I simply cannot understand! How dare you! Why is there no Melania or Barron! Why?! He is by far the least embarrassing of Trump's children, I'd even say he's likeable, and yet he is not there! Alright - hysteria mode off. À propos Melania - is there something interesting going on in Austrian Slovenia?
Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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Basically for one, Trump never divorces Ivana and is pretty far removed from the playboy lifestyle and shitty gold everything he enjoyed in Trump Tower in NYC. Instead, he has a very large apartment in Jersey City that not gaudy and tacky, and more concerned with the casino business, where he runs Atlantic City and Havana like a little despot. Donald never meets Marla Maples, but it's pretty much assumed he still has affairs here and there. Ivana is a central part of the Trump Organization, and her husband is smart enough to keep her around.
This removes both Tiffany and Barron
Melania simply lives in Austria, where she has a modelling career. Nothing flashy, just on a few magazines here and there for ads or billboards. Given Austria's strong economy, economic incentives to leaving are much lower, and Slovenes have a decent amount of autonomy (plus the German-speaking Austrians have basically took over the coast, with Triest being a major hub of Austrian shipping.
World Tour: Province of Alaska
The Province of Alaska is Canada's northernmost province, bordered on the east by the Province of Yukon, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the north by the arctic ocean. Alaska is one of two officially bilingual provinces (the other being Manitoba with English and French), and is the only province where all federal signs are trilingual. Alaska was purchased by the Hudson Bay Company from the Russian Empire in 1868, shortly before Rupert's Land was surrendered to the government of Canada. Since 1871, Alaska has been owned by Canada, but it was not until the Alaska Government Act 1892 that the Canadian government formed any government in the region, leaving it under the authority of the Hudson Bay Company.
During this time, Russian settlement of the territory increased due to greater access to Canadian territory, and ability to use Canadian ports for shipping. The result was at the time of sale, there were seven hundred Russians in Alaska, but when the Alaska Government Act 1892 passed Parliament, over five thousand Russians called Alaska home, with an estimated forty thousand natives. The Alaska Government Acts were some of the most controversial that passed Parliament, all by thin margins, that stripped Alaska of its former southeastern panhandle, which was added to Yukon when it was created in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The settlement of Novo-Arkhangelsk was renamed Sitka, and the Russians who lived there were forced from their homes, saying that the new territorial government would need it. The Russians were forced to move to McCormick [[Anchorage]], which today remains a Russian-majority city.
Sitka only remained the Yukon Territory's capital for three years, before being moved to the largest city of Skagway, built to deal with the influx of miners for the gold rush. Canadian gold miners and settlers also pushed into the interior of the territory, founding the settlement of Laurier[[Fairbanks]], named after the currently serving Prime Minister. Laurier grew in importance to the point where Prime Minister R.B. Bennett passed the Alaska Government Act 1928, which moved the territorial capital from McCormick to Laurier. Since then, it has remained Alaska's capital, a point of contention between the Russians in McCormick and the Anglos in Laurier.
Despite this, there is little discontent between the two language groups. After the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union, Alaska became one of the largest locations of Russian émigrés, the population of McCormick exploding from ten thousand at the turn of the century to fifty thousand by 1920. Today, Russian is the native tongue of around forty per cent of the province's population, with almost half of the population speaking English, and a further ten per cent being First Nations languages.
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I tried making one. It turned out bad. I have a list of a bunch of sources I used/modified. One of these days I'm going to throw it up in the OP, but it's not that many.
Edit: If it wasn't obvious from this, the Commonwealth tour in earnest is similar to what Alaska is. I will be doing every province and territory of Alaska, and do each of the interesting commonwealth realms that are radically different. I also plan on doing A LOT of detailing Britain and Canada's elections and history, as both of them are important to New England's history.
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infobox for John Horgan? Would be interesting to look at since he is PM of Canada
It does seem rather anachronistic considering OTL the Province CoAs were designed in the 1900s or 1950s.
Following a similar pattern I would suggest the top 1/3 of the shield is the Big Dipper gold on blue, the bottom 2/3 is a blue or green saltire bearing golden roundels or roses on white. The saltire references St Andrews which I assume also would be prevalent among nonRussians of McCormick. The bezants or roses would reference the mining history of Laurier.
Laurier could also be referenced with a laurel wreath supporter and the crest could be a bear or lion or husky etc.
I'll actually give this idea a shot. I'm awful at Coats of Arms, and it took me a day to do New England's.
No worries. Would have mocked something up if I currently had access to a decent program. Still looking at the current Canadian Province Arms and OTL symbols of Alaska give me ideas based on your TTL ideas. Most seem to be of the 1/3 2/3 split on symbols.
Alaska has been updated!
I spent my lunch period building off of the idea from @The Professor. Alaska now has a simple shield (as seen on the flag, granted in the 1900s), and a Coat of Arms, granted in the 1960s when it became a province.
I spent my lunch period building off of the idea from @The Professor. Alaska now has a simple shield (as seen on the flag, granted in the 1900s), and a Coat of Arms, granted in the 1960s when it became a province.
It's much better.
I'm not too happy with the close colours of the blues and the gold on argent but that's minor.
World Tour: Province of Yukon
The Province of Yukon is Canada's least populous province and the only other province besides Alaska to hold a coast along the Arctic Ocean. The Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, and annexed the southeast panhandle of the Alaska Territory to provide prospectors with easier access to the interior. The territory experienced a brief surge of population, peaking nearly two hundred thousand, before declining rapidly to ninety thousand. When a plebiscite to re-annex the territory into the Northwest Territories failed by a wide margin, the Canadian government resolved to maintain its current status.
It would not be for another seven decades that Yukon would become a province, when heavy population growth in the Alexander Archipelago and in the city of Prince George in southern Yukon brought the population past its turn of the century highs, the government held another referendum in the territory to determine its future political status. By a slim margin, Yukoners voted to become a province, which was granted on the 1st of September, 1974. Yukon has a robust economy floated by mining, tourism, and fishing. Due to its position, the province's population is eligible for either partial or full Northern Canada living subsidies, further bolstering Yukoners incomes.
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These are great! I just got back from a trip up to Massachusetts and couldn't help but think of this TL while there.
Though I have to say this one image paints a rather grim picture of New England currently.
@Kanan The Whalers are still around ITTL!? What other teams exist ITTL?
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