expressed the will to do so.

Political parties:

Democratic Platform of the Soviet Republics (DPSR)

Founded in 1992, the DPSR is currently the largest and ruling political party in the Soviet Union. A social liberal and Eurocentric political party, the DPSR advocates the further privatization of the Soviet economy and improvement of relations with the West. In recent years, the party has also pursued a policy of non-interventionism, making the USSR more neutral in international affairs.

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

The CPSU is the oldest and founding political party of the Soviet Union. It is currently the main opposition party in the Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People's Deputies. Different from the DPSR, the CPSU advocates a mixed economy, which is largely controlled by the state but still allows the growth of small and medium enterprises in the private sector. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been heavily criticized by some Marxist organizations for revisionism, as the party is largely considered to be a social democratic party and communist only in name.

Unity (officially the All-Union People's Front "Unity")

Unity is basically the ATL version of United Russia but way more bigger and scarier. The party embraces Russian nationalism and conservatism with some authoritarian and anti-Western tendencies as well. Western analysts said that "Unity" tries to impose Russian dominance on other republics of the Soviet Union and considers the USSR to be a version of "Greater Russia" than an actual Union of republics.

Parade of Sovereignties (PS)

Originally a movement advocating greater autonomy for ethnic minorities in the USSR, the Parade of Sovereignties has become a political party of its own in 1999. The PS gains most of its support in the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union and autonomous republics of Russia.

Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU)

The LDPSU, the second legally registered political party in the Soviet Union after the CPSU, was founded in 1989 as a joint project between the KGB and the CPSU leadership and officially registered in April 1991. Led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, one of the most controversial figures in Soviet politics, the LDPSU is neither liberal or democratic, but rather an ultranationalist, Eurosceptic and authoritarian party, which ideology is based on Zhirinovsky's views on a renewed Russian Empire based on the foundation of the Soviet Union.

When you say "none of the Soviet republics have left the Union nor expressed the will to do so" are talking about just the nine republics who agreed to Gorbachev's New Union Treaty or all fifteen? Just curious.

By the way this is my favorite post yet. I've always been fascinated by the possibility of the New Union Treaty actually being implemented.

 

[SpookyBoy]

Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (USSR)

PoD: The conspirators of the August Coup of 1991 were arrested and charged for crimes against the state before the coup even happened. Gorbachev decided to return to Moscow earlier than plan due to rumors about a coup plot against him. The New Union Treaty was signed on 20 August 1991 between Russia and the other remaining republics in the USSR, reforming the Soviet Union into the democratic Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. The Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics is often considered to be a more centralized version of the European Union, since each republic has their own sovereignty (priority of national-level legislation to Union-level legislation) and has the right to secede from the Soviet Union. None of the Soviet republics have left the Union nor expressed the will to do so.

Political parties:

Democratic Platform of the Soviet Republics (DPSR)

Founded in 1992, the DPSR is currently the largest and ruling political party in the Soviet Union. A social liberal and Eurocentric political party, the DPSR advocates the further privatization of the Soviet economy and improvement of relations with the West. In recent years, the party has also pursued a policy of non-interventionism, making the USSR more neutral in international affairs.

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

The CPSU is the oldest and founding political party of the Soviet Union. It is currently the main opposition party in the Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People's Deputies. Different from the DPSR, the CPSU advocates a mixed economy, which is largely controlled by the state but still allows the growth of small and medium enterprises in the private sector. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been heavily criticized by some Marxist organizations for revisionism, as the party is largely considered to be a social democratic party and communist only in name.

Unity (officially the All-Union People's Front "Unity")

Unity is basically the ATL version of United Russia but way more bigger and scarier. The party embraces Russian nationalism and conservatism with some authoritarian and anti-Western tendencies as well. Western analysts said that "Unity" tries to impose Russian dominance on other republics of the Soviet Union and considers the USSR to be a version of "Greater Russia" than an actual Union of republics.

Parade of Sovereignties (PS)

Originally a movement advocating greater autonomy for ethnic minorities in the USSR, the Parade of Sovereignties has become a political party of its own in 1999. The PS gains most of its support in the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union and autonomous republics of Russia.

Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU)

The LDPSU, the second legally registered political party in the Soviet Union after the CPSU, was founded in 1989 as a joint project between the KGB and the CPSU leadership and officially registered in April 1991. Led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, one of the most controversial figures in Soviet politics, the LDPSU is neither liberal or democratic, but rather an ultranationalist, Eurosceptic and authoritarian party, which ideology is based on Zhirinovsky's views on a renewed Russian Empire based on the foundation of the Soviet Union.

I'm not sure how much sense it really makes having the LDPSU and Unity exist as seperate parties tbh

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's one I've been thinking a bit on, the POD is that Alexander Haig becomes Reagan's VP. After the Reagan assassination, Haig's aggressive foreign policy over his two presidential terms contributes to a wildly different international and domestic environment, leading to an election in 2020 contested between five political parties, each claiming to inherent bits and pieces of the preceding three. It's a matter of academic debate whether the current state of affairs represents the logical extreme of the polarization of the Sixth Party System or is so different that it can only be considered a Seventh. Politics in the twenty-first century is divided into two groups, the Establishment (which has national appeal and viability) and the Opposition (which has neither).

The Establishment (from right to left)

America First Party: Considered the most socially conservative faction of the modern American political landscape, the America First Party favors strict controls on immigration, vigorous defense of religious liberty and other cultural wedge issues, and supports government intervention directed at achieving those ends. The party is also incredibly hawkish on foreign policy, particularly against the Soviet Union, although there has been a noticeable softening on the Republic of China, coupled with swirling rumors of that nation's undue influence on the president. The standard bearer for the party is President Buchanan, who won election to his first term as the second president elected by the Reform Party. Far more right wing than President Perot, Buchanan looked on as the political system fragmented, consolidating the most conservative elements of Reform and the Republicans in an effort to secure reelection. Ties to the Myrmidon Militia hate group have gone uninvestigated by the Department of Justice. The symbol of the America First Party is a lion representing pride and power.

Freedom Party: Largely a collection of libertarians, free market proselytizers, and small government isolationists, the Freedom Party is primarily descended from ideological strains within the Republican party, although the secession of the AFP has allowed in a bit more cultural liberalism. Largely favoring the withering away of government, Freedom is widely accused by its critics of supporting authoritarian corporate control over a publicly accountable government and is widely seen as beholden to corporate interest, particularly in the tech industry. The only non-interventionist party in the modern spectrum, the Freedom Party opposes the expansive American military footprint, with longstanding US support for the Duvalier regime in West Quisqueya (and their controversial chemical weapons program) and the decades spent fighting in Kurdistan being attacked repeatedly in Freedom political ads. The symbol of the Freedom Party is a rattlesnake calling back to the Gadsden flag.

New Federalist Party: Largely bipartisan in origin and attempting to corner the market on a hypothetical "moral majority" opposed to the climate of ideological insanity, the New Federalist Party is ironically the most radical of the modern parties in some respects, favoring a broad variety of structural reforms meant to bring a better consensus to government. Although opposed to calls from more leftward parties to eliminate the electoral college, for example, the Neofeds support reforms to make the selection of electors more reflective of the popular vote, along with making changes to the size and structure of the Supreme Court and altering the length of terms in the House. The biggest thing going against the New Federalists is that most of their proposed changes require a hefty constitutional lift, and their opponents on either end of the spectrum despise them.The Neofeds use a tree as their symbol to represent their "living document" view on the Constitution.

Progressive Party: Made up of the identitarian left of the former Democratic Party, the Progressives are largely focused on dismantling structural inequalities in American society, but have noticeable problems with factionalism. Socially liberal (though not necessarily socialist), the Progressive Party favors a government that strongly enforces civil rights laws and supports the less fortunate but otherwise leaves citizens to their business, and the party is especially concerned with the spiralling War on Drugs, originally formalized by Haig as the continuation of the "Reagan Revolution". The legacy of these programs, particularly a growing epidemic of drug overdoses and the extreme militarization of local police, has fed into the wariness of the Progressive electorate toward a martial rather than a supportive government. Digging into the history books, the Progressive Party uses a bull moose as their electoral symbol.

American Socialist Party: On the far left of the modern American party system, the American Socialist Party formed after an exodus of Democrats worried about a focus on "identity issues" cobbled a viable party together with the Greens and the Democratic Socialists. Focusing largely on class issues, Socialist proposals range from making sweeping changes to existing institutions all the way to calls on the far fringes for a new constitutional convention. Admittedly bound by ideological rigidity, the Socialist Party has repeatedly refused to disavow the Weathermen, a group of anti-fascist activists that works to disrupt the activities of the other political parties and has been accused of militancy by Freedom and the AFP. Wanting to distance themselves rhetorically from the Soviet Union, the Socialists have abandoned red as a signature color and have settled on the bison as an all-American symbol.

The Opposition (basically all over the place)

Regional Responsibility: Though not strictly a political party in the traditional sense, Regional Responsibility still plays an important role in the political ecosystem of the United States. Originally inspired by American involvement in the Kurdish Revolution, the Regionalists are a broad based coalition of groups representing states, ecoregions, tribal groups and ideological minorities fighting for the devolution of governing power to the state and local level, and runs the gamut from reactionary to revolutionary elements. This ideological schizophrenia makes organizing successfully on a national level nearly impossible, but is considered a feature of the movement rather than a bug as the maxim that "all politics is local" is considered the rallying cry of the movement. Ironically, Regional Responsibility affiliates with similar groups throughout the world, particularly in the Paneuropean Union. Although different factions use different symbols, the Establishment parties used a turkey to denigrate the movement, and it seems to have caught on out of spite.

Radio Free America: Another bit player on the stage, steeped in meme magic and elaborate trolling, Radio Free America is a disorganized and anarchic protest movement ironically appropriating the facade of a political party. Focused largely on disruption for the sake of disruption and crusading for an end to the copyright and patent systems the Pirates are largely considered a nuisance by the Establishment, although they maintain a fairly steady stream of small dollar contributions. Radio Free America uses a tree frog as a symbol of the movement, with the spots forming a skull and crossbones.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Because I actually want to do something with all of this stuff here's a few more political parties for more countries in the TL. These all exist at the narrative present relative to my US politics post:

Paneuropean Union- Established in 1993 to safeguard the security of Western Europe from renewed Soviet aggression as the United States began to look elsewhere, the Paneuropean Union is a centrist federation with a common currency, single economic market, and standing army. The PEU does not have federal level political parties, but rather two large coalitions made up of national parties working more or less in harmony.

• The Mountain: Originating in France, the Mountain is a coalition of the left-leaning parties of the PEU, generally favoring strong social welfare, protection for unions, and enforced laïceté on a continental level achieved through a strong federal government. Accused of being appeasers and apologists to the USSR, the Mountain is distrusted by the Levellers, and despised by the Underground.

• The Levellers: The second major pole of Paneuropean politics and originating in the UK, the Levellers focus much more on preserving the rights of the national governments of the PEU against centralized encroachment and favor religious pluralism in public and private life. Taking a hard line against encroachment by the USSR, the Levellers are firm supporters of the military, viewing a strong defense as the supreme guarantor of national liberties in Western Europe.

• The Underground- A populist movement in West Germany, the Underground does not compete at the federal level on the continent, and is considered to the extreme right on the European political spectrum. Viewing the entire Paneuropean project as a shadowy path to Communist style tyranny, the Underground opposes what it views as "government overreach by a bloated corps of continentalist apparatchiks". There have been repeated calls for a referendum to take Germany out of the federation, but recent polling indicates this latest attempt will fail like all the others.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- After enacting a series of market reforms, the USSR has attempted to reverse its long term decline through military adventurism both internally (against Chechens and other minority ethnic groups) and externally (seeking to isolate and bully Konigsberg through an artificial island boondoggle in the Baltic Sea, most notably). The USSR and US are currently in the midst of an ugly trade war, putting strain on both economies.

• United Communist Party: Formed in the wake of the August Coup and the Gorbachev assassination, the United Communist Party was a rebranding attempt meant to mask discontent with the Soviet system. Currently lead by Premier Zhirinovsky, the party platform has a tendency to change based on political expediency, but a connection to Marxist-Leninism is always maintained, no matter how tenuously.

Republic of China- In the wake of popular protests against the Communist Party, the People's Republic of China would dissolve despite all attempts to save it, with one reform plan being reworked, leading to the formation of the Republic of China. Seeking to draw on the tradition of the original ROC, China paradoxically is also attempting to draw on both the Communist and Nationalist sides of the Chinese Civil War.

• Chinese Democratic Party: The only political party of note in China, the Democratic Party is firmly controlled by a clique of insiders widely considered a corrupt oligarchy. The CDP seeks to maintain an expansive foreign presence for Chinese markets, making trade deals with several African nations while also attempting to isolate Japan. Unusually the DPC is also extremely pro-Israel, exploiting a split between that country and the United States in order to maintain a strategic influence in the Middle East.

 

[Born in the USSA]

This one, meanwhile, would be some sort of future history epilogue of the same timeline.

As resource scarcity, climate change, and international terrorism ratcheted up global tensions, the nations of the world began to look with rapacious eyes toward the last unclaimed real estate on Earth, Antarctica. As climate change melted the southern ice, resources became more accessible even if the conditions of extracting that bounty remained extremely harsh. In theory it could solve several problems at once, as a convict labor system could be used to reduce demand for resources elsewhere while allowing a relief valve for a variety of population pressures while maintaining access for crews of researchers documenting the rapidly shifting conditions on the continent. This shortsighted approach would come to an abrupt and violent end with the outbreak of the Antarctic Revolution and the birth of the Altrurian Revolutionary Combine (derided by its enemies as the "Southern Reich") under the firm hand of the Cosmicist Southern Vanguard. Born in the wake of serious global convulsions, Cosmicism was a political theory pioneered by American genre writer Daniel Sutter starting in 2020 with the publication of his nonfiction opus The Cosmicist Manifesto. Declaring that "the greatest enemy of the human endeavor is the end, and the surest path to the end is precarity", Cosmicism was an attempt to create a diverse and self-described paradoxical ideology devoted to "preserving the past, pioneering the future, and enshrining freedom and security through mass populist action and global political unity". Facing serious backlash from entrenched power structures the world over, which he derided as "the dying gasps of the Leviathan's Kyriarchy", Cosmicism has only been fully realized in the ARC.

Cosmicist Southern Vanguard: The only legally recognized political party in the ARC, the Vanguard is divided into two broad factions that struggle for power in the eight Territories that make up the nation. While both factions favor centralized government and champion individual freedom of action, the Technocracy faction favors industrial development in order to counter the hostile Fallen World and seeks to rapidly develop a space program in order to establish outposts beyond the Earth to ensure continuity of government and second strike capability in the event of what is viewed as an inevitable attack. To this end Technocracy values immigration by highly skilled prospective citizens who can contribute to this development. In contrast, the Social Ecology faction wishes to preserve as much natural space as possible on the continent, limiting development and attempting to engineer new organisms from preserved native stock to fill niches in the rapidly transforming ecozone and ensure robust (if largely artificial) biodiversity. Extremely distrustful of "unpredictable dilution of the Cosmicist project by unstable foreign elements", Social Ecology opposes all immigration from nations that do not adopt a Cosmicist system and favors a longer term and less destructive space program geared largely toward peacefully achieving autarky by extracting resources throughout the solar system. The Southern Vanguard uses an octopus, a common Cosmicist metaphor, as a symbol.

 

[King Jasper]

The Republic of Bengal
Set in a timeline where, (amongst other PoDs) the British choose to make all of Greater Bengal into a Dominion, and in 1949 an independent republic. Though remaining a member of the Commonwealth, the RoB stays neutral in the Cold War, with a slight bias towards the Soviet Union. Today Bengal has a rapidly growing economy and is a key player in South Asia.

Communist Party
est. 1950
Affiliated with the Communist People's International, the Communist Party of Bengal (CPB), has been one of the strongest advocates for a more pro-soviet foreign policy, and has occasionally propped up Socialist Labour governments. It advocates for the creation of a 'People's Republic of Bengal', nationalization of industry, agriculture, and finance, as well as increased rights for women and ethnic minorities. The party felt a decline in the late eighties, as neutrality became increasingly popular amongst the general population. However they faced their worst fall in seats in the 2000s, as a cold-war era communist party looked irrelevant and outdated. It has since modernized its political platform, moving to the right and trying to address the issues of modern-day Bengalis through Marxism. Currently holding 14 seats in the 250-seat National Assembly, it has a solid base among students and union workers, and looks likely to play a part in the next government.

Socialist Labour Party
est. 1946
Inspired from the UK Labour party, the Socialist Labour party was formed after the creation of the Dominion of Bengal as a collection of left-wing minded MAs from the previous, nonpartisan legislature. They made up the first-ever Bengali ministry, and are sometimes regarded as the natural party of government, especially in the early years. Strong advocates for the continuation of the Welfare State they created, the SLP holds both Social Democratic and Democratic Socialist wings, thought they have recently shifted towards the latter. Though they officially advocated for neutrality in the Cold War, in reality the Socialist Labour party was decently pro-soviet, even taking inspiration from the USSR's five year plans to pursue their own industrialization. In recent years, they briefly fell out of favor, after the Liberals won two elections in a row, but they seem to be poised to return to government, with the Liberals weighed down by corruption scandals. Buoyed by a young, charismatic and populist leader, polls predict Socialist Labour to increase their seat total from their current 98 seats to around 120. That would give them no majority, but a coalition with the Communists would easily get them over the line, and back into government.

Liberal Party
est. 1946
One of the two remaining "original" parties, the Liberals were initially a centrist grouping of MAs, but quickly veered to the right after absorbing the aborted remains of the Conservative party. After that, the Liberals were able to take control of government several times throughout the fifties and sixties, moderating their position slightly in the latter decade. They were outshone by the Islamic People's Front in the 70s, as an islamic revivalist movement swept the previously very secular Bengal. They were still able to hold onto the Prime Ministership for a few years that decade, propped up by IPF in exchange for more socially conservative legislation. In the late eighties, in the height of the cold war, the Liberals took a solid majority through their promise to remain neutral while conflicts were seemingly breaking out everywhere. In recent years, they have been elected for two four-year terms on strong economy and have pushed a "Classical Liberal" agenda. However recently, they have been damaged by a corruption scandal, and will probably be swept out of government in the 2016 election. Currently they hold a majority of 5, with 130 seats in the National Assembly.

Islamic People's Front
est. 1971
Formed in opposition to the social reforms and increasing secularism of the 1960s, the IPF has been the quintessential party of reaction and Islamism. Seeking to make Bengal into an islamic state, the party had its heyday in the 1970s and early eighties, at one point getting 61 seats in the National Assembly, and forming a government with the Liberals. However, the party declined in the late eighties and early nineties as pro-neutrality and anti-soviet factions squabbled endlessly and the Liberal party was able to form a stable majority government without their help. As the cold war ended, and memories of the social revolution of the sixties started to fade, so did the IPF, and they have been in terminal decline ever since, with a small base of socially-conservative farmers in the "Quran belt". They only hold 8 seats in the National Assembly, and that total is predicted to decrease slightly this upcoming election.

 

[TwiliAlchemist]

Royal Family of the United Kingdom of America

Spoiler

Washington Dynasty (1789-1857)
Spotswood Dynasty (1857-1994)
Pauline Dynasty (1994-0000)

1. George I (George Washington) (1789-1799) [1]
2. George II (George Washington Parke Curtis) (1799-1857) [2]
3. Spotswood I (Spotswood Washington) (1857-1865) [3]
4. Bushroot I (Bushroot Washington II) (1865-1918) [4]
5. James I (James Washington) (1918-1924) [5]
6. Lee I (Lee Washington) (1924-1969) [6]
7. William I (William Washington) (1969-1994) [7]
8. Paul I (Paul Washington) (1994-2014) [8]
9. Richard I (Richard Washington) (2014-0000) [9]

[1] George Washington accepted the position of King of America and ruled for ten years before his death in 1799.
[2] The royal throne passed to his adopted son George Washington Parke Curtis. While many would think of him as a just king, some disliked that this monarch would even rule at all.
[3] Spotswood inherited the throne after the death of George II. With his ascension to the throne, pro-Republican factions in the nation rose up in the northern part of the nation forming the Freedonian Republic. The war would last from 1858-1865 with the monarchists winning the war thanks to help from their ally of Spain.
[4] Bushroot I would oversee the reconstruction of the north. He chose to give some of the more rebellious states slightly more autonomy from the monarchy in hopes that it would quell rebellion. While his reign would be plagued by terrorist actions in the north, most of his time as ruler was mostly peaceful, unlike his successor.
[5] After the death of his father, James I would take the throne. His reign would be overseeing the Great War of Europe (1917-1925). He allied America to the Allied nations of France, Britain, and Russia. He would die before the war ended.
[6] Lee I would take the United Kingdom of America in a new direction, helping create the League of Countries after the Great War. He would also be ruler as the monarchy went from having power to being only a figurehead in the nation. His reign would be over the passing of multiple civil rights legislation in the 1940s and 1960s.
[7] William I would be king during the American Space Age where the UKA would put a man on the moon and sent multiple probes into space. The Space Age would end with the death of William in 1994. Upon his death, he would formalize the rule that female members of the royal family can inherit the throne.
[8] Paul I was a distant relative of the Washington family and the next male heir. His rule is marked by a period of decline in the UKA, leaving many to feel that the monarchy might need to be abolished completely.
[9] Richard I is the current reigning monarch of the UKA. He has had to deal with a growing reemergence of the American Republican Movement, especially in the provinces of New England, New York, and Louisiana.

Presidents of the Freedonian Republic

Spoiler

1858-1861: William Lloyd Garrison (Revolutionary-NY)/Amos Bronson Alcott (R-CT)
def. Unopposed
1861: Amos Bronson Alcott (R-CT)/vacant
1861-1864: Amos Bronson Alcott (R-CT)/John C. Frémont (R-GA)
1864-1865: John C. Frémont (R-GA)/vacant

Leader of the Liberty Party (1942-0000)
*Left-Wing Anti-Monarchist
*Right-Wing Anti-Monarchist
1942-1961: Lee Pressman (NY)
1961-1997: Barry Goldwater (VA)
1997-1998: Ronald Paul (PA)
1998-2000: Gus Hall (MN)
2000-2004: State Senator Earl Johnson (ND)
2004-2018: Governor-General Bernard Sanders (NY)
2018-Present: State Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY)

As of 2019: Represented in Nation:
State Governor-Generals: 1
Provincial Governorship: 0
Seats in Senate: 2
Seats in House of Representatives: 15
Seats in State Senates: 9
Seats in State Houses: 74

Political Parties in the United Kingdom of America

Major Parties:
Democratic-Federalist Party (Parti démocrate-fédéraliste) - The oldest political party in the nation. Leans towards a more classically liberal bent in finance, a legacy of Alexander Hamilton, and more socially liberal bent thanks to the Kennedy family. Tends to be less in the way of social programs, but endorses heavily funding of the Royal American Astronomical Institute (NAAI).
Farmer-Labor Party (Parti paysan-travailliste) - A left-of-centre party. Originally founded by rural farmers and industrial workers, the party became the political machine of the Roosevelt family who helped shape it into a more left-wing party. Most of its ideology comes from the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt and his Fresh Hand policies of the 1930s and 1940s. Also tends to hold more environmentally friendly views.
Toleration Party (Parti de la tolérance) - The second oldest political party. While it did wane in popularity during the rise of the Farmer-Labor Party, it found its niche in the centre of American Politics. A broad tent party and seen as a slightly anti-establishment party.

Minor Parties:
Pro-Monarchists:
Monarchy Party (Parti de la monarchie) - Single Issue Party that wants to give full power to the monarchy.

Anti-Monarchists: The appeal of a non-monarchy is appealing to many since the ascension of King Paul I and the Market collapse of 1999.
Liberty Party (Parti de la liberté) - The first anti-monarchist party in the nation. While it was originally a broad tent party, that changed after the retirement of Earl Johnson as Chairman. The fierce election between then State Senator Bernard Sanders (NY) and Businessman Robert Paul (PA) split the party in twain and caused the anti-monarchist movement to be split. Generally holds more socialist views and is currently ran by New York State Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Wants to establish a Socialist Republic in the UKA turning it into the United Socialist Republics of America (USRA)
Revolutionary Party (Parti révolutionnaire)- A split from the Liberty Party by the more right-wing members after the election of then State-Senator Bernard Sanders to the position of Chairman. Currently led by son of former Chairman Paul, Robert Paul (PA). Wants to establish an American Republic in the UKA turning it into the United States of America or the Freedonian Republic.

 

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Russia sells Alaska to the House of Liechtenstein, as they actually wanted to do; then, a couple centuries later...

Christian Social Party - a Christian Democrat party not too dissimilar from the German CDU/CSU; it historically used to be the party of the Alaskans descended from German immigrants hailing from the Habsburg lands and the Swiss cantons.
People's Party - yet another Christian Democrat Party, but much closer to Canadian rather than German conservatism; historically, it was backed by German-speaking Alaskans originating from the Russian Empire.

Workers' Party - founded by German- and Russian-speaking exiles from the USSR, mainly people of the Menshevik and narodnik persuasion; it mellowed out with time, especially during the Cold War, and is now more or less an expy of the Labour Party of Norway; Alaska has enough oil and low density areas for it to emulate Norway's oil welfare state, after all.
Liberal Democratic Party - it openly emulates its American and Canadian namesakes, and entered a grand coalition with the People's Party once or twice - it's far less radical but also more concerned with environmentalism and social issues than the Workers' Party.

Homeland Union - has been the leading party in Alaska Native-majority areas since its inception, and is the main reason why TTL's equivalent of OTL's Alaska Native corporations are the closest thing the country has to chaebols.