Is he still American ITTL? Or is he a New Englander?
I'd venture and say American.
That's interesting. So one could think of a red remnant guerilla cell/guerilla force near Bad Hindelang or Pfronten or something like that?
Correct.
With those two answers, I think Merkel would most likely be a Zentrum politician.
IIRC Merkel is a university professor ITTL.
Merkel is, indeed, a computational chemist who teaches university courses.
Might I instead suggest Italy or Greece instead? Germany and the United Kingdom are a bit too chilly for Disney's theme park standards (Disneyland Paris existing in Paris at all was a big fluke IOTL). The cold really messes up outdoor Audio-Animatronics (that's why there's no Jungle Cruise equivalent at DLP), so choosing a place that has a warmer climate similar to that of California or Florida, like a Mediterranean state, would be better. And since Spain seems to be in a bad place ITTL, I suggest Italy or Greece, which already have huge amounts of tourists going in and out to see all those ruins.
Well, the problem here is that the National Fascist Party controlled Italy well into the 1960s, so it is unlikely this would be a happy place to visit. The Latin Monetary Union has long been known as the "bad boy" of Europe, which is what drove the Commonwealth and the Zollverein together, to fight against Soviet communism and Latin authoritarianism. I guess if you did want a southern European locality that would be a good choice for it, Portugal, while in the LMU, remaining a close ally of the British and a strictly democratic state.
What’s Elizabeth Warren’s current status in New England? I assume she is a member of Labour, given her OTL policies.
Will you ever make infoboxes for the US parties? Take your time- I do understand how hard it is to make them, but I’m just asking out of curiosity.
Finally, were white supremacists as big in Maine ITTL as they were IOTL?
Elizabeth Warren is the non partisan commissioner of Elections New England. She was offered the job for her work in the United States as a professor and for several thesis's she wrote on the fundamentals of electoral reform and the conduct of the government in elections.
That's a good point! I think I will look to do that in the near future
White supremacists, as we known them overtly in our timeline, do not exist in New England. They would come under the umbrella term as a fascist, and the New England fascists never become popular.
...wow. I had speculated that Germany and Poland had some crazy nationalistic fantasies in regards to their treatment of the east, but this is spectacular. I was expecting a lot more puppet states and a lot less direct annexations- a la
Kaiserreich. Was Poland planning to reform into some sort of Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian commonwealth? Otherwise, I cannot see how they would ever justify these conquests- as they naturally want to elicit support from the international community.
I also wonder how many "wehraboos" there are in Germany and elsewhere- I reckon that without the holocaust, German apologia will be more acceptable ITL.
Great content as always, Kanan!
They did! The goals were to re-shape Europe into their liking, and to defeat the menace of Communism. The two naturally would have grudges against each other. There's no telling when, or even if, the war between Germany and Poland would break out. That would have been messy!
The Polish government had no extant plans to reform from anything than a hyper-nationalistic Polish state.
German nationalism, or even German ultranationalism, is a wide and acceptable political ideology to hold. Several German political parties, some with representation in the Reichstag (DVP), are soft pan-nationalists. Their eventual stated goal is to form one German state to unify German speakers everywhere.
New England-centric question (I know you're building out the wider world right now!),
@Kanan , but did any of the provinces have an upper house at any point, and if so, when did they get abolished? I know they're all unicameral at this point, but wondering if any had a similar legislative/developmental history to the OTL Canadian provinces/Australian states (which retain their upper houses, save Queensland).
Yes! All provinces, in fact, held an Upper House at one point. You can see the legacy of this in the naming conventions of the provincial houses, where the lower house often does not match the name of the legislative assembly as a whole. Given New England's responsible government coming in the early 1800s, there was still significant qualms about letting "the People" take control over the reigns of government. The United States, at the time, was seen as a freewheeling bucking bronco of representative democracy, so extremely powerful upper houses were formed in all of New England's provinces. They were, in fact, so powerful that a simply majority vote in the upper house could dissolve the entire lower house, and the upper house was appointed by the executive (monarchy, lieutenant-governor) alone. The power of these houses gradually faded, and all were abolished in the great wave of democracy that exploded between 1890 and 1920.
The mountains on the border of Bohemia with Saxony are called Erzgebirge in German. It means Ore Mountains. Thus it makes sense the district they are in is named after them.
Yeah. The name comes from a different set of mountains. We know it as the Sudetenland, but the Sudetes mountains, which are located in a different part of Czechia. So this region is simply known as "Ore Mountain Land."
Superbly made, and I like the idea of an autonomous(?) Sudetenland within a Czech Republic still having a sizeable German population! I love it!
Also, where is a template for the bottom infobox (or which infobox did you modify there)?
The population here is around 95% German-speaking, but the vast majority are fiercely pro-Czechia. Czechia is a union of three regions, Erzgebirgeland, Bohemia, and Moravia. All three have their own regional governments, and manage their own affairs. The national Czech government is not really a government
persay as the national legislature is chosen by the three regions, but the President is elected democratically nationwide. The best way to imagine Czechia is to imagine a type of government similar to Switzerland in terms of regional autonomy.
The template is of my own design.