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@Kaiser K:

Of course there are not as many Blacks in Russia (I don't know of any at all, although there might well be some), but you once (when you were in the sixties in the RCWverse) had planned to use Cossacks of all ethnicities(!) as African-American analogue. Senseless as Cossacks (see WP) have always been quite high up in the Russian societal hierarchy... Chechens or other Caucasus peoples make much, much more sense, really!

EDIT: Good job on Aurumia, too!
 
The fourth branch of government is the National Planning Commission, which brings workers, management and government together, and each industry is divided into sequences. So you get like the steel sequence, the lawyer sequence, the agriculture sequence, etc. Each sequence has representatives on the NPC based on their membership total, and each sequence also has a National Sequence Committee. There's also State Planning Commissions and State Sequene Committees. Sequence committees at all levels are popularly elected via PR. The NPC has broad, vague and overarching power to regulate and legislate their respective sequence, legislative power frequently seesaws between the NPC and Congress. To illustrated, here are two elections for recent sequence committees:

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The fourth branch of government is the National Planning Commission, which brings workers, management and government together, and each industry is divided into sequences. So you get like the steel sequence, the lawyer sequence, the agriculture sequence, etc. Each sequence has representatives on the NPC based on their membership total, and each sequence also has a National Sequence Committee. There's also State Planning Commissions and State Sequene Committees. Sequence committees at all levels are popularly elected via PR. The NPC has broad, vague and overarching power to regulate and legislate their respective sequence, legislative power frequently seesaws between the NPC and Congress. To illustrated, here are two elections for recent sequence committees:
Very interesting concept. Kind of like a revival of some quite old ideas concerning the roles of both guilds and trade unions in government, but a very modern (or futuristic) take on it with formalised partisan groups like that.
 
It feels very corporatist to me, which is of course perfectly in line with the *US's role (as I understand it) as the premier technocratic power.
 
It feels very corporatist to me, which is of course perfectly in line with the *US's role (as I understand it) as the premier technocratic power.
Yeah, but it also has a sort of co-operativist taste, as workers have more control over their production, even though its by indirect democracy.
 
Yeah, the U.S. is run on largely corporatist lines. Howard Scott's Technocracy was very corporatist (Scott's technocracy is largely fascism, except it idolizes science and intellectual heroes rather than soldiers and military heroes), and he used the concept of industry-specific sequences and the National Planning Commission (though he called it the Continental Control, which would've totally replaced Congress). American trade unions in the future of AJND kind of suck as trade unions and are more akin to political parties. Workers have no right to strike, most states are still right-to-work-states and unions have no power to collective bargaining. All contracts, wages, benefits, etc are "legislated" by Planning Commissions and Sequence Committees (which also have to contend with Boards of Directors, which are essentially corporate executive "upper houses" in the corporatist structure).

That said, there's near universal employment (that's because if you can't find a job, you're either put on the government dole and not counted against unemployment or you're shipped off to a colony and given a homestead to farm or given a job building a dam or something) and more than three-quarters of the workforce is "unionized", so there's that.
 
Setting the tone for the whole of the 2000s before 9/11 even happened. Both were plots that were going to happen and were in final stages. The chances of them actually happening was probably very large.

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Gorbachev as Colin Powell? I don't see him being a Republican quite flying - though a democrat and supporter of free speech and religion, he was and is quite socialist, and these days is pretty much the one important democratic socialist remaining in Russia.
 
Gorbachev as Colin Powell? I don't see him being a Republican quite flying - though a democrat and supporter of free speech and religion, he was and is quite socialist, and these days is pretty much the one important democratic socialist remaining in Russia.

Gorbachev is more of a Henry Kissinger type ITTL who has stayed around a long time, being both the Speaker and multiple terms as Secretary of State under three different Presidents, and the POD was before his Birth ITTL, so it's not impossible for him to be a bit more right leaning.
 
Gorbachev is more of a Henry Kissinger type ITTL who has stayed around a long time, being both the Speaker and multiple terms as Secretary of State under three different Presidents, and the POD was before his Birth ITTL, so it's not impossible for him to be a bit more right leaning.

I suppose not, particularly without an overtly ideological education system.
 
A Russian wouldn't have their child's name suffixed with "Jr." That's mostly an Anglo (particularly American) thing.

Indeed; since the Russians use patronymics, they normally just add those in to differentiate when a father and his child are named the same thing. So the Bush Sr analogue would be called Valentin [father's name]ovich Pavlov, and the Bush Jr analogue would be Valentin Valentinovich Pavlov.
 
Here's a relatively simple infobox of an extremely complicated set-up. PoD is Craxi never becomes secretary of the PSI, but the more important change is that Aldo Moro is never kidnapped. Come election day in 1979, this makes a rather interesting result...

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