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Always love me some of your workI'm not going to write some exposition without making the writing a bit awkward so I might as well explain it personally. Anyway, This is basically an advertisement, a call from the government to support domestic goods over imported ones. After an incident with the Chinese in the South China Seas ended in a disaster for the United States Seventh Fleet, the federal government encouraged (or threatened depending on perspective) companies abroad to move their manufacturing centers from China to the Continental US with compensation and benefits. Most companies returned because of it but there are folks who are reluctant to return and eventually faced massive tariffs.
In turn, the Department of Commerce made efforts to encourage people into buying locally-produced goods and brands. Directing commercials, making programs to showcase local produces, and spotlighting small companies. But one of them tried to make a simple but eye-catching mark, one that they expect for all Americans to recognize without much thought. Inspired by Canada's wordmark, they immediately hired graphic designers and artists to make the most iconic brand possible. They also set up a contest in public schools as well in order to bring the most of out it. Eventually, the brand that you're seeing now was made by a 17-year-old amateur in Kentucky, designed with nothing more but a low-end computer. The department chose it as their new brand and compensated her with $10,000.
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Thank you Marlowski, very cool!
Uniforms of the Action Francaise's Paramilitary Wing, the Milice Francaise from TL-191.
Made a fake Al Jazeera article about the Albanian Independence Movement in a democratic, but reluctant, Italy.
Basically, Mussolini is deposed sometime between 1939 and WW2. A united republican/monarchist/anti-fascist front deposes Mussolini and creates a united centrist Italy. The new Italy joins the Allies in WW2 but never gives up its colonies (Dardanelles, Libya, Albania).
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The HMS Britannia, the largest and most technologically advanced airship ever made, was also billed as "the most luxurious" by its owner and operator, White Lion Airlines. Construction began in March 1930 by the White Lion Airship Company (owned by WLA) in Southampton. By July 1934, the gigantic "cruiser of the skies" was ready for operational flights.
For its maiden voyage, WLA advertised an "Imperial Tour", which would take the HMS Britannia on "the first aerial circumnavigation of the British Empire in history". Departing from London on 11 August 1934, the Britannia crossed the Atlantic and arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in just 60 hours. The Britannia continued south, visiting Montreal, then Toronto. It made a quick stop in Bermuda before continuing on to Nassau in The Bahamas. It then visited Kingston and Port-of-Spain before making another service stop in Georgetown, Guyana. Overflying South America, the Britannia entered the open Pacific, continuing on to the longest portion of the Imperial Tour.
The Britannia moored at Auckland, New Zealand. After another brief visit to Wellington, it crossed over to Melbourne, Australia. The airship visited Sydney and Brisbane before servicing at Port Moresby in Papua, and then it traversed north to Singapore. From Singapore, the Britannia would dash across South East Asia, making stops at Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Rangoon. It was then off to the Great Raj: Calcutta, Delhi, Jaipur, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Bangalore, and Colombo were all stops in the Imperial Tour. The airship briefly visited Muscat and then it made it to Jerusalem in Transjordan. From there, the Britannia arrived at Alexandria and Cairo. Traveling up the Nile, the Britannia stopped at Khartoum, Zanzibar, and Salisbury, the latter for resupplying.
The African leg of the tour was finalized with visits at Pretoria, Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. Entering the Atlantic once again, the airship made a resupply stop at Saint Helena (the HMS Valiant aircraft carrier was waiting for it) before ascending up once again. In the final part of the Imperial Tour, the Britannia landed on Gibraltar, before finally returning to London to a massive celebration after five months of worldwide travel.
The HMS Britannia was adopted by the British government as "the flagship of Britain". It was no secret that the airship had been developed with the purpose of challenging Germany's domination in the aerial travel industry. Ever since winning the Great War, Germany had spearheaded the development of cumbersome, hydrogen-filled contraptions into safe, reliable, and luxurious helium-filled machines of modernity. The HMS Britannia is scheduled to accompany King Edward VIII in his historic visit to Kaiser Wilhelm II on 24 September 1937. One can only hope that this monumental summit does not go awry...
Nothing like a good vintage poster to brighten up quarantine!
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Privately owned ships can't be HMS.
That's reserved for His Majesty's Ships, i.e. the government.
That's reserved for His Majesty's Ships, i.e. the government.
Cover of Element magazine, issue dated 17 March, 2019
Meet Elon Musk: presidential candidate for the Technocratic Party, and one of the most influential youth figures in South Africa. A graduate from the prestigious Kruger University, Musk made a name for himself in business after launching Edison, a company that develops groundbreaking technology using renewable resources. By the early 2000's, Musk was a billionaire, but above all, a visionary who was launching a politically and socially stagnant South Africa towards the future. He established Cosmic, the first private space-oriented company in Africa, which designed and launched its first spacecraft in 2011. By this time, Musk would become increasingly involved in important sociopolitical issues of the day. He gained widespread recognition after supporting major protests by black South Africans who were demanding their enfranchisement. Musk, through his extensive use of social media and his support for progressive causes, became an idol for the modern generation of South Africans who were against the 90-year-old system of institutionalized racism.
Musk would officially delve into politics in 2014, when he was elected Mayor of Cape Town. During his tenure, he fiercely protested the laws of apartheid, which forbade blacks from obtaining higher education, voting, starting businesses, and mingling with non-blacks. In 2016, Musk outlawed the enforcement of apartheid in the Cape Town city government and within property owned by the municipality. The government declared Musk's actions "illegal" and placed the city in lockdown. This prompted outcry from young whites and blacks alike: the Supreme Court building was occupied by protestors pressuring the judges to support Musk's actions. The verdict declared that the case was "inconclusive" and that "it would be imprecise to accept any of the proposed definitions of what constitutes an 'illegal outreach of authority' by an official legally exercising mayoral duties." Cape Town thus became the first city to ban apartheid discrimination.
A noted technocrat, Musk has become one of the most prominent members of a small yet fast-growing wave of "African technocrats". It is Musk's belief that "a technocratic model would dissolve racial boundaries without adopting the harmful policies of socialism." Although African technocracy is mostly identified with the political left, Musk has said that the movement "cannot be strictly divided along ideological lines." In 2018, he founded the Technocratic Party and announced his intentions to contest the 2020 presidential elections. It is the first time that longtime incumbent F. W. de Klerk, who has been in office since 1993, has received such a strong opponent.
"I am making a revolution," he told Element. "That's really the only way to define it. And I guarantee you, the world has never seen anything like it."
Part of a broader universe I have more-less fleshed out. Questions are welcome!
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It looks amazing. I hate that he named the company Edison ITTL, but the writeup and the graphic are top notch. How did Apartheid end up surviving in South Africa? Why did the supreme court allow him to ban Apartheid in Cape Town? Is it because other parts of the government are slowly liberalizing as well or is it to avoid an international scandal? What does the rest of Africa look like? Is Rhodesia also pulling its rotten ass around? Is the rest of Africa the same as IOTL or are there any interesting changes (i'd assume the map looks more or less the same so I mean more political changes)? Socialism seems to still be seen as a threat, is this a prolonged cold war?
All in all, very interesting stuff.
Thank you so much! The PoD's actually a Southern victory timeline. Wanting to divert from conventional storylines, ITTL Robert E. Lee pulls a Washington and retires to private life after the conclusion of the Civil War. This allows nasty radical Nathan Bedford Forrest to succeed Jefferson Davies in 1868, thus driving the Confederacy down a line of extremism and slavery-driven expansionism.
That takes us to Africa. By the 1880's, slavery is starting to decline. But folks in Richmond still want their cheap labor; this results in the CSA becoming a colonialist power, establishing settlements in the Pepper Coast (OTL Liberia) and most importantly, the southeastern coast of Africa. At the 1885 Berlin Conference, the CSA nabs OTL Liberia, Tanzania, northern Malawi, Rwanda-Burundi, and southern Uganda. White Confederates move in droves to get that cheap native labor and the never-ending national resources. The influx of white settlers upsets the balance in southern Africa: between the genocides, hunger, disease and forced relocations, the black population diminishes across the entirety of the region, meaning that a 40%-60% difference between both groups exists.
After World War I (German victory), the CSA is forced to let go of her East Africa colony, which becomes the Republic of Swahilia. South Africa then becomes an authoritarian, right-wing apartheid state, forming a strong bond with Swahilia. I think something similar to WWII still happens, perhaps along the lines of TL 191... whatever the case, it only furthers the autonomy of South Africa, which becomes an independent state in the late 1930's. Rhodesia still comes along in the 1950's, followed by a joint invasion of Bechuanaland (Botswana), which is torn apart and ethnically cleansed. North Rhodesia is also invaded, becoming the state of Zambezia. In the late 60's, when Mozambique tries to become a thing, the white republics invade and partition it among themselves, while the northern end becomes "Lusafrica", another member of the apartheid club (I actually posted a wikibox about it).
So that's about it, so far. Lots of changes, not just in Africa. And yes, socialism is still around, as is fascism. I suppose in modern times, South Africa is at the dawn of a new political age, although that's still not arrived.
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Super cool, I am actually featuring Elon Musk in my TL, which is apartheidless ( so no sanctions and other negative stuff).
Apple Keynote.
Like... the Mac's free presentation software.
Through resourcefulness and many years of practice, I've become pretty good at it. All of my graphics are made on Keynote. It's amazing the stuff you can do with it.