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It's probably because that's what my original flag was- really I was more focused on the symbol and I tend to just use the Nazi flag as a base for it because it's a good example of a flag that puts the symbol out front and center, and makes practically anything look evil. As for the continents...

Could a Soviet-conquered Finnish government potentially hole itself up on the Aland Islands? (the question is who would back such a regime in the middle of WW2 in such a way that it could survive the war)

Was that deliberate, or just a strange coincidence?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but was there even a Scottish government to do the secession? I thought the United Kingdom was a unitary state, and even moreso in this period. Note that the Confederacy was made up of pre-existing state governments.

:D A flower would be an interesting symbol for an "evil" state- I mean, I guess you could say WW2-era Japan... though I don't think the Imperial Chrysanthemum is ever depicted with a stem, so that's different. Really the real reason for the ultra-stylization that creates that effect is that...

But if you look at the map in the first post, Connecticut's western land claims lasted beyond 1781- I'm not sure how that meshes up with your claim.

Way back when I started one along those lines... but it never really went anywhere.

Very nice design- I'm reminded of an old "generic totalitarian government" design I made awhile back, which was supposed to be heavily stylized hands holding Earth- though it came out too stylized in the end.

To me the best way to get this is to have Connecticut's claims on Wyoming recognized... I mean, King George III supported them, so it's not like they were entirely baseless.

No 9/11. Bush focuses his efforts on Israel/Palestine, manages to get somewhere- not enough to solve the problem, most likely, but enough that it seems like a major step and gets him the prize?

I thought the way around that was to say it's not a "railroad" at all- certainly, mass transit subway or trolley systems have never had to live up to those sorts of crash standards, so it's not like there isn't precedent.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought part of the California project was to build dedicated tracks- that way, they wouldn't have to carry all the weight Acela does to comply with federal crash requirements. (You couldn't do that on Acela without disconnecting the NEC from all other tracks in...

But ten years later, will still we be saying "wait until the Californian HSR opens up in 10 years"? That project seems to be more delayed than the Big Dig was. (And speaking of the Big Dig in a rail-related thread... you can thank the one notable cost-cutting in that whole project for why the...

The FDIC collapses after one or two of the giant commercial banks (note: Bear Stearns and Lehman were not FDIC-insured) fails... Now, does the "no bailout" clause extend to not bailing out the FDIC? If so, then a massive run on the banks destroys America's financial system and results in massive...

What about passing costs onto the government? If there's some kind of federal health service, labor won't push for the manufacturers to take on those costs, for example.

Exactly- NH had a claim as well, drawing NH's border without drawing NY's is biased. :p

Route 128 was, at one point, a major center of technology companies, and Massachusetts is still decent at that sort of thing- it's just that the biggest MA tech companies tended to screw up. If Wang and/or Digital had managed to seize upon the PC revolution...

My "Acela is a joke" comment was mostly speed-wise... Certainly, it's done quite well by Amtrak standards. (Though I've never ridden it- all my rides on the Corridor have been the Northeast Regional, which goes down to Williamsburg) From what I've heard the two main limiting factors on the...

Huh, with all the automakers that sprung up and lasted only a short time in the 1910s and 1920s, you'd think there'd be a lot, but literally the only one I could find was this one, which sold a very large car from 1920-1921. With that little information, you might as well just make up an...

Acela is a joke. :( Though it's usually based on top speeds- I don't think anything beat Acela's 150 mph speed back then (or at least, was timetabled to)... But a large part of that is due to safety restrictions...