the idea of this Challenge is to make your home country as dystopic as you can using any POD from the dawn of man, to yesterday. be original,
Have you read Puritan World?Lessee...United States...
Instead of the Puritans arriving in the period before the rise of Cromwell, they're expelled as a mass cleansing ala the Jews in the aftermath of the Restoration. These new Puritans move in and establish a Draka-type society based on a small group of Elect ruling a mass number of serfs.
Eventually the American Revolution comes along, and the break is over slavery more than taxation. The new Puritan despotism wages internecine warfare against the relatively milder race-based slave system of the South (Southern racism is much the same as OTL). This causes the US to split into two rival factions, the Draka-esque Christian Republic of America, and the rump United States of the South. The two gradually diverge, and from there the butterflies hit.
I presume you weren't asking for a truly realistic scenario, here.
Your world's Russians are also Satanists, it would seem.
the idea of this Challenge is to make your home country as dystopic as you can using any POD from the dawn of man, to yesterday. be original,
Sweden was conquered by the USSR in WWII and depopulated; one third of our population was killed, another deported to Siberia. Agriculture was collectivised, and those unfortunate enough to survive the Purges lived on in perpetual fear and abject poverty, ruled over by distant Russian overlords and ultranasty local collaborators. All freedoms were abolished; churches were burned down and Christian priests crucified, and anyone who retained the old religion was herded into concentration camps and mental hospitals.
My family fled to Britain, which is why I'm alive and able to write this.
Present-day Sweden is a post-Communist nightmare with the Apparatchiks still in charge, enforced political correctivism, AIDS, abject poverty and a Russian minority making up 49.9 % of the population.
wowbest one so far.
The details are somewhat over the top, but then I thought that was OK. The kill count is actually fairly close to what the Baltic states suffered between Communists and Nazis.
Pretty disturbing... but having studied Peterloo and surrounding issues in some detail (background for my MA), I have to say thatFor Britain: the Cato Street Conspiracy succeeds. Ish. The Cabinet as of 1820 is murdered, with the exception of Lord Liverpool. Instead, Liverpool has a splinter in his brain, driving him slightly insane. His OTL paranoia is heightened, and Britain is driven into an oppressive and autocratic state, dominated by Liverpool's desire for public order. Elections are halted by order of the Prime Minister, and George IV is too sick to intervene at this time.
In 1827, the public openly rebels, leading to a bloody conflict, at the height of which both George IV and OTL William IV are killed. The heir to the throne is Ernst August of Hanover. Ernst and Liverpool become locked in a power-struggle, and the English Civil War becomes a Free-For-All. The war ends in 1834, with Liverpool dead and Ernst deposed, leading to Augustus Frederick assuming the throne and finally recalling elections. The Parliament elected has far fewer powers than before, and has returned somewhat to its old role of "advisory body".
Internal struggles in Britain have led to the decline of her Empire - the BNA territories were the victim of an invasion by the United States in 1831, with the annexation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into the Union. In India, the Sikh Empire has emerged as the dominant power in India, exploiting the HEIC weakness to Pull A Meiji (Tee Emm). Britain is seen as largely irrelevant to European affairs, and the country is blighted by the horrors of war.
Howzat?