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Your challenge is to create a situation in which there is a global cold war-like period between one superpower which is adamantly secular and another that is run by religious clerics. By theocratic I mean that there is some body in government similar to Iran's Guardian Council, a group of clerics that can countermand any decision by elected officials, or any other permutation of a theocracy that you can think of, so long as religious clerics have constitutionally enshrined power. Secular can be anything ranging from an America which secularizes in response to said theocracy to a government that is actively anticlerical a la the French Revolution
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