Anglo-American Unions?

I'm doing some research for a map colour scheme, and I'm wondering just how common this ah trope really is.

There are two fictional examples that are generally cited. Oceania (1984) is one, but as all the information comes from a variety of unreliable narrators, it is questionable whether that nation even extends much beyond south-east England. Assuming the party is telling the truth about the size of the country, then it would seem to be a genuine example.

The other fictional example I am aware of is the Holy Britannian Empire (Code Geass). However, the UK is never actually a part of that empire. In effect, this is more properly an example of a monarchist (and expansionist) America rather than an Anglo-American union.

Are there any other examples of this trope? Is it really deserving of having a specific colour?
 
Well, there's the idea of an "Anglosphere union" as being preferable for Britain over the EU...

But I don't think that includes the US usually...
 
I'm thinking the Nazis completely win in Eurasia and are able to annex the USSR, Balkans, etc. While fascist states retain their rule over the regions, and also either divide the colonies into little tribal states or retain them.

Japan gets help from Germany and is able to continue their fight for a very long time. Pacifying Australia and Dutch/British SE Asia.

This leaves the UK and her colonies, US, Canada, and India into the Confederation of Free States (CFS) which fights against fascism and nazism in general.
 
I've seen it happen from time to time, but with an early POD, around the time of the Revolution:

- In published alt history, The Two Georges.

- I've seen two RPGs take the idea that the American Revolution either failed or never happened. One was a tabletop campaign featuring not much western expansion, and Indiana Jones-style fights between colonial powers for artifacts in Michigan. The other was a LARP in which there's still resentment among the Americans.

- In this forum, there were two recent threads on the subject (link, link). The first of them has me expound in comments on a TL I came up with a few years ago, running with the "no American Revolution" idea.
 
Post 1900 PoD?

You need an ideological expansionist threat which takes over all of continental Europe (whether militarist Germany or Communist Russia). This could force most of the rest of the world to unite against them. Of course, such a 'United Nations' or whatever, would surely include much of e.g. South America, so it would be Anglo-American led rather than purely Anglo-American. IMO.
 
"Full Thrust" (do NOT enter that as a search parameter, trust me :) ) a sci-fi tabletop spaceship miniatures game posits the amalgamation of England and the US in the 2050s after the American President is assassinated and the country plunges into a civil war. The new government is called the New Anglian Confederation.

wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Thrust

The major problem is while we're (US/England) "close" we're not that close and really, like most of the rest of the world the Brit's wonder (with good reason :) ) constantly if we're really sane at all. So the question is why would they try and take-on the responsibility for their idiot cousins?

And frankly that's the ONY way the troupe works is if the Brit's are in charge, otherwise it's an American lead thing and not any real "Union" mostly because we American's aren't sure how out union manages to work, we don't have a clue on building one we "share" power in :)

Randy
 
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