Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)

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SpookyBoy

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The year 1622 has arrived. A horde of fuckin' vile Hollanders are rushing from the Low Countries. Crime rate skyrocketed! Macau is ruined! Therefore, the Macau government called Leo Africanus' descendant "Joao" for the massacre of the Hollanders. Joao is a killer machine! Wipe out all two million of the orange republicans! However, in metropolitan Holland, there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Guilherme van Oranje into an ultimate weapon!
Hong Kong 97 parodies deserve to become a thing
 

fashbasher

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The year 1622 has arrived. A horde of fuckin' vile Hollanders are rushing from the Low Countries. Crime rate skyrocketed! Macau is ruined! Therefore, the Macau government called Leo Africanus' descendant "Joao" for the massacre of the Hollanders. Joao is a killer machine! Wipe out all two million of the orange republicans! However, in metropolitan Holland, there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Guilherme van Oranje into an ultimate weapon!

But seriously, I would play this game.

What were other notable games in the Battles series?

The first few were mainly Portuguese battles: Marvão, Goa, Cochin, Alcácer...Later installments included Vienna, Agincourt, and an Antiquity Battles series. There was also a PRPG (Portuguese Role-Playing Game) series called Decade Wars that I might get into in the Current Politics section.
 
fashbasher: Lemaitre Controversy

fashbasher

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Reverse Galileo. The French Revolution is far more successful at stamping out religion in Europe, with Napoleon himself professing atheism and unifying much of Europe under the banner of reason. By the 1920s and 1930s, over 80% of French and Belgians are atheist and Christians are a definite minority. At the same time, a member of Belgium's remaining Catholic minority (Father Georges Lemaître) has discovered that the universe appears to have a "moment of creation", the Big Bang, rather than existing for eternity. This discovery is unsettling to the majority of atheists in the European Commonwealth (France, Benelux, Northern Germany, Jutland, and portions of Spain and Italy) as it is seen as essentially "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." At the same time, both communism and fascism have taken on a more militantly atheistic character, and in 1940 a harshly antitheist grand coalition takes over the Commonwealth. Lemaitre faces significant persecution for his discoveries and begins writing towards a public audience to appeal against militarism, lampooning the tyrant Pétain in his book What I Believe and attacking him directly in an afterword to his sequel In the Defence of Science. He is tried and jailed in 1948 for mocking Pétain and is transferred into the Cathedral of Reason, a maximum-security prison for dissidents, during the Atheist Revolution of 1955; it is only through the intercession of American president Eisenhower that Lemaitre is released. Thankfully the hardline atheists were evicted from power in the late 1960s after a period of increasing repression and Lemaître was buried on home soil in 1968. Today he is seen as a hero by both Catholics and liberals and the Peripherique in Paris is now also known as the Boulevard Lemaître.
 
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fashbasher: Decade Wars

fashbasher

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Some more Montepio games. One of them has some current politics stuff so I'm going to be posting the main infobox there.
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[spoiler - mild current politics]

Decade Wars 10s - Our heroes do battle with various monsters and cults, including the Red Hats, in an atmosphere of near world war. At the end of the level, it is revealed that the ancient Calusa Indian doom spirit, Zeore Ggimmerman, has been behind both the rise in racial tension and the rampant sex scandals in the world's governments and entertainment industry, and that Zeore absorbed the body of a guardsman in Seminolia (he's naturally a 5-story high alligator/snake hybrid) in order to trigger a killing that would lead to a) an increase in tension between elves and orcs and b) create a book deal that would contribute to the ongoing scandals. Zeore furthermore is hinted to have caused two major financial crashes in the past century by penetrating the minds of various developers in Seminolia.

Decade Wars 00s - A contested succession, in which the throne of Columnia is passed to the second-place prince by a Supreme Curia ruling, is the harbinger of an ominous decade that sees wars in the desert kingdoms of Sumeria and Bombiyya. It is revealed that the new king of Columnia George Arbor II, together with the Prime Minister of Albion, is in league with an ancient sorcerer to heat the environment of Terra and that their strongest challenger is to unite all of the different Shards of Europa in order to summon a powerful witch, Murkell. The game ends with Columnia abolishing the monarchy and crowning its first president, Barook O'Barna.

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Decade Wars 90s - The collapse of the Cimmerian Commune has unleashed a horde of unrest in the World Island, with new polities emerging literally out of thin air. You play as Lekh Wallassa, elected by your peers as duke of Cracovia, one of Cimmeria's closest neighbors. You must work to improve relations with your rivals in Saxa to the west while avoiding interference from the resurgent Republic of Novgorod. After successfully entering into a Magical Contract of Alliance with Saxa, you can interact with other world leaders such as Dhlamini Madiba (the Count of Azania), Sumartro of Indonia, and Antoine the Bear in a playable epilogue. The Decade Tactics 90s expansion in 2004 allows you to try your hand at leading the oppressed Kocoban people to their independence from General Milo VI of Servanta.

Decade Wars 80s - The heat is on! Ron-al, Emperor of the Fifty Kingdoms, must fix relations with his country's Daemons in order to restore his country's energy supply and stabilize the price of the gold ducat. Thankfully, he is quite lucky as during his coronation Parsee has released several Fiftian prisoners of war. At the same time, the Fifty are facing a horde of Snowmen whose very bodies are addictive to Fiftians, hooking rich and poor alike.

Decade Wars 70s - Colonel Moa Sitao of Serica is faced with a series of vexing challenges in this action-packed game. Does he reach out to the advanced robot lord Nixxon, who promises technological and economic advances for his country, or does he stay with the loyal kung fu master Kamil Song? Does Moa dare venture to the jungles of Viet Han, where Nixxonian invaders have seized several cities, or does he instead betray his monstrous necromancer ally Polpotim?

Decade Wars WW2 - A prequel to Decade Wars 70s and the only game to be in the same continuity as another, this charts Moa Sitao's rise to power, from a minor warrior under the corrupt Captain Chaingang to the leader of his own state. Moa must assist Chaingang in slaying three dragons - Tojjo, Hissler, and Mussolissi - in order to secure victory in this game. Moa's party can include any combination of Steelman of Rosia, Metaxos of Hellenia, Degol of Free Francia, Rosenfeld of Amorica, and Kirkhall of Newcastle. In the end, it is revealed that Nixxon was created by Rosenfeld's predecessor, Hubart.

Decade Wars Jazz - As the first airship flies from Atlantica to Pacifica across the American Sea, the honey is flowing and the times are good. Crystal and stone towers dot the world's skylines. You play a smuggler who is transporting honey from Pacifica to Atlantica by ship when the world's economy heads into a tailspin. You must use a combination of magic and practical business skills to stabilize your family's fortunes, and you can do so by praying to certain gods (Hugh and Rose, Sliker or Hilter, Baldwin or Macedon, Karma or Salaza)...with the added catch that your prayers are only effective if you pray to the more popular god of each pair.
 
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SoldierOfChrist: Tara Menon
Tara Menon is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations. The daughter of a UNN admiral and the scion of one of the oldest colonial families in Elysium, her ancestors played a prominent role in the terraforming of Mars and securing it as a permanent center of human civilization. Educated in private academies, at age 18 she enlisted in the United Nations Ground Forces. After completing her military service, she attended the United Nations University at Cosic, where she studied economics and governance and served as vice-president of the campus Humanity First Society. She received her Master's in Public Administration from UNPAC in 2361. After briefly pursuing an academic career, Menon was appointed to a term as Mayor of Cosic upon her mother's recommendation to the Elysium Regional Administration. Expected to be a safe choice, Menon quickly gained attention for her streamlining of the municipal Air Transport Authority, scaling back (while not eliminating) the centuries-old system of patronage and refusing to authorize many redundant work orders on the aging space elevator. Though her actions did not endear her to the Cosic elite, Menon's levelheaded administration and extensive body of published work caught the eye of the resident UN Commissioner, and she began her rapid climb up the bureaucratic ladder. Following SG Asboth-Esterhazy's announcement of her intent to retire after a single term, Menon was seen as the natural choice to succeed her.

At Al-Iskandariyah, SG Menon's public face has been one of cautious optimism in regards to future exploration, though her actual policy regarding the self-imposed quarantine of United Nations space remains unchanged from her predecessors. With radio silence from the Semyaza now entering its thirty-ninth year and no other hostile alien species emerging from beyond the Galactic Center, many fear the reemergence of a xenophile faction within the UNSC could compromise the security of the human race.

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Redcoat

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Tara Menon is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations. The daughter of a UNN admiral and the scion of one of the oldest colonial families in Elysium, her ancestors played a prominent role in the terraforming of Mars and securing it as a permanent center of human civilization. Educated in private academies, at age 18 she enlisted in the United Nations Ground Forces. After completing her military service, she attended the United Nations University at Cosic, where she studied economics and governance and served as vice-president of the campus Humanity First Society. She received her Master's in Public Administration from UNPAC in 2361. After briefly pursuing an academic career, Menon was appointed to a term as Mayor of Cosic upon her mother's recommendation to the Elysium Regional Administration. Expected to be a safe choice, Menon quickly gained attention for her streamlining of the municipal Air Transport Authority, scaling back (while not eliminating) the centuries-old system of patronage and refusing to authorize many redundant work orders on the aging space elevator. Though her actions did not endear her to the Cosic elite, Menon's levelheaded administration and extensive body of published work caught the eye of the resident UN Commissioner, and she began her rapid climb up the bureaucratic ladder. Following SG Asboth-Esterhazy's announcement of her intent to retire after a single term, Menon was seen as the natural choice to succeed her.

At Al-Iskandariyah, SG Menon's public face has been one of cautious optimism in regards to future exploration, though her actual policy regarding the self-imposed quarantine of United Nations space remains unchanged from her predecessors. With radio silence from the Semyaza now entering its thirty-ninth year and no other hostile alien species emerging from beyond the Galactic Center, many fear the reemergence of a xenophile faction within the UNSC could compromise the security of the human race.

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Wait...is that the Malayalam script in the wiki box?
 
CanadianTory: Pope Pius XIII
Update from my TL. I decided to get religious.

Pope Pius XIII (Italian: Pio XIII; born Camillo Ruini; born February 19, 1931) is the 265th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and sovereign of Vatican City. Elected in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II, Pius is the first pope of Italian heritage since John Paul I in 1978. Born in Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna, in the Kingdom of Italy, Ruini studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained a licentiate in both philosophy and sacred theology. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 8, 1954, by Archibishop Luigia Traglia, and from 1966 until 1986 served as a teacher and later headmaster at the Studio Teologico Interdiocesano of Modena-Reggio Emilia-Carpi-Guastalla. In June 1986 Pope John Paul II named Ruini secretary-general of the Italian Bishops' Conference, and would later serve in numerous other positions throughout the Curia.

As one of the leading Italian Cardinals, not to mention one of John Paul II's close confidants, Ruini was considered a frontrunner, or papabile, for the papacy during the 2005 conclave. Closely connected with other leading theologians like Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Francis Arinze, and Vatican Librarian Joseph Ratzinger, the Cardinal-Vicar of Rome was among the most vocal conservative voices in the College of Cardinals, including voicing his support for NATO to send troops into Iraq to assist the ongoing war on terrorism, contrary to the more pacifist views of some of his colleagues. Elected on the sixth ballot, defeating both Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, Ruini would chose Pius as his papal name, in honor of Pius XII. Pope Pius XII was pope during the Second World War, and served as a vocal critic of both Nazism and Communism.

Since his election to the papacy, Pius has advocated for a return to fundamental Christian values in order to oppose the growing secularism occurring in many Western countries. The pope has also sought to revive a number of past traditions within the Catholic Church, including the use of latin, the reintroduction of papal carments, and the elevation of the Tridentine Mass to a prominent position. At 78 years old, some have begun to question whether or not the pope has the energy or stamina to properly deal with the growing calls for reform and transparency directed towards the Vatican, as well as the numerous reports of the sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy, which the pontiff has been reported as suggesting as being "extremely rare" in Italy.

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Popes of the Catholic Church
John XXIII (Liberal) 1958-1963
Paul VI (Liberal) 1963-1978
John Paul I (Moderate) 1978
John Paul II (Conservative) 1978-2005
Pius XIII (Conservative) 2005-
 
SoldierOfChrist: White Flight
Six months after the disastrous implementation of the grandly-named "Shah and People Revolution", Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime seemed to be on the verge of catastrophe. With Prime Minister Asadollah Alam leading the government, all that had been accomplished were a series of watered-down half-measures. Social programs intended to mobilize the peasantry as a new base of support for the Shah had succeeded only in alienating the landlord class and resurrecting the ulama's hostility towards secular monarchy. Land reform fared no better, as the estates simply rebranded themselves as commercial farms; feudal nobles became capitalists overnight, and their serfs became tenant farmers or flooded the cities looking for work, bitter and hungry. In Tehran, the intelligentsia's agitation for political privileges only grew bolder, enabled by SAVAK chief Pakravan's loosening grip on the capital. Increasingly, the Shah's domestic policies were seen by his ministers as at best tactless, and at worst erratic and dangerous to the social fabric of Iran. More alarming to Iran's American and British patrons was the apparent willingness of the Shah to deal with the Soviets and their satellites. Though rumors of a secret meeting in Moscow proved to be baseless, by 1962 relations between Pahlavi and Kennedy were marked by mutual distrust and paranoia. As early as February, CIA Director John McCone proposed a regime change.

The greatest misstep made by the government proved to be with the military. Although the Imperial Army had been sanitized after the 1958 coup attempt, Alam now targeted the general staff as part of a broad anti-corruption campaign. The first to go was four-star general Abdollah Hedayat, sentenced to five years for embezzlement, and after him the charges kept coming. By May 1963, command of the IIA had changed hands three times in the past two years, passing to Arteshbod Bahram Aryana. Fluent in French and an admirer of Napoleon and Hitler, Aryana had fought against the Anglo-Soviet invasion of 1941, and played a key role in overthrowing the Mossadegh government during Operation Ajax. He detested Alam and was, more importantly, a staunch anti-Communist.

Following the secret execution of Ayatollah Khomeini by SAVAK on June 5, Alam deployed the military to disperse the rioters in Shahyad Square. Aryana responded by imposing martial law on the city. Backed by ten thousand troops and a mob of Pan-Iranist thugs, he marched to the Baharestan and dissolved the Majlis. After three days, Alam and Pakravan had both been summarily tried and shot, and the Shah was compelled to abdicate. Surprisingly, Aryana and the leaders of the moribund National Front came to an agreement, and on June 13 the Imperial State of Iran became the Democratic Republic of Iran. Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, not appreciating the irony of being overthrown by a CIA coup not ten years after he'd been installed by one, died in exile in Baghdad. He did not live to see the reestablishment of the Imperial State by Aryana two years later.

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Oppo: London mayoral election, 1994
From my TL PM Salmond & The Era of The Group.

The first election for Mayor of London would be a highly contested battle between various candidates. The SDP-Liberal Alliance picked Polly Toynbee, a well known social democratic author who ran for Parliament unsuccessfully. After considering names like John Major and Stanley Johnson, the Tories had selected the polar opposite of Toynbee; William Rees-Mogg, the High Tory editor of The Times. Of course, no mention of London politics would be fit without mentioning Ken Livingstone, the “looney left” leader of the former GLC. Livingstone had been waiting to run for this post as soon as it was created, and despite the uneasiness of Kilroy-Silk, the Labour leader realized that with Livingstone the Labour Party could score a major win. Alex Salmond’s Group had many major figures in London, but few thought that they could win and the party was focused on Scotland. Peter Mandelson stepped forward to run, in one of the few things that caused disagreement with him and Salmond. Rounding off the field was BNP leader and MP John Tyndall, along with an unknown metal trader named Nigel Farage for the liberal Eurosceptic Anti-Federalist League.

All of these ambitious voices had very different views and personalities that put together were bound to cause conflict. While Livingstone had less assistance from Kilroy himself for supporting Benn, his group of loyalists fought for him tooth and nail. Rees-Mogg had his publishing empire and his mass wealth, which gave Rees-Mogg a great fandom with the right. Toynbee had support from the Prime Minister, who despite his mass likeability going down, was able to swing voters to the party. Mandelson, without many funds, was still able to run a strong campaign, using the same tactics as his general election ones.. The real shock was that Livingstone couldn’t accomplish the same swing to Labour that was happening nationwide, and that the “paper candidate” Farage was taking 5% of the vote. Farage ran a campaign based on liberal market policies and getting a referendum on EU membership, and upon his rise in the polls received greater funding from Sked. Before the election, a debate was held, which had been described as a “shouting match” and an “ego battle.” A notable fight took place between Rees-Mogg and Livingstone, where “Red Ken” and Rees-Mogg got into an argument on if Rees-Mogg could really care about Londoners, which was an easy win for Rees-Mogg. However, Farage also held his own, reminding voters about the failures of the European Union.

In the first round, Rees-Mogg and Toynbee were ascendant. Livingstone was demoralized and attacked Kilroy-Silk in his concession speech. Reporters immediately compared it to Richard Nixon in 1962. It seemed as though the left in London wanted someone more respectable than Livingstone and who would be easier to work with national politicians. Rees-Mogg and Toynbee fought for the second round weeks later, but the endorsement of Rees-Mogg by Nigel Farage and a national trend against the SDP left Rees-Mogg to become the first Mayor of London. John Biffen, joining Rees-Mogg on stage, said that history would remember that day as the beginning of the Biffen era in British politics.

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Wow, I get depressed looking at your "infoboxes" because I cannot do it better. You could do like @LeinadB93 and make a TL about this (plus all those infoboxes about other countries in the TL)

I've been putting some thought into making an actual thread for this here in this section of the forum. My issue is that the articles I do, or the ones I have planned, are sporadic in nature. Plus when I started these I wasn't even sure anyone would like them! I also only have a degree in American history, a spattering of background in Caribbean history, some European background, and bugger all for Asian history, meaning any actual fleshed out timeline would have a lot of deficiencies and I'd need people to join on to assist in those areas.

I might do it if I ever decide to tackle the mess that is this TL's version of World War II...
 
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