Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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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.
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)?
I'd venture and say American.
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Merkel is, indeed, a computational chemist who teaches university courses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Two questions here: can we find out more about this Latin authoritarianism? And what meant that Portugal became a democratic state, as opposed to the Estado Novo?
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is Namibia included in that statement, or is pan-Germanism restricted to Europe? How strong are pan-nationalist ideas in places other than Germany (especially Belgium, who, with control of Aachen, must have a significantly larger German-speaking population)?
I know you've spoken a bit about the New England Senate in the past, which interests me a lot (especially the holding of sessions in camera, which as far as I'm aware is almost unique in democratic countries). Would you mind elaborating further on the history of Upper Houses in New England, why they are (and were) so powerful, what sorts of reform movements existed, and especially the unique nature of Senate proceedings?
Can we get a list of public broadcasters as well, please? If that's not too much bother.
Mt. Olympus is no where near Olympus. That said, I think Olympus would make a lot of sense for Disney - would be far cheaper then Athens, and the Olympic Games are very much in the spirit of Disney's EPCOTT internationalism.
And while Mt. Olympus may be far away, I could very much see Disney building a fake Mt. Olympus as the Space Mountain equivalent. Flight of Icarus, anyone?
I have several more questions regarding this wonderful timeline! Thanks for answering my questions on Germany in just as much detail as was needed, @Kanan !
And partly, the new questions are related to this democracy index map:
- We long know what makes South Africa and Israel totalitarian, but what makes Eritrea as totalitarian as it is OTL? Is Isaias Afewerki in power just like in OTL?
- Who governs Ethiopia, and was there ever conflict between the two nations?
- If yes, is there a peace process or any talks going on?
- Related to this: Who are the most prominent recipients of TTLs Nobel Peace Prize (or an analogue)? You did mention Francisco Louça (posthumously after the Baltic crisis), but are there any other prominent people?
- And on an unrelated note: Could we get some information on Yugoslavia? Do I assume rightly that it's far right nationalism that makes Yugoslavia so authoritarian? Were there any sort of Balkan/Yugoslav Wars during the latter half of the 20th century?
- Seeing that North Macedonia is part of Bulgaria, is or was there a dispute between Greece and Bulgaria and/or did Greece ever try to claim parts of Bulgarian territory?
I've been wondering how significant George Washington is in TTL, as I'm sure he would have become America's first President if he didn't die. I'm just asking about his complete career TTL if you have the time Kanan.
By not being antiCatholic.
Anglo-Irish antipathy is not set in stone.
Adding to that, OTL there are more Roman Catholics in the UK than in the Republic of Ireland.
To my knowledge, Germany never went fascist. Instead, the war in Eastern Europe was fought by an authoritarian but broadly traditional regime under Alfred von Hugenburg and Franz von Papen. Think of the steel helmets- baddies, but not as crazy as the NDSAP.Who was the leader of Fascist Germany ITTL?
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The infobox did mention a ‘National Völkisch’ regime though?
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