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To be fair, Burma and Kenya have potentially bright futures ahead of them. It's just that this comes after decades of systematic problems, and decades of British colonial oppression and fuckuppery before that. :p But Pakistan is still screwed.

Haven't you read enough "developed Argentina" threads yet to understand? The Anglo-Saxon, Germanic race has the innate qualities required to run a state whereas Latins have never and will never be able to develop competent administrations. And of course, as bad as the French are, that doesn't...

Well, how many people in Brazil do seriously support an absolute monarchy? Anyone? :p

Yeah. To be fair though, you can't really pin Air France 447 on Brazil. But, err, that's getting off topic. :o Your points are very interesting, but even if everything had gone right for the monarchists, could they have made up such a big gap in six months? 25% isn't exactly a winning margin...

Well, we kind of just went over this. And while there were arguably failures of intelligence and of the political leadership (all the way up to Bush, IIRC; apparently he was handed a memo that specifically stated Bin Laden was determined to attack the US), for the most part I don't think people...

Even Lula or Kubitschek aren't even fit to be janitors? Harsh. :p Really really minor quibble that I wasn't even going to mention unless I had something else to post, but it was 2009. :o

I think most of us know who the Presidents were. You aren't teaching a grade school class, Tex. :rolleyes: Without Kennedy pushing the better dead than red shtick through the better part of a decade, we might not have gotten so deep in Vietnam, and might've had rapprochement with Cuba earlier...

You could've read the rules in the first post. ;)

Richard and Donald Nixon (1913–1990, 1914–1999) American entrepreneurs who turned the grocery store and coffee shop their father, Francis A. Nixon, founded in Whittier, California into "The World's Local Drive-Thru". Born in Yorba Linda, California to a poor, conservative Quaker farming family...

Not sure that's very likely, to be honest, especially since it would be a fairly young company if Dan Wolf was the founder.

James Richard Perry (1950–2007) American Strategic Forces Major and airline pilot. Perry was born in Paint Creek, Texas, to a long time Texas rancher family and attended Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, which he credited for giving him the discipline he needed...

Youhei Kouno (1937–) Japanese politician of the Minseitou (Constitutional Democratic) Party, best known as the last Japanese Governor of the Kwantung Leased Territory. Kouno was born in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, the scion of a prominent political family, and graduated from the elite Waseda...

Well, I can't follow your outline of British politics one bit. How many parties is that? :p

I know I've personally tried and failed to start like a half dozen of these, and I don't even know if technically they belong here or in Shared Worlds these days. But dammit, this concept is an AH.com classic in my humble opinion, and we haven't had one in a while. :o The concept and rules are...

I'm not sure they were ever seriously considered, mainly because it would be a huge logistic pain in the arse to ship them, and once Barbarossa and the Continuation War start, it would be a political pain too. And that's all assuming that Japan would be ok with shipping them across the USSR (I...

Yes. :) One hundred years prior.

How easily could the tail engine on the TriStar be replaced with a PW4000 or an RR Trent compared to the MD-11, though? The S-duct makes that somewhat more difficult than on-wing engines or the "straight through" trijet layout McDonnell Douglas opted for. Plus, ETOPS would likely still happen...

And the map; (And yes, I'm aware that much of this scenario tortures butterflies just for fun. :p )

"Japan Northeastern Air Co., Ltd. (日本東北空輸株式会社, Nihon Touhoku Kuuyu Kabushiki-gaisha, TYO: 9203), abbreviated as JNE or Touhokuuyu, is a major Japanese airline headquartered in Ohta-ku, Tokyo, near the Haneda Airport. It operates hubs at Tokyo's Haneda and Narita airports, Sapporo's Shin Chitose...

To play devil's advocate a bit here, the frontier in the continental US wasn't "closed" until 1890. People also suggest attaching Alaska to Canada, and the most intensive period of the settlement of the Canadian West went on until the beginning of the First World War.