Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England

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Kanan said:
The G20 is the organisation of the world's 20 largest economies which meet once a year at the G20 Summit which is held around the world in each of the G20 member countries. The G20 accounts for 80% of the world's Gross Domestic Product as well as 68% of the world's population. The group is currently scheduled to meet in Leningrad, Soviet Union during the month of April for the 2018 summit of the world leaders, which is to be attended by each member's government head, finance minister, and central bank leader. The forum is well known for its ability to forge new economic trade treaties, and has been widely applauded for its inclusion of the Soviet Union since 2003, helping to foster trade ties between the Soviet Union and her allies with the rest of the world. Because of protests against India's participation in the group, the group normally must have heightened security in the locations it visits, even when the world leaders are not meeting.
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Lucke... Poor, poor Germany, if he's anywhere close to his OTL counterpart. Plus Berlusconi in Italy...

But I find the lineup of nations very interesting. Seeing Vietnam is very cool.
 

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Futurama (year 3000)

Wernstrom: Face it, Farnsworth, you're over the hill. It's time to leave science to the 120-year-olds. (Farnsworth is ~ 170 years old)

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Our Fair Country - the Commonwealth of New England (year 2018)

Bernie Sanders (77 years old) calls for Prime Minister Kirk to resign and let "a new generation take the reigns" (Kirk is 80 years old)

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olavops said:
Bolsonaro as leader of Brazil?! He's a far right, pro-dictatorship, torture defending demagogue. Why did you do that!?!
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Just like our reality, not everything is sunshine and roses. The Empire of Brazil is very right-wing.

Zyxoriv said:
What is Putin up to ITTL?
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Operative in the KGB. Very unimportant and unassuming figure.

Zyxoriv said:
Are there any major internet restrictions in the Soviet Union such as we see in the PRC in real life?
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Yes. The USSR has many of the same restrictions that we see in our Communist China, Twitter is blocked along with Facebook and Youtube, and Soviet counterparts take their place. This is not to say you cannot access these websites, most Communist party members have easy access to them, as well as the wealthiest in Moscow and other major cities (Leningrad, Kiev, Sevastopol, Volgograd, ect). Living in Moscow would not be that much different in the Soviet Union or Russia. Glasnost and Perestroika are still "officially" ongoing and sure, you can march around Red Square and say the Communist Party is doing a rubbish job and Gorbi should go, but don't think you're going to be standing as a candidate in the next All-Union elections.

Good luck trying to form something online. The KGB's cyber division monitors web traffic closely.

traveller76 said:
Why are there protests against India's participation in the G20?
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India is currently run by a Hindu-nationalist parliamentary majority, which has been... less than accommodating to the country's rather significant Muslim minority. Terrorism is rampant in eastern and western India, and mostly because of the government's actions.

terranova210486 said:
What's life like for Native Americans in New England?
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Depends on where you live. There are several First Nations towns in Adirondack that are part of the reservation system, which are given funds by the provincial government and clear titles to their land. Their culture is preserved on the reservations and their languages remain in use, forming majorities or pluralities in many municipalities within the reservation borders. Elsewhere in Adirondack, they are left pretty much as is, and their languages are given official status.

Elsewhere, there's no protections and/or special status given to First Nations people. Many had "chosen" to move to Adirondack during the time period where much of the land was set aside for First Nation settlement, which decimated what little indigenous communities that existed in the other provinces.

Zyxoriv said:
I just found an old version of this timeline about the history -
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/our-fair-country-a-history-of-new-england.396966/
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This has been linked in the first post since the thread started. Unless otherwise overridden by any information in this thread, all of this remains canon.
 
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