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Friedrich Wilhelm
, Crown Prince of Prussia, is the eldest son and heir of King Joachim August V of Prussia and his wife, Maximilianne of Hesse-Darmstadt. In addition to his duties as the Crown Prince, Friedrich Wilhelm is also the Deputy Führer of the Fatherland Front and the Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, making him the most powerful individual in the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia is a nominal constitutional monarchy, but in the '60s and '70s, as the Austrian menace began to assert itself again, things took a darker turn. The Fatherland Front was established in 1979 as a nationalist, pro-monarchist and militarist party that was largely aligned with the idea of increasing the military budget and confronting the Hapsburg threat. By the end of the '80s, the Fatherland Front was the largest party in Prussia, and Joachim August V was named the party's Führer, giving him complete control over the Prussian state. The Fatherland Front has not lost an election since 1995, and while there are other parties in the Prussian Landtag, they remain small and ineffective. Joachim August has been accused of arresting and intimidating opposition figures and of encouraging voter fraud. The British Empire has remained silent on this front, as Friedrich Wilhelm and King-Emperor John II are first cousins and Prussia remains Britain's staunchest ally on the Continent.

Friedrich Wilhelm joined the Prussian Luftwaffe as an adult, becoming an officer in the Spezialwaffengruppe, eventually becoming the Inspector-General of Prussia's nuclear weapons (he also did a tour of service in Afghanistan during the Eighth Afghan War commanding a howitzer battery in support of the British Empire). He married Princess Cécilie of Aquitaine and had seven children--six daughters and one son, Prince Joachim. He was named Deputy Führer of the Fatherland Front in 2004 in honor of the party's 25th anniversary, and he was promoted to Generalissimus in 2026 when he was put in command of the Prussian armed forces. Joachim August V has started to retire from public life due to age and health (he turned 80 years old in 2026 and has reportedly been diagnosed with Parkinson's), and he has stated his intention to name Friedrich Wilhelm Führer at the Fatherland Front's 50th anniversary party congress in 2029, making Friedrich Wilhelm the de facto military dictator of Prussia. Over the past several years, the OKW has stripped more and more power from the Landtag and the cabinet, turning Prussia into a military state. Full conscription was brought back into force in 2022, with exceptions allowed for religious minorities such as Traditional and Restorationist Catholics.

Friedrich Wilhelm has created controversy recently due to public comments that he would prefer that Prussia reform its succession laws from male-preference primogeniture to absolute primogeniture so that his oldest daughter, Wilhelmine Auguste (an officer with the Army's Panzerwaffe), would be placed ahead of his only son, Joachim, who is a graduate student studying Medieval German poetry at Berlin University of the Arts. However, such a proposal has been met with harsh criticism from the more conservative elements of the Fatherland Front, many of whom believe that it was a mistake to replace Salic law with primogeniture succession in the first place.

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Prussia became the eighth nuclear state and member of the Congress of Atomic Powers in 2002 when it exploded a small, 50 kiloton device on an uninhabited island in Prussian Micronesia. It very quickly gained nuclear triad power, with the intent of using its nuclear weapons primarily as a deterrent against the Hapsburgs. Before 2002, Prussia was a member of Britain's weapons-sharing program wherein continental powers were given responsibility for maintaining and using nuclear weapons in the event of a war against Austria. Since 2002, Britain has withdrawn all nuclear weapons from Prussia, instead choosing to concentrate them in Burgundy, France and Castile. While Prussia's nuclear arsenal is much smaller than Austria's, the Spezialwaffengruppe hopes that Austria is forced to spread outs its nuclear weapons across the whole of Europe, allowing Prussia to concentrate its nuclear fire on Hapsburg forces in Bohemia and the Low Countries. Prussia has reportedly sailed nuclear-armed submarines into the Adriatic Sea and the Balearic Sea out of British submarine pens in Malta and Egypt.

Black Friday Bombings and King-Emperor John II
 
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Friedrich Wilhelm has created controversy recently due to public comments that he would prefer that Prussia reform its succession laws from male-preference primogeniture to absolute primogeniture so that his oldest daughter, Charlotte Auguste (an officer with the Army's Panzerwaffe), would be placed ahead of his only son, Joachim, who is a graduate student studying Medieval German poetry at Berlin University of the Arts.

"My son, Joachim, you must choose-"

"I choose the rhyming words written by dead monks who lived in their own shit."

"... I have no son."
 
Friedrich Wilhelm has created controversy recently due to public comments that he would prefer that Prussia reform its succession laws from male-preference primogeniture to absolute primogeniture so that his oldest daughter, Charlotte Auguste (an officer with the Army's Panzerwaffe), would be placed ahead of his only son, Joachim, who is a graduate student studying Medieval German poetry at Berlin University of the Arts.

"My son, Joachim, you must choose-"

"I choose the rhyming words written by dead monks who lived in their own shit."

"... I have no son."

I'm sure he's very good at what he does, and would rather not be pressured into one day holding a position of power where he will need to decide to kill millions with the push of a button
 
Prussia became the eighth nuclear state and member of the Congress of Atomic Powers in 2002 when it exploded a small, 50 kiloton device on an uninhabited island in Prussian Micronesia. It very quickly gained nuclear triad power, with the intent of using its nuclear weapons primarily as a deterrent against the Hapsburgs. Before 2002, Prussia was a member of Britain's weapons-sharing program wherein continental powers were given responsibility for maintaining and using nuclear weapons in the event of a war against Austria. Since 2002, Britain has withdrawn all nuclear weapons from Prussia, instead choosing to concentrate them in Burgundy, France and Castile. While Prussia's nuclear arsenal is much smaller than Austria's, the Spezialwaffengruppe hopes that Austria is forced to spread outs its nuclear weapons across the whole of Europe, allowing Prussia to concentrate its nuclear fire on Hapsburg forces in Bohemia and the Low Countries. Prussia has reportedly sailed nuclear-armed submarines into the Adriatic Sea and the Balearic Sea out of British submarine pens in Malta and Egypt.

That's a lot of nuke tests. I shudder to think of TTL's St. Louis baby teeth.
 

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This is a slightly ill-thought out world in which the British Liberal Party didn't fall apart into squabbling factions in the 1920s, and that fate befell the Conservatives instead. As a result, the Liberal Party became more right-wing in opposition to Labour, and in 2018 resembles more of a European conservative liberal party along the lines of the Netherlands' VVD.

Oh, and the Liberal instituted some sort of proportional representation system in the 1920s, and all British governments are various shades of multi-party coalition.

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This is a slightly ill-thought out world in which the British Liberal Party didn't fall apart into squabbling factions in the 1920s, and that fate befell the Conservatives instead. As a result, the Liberal Party became more right-wing in opposition to Labour, and in 2018 resembles more of a European conservative liberal party along the lines of the Netherlands' VVD.

Oh, and the Liberal instituted some sort of proportional representation system in the 1920s, and all British governments are various shades of multi-party coalition.
The changes are quite visible, moderate conservatives are in TTL Liberals, Roy Jenkins is the leader of Labour (which seems to be much more centrist).
Who are the minor parties, and where they stand ideologically?
A good things is that TTL Liberal reforms make TTL UK politics less polarised.
 
Here is an infobox which @Turquoise Blue made for the Rhode Island 2016 elections in my Seventh Party System series:
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Here is the seventh installment in my alternate American election series.

Rhode Island is the smallest state in the whole Union, however one of the most important politically. Many pundits have called Rhode Island the "Alabama of New England," in the sense that similar to how Alabama is unlike the rest of the Deep South with actually competitive elections, so too is Rhode Island unlike the rest of Republican New England. This is mainly due to the heavily Labor city of Providence, as its surrounding metro which has a large population of poor minorities.

However unlike in Alabama where both sides have held government around the same number of times, in Rhode Island the Republicans have held control 2 out of 3 times, not as extreme as deep blue New Hampshire or Connecticut, but still heavily leaning Republican. The cause for this lean is the existence of FPTP districts in the senate, a heavily gerrymandered legislative bodies which has managed to survive despite the Conservative Revolution's democratizing reforms. These FPTP districts are also ingrained into the Constitution of Rhode Island, which requires a two-thirds majority in both chambers to be changed, so even in 1992 when the Labor party held slim majorities in both the House and Senate an amendment remained out of the question.

The final straw was broken in 2012 when even though the Labor party won the popular vote 51% to the Republicans 44% they still failed to gained a majority in the Senate. With the Senate of Rhode Island being elected only every four years, as is the case in most Northeastern states, the incoming four years of deadlock despite holding an absolute majority of votes left the people up in arms. Mass protests outside the Republican's office were held for the next six straight weeks demanding a reform of the senate to a more proportional system. As a result of these protests, a single issue party was formed called the Moderate Moose Party, aiming to unite centrist voters from both Labor and the Republican parties in order to change the senate to Mixed Member Proportional, a system already found in the Progressive state of Vermont.

In the election of 2014 the Moderate Moose Party managed to gain an impressive 12 seats, mostly from the greater Warwick area which was forming a swing area between Labor and the Republicans. Even though a Labor-MMP coalition held a large majority in the House the Republican senate turned to obstructionism to prevent them from passing any bills, hoping to discredit the MMP's legitimacy as a governing party.

This move backfired spectacularly in 2016, featuring the most immediate rise of a third party in Rhode Island's history. From a mere 12 seats the Moderate Moose Party managed to secure 30 seats in the House and 14 seats. Dozens of politicians across Southern and Eastern Rhode Island who had held their positions for decades had their political careers destroyed in an instant. For the first time since the founding of the Republican party over 150 years ago the Grand Old Party was reduced to less than a third of both House and Senate seats.

With the Moderate Moose Party having gone from nonexistent to the largest party in both chambers of the legislature in less than four years, and through their coalition with Labor held a super majority in the Rhode Island state legislature. Thus the so called "Moose Amendment" was quickly passed, letting Rhode Island become the second state in the Union to create a mixed-member proportional senate.

Government:
Moderate Moose Party - Formed in 2013 by centrists who were fed up with the archaic ways of the Grand Old Party their meteoric rise to power has made them the most successful third party created in the 21st century. While their number one position is the changing of the senate to a MMP system, the rest of platform includes "common sense" policies such as the decriminalization of marijuana, pension reform for government employees, the lowering of the corporate tax, and an increase of the capital gains tax.
Labor - One of the big two of Rhode Island, they have been pushed down to third place as most of their white catholic have moved to the MMP. At first most of the Labor hardliners were skeptical of the Moderate Moose Party's intentions, seeing their advocacy of pension reform and push for decriminalization of marijuana as signs that they want to become a branch of the Progressives. Nevertheless they remain grateful of their reform to the senate, with a Mixed Member Proportional system ensuring that the Republicans' gerrymanders are unable to inhibit the will of the masses.

Opposition:
Republicans - As in most of New England, the Republicans of Rhode Island leans to the left socially and to the right economically, supporting gun control and the right to free abortions while keeping taxes low and welfare at a minimum. Their embarrassing loss in both the House and Senate to super majority coalitions have left the Rhode Island Republican party into panic mode, with their leader John Fung resigning and the federal Republican party launching a major autopsy of the election to prevent the Ocean State from becoming another Vermont.
Greens - While not nearly as strong as they are in other states such as Maine or Massachusetts the Green Party of Rhode Island has still managed to carve out a solid base among college students and ecologically minded liberals, though the rapid expansion of the Moderate Moose Party has lost them a few seats.
 

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The changes are quite visible, moderate conservatives are in TTL Liberals, Roy Jenkins is the leader of Labour (which seems to be much more centrist).
Who are the minor parties, and where they stand ideologically?
A good things is that TTL Liberal reforms make TTL UK politics less polarised.

Exactly so.

The main parties go something like this, from right to left:

National – right-wing nationalist party formed by Enoch Powell in the 1960s, died out in the 1990s
UKIP – filled the void left by the National Party in the late 1990s
Democratic – Eurosceptic, right libertarian party formed in the 2000s
Conservative – centre-right socially conservative party, more of a religious element than OTL
Liberal – centre-right classical and conservative liberal party
Centre – un-ideological centrist party formed by a big tent of MPs to prop up a Liberal government in 1983; didn't survive the decade
Radical – centre to centre-left social liberal party that split from the Liberals in the 1930s as it became more right-leaning (notable leaders include Herbert Samuel, Megan Lloyd George, Jo Grimond, Charles Kennedy)
Labour – centre-left social democratic party
Green – centre-left to left-wing environmentalist and regionalist party formed as an electoral alliance in the 1980s (think the party equivalent of that SNP-Plaid Cymru-Green love-in during the 2015 election)
The Alternative – left-wing populist/civic nationalist party formed in 2011
Socialist – left-wing socialist party, formed in the 1930s
 
Not an uncommon POD, but probably the most thorough I've seen it explored. Great work! I would quibble that, in the event of the Liberals forming government, I think the party would probably rally behind Dion rather than oust him, but I think it's fair game to take an alternate path for a more interesting wikibox ;).

I think the part I find most intriguing is the names in cabinet, and how it just looks like such an unusual bunch today. Mulcair in a junior post is jarring, as is seeing people like Dryden, McGuinty, Martin and Wilfert whose careers didn't really go anywhere… a real blast from the past.

Did you have any PMs in mind for the 31st-33rd ministries, or is that for us to guess?
 
Not an uncommon POD, but probably the most thorough I've seen it explored. Great work! I would quibble that, in the event of the Liberals forming government, I think the party would probably rally behind Dion rather than oust him, but I think it's fair game to take an alternate path for a more interesting wikibox ;).

I think the part I find most intriguing is the names in cabinet, and how it just looks like such an unusual bunch today. Mulcair in a junior post is jarring, as is seeing people like Dryden, McGuinty, Martin and Wilfert whose careers didn't really go anywhere… a real blast from the past.

Did you have any PMs in mind for the 31st-33rd ministries, or is that for us to guess?
Thanks! Hadn’t really thought too much beyond this, but I envisioned John Baird as Prime Minister from 2010-2018 and Trudeau as PM from 2018 onward.
 
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