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Heh, yeah. The darkest parts of the map are places where terrorism leveled against the United States of Earth is still prevalent. Other "Bests" include Uyghuristan, Afghanistan, Iran (around Tehran), Saudi Arabia, Katanga/eastern DRC, north Venezuela, and Cuba.
United States of Earth you say?
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One People, One Nation, One Earth
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This is my take on a Star Trek-like universe. In 2022, aliens known as the Khaxi from across the Galaxy appeared on the doorstep of Earth, touching down in New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Cairo, Shanghai, and Sydney simultaneously. The world managed to not spark a war with the peaceful aliens, who, unlike Stephen Hawking's prediction of an interplanetary Columbian Exchange-type catstrophe, were merely explorers who stumbled across the first radio transmissions skipping out across the stars and emanating away from Earth and decided to investigate the little blue sphere. An emergency meeting of the world's most powerful leaders were summoned, with the heads of state of the USA, Russia, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, South Korea, India, and Egypt convening at the United Nations building in Manhattan to devise a plan of action. In the meantime, the world's best and brightest met in Tokyo with one group of the aliens, who showed them the vast extent of their knowledge. Much of it was far beyond 21st century Earth, ranging from holograms to the cure for cancer to cloning, as well as travel at speeds approaching the speed of light. Back at the UN, the Khaxi leadership formally invited Earth into the Interstellar Federation as a Class-D planet, until the humans got their shit together, stopped killing each other, and worked together for the betterment of mankind and the greater universe.

Over the next two centuries, Earth rapidly advanced, displaying humanity's definining characteristic of adaptability, in place of other useful skills like breathing underwater or being excellent at mathematics and logical reasoning. While other alien races were initially far more advanced technologically and socially, by the end of the 22nd century Earth was close to leading the pack, given the rest of the galaxy's slower rate of innovation. In 2265, Earth is a Class-S planet, sitting on the bench of the Federation's Grand Council (reserved for only the most influential of planets) and expanding humanity out into the stars.

What do the different shades mean?
 
What do the different shades mean?
I am guessing by the locations that some areas are to give religious groups autonomy. Is so, it looks as though they are trying to jam Catholics and Mormons into Latium and Salt Lake, despite both groups being quite happy spreading out as they please. Montenegro has been eliminated, lots of dots along the Ganges, and... @HeX, Sápmi/Lapland is counterproductive. Even today they only make up five percent of the population of an area somewhat smaller than what you show for them. Greenland also has an autonomous zone for where no one lives, when the entire island would be considered one today. Is it a nature reserve of some sort? Why did the Swiss get disemboweled and why is that part or Iran apparently labeled a rouge state? Greater Armenia is also impossible without ethnic cleansing. And the borders of Israel... Losing their port on the Red Sea? What was the exchange? West Bank was cleared out? No offense, good to have maps be creative, but there are certain things people will fight to the death for.
 
What do the different shades mean?
The lightest shade of blue (almost white) denotes an area of important religious significance, which has been given greater autonomy. No one's forced to go there, but as they're holy sites, religious leaders like the Pope have greater political influence there than anywhere else, though the USE still reigns supreme.

The second-lightest shade is an area that has been granted greater autonomy by demand of the governments when they entered the USE. Switzerland (minus the French-speaking parts) was the first of these, and Tibet, Thailand, and Uganda came after. These regions are entirely economically dependent on the USE as a whole, but they are free to make their own laws, provided they abide by the USE Constitution. As a result of this, though, they are only an observer of the Congress of Earth, and cannot vote in planetary matters.

The "normal" shade is the color of states that have full voting rights in the USE Congress.

The second-darkest shade is the equivalent to a United States Territory crossed with a National Park. Most of those places are nature reserves, but Siberia, northern Scandinavia, New Guinea, and Unagava all have the possibility of becoming states in the future, should their populations show a significant increase.

The darkest shade shows places where armed resistance to USE rule is prominent. Most of the places were former terrorist hotspots or dictatorships when the USE was first forming out of the old UN, and are the only places on Earth where a violent conflict could be described as "war."

And, also... considering this is a federation where every state is equal, people aren't really squabbling about ports and the like anymore.
 
The lightest shade of blue (almost white) denotes an area of important religious significance, which has been given greater autonomy. No one's forced to go there, but as they're holy sites, religious leaders like the Pope have greater political influence there than anywhere else, though the USE still reigns supreme.
So is the entirety of Northern Utah a holy site? Because it seems kinda weird that ~63% of Utah's OTL population (without taking into account the fact that this is 200 years in the future) lives in a holy site.
 
So is the entirety of Northern Utah a holy site? Because it seems kinda weird that ~63% of Utah's OTL population (without taking into account the fact that this is 200 years in the future) lives in a holy site.

I'm guessing it's like how Mecca IOTL as a whole is technically a holy site even though it's a legitimate city with more than a million people living there full-time.
 

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Over the next two centuries, Earth rapidly advanced, displaying humanity's definining characteristic of adaptability, in place of other useful skills like breathing underwater or being excellent at mathematics and logical reasoning. While other alien races were initially far more advanced technologically and socially, by the end of the 22nd century Earth was close to leading the pack, given the rest of the galaxy's slower rate of innovation. In 2265, Earth is a Class-S planet, sitting on the bench of the Federation's Grand Council (reserved for only the most influential of planets) and expanding humanity out into the stars.
Why is this nearly always a thing in science fiction
 
Lands Under Rumanian Control, Anno Domini 1600
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White squares indicate major castles and fortifications, the red square indicates Draculesti Castle.

In 1444, the Varna Crusade was successful, driving the Ottoman Turks from the European continent. Thereafter, the Roman Empire secured their hold over Greece under the protection of an alliance consisting of Aragon, Wallachia, Poland-Lithuania, and Hungary. Vlad II helped Constantine XI defeat the Athenian rebels. Under Vlad II, Wallachia annexed Rumelia, and constructed churches throughout his realm. He died during Wallachia's war with Serbia, when he invaded the depotate to attempt to annex Macedonia.

After Vlad II, Mircea II ascended to the throne, and drove the occupying Serbian armies from Wallachia. He attempted to orchestrate a rebellion in Moldova, to oust the Polish supported rulers so he could invade and annex the region. His plan never came to fruition in his lifetime, but Peter I later united the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldova. Mircea also invited humanist scholars from Italy to Wallachia to educate his court. This led to a coup by reactionary boyars, in which Mircea was stabbed to death on the battlements of Piatra Craiulu and his body was thrown from the walls to ensure his death. He only ruled for a year.

Mircea's brother Vlad III conquered the Kingdom of Bosnia, but the Duchy of Burgundy intervened on Stephen II's behalf. Vlad took advantage of religious disunity in Bosnia, and incited the peasants to rise up against their Catholic rulers in the name of Orthodoxy. He gave no quarter to those he captured, and impaled Stephen Tomasevic when Bobovac fell. Burgundy carried on with the war, and invaded Wallachia proper through Serbia. Vlad negotiated with Hungary and Aragon to try to convince them to join the war. Hungary accepted, but Aragon did not. Nonetheless, Burgundy acknowledged Wallach control over Bosnia in 1470. Vlad III died in 1474 of natural causes, and his son through Anna of Lancaster ascended to the throne.

Vlad IV ruled Wallachia and Bosnia well, and tried to reverse his father's policies by granting clemency to purged boyar families. His reign was peaceful and he died in 1508. However, Vlad IV broke the Wallach alliance with the Roman Empire, the last member of the Alliance of Christendom to do so. In 1483, the Ottoman Empire invaded Greece and conquered Constantinople, driving the Palaiologos court to Morea. Shortly thereafter, Venice attacked and made a vassal of the Morean Kingdom. Vlad IV was succeeded by his son Mircea III.

Mircea III extended clemency to Protestants fleeing from Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. He fought the Morean Kingdom and Venice to support Ragusa in a trade dispute, and looted Greece for treasure. In the late years of Mircea's reign, Wallachia lost Bulgaria and southern Rumelia to the Ottomans. He died in 1540 and was succeeded by Vlad V, the son of Maria, the Despina of Serbia.

Vlad V ruled for only two years after returning from his studies in England, and his reign was marred by Peter I of Moldova, his uncle. Peter raised an army of supportive nobles to drive Vlad off the throne and unite the Romanian lands. Vlad V was frail and mentally unstable, and he believed that alchemy would cure him of his weakness. Unfortunately, his cures of quicksilver, laudanum, and mithridatium only made matters worse and he collapsed into proper insanity shortly after ascending to the throne. He was married to Anna von Oldenburg of Denmark, who remarried to Peter I after Vlad died in order to stay at the center of Wallach politics.

Peter I claimed the throne after the Siege of Targoviste in 1542, which ended when Vlad V killed himself. Peter united Moldova and Wallachia, and instigated an iconoclasm. Boyars were forced to shave off their beards, religious images were smashed, and priests were forced to swear allegiance to the principalities or face exile. Peter's last act as prince was to unite Moldova and Wallachia as the Kingdom of Rumania. After Peter died in 1571, Anna continued to rule as a queen dowager, and doubled down on Peter's repressive policies. She purged Catholics, Calvinists, and Congregationalists from Rumania and had their leaders tortured and executed. She was assassinated in 1589 by the order of Michael II, her son.

Michael II ascended to the Rumanian throne in 1590, and ended the religious persecutions with the Edict of Toleration. He married Elizabeth Bathory, the daughter of Sigismund Bathory of Hungary and Transylvania and heiress apparent to the Hungarian throne. It was later discovered that Elizabeth had commanded Michael to assassinate his mother, and was abusing him until he finally did. When Sigismund died in 1598, Michael became the ruler of Rumania, Hungary, and Transylvania. His ascension was contested by Cardinal Andrew Bathory, who was illegible for the Hungarian throne because he was a clergyman. Andrew mustered the support of the Croatian and Hungarian Catholic nobility, and was aided by Poland and Austria. Following a two year civil war, Andrew Bathory was ousted by the Protestant Hungarian nobility and fled to Vienna to convince the Von Habsburgs to raise an army to liberate Hungary. In 1600, Michael II died unexpectedly and from mysterious causes, leaving his infant son Peter II as king under the regency of Elizabeth Bathory.

The Targoviste-based court of Elizabeth Bathory was strange, to put it lightly. Elizabeth Bathory rediscovered Vlad V's alchemical laboratory. It was full of shelves of bottled reagents, alchemical equipment, ledgers of experimental results and formulae, books of Hermetic and Egyptological rituals, and a trunk that contained a mummy wrapped in Etruscan prayer scrolls was propped in the corner. Bathory invited Michael's acquaintance from his schooling in England, Dr. John Dee, to make sense of the content of the books and the operation of the equipment. Under Dee's influence, Bathory turned to alchemy and goetia in order to maintain her hold on power and youthful health. Part of her goetic ritual regimen was burning portions of the Etruscan Book of the Dead in a thruible in an effort to contact beings from the underworld. This, unsurprisingly, was unsuccessful and only destroyed irreplaceable cultural heritage. Other Rumanian and Hungarian courtiers dabbled in Dee's methods as well, causing a strange fad for Hermeticism in Central Europe. Unbeknownst to Dee, Bathory was also a serial killer, and drained visiting courtiers of their blood in order to use it as a component in her alchemy. This was not discovered until Bathory died in a laboratory fire in 1608, when her executors discovered the detailed ledgers of her victims she had kept in a compartment behind the wall of a bookcase in the castle library. She had, by her own reckoning, murdered over six hundred people.
 
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@brasband13 it's more likely that I fill in the rest of Europe than do a full world map, but I'd probably include an inset map of the colonies. I'm thinking of using more Lovecraftian stuff for a British spinoff scenario, and Poe-style content for Italy.
 
An emergency meeting of the world's most powerful leaders were summoned, with the heads of state of the USA, Russia, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, South Korea, India, and Egypt convening at the United Nations building in Manhattan to devise a plan of action.
What? Why?
 
What? Why?
An African nation was selected because, seeing as this was a global event, it seemed fitting to the UN to call together leaders from every continent. Egypt was the one they ultimately decided on because there were alien spaceships sitting in the middle of Cairo.
 
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I know that this isn't one of the WIPs on my WIP list, but I can explain, I promise. I actually made this map a few months ago, proceeded to forget that I'd finished it, and didn't remember until recently when I accidentally opened the file and thought, "Wait, I never actually uploaded this, did I?" Anyway, enjoy the map and scenario.

I'm sure most of you have probably seen that "What if the largest countries had the highest populations?" map by now. I thought it was amusing, even if it was full of errors, so I decided to make a scenario based off of it. I chalked up all the inaccuracies to the alien space bat responsible for it being drunk at the time of the ISOT. Yes, the name is a Lemon Demon reference.

On a bright summer day in 2019, a friendly neighborhood alien space bat ventured by a small planet called Earth. Thinking it unjust that the countries with the most population didn't have the most amount of land, and vice versa, they swapped the territories of the countries around to make it that way, apparently not getting that some parts of the planet weren't as fertile as others. The ASB was courteous enough to briefly send a worldwide telepathic message to tell everyone what had happened just so they didn't get too disoriented, but they left before anybody could tell them that they were actually fine with the places their countries were before, thank you very much, and could they please put everything back to how it was supposed to be?

It's been thirty-three years since the Event now, and as should be obvious, everything has changed drastically. The map has changed dramatically, every continent is populated by entirely different ethnic groups, and the world is now in the middle of a Second Cold War between two blocs, one led by China and the other by a coalition of nationalist states from throughout the global south.

Of the two, the Chinese bloc is more powerful, if for no other reason than because it has a strong central nation that controls the rest of its bloc: the People's Republic of China. Finding its population of over a billion crammed into the territory of Russia post-Event, the Chinese were well aware that they wouldn't survive like this, even with Hong Kong taking up all of former North Korea. Thus, China's leadership pulled up maps of its new neighbors by agricultural potential and military strength, and shortly afterwards, they started a massive military campaign into eastern Europe and the Caucasus to gain lebensraum for China. The newly-acquired Chinese territories still weren't enough, however, so China prepared to invade the territory it had been in before the Event, which was now under the control of Indonesia, and as Indonesia was already in the process of collapsing, that made it all the easier. However, while China was able to seize control of the coast, Indonesian resistance continued in the interior, and looming international sanctions forced China to take what it had and let the rest of Indonesia go. Even before the Indonesian war was over, China was already moving people into its newly-occupied territories in the west, as well as forcing the nations it had drawn into its sphere to take in certain amounts of Chinese citizens to help with the overpopulation issue. The original inhabitants of China's new territories were either forced to flee, killed, or made to live as second-class citizens. China is unashamed of what it has done: yes, it's a shame about all the people who had to be moved, but if they weren't, then China would have collapsed and billions would have died. Still, the modern Chinese state is built on ethnic cleansing and genocide, and there's no way around the ugly truth. China's economy has since recovered, even if its former market has significantly shrunk as more and more countries turned against it, and the bloated, polluted Chinese megacities are like a scene out of a dystopian cyberpunk movie. A social credit system has been implemented, the Chinese surveillance state has expanded to horrifying levels, and it's completely cut off outside internet access, instead having a separate, isolated, heavily-monitored Chinese internet. While China never officially dropped its communist symbolism, as Chinese hypercapitalism and imperialism grew to dominate its corner of the world and technocratic elements were integrated into the government, it became more clear than ever that it's only communist in name. Beijing doesn't even bother trying to deny it anymore, now calling its system "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."

Most of China's allies are similar to it in that they found themselves in bad positions and turned to ethnic cleansing to gain more land. Vietnam was in an even worse position than China, finding itself in Greenland, and though it invaded Nicaragua and Vanuatu, the territory of Iceland and the Faroe Islands wasn't anywhere near enough to support the Vietnamese population, so Vietnam proceeded to invade Tunisia, which had found itself in the territory of the United Kingdom. [1] Tunisia was defeated and forced into a rump state along the southern coast, with Vietnam seizing most of its territory, and Tonga was also invaded and annexed afterwards. Now, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, and northern England are all majority-Vietnamese, as the bulk of the Vietnamese population was moved out into its new "colonies" in the first decade post-Event. Nicaraguans, Vanuatuans, Tongans, and Tunisians aren't officially discriminated against, but they're still treated like second-class citizens. Though Vietnam had been closer to America pre-Event, the United States turned against it for its actions, so Vietnam renewed its alliance with China. Russia, too, engaged in ethnic cleansing: finding itself confined to Kazakhstan, it invaded Sri Lanka and Syria, and later western Indonesia, and forced Serbia, Bulgaria, and Peru to take in Russian settlers even though they were already struggling with similar problems. Putin was replaced with another autocrat after he died in 2032, and Russia is still just as much a dictatorship as it's always been. Though Russia was initially a little scared of China, after the fall of Indonesia, Russia aligned with China as well. While Iran and Pakistan didn't engage in as much invasion of other countries or ethnic cleansing as the other countries in the Chinese bloc, they aren't guilt-free: Iran invaded Tanzania, knowing that Libya's land wouldn't be enough to support its population, while Pakistan invaded Cote D'Ivoire and Egypt. Iran is perhaps the best place to live in the Chinese bloc (though it's not that great compared to the rest of the world), as it ended up reforming towards secularism (albeit just-as-dictatorial secularism) and is the best place in northern Africa for transgender rights. [2] Pakistan, on the other hand, is still rather similar to how it was pre-Event, and its new position with a continent all to itself has done wonders for national confidence.

The nationalists, on the other hand, are a rather more varied bunch. From fully-democratic states to one-party states, you've got pretty much the entire spectrum across the nationalists, as well as varied degrees of political and social repression. However, most of the nationalists do agree on one thing: it doesn't matter what your race, religion, gender, or sexuality is, as long as you speak the language of the country you live in, don't follow the "wrong" cultural traditions, and oppose the Chinese. As the most powerful of the nationalists, Brazil is the de facto leader, partially due to its size and partially because it stayed in the same place and didn't have to deal with the struggles of adjusting to a new geographic location. Though initially Brazil was a mere regional power, taking advantage of the situation in South America to establish itself once more as the dominant state in South America, as the Second Cold War took form, Brazil was thrust into the role of the nationalist bloc's leader. Now, it's regarded as a global superpower due to its influence around the world, and as the other major nationalist states are just regional powers, it's often seen as the face of the nationalists. Brazil has evolved a bit, purging government corruption (though there's still quite a bit remaining) and becoming more democratic, and it now has sizable Angolan and Nigerian, and less so French and Ukrainian, minorities, with elements of the various languages making their way into the Brazilian dialect of Portuguese. Brazilian society and culture are still rather similar, however, save for being slightly more socially liberal. The other nationalists vary wildly, with Britain and Germany being somewhat liberal democratic states (Germany more so than Britain), Australia being a nationalistic dominant-party state, and Japan having become a de facto one-party state. Economic policy tends to vary between the nationalist states, though most of them are at least somewhat protectionist.

While the Chinese bloc and the nationalists are the most powerful, the Filipino-Korean-Taiwanese alliance is more of a regional bloc that dominates southern Africa and Indochina. The Philippines were relocated to the Congo and took advantage of its new position to establish itself as a regional power, jointly intervening in Afghanistan with Japan not long after the Event and taking some land from Burkina Faso. A series of successful reforms about a decade post-Event saw the Philippines become more democratic (think OTL Poland) as it expanded its influence to become a major regional power in central Africa. The two Koreas, meanwhile, found themselves in Botswana and South Africa respectively, and South Korea and friends were quick to take out North Korea while China was preoccupied with expansion into Europe. The process of reintegration was long and difficult, but ultimately successful, and it paid off. Nowadays, Korea is a tech giant in Africa with an economic foothold on almost every continent, and it was one of the countries that actually did a lot better in the post-Event period. The last member, Taiwan, found itself in Thailand after the Event and ended up a regional power in Indochina more by accident than anything else. Though the three countries don't have a lot in common, they do agree that the Second Cold War is bad and they want nothing to do with it, though there have been counterculture movements in all three states in favor of joining the nationalists.

The Second Cold War has a conspicuous lack of American interference, which is mainly because the United States was weakened by the Event and chose to sit the new cold war out. This was not due to it moving locations, however- America stayed in the same place- but rather due to its new neighbor. In the aftermath of the Event, India found itself displaced to Canada and began falling apart quickly, as Canada's land was simply incapable of supporting a population of over a billion. President Trump refused to let in any more than a small percentage of India's population, and while his successor, President Warren, let in more refugees, it still wasn't anywhere near enough to prevent catastrophe. The end result was that India went into total meltdown, a large amount of the population fled south or east, and a rickety unaligned junta eventually took power (though not after a few provinces, such as Kashmir, broke away). Nowadays, Indian refugees can be found as far south as Brazil and France and as far east as Malaysia and Kazakhstan. [3] Ultimately, millions upon millions of Indian refugees flooded into the United States and ended up becoming a majority across the northern part of the nation, and the face of America was altered forever. The economic strain of dealing with over a hundred million Indian refugees now living across the country was too much for the United States to handle while also maintaining its global superpower status, and eventually America stepped down from the global stage and retreated into North American affairs. The Indian refugees in America ended up influencing American politics to the point that a three-party system developed as the mostly-centrist but somewhat Hindu nationalist National Union party formed. Isolationist sympathies tended to prevail as the Second Cold War took shape, as the general consensus was that both sides were bad, and it ended up sticking. Though the United States has completely pulled itself back together for over a decade by now, it's still sticking to being a regional power in the Americas, with its only major allies being Ethiopia and France. Bangladesh has been a neutral power as well ever since it ducked out of the Chinese bloc, as has South Africa, but neither of them are aligned with America.

The ramifications of the Event are still a subject of fierce contention among the people of this world. While the ASB that caused the Event made it clear in their telepathic message that they weren't any kind of deity and reminded everyone that any sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and all that, there are still some who insist that the ASB was their god and merely claimed not to be as a test of their faithfulness. There are others who have just turned to worshipping the ASB, figuring that maybe it'd put the countries back where they were supposed to be if they prayed to it enough, and there are several conflicting Churches of the Alien Space Bat around the world with millions of members. The more scientifically-inclined believe that it was a test of mankind's ability to work together and cooperate with each other, a thinly-veiled attempt to wipe out humanity, or that the ASB really did cause the Event just for the reason they said they did- so that every country on the planet would have land area in proportion to its population. [4] There may never be an answer, as the ASB hasn't returned to check on them in thirty-three years. Maybe it never will.

Technology has advanced, though not as much as it might have if there were no Event. Much of the advancement has been towards things that were required for survival in the various nations' new positions, as many were in drastically different climates than they were used to: for instance, the European nations that were displaced into northern Africa and the Middle East quickly developed more advanced air conditioning. Green energy also took off, as it was the only 100% reliable source of power that everybody had access to, what with different nations being in charge of the oil and natural gas supplies now. Advanced greenhouses were quickly developed in the farther-north nations, and several new strains of crops were engineered as a matter of necessity due to the altered climates that almost everyone had been thrown into. While most other technology didn't necessarily change much, it has become more durable- for instance, the cell phones of 2052 might not look much different than that of 2019, but they're faster, have several times the amount of memory and battery, and would survive falling off the roof of an average suburban house. [5] Technology is also rather better distributed, what with all the countries being drastically shifted around.

The Second Cold War has been ongoing for over two decades, and it doesn't look as if it'll be letting up any time soon. However, a new element may soon be introduced into it: in the United States, the Progressive Party, headed by charismatic Pennsylvania senator Finley Conroy, is growing in popularity as the 2052 elections approach due to more and more American voters growing disillusioned with the Democrats, Republicans, and National Unionists. Popular opinion is slowly turning against isolationism, and Senator Conroy has taken advantage of this to tack it onto the preexisting Progressive agenda and put forth a new idea: instead of joining the Chinese or the nationalists, America will join the Filipino-Korean-Taiwanese alliance and turn it into a major non-aligned bloc. While it is certainly an ambitious plan, it could work. The only question is whether Conroy is the right man for the job, as some fear his plans to be far too ambitious, there are concerns that his proposed domestic policies may damage the American economy, and the farther-right elements of both the National Unionists and the Republicans have attacked him for his bisexuality. Nevertheless, it seems that Conroy has a decent shot at the presidency, and if he does succeed, then history will be drastically altered.

[1] Ireland was considered, but Vietnam didn't want to risk provoking America.
[2] Gay rights are still out of the question, unfortunately.
[3] France is in Peru, Malaysia is in France, and Kazakhstan is in Germany, so the range of Indian refugees isn't quite as far as it sounds.
[4] Of course, the fact that several nations were excluded and several non-nations were included is the subject of fierce debate among many. Nobody's seriously considered the actual answer- that the ASB was a little drunk at the time- yet.
[5] Not many people would actually put their phones on the roof for whatever reason, but that was the example everyone kept using in commercials.

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Some aliens landed in Cairo as well so that's probably why.
At first I think that too but aliens landed on Rio de Jenario, Brussels and Sydney too. None of them on the board despite the fact that all of them much more powerful than Egypt.

An African nation was selected because, seeing as this was a global event, it seemed fitting to the UN to call together leaders from every continent. Egypt was the one they ultimately decided on because there were alien spaceships sitting in the middle of Cairo.
So Egypt as representer of Africa kinda.
Then Brazil should have a seat on there because it is a powerful country and it could have counted as representer of South America IMHO.
 
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