Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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"Queens" does not exist. The cities of Jamaica, Newtown, Long Island City, and Flushing compose Croydon County. Croydon County itself was formed from Centre Country during the Tri-City Region negotiations because all residents of Croydon County are exempt from customs and border checks. Ditto for other counties that are part of the Tri-City Region. There's an immigration checkpoint at each subway and rail station, where those who have a special TCMTA Card are allowed through with no hassle (think the turnstiles now. If you are not a resident of one of those counties the internal system will ping you for the full immigration and customs procedure. Otherwise, you pass on through. This is the same for cars. If you live in one of these counties, (and take the motorway) you can apply for the "N.E. Passport" (New England Passport), which is an RFID transponder on your car which you use to pay the highway tolls in New York, New Jersey, and New England. The United States "E-Z Pass" also fulfills these goals, and allows cross-border travel. When you pull up to a checkpoint, the transponder will ping the station and the gate will automatically open. In theory, if you are not a resident of one of the counties, you need to take a special lane marked "RESIDENTS OUT OF TRI-CITY REGION" where you will go through immigration and customs. All lanes will always work, however.
There's normally a bunch of traffic on the bridges. Driving in the Tri-City Region is not fun.
And they really aren't independent. They are normally lock-step with the Tri-City Council and the Commissioner.
Thank you!
The towns on Staten Island wants to secede from both New York and New Jersey (but what else is new). The only thing preventing them is the loss of TCMTA funding, and the fact that Westfield is now the poorest town on Staten Island because they left and got screwed over pretty badly.
The Anglo/American-Japanese War took place.
Renewable energy is going strong across Europe and North America, but it is super expensive. New England has a bunch of wind farms. All countries are signatories to a carbon emissions reduction treaty, and "green politics" is a staple of most Conservative and leftist parties around the world.
The Soviet Union doesn't really give a shit, and just ignores environmental regulations for the most part. Except Lake Baikal. That was a PR stunt.
Alive and well in some smaller countries, but they never actually came to power.
The Commonwealth Trail is a 6.5 mile pink-marked trail that runs through Boston. It denotes important historical buildings with plaques to describe what had happened there. Many of these items detail New England's long and storied history. For instance, people can walk by the old Massachusetts Bay Provincial House, which housed the colonial legislature of Massachusetts Bay, and which housed the Confederation Conferences of 1837 and 1839. The trail also includes a museum where visitors can see the original document signed in Hartford, Connecticut in 1835 by the heads of government of each of New England's provinces signifying their intent to unify as one country. This is a very unique document, as it also bears the signature of Marshall Spring Bidwell, the Massachusetts Bay-born Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada. Originally, the plan was to unify Britain's English-speaking colonies as one dominion (leaving Lower Canada - Quebec - on its own) but as the years went on, priorities changes and the two Canadas were merged as the later Dominion of Canada.
Yup! Parliament waa dissolved about a month ago and the election is going to be in May. I've just been pretty busy so i haven't had the creative wherewithal to produce articles for it
Can we Get some Polling? Pretty Please?Yup! Parliament waa dissolved about a month ago and the election is going to be in May. I've just been pretty busy so i haven't had the creative wherewithal to produce articles for it
Yikes.
Hope something like the NAACP is able to achieve prominence in New England. I would guess W.E.B. Du Bois (who would still be a New Englander ITTL since his ancestors were in Massachusetts since the Revolution) would still have something to do with that.
A three way tie between PC, NDP and Liberals? Interesting.
Also, Yes for the Greens!
Wait, what if the Liberals and PC go into coalition?
Also, Yes for the Greens!
Wait, what if the Liberals and PC go into coalition?
That article was so real I even clicked on the "report a typo" without thinking!
(5th paragraph from bottom has "as" instead of "has")
(5th paragraph from bottom has "as" instead of "has")
Yep. I doubt he would ITTL though since IOTL his family left Omaha due to threats from the KKK, and the KKK don't appear to have a significant presence ITTL.
Stephen Harper has an anyerisum then Alberta and Saskatchewan secede.
Thanks! Ugh i hate spelling errors. I cant spell for crap.
I have to say, I like the first and third ones, plain tricolors are just boring.
@Kanan how's the Brooklyn and Southern NE Francophone community? Is it vibrant? Are there identifiable Francophone-majority southern NE towns and Brooklyn neighbourhoods with folks speaking French on a day-to-day basis? Any idea of the linguistic breakdown in these communities?
Also, how common is it for a PM or prominent member of society to be knighted/invested like with Bush Sr.?
Love the timeline!!
Also, how common is it for a PM or prominent member of society to be knighted/invested like with Bush Sr.?
Love the timeline!!
I see Harper is a backbencher, how long has he been an MP for?
What's the USSR's new President's name?
Why are China and Vietnam sanctioning India? Corrupt gov't or somethin?
What is the perimeter of that zig-zaggy ass flag? lol
I vote red and blue! If it were centred but I also like the Blue stripes around the green tree.
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