For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL

Nice, a world with independent Newfoundland and Ryukyu. No Sikkim or Formosa, though?

It seems like a bunch of nations got new constitutions in 1989, but they were from all over the world. Maybe just a coincidence.
 
I like how this project is similar to Kaiserreich. Not in terms of the premise, but in how it seems to be an exercise to redraw nearly every nation in an interesting way somewhat independent of the 1910s era POD. (That's one of KR's appeals to me, imo, it's like a more organized mosaic world, only in recent years have the mods tried to tie everything together.) A similar one was @EdT's sadly defunct A Shot Heard Around the World, on a site that's now defunct but has been partially archived on the Wayback Machine. Like this project it did have a good amount of graphics as well, including one massive world map. This project, however, is way more comprehensive in terms of details.

And now for the elephant in the room: what was Adolf Hitler's fate on this eclectic Earth?

"Eclectic Earth" is a good descriptor of this kind of project.
  • Really funny how Borealia has a Nordic cross flag.
  • Mali is like the mega-Gambia in this timeline.
  • Haha Kasai is theocratic, interesting.
  • Ah, Neo-Kemitism is like if the Moorish Science Temple guys got to the level of popularity of Rastafarianism, then even more so.
  • Situationist France seems like something that would happen in Red Flood, except with the dystopian edginess removed.
  • I wonder how a nuclear test in the Swiss Alps would have done.
  • The detail in this timeline is incredible. Balkanizing Burma- now that's dedication.
  • What's with the Nile Delta's flag, what's it significance? And it's pharaonic, eh?
  • I like the backstory is that Egypt got invaded and broken apart, yet it's still much larger than our world's.
  • How was the U.S. convinced to abolish the Electoral College?

Any answer to this query ?

I'd pay to keep the content coming.
 
Georges Remi
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Georges Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983) was a Flemish-born American cartoonist. Born in Brussels in the last years of the Kingdom of Belgium, he was a noticed cartoonist in the time before the Syndicalist Invasion of Flanders, publishing “The Adventures of Totor” in newspapers. After the World War and the liberation of Flanders, plagued with depression and suffering from the repression of French-speakers by the Flemish government, he emigrated in America, where he took up American citizenship and worked alongside Walt Disney, noticeably working on “Destination Moon” and “Chanteclair”.

In recent years, renewed interest in Flemish comic books have reignited interests over “The Adventure of Totor”, that only lasted three albums until Remi abandoned the series in 1933 with the Syndicalist take-over. Further research have emerged that Remi was a very active resistant in Syndicalist Flanders, under the war name of “Hergé” and actively pursued Belgian reunification.
 
Jean-Claude Van Varenberg
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Jean-Claude van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960) is a Flemish-born American dancer and choreographer. Known by his nickname “The Legs from Brussels”, he entered the Paris Opera Ballet at 18, having pursued classical dance training in the same time than Asian martial arts. His distinctive style, inspired by Chinese wushu and Ryukyuan karate, have made him one of the most renowned dancers in the world, and he has pursued independent ballet through his group, Bloodsport.
 
Netanyahu is a cabinet member of President Keating's government?
You mean Benjamin Mileikowsky, the Conservative Senator from Connecticut, whose father settled in the United States and is regularly expected to run for President anytime soon?
Nice, a world with independent Newfoundland and Ryukyu. No Sikkim or Formosa, though?

It seems like a bunch of nations got new constitutions in 1989, but they were from all over the world. Maybe just a coincidence.
Just a coincidence here. Also, Sikkim and Formosa were once independent.
I like how this project is similar to Kaiserreich. Not in terms of the premise, but in how it seems to be an exercise to redraw nearly every nation in an interesting way somewhat independent of the 1910s era POD. (That's one of KR's appeals to me, imo, it's like a more organized mosaic world, only in recent years have the mods tried to tie everything together.) A similar one was @EdT's sadly defunct A Shot Heard Around the World, on a site that's now defunct but has been partially archived on the Wayback Machine. Like this project it did have a good amount of graphics as well, including one massive world map. This project, however, is way more comprehensive in terms of details.



"Eclectic Earth" is a good descriptor of this kind of project.
  • Really funny how Borealia has a Nordic cross flag.
  • Mali is like the mega-Gambia in this timeline.
  • Haha Kasai is theocratic, interesting.
  • Ah, Neo-Kemitism is like if the Moorish Science Temple guys got to the level of popularity of Rastafarianism, then even more so.
  • Situationist France seems like something that would happen in Red Flood, except with the dystopian edginess removed.
  • I wonder how a nuclear test in the Swiss Alps would have done.
  • The detail in this timeline is incredible. Balkanizing Burma- now that's dedication.
  • What's with the Nile Delta's flag, what's it significance? And it's pharaonic, eh?
  • I like the backstory is that Egypt got invaded and broken apart, yet it's still much larger than our world's.
  • How was the U.S. convinced to abolish the Electoral College?



I'd pay to keep the content coming.
I must admit that I always was impressed by all the works from EdThomas, in particular A Greater Britain and The Bloody Man but this timeline has also plenty of inspiration from Kaiserreich ; I tried as much as possible to limit the similitaries and to not be accused of plagiarism, I think it's not, I was a very long time ago a participant for the Commune of France's files. As of the graphics, my skills are very poor and the Wikibox is a decent way to convey the verisimilitude for the project.

As of your remarks :
-The Borealian flag will be explained in a "country profile" update.
-It's more of a French Sudan feel, but we could say it turned out to be a looooong Gambia.
-Every timeline needs its Juche.
-Well, Neo-Kemitism is a mix of Moorisch Science Temple, Rastafarianism and also Nation of Islam, but in a very Afro-nationalist way.
-Well, the wackiness is toned down for the short-lived Situationist France, let's just talk about Utopian Socialism.
-"Who cares? It's just mountains".
-I don't pretend I understood anything to Myanmar, but still.
-The Delta Republic is a Coptic state, with its nationalist rhetoric bent on references to pre-Islamic Egypt. Its appearence will be explained later. As of Egypt, the British let them annex North Sudan.
-The 1968 presidential election went badly and was thrown in the electoral college, and its abolition was on the Progressives' platform.

As of the Patreon... It's still in a part of my brain, I will wait for the consequences of the pandemic to falter, I can't imagine how hard it could've been for members.
 
You mean Benjamin Mileikowsky, the Conservative Senator from Connecticut, whose father settled in the United States and is regularly expected to run for President anytime soon?
What are his views like ITTL and what are they like compared to OTL Netanyahu? And on that note, what did Israel's other OTL Prime Ministers end up doing ITTL without Israel?
 

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I’d like to know more about the great game. The somewhat equivalent of the Cold War. And what acts of civil unrest happend in the US in the late 20th century?
 
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Joe Biden (born Joseph Robinette Biden III, February 3 1969-30 May 2015) was the 70th Governor of Delaware, serving as a Republican from his first election on January 20 2009 and serving after being re-elected in 2012 and until his death on 30 May 2015.
The son of Wilmington attorney Joseph R. Biden and Neillia Hunter, Biden's life was stricken by tragedy when both his parents and his sister were killed in a car accident on Demceber, 18 1972 ; the future Governor was raised by his paternal grandparents in Delaware and benefitted from the scholarship programs enacted by the McGovern Administration. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse, working as a lawyer and serving in the Delaware National Guard from 2002.
Inspired by his late father's interest in public service, Joe Biden ran in the 2008 election as a Republican for Governor of Delaware : as the Grand Old Party remains strong in the small state, Biden easily won election in his first bid for elective office ; easily re-elected in 2012, Biden was seen as one of the fresh faces of the Republican Party, as his personal history, his military service, his moderate insight and his good gestion as Governor saw him fit to be a presidential candidate in either 2016 or 2020, and one of the few Republican officials who could actually get a shot at the White House. Nevertheless, his national ambitions were broken by brain cancer, diagnosed in 2013, that would kill him on May 2015, as he was hoping to be in remission and eyeing the 2016 election. The Governor was publicly eulogized by his peers accross the nation.
His brother Hunter Biden was United States Ambassador to Russia from 2017 to 2019.
Wow.
 
What are his views like ITTL and what are they like compared to OTL Netanyahu? And on that note, what did Israel's other OTL Prime Ministers end up doing ITTL without Israel?
Well, some call the Senator a "Conservative in Name Only", a quality most needed to survive in Republican New England : while quite liberal on social issues, he is a huge partisan of laissez-faire policies in economy but remains a hawk on military policy (his brother Yonatan served as a General in the US Army) and a staunch opponent of immigration. He is also a leader of the Jewish American community.
As of the fates of OTL Prime Ministers of Israel :
-David Ben Gurion : Partisan of appeasement for the Zionist community in Palestine, quickly overwhelmed by radicals, assassinated in 1949.
-Moshe Sharett : Ben Gurion-aligned Zionist leader
-Levi Eshkol : Ben Gurion-aligned Zionist leader
-Golda Meir : envoy of the Zionist movement in the United States
-Menachem Begin : radical leader of the Zionist movement in the 1950s-1960s
-Yithzak Shamir : Deputy of Begin in the Zionist movement
-Shimon Peres : German novelist and poet
-Yithzak Rabin :
-Ehud Barak : Prime Minister of Lithuania, 1993-1997.
-Ariel Sharon : General in the German Army, his promotion to Field Marshal was impeded by casual antisemitism in the military.
-Ehud Olmert : very succesful Jewish Chinese businessman, specialized in various fields, mainly in real estate, construction and import-export.
Are the Albanians trying to get independence from Italy?
There are occasionnal troubles, but Albania is now a fully integrated province of Italy.
I’d like to know more about the great game. The somewhat equivalent of the Cold War. And what acts of civil unrest happend in the US in the late 20th century?
If it would be comparable to a confrontation in our history, it would most certainly be the post-2001 situation : a multipolar world, without any clear superpower, each waging proxy wars without direct confrontation due to mutually assured destruction, the main players being Germany, Russia, China, Japan, United States, Italy and Great Britain. As of the United States, the country wasn't spared by race riots, economic troubles and terrorism.
Made a stylized map of this timeline's Europe. Might do Asia and Africa as well.

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This is incredible, you did you best with Belgium ! I LOVE these fanarts.
Yeah, I wanted a twist on Joe Biden, I got it...
What was the riot caused by, I may ask?

Most likely something similar to the incident in our timeline.

Yes, that's that, but bigger, due to more widespread antisemitism.
Will we get a wikibox on the World War soon?
Sorry, I have been dealing with lack of time ; the Great European War will come sooner.
 
Huh. Interesting to see a couple of OTL justices made it through, though it makes sense they'd ascend. Conservatives sure know how to luck out when it comes to Chief Justices. Speaking of which, Bork is the Attorney General of Robertson's administration, did that cause any conflict of interest? Or is that just an American thing I've never seen before. Either way, I'm very happy to see where this is going.
 
Ferdinand
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Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad (Sigmaringen, German Confederation 24 August 1865 - Sinaia, Romania 20 July 1927) was the King of Romania from 10 October 1914 to his death, hailing from the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, succeeding his uncle, Carol I, and in turn succeeded by his son Carol II.

Born to Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and one-time candidate to the throne of Spain, Ferdinand became heir presumptive to his childless uncle Carol, King of Romania (first as Prince from 1866 to 1881 and later as King), once his father and elder brother had renunciated their claims ; born a Catholic, Ferdinand was required to have his children raised as Orthodox, to which he agreed, and marrying into the British royal family in 1893, marrying Marie of Edinburgh. After giving birth to six children, the prince became King of Romania, then a rising country in the Balkans, in 1914.

When the Great European War broke out in 1916, the Entente hoped that the Romanian francophilia, along with their appetites on Hungary, would draw Romania to their side ; owing to his family links with the German royal family, Ferdinand prefered to remain neutral, until the pro-German Conservative party came to power in 1918 and the shifting tides in the war decided Romania to declare war on Russia in 1920 ; the Russians were in a state of disarray by then, and the Romanians quickly progressed and annexed Bessarabia, a long claimed area that was confirmed as a spoil of war in the Treaty of Kiev in 1921. This expansion allowed Ferdinand and the Conservative Party to remain very popular, enabling the Conservatives to have a new Constitution drawn to their advantage in 1924.

When Ferdinand died in July 1927 and succeeded by his once playboy son Carol, the newly established Danubian Federation was in a state of disarray, with Hungary and Croatie declaring independence, and on his deathbed, he knew that his successor’s first decision would be to declare war on Hungary and target Transylvania, completing the task of uniting all Romanian lands and fulfilling the dream of a Greater Romania, as he had already taken advantage of the Great European War to add Bessarabia to his demesne.

How mistaken he was.
 
Huh. Interesting to see a couple of OTL justices made it through, though it makes sense they'd ascend. Conservatives sure know how to luck out when it comes to Chief Justices. Speaking of which, Bork is the Attorney General of Robertson's administration, did that cause any conflict of interest? Or is that just an American thing I've never seen before. Either way, I'm very happy to see where this is going.
Well, I have seen plenty of sitting Attorney Generals being appointed to the Supreme Court in US history, so this wouldn't be that far fetched, would it ?
 
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