AHC:Marriage Equality nations as one country

The current map at http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-eas...les/images/issues/WorldMarriageMap-030315.pdf shows all marriage Equality countries without borders between them in one color with Mexico as a lighter shade since it doesn't have marriage everywhere.

So your challenge is to make a nation consisting of the US, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa, Portugal, Spain, France, Benelux, UK (without NI), Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and Scandanavia as one country. Mexico should be in a relationship with this country that would cause it to be lightly shaded...

I figure it would be easier if Northern Ireland and Australia was included, so that's a fallback...
 
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The current map at http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-eas...les/images/issues/WorldMarriageMap-030315.pdf shows all marriage Equality countries without borders between them in one color with Mexico as a lighter shade since it doesn't have marriage everywhere.

So your challenge is to make a nation consisting of the US, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, France, Benelux, UK (without NI), Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and Scandanavia as one country. Mexico should be in a relationship with this country that would cause it to be lightly shaded...

I figure it would be easier if Northern Ireland and Australia was included, so that's a fallback...

You left out South Africa.
 
naraht:

Do you mean at some point in the past, all these countries got absorbed into one, and coincidentally they just happen to be the countries that in OTL 2015 are recognizing same-sex marriage?

Or is there supposed to be something about recognizing same-sex marriage itself that makes them all want to join up?

If it's the latter, any scenario is gonna be pretty ASB. But, just for shyte and giggles, I'll go one step beyond that, and imagine that we live in the world of Hal Lindsey/Jack Chick/the whole pre-mil Christian eschatology thing. Obama is the Antichrist, and announces that he's going to attack Russia and China, and conquer most of Africa, because those countries don't recognize same-sex marriage. (Of course, his real motivation is just to slaughter all the god-fearing Christians in Russia and ensure that China never hears the word of God, but given that we live in times of licentious fornication, SSM is the best battle standard he can come up with.)

So, with the Beloved World Leader having declared SSM the dividing line between the supposed civilized world and the supposed barbarians, all the countries that allow gay marriage form an alliance to attack Russia and China. Maybe as the war goes on, they decide they need a more centralized authority, so they all decide to surrender power to either Washington DC or Brussels(depending on whether this nightmare scenario is pandering to anti-Americanism or anti-Europeism), to the point where they might as well all just be one country.

Of course, this all ends with Jesus returning to Earth and zapping all the sexually decadent westerners into a huge pile of ash at Armageddon, so the Pope, Vladimir Putin, and Pat Robertson(with his newly minted Zimbabwean citizenship) can all sit at the right hand of the Father. Japan, South Korea, and India all get brief thank-yous for their assistance in fighting against the sodomite agenda, before having most of their populations engulfed in flames for not accepting JC as their personal saviour.
 
I'd go with surviving and thriving Angevin Empire in personal union with a united Scandinavian Kingdom, and their collective colonial holdings.
 
Well...if you want something that holds water in reality, then I doubt this can be managed.

If you want ASB, easy: one o' them pesky specific virus strikes down all strictly heterosexual people in those countries, and babies that'll grow up to be straight are stillbirths. The surviving LGBT populations realise that they don't have enough people to go it alone as nations, so they decide to link up. Human cloning and sperm-banks are used to make sure the human race in the new super-country continue to propagate.

Meanwhile, every religious fundamentalist in the world suffers cranial explosions at the realisation that God has struck down the straights and the gays have inherited the Earth, or at least most of the good bits. :D
 
naraht:

Do you mean at some point in the past, all these countries got absorbed into one, and coincidentally they just happen to be the countries that in OTL 2015 are recognizing same-sex marriage?
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This. And although I put it into post-1900, I have no idea what would be most likely to generate it for a POD. (Maybe it has to be post 1900, since it includes the OTL Finnish/Russian border.)
 

jahenders

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You could pose a similar question WRT almost any combination of countries on the earth, some more likely than others. I don't see how the "marriage equality" aspect impacts the likelihood of some mega-nation forming. As it is, I see little to suggest any likelihood of such a union -- the US and Western Europe could theoretically happen, but here seems little to suggest including countries in South America or South Africa.

If such a thing DID exist, one can only silently speculate on the name for such a place ...
 
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