AHC: Make the world as terrible as possible

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POD is no earlier than 1900, make the world as terrible as possible.
  • Doesn't have to be all too realistic but at least try to make it somewhat sensible.
  • No nuclear wars that destroy humanity. That's cheating.
  • Try something original that isn't communism or nazism takes over the world.
 
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Its tempting to go the global nuclear war route, but I think making the situation in "1984" actually happen is worse and is perfectly doable. in fact I think there are timelines of exactly this on this site.
 
Mutually assured destruction means exactly that and cockroaches inherit the Earth.
Wrong.
They're not even the hardiest insects.

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopene...oaches-really-survive-nuclear-explosions.html

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index...would-not-survive-an-extreme-nuclear-fallout/

Tardigrades (or "water bears") will be the real survivors after a mutually assured destruction. Cockroaches are pussies compared to them.

Tardigrades can withstand environments as cold as minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 Celsius) or highs of more than 300 degrees F (148.9 C), survive 4,000 Gy (for reference, no human has survived more than 10 Gy), slow their metabolism down to 0.01% when they’re in inhospitable conditions, survive 12 days in the vacuum of space without protection, spend 30 years frozen solid before being revived by scientists, withstand 6,000 different atmospheres (sea level is just one atmosphere), and survive massive amounts of pressure of up to six times the pressure of the deepest part of the ocean.

https://www.livescience.com/57985-tardigrade-facts.html
 
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Anyways, I'll start off with Europe. The Germans win World War I and after crushing the Allies a second time during the 30s, become the dominant power in Continental Europe. However, their entire fleet was sunk by an Anglo-American fleet. The Germans nevertheless dominant Europe but the Kaiser lost his power eventually with the army overthrowing the government literally becoming an army with a state. They integrate all puppets and begin using Protestantism to give their regime divine right. Eventually, the religion goes batshit insane turning into an extreme radical sect that would make the Sons of Jacob and Puritans scared. Now we have an army with a state and church. The army goes on to seize the rest of Europe as far east to Astrakhan and with the divine right granted to them by the Lord, maintain their bloody regime filling the pockets of the commanders and generals with cash.
 
They integrate all puppets and begin using Protestantism to give their regime divine right. Eventually, the religion goes batshit insane turning into an extreme radical sect that would make the Sons of Jacob and Puritans scared.

Uh, no. What possible movement in a successful WWI Germany would take this tack? I know multiple actual, modern Puritan Covenanters and this sort of casual Westboroism borders on bigotry against a much broader group.
 
The worst world possible is probably with having Able Archer 83 turn into total nuclear war (at that point, the world had maximum nuclear weapons combined, in relation to other years). To make it even worse, have the new world that rises be even crazier and totalitarian.
 
What happens in it?
FDR dies shortly after Pearl Harbor and Wallace replaces him, making WW2 longer and more violent( failed D-day, use of nuclear and chemical weapons, a nazi civil war and the soviets conquer even more territory than Otl)
After the war the USA becomes isolationist under President Taft, allowing Stalin to invade Italy, Iran and Turkey, France is a military dictatorship under Darlan , who uses nukes to controll the africam colonies, Israel is destroyed and the use of nukes in war is considered normal.
But don't worry, it gets worse
You should read it
 
Uh, no. What possible movement in a successful WWI Germany would take this tack? I know multiple actual, modern Puritan Covenanters and this sort of casual Westboroism borders on bigotry against a much broader group.
By the way, I would like to mention that the scenarios don't have to be all too realistic. Just think of something pretty terrible and then give a brief history of how it came to happen. 1984 isn't the most realistic thing to be written and this isn't meant to be realistic. Rather just a fun thought experiment.
 

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Short of a nuclear exchange, which is sort of the obvious answer...

The Allies carry out Operation Pike, bringing the USSR into World War II as an ally of Nazi Germany in the spring of 1940.
 
FDR dies shortly after Pearl Harbor and Wallace replaces him, making WW2 longer and more violent( failed D-day, use of nuclear and chemical weapons, a nazi civil war and the soviets conquer even more territory than Otl)
After the war the USA becomes isolationist under President Taft, allowing Stalin to invade Italy, Iran and Turkey, France is a military dictatorship under Darlan , who uses nukes to controll the africam colonies, Israel is destroyed and the use of nukes in war is considered normal.
But don't worry, it gets worse
You should read it
Well at the least the Arabs are happy I guess.
 
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