God I love this TL. If you and @LeinadB93 ever collaborated, I don't think my brain could take it.
Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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Will we ever see a wikibox for one of the Chinese elections? I'd love to see an infographic of this. Great timeline by the way, seriously sterling work.
I thought about doing that. I might do the most recent one (2016), but I am working on tweaking the list of U.S. Presidents currently. Thanks for that as well! I enjoy spending time on this.
List of Presidents of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the Chief Executive of the United States, and acts as the Head of State and Head of Government. The position was established in 1800 with the ratification of the current Constitution of the United States. The only limitations placed on serving as President are one must obtain the age of 35, be a citizen of the United States, and have lived in the United States for the preceding ten years.
The incumbent President is Marco Antonio Rubio, the former freshman Senator from Cuba, and serving as his Vice-President is Mary Fallin, herself the former Governor of Sequoyah. Rubio defeated incumbent President Janet Yellen in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Historically, there had been opposition to President's seeking re-election, heeding the advice of former President Thomas Jefferson, who declared that after sixteen years of Federalist control, "No President should ever serve more than a single term in office."
Jefferson's own successor, James Monroe, ignored this message, but James Madison, who succeeded Monroe on his death, refused to run for re-election. Henry Clay as well did not observe this, winning three terms as President. It wasn't until John Calhoun and the Democratic Party came to power did the tradition begin to be observed. Calhoun rejected a second term, as did Robert Rhett and John Quitman. President William Yancey was assassinated in Hamilton, D.C. by Abolitionists, and his vice-president Louis Wigfall attempted to run for re-election on a pro-slavery platform, but lost to William Seward who promised to restrict slavery in the territories. Seward was then assassinated by a pro-slavery loyalist. Vice President John McLean died shortly after taking office, and the recently elected President pro tempore Abraham Lincoln became President, and oversaw the dissolution of the Union and the beginning of the American Civil War, which the United States would be victorious in.
Lincoln reaffirmed Jefferson's vows, only saying that he had taken up the immense challenge of an extraordinary civil war, which would not be the norm. The following six Presidents, Colfax, Blaine, Mahone, Cleveland, Bloxham, and Campbell would serve only one term, until Lincoln's own son Robert ran for re-election during the 1900 Presidential Election due to the ongoing war against Spain.
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt would inaugurate the greatest shift in American politics since the Civil War. The National Democrats had controlled the government for 32 of the past 40 years, and Roosevelt's aggressive progressiveness shook the party's foundations to its core, eventually the right split off as the National Party, while Roosevelt continued under the Progressives, which merged with the nascent Liberal Party. Roosevelt would serve 16 years, the same as Hamilton, and was for many the only President they ever knew. He brought an end to the Great War in Europe by threatening to intervene on the side of the Germans, and for his own disdain for French and British possessions in the Caribbean.
The Nationals won power in 1924 after Roosevelt decided to step aside, and President Charles Dawes oversaw the latter half of the roaring 20s and the beginning of the Great Depression. The radical Progressive Norman Thomas, who described himself as a socialist, won in a close election with Vice-President Curtis. President Thomas instituted a large amount of social programmes, going so far as to leave the Progressive Party and form the Social Labor Party, which he said would espouse Socialist ideals. Progressives were quick to switch to the party and make up a majority of the delegates to the 1936 Social Labor Party convention, and while they re-nominated President Thomas, they placed the moderate Franklin Roosevelt as his running mate. When President Thomas attempted to run again in 1940, the party nominated Roosevelt instead, and adopted a platform that was only modesty socialist, ignoring the radical elements championed by Thomas.
President Roosevelt stepped aside after a term, allowing Thomas Dewey of New York to be elected. Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected Vice-President, and she served one term before she was replaced on the ticket by Earl Warren of her own accord. President Warren would be the only man to serve two non-consecutive terms as President, with Hubert Humphrey winning the 1956 election, and Warren winning the 1960 election.
The 1970s were dominated by Nelson Rockefeller, whose moderate platform united much of the country and won him four landslide elections, although he died in office shortly before the starting his fourth term, leading to the short presidency of William Scranton who had served as Vice President for three terms, but had decided to retire. Vice President-elect George Romney was thus the first person to be elected Vice President and succeed directly to the Presidency.
After Romney's term in office, Walter Mondale and John Glenn both served as President, promoting moderate socialist policies and expanding the nation's healthcare system. Nancy Kassebaum became the first woman elected President in 1992, defeating Jerry Brown of Hamilton, who would come back to win the 1996 election and serve a term before being ousted by Hector Ruiz. Ruiz, Graham, Ashe, and Yellen all observed the single term precedent, with recently elected President Rubio pledging to do the same, although when questioned in 2018, he said it was open to interpretation.
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Wait what is the 'imperial' party?
The Commonwealth of Nations is a political and economic union composed of former portions of the British Empire. Formally adopted on 11 December 1931, the Commonwealth of Nations first consisted of the United Kingdom, Canada, New England, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. As the United Kingdom granted more political independence to her colonies, all joined the Commonwealth of Nations under their pro-British governments. After the Indian Conflict saw Britain grant all of India independence in the mid 1950s, the Socialist Republic of India became the first country to formally withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations. After the violent overthrow of the government of Tanganyika in 1974, the new revolutionary government denounced the Commonwealth as a relic of Imperialism. During the African Independence Wars of the 1970s/1980s, the founding members of the Commonwealth of Nations agreed to form the Commonwealth Parliament, and would cede various legislative authority for the purposes of greater inter-Commonwealth commerce and easier movement between countries.
The Commonwealth has been steadily losing member nations as African countries gained independence or transitioned to an anti-British government. While the Commonwealth once hosted all of Britain's former colonies in Africa, now only three African-majority countries on the continent itself remain, Sierra Leone, Lesotho and Swaziland. Namibia and Northern Rhodesia have an African plurality and remain within the Commonwealth. Accra and Rhodesia have a European plurality, while Natal is the only European-majority country in Africa.
Natal joined after South Africa became a Republic under a heavily Apartheid government and then began the systematic relocation of African peoples, to which the Commonwealth of Nations ejected them from the organisation, and recognised the Declaration of Independence of Natal, after nearly four million Zulu had been displaced or killed. South Africa still does not recognise this secession, and claims Natal as the Province of Natal. Similarly, Namibia declared independence from the Apartheid government, which the Commonwealth again recognised and sent soldiers to protect the province. Many Commonwealth Parliament debates revolve around the policy towards South Africa, an international pariah state with nuclear weapons, as well as the ever-present refugee problem in Natal, Rhodesia, and Namibia.
Canada and Nigeria were the most recent members of the Commonwealth of Nations to leave, doing so under protest of the continuing War in Burma. In 2008, the Commonwealth agreed to let several British Crown Colonies to hold representation in the Parliament, after they were similarly granted representation in the British House of Commons in 2006.
The current Commonwealth Parliament consists of 445 members from 40 countries and 9 Crown Colonies. The leading Coalition (also sometimes called the Government, despite the Parliament not being organised in a Westminster system) is composed of the Progressive, Prosperity, and Justice Parties. MCP John Tsang (Progressive-Hong Kong) is the current leader of the Coalition. The Opposition is headed by MCP John Bredenkamp (Imperial-Rhodesia). Other parties not in the Coalition or Opposition are the Anti-Colonialism Party, the fascist Empire's Guardians, and Indigenous Rights.
Commonwealth: Parties of the Commonwealth Parliament
Party: Majority View/Minority View. Description.
Progressive: Centre-Left/Left. Believes in economic progress that is a shared responsibility, funded by wealthier Commonwealth nations to raise up all of the other nations that lag behind. Currently the largest party in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and New England.
Prosperity: Centre/Centre Right. Takes a more laissez faire approach to economics. Believes in supporting businesses across the Commonwealth and removing all current (minimal) trade barriers. Supports inter-Commonwealth immigration (mostly for cheap labour; but they do a great job of dressing it up). Basically, the party of business.
Justice: Left/Far-Left. Supports social justice across the Commonwealth. Believes that the Commonwealth can be used as a tool for advancing human rights and development in the lesser off countries. Wants further integration in the Commonwealth to form a unified government that would take care of the needs of all. Supports the establishment of a Commonwealth Supreme Court and the eventual unification into a Superstate.
Imperial: Centre-Right/Right. Essentially British Conservatives. They disapprove of the Commonwealth name, normally referring it to as the British Empire, much to the ire of the Centre of the party and other left-wing politicians. They support strong cooperation between all of the countries, and despite their love of the name British Empire, it ends at that. They have no official party line or politicians who support British supremacy over any other country, and want equal standing between the Commonwealth. Surprisingly strong across Asia.
United Loyalists: Right/Centre-Right: A bit more to the right than the Imperials, they don't hold on to the British Empire name, and are popular in areas where the Imperial brand is a tad tainted, such as Africa. The party stands for loyalty to your home country, and the Commonwealth, shaking the image of the Imperials being loyal only to Britain. They are mostly from Africa and the Caribbean. They are unique on the right in supporting a Commonwealth Supreme Court, often teaming up with the Justice Party to try and advance the bill through Parliament.
Anti-Colonialism: Far-Left/Revolutionary. It's in the name. They are against the Commonwealth by all means, and abstain from the Commonwealth Parliament. They view it as an imperial relic, and one that should be dissolved. There are some that do agree to sit in Parliament, but demand that the dynamics be changed to less benefit the main benefactors of the colonialism (United Kingdom, New England, Australia, New Zealand), and to benefit the so-called "developing" countries.
Empire's Guardians: Fascists. Think Nazis, except British.
Indigenous Rights: Centre-Left/Left. Less a party and more a Parliamentary grouping. These folks are the ones who believe that the rights of the indigenous population (Maori, African, Native Americans, ect.) are being abridged, or need to be looked after. They are the most successful politically, as they are able to make their voices heard and have resulted in a parliamentary censure of Empire's Guardians MCPs and sanctions against Rhodesia after it passed a law widely seen as anti-Black, which they promptlyreversed.
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Well this one doesn't have JEFFREY SKILLING as President so it is by default better. Great list.
Barack Obama, Canadian MP
Barack Obama is the current whip of the Liberal Party in the Canadian House of Commons, serving as an MP for Beaconsfield North-Vancouver in Columbia. Obama is the first person to be born in Hawaiʻi to sit in the House of Commons, and is one of the 49 MPs born outside of Canada. Obama was born to a Kenyan father and an American mother in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi where the two were studying at the University of Hawaiʻi. Obama lived much of his childhood in Hawaiʻi, as well as spending four years in Indonesia, before immigrating to Canada where his mother briefly attended school at the University of Columbia at Beaconsfield in 1979. Obama attended school at the University of Columbia, graduating with a degree in political science with a focus on international relations. He worked as a law clerk for many years, before teaching law at a private university in Vancouver, Columbia.
In the early 2000s, Obama moved back to his adopted home city of Beaconsfield where he worked for his local MLA, before being persuaded to stand for election in one of the new electoral divisions allocated to Beaconsfield, which would merge with the small suburb of Vancouver to the north. Using his connections with working for this MLA, Obama was selected (and won) the election to the federal House of Commons, where he has sat as an MP since 2004. After the resignation of Earl Blumenauer, Obama rose to the position of Liberal Party Whip, and is considered to be a rising star in the Liberal Party.
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Chinese general election, 2016
The 2016 Chinese General Election was the largest election in human history, the first to ever record over a billion votes cast, and the 9th free election to the Legislative Yuan, the largest legislative body in the world. With a turnout of 1,148,395,174 voters, the election took one month to conduct, lasting from the 1st of July to the 31st of July. The election was seen as a referendum on the unpopular ruling China Social Democratic Party, which had seen the moderate Guangdong Union leave the Progressive Alliance and join the Alliance for Democracy, causing Premier Wen Jiabao to be replaced by Chen Min'er, who then went on to act as provisional President after the impeachment and removal of President Liu Yunshan.
Chen Chien-jen made great efforts to bring the message of the Democratic People's Party to the countryside, espousing his moderate conservative views, and the views that the party held for rural economic development. Many workers and rural peasants believed the conservatives to be little more than the party of the city men, and hated the Kuomintang for their treatment of the peasants during their dictatorial control, leaving many to support the China Social Democrats or the pro-Democratic forces of the Alliance of Democracy. There was some support for the Worker's and Peasants Union, the sole Communist party in China, but it was heavily derided for China's traditional aversion to Communism, the echoes of the Civil War still strong in the minds of many.
The centrists remained surprisingly strong in Chinese politics, aided by the electoral system that allowed for multiple parties to contest elections and have a relatively easy chance of gaining representation, in contrast to the Presidential elections with favoured large parties with its three-round system of voting. Made up mostly of political dissidents during the Kuomintang regime, the Alliance for Democracy was nominally headed by United Democratic Front leader Wang Youcai, who was taking over for the retiring Chen Min'er. The Union of Non-Partisans was the official apparatus of all independent candidates elected, which jointly agreed to continue supporting the aims of the Alliance for Democracy. The Party of '91 remained committed to the political ideals of former President Wei Jingsheng the "Father of Chinese Democracy." The Guangdong Union was formed in the interests of the province, the largest in China, and responsible for a good portion of the country's GDP, it being the most industralised part of the country. Uniquely in the centre was the Chinese Federation Party, which held no alliance in the Yuan, but instead was committed to the goal of turning China from a unitary state to a federal one, with each province given stronger controls over their own affairs, and removing the power of the central government to change them. They also advocated for the official independence of Mongolia, claimed as the Mongolia Area, noting that the people did not wish to be in China, and claiming the country was a relic of the Kuomintang dictatorship, a view shared by parties on the left.
The left was composed mostly by the China Social Democratic Party, the one unity party that was able to assimilate the smaller parties that popped up, with the exception of the People's Party (126 seats), which managed to hang on due to a popularity in the cities where the CSDP was not as strong. The two minor far-left Chinese Socialist Party and Worker's and Peasants Union were viewed as too radical by the CSDP membership and denied a merger as hopes of preserving their own electoral viability.
The right-wing of the Yuan was dominated by the Democratic People's Party, a mostly coastal, urban, party that advocated traditional Chinese ideals and culture, as well as western business practices. The party stands committed to the idea of introducing "Shock Capitalism" in the country's rural countryside as a means of developing it, offering businesses incentives to build factories and infrastructure. Part of their platform also includes the privatisation of water and power services, something rural leaders have long fought for, leading to their poor performance in this area of the country. The Kuomintang stands on the DPP's right, although they have an ambiguous rural policy. Much of their platform rests on the good portions of the dictatorship, while unequivocally rejecting the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chiang regime. Their main appeal comes from their foreign policy stance of Chinese dominance in East Asia, advocating for sanctions on India over their administering of Chinese territories, as well as military action against the Communists in Laos and Cambodia in accordance with Vietnam, with whom the dictatorship made inroads with. The National Progressive Party, while containing many right and centre-right members, actually sits with Alliance for Democracy instead of the National Coalition for Development due to disagreements in how the latter was run. The Businessmen's Association is a capitalist party that only contests in the major cities, and insists on sitting with any government, minority or majority, to be involved in the business affairs of China.
After the results were counted, the Yuan would be host to thirteen parties, one less than the 8th Legislative Yuan with the departure of the New National Party, and the Alliance for Democracy would form a minority government of 1,487 members. While not a majority, when the official vote for Premier took place, Wang Youcai won 1,598 votes, bolstered by members from the Chinese Federation Party (The party organisation forbid entering into government coalitions), giving the Alliance for Democracy in all practical purposes a majority.
As China elects members of the Yuan on a provincial-wide list basis the electoral map simply represents the leading party in each province. No party achieved a majority in any province, although the Kuomintang held the largest plurality, capturing 43.8% of the vote in Taiwan, the former stronghold and party centre when control of the Mainland had been in doubt due to the Civil War.
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A parliament with over 3,000 seats. Now that is the kind of stuff I love!
So Barack Obama is an Canadian MP, what about those other OTL Presidents and Vice Presidents?
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