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Why did I make this oh god why?
It's basically if that thing from the USA with the indian dude but a nation.
I regret everything
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A look at the Levantine ASR, a subdivision of the Union of Almajlis Socialist Republics from the Union of American Realms universe:

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So it's October, that means its time for an objectively horrifying scenario.

Map of the Empire of Africa, circa 1920.
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The Empire was founded by a club of British gentlemen called the Knights of Africa. The society was founded in 1848, and its members were united by their desire to colonize the African interior. The society's ideology was essentially that some men are greater than others, and are gifted with the natural ability to succeed. Conversely, the majority of people were "lessers" and constituted the "profligate masses of uncivil society." Such people would be doomed to fail through their natural unfitness, the Knights claimed. The Knights believed that greater and lesser-hood were essentially racial in nature, that is to say that someone from a "lesser" race could only be successful relative to other "lessers". As a result of this supremacist ideology, the Knights believed that it was their God-given purpose to give Africa greater rulers so they could realize the untapped potential of the continent. The method the Knights selected for dividing the continent reflected their worldview: they would sell parts of Africa to anyone able to pay for them, as their ability to do so would be proof of their greater-hood.

Anyone financially able to do so could buy the title of Sultan from the Knights of Africa, and set out on an expedition to Africa to claim it for themselves. Because Britain monopolized the seas around Africa, and its colonial policy beyond South Africa had generally been to allow the African states to develop on their own, the Knights were allowed to operate unchecked. By 1900, Africa had become a patchwork of colonial domains ruled by a sultan in accordance with the Knights of Africa's ideology, which they called Civilism. The common African people were forced to work corvee shifts for their sultan to construct infrastructure as a means of proving their utility. This included constructing planned cities as vanity projects for the sultans and their nobility, and constructing roads and railroads on the hostile terrain. The work was enforced with the bayonets of the askari armies, loyal to the sultan's money. The Knights imposed a caste system within their empire, with noble Englishmen at its top, followed by Northern Europeans, Slavs, Southern Europeans, Arabs, Indians, Chinese, and Africans. The Africans were differentiated into local castes depending on region, and were forced to conform to tribal stereotypes through sumptuary laws. Despite the enforcement of cultural practices, and the general laxity on religion (many of the founding Knights were deist or atheist), the supposed "lessers" were forced to change their traditional livelihoods to accommodate the corvee and the development of a service economy in cities. Famine set in, and the Knights allowed it to linger as a way of weeding out those they deemed unfit.

In 1935, the Emperor was assassinated with a sickle by his African gardeners and the sultanates began fighting for control of the Empire. This coincided with a massive popular uprising to drive out the European imperialists. Since then, Inner Africa has never been united again and has become a patchwork of feuding warlord states. Some of them are native African in origin, like the Maasai Confederation and the Republic of Kongo, others are the remnants of the Civilist sultanates, like the Sultanate of the Southwest.
 
It's getting close to All Hallows Eve, so have something within the realm of Cosmic Horror.
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It was strange, statistics showed that there should have been at least one planet with multi-cellular, non microscopic life somewhere in the galaxy. But oddly enough, there was none. Now Archaeologists and explorers had undoubtedly found evidence for such life forms, they've even found evidence for other intelligent species. The thing is though, evidence was all that was found. Fossils, tools, structures and relics, all signs that life had existed, but when scientists more closely examined these worlds, no life was found; no plants, no animals, not even single cell lifeforms. When it came to evidence for intelligent life, it was always the same story; remnants of tools, machines, even the occasional space worthy craft. But they had all been left behind, and any tools discovered had been left without handles, binding, or other components composed of organic material. What made it truly unsettling however, was that on all the worlds found with evidence for intelligent life, researchers had also uncovered evidence that something happened, something which seemed to have done away with anything and everything organic. Whenever they found documentation of whatever caused this, all that was found were tales of some unknown force, described by these records as feeling ancient and predatory.
Recently, many exploration vessels have gone missing, and attempts to investigate either end in more missing ships, or vehicles found in similar states as almost every planet.
 

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Heres a map I made centuries ago for a roleplay with some friends that I wanted to eventually turn into a timeline called "Red Tide", I don't really have much to say about it but it never went anywhere sadly
Seems like a nice idea for a HOI4 mod
 
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My current Victoria II CWE/NWO run, playing first as a democratic USA during the Cold War, before switching over to China after the Cold War ended. Literally dystopia incarnate happened.

Current state of the world - 2014:
The main PoD I guess would be a much more violent collapse of the Eastern Bloc, as the GDR (now known as the Republic of Prussia) failed to unify with West Germany and instead transitioned into a corrupt dictatorship, engaging in frequent border conflicts with Poland. It has since become a democracy, albeit one dominated by the NPD as they have yet to lose an election. West Germany further collapsed into the North German Federation, a dictatorship ran by the Bundeswehr and Bavaria, a democracy albeit with a slight religious bent as a coalition between the CSU and the Party of Bible-abiding Christians. France and Italy fell to populist governments which had frequent border conflicts with each other, though have since democratized and at least France has rejoined the European Union. Russia remained a declining power under A Just Russia and PARNAS as the two main political parties, until 2005 when Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the LDPR won the election. Russia has since been rebuilding its influence in Europe, Romania has fallen under Russia's sphere of influence, and by 2007, Russia took Crimea from Ukraine and guaranteed the independence of Novorussiya.

China continued its rise, after crushing pro-democratic dissent, it proceeded to directly integrate Hong Kong and Macau, as well as finally annex the RoC, which nearly caused a war with the United States. Japan attempted to intervene, although this resulted in a quick victory by China, and a unification of the Korean peninsula under the DPRK, which has since fallen to American influence [1]. The government of China remains the Dengist sort of Marxist-Leninist-Maoism, with Xi Jinping in control of an even more powerful China, which has its backyard (mostly) under its direct control or influence. The chief rival of China is India, which has at least settled its border conflicts in favor of China, albeit with Pakistan being annexed into the Republic of India, costing China a major ally. India is a two-party "guided" democracy, with the Shiv Sena, moderating with its irredentist claims achieved, as the right-wing and the Indian National Congress as the left of Indian politics. Shiv Sena has been dominating, although for a short period lost to the INC. [2]

The United States engaged in an expanded War on Terror. Kerry won in 2004, although only expanded the war to North Germany's military dictatorship, following terrorist attacks by a white nationalist group discovered to have ties to North Germany. Despite the victory in Iraq, the war with North Germany stalled, as the rest of NATO refused to get involved. The War in Afghanistan also worsened, as by 2011, the Taliban had full control over the country, with American Troops being relocated to the European front. At home, a large movement of anti-war Democrats ran on a peace ticket in 2012, backed up by smaller parties along with the CPUSA, which became the core of a wider anti-war movement. Countering them was the militia movement and the Tea Party Movement, which pointed to the CPUSA's involvement as a communist dictatorship being established. Newly inaugurated President Obama signed a peace deal with North Germany, which included democratization. The removal of troops from the Middle East only resulted in further chaos in the region, as Turkey proceeded to expand in Syria and Iran in turn did the same, annexing the Shia regions of Iraq. The returning troops aligned with the Tea Party Movement, and in mid-2013, a military coup removed President Obama. The Tea Party Movement, an alliance of GOP Conservatives and disenfranchised military officers has been running the country as a dictatorship since, with President Sarah Palin acting as a figurehead. [3]

Possibly the only light in a darkening world is the United Kingdom, now the leader of NATO and hosting the United Nations Council. Since the late 90s, the UK is a social democracy dominated by Labour and increasingly in favor of European integration after the Anglo-American split of the mid-2000s along with the lack of a stable Germany or France to be the guiding force. While OTL some claim the EU as a Fourth Reich, ITTL ironically the EU is seen by its opponents as a new British Empire. France and Ireland are firmly under British influence, while the EU also includes Belgium, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries and Austria, which is ironically the neutral talking point for German reunification. The Yugoslav Wars were at least avoided, as Yugoslavia transitioned into a loose confederation, which only really exists on-paper as Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina all have separate parliaments and even separate trade agreements - Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia are allies of Zhirinovsky's Russia, while Bosnia is staunchly neutral. [4]

[1] Yeah, game mechanics. After Japan was contained by me playing as the PRC, the DPRK looked like it was about to become a Great Power with all of South Korea's industrial capacity built-up over the years, so I ignored influencing it. Its since fallen under the US sphere but I could see China looking at atrocities committed in South Korea, along with Kim likely refusing to accept China-esque reforms and going 'what have I done' while Tea Party-ran America picks them up as an ally of convenience.

[2] Populists took over India in the 80s, they never did a coup but they did annex Pakistan and Bangladesh and kept a democracy, they briefly lost power 2004-2008 to the INC, then got reelected again after that. I can see India's government being like OTL Japan, except huge.

[3] American AI was weird since I dumped playing them after I won the Cold War circa 1994, they got into a forever war with NGF because they couldn't ever break the European blockade, and North Germany actually has a bunch of European, African and South American countries as allies which helped push back the US Navy. They did do a few landings, but in classic Paradox AI style, they only landed a few stacks which were then taken out by the Germans. The Communist Party of the USA actually won the election in 2012, single-handedly, but I thought that was weird so I only had them be a coalition partner of more socially-aligned Democrats. There was a huge uprising of Populist rebels which occupied Washington and put the 'Tea Party Movement' in charge, which I can only assume is THE Tea Party of the early 2010s.

[4] Yugoslavia does still exist in the game, it owns OTL Serbia and has Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia as puppets.

Other notes: Apartheid South Africa somehow still exists, Zimbabwe is a stable multi-party democracy.
 

Skallagrim

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Here's something a little different from the usual scenarios depicting events surrounding the Aamerican Civil War: an ATL where most things happen to occur in much the same way, but it's a world where A) secession is explicitly mentioned in the Consitution as "an inalienable right derived from Nature", and B) abolitionism gains much more popular support than in OTL in both the (Northern) USA and Britain. This ATL sees a Northern President faced with the deaths of multiple Supreme Court Justices during his term of administration, and he appoints men who later turn out to be more sympathetic to abolition than even many in the North had suspected. When a contentious case is ultimately brought before the court, the majority rules that slavery itself is unconsitutional.

Naturally, a call for Southern secession follows at once. The vagueness of the Constitution's wording, however, combined with the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, leads the Federal government to insist that if secessions go through, counter-secessions (e.g. West Virginia) must likewise be respected. Oh, and also... slavery has already been rendered void, so all blacks are now citizens, and they get to vote in the secession pleibiscites, too. This is furiously disputed in the South, but eagerly backed by Britain and France.

What follows is a rather brief war, during which the South is mostly occupied, and pleibiscites are held conforming to the federal government's terms. As it turns out, most blacks eagerly support the idea of pleibiscites on a more local level, since they aren't a majority in most (former) slave states. Thus, the result of the secession pleibiscites sees considerable areas of the South opt to secede, while several black-majority areas vote for counter-secession. The Trans-Appalachian regions vote to remain with the Union, since they are largely cut off from the secessionist Deep South by a belt of nascent "Freedmen Republics". (Also, the USA promises several Trans-Appalachian states some interesting border adjustments and a lot of federal investment in order to sweeten the pot.)

The whole affair is less than entirely clean, however. For starters, there are severe voting irregularities in several regions, most especially in South Carolina. For another thing, Britain (which is directly involved in occupying the Deep South), seeks to turn the secessionist regions into British clients, and ocasionally looks the other way during all this vote-rigging. Also, Britain supports the Texian insistence on gaining certain territorial areas. (And is backed in this by France, which in turn gets British support for its claim-by-proxy in the form of a Mexican demand for certain border adjustments in the West. This boon for Mexican pride, and the French aliance with Britain, allows the French to ultimaely succeed in propping up the Imperial regime in Mexico.)

By the end of the whole affair, slavery has been abolished; the USA is feeling somewhat shafted; the CSA is much-reduced but independent (albeit a captive market to Britain); Texas has chosen to become a sovereign republic again (considerably more self-sufficient than the CSA); the Second Mexican Empire has better odds for survival; the Freedmen Republics have become US clients/protectorates; most whites have predictably fled from said Freedmen Republics (either to the USA or to the CSA, depending on political loyalties); and most blacks have fled from the CSA and Texas (and quite often fro the remaining Southern USA as well) to the Freedmen Republics. By spring of 1864, the whole matter is settled.

The USA gains neither Alaska nor Hawaii, and becomes relatively non-interventionist. It's still an economic powerhouse, though: the loss of the seceded regions of largely offset by the fact that Northern political supremacy facilitates much more pro-industrial policies on the federal level. Texas is rather middling initially, but once oil is struck, there's a major economic boom. The CSA remains rather agrarian and relatively poor. The lower costs of living make this more bearable for the populace, although there's a lot of emigration. US companies have started to increasingly export their manufacturing centres to the CSA because of the much lower worker salaries. The Freedmen Republics are generally more successful, having diversified their economy (and having benefited from heavy US investment). Mexico enjoyed successive waves of liberalisation, and has become something of a Southern equivalent to Canada (as seen from the US perspective).

All in all, the avoidance of shit like Jim Crow, the example of successful republics governed by African-Americans, the need for the seceded Southerners to sort out their own affairs (without getting to exploit others), and the thriving Mexico have all led to a more liberal and considerably less racist North America. This includes more respect for Native American rights-- most obviously in the form of the semi-autonomous Sequoyah Free State.


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Here's something a little different from the usual scenarios depicting events surrounding the Aamerican Civil War: an ATL where most things happen to occur in much the same way, but it's a world where A) secession is explicitly mentioned in the Consitution as "an inalienable right derived from Nature", and B) abolitionism gains much more popular support than in OTL in both the (Northern) USA and Britain. This ATL sees a Northern President faced with the deaths of multiple Supreme Court Justices during his term of administration, and he appoints men who later turn out to be more sympathetic to abolition than even many in the North had suspected. When a contentious case is ultimately brought before the court, the majority rules that slavery itself is unconsitutional.

Naturally, a call for Southern secession follows at once. The vagueness of the Constitution's wording, however, combined with the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, leads the Federal government to insist that if secessions go through, counter-secessions (e.g. West Virginia) must likewise be respected. Oh, and also... slavery has already been rendered void, so all blacks are now citizens, and they get to vote in the secession pleibiscites, too. This is furiously disputed in the South, but eagerly backed by Britain and France.

What follows is a rather brief war, during which the South is mostly occupied, and pleibiscites are held conforming to the federal government's terms. As it turns out, most blacks eagerly support the idea of pleibiscites on a more local level, since they aren't a majority in most (former) slave states. Thus, the result of the secession pleibiscites sees considerable areas of the South opt to secede, while several black-majority areas vote for counter-secession. The Trans-Appalachian regions vote to remain with the Union, since they are largely cut off from the secessionist Deep South by a belt of nascent "Freedmen Republics". (Also, the USA promises several Trans-Appalachian states some interesting border adjustments and a lot of federal investment in order to sweeten the pot.)

The whole affair is less than entirely clean, however. For starters, there are severe voting irregularities in several regions, most especially in South Carolina. For another thing, Britain (which is directly involved in occupying the Deep South), seeks to turn the secessionist regions into British clients, and ocasionally looks the other way during all this vote-rigging. Also, Britain supports the Texian insistence on gaining certain territorial areas. (And is backed in this by France, which in turn gets British support for its claim-by-proxy in the form of a Mexican demand for certain border adjustments in the West. This boon for Mexican pride, and the French aliance with Britain, allows the French to ultimaely succeed in propping up the Imperial regime in Mexico.)

By the end of the whole affair, slavery has been abolished; the USA is feeling somewhat shafted; the CSA is much-reduced but independent (albeit a captive market to Britain); Texas has chosen to become a sovereign republic again (considerably more self-sufficient than the CSA); the Second Mexican Empire has better odds for survival; the Freedmen Republics have become US clients/protectorates; most whites have predictably fled from said Freedmen Republics (either to the USA or to the CSA, depending on political loyalties); and most blacks have fled from the CSA and Texas (and quite often fro the remaining Southern USA as well) to the Freedmen Republics. By spring of 1864, the whole matter is settled.

The USA gains neither Alaska nor Hawaii, and becomes relatively non-interventionist. It's still an economic powerhouse, though: the loss of the seceded regions of largely offset by the fact that Northern political supremacy facilitates much more pro-industrial policies on the federal level. Texas is rather middling initially, but once oil is struck, there's a major economic boom. The CSA remains rather agrarian and relatively poor. The lower costs of living make this more bearable for the populace, although there's a lot of emigration. US companies have started to increasingly export their manufacturing centres to the CSA because of the much lower worker salaries. The Freedmen Republics are generally more successful, having diversified their economy (and having benefited from heavy US investment). Mexico enjoyed successive waves of liberalisation, and has become something of a Southern equivalent to Canada (as seen from the US perspective).

All in all, the avoidance of shit like Jim Crow, the example of successful republics governed by African-Americans, the need for the seceded Southerners to sort out their own affairs (without getting to exploit others), and the thriving Mexico have all led to a more liberal and considerably less racist North America. This includes more respect for Native American rights-- most obviously in the form of the semi-autonomous Sequoyah Free State.


The local plebiscites would probably be opposed constitutionally because there's also a clause about state borders being inviolable without a vote of the state itself, right?

Interesting scenario though.
 

Skallagrim

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The local plebiscites would probably be opposed constitutionally because there's also a clause about state borders being inviolable without a vote of the state itself, right?

Interesting scenario though.

In OTL, there would be more grounds to object constitutionally. In this ATL, the Constitution's wording offers contradictory interpretations derived from different clauses. (Specifically, the right to secede is explicitly mentioned, but not explicitly afforded to states. The Northern take on it, here, is basically: "We can't force a state to hold a pleibiscite abnout letting a region split off from it, but if a state wants to organise a pleibiscite about secession, it has to allow and respect votes for counter-secession as well.")
 
The POD here is someone from the 21st Century who's absolutely convinced that if he were sent back in time to the Roman Empire he could seize control using his understanding of modern technology and lead the world to an unprecedented era of enlightenment actually getting his wish. Transported to Rome in 121 AD, he rapidly realises that not only is spoken Latin much trickier to pick up than he thought, his knowledge of the centuries of incremental technological improvement required for the breakthroughs he understands is also entirely lacking. Surviving for three years on the Roman corn dole, he dies of an untreated infection having failed (or so he thinks) to make any impression on the ancient world whatsoever.

Two years after his death, several woman in Rome start to develop pustules over their bodies, a chronic low-level fever and uncontrollable tremors. Madness and death soon follows. The disease (soon to be known as Morbus Persicus, or "the Persian disease") is spread from port city to port city by sailors, who infect the local population. Within five years, the disease has become endemic across much of the Roman Empire, with an estimated 1% of the population having died and many more having been rendered sterile.

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