Any particular reason why Gambia is French ITTL rather than British?
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Any particular reason why Gambia is French ITTL rather than British?
I feel here either the Portuguese could use the term Guinea for Bissau or the Spanish would just call their own colony Guinea. Also may want to look over maps about the Mandats of Kamerun and Togo, for Togo a bit of the coastal land was moved around in ownership. Also, Cabinda had a bit of autonomy, so they might get their own kingdom. That, or Angola has a few kingdoms in it.Map of Africa in my Années Douces TL
Every state with no specific mention under it means independence, the colors signifie an alignment with a European power (may it be an alliance or a colonial status)
Edit : changed Swahililand and corrected guinean islands
If you mean that in a "human-like (not bumpy-headed aliens, people with different cultural norms and biologies but in-the-grand-scheme similar mindsets) people exist, but humanity isn't super special" way rather than "humanity is one of many alien races that are mutually incomprehensible", I can recommend Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series if you haven't read it yet.
France bought it and Vanuatu to consolidate Senegal and New Caledonia. Britain accepted because the French proposal was over any financial return that could be expected from these two places, and British was more economically linked than other European countries, so they were the most affected by the American Depression
In Portuguese administration, there are three types of subdivisions :
Municipalities, that are administred half on their own half by Lisboa
Provinces, the small overseas that are dependent on Portuguese metropolis for army, currency and naval matters
Kingdoms, that have a status similar to British Dominions.
Cabinda chose to be a Portuguese province as they weren't offered a Kingdom of their own, so they could develop and get one later instead of being fully absorbed by Angola.
For Togo, I used modern borders as a reference, as they were established after WWI OTL, but I don't really understand what is wrong with them, even after after rechecking ...
Any particular reason the name Erythrea was picked over Eritrea?Map of Africa in my Années Douces TL
Every state with no specific mention under it means independence, the colors signifie an alignment with a European power (may it be an alliance or a colonial status)
Edit : changed Swahililand and corrected guinean islands
A small teaser (blown up a bit for legiblity) for a world map I'm working on, with the POD being a more ambitious USA buying and annexing more land from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. The United States of this world has lost the six New England states after they seceded in response to the Corwin Amendment, officially the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially prevented the US federal government from abolishing slavery on the federal level, thus leaving it up to the states. Abolitionists in several US states, most notably in New England, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin considered secession, but in the end only New England left the union.
The federal government allowed that secession to happen, though both members of Congress and President Stephen A. Douglas made it clear that they would not tolerate further secession. Slavery would end in the United States in 1891, when the governor of Mississippi signed the corresponding law which has passed through its state legislature.
The United States of the present day, that being 1916, is a global power with territories in the Pacific Ocean, a sizable concession in China, and client states throughout Latin America and even in Africa. However the gap between the rich and poor, and a further divide among the latter based on racial lines, is a potential threat to the unity of the country...
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Because I'm French ^^' so I thought the translation was going to be easy and it wasn't ...
What font did you use?
A small teaser (blown up a bit for legiblity) for a world map I'm working on, with the POD being a more ambitious USA buying and annexing more land from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. The United States of this world has lost the six New England states after they seceded in response to the Corwin Amendment, officially the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially prevented the US federal government from abolishing slavery on the federal level, thus leaving it up to the states. Abolitionists in several US states, most notably in New England, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin considered secession, but in the end only New England left the union.
The federal government allowed that secession to happen, though both members of Congress and President Stephen A. Douglas made it clear that they would not tolerate further secession. Slavery would end in the United States in 1891, when the governor of Mississippi signed the corresponding law which has passed through its state legislature.
The United States of the present day, that being 1916, is a global power with territories in the Pacific Ocean, a sizable concession in China, and client states throughout Latin America and even in Africa. However the gap between the rich and poor, and a further divide among the latter based on racial lines, is a potential threat to the unity of the country...
It's Polish independence day today! Have some Polands
Scenario 1
Jan Sobieski chooses to wait until Vienna requests his aid before intervening with their war with the Ottomans. Instead, he attacks Prussia. As a result, the Ottomans take Vienna while Poland-Lithuania deal a crushing blow to the Brandenburgs. In the decades of chaos that follow for the Holy Roman Empire, as German states fight for supremacy, Poland-Lithuania seizes Silesia from the Bohemian Hapsburgs, and eventually Bohemia itself. Jan Sobieski's descendant, Wiktor Sobieski, became the most controversial of Poland's leaders when his support of the Serf Rebellion kick-started the Polish Civil War. That conflict ended with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth becoming the Empire of Poland. In 1900, the Empire of Poland consists of Poland itself and seven Grand Duchies: Courland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bohemia, Hungary, Romania, and Crimea. Poland's allies include Sweden, France, and the Austrian Republic, while Poland's enemies include Venice, Russia, and the German Union.
While Poland was on the winning side of the Continental War, the warfare took its toll. In 1927, 10 years after the end of the war, the Polish Revolution took place. The Revolutionary Army consisted of political dissidents of various classes and ethnicities, but each group's leaders signed the Treaty of Krakow after the revolution was victorious. Among other provisions, the Treaty of Krakow granted independence to each of the Grand Duchies, although with changed borders, and formed an alliance of the Republic of Poland and the newly independent states.
The Republic of Poland is the successor state to the Empire of Poland. It's a member of the Central European Union, and has the highest GDP of Central Europe, and the fifth-highest of Europe as a whole, after Franco-Germany, the Swedish Federation, Italy, and England.
Scenario 2
The Kosciuszko Uprising was more successful in this world - as a result, the Congress of Vienna guaranteed Polish independence. The Kosciuszko Republic was short-lived, replaced with Polska Brandenburska - Brandenburg Poland, an absolute monarchy. In 1842, Polish serfs rose up and overthrew the monarchy, creating the Second Polish Republic. Prussia's unification of Germany worried Poland, which led to the Franco-Polish Alliance of 1873 and the Austro-Polish Alliance of 1877. During the First World War, Poland fought a two-front war against Germany and Russia. Although 4 million Poles died, Poland found itself on the victorious side and gained the regions of Silesia and Pomerania from Germany. The newly-independent Republic of Lithuania soon formed a union with Poland again as an autonomous region, to gain protection in case the Russian Republic tried to retake their lost territories, and soon Czechoslovakia and Hungary also joined.
The Warsaw Republic found itself fighting another two-front war only two decades later, invaded simultaneously by Germany and Russia, but between other countries' participation in the war and the Republic's own fierce resistance, the Warsaw Republic once again came out on top. In modern times, the Warsaw Republic is the largest state in Central Europe. Its neighbors are Prussia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Germany, Austria, Russia, Serbia, and Croatia. The Warsaw Republic is also one of the countries leading the way in science and human rights in Europe.
Scenario 3
Yeah, this one's just a Polwank, plain and simple.
Scenario 1
Jan Sobieski chooses to wait until Vienna requests his aid before intervening with their war with the Ottomans. Instead, he attacks Prussia. As a result, the Ottomans take Vienna while Poland-Lithuania deal a crushing blow to the Brandenburgs. In the decades of chaos that follow for the Holy Roman Empire, as German states fight for supremacy, Poland-Lithuania seizes Silesia from the Bohemian Hapsburgs, and eventually Bohemia itself. Jan Sobieski's descendant, Wiktor Sobieski, became the most controversial of Poland's leaders when his support of the Serf Rebellion kick-started the Polish Civil War. That conflict ended with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth becoming the Empire of Poland. In 1900, the Empire of Poland consists of Poland itself and seven Grand Duchies: Courland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bohemia, Hungary, Romania, and Crimea. Poland's allies include Sweden, France, and the Austrian Republic, while Poland's enemies include Venice, Russia, and the German Union.
While Poland was on the winning side of the Continental War, the warfare took its toll. In 1927, 10 years after the end of the war, the Polish Revolution took place. The Revolutionary Army consisted of political dissidents of various classes and ethnicities, but each group's leaders signed the Treaty of Krakow after the revolution was victorious. Among other provisions, the Treaty of Krakow granted independence to each of the Grand Duchies, although with changed borders, and formed an alliance of the Republic of Poland and the newly independent states.
The Republic of Poland is the successor state to the Empire of Poland. It's a member of the Central European Union, and has the highest GDP of Central Europe, and the fifth-highest of Europe as a whole, after Franco-Germany, the Swedish Federation, Italy, and England.
Scenario 2
The Kosciuszko Uprising was more successful in this world - as a result, the Congress of Vienna guaranteed Polish independence. The Kosciuszko Republic was short-lived, replaced with Polska Brandenburska - Brandenburg Poland, an absolute monarchy. In 1842, Polish serfs rose up and overthrew the monarchy, creating the Second Polish Republic. Prussia's unification of Germany worried Poland, which led to the Franco-Polish Alliance of 1873 and the Austro-Polish Alliance of 1877. During the First World War, Poland fought a two-front war against Germany and Russia. Although 4 million Poles died, Poland found itself on the victorious side and gained the regions of Silesia and Pomerania from Germany. The newly-independent Republic of Lithuania soon formed a union with Poland again as an autonomous region, to gain protection in case the Russian Republic tried to retake their lost territories, and soon Czechoslovakia and Hungary also joined.
The Warsaw Republic found itself fighting another two-front war only two decades later, invaded simultaneously by Germany and Russia, but between other countries' participation in the war and the Republic's own fierce resistance, the Warsaw Republic once again came out on top. In modern times, the Warsaw Republic is the largest state in Central Europe. Its neighbors are Prussia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Germany, Austria, Russia, Serbia, and Croatia. The Warsaw Republic is also one of the countries leading the way in science and human rights in Europe.
Scenario 3
Yeah, this one's just a Polwank, plain and simple.
That's a font with the fancy name of 04b03, which rolls right of the tongue and which I like to use because it is legilable at pt 6 (and pt sizes divisible by 6).
Happy Polish Day!
The Russian's wanted a slice of the African cake, and pushed hard for it to. In the end, their efforts netted the Russians a small square of land on the coast of North Africa. Moscow was happy with this, though soon found themselves put off by the fact that the only people going over in large numbers were Poles, and it soon became obvious that they would quickly become the largest European group in the country. This caused some level of internal strife, which very soon boiled over into full on fighting. The Polish rebels had the numbers advantage however, and soon the Russians had been pushed out of the continent entirely.
Today the Republic of Polish Cyrenaica enjoys reasonable relations with it neighbors, acting as a staunch ally of Israel and Turkey, though in recent years it has faced an increasing number of border skirmishes with its neighbors of Egypt and Tunisia, with many politicians fearing that war may break out in the near future.
The Russian's wanted a slice of the African cake, and pushed hard for it to. In the end, their efforts netted the Russians a small square of land on the coast of North Africa. Moscow was happy with this, though soon found themselves put off by the fact that the only people going over in large numbers were Poles, and it soon became obvious that they would quickly become the largest European group in the country. This caused some level of internal strife, which very soon boiled over into full on fighting. The Polish rebels had the numbers advantage however, and soon the Russians had been pushed out of the continent entirely.
Today the Republic of Polish Cyrenaica enjoys reasonable relations with it neighbors, acting as a staunch ally of Israel and Turkey, though in recent years it has faced an increasing number of border skirmishes with its neighbors of Egypt and Tunisia, with many politicians fearing that war may break out in the near future.
A bunch of people use it for that format, yes, most notably rvbomally.
But I also encourage you to try out other fonts, which is something I'll do again in the future (largely because I hope to find a phonebook font, which also look great at smaller point sizes).
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Gilead: A Composite Analysis of a Theocracy in the Heartland of America
Gilead, once an existential threat to the secularism of the Western world, has become mired in the very things it sought to fight. Often derided as a banana theocracy (one not dissimilar to the banana republics of the 1960s), Gilead is marred by economic stagnation, ideological fanaticism, and a tendency to blame outside forces in order to distract its citizens from internal crisis. Gilead’s current state is dire- over 100 million people suffer under its radical Christian ideology, often referred to as “Theocratic Stalinism.” In order to understand the situation regarding the Gileadian Republic, three factors must be analyzed- its military, economy, and society.
Military
After the United States Armed Forces were reorganized into the Army of Divine Justice and Retribution, an extensive propaganda campaign was directed at the military’s servicemembers to convince them that their cause was just, and that they were fighting for the salvation of all Americans. However, the new Republic had no qualms with executing those who didn’t toe the doctrinal line, which only served to cause splits within their ranks. In particular, the Navy and the National Guard were extensively purged due to the Sons of Jacob having only a miniscule presence there. In contrast, the Army and the Air Force proved the most loyal to the new Republic, while those who didn’t fled west to join the remnants of the former national government. Those who remained, however, proved more than capable of waging war, as proved by the battles of Houston, Jacksonville, and Omaha. As the Republic’s military tally grew, however, the ruling Council feared the military would impose a stratocracy on them, and to this end they initiated a series of further purges aimed at those ‘without proper faith and loyalty to the cause’. It was violent, systematic, and effective in achieving its goals, but it also gutted the military of competent officers and replaced them with a class of loyal, but ultimately incompetent, fools.
This severely affected the Republic’s military capacity, and defeat after defeat forced Gilead east of the Rockies. Massive trench-filled fronts similar to the Western Front sprung up across the former United States, and by 1992 it was universally acknowledged that the war was going nowhere. The Republic negotiated the Treaty of Salvation a year later solidifying the border between the Republic and its various rivals. The military was no longer needed in such numbers, and the Council feared that if they were not satisfied, they could overthrow the Republic and reestablish the old National government. Thus, they looked to history to solve the issue and found an example that suited them- the Roman colonia system, in which all soldiers received a plot of land for their duties to the state. This system, while archaic, solved the problem of jobless soldiers, and if they refused, they would be solved with a bullet to the head.
The introduction of the Land to the Soldiers program reduced the number of active military personnel, while remaining soldiers were reorganized into an entity that was a hybrid of both a police force and a professional army. Said entity, however, became entangled within the newfound Republic bureaucracy, which already was choking the economy. Papers for redeployment along the western border became a hassle to process. Promotions became a grueling process of total examination, ranging from what an individual consumed to what they did in their leisure time. The neologism “revolutionary bureaucratism” emerged to describe the system that Gilead increasingly became.
Economy
The economic policy of the Republic is an eclectic mixture of pragmatic policy. Before the Great Revival, the United States governments’ economic policy depended on either Democratic or Republican governance. When the Republican party came to power, they supported a mixture of economic conservatism and free market libertarianism. When Democrats came to power, they supported market regulation and encouraging the growth of small businesses. The Great Revival, however, shattered the two-party dichotomy, which was immediately replaced by a wartime economic policy. Using five-year plans, Gilead rapidly retooled its industry towards the purpose of the reclamation and later consolidation of the Republic. With an emphasis on heavy industry and resource exploitation, the Republic maintained high economic growth throughout its first decade. This was not to last- by the third Five-Year plan, controversial edicts mandating state planning and price controls reduced the quality of products meant for the war effort. In addition, the economy was seen to be overextended, given how the Natalist Crisis was still at its height. This meant that more and more workers who died in accidents or retired couldn’t be quickly replaced. To counter this, Gilead retooled its education system around industrial production. It even got to the point where automated machines were reintroduced into the workforce. Although seen as “accelerationist heathenry”, the Council had to make sacrifices in order to effectively fight the war, promising a return to normalcy after the war against the pretenders had been won.
Yet the war was never won, only ended by peace. As such, Gilead found itself having to demilitarize its economy and reorient it for civilian usage. The treaty did nothing but demoralize Gilead’s industrial complex, and to make things worse central planning was still in effect. This inefficient economic structure would lead to a drastic, almost Brezhnevian decline in Gilead’s living standards. Loans from the former European Union further devastated the nation’s economy. Blackouts were initiated across the country, food lines were put into place, and a national diet was mandated to save food. This severely reduced the population’s caloric intake from over 3,000 to less than 1,900, created a malnourished generation, and fomented anti-Republic resistance in the South. This would not impede the Republic’s brutality, which launched the “Seven Deadly Slaughters” in the former colonies.
Society
Gileadian society can be compared to that of the former Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (now the Islamic State). The Republic’s social policy has been described as feudalist and outright dystopian in some circles of academic thought, but more accurately it can be seen as a mixture of several competing theories of societal control and repression. Its most prominent aspect is the patriarchy, which forbids women to read and write, disallows women to leave their homes without explicit permission, and isolates and insulates them from greater society. Despite popular belief that Gilead’s isolation of women was due to the societal decay of the 1960s and 1970s, others point to the decline in birth rates during the Natalist Crisis. Recent evidence points to the previous government’s legalization of chemicals and pollutants for commercial usage as the sole contributor to the Natalist Crisis, contrary to official Gileadian history.
Legal patriarchy is Gilead’s most infamous and obvious totalitarian control measure, but it isn’t the only one. The Gileadian regime’s hierarchy, ostensibly to ‘restore society’s moral fiber’, is in reality a measure to keep the people in line. Its punishments are dependent on class, financial importance, and most importantly, their gender. It also determines how far one can go in society- there is an essential caste system in which a person can only rise so far before their caste limits them from rising further. The Republic’s travel restrictions further accentuates the caste system- if one was an “econoperson”, then they could only move freely in a predetermined part of their District (Gilead’s first-level subdivisions), while Commanders and Councilmen could theoretically travel to all parts of the country, excluding areas controlled by the Eyes.
Gilead’s last and most ominous societal abuse is the collective erasure of citizens, not too different from the fictional state of Oceania. It is commonly employed against “heathens, enemies of the Sons, and general malcontents.” This system is designed in accordance with the hierarchy, so that the system operates smoothly. Econopeople are erased with minimal effort, while it takes struggle sessions, condemnations, and rectifications to erase a Commander. In general, under the society of Gilead, traditional incentive has been reduced, being replaced by fear. It can be compared to Nazi Germany’s forced labor system, whose lackluster products were made from forced hands rather than voluntary labor.
Predictions for the Republic of Gilead
Despite Gilead’s sheer cruelty towards its citizens, the country is expected to survive for the foreseeable future. This is partially due to the regime’s sheer fanaticism. Whether it’s reducing power consumption to pay off debts, or to start another war to distract the populace, the Grand Council will do anything to keep their Republic alive, even if it means sacrificing the most basic amenities to do so. Gilead’s sheer fanaticism mirrors that of the Japanese Empire, whose fighter pilots flew themselves into ships to stop their advance. If they keep this up, they might end up ruling forever…
Gilead, once an existential threat to the secularism of the Western world, has become mired in the very things it sought to fight. Often derided as a banana theocracy (one not dissimilar to the banana republics of the 1960s), Gilead is marred by economic stagnation, ideological fanaticism, and a tendency to blame outside forces in order to distract its citizens from internal crisis. Gilead’s current state is dire- over 100 million people suffer under its radical Christian ideology, often referred to as “Theocratic Stalinism.” In order to understand the situation regarding the Gileadian Republic, three factors must be analyzed- its military, economy, and society.
Military
After the United States Armed Forces were reorganized into the Army of Divine Justice and Retribution, an extensive propaganda campaign was directed at the military’s servicemembers to convince them that their cause was just, and that they were fighting for the salvation of all Americans. However, the new Republic had no qualms with executing those who didn’t toe the doctrinal line, which only served to cause splits within their ranks. In particular, the Navy and the National Guard were extensively purged due to the Sons of Jacob having only a miniscule presence there. In contrast, the Army and the Air Force proved the most loyal to the new Republic, while those who didn’t fled west to join the remnants of the former national government. Those who remained, however, proved more than capable of waging war, as proved by the battles of Houston, Jacksonville, and Omaha. As the Republic’s military tally grew, however, the ruling Council feared the military would impose a stratocracy on them, and to this end they initiated a series of further purges aimed at those ‘without proper faith and loyalty to the cause’. It was violent, systematic, and effective in achieving its goals, but it also gutted the military of competent officers and replaced them with a class of loyal, but ultimately incompetent, fools.
This severely affected the Republic’s military capacity, and defeat after defeat forced Gilead east of the Rockies. Massive trench-filled fronts similar to the Western Front sprung up across the former United States, and by 1992 it was universally acknowledged that the war was going nowhere. The Republic negotiated the Treaty of Salvation a year later solidifying the border between the Republic and its various rivals. The military was no longer needed in such numbers, and the Council feared that if they were not satisfied, they could overthrow the Republic and reestablish the old National government. Thus, they looked to history to solve the issue and found an example that suited them- the Roman colonia system, in which all soldiers received a plot of land for their duties to the state. This system, while archaic, solved the problem of jobless soldiers, and if they refused, they would be solved with a bullet to the head.
The introduction of the Land to the Soldiers program reduced the number of active military personnel, while remaining soldiers were reorganized into an entity that was a hybrid of both a police force and a professional army. Said entity, however, became entangled within the newfound Republic bureaucracy, which already was choking the economy. Papers for redeployment along the western border became a hassle to process. Promotions became a grueling process of total examination, ranging from what an individual consumed to what they did in their leisure time. The neologism “revolutionary bureaucratism” emerged to describe the system that Gilead increasingly became.
Economy
The economic policy of the Republic is an eclectic mixture of pragmatic policy. Before the Great Revival, the United States governments’ economic policy depended on either Democratic or Republican governance. When the Republican party came to power, they supported a mixture of economic conservatism and free market libertarianism. When Democrats came to power, they supported market regulation and encouraging the growth of small businesses. The Great Revival, however, shattered the two-party dichotomy, which was immediately replaced by a wartime economic policy. Using five-year plans, Gilead rapidly retooled its industry towards the purpose of the reclamation and later consolidation of the Republic. With an emphasis on heavy industry and resource exploitation, the Republic maintained high economic growth throughout its first decade. This was not to last- by the third Five-Year plan, controversial edicts mandating state planning and price controls reduced the quality of products meant for the war effort. In addition, the economy was seen to be overextended, given how the Natalist Crisis was still at its height. This meant that more and more workers who died in accidents or retired couldn’t be quickly replaced. To counter this, Gilead retooled its education system around industrial production. It even got to the point where automated machines were reintroduced into the workforce. Although seen as “accelerationist heathenry”, the Council had to make sacrifices in order to effectively fight the war, promising a return to normalcy after the war against the pretenders had been won.
Yet the war was never won, only ended by peace. As such, Gilead found itself having to demilitarize its economy and reorient it for civilian usage. The treaty did nothing but demoralize Gilead’s industrial complex, and to make things worse central planning was still in effect. This inefficient economic structure would lead to a drastic, almost Brezhnevian decline in Gilead’s living standards. Loans from the former European Union further devastated the nation’s economy. Blackouts were initiated across the country, food lines were put into place, and a national diet was mandated to save food. This severely reduced the population’s caloric intake from over 3,000 to less than 1,900, created a malnourished generation, and fomented anti-Republic resistance in the South. This would not impede the Republic’s brutality, which launched the “Seven Deadly Slaughters” in the former colonies.
Society
Gileadian society can be compared to that of the former Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (now the Islamic State). The Republic’s social policy has been described as feudalist and outright dystopian in some circles of academic thought, but more accurately it can be seen as a mixture of several competing theories of societal control and repression. Its most prominent aspect is the patriarchy, which forbids women to read and write, disallows women to leave their homes without explicit permission, and isolates and insulates them from greater society. Despite popular belief that Gilead’s isolation of women was due to the societal decay of the 1960s and 1970s, others point to the decline in birth rates during the Natalist Crisis. Recent evidence points to the previous government’s legalization of chemicals and pollutants for commercial usage as the sole contributor to the Natalist Crisis, contrary to official Gileadian history.
Legal patriarchy is Gilead’s most infamous and obvious totalitarian control measure, but it isn’t the only one. The Gileadian regime’s hierarchy, ostensibly to ‘restore society’s moral fiber’, is in reality a measure to keep the people in line. Its punishments are dependent on class, financial importance, and most importantly, their gender. It also determines how far one can go in society- there is an essential caste system in which a person can only rise so far before their caste limits them from rising further. The Republic’s travel restrictions further accentuates the caste system- if one was an “econoperson”, then they could only move freely in a predetermined part of their District (Gilead’s first-level subdivisions), while Commanders and Councilmen could theoretically travel to all parts of the country, excluding areas controlled by the Eyes.
Gilead’s last and most ominous societal abuse is the collective erasure of citizens, not too different from the fictional state of Oceania. It is commonly employed against “heathens, enemies of the Sons, and general malcontents.” This system is designed in accordance with the hierarchy, so that the system operates smoothly. Econopeople are erased with minimal effort, while it takes struggle sessions, condemnations, and rectifications to erase a Commander. In general, under the society of Gilead, traditional incentive has been reduced, being replaced by fear. It can be compared to Nazi Germany’s forced labor system, whose lackluster products were made from forced hands rather than voluntary labor.
Predictions for the Republic of Gilead
Despite Gilead’s sheer cruelty towards its citizens, the country is expected to survive for the foreseeable future. This is partially due to the regime’s sheer fanaticism. Whether it’s reducing power consumption to pay off debts, or to start another war to distract the populace, the Grand Council will do anything to keep their Republic alive, even if it means sacrificing the most basic amenities to do so. Gilead’s sheer fanaticism mirrors that of the Japanese Empire, whose fighter pilots flew themselves into ships to stop their advance. If they keep this up, they might end up ruling forever…
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Not to divulge much, but in the United States, they're the federal pretenders after the Great Revival
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