The Star-Spangled Expanded Universe of "What Madness Is This?"

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Murica1776

Murica1776

Y'all probably already guessed who the next President is, but here he is:

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All Hail President Franklin Trajanus Roosevelt!
Presidency: (1928-1956)​
 
pattontank12

pattontank12

Murica1776 said:
Not to spoil too much, but TTL's FTR was raised by TR from an early age.

Unrelated to that, 1940s maps and some more big companies coming soon!
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You know considering New England is home to the likes Edgar Allen Poe, Howard P. Lovecraft and Stephen King it wouldn't be to far of a stretch for their to be something "off" about the RU countryside. I'm not talking about the standard madness of WMIT but more subtle horrors just waiting behind trees or lurking in the shadows. Plus let's not forget the Salem witch trails and the headless horseman.
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

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Major Events of the 1930's:

The Shattering of the Europan World Order: The 1930's saw the near collapse of the Europan World Order. In 1932, Pope Peter II and Adolf von Branau declared the Europan government to be illegitimate, and announced the creation of the New Holy Roman Empire, to be organized along Supercatholic principles. Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy declared for the Pope. However, Pope Peter II's prior meddling in politics had made many suspicious of him. Western Europa, the Empire, and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies declared for Cardinal de Foix, soon to be Pope John XXIII in Avignon. Catholic Europe broke out into civil war. The world watched with bated breath to see what would happen. Many actually thought that Europan patriotism would win out and force Pope Peter to surrender. After it became clear that this was not the case, Europa's enemies and frenemies pounced like a pack of vultures. A century and a half of Catholic European imperialism was almost undone.

The first to move was the Republican Union. Greenland, whose neutrality was long assured by Paris, was overrun in a week in October of 1932. Nary a whisper came from Paris. The cat was out of the bag; the Europans could be overwhelmed. And overwhelmed they basically were. Bouncing off of Greenland, the RU invaded Danish Iceland, and punched a hole in Western Africa. The Germanians followed suit, punching up in Africa in January of 1933, followed by an actual war on the continent to claim South German Catholic lands ruled by Bonapartist puppets. In April of 1933, the Dutch launched an offensive into Belgium, reclaiming that former territory by war's end. The Norwegian-Swedes declared themselves Scandinavia, and attacked Denmark in that same month. It was at this point that the Europans started pulling troops from California and Patagonia to the homeland, knowing full well what that would entail.

Patagonia was devoured by offensives from Eduist Brazil and the Neutrality Pact from the fall of '33 through the spring of '34. The Pactists and Eduists took potshots at one another, but decided to wait to fight each other. March of 1934 saw a joint invasion of California by Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. None of the powers were allies, but instead co-belligerents with a "silent gentleman's agreement." That agreement would become loud shouting after the spoils were divided. Texas took Baja California, and California up to Los Angeles. Virginia took the rest of California, leaving Georgia with Utah and Nevada. Georgia had once again been denied its rightful place as a truly continent spanning power, and fighting on the Virginia-Georgia border threatened to break out into full scale war. The only reason it didn't was because their new territories had a flare up in unrest, and by the time it was quelled, the borders were too hardened for anyone to make a move for the time being.

By this point, the Europans made a decision. They declared which territories were acceptable losses, and which ones were not. Large chunks of West Africa, all of Sicilian Africa, Belgium, Ireland, and Catholic Germany were written off. This decision cost many people their lives, but also saved the larger Empire from an even grizzlier fate. Once Europan troops and arms pulled out of Ireland, the Union, using recently conquered Iceland as a base, joined the Australians, British, and Scandinavians in a joint invasion of Ireland in the spring of 1935. This would be one of the bloodiest fronts in the whole of the Europan Shatter. The Irish were fighting against total destruction, and they knew it. It was the most total war imaginable. It would take 4 bloody years for the Irish to give up, and cost the Yankee-led "Free World" over 2 million lives. But by 1939, it was over. The Irish had literally run out of materials with which to wage war. In the pubs of London and Belfast, Anglo-Saxon Pinnacle Men sang "We Are Coming Father Cromwell, by Dublin's Bloody Tide!" The Irish Genocide would begin in earnest soon afterward.

In 1936, Sicilian Africa totally collapsed under the strain of providing for the war effort, and because the planners in Europe were draining it of men and resources to save the continent and the Raj. The Cokies punched up from Yonderland to "Restore Order" although the trains full of Sicilians they deported to make way for fresh Cokie settlers would suggest otherwise. The Germanians took a piece of land to the direct north of the new Cokie territory. However, in Ethiopia/Somalia, which had parts run by the Sicilians and parts run by the Europans, something interesting happened. A large movement of Ethiopians calling themselves the "New Judeans" began spouting off Yankee Fundamentalism and murdering their colonizers and other groups alike with Pierce Coffee Grinders and Craig-Jordan rifles. The Pinnacle Man had come to Ethiopia. The Ethiopians were quickly deemed Betters by Philadelphia, and 5 divisions were sent to the fledgling Fascist nation. While it would be easy to say that the New Judeans won solely because of foreign support, the fact was that a large number of Ethiopians legitimately respected the AFC as "the only faith to lift up the Black man into civilization as an equal."

Speaking of new Yankee puppets, Israel, which had long seen Jews move there, by force or by free will, blew up in revolt in 1935. The Yankees pushed into North Africa so they could more thoroughly back this Revolution via the shipment of aid. Soon the Jews of Israel, like their Ethiopian counterparts, were using Yankee guns and gold to win the war. Fighting would continue for 4.5 years, and see the Israelis even take Jordan and part of Syria. The seizure of the Holy Land for the Pinnacle Man was a massive triumph, and President Roosevelt announced a week of celebration. On the flip side, the Iranians took most of Syria from the Europans in 1936, and invaded Armenia-Georgia in '37. However, the plucky kingdom held firm against the Persian juggernaut, and after three years of fighting the Persians would pack up, having won nothing. The Afghans also took a few small parts of OTL Pakistan from France in '38, but all in all the Raj held intact.

By the end of the decade, Europa had lost much of its global footprint. They were completely shut out of the Americas. The African Empire shrunk dramatically. Syria and the Holy Land had been lost. And roughly half of the European domain of Europa was still controlled by the damnable Antichrist False Pope Peter II. Belgium was in Dutch hands. Their Danish allies languished under Scandinavian rule, to say nothing of Ireland. Nonetheless, the Empire survived. Caesar Napoleon V signed a ceasefire with von Branau on January 4th, 1940. After eight years of war, the end result was a once mighty superpower divided and partly dismembered. The Age of the Catholic Europan Man was over. After over 100 years of hegemony, the Catholic Man had been reduced to a mere member of the great powers. He had many rivals. The Protestant Monarchists of Germany and Holland dominated Africa and Asia. The Anglo-Saxon Pinnacle Man, and his African and Jewish fellows, were now a force to be reckoned with. The Illuminist Russians finally had their house in order, although not before losing peripheral lands. The Eduist Brazilians were potentially poised to dominate South America. And the Expansionist Swashbuckling Southrons were increasingly stamping their mark on the world. A new world was dawning.

Events in Asia: Asia was the continent least affected by the Shatter. Europa never really established a presence there outside of India, which was fairly quiet during the 1930's. However, the rest of the continent did see unrelated events.

Perhaps the biggest story was the continuing rise of what some called Asia's Southron Twins. Specifically, the Republic of Japan and the Confederation of Corea. Backed by Virginia and Carolina respectively, these two powers continued their imperialist spelunking. The Japanese annexed a couple more provinces in China, and bought Shanghai from an overextended Germania in 1939. The Coreans annexed Inner Mongolia, part of China proper, and parts of Loomie Mongolia and Russia, to the great pleasure of their Cokie allies.

1940 would also see a semi-successful unification of what remained of China. Controlled by a so-called Egoist revolution by a man calling himself Qin Shi Huang, after the Emperor who built the Great Wall, the Egoists promised national renewal. However, the warlords still weren't totally stamped out. For now....
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

Updated list of states:

States and Colonies of Texas, 1940 AD

Texas (OTL Texas, plus some land on southern bank of the Rio Grande)
Arizona (Roughly OTL Arizona and New Mexico)
Sonora
Austin (OTL Chihuahua)
South Texas (OTL Coahuila)
Libertalia (OTL Neuvo Leon and Tamaluipa)
Freedonia (Madagascar)
Custer (OTL Veracruz)
Hornberry (OTL San Luis Potosi)
Bellamy (OTL Zacatecas and Aguascalientes)
Durango (OTL Durango, Nayarit and Sinaloa)
Wayne (OTL Guanajuato and Queretaro)
Starr (OTL Baja California)
West Texas (California up to LA)

States and Colonies of Georgia, 1940 AD

Georgia
Florida (OTL Florida minus the Panhandle)
Mississippi (OTL Alabama and Mississippi, plus Florida panhandle)
Louisiana
Oklahoma (OTL Oklahoma, plus most of Arkansas, and bits of Kansas and New Mexico)
Bogdan (roughly OTL Wyoming and Colorado)
South Georgia (Hispaniola)
New Maya (Belize)
Baldwin (Angola)
Cooper (OTL Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Campeche)
Ogelthorpe (OTL Chiapas and Tabasco)
Shoshone (OTL Utah and Nevada)

States and Colonies of Virginia, 1940 AD

Virginia (OTL Virginia and West Virginia)
Columbiana (Kentucky and part of southern Indiana)
Washington (OTL Illinois)
Iowai (OTL Iowa and southern Minnesota)
Free Negro Territory of Monroe (Northern Minnesota)
Dakota (N. and S. Dakota)
Madison (OTL Montana and part of Wyoming)
Oregon (OTL Washington and northern Idaho)
Tillamook (OTL Oregon and southern Idaho)
Jefferson (OTL Panama)
Harrison Island (Puerto Rico)
Jamaica
Bahamas
Hawaii
Tecos (OTL Jalisco and Colima)
New Worcester (OTL Michoacan and Guerrero)
Mexico (OTL Hidalgo, Mexico (province in Mexico), Mexico City, and Morelos)
Pubela (OTL Puebla and Tlaxcala)
New Southampton (OTL Oxaca)
California (California down to LA)

States and Colonies of Carolina, 1940 AD

North Carolina
South Carolina
West Carolina (OTL Tennessee)
Knox (OTL Missouri with a small strip of northern Arkansas)
Jackson (OTL Nebraska and most of Kansas)
East Carolina (OTL Namibia)
Polkland (OTL Botswana and Zimbabwe, roughly)
Yonderland (OTL Mozambique)
Carolina-upon-Essex (Guyana)
North Yonderland (OTL Tanzania)

States and Colonies of the Republican Union, 1940 AD

Nova Scotia
Massachusetts (OTL Mass and Maine)
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Ohio (Ohio plus most of Indiana)
Michigania
Keybeck (Quebec and Newfoundland)
Ontario
Burr (Manitoba and Nunavut)
Redemption (Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northern Territory)
Lincolnia (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea)
Yukon (OTL Yukon and Columbia)
Destiny (OTL Alaska)
Crawford (Greenland)
New Saxony (Iceland)
Douglass (OTL Burkina Faso, Eastern Mali, Mauritania, Gambia, Senegal, Western Sahara)

States and Colonies of the Confederation of Corea, 1940 AD

Corea (OTL Korean Peninsula)
North Corea (OTL Manchuria, Liaoning, Primor ye)
West Corea (OTL Inner Mongolia, parts of Mongolia)

States and Colonies of the Republic of Japan, 1940 AD

Hokkaido (OTL Hokkaido and Sakhalin)
Mitsubishi (Stretches from OTL Aomori to Fukishima) (1)
Barton (Stretches from Ibariki to Kyoto) (2)
New Osaka (Stretches from Mie to Okinawa)
Formosa (Taiwan)
West Japan (Hainan and Guangdong)
New Nippon (Fujian and Zhejiang)
New Kyoto (Shanghai)
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1. Named for the Mitsubishi Corporation, which did much to rebuild this region after Japan's Civil War, and is the biggest private employer in the whole country.
2. Named for Captain Harold Barton, a Virginian Navy Captain who was responsible for TTL's Opening of Japan, as well as supporting Republican forces and Christian missionaries

EDIT: The state of Douglass is a place holder, I imagine the Union could probably create two states out of their conquests.
 
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Murica1776

Murica1776

Kienle said:
For ranking, what would be the most powerful countries in Alt! Madness up to this point?
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Here's my rough guesstimate:

1. Germania
2. The Dutch
3. The Loomies (now that their house is in order.)
4. Europa (still high thanks to India)
5. The RU/Virginia
6. Eduist Brazil
7. Texas/Carolina
8. Georgia/Persia
9. Japan/Corea/Gran Colombia
10. Scandinavia/Chile
11. China/NHRE
12. Turkey/Peru
13. Britain
14. Bulgaria/Greece/Serbia
15. Israel/New Judah
16. Levant
17. Armenia-Georgia
18. Switzerland
19. Afghanistan
 
Kienle

Kienle

Murica1776 said:
Here's my rough guesstimate:

1. Germania
2. The Dutch
3. The Loomies (now that their house is in order.)
4. Europa (still high thanks to India)
5. The RU/Virginia
6. Eduist Brazil
7. Texas/Carolina
8. Georgia/Persia
9. Japan/Corea/Gran Colombia
10. Scandinavia/Chile
11. China/NHRE
12. Turkey/Peru
13. Britain
14. Bulgaria/Greece/Serbia
15. Israel/New Judah
16. Levant
17. Armenia-Georgia
18. Switzerland
19. Afghanistan
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I could see how Germania is high up there, given that they have the most industrialized region in Europe and possibly white-washed many parts of Africa. I think the reason the Loomies were a bit lower than the Dutch is because they lack the capabilities to project their power (lacking most of warm water ports), even with higher industrial outputs. For that, the Russians might work harder on building aeroforce and mechanized infantry, and sponsoring R&D even more than the USSR, and over time might make Russia the most fearful enemy of the fascist/Prostestant block. That is my guess, based on how I understand Illuminism.
 
Born in the USSA

Born in the USSA

Murica1776 said:
Here's my rough guesstimate:

1. Germania
2. The Dutch
3. The Loomies (now that their house is in order.)
4. Europa (still high thanks to India)
5. The RU/Virginia
6. Eduist Brazil
7. Texas/Carolina
8. Georgia/Persia
9. Japan/Corea/Gran Colombia
10. Scandinavia/Chile
11. China/NHRE
12. Turkey/Peru
13. Britain
14. Bulgaria/Greece/Serbia
15. Israel/New Judah
16. Levant
17. Armenia-Georgia
18. Switzerland
19. Afghanistan
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How many spots did the RU rank up when they began their spree of conquest?
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

Georgia Over All Y'all: The Ideology and Rise of the National Liberty Party

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Banner of the NLP​

The Republic of Georgia is in a close competition with the Republican Union for the title of the most oppressive and racist nation in North America. In fact, more than one foreign observer has noted the similarities between the two countries. However, the two nations' ideologies come from two very different traditions. Fascism derives from the fevered, apocalyptic spirit of Yankee Fundamentalism and Scientific Marxism. National Libertism, or just Libertism, was born out of the intense nationalism of the Race for the West and the brutal aftermath of Emancipation.

The Race for the West, loosely defined as starting in 1830 and ending in 1878, was a period of rivalry between the Virginians, Carolinians, and Georgians to grab as much of the continent as possible. Virginia and Georgia were the true powerhouses in the race, as the Cokies got stopped near the middle of the continent. This was mainly due to Carolina's strict immigration laws which slowed down the rate of population growth. They were actually fairly content with this, so they never got as intense about the race as Virginia and Georgia. However, both of those powers began declaring that they would be the first nation to truly span the continent. Settlers poured forth to claim the West from the Native tribes, and to try and block their rivals. However, thanks to having a stronger economy and bigger population base, the Virginians would reach Oregon by 1874. The Georgians refused to accept their fate, and launched the War of the West against Virginia. Although they fought hard, the Georgians were unable to get the upper hand in the West. The Georgian government under President Joseph Wheeler tried to encourage the Carolinians to give the Georgian army right of passage so they could take the fight to the Virginian Homeland, promising monetary compensation. Carolina's Chancellor Wade Hampton III refused, saying "I will not allow our country to become a battleground between the Virginians and the Georgians over some damn fool thing in the West." Georgia would finally sue for a white peace in August of 1877, although fighting continued in some places for 6 more months. In October of that year, Georgia ended slavery, along with all other Southron nations, after the Europans threatened to embargo the South.

This inflicted a double whammy on Georgian pride. First, they lost a war to their biggest rivals. Now, they were being told by foreigners how to run their country? It was too much. In 1878, the year of the Presidential Election, a new party was formed, calling itself the National Liberty Party. Its leader, Edward Porter Alexander, promised revenge on Georgia's enemies and that one day, Georgia would fulfill its God-given promise, and straddle the continent. The NLP was also virulently racist, even by Southron standards, and the rise in race riots after Emancipation helped push people towards the party. They lost in 1878, which was to be expected. They were still small. The next four years saw the group go on a massive recruitment drive. Interestingly, a huge number of Slavic people joined the NLP. Georgia had attracted multitudes of Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian immigrants. For these impoverished oppressed people viewed Georgian democracy and prosperity (however skewed and restricted) as being a positive paradise compared to where they had come from, and most became ardent Patriots. Furthermore, the NLP's promise of Western expansion was the best opportunity for many of these people to get rich, or at least become comfortably middle class. This would wind up effecting the NLP's penultimate platform that got them elected in 1882, which is shown below:

The Platform of the National Liberty Party:

1. We hold this truth to be self-evident: that the Lord our God desires to see Georgia stretch from sea to shining sea, an Empire of Liberty.
2. We do declare our intent to prepare for a great struggle against the Papist Ginnies (Virginians) and Frogs, as well as the Presbie Cokies, who oppress our great nation.
3. We do declare that non-Presbyterian Protestantism and Slavic Orthodoxy, the two most liberty loving churches, are the only acceptable Faiths.
4. We do declare that the government in Atlanta is rotten and weak, and must be replaced.
5. We do declare that the African is the lowest of the races, and ought to be removed from our nation.

This platform, while somewhat vague, appealed to people's anger. In 1882, the NLP, with no small amount of help from their paramilitary wing (dubbed the Silver Shirts) clinched the election. Edward Porter Alexander would be the next President of Georgia. He immediately instituted reforms to strengthen the Presidency, and made the Silver Shirts an official wing of the government, empowering them over traditional law enforcement. This ensured the NLP remained ensconced in power for decades. Afterward, Alexander sicced the Silver Shirts onto the Cajuns of Louisiana, banning French and forcing Catholicism underground. Despite this, Cajun culture continued to quietly exist underground. Aside from this, the Alexander Administration gave subsidies to businesses to help boost the economy. Ensconced in power and with a thriving economy, Alexander won re-election easily, and the Silver Shirts didn't even have to rough that many people up. Alexander would stay in power until he died in 1915, at the age of 78. His successor, Russian born Constantine Popov, continued Porter's policies of armament and building, building a tropical empire for Georgia and preparing for the final conflagration with Virginia.

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Edward Porter Alexander, founder of the NLP


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Constantine Popov, current President of Georgia

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Meeting of the Silver Shirt heads for a retreat in the Georgia wilderness.​
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

Kienle said:
I could see how Germania is high up there, given that they have the most industrialized region in Europe and possibly white-washed many parts of Africa. I think the reason the Loomies were a bit lower than the Dutch is because they lack the capabilities to project their power (lacking most of warm water ports), even with higher industrial outputs. For that, the Russians might work harder on building aeroforce and mechanized infantry, and sponsoring R&D even more than the USSR, and over time might make Russia the most fearful enemy of the fascist/Prostestant block. That is my guess, based on how I understand Illuminism.
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The Germanians and Dutch right now are the industrial powerhouses and can project power just about anywhere. The Loomies are starting to realize their potential after a lot of unrest.

Born in the USSA said:
How many spots did the RU rank up when they began their spree of conquest?
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Quite a few. They were operating way below potential for awhile.
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

I'm gonna give y'all some teasers for the future:

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All Hail President George Octavian Romney!
Term: (1958-1980)

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Chancellor Johnny Gamble VII
Term: (1962-1988)

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Commander-in-Chief Willy Wayne II
Term (1948-1980)

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Virginian President John F. Kennedy
Term: (1960-1990)​
 
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