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Technically, both parts are continental. It would make more sense distinguishing 'European' Greece from 'Asiatic' Greece, wouldn't it?
Nabila Mounib
Nabila Mounib (نبيلة منيب) has been the fifth and current President of the Moroccan Republic since 2017, having defeated incumbent Abdelhamid Chabat in the second round of the 2017 Moroccan presidential election. Her election marks the first time a woman has been elected as a head of state in Morocco (but not in the Arab world, the first being Leyla Zana, President of Kurdistan from 2008 to 2014) and the first stemming from a left-wing party, breaking the domination of the Progress Party since the founding of the Republic in 1971.
Stemming from a family close to the regime and an endocrinologist graduating from universities in Casablanca and Berlin, Nabila Mounib entered politics during the era of reforms initiated by her predecessor and put back the Party of Popular Forces on the first plan, advocating for larger civil rights for the Moorish and Rifian minorities in Morocco, after the repression of revolts in the region (2015, 2016); her election crystallized fears of the military, as Inspector General of the Armed Forces, General Abdelfattah Louarak, attempted a coup a week before her inauguration that was thwarted thanks to legalist troops and popular support.
The policies of the Mounib Administration have included larger rights for the minorities of the Moroccan Republic, holding several round tables on the subject, increased relations with the European Community (of which Morocco is a member) and trying to reduce the large role of the military in national politics, even if the military's treatment of the Wuchang Pneumonia Pandemic was quite noticeable in Morocco.
I hadn't the strength to make all the demographics, my bad.
Good remark ! Let's say that continental Greece designated the European one while "Anatolia" designates the Asiatic part.
With how the leader of the Unification Church IOTL became Prime Minister of Korea, what became of the main figures in Shamangate ITTL?
Country profile - Tuvalu
Tuvalu is an island country in Oceania, in the Pacific Ocean, east-northeast of Micronesia, northeast of Vemarana, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna and north of Fiji.
History
Administered by the United Kingdom first as a protectorate from 1892 to 1916, then as a Colony from 1916 to 1979, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands first given the opportunity to part their ways in 1974, a motion that was defeated in a referendum, leading to a preparation for independence that started with an elected autonomous government from 1979 ; the granting of independence by the Shore Cabinet as a way to save coasts as the Pacific became less and less of a hot point in the Greater Game. On 1 October 1986, the archipelago became independent as a sovereign state within the Commonwealth as Tuvalu, with Queen Anne II ruling as Queen of Tuvalu. To this day, the country remains part of the Commonwealth, after a referendum on the republic was defeated in 2006.
Political situation
According to its Constitution, Tuvalu is an unitary non-partisan parliamentary constitutional monarchy, being a full member of the Commonwealth and thus acknowledging Queen Anne II of England as its monarch, represented by a Governor-General, currently Sir Taneti Maamau, a civil servant from the Gilbert Islands. Executive powers are invested in the Prime Minister, appointed by the unicameral 32-member Parliament. More than political parties, the Tuvaluan parliamentary system provides for an equal representation for both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands ; the Speaker of Parliament must come from the Gilbert Islands and the Prime Minister from the Ellice Islands, and vice versa. Law is inspired from both English law and local traditions. The capital is Funafuti.
The current Prime Minister is Maatia Toafa, a civil servant from the Ellice Islands, and has served since 12 June 2016, after the general election. A former foreign minister, Toafa won election upon his rival Anote Tong, thanks to concerns about climate change and the question of Tuvalu’s place in the Pacific. He was re-elected after the 6 June 2021 elections, thanks to his staunch stance on the Wuchang pneumonia pandemic.
Social situation, population
One of the smallest countries in the world, Tuvalu is also one of the least populated and with the heaviest density : mostly Christian (Calvinist tradition), Tuvaluans are mostly of Polynesian origin in the Ellice Islands while Gilbert Islanders are of Micronesian origin ; English is still used as an official language along with Tuvaluan, itself divided between Ellice and Gilbert dialects. In spite of these differences, Tuvalu remains one of the most stable countries within the Commonwealth.
One of the defining traits of the future of Tuvalu is the issue of climate change : subjected to cyclones and king tides, Tuvalu is also very low above sea level throughout the archipelago, making the prospect of the disappearance of the entire nation a dire reality of future times should the sea level rise. Urbanization has increased a lot since the turn of the millenium and evacuation plans have been drawn with Australia and Aotearoa should the situation become desperate.
Economy
Due its small size, Tuvalu has few natural resources, its phosphate deposits having been long exhausted at the time of independence : depending heavily on World Council and Australian economic aids, the island country can nevertheless count on its extensive maritime space to draw on its main resource : fishing and preservation of the sea fauna. Tuvalu has been accused many times by independent observers of being a tax haven, in order to cast itself as a reliable investment target.
Military
Tuvalu has no regular military forces and spends no money on the military : the British garrison left the archipelago upon independence and no threats currently exist in the region. The national police forces includes a maritime surveillance unit and provides for law and order.
Culture
The traditional culture in Tuvalu stayed mainly intact due to its isolation and throughout British colonization, typical of Polynesian ethnicity. Even if the Tuvaluan culture is not particularly renowned, even as a tourist organization, the crucial position of the archipelago on both sides of the International Date Line allowed an interesting trend in New Year tourism, allowing tourism to be able to celebrate New Year’s Eve twice thanks to airplane and boat, with many partygoers going to Tuvalu for 31 December 1999.
History
Administered by the United Kingdom first as a protectorate from 1892 to 1916, then as a Colony from 1916 to 1979, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands first given the opportunity to part their ways in 1974, a motion that was defeated in a referendum, leading to a preparation for independence that started with an elected autonomous government from 1979 ; the granting of independence by the Shore Cabinet as a way to save coasts as the Pacific became less and less of a hot point in the Greater Game. On 1 October 1986, the archipelago became independent as a sovereign state within the Commonwealth as Tuvalu, with Queen Anne II ruling as Queen of Tuvalu. To this day, the country remains part of the Commonwealth, after a referendum on the republic was defeated in 2006.
Political situation
According to its Constitution, Tuvalu is an unitary non-partisan parliamentary constitutional monarchy, being a full member of the Commonwealth and thus acknowledging Queen Anne II of England as its monarch, represented by a Governor-General, currently Sir Taneti Maamau, a civil servant from the Gilbert Islands. Executive powers are invested in the Prime Minister, appointed by the unicameral 32-member Parliament. More than political parties, the Tuvaluan parliamentary system provides for an equal representation for both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands ; the Speaker of Parliament must come from the Gilbert Islands and the Prime Minister from the Ellice Islands, and vice versa. Law is inspired from both English law and local traditions. The capital is Funafuti.
The current Prime Minister is Maatia Toafa, a civil servant from the Ellice Islands, and has served since 12 June 2016, after the general election. A former foreign minister, Toafa won election upon his rival Anote Tong, thanks to concerns about climate change and the question of Tuvalu’s place in the Pacific. He was re-elected after the 6 June 2021 elections, thanks to his staunch stance on the Wuchang pneumonia pandemic.
Social situation, population
One of the smallest countries in the world, Tuvalu is also one of the least populated and with the heaviest density : mostly Christian (Calvinist tradition), Tuvaluans are mostly of Polynesian origin in the Ellice Islands while Gilbert Islanders are of Micronesian origin ; English is still used as an official language along with Tuvaluan, itself divided between Ellice and Gilbert dialects. In spite of these differences, Tuvalu remains one of the most stable countries within the Commonwealth.
One of the defining traits of the future of Tuvalu is the issue of climate change : subjected to cyclones and king tides, Tuvalu is also very low above sea level throughout the archipelago, making the prospect of the disappearance of the entire nation a dire reality of future times should the sea level rise. Urbanization has increased a lot since the turn of the millenium and evacuation plans have been drawn with Australia and Aotearoa should the situation become desperate.
Economy
Due its small size, Tuvalu has few natural resources, its phosphate deposits having been long exhausted at the time of independence : depending heavily on World Council and Australian economic aids, the island country can nevertheless count on its extensive maritime space to draw on its main resource : fishing and preservation of the sea fauna. Tuvalu has been accused many times by independent observers of being a tax haven, in order to cast itself as a reliable investment target.
Military
Tuvalu has no regular military forces and spends no money on the military : the British garrison left the archipelago upon independence and no threats currently exist in the region. The national police forces includes a maritime surveillance unit and provides for law and order.
Culture
The traditional culture in Tuvalu stayed mainly intact due to its isolation and throughout British colonization, typical of Polynesian ethnicity. Even if the Tuvaluan culture is not particularly renowned, even as a tourist organization, the crucial position of the archipelago on both sides of the International Date Line allowed an interesting trend in New Year tourism, allowing tourism to be able to celebrate New Year’s Eve twice thanks to airplane and boat, with many partygoers going to Tuvalu for 31 December 1999.
And there was no Park Chung-hee dictatorship ITTL, there was no Park Geun-hye either and thus no Shamangate. However, there are some variations to the scandal in other countries...
What became of Park Chung-hee ITTL, on that note? And speaking of Shamangate, what became of the two Chois (Choi Tae-Min and Choi Soon-sil) ITTL without a President to manipulate?
In addition to the "national leaders", will said update talk about what Monarchist PMs in TNO Russia (I'm looking at you, Gul, Shepunov, and Sobchak) ended up doing?
What happened to Maximiani Julia Portas? Perhaps with the great pagan awakenings her ideas are more popular, this reality spared of her unholy marriage between Vishnu and Hitler. Maybe she clings into her interest with Greek nationalism and becomes a proponent of Hellenism rather.
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Prince Laurens of Flanders
Laurens of Flanders (born October, 19 1963 in Brussels, then capital of Flanders) is a Flemish Prince, second son of former Duke of Brabant Albert, brother to King Filip of Flanders, and for a short time President of the Free City of Brussels (13 December 2006-13 February 2007) during the Brussels Crisis.
Even as his father was removed from the line of succession, Laurens had no prospect of ever acceding to the Flemish throne and was derided for his very poor abilities. Nevertheless, in the aftermath of the First Belgium War, he decided to make a name for itself by adopting the Bruxellian citizenship, against the advice of his family, and becoming a spokesperson for the Rattachist Cause, in spite of his very poor mastering of the French language.
When the 2006 Brussels presidential election ended with no candidate elected by the Parliament after nine ballots, Rattachist businessman Albert Mahieu, then President of the Parliament, took advantage of the Constitution to have himself appointed Acting President. He then appointed Prince Laurens as his successor, even if the Prince had no elected mandate in Brussels, resulting in a Flemish Prince becoming President of the Free City on December, 13 2006. From his status as as a puppet figurehead, Prince Laurens promised the unification of Brussels with Wallonia for December, 31 2007, infuriating his older brother the King of Flanders and creating uproar throughout Europe.
After two months of absurdity in Brussels, that included Laurens thinking about being crowned Prince of Brussels, Bruxellian Parliament having to proclaim a government in exile in Schaerbeek and very serious talks about a new Belgium War, his quixotic premiership ended with German special troops storming his seat of government, the former Royal Palace of Brussels. Prince Laurens and Mahieu surrendered after no bloodshed ; if Mahieu was condemned to a twenty-years-reclusion by the International Court of Justice for endangering the peace, Prince Laurens was content with exiling himself to Weimar, where his father-in-law, the Grand Duke of Saxony, ruled. When a Second Belgium War finally broke out in 2014, seven years after his own folly, his eccentric behaviour became more controversial.
Park Chung-hee was executed in the early days of independence, being accused of being a Japanese collaborationist. As of the two Chois, they certainly manage a cult somewhere in Korea.
Of course !
She had no Hitler to sacralize but turned into a strange alt-Fascist reading of Hinduism and went on to enthusiastically support Bose's regime, who tolerated her as a mere amusement.
Considering Park Chung-hee was executed, Park Geun-hye was butterflied away, and Kim Dae-jung was assassinated, what became of the other OTL Presidents of South Korea? Same for Lyuh Woon-hyung and Kim Gu.
German Protectorate of Morocco
...Under the Treaty of Amiens, the German Colonial Office took possession of the Protectorate of Morocco ; among the first resolutions made by Resident General Otto Liman von Sanders was to overthrow Sultan Youssef, whom he considered too influenced by his French predecessor Hubert Lyautey and to install his eight-year-old son Hassan II, bypassing his siblings. Hassan would enjoy almost fifty years of reign under the German yoke, happy to be a figurehead, indulging in earthly pleasures far from what a Commander of the Faithful was required to do, as Ernst Jünger would describe his decadent court in his Memories from Africa.
Liman von Sanders had already plenty to do during his nine-years-residency, as the Rif War went out of control due to Spain being undertaken by Abd el-Krim’s tactics and the turmoil and revolution ; the emotion created by the fall of Tangiers to Rifian troops in 1923 gave free reins to the Germans, who proceeded to subdue the Rif Republic, annexing Ceuta and Melilla in 1926 and establishing Tangiers as a Free City, after Spain had disappeared under the Syndicalists. At his death in 1929 in Casablanca, Liman von Sanders had effectively pacified the Rif and the High Atlas, putting an end to the colonization of Morocco, establishing a policy of close cooperation with the Berbers, the clerics and the Glaoui of Marrakech, that would define the German Protectorate of the Cherifian Kingdom for the thrity following years…
...By 1952, the Istiqlal Party had grown very steadily and rioted or immediate independence, putting forth the sacrifices made by the Moroccan Hiwis during the Battle of Morocco. Resident General Hans Georg von Friedeburg heard their concerns, but had to deal with the Alaouites and the loyalist forces, led by the Glaoui himself. Nevertheless, the Brentano Cabinet acknowledged that Morocco had lost of its strategic value, due to the reestablishment of the British in Gibraltar and the presence of Tangiers as a Free City ; moreover, the German had enough to do in Poland, Madagascar and Ethiopia to have a fourth colonial war on their hands just after the World War. German economic interests had become so entrenched in Morocco, where the elites had all taken education in Germany, that giving their independence to the Cherifian Kingdom would not be much of a big deal. Negotiations for Moroccan independence began in 1953 and after granting Morocco the (German-owned) resources-rich desertic lands of former Spanish Rio de Oro and Mauritania, independence was proclaimed on April, 7 1957 by the last Resident General, Ernst Jünger, after the last reluctances were removed with the timely death of the Glaoui in 1956.
Any other claims to fame he had ITTL aside from being a colonial governor? Was he still a prominent author ITTL?
Here you go :
Syngman Rhee - Assassinated by opponents in 1953
Yun Po-sun - Prime Minister from 1960 to 1961 and from 1961 to 1962.
Park Chung-hee - Executed as a Japanese collaborator during early independence
Choi Kyu-hah- Emigrated to Japan, under the name Umehara Keiichi.
Chun Doo-hwan - General in the Korean Army.
Roh Tae-woo - General in the Korean Army.
Kim Young-sam - Prime Minister from 1977 to 1979
Kim Dae-jung - Self-proclaimed Prime Minister in 1968, assassinated by the Korean government abroad.
Roh Moo-hyun - Liberal opposition leader.
Lee Myung-bak- Emigrated to the United States, businessman.
Park Geun-hye - Butterflied away due to her father's execution.
Moon Jae-in - Social-democratic leader, mayor of Pyongyang.
Yoon Suk-yeol - Current President of Interpol.
Lyuh Wooh-myung - Prime Minister from 1953 to 1956
Kim Gu - Prime Minister from 1944 to 1946
Russ Feingold
Russell Dana Feingold (born March 2, 1953 in Janesville, Wisconsin) is an American politician who serves as the 52nd and current President of the United States. A member of the Progressive Party, he previously served as an United States Senator for the State of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2016.
Born in Janesville, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family of Russian and Galician descent, Russ Feingold volunteered in 1972 for the presidential campaign of George McGovern. After graduating from Joseph A. Craig High School, Feingold attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts, later obtaining a second Bachelor of Arts from Magdalen College, at the University of Oxford, that he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. Upon his return, Feingold received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
After working as a private attorney, Feingold won his first electoral office, serving as a Progressive from 1983 to 1987 in the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 27th District. In 1987, a chance to rise to a national level arose : with the sudden death of Senator Wilbur J. Cohen, Governor Bronson La Follette appointed himself to the vacant seat, a controversial move as the Governor, son of President Robert La Follette, Jr., had been under an ethics investigation. La Follette had hoped that the special election scheduled for November would be a mere formality, given the status of Wisconsin as a Progressive stronghold, save for State Senator Feingold’s candidacy. In spite of his poor name recognition, La Follette managed to ride on his pledge to rely on Wisconsin citizens for most of his contributions, his pledge to eliminate the deficit and make cuts in the defense budget and his travel to each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. On 8 September 1987, the day of the Progressive primary, Feingold managed to defeat incumbent Senator La Follette in a major upset, scoring 59,67 % ; Feingold would went on to win the election by a strong 52,6 %, and would win re-election in 1992, 1998, 2004 and 2010. He would also serve as Senator with Bronson La Follette, who won on his own right in 1988.
In the Senate, Feingold would gain a reputation as a Progressive firebrand, not hesitating to criticize Presidents Gore and Edwards, even going so far as being the only Progressive senator to vote against a motion to dismiss’s Congress’s impeachment case against President John Edwards (even if he ultimately voted against conviction on all charges), pushing for a stronger welfare state, reparations for African and Native Americans, GRSM rights, fight against climate change, reinforcement of the Havana Organization, calling for abolition of the death penalty, the War on Drugs and stronger taxes on the wealthiest Americans, along with campaign finance reform and gun control.
Due to his strong liberal credentials, Feingold was frequently mentioned as a prospective presidential candidate, and would have certainly be appointed to Robert Reich’s cabinet had he been elected in 2008. After withdrawing before the Iowa caucuses in 2004, due to bad press generated by his second divorce and declining to run in 2012, Feingold’s posture was, in 2016, a longshot, who was eyeing his sixth mandate in the Senate, already 63 in a context where younger candidates could prevail. Nevertheless, Feingold declared his candidacy for President in late 2015, promising to have an amendment on limitations for campaign funding passed, to reduce income and wealth inequality, to vote laws against climate change, to abolish death penalty and to disband massive Internetz corporations.
Described as a long shot, with his Jewish confession and his three marriages as inconvenients, Feingold nevertheless portrayed himself as a elder statesman, appealing to the rural Progressive voters, far from the urban image of Progressive leaders, managing to raise 20 million dollars in January 2016,with an average donation of 27 dollars, showing his grassroots support. In a famous presidential debate, Feingold would be accused of being too old for a young nation. He quipped “I remember the times of McGovern, when the world looked up on America. Isn’t it time to make us great again?” In spite of a disappointing third place in the Iowa caucus, Feingold managed to win the New Hampshire primary and then the Super Tuesday, becoming the Progressive candidate. He picked his past competitor, Governor Julian Castro of Texas, as his running mate. Benefitting from 8 years of Conservative fatigue, Russ Feingold would win the presidential election on November, 8 2016, defeating Conservative Alex Johnson and Republican Mike Lee, becoming the first Jewish American President of the United States.
After appointing a “dream liberal” cabinet, Feingold would push towards campaign reform, introducing the 34th Amendment, allowing limits on the use of corporate and union money to fund political candidates, in order to limit “the heaviness of money in politics” : the 34th Amendment was ratified on March 27, 2019. The Feingold Administration also the extension of antitrust laws to the so-called “Internetz Bigs”, resulting in the break-up of billionaire high tech companies, while the GRSM Civil Rights Act was extended to trans people in 2017. In 2019, the Supreme Court outlawed death penalty on a federal level, as per Feingold’s demands, considering it “cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th Amendment. In 2020, the Police Reform Act was passed to combat police misconduct, excessive force and racial bias, requiring police departments to share data with the Department of Justice and outlawing vigilante activities. Feingold’s first term was also marred by terrorist attacks aimed at the GRSM and Jewish communities. He appointed to the Supreme Court Justices Kamala Harris (2018), J. Paul Oetken (2022) and Lucy Koh (2022).
The end of Feingold’s first term was of course marked by the Wuchang Pneumonia pandemic. Following in the Executive Health Counter-Measures adopted by the Keating Administration after the SRAS pandemic, Feingold reacted by implementing strict quarantine measures for all foreign visitors, closing effectively all borders for the United States, including with the Havana Organization, and imposing lockdowns in major cities, along with encouraging companies to apply for partial unemployment for their employees and working from home. If the US economy would shrink by 10 % in 2020, Feingold’s measures allowed the Wuchang Pneumonia never to exceed a 15 per 1000 cases, an impressive fact due to the United States’ size. Russ Feingold would also devolve 2 billion dollars to have the 2020 presidential election delayed over a whole week and to guarantee postal voting, making it compulsory in the most populated states and even online and verified voting taking place in major cities. An attempt to make the Bayer vaccine compulsory in the United States was defeated in Congress, while martial law was imposed in several cities in the West Coast to stop anti-Chinese pogroms.
In spite of a massive popular backlash against these measures, Russ Feingold and his Vice President, Julian Castro, would benefit from huge approval ratings riding in the 2020 presidential election, along with a fragmented Conservative Party : Feingold won re-election on November, 3 2020, after a week of voting, defeating Conservative Artur Davis, independent Kanye West and Republican Mike Cox by 48,1 %, the first Progressive winning re-election since Al Gore in 1992.
Feingold’s second term was marked by the strong recovery of the United States economy, allowed by the virtual elimination of Chinese competition and a 1,000-billion dollars Stimulus Package turned towards helping small companies to recover and preparing America to develop its future economy, with mass investments towards the modernization of the train and power grid systems, along with the Future Energy Act marking 2050 as the threshold for an almost carbon-free economy in the country, along with the outlawing of fossil fuel for cars and heating. Although dubbed unrealistic, Feingold’s plan was hailed by ecology experts throughout the world. On 6 January 2021, Feingold was victim of an assassination attempt perpetrated by neo-pyrist veteran Ashli Babbitt, managing to be unscathed in the attack. As of 2022, Feingold’s plans are focused on his “Green Society” plans, also eyeing gun reform should the 2022 midterms be in his favor.
Internationally, Feingold’s terms was marked by the Nicaragua Canal dirty bomb attack in 2018, along with the United States intervention in Venezuela, while Peru and Hispaniola were expelled from the Havana Organization. Feingold was regularly criticized for his lack of will to intervene in Hispaniola or Peru. Feingold has been considered an isolationist by foreign policy experts, due to his policies during the Wuchang Pneumonia pandemic and his push for renewable energy, marking the lack of interest in the Middle East. His policies align towards China ; during a state visit in 2019 in Germany, Feingold was reportedly shocked by some DVP deputies in the Reichstag turning their back on him during his speech, an avowed antisemitic move.
Feingold was married to Sue Levine from 1977 to 1986, then to Mary Speeschneider from 1991 to 2005. In 2013, he married Christine Ferdinand, a fellow from his Oxford days, who served as First Lady during his administration.
Are you going to do all the presidents of the United States since the POD?