Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes III

[Baconheimer]

The 1988 US Presidential Election in the Stand Up For America Shared Worlds game. The premise is that the AIP becomes a major party. The map is originally @Komodo 's.

Questions and comments about the wikibox and premise are happily accepted!

 

[Deleted member 87099]

The 1988 US Presidential Election in the Stand Up For America Shared Worlds game. The premise is that the AIP becomes a major party. The map is originally @Komodo 's.

Questions and comments about the wikibox and premise are happily accepted!

Just a minor critique, I believe that Robertson was an American Independent.

 

[Baconheimer]

Just a minor critique, I believe that Robertson was an American Independent.

Yes. That has been changed.

 

[Deleted member 87099]

Yes. That has been changed.

Ok, looks great!

 

[Sabot Cat]

What would the U.S. presidential elections look like if they had taken place under a parliamentary system, with a political geography analogous to the UK? To answer this question, I fed data from the U.S. presidential elections held from 1984 to 2012 into a historical seat calculator for the U.K., and this is what I got:

 

[Georgepatton]

-no one likes a tease-

Operation BLUE MAGIC I began in June 1988, shortly after the pacification of Panama, and ran until August 1989. There was some suggestion among political observers that the operation implicitly or explicitly violated a number of international treaties, such as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (causing a nuclear explosion anywhere other than deep enough underground to avoid surface effects) and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of 1973 (undertaking a PNE of over 150kt), but after the State Department ruled that the present emergency constituted an equivalent to 'general war,' those concerns were abandoned. During those 13 months, a total of 128 thermonuclear demolitions charges were utilized in 13 separate shots, with a combined total yield of 53.7Mt, to clear a channel 12 miles in length. The operation was a major undertaking for the United States, especially coming only weeks after the completion of Operation SENTINEL, the post-war test series in Nevada aimed at ensuring the U.S. nuclear arsenal could benefit from the lessons of 1986. Over 40,000 inhabitants within the Exclusion Zone were evacuated to temporary relocation centers by the Army and Navy with only minimal casualties. The Pacific hills through which this project was conducted presented only a limited technical challenge to the mechanics of nuclear excavation. Each of the individual shots were named for a child of a senior project director in the AEC or LLNL.

After a five month delay for further surveys, device construction, transportation, and emplacement, and reviews of the lessons of BLUE MAGIC I, Operation BLUE MAGIC II commenced in January 1990 and continued for 19 months, finishing in May 1991. The mountains of the Continental Divide proved a far more formidable challenge to the combined operations of the Atomic Energy Commission and United States Corps of Engineers, requiring 147 devices detonated in 17 separate shots, with a combined yield of 66.3Mt, covering 17 miles of excavation. The individual shots were each named for a state bird. The final shot, Blue Magic II Meadowlark, was initiated on May 10, 1991, by a signal transmitted to the Sasardi Pass by President Haig from the National Emergency Command center, echoing President Wilson's telegraphic demolition of the Culebra Cut in October 1913. The experience gained during BLUE MAGIC II was vital for later Army Corps of Engineers projects, particularly in the Negev Desert and at the breaking of the back of the Kra Isthmus.

In total, 275 devices, encompassing yields from 100Kt to 3Mt, were detonated in 30 group shots, ranging from from 800Kt to 11Mt each, with a combined estimated yield of 120Mt, which at that time were the largest and most extensive series of peaceful nuclear detonations in history.

LIM-99 Sprint
State of Panama
Free Republic of Panama
Darién Insurgency

 

[Archangel Michael]

Future so bright I gotta wear a radiation suit

which at that time were the largest and most extensive series of peaceful nuclear detonations in history.

Does this mean we get NAWAPA?

 

[Lost the game]

Hey Joe, Part I

ITTL, Bill Clinton makes the decision to run in 1988, instead of changing his mind at the last minute. He wins no delegates, and Jesse Jackson wins the Arkansas and Tennessee Primaries because Clinton and Gore split the white southern vote. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has his aneurysm a few months earlier, in 1987, spooking him into sitting out 1988.
The ripples don't really start to show up until 1992, when Joe Biden decides that he's ready to run. During the primaries, Biden performs well in the Northeast and Great lakes region, overshadowing Paul Tsongas and dueling with Jerry Brown over the South and West. In May, when it's down to Brown vs Biden, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton After a primary campaign that lasts until June 2, a threesome of overwhelming wins in Alabama, New Jersey, and New Mexico.
The campaign is a rather heated contest. Incumbent George Bush was still fuming about Biden's decision to allow Anita Hill and other women who claimed to have been sexually harrassed by Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee (ITTL, absent the 1987 campaign and plagiarism charges, Biden is less squeamish about airing someone's dirty laundry for public consumption.) The Senate voted 51/49 against confirming Thomas, forcing Bush to look elsewhere. Eventually he nominated United States Judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Emilio Garza.
Also a factor in the campaign was Independent candidate Ross Perot. Perot led for a period during the campaign, before trailing behind. His involvement in the Thomas hearings meant that Biden led among women by a significant fraction, the widest the gender gap had been since the term was coined in 1980. In August, he recieved a strong boost from the Democratic Convention, leading Ross Perot to drop out to prevent the election from going to the House. In September, tehrefore, Biden was leading 55 to 43. A smear campaign that month that questioned Biden's academic record was seen as desperate and a longshot. However, as election day neared the gap narrowed, until some thought the election was within Bush's grasp....

 

[Thanksforallthefish]

Guess who has the most boring night ever? I tried to make a UN Parliamentary Assembly (upper house, if you will) based on the One Country, One Vote principle and using rough international parties based on the EU parliament. Each country sends one representative. This involved a lot of guesstimates and probably too much time reading on the internal politics of, say, Guyana. Going by several rules of thumb and grouping parties on rather flimsly principles, here is the Result.

United Earth Party (Conservatives and various democratic right-wing): 39 seats
Socialist International (Social-Democrats and various democratic left-wing): 30 seats
Progressive-Liberal Alliance (what it says in the tin, plus several 'broad' democratic coalitions): 25 seats
Revolutionary Left (Marxist-Leninist countries, plus several far left nations like Venezuela, Angola, etc.): 12
Global Green Party (Austria, Latvia, Vanatu and (stretch) Costa Rica. Mostly here because I really like the Greens): 4
Independents (single-party states, absolute monarchies, non-partisan democracies, military juntas, many dominant party states, countries whose politics are just WTF, nations in civil war, North Korea, Russia and China): 83

This parliament would be an absolute nightmare to work with, and any majority would involve working with tin-pot dictatorships and countless non-partisan Pacific nations. Can you imagine, say, the Socialists trying to win the swing country of Marshall Islands?

However, there's something worse. The Lower House (officially called the People's Assembly, unofficially, the Madhouse). Using a good ol' one person, one vote system (not those weighed by GDP or that kind of fucking bullshit), and 1 representative by 1 million people, the People's Assembly of the United Nations counts as MPs, as of 2015:

Yeah... anyone willing to map that parliament? I value my own sanity too much for that...

(made with: https://tools.wmflabs.org/parliamentdiagram/parliamentinputform.html)

 

[Commissar From Kiev]

Guess who has the most boring night ever? I tried to make a UN Parliamentary Assembly (upper house, if you will) based on the One Country, One Vote principle and using rough international parties based on the EU parliament. Each country sends one representative. This involved a lot of guesstimates and probably too much time reading on the internal politics of, say, Guyana. Going by several rules of thumb and grouping parties on rather flimsly principles, here is the Result.

United Earth Party (Conservatives and various democratic right-wing): 39 seats
Socialist International (Social-Democrats and various democratic left-wing): 30 seats
Progressive-Liberal Alliance (what it says in the tin, plus several 'broad' democratic coalitions): 25 seats
Revolutionary Left (Marxist-Leninist countries, plus several far left nations like Venezuela, Angola, etc.): 12
Global Green Party (Austria, Latvia, Vanatu and (stretch) Costa Rica. Mostly here because I really like the Greens): 4
Independents (single-party states, absolute monarchies, non-partisan democracies, military juntas, many dominant party states, countries whose politics are just WTF, nations in civil war, North Korea, Russia and China): 83

This parliament would be an absolute nightmare to work with, and any majority would involve working with tin-pot dictatorships and countless non-partisan Pacific nations. Can you imagine, say, the Socialists trying to win the swing country of Marshall Islands?

However, there's something worse. The Lower House (officially called the People's Assembly, unofficially, the Madhouse). Using a good ol' one person, one vote system (not those weighed by GDP or that kind of fucking bullshit), and 1 representative by 1 million people, the People's Assembly of the United Nations counts as MPs, as of 2015:

Yeah... anyone willing to map that parliament? I value my own sanity too much for that...

(made with: https://tools.wmflabs.org/parliamentdiagram/parliamentinputform.html)

Well, shit...

 

[Octosteel]

That is both so awesome and so inventive.

I don't think I've ever seen a Bob Taft timeline where he doesn't die immediately or sets the world on fire. Someone should fix that.

 

[Chicxulub]

Guess who has the most boring night ever? I tried to make a UN Parliamentary Assembly (upper house, if you will) based on the One Country, One Vote principle and using rough international parties based on the EU parliament. Each country sends one representative. This involved a lot of guesstimates and probably too much time reading on the internal politics of, say, Guyana. Going by several rules of thumb and grouping parties on rather flimsly principles, here is the Result.

United Earth Party (Conservatives and various democratic right-wing): 39 seats
Socialist International (Social-Democrats and various democratic left-wing): 30 seats
Progressive-Liberal Alliance (what it says in the tin, plus several 'broad' democratic coalitions): 25 seats
Revolutionary Left (Marxist-Leninist countries, plus several far left nations like Venezuela, Angola, etc.): 12
Global Green Party (Austria, Latvia, Vanatu and (stretch) Costa Rica. Mostly here because I really like the Greens): 4
Independents (single-party states, absolute monarchies, non-partisan democracies, military juntas, many dominant party states, countries whose politics are just WTF, nations in civil war, North Korea, Russia and China): 83

This parliament would be an absolute nightmare to work with, and any majority would involve working with tin-pot dictatorships and countless non-partisan Pacific nations. Can you imagine, say, the Socialists trying to win the swing country of Marshall Islands?

However, there's something worse. The Lower House (officially called the People's Assembly, unofficially, the Madhouse). Using a good ol' one person, one vote system (not those weighed by GDP or that kind of fucking bullshit), and 1 representative by 1 million people, the People's Assembly of the United Nations counts as MPs, as of 2015:

Yeah... anyone willing to map that parliament? I value my own sanity too much for that...

(made with: https://tools.wmflabs.org/parliamentdiagram/parliamentinputform.html)

It might make a bit more sense if it was 10 million per riding, and there were 735 ridings.

I just had an insane idea... Doing a worldwide election with the Trump vs. Clinton polling.

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

It might make a bit more sense if it was 10 million per riding, and there were 735 ridings.

I just had an insane idea... Doing a worldwide election with the Trump vs. Clinton polling.

The cube root rule would give 1924 representatives in a global Parliament, which is only slightly less manageable than the Chinese one.

 

[Chicxulub]

The cube root rule would give 1924 representatives in a global Parliament, which is only slightly less manageable than the Chinese one.

Perhaps the Upper House should be doubled to two votes per country.

 

[lord caedus]

I don't think I've ever seen a Bob Taft timeline where he doesn't die immediately or sets the world on fire. Someone should fix that.

I mean, the former is probably because Taft's strongest presidential run IOTL was the year before he discovered he had terminal pancreatic cancer. The latter is probably because the World War II and early Cold War eras are probably the worst possible times to have a president that doesn't believe America should take an active role in world affairs.

 

[Jcw3]

Guess who has the most boring night ever? I tried to make a UN Parliamentary Assembly (upper house, if you will) based on the One Country, One Vote principle and using rough international parties based on the EU parliament. Each country sends one representative. This involved a lot of guesstimates and probably too much time reading on the internal politics of, say, Guyana. Going by several rules of thumb and grouping parties on rather flimsly principles, here is the Result.

United Earth Party (Conservatives and various democratic right-wing): 39 seats
Socialist International (Social-Democrats and various democratic left-wing): 30 seats
Progressive-Liberal Alliance (what it says in the tin, plus several 'broad' democratic coalitions): 25 seats
Revolutionary Left (Marxist-Leninist countries, plus several far left nations like Venezuela, Angola, etc.): 12
Global Green Party (Austria, Latvia, Vanatu and (stretch) Costa Rica. Mostly here because I really like the Greens): 4
Independents (single-party states, absolute monarchies, non-partisan democracies, military juntas, many dominant party states, countries whose politics are just WTF, nations in civil war, North Korea, Russia and China): 83

This parliament would be an absolute nightmare to work with, and any majority would involve working with tin-pot dictatorships and countless non-partisan Pacific nations. Can you imagine, say, the Socialists trying to win the swing country of Marshall Islands?

However, there's something worse. The Lower House (officially called the People's Assembly, unofficially, the Madhouse). Using a good ol' one person, one vote system (not those weighed by GDP or that kind of fucking bullshit), and 1 representative by 1 million people, the People's Assembly of the United Nations counts as MPs, as of 2015:

Yeah... anyone willing to map that parliament? I value my own sanity too much for that...

(made with: https://tools.wmflabs.org/parliamentdiagram/parliamentinputform.html)

I can't see the images.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

I can't see the images.

Nor can I.

 

[Chicxulub]

Nor can I.

Yeah, I think the links broke.

 

[Turquoise Blue]

In the once-sleepy European principality of Teleria, the matter of immigration has came to the fore and has became a severe issue for many going into today's elections. With the dominant two parties, the social democratic Partito Laburista and the mainstream center-right Partito Conservatore both seen as too pro-immigrant for a great deal of voters, the once-minor right-wing Partito dell'Indipendenza has surged in popularity.

The biggest of the minor parties participating in the election are "Labour's little buddy" the social-liberal Partito Democratico, the rural Partito Progressista, famed for being the "natural kingmaker party" and the "little Conservatives", the market-liberal Azione Liberale.

Also an issue that has rose to the fore along with immigration is income inequality, and it is the reason a new left-wing populist party, Alternativa, has burst onto the scene with a remarkable amount of votes for a first-time party. The Partito Socialista, the ex-Communists, has decreased in popularity as they continue their stagnation and slow death, with the young Socialists (a rarity) jumping ship to Alternativa.

Teleria Prima, an outright fascist party, has continued to wiffle around with 1-2% of the vote, even as it concerningly gained votes and seats for the first time in quite a while. Bringing up the back of the parliamentary pack is the once-significant Partito Popolare Cristiano, which in this election is coming dead-last in parliamentary seats for the first time in its existence. It is clear that Teleria is facing a quite earth-shaking political change...

(If you're curious, this is a kind of random election that I made on D'Hondt and created a generic central European country for, just to test out the new legislative election infobox, which I think worked well here. The Benivieni government, the governing coalition before the election, was Laburista-Democratico-Progressista.)

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

La Madame de Lucques​

After the unfortunate death of Empress Marie Louise, Napoleon's wife, in unexplained circumstances in 1815, the Congress of Vienna was put astir. They had been intending to give her the Duchy of Parma for her lifetime, in order to increase Austrian influence south of the Alps, but this clearly wasn't going to happen now. But Acount Adam Albert von Neipperg, who had orchestrated this idea, and had previously attempted to engineer a treaty in which Joachim Murat could keep his Neapolitan throne, now took up with yet another Bonaparte relative: Napoleon's sister Elisa, who had recently been deposed as Grand Duchess of Tuscany in name only. She was an independent and reasonably intelligent woman, but Neipperg somehow managed to charm her, and proposed that she be given her old Principality of Lucca and Piombino in the peace settlement on condition that she keep pro-Austrian order and pacify the independent-minded burghers of Lucca. She did so, and returned to her old lands (which had actually quite enjoyed her absence) in triumph later that summer. Parma was returned to the old Borbone rulers who had been ejected by Napoleon, while the Duchess of Massa and Carrara (whose Duchy lay within the borders of Elisa's Principality) was compensated with Guastalla, for her life only, which would then go to Parma. The Duke of Modena, her son, complained that he would be cut off from the sea if he were not to inherit Massa and Carrara, but nobody really cared.

In the remainder of her short reign, Princess Elisa continued to build roads, schools, and public buildings, as well as forming a reasonably close relationship with other Italian monarchs, ex-Napoloeonic romantics who flocked to her Court, and the sculptor Canova, who made a statue of her in the form of Athena which was erected in the central Piazza of Lucca. She died, quite young, in 1820, leaving behind a young son to succeed her in the only surviving Napoleonic statelet.