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

[DuncanI]

From the Winter Palace to the White House

Paul Dmitriievich Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (27 January 1928 – 10 February 2004) served as the 43rd President of the United States from 1997 to 2001. He also served as the 41st Governor of Florida from 1991 to 1996 and as Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida before assuming the Presidency. He was the first foreign-born individual to hold the office, as well as the only known Romanov descendant to have held elected public offices.

A member of the Russian imperial Romanov family, Ilyinsky was born within the U.S. Embassy in the United Kingdom to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, and the Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery. His father was known for being involved with the murder of Grigori Rasputin, for which he was exiled to Persia, avoiding the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and eventual Russian Civil War. Ilyinsky's parents would later divorce in 1937, with Ilyinsky moving to France with his mother and eventually to the United States. In the late seventies, he would move to Palm Beach, Florida, having previously lived there 20 years prior. He was elected mayor of the town in 1985, before being elected Florida Governor in the 1990 gubernatorial election in a surprising victory over the Democratic incumbent Steve Pajcic.

Ilyinsky received national attention with his candidacy for President of the United States in 1995. Originally seen as a long-shot of a candidate, Ilyinsky immediately faced challenges. His eligibility to serve as president came under questioning. Due to the natural-born-citizen clause, it was pointed out that being born within the U.S. Embassy does not mean Ilyinsky was in fact born on U.S. soil, as established by the Vienna Convention. However, despite his foreign-born status, legal challenges against Ilyinsky remained unsuccessful as it was ruled that he was eligible to serve due to his American born mother. Ilyinsky successfully won the Republican nomination as a dark horse, and won the presidential election over Democrat Jerry Brown on November 5, 1996. He was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States on January 20, 1997.

As president, Ilyinsky oversaw the U.S. and NATO bombing intervention in Yugoslavia, occurring within months of his presidency. Ilyinsky was the host of the 23rd G8 Summit, which was also his first summit as president. The 1998 Midterm elections resulted in a Republican majority in both the Senate and House, often credited to Ilyinsky. The 105th Congress was dubbed by the media as the "Tsar Legislature" in reference to Russian Tsar Alexander II, the president's great-grandfather, and his nickname of "Tsar Liberator". Later in his term, Ilyinsky led a coalition intervention in Iraq to enforce no-fly zones that had been established after the Gulf War, after they were repeatedly violated by Saddam Hussein's Iraq intervening in the Kurdish Civil War. Ilyinsky also made multiple international trips, such as to Russia where he met with President Yeltsin to negotiate the START III treaty, as well as attending the funeral of Nicholas II, his first cousin once removed. Ilyinsky was also the first sitting U.S. President to visit South Africa since the end of apartheid. In economic policy, Ilyinsky's free-market outlook and substantial tax cuts were often seen as a revival of Reaganomics, or in a few cases were dubbed "Romanomics".

Ilyinsky declined to seek a second term as president, citing his recent declining health. He was initially hesitant to support a candidate, with the Republican nomination free. He finally opted to endorse his Vice President, Pete Wilson in May 2000, who would go on to win both the nomination and succeed him to the presidency. Ilyinsky retired to his home in Palm Beach, where he would write several books documenting his time in the presidency and his family history. On February 10, 2004, Ilyinsky died at his home in Florida aged 76. He is remembered for his unique heritage as a U.S. president, as well as by Russian royalists. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he was considered a legitimate candidate to be Tsar if Russia was to restore the monarchy, he declined such an offer when approached by a Russian delegation during his time as Governor of Florida. He was awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Wilson, as a final act before leaving office in January 2005.

 

[Chicken Nugget man]

I can't explain this, but here it is:

 

[True Grit]

what the heck am i doing here

 

[Gryphon]

March 2017: FDA approves mechanical oncophagic flagellates for human trials
May 2017: reports of data breaches at Argo Biotechnology servers in New York, Seattle, Amsterdam
July 2017: sections of MOF sourcecode released on non-indexed weblogs
August 2017: Microsoft Broadcasting Corporation breaks news about source code loss; MOF trials immediately suspended
November 2017: FDA approves updates to software to allow MOF trials to continue
January 2018: MOF units hacked; Loop deployed. 642 test subjects affected.
January 2018: Responsible parties arrested during dedication ceremony of Bundy Library
February 2018: Final MOF test subject dies

The Loop is a 'brown note' type fractal pattern generation that hijacks cerebellum functions and cripples connections to higher brain, causing complete loss of motor control and, as a side effect, repeated autonomic muscular contractions with low refractory periods. Prolonged exposure to the Loop can lead to seizing, electrolytic abnormalities, herniations, pulmonary and cardiac edema, and death.

 

[RyderWest]

For Galveston Bay's Battle at Dawn universe:

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[LeinadB93]

So I was inspired late last night for some unknown reason, to create this. It's based on my Hail, Britannia series, which I've already mentioned is subtly also in the Stargate-verse, though references to Stargate are very minor. This wikibox set takes place in 2244, and is the "future-version" of my Hail, Britannia–Stargate series that I said I might post in greater detail eventually.

Port Royal, officially the Imperial City of Port Royal, is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Albionoria, a British constituent country on the west coast of North Cabotia on the colony world Nova Britannia. With a population of 8 million at the 2240 census, Port Royal is the largest city in the British territories on Nova Britannia, narrowly ahead of Fort Bedford in New Connaught, and one of the largest and densely populated cities on the planet. The Port Royal metropolitan area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations on Nova Britannia, with an estimated 20 million residents as of 2244.

Situated in a large natural harbour, Elizabeth Bay, at the confluence of the Layton and Philip rivers, Port Royal consists of seven boroughs – Aigburth, Kings, Middleton, New Wrexham, Quantick, Tsolin, and Winston Island – which originated as separate settlements prior to 2051. Due it being the location of the planetary stargate, the city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for trade, travel and immigration to Nova Britannia, and as many as 900 languages are spoken in Port Royal. The neighbourhood of Little Langara in Quantick is the location of the most visible of these linguistic groups, the Langarans, whilst Middleton and Aigburth boast small Aubenish-speaking populations.

Port Royal traces its origins to a military outpost and settlement, known as Fort Elizabeth – now a neighbourhood in Tsolin – founded by the British in 2011, the first human settlement on the planet. As the location of the stargate, and the de facto capital of the British Nova Britannia colony project, Port Royal saw rapid growth in the 2020s as settlers from across the Empire and Commonwealth emigrated off-world. In 2028 the city was formally established, then including only the boroughs of Tsolin and Winston Island. The remaining boroughs were incorporated into the city in 2051, with the establishment of the Commonwealth of Albionoria, and between 2051 and 2057 the city served as the capital of Albionoria.

In the 23rd century, Port Royal has emerged as an interstellar hub for creativity, sustainability, and cultural diversity, as well being a leading financial centre and home to one of the largest stock exchanges off-Earth, the Port Royal Stock Exchange. Many districts and landmarks of the city are well known, including the Albionorian Memorial Hall and Carter Square, whilst the University of Port Royal is considered one of the premier institutes of higher education within Tau’ri space. Politically, the city has historically been a bastion of support for the centrist/socialist Progressive Liberals, but since the 2220s, Port Royal has increasingly voted for the left-wing populist and social democratic People’s Reform Movement. The PRM currently control the Port Royal City Council, and the incumbent mayor – Francisco Crandall – is the first ethnic Langaran to be elected to the position.

 

[SpookyBoy]

Takashi Mizutani (水谷孝, Mizutani Takashi, born 14 February 1948) is a Japanese musician, poet, and briefly the Minister of Culture following the establishment of the Revolutionary People's Republic of Japan in 1968. Frontman of the experimental rock group Les Rallizes Dénudés, Mizutani played a key role in the uprising on the campus of the University of Kyoto on 1 May 1968. Aged only 20, he found himself catapaulted into a leadership position that earned him much respect from his comrades, but one that didn't fit his reserved personality. Following the declaration of the Revolutionary People's Republic, initially made up of a network of revolutionary student councils from across Japan, Mizutani was named Minister of Culture. He only held the position for around six weeks before he resigned the position in order to make way for the Japanese New Wave film director Masao Adachi, who came to fight for the RPRJ as revolution spread from the universities and city streets all across the country. Mizutani returned to his role as musician, gaining a cult following with Les Rallizes in spite of remaining a notoriously reclusive and enigmatic figure. For sometime, it was even rumored that he had been killed in the subsequent three-way Japanese Civil War, due to his habit of performing under disguises and pseudonyms. Since retiring from music in 2000, he has embarked into the world of literature, publishing his first compilation of avant-garde poetry in 2005. However, he has continued to shun the limelight, and his current place of residence is unknown.

(Sort of based off The Way the Wind Blows, but not really as there aren't enough details to know what's happening in Japan yet)

 

[fashbasher]

Adolph as Adolf:

Instead of a failed Austrian painter, it was a reasonably successful American rapper who became the most notorious tyrant of the 21st century: Adolph "Young Dolph" Thornton, of Tennessee.

After a chaotic 2010s and 2020s that began with the sex scandal involving President Romney in 2015, the GOP began looking at new avenues in order to gain votes, with the most successful being a strategic alliance with the Libertarian Party and more aggressively reaching out to young entrepreneurs. In 2024, the Republican Party issued its most libertarian platform yet, with policies that included legalization or decriminalization of drugs, a ban on welfare or housing benefits for working-age adults, embracing the sexual revolution, sweeping criminal justice reform, and zeroing out taxes on the self-employed along with conservative classics like gun rights, free market policies, and greater freedom for religious Christians. This platform was music to the ears of Memphis rapper Adolph Thornton, hospitalized after yet another shooting and desiring to abandon the thug life forever. Thornton's lyric "if he don't work he a fuckin' leech" wound up being spun into his campaign slogan "I Work for Workers, Not Leeches", and in 2025 Thornton won a House seat in a special election, marking the first time that a Republican had gained over 30% of the black vote in a Tennessee district. With a rainbow coalition of urban entrepreneurs, young adults, and leave-me-alone rural conservatives, Thornton was able to narrowly win the Republican nomination for Governor, and in time was able to work his way into the Republican nomination. In 2032, Thornton became the first openly libertarian president-elect, and together with running mate Mary Cheney he had opened "a new verse in the song of the American right." Thornton's first term, however, saw him become increasingly dogmatic. Republicans who did not pledge loyalty to Thornton and to what he called "hip hop libertarianism" (cringe) lost their jobs, and several even lost their lives to "random" gang violence. However, the economy boomed - Thornton's drug and prison reforms alone were credited with adding 3 percentage points per year to GDP growth, and Thornton won reelection in 2036 with 52% of the popular vote and over 300 electors. By 2037, Thornton and his libertarian cronies were firmly in control of the GOP and had renamed it the Republican-Liberty Party, but he faced term limits as well as a disappointing 2038 House and Senate election. In an attempt to retain control of his party and to establish the RLP as the party of the black community, he floated Mia Love to succeed him as president. After devastating losses in the 2038 midterms, Thornton ordered a crackdown on the "freedom-hating" press and opposition, and ensured that Love would trump what Thornton called "hate" as the 50th president of the US while Thornton continued directing the show as chancellor of the RLP.

 

[fashbasher]

From a world in which Portugal is a videogame power instead of Japan. This game is an adaptation of the real-life (and really awesome) Battle of Macau, which saw a motley band of African slaves and Catholic clergy defeat a massive force from the emergent Dutch Republic that besieged Portugal's base in southern China. The game, an early hack-and-slash type game, allows you to play as a male slave, a female slave, or a priest and kill a horde of Dutch invaders with edged weapons, cannon, or crude guns. The game was banned in the Netherlands as a result of the victory scene that slave players saw, which referred to the invaders as "vile Hollanders". However, it was the first game of the popular Battles series and eventually was rereleased for Dutch audiences with softer language.

 

[Hulkster'01]

List of US Presidents after 1968

 

[ETGalaxy]

Here's my first attempt for an infobox which is based on my timeline Dreams of Liberty (it's in my signature if you want to read it). Basically, the Benthamian War is an alternate conflict that resembles the Napoleonic Wars, however, it takes place in a world where the USA lost the revolution and the British went down the path of radicalism with France. This isn't a very good infobox, but this is my first so that's to be expected.

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[InfernoMole]

Reposting due to MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF INFOBOXES IN THE PREVIOUS THREAD, which, as you may know, is uneditable.

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Btw, you can see all of my previous infoboxes (and some unreleased ones) here.

The Lunarians, both human and humanoid, and the Earthlings had a rivalry as ancient as the foundation of the Lunar colonies. As Earth fell into several crises, Moon rose as the preeminent center of human society and culture, while historically poor regions on Earth, such as South America and Asia, took the mantle of dominance on the Blue Planet thanks to their economic potential and political control by unificationists as Europe, North America and Asia basked in violence.

The Latin American Union, one of the largest powers on Earth, turned to isolationism and protectionism following the introduction of the "White Cabinet" of the 2330s. This wasn't very well-liked by the Lunarian powers, whose trade unions and corporations held shares in the Andes Resource-Gathering Cooperative and the half-ruined Amazon. This disagreement between the expansionist Lunar powers and the conservative Latin American Union led to the beginning of the Crystal Wars.

The First Crystal War (2349-2352) began as a conflict over the unlawful attack of Yutuzhouan security corvettes on a Latin American satellite. In response, numerous citizens of Arequipa have dumped boxes of Yutuzhouan holophones into the Pacific Ocean. The war was primarily a Yutuzhouan-Latin American war, and ended with Yutuzhouan victory.

The Second Crystal War, on the other hand, began when Minister of Propaganda, Leandro Lemos, issued a decree of war against the "Lunarian tyrants" over a Gagarian attack on a Latin American cargo ship. The guerrilla militias, the cave systems containing hyperbombs and kinetic mines, and the sheer size of the Latin American soldiers terrified the Lunarian soldiers, but the Latin American soldiers were far too poorly equipped.

When the Latin American Army attacked a Venusian trade ship, the Venusians intervened on the Lunarians' side. Most notably, Lieutenant-General Alice Flynn, famous military figure and adventurer, brought her "friend" along for the ride. This friend was Colonel Gaz dess Rafosk, Chief of the Nokomis Nation and governor of Nokomis, a tough reptilian woman who personally led her entire Nation into battle. While there were lots of cases of the "Lizard Regiments" being highly barbaric and unscrupulous, such as during the Battle of Arequipa, this was marked as one of the first times reptilian Venusians fought side by side with human Venusians.

Notably, this was the Crystal War in which Gems fought. The Gem Empire, an ancient, decadent state and a long-time enemy of humans, knew they could not let the Lunarians - the strongest humans at the time - expand their influence. After all, the Gems have already suffered during the End of the Diamond Authority and the following Organic Administration. Under the pretext of "protecting Gems on Earth", the Gems intervened on the behalf of the Latin Americans, with popular commander Jasper Facet-4D2L Cut-3WX, more commonly known as Iaspis Magna, leading the Gem Intervention Forces. Nonetheless, despite this massive advantage on the Latin American side, Changeguo and Magnipol still won, even if their troops have been traumatized by the war...

Thanks to Venusian manpower and technology, the Lunarian Defense Coalition won the Second Crystal War. During the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, Gagaria took West Guyana under its control, adding it to its large Protectorate of West Indies, infuriating the people of Berbicia who could trace their descent to the local Guyanans and Surinamese. The Latin American Union, suffering from the reparations and trade agreements imposed on it, needed quick reform, and newly elected President, Juan Esteban Yarleque, an ambitious politician of Quechua descent, began a wave of administrative and military reforms...

The Berbician presidential election of 2383 was held on 18 May 2383. A momentous occasion for the Republic of Berbicia, an ex-colony founded by ambitious Guyanese and Surinamese populists and scientists, it ended the era of Berbicia's control by the National Republican Party of Berbicia, which has went for an unbroken record of 75 years. Historically dominant in Berbician politics, the National Republicans began as a socially conservative, economically left political party that gradually shifted into a big-tent party.

However, with the beginning of the 2370s, everything began to change. The gradual "capitalization" of certain collective factories and the National Republicans shifting to the right alienated a large group of its Western voters, who formed the socialist, socially conservative Frontier League. The urbanization and the liberalization of the country led to the formation of numerous "liberal" parties such as Pasukan Kemajuan, Democratic Alternative and Liberal Party of Berbicia, but none of them truly could challenge the National Republicans. Finally, in 2377, an industrialist party, the Union for Patriotism and Industry, was founded in Witteslang.

The 2383 elections saw Joshua Barlay, a prominent labor leader and Governor of New Mahdia, step in as the candidate for UPI. Joshua Barlay was born in a family of second-generation immigrants from Sierra Leone in rural New Jateng and has historically worked in a steel mill while studying law. His opponent, Navin Harish, the governor of New Brunswijk, businessman and manager of the New Bell Telephone and Hologram Operating Company, a charming man who spoke fifty-cent words in support of the ruling National Republican Party and the old President Tirto Eko, was struck down by Joshua Barlay, who accused him of corruption and pointed out the suffering state of infrastructure in many regions of Berbicia, as well as the "cowardice" of the National Republicans when the Gagarians took West Guyana in the Second Crystal War and economically subjugated the rest of the Guianas. Meanwhile, the Frontier League's leader, Edwin Sen A Ting of Chung, ran his own presidential campaign appealing to conservatives and socialists in the western regions, taking away a large portion of the popular vote that could have went to the National Republicans.

 

[Peebs]

From a TL I'm writing that's half-serious, half-wank, half-shitpost, and 100% reason to remember the name.

 

[InfernoMole]

Notan Dordzhiev (born Notan-Bayr Dordzhiev, November 19, 1876 – January 29, 1943) was a Russian entrepreneur, art dealer and archaeologist of Kalmyk descent who spearheaded many archaeological expeditions. Born in Velikoknyazheskaya, a cossack village in the depths of the Don Host, Dordzhiev moved to Astrakhan, where he set up a china shop. A man of a strong physical constitution and a devout Buddhist, Dordzhiev frequently traveled to the Far East, assisting adventurers in Altai and Buryatia. Many adventurers who met him stated that Notan was "a hot-tempered man" and "someone who'd dive into the crater of a volcano to get what he wants". When he returned to Astrakhan, Dordzhiev would regularly present and auction examples of Oriental art and mysterious artifacts in his shop, which he would eventually convert into an art gallery.

In 1907, Dordzhiev, having amassed incredible wealth, led an expedition to Bukhara and the depths of Afghanistan, which, as he suspected, might have had artifacts of an ancient India-based civilization. Although Dordzhiev only slightly miscalculated the location of the artifacts, he managed to discover what he would eventually call "the Kunduz Map". Identifying it as a map of temples of an ancient empire that ruled the world before the existence of Ancient Greece, Dordzhiev continued his expedition in East Africa, Australia and, eventually, the Atlantic Ocean. Although the second expedition's primary goal was not reached and Dordzhiev suffered an encounter with a floating squid-like abomination, the discoveries made by Dordzhiev's team amazed the scientific consensus and earned Dordzhiev millions and millions of rubles. As such, Dordzhiev was the richest Kalmyk in the world and one of the richest men in Russia.

Returning to Russia in 1914 as a national hero, Dordzhiev was very ill, and remained in Russia for two years before deciding to return to his career as an art vendor. In 1917, Dordzhiev married Alma Bembinova, the daughter of a Kalmyk nobleman, and opened an antiquarian shop, which he named "Dordzhiev House of Curiosities". In March 1919, Dordzhiev traveled to Harbin to recover the family sword of an old childhood friend, lieutenant Roman Gavrilovich Vershinin, who was allegedly murdered by Japanese bandits in Port Arthur. Dordzhiev's investigation was instrumental in capturing and eliminating masked bandit, fanatical anarchist and cult leader, the "Black Wolf of Harbin", who was revealed to be Suguro Yukichi, a Japanese soldier who mysteriously disappeared in 1904. In the Roaring Twenties, Dordzhiev would tour in Europe and America, presenting his antiquities and art collections before hundreds of spectators. In 1939, with interest in space growing thanks to the discoveries of Tsiolkovsky, Dordzhiev founded "White Star Aerospace", the very first private spacefaring company, with the assistance of Patrick Rehberg, a German expat and grandson of famous "mad scientist" Sigismund Rehberg. Although initially "White Star" was primarily based around studying and building prototype rockets, and not around colonization of planets like it would become in the 2000s, Dordzhiev was hailed as a "patron of human progress". A highly successful man, Dordzhiev moved to Cuba, though he would, much unfortunately, end up being assassinated by an unidentified mad cultist. Due to the degree of burns that were found on Dordzhiev's spine and their abnormal nature, some suspect that Notan was killed by an abomination; the cause of Dordzhiev's death remains hotly debated.

"White Star" would end up in the hands of Rehberg for about 13 years, before being taken over by the Dordzhiev estate after Patrick's death. While Kamilla Dordzhieva (1918–1991), and, subsequently, her daughter Helen (b. 1959), were the chairwomen that made "White Star" powerful, Kamilla and her brothers were deeply estranged from each other for the rest of their lives; while Sanal (1927–1969) was a military man and didn't really want to bother himself with the intricate legacy of his father, Yagur (1921–1990) and Chon (1921–1974), notable Astrakhan politician and American businessman respectively, attempted to compete with Kamilla for their father's inheritance. They failed, to say the least.

The Liberian presidential election, 1995 was the 52nd presidential election in Liberia's history since the nation's independence; it was held on 12 February and 3 May of 1995. The election of 1995 is notable for having ended the political influence of the True Whig Party, as the last president to be part of the True Whig Party, Tobias W. Walker, failed to even enter the second round.

The primary issues of 1995 were that of good governance, continued space expansion of humanity (especially so after the estabilishment of diplomatic relations with Mercurians in 1993) and, by proxy, Liberia's technological stagnation, and the recent unification with Sierra Leone, whose people called for respect of religious differences, a flag that doesn't represent Liberia's dark past, and even federalism, which bothered the True Whigs and their more liberal counterparts, the Reform Whigs, who split off from the True Whigs in 1976 over handling of equal rights for all Liberians. The Reform Whigs promised that they would "make Liberia a space power", "give Liberia a future to be proud of", and their nominee fit that rhetoric. Mona Macauley was a young cosmoaviator and senator from Buchanan, Liberia, while her running mate, Cyper Ceesay, was a Mandinka politician and former entrepreneur.

The Reform Whigs' effort was primarily opposed by the People's Republicans, a socially conservative, federalist party whose nominee was Perseus Blyden Ballah, Mauretanian War veteran and senator from Sinoe. Perseus B. Ballah hailed from a bloodline of Liberian war heroes, as his father, Alfred Ballah, participated in the Third Moroccan Crisis. Alongside his running mate Alois Garver, a Monrovian politician of mixed Austrian-Liberian descent, Ballah proclaimed his distaste for "the Whigs' overt focus on space" and promised the Liberians "that Liberia would be sufficient, industrialized and equal". There was much mudslinging to be had.

Nonetheless, Mona Macauley won the election with 51.7% of the popular vote, being dominant in the north of the country. However, Perseus B. Ballah controlled most of the "Old Liberian" counties in the south. This "great dichotomy" in Liberian elections would continue for years to come.

 

[fashbasher]

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.

 

[fashbasher]

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

[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.

 

[Gonzo]

This is based of a PMs list that I made and which I have decided to expand.

 

[SoldierOfChrist]

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.

 

[CanadianTory]

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.

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]

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.