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What are they doing as of modern day? (If they made it to then)
They're doing pretty well, all things considered! Texas spent the first generation post-Revolution a pariah but (because of the slightly different European situation) the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War is more devastating to morale and the Paris Commune adopts Amalgamation and sets to work better integrating the colonies along Texan principles. With the Liberated Commune of France in their corner and an eventual World War under their belt the Liberated Powers are still going steady to the modern day, though they haven't yet achieved world revolution.
To Live and Die in Dixie: The Fire-Eaters
All told the Confederate victory in the Dixie War was a pyrrhic one- although serious diplomatic and material support from the British and the French had allowed a swift end to hostilities, flaws baked in to the Confederate constitution made governing as an independent nation far more difficult than the staunchest supporters of the Southron cause had anticipated. Aside from the embarrassment on the world stage of being constitutionally forbidden from abolishing slavery in any way, with the success of Confederate independence the states themselves proved unruly, openly struggling with the confederal government over the rights and obligations that they owed to Richmond. Then came the Texas Revolution. Discretely supported by a bitter United States, Texas was able to break away, cleaving off the Sequoyah Territory and most of Louisiana on the way out the door. Reborn in the fires of Amalgamation, the Liberated Republic turned its efforts to toppling the Slave Power with wave after wave of slave revolts orchestrated through a network of agents and provocateurs known collectively as the Redshirts. This would remain the status quo for over a decade, with a divided Confederacy too caught up in domestic insurrections to even project power over the Caribbean.
The fall of the Second French Empire to the Liberated Commune of France would see an influx of conservative French exiles into the New World, including one Alexandre Saint-Yves, the founding father of Synarchism. Under Saint-Yves, the Synarchists believed that mass political participation was the fatal flaw that caused proud nations to fall to the scourge of Amalgamation. As a corrective, Saint-Yves called for a government kept true to itself through the efforts of secret societies. While he was certainly a popular figure in the Second Mexican Empire and at the heights of the British Empire, Synarchism had by far the greatest proliferation in the Confederacy, where a patchwork of secret societies and paramilitaries had been enforcing the status quo for decades anyway. Promoting the notion of "one big fraternity", the Confederate Synarchist Party covertly organized these disparate groups under the umbrella of a single secret society that called itself the Fire-Eaters, the better to spread through the gaps of the Confederate political system. The creation of the Confederate Bureau of Public Vigilance through the discrete machinations of the Fire-Eaters would see the old fraternal orders essentially deputized by the local authorities, with groups such as the White Camelia, the Klan and the Golden Circle free to run riot over the slave population and the free poor of the nation alike. In 1900 rising international tensions would come to a head, with a conflict between Texas and Spain over Cuba blossoming into the Total War*, pitting an alliance of liberal and Liberated powers against the Synarchist bloc.
*Essentially the Spanish-American War, Russo-Japanese War, Thousand Day's War and Boxer Rebellion tossed into a blender with a wave of nationalist revolts in the British Empire and a Turtledove-style American Front. It's an enormous mess and the global map looks far different at the end of it, though for a change of pace Germany stays neutral in a world war, not gaining much colonial territory but not losing any either. With hindsight a far more bitter 1897 Greco-Turkish War is seen as the predecessor conflict much like the Spanish Civil War for World War II in OTL.
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Peace in Our Time: The International Congress
The great powers found themselves in a bipolar world in the wake of the Second Texas Revolution. The International Workingmen's Association was founded in the Texas capital of Spartacus* in 1864, serving as a forum for the organization of international worker coordination and anti-slavery efforts. The international critics of the group, not entirely unfairly, accused the International of serving as a vehicle for Texan revolutionary fervor, and there is no doubt that the organization played a pivotal role in spreading the Amalgamation doctrine around the world. The Liberation of France would serve as a wakeup call, with the rest of the great powers gripped by fears that the Redshirts were coming for them too. Realizing the need for an international organization of their own, the old powers of Europe would inaugurate the Inter-Parliamentary Congress in 1889. While the IWA focused its efforts on the working people, the IPC was a fundamentally conservative system centered on providing a framework for the established governments of the world to solve problems collaboratively before the red rabble had the chance to meddle. The expansion of the IPC would face challenges to its early growth from the rise of an organized Synarchist bloc fundamentally opposed to mass political participation and would be dealt a seemingly fatal blow when Great Britain opted not to become a member despite having been one of the earliest proponents of the organization.
In many ways the Inter-Parliamentary Congress would be saved from collapse by the Total War. With the shattering of the Synarchist bloc and Texas-friendly regimes popping up in several of the belligerent nations it's entirely possible that the totalist faction of the IWA could have gotten their way and seen the conflict drag on until the liberal powers and neutral nations were snuffed out as well. With over a decade of war behind them there was very little popular support for this plan, and a new international organization was proposed to prevent the resumption of hostilities. The International Congress would serve as the legal successor to both the Inter-Parliamentary Congress and the International Workingmen's Association, combining their organs and purviews into a new organization focused on expanding democracy, equality and dignity of labor the world over and on the prevention of sectarian violence. Serving as a trade and defensive pact, the Congress would expand steadily through the twentieth century and its purviews would grow in turn as mandates to eliminate the spread of disease and crack down on neosynarchist terrorism would be grafted onto the organization's charter, the Covenant of Human Solidarity.
*OTL Houston
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Depends on what "look" you're going for. 1 and 3 look quite harsh-looking.
1 and 2 look like the SS but 3 and 4 look like Strasserism. All of them would be suitable for an authoritarian hellhole.
Redesigned Montenegro, Slovenia, and Slovakia, all along a common design principle (I have also used such principle on Croatia, Serbia, and Moldova), essentially exchanging the middle bar of a tricolor for a motif. What do you think?
Really like these ones, especially the seal on the second one, it's top notch and could really work for a Nevada flag/seal, or at a minimum certainly a Clark County seal. It would be a tremendous improvement over the current one -
Wow now that is bad or atleast what i would imagine the zion natives would draw as their symbol
Nothing is True; Everything is Permitted
Here's another one off! For those who haven't read it, Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is a magic working in the form of a dense comic book that revolves around the struggle between the Invisible College (which champions freedom) and the Outer Church (which imposes control). The Invisible movement is mentioned to have taken several forms over the years, and one character running around in the 1920's interprets Invisibleism as a political school of anarchism rather than the primarily occult movement most of the movers and shakers in the group know it to be. Inspired by this, here's a flag for a third position group in a world where Invisibleism is a dominant school of anarchism and synarchism rose up in response analogous to fascism rising as a reaction against socialism OTL. Originally an occult secret society, in this scenario a more successful Nihilist movement in Russia and a greater role for America's egoist anarchism sees the Invisible College transform into a mystical antiauthoritarian militant movement around the 1890's or so, with the incrementalism and hermeticism of the old guard quickly eroded by a desire for direct action and the pioneering of a pseudo-Situationist chaos magical tradition. The fears among the powers that be toward anarchism OTL skyrocket, with the Outer Church rising as a synarchist political network representing the established interests and social systems. With the 20th century defined along an authoritarian axis rather than a left-right one, increasingly authoritarian secret societies square off against lone wolves and disorganized cells, never able to stamp them out for all their repression. As a counter to this deteriorating state of polarization a third way develops, preaching that an entity called Barbelith is observing humanity in preparation for some dramatic change in human civilization to be brought about by a messiah figure. The world holds its breath. For the flag itself I used a letter "i" as a fairly basic symbol for the Invisibles, with a red sphere and green lines to represent Barbelith and a sigil from the comic for the Outer Church. The alleged apocalypse in this scenario would be 1960, inspired by the calculations of Isaac Newton, rather than 2012 as proposed in the original comic.
Here's another one off! For those who haven't read it, Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is a magic working in the form of a dense comic book that revolves around the struggle between the Invisible College (which champions freedom) and the Outer Church (which imposes control). The Invisible movement is mentioned to have taken several forms over the years, and one character running around in the 1920's interprets Invisibleism as a political school of anarchism rather than the primarily occult movement most of the movers and shakers in the group know it to be. Inspired by this, here's a flag for a third position group in a world where Invisibleism is a dominant school of anarchism and synarchism rose up in response analogous to fascism rising as a reaction against socialism OTL. Originally an occult secret society, in this scenario a more successful Nihilist movement in Russia and a greater role for America's egoist anarchism sees the Invisible College transform into a mystical antiauthoritarian militant movement around the 1890's or so, with the incrementalism and hermeticism of the old guard quickly eroded by a desire for direct action and the pioneering of a pseudo-Situationist chaos magical tradition. The fears among the powers that be toward anarchism OTL skyrocket, with the Outer Church rising as a synarchist political network representing the established interests and social systems. With the 20th century defined along an authoritarian axis rather than a left-right one, increasingly authoritarian secret societies square off against lone wolves and disorganized cells, never able to stamp them out for all their repression. As a counter to this deteriorating state of polarization a third way develops, preaching that an entity called Barbelith is observing humanity in preparation for some dramatic change in human civilization to be brought about by a messiah figure. The world holds its breath. For the flag itself I used a letter "i" as a fairly basic symbol for the Invisibles, with a red sphere and green lines to represent Barbelith and a sigil from the comic for the Outer Church. The alleged apocalypse in this scenario would be 1960, inspired by the calculations of Isaac Newton, rather than 2012 as proposed in the original comic.
Where this comes?
*Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
or
*Assassin's Creed, who taked it from Alamut.
BothWhere this comes?
*Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
or
*Assassin's Creed, who taked it from Alamut.
It's fitting for the Invisibles since one side doesn't believe in rules or an absolute reality and the other side is powerful enough to do whatever it wants and order you to believe in any version of reality that is convenient for your betters.