That's a good idea. Or Siliziumtal (Silicon Valley) ITTL, too, as it is the river valley that is so highly developed and economically prosperous, not the actual river.
Could you also threadmark my recent posts?
Reverse Cold War 2.0
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Could you also threadmark my recent posts?
@lionjedi1215 , the threadmark is slightly off: Oberste Nationalliga is fully correct, but below that, it should be Nationalliga and only then Zweite Nationalliga.
Thanks for giving me a suggestion on which nation to expand next! Ireland was one of the few areas of the British Empire - along with Canada - to actually go syndicalist at the end of/after World War I when the British Empire began to fall apart (its fall continued into the early 1950s).
I did consider making Ireland an independent syndicalist nation like Brittany - would that maybe be more plausible?
Investments in Football
WIP!
Foreign billionaire investors in football: Delight or Despair?
In recent decades, billionaire (or nine-digit millionaire) investors have bought up several football clubs all around Europe. While some regard a football club as just a vanity hobby or plaything, some of these investors have restored a club's former glory or led them into their first age of glory. Nevertheless, football fans to this day remain conservative - especially in Germany where clubs more often than not have over a hundred years of tradition (at least when predecessor clubs are included) - and, putting it mildly, skeptical when an investor from outside their region buys their hometown club. Many outright detest such a buyout, as can be seen in the recent protests against Texan investors wanting to buy a 71,4 % majority of VfB Stuttgart.
Beyond ethical and human rights concerns (see above - many of these investors come from illiberal democracies or outright dictatorsips in North or South America, Africa or Asia), and despite all controversy and despair from traditionalists, several billionaire projects have proven, and still prove, moderately successful, including the likes of Arminia Stettin, FV Bavaria München, KS Pogoń Zabrze and 1. SC Borussia Allenstein. Traditionalists though can feel vindicated as some "investments" fail abysmally and just end in chaos, bankruptcy and relegation to regional or even local leagues of the fourth (if all goes well, the national-level third) to eighth tiers.
Foreign billionaire investors in football: Delight or Despair?
In recent decades, billionaire (or nine-digit millionaire) investors have bought up several football clubs all around Europe. While some regard a football club as just a vanity hobby or plaything, some of these investors have restored a club's former glory or led them into their first age of glory. Nevertheless, football fans to this day remain conservative - especially in Germany where clubs more often than not have over a hundred years of tradition (at least when predecessor clubs are included) - and, putting it mildly, skeptical when an investor from outside their region buys their hometown club. Many outright detest such a buyout, as can be seen in the recent protests against Texan investors wanting to buy a 71,4 % majority of VfB Stuttgart.
Beyond ethical and human rights concerns (see above - many of these investors come from illiberal democracies or outright dictatorsips in North or South America, Africa or Asia), and despite all controversy and despair from traditionalists, several billionaire projects have proven, and still prove, moderately successful, including the likes of Arminia Stettin, FV Bavaria München, KS Pogoń Zabrze and 1. SC Borussia Allenstein. Traditionalists though can feel vindicated as some "investments" fail abysmally and just end in chaos, bankruptcy and relegation to regional or even local leagues of the fourth (if all goes well, the national-level third) to eighth tiers.
An example of an abysmal failure for everybody involved, including politics and the billionaire himself, is the story of the club originally called 1. FC Bromberg 04.
1. FC Bromberg 04 had been a yo-yo team promoted to the first tier and, in most cases soon after, relegated to the second tier of German football regularly. They were represented in the Cup Winners' Cup once, in 1987/88, advancing into the quarter-finals and in the following season coming seventh in Oberste Nationalliga, but were relegated in 1993/94 after their longest stint in the top flight. In 2009, 1. FC Bromberg 04 was once again promoted to the top flight via the promotion playoffs after coming fifth in the Nationalliga.
Their rival, VfL Thorn, was found in the second tier, too, but had only once been promoted - just to be relegated again immediately the next season - in the 1994/95 season, with one of the worst seasons in the Nationalliga on record, only getting 20 points to their name.
In the summer of 2009, just after 1. FC Bromberg 04, Irish-Alaskan oil and mineral tycoon Archibald (Archie) O'Mooney, son of a former high-ranking politician in the International Workers' Syndicate of Alaska (IWS-AK), bought 100 % of the shares of 1. FC Bromberg 04. Little was known about O'Mooney except that he quickly rose through the ranks of United Atomic as a nuclear physicist. He had acquired his massive wealth first at United Atomic and then in dealing with newly discovered rare earth and other mineral resources in north-western Alaska. His fortune was estimated to be approx. 41 billion Mark (=around 42,5 billion OTL US $) in early 2009.
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Lead-up to the American-Virginian War
In April 2014, the American Federation (re-)annexed the Delmarva Peninsula in violation of the law of nations - and this move was followed by supporting separatists in West Virginia, forming the unrecognised Socialist Republic of Potomac and the Socialist Republic of Kanawha while an independence referendum on the Comoros succeeded in August 2017, the five islands voting 58,1 % for independence from Germany.
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Fall of the North Brazilian Dictatorship
After decades of civil unrest, civil war, terrorism, insurrection and guerilla warfare between syndicalists, the Catholic fundamentalist episcopalist government, progressive technocrats and ultra-libertarians up to and including Neo-Cangaços, long time military dictator of North Brazil, Carlos Oliveira Cavalcanti da Silva, died of old age. After some infighting in the military, the people saw their chance and the dictatorial government of the Catholic Nation of Brazil (North Brazil) was toppled.
In its first and only fully democratic election, it was - to international surprise, but probably not unexpectedly - the technocratic and meritocratic faction who won the most seats in parliament. This led to a referendum about reunification with (South) Brazil, which had been technocratic since 1985 (and under a military junta/dictatorship long before). And indeed, North Brazil decisively voted for reunification, 68,9 % of the people agreeing.
The move has led to at least a little more democracy and significantly more freedom for the people of former North Brazil or Nordeste, however, it has not been without controversy as mainly the Syndicalists hoped to get a new stronghold in South America. Many of them nowadays live in exile in Venezuela, Colombia or Arawak, while libertarians have sought exile and refuge in the United States of Brazil or Katanga. Guerilla fighting and small-scale insurrection in some parts of Nordeste have also not been completely eliminated.
In its first and only fully democratic election, it was - to international surprise, but probably not unexpectedly - the technocratic and meritocratic faction who won the most seats in parliament. This led to a referendum about reunification with (South) Brazil, which had been technocratic since 1985 (and under a military junta/dictatorship long before). And indeed, North Brazil decisively voted for reunification, 68,9 % of the people agreeing.
The move has led to at least a little more democracy and significantly more freedom for the people of former North Brazil or Nordeste, however, it has not been without controversy as mainly the Syndicalists hoped to get a new stronghold in South America. Many of them nowadays live in exile in Venezuela, Colombia or Arawak, while libertarians have sought exile and refuge in the United States of Brazil or Katanga. Guerilla fighting and small-scale insurrection in some parts of Nordeste have also not been completely eliminated.
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May 7, 2000
The world on the morning of May 7, 2000, the day of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Europe...
During the Second African Spring. Progressive meritocratic-technocratic uprisings, despite having support by some of the military, were crushed in Darfur (in the context of the Darfur ethnic cleansings and crimes against humanity, which some have declared to constitute genocide) by 2005 and in southern Niger in 2003. More peaceable, but sometimes also rather violent, Second African Spring uprisings succeeded in Somaliland (2004) and Puntland (February 2005). Both former Arab Republics, i.e. Arab nationalist and conservatively Islamic, though not or only very limited Shari'a laws were applied, dictatorships. Both chose unification with Somalia in, surprisingly free, fair and democratic, referendums.
Shari constitutes the newest country in the world with widespread recognition as Kanem-Bornu, after its own dictatorship was toppled during the Second African Spring in August 2006, allowed an independence referendum in many southern cantons - and this referendum resulted in independence for most areas where the referendum was held. Shari was and is not totally free of civil conflict and unrest, however, under the (rather military dominated) new meritocratic government and as Japanese allies, development has significantly improved. Since 2006, the situation has visibly and markedly improved. Abject and absolute poverty is mostly eliminated by 2023 as even in Shari, few nowadays starve to death (though starvation does sometimes resurface on a regional level in the contexts of drought, flooding and similar natural disasters - but the Japanese bloc is quickly able to help out with aid). Most easily preventable diseases and even the infamous Ouham Fever have been hedged in. By now, Shari is on its way to catching up with many other meritocratic nations of Africa. Its, sometimes pristine, rainforest and swamp areas are even becoming a destination for tourists...
The same is becoming true for Somaliland and Puntland. Ecological tourism as well as beach and sea tourism are booming in Somalia. They as well as the rest of Somalia are outright prospering by 2023 and many label Somalia to be one of the Cheetah Nations, the next and modern version of the West African Lions. Trade around the Horn of Africa is just one of the sources of Somalia's recent boom in wealth as valuable raw materials, among them many rare earth metals, were discovered in former central Puntland in 2008. But even capital- and R&D-intensive modern industries and the service industry are coming to Somalia in recent years.
Meanwhile, the early 2000s also saw the brutal crushing and suppression of Mormon separatists in the Deseret War (1994-2003), especially after radicalised Mormons committed terrorist attacks in Philadelphia (September 18 and October 2, 1997), St. Louis (August 12, 1997 and January 6, 1998), Chicago (October 11, 1997) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (November 21, 1997 and November 30, 1997) the American Federation's reaction to any separatist or independentist guerilla warfare became increasingly harsh.
Further, in the Middle East, armed insurrection by the Mojahiden-e-Khalq (MEK) was ended after decades of insurrection and guerilla warfare as almost all of the MEK signed a peace agreement and laid down their arms in 2009 in return for wide-ranging amnesty and the legalisation of the MEK as a political party. Ever since, Persia has democratised to an extent unthinkable as late as the late 1980s and MEK delegates have been in parliament.
The Ottoman Empire meanwhile has also mostly crushed the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK), they nevertheless remain a (small but significant) terrorist danger and active in a remote area of the Greater Zab Valley west of Hakkari.
During the Second African Spring. Progressive meritocratic-technocratic uprisings, despite having support by some of the military, were crushed in Darfur (in the context of the Darfur ethnic cleansings and crimes against humanity, which some have declared to constitute genocide) by 2005 and in southern Niger in 2003. More peaceable, but sometimes also rather violent, Second African Spring uprisings succeeded in Somaliland (2004) and Puntland (February 2005). Both former Arab Republics, i.e. Arab nationalist and conservatively Islamic, though not or only very limited Shari'a laws were applied, dictatorships. Both chose unification with Somalia in, surprisingly free, fair and democratic, referendums.
Shari constitutes the newest country in the world with widespread recognition as Kanem-Bornu, after its own dictatorship was toppled during the Second African Spring in August 2006, allowed an independence referendum in many southern cantons - and this referendum resulted in independence for most areas where the referendum was held. Shari was and is not totally free of civil conflict and unrest, however, under the (rather military dominated) new meritocratic government and as Japanese allies, development has significantly improved. Since 2006, the situation has visibly and markedly improved. Abject and absolute poverty is mostly eliminated by 2023 as even in Shari, few nowadays starve to death (though starvation does sometimes resurface on a regional level in the contexts of drought, flooding and similar natural disasters - but the Japanese bloc is quickly able to help out with aid). Most easily preventable diseases and even the infamous Ouham Fever have been hedged in. By now, Shari is on its way to catching up with many other meritocratic nations of Africa. Its, sometimes pristine, rainforest and swamp areas are even becoming a destination for tourists...
The same is becoming true for Somaliland and Puntland. Ecological tourism as well as beach and sea tourism are booming in Somalia. They as well as the rest of Somalia are outright prospering by 2023 and many label Somalia to be one of the Cheetah Nations, the next and modern version of the West African Lions. Trade around the Horn of Africa is just one of the sources of Somalia's recent boom in wealth as valuable raw materials, among them many rare earth metals, were discovered in former central Puntland in 2008. But even capital- and R&D-intensive modern industries and the service industry are coming to Somalia in recent years.
Meanwhile, the early 2000s also saw the brutal crushing and suppression of Mormon separatists in the Deseret War (1994-2003), especially after radicalised Mormons committed terrorist attacks in Philadelphia (September 18 and October 2, 1997), St. Louis (August 12, 1997 and January 6, 1998), Chicago (October 11, 1997) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (November 21, 1997 and November 30, 1997) the American Federation's reaction to any separatist or independentist guerilla warfare became increasingly harsh.
Further, in the Middle East, armed insurrection by the Mojahiden-e-Khalq (MEK) was ended after decades of insurrection and guerilla warfare as almost all of the MEK signed a peace agreement and laid down their arms in 2009 in return for wide-ranging amnesty and the legalisation of the MEK as a political party. Ever since, Persia has democratised to an extent unthinkable as late as the late 1980s and MEK delegates have been in parliament.
The Ottoman Empire meanwhile has also mostly crushed the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK), they nevertheless remain a (small but significant) terrorist danger and active in a remote area of the Greater Zab Valley west of Hakkari.
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Could Bo Gritz maybe be TTLs American equivalent of Vladimir Zhirinovsky? Definitely seems to be wacky enough for me...
Or some other position ITTL, maybe in the Abkhazia or South Ossetia analogues?
en.wikipedia.org
Or some other position ITTL, maybe in the Abkhazia or South Ossetia analogues?
Bo Gritz - Wikipedia
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He could still be a far-right politician, but in Canada.
The Saharan lakes and Qattara Gulf were constructed via a massive international geoengineering project to mitigate climate change and make the desert more inhabitable. Despite also having had their own side effects, the lakes did help with tourism and the economy of several states in the Sahara, as well as making the Sahara desert significantly greener.
Major Military Powers
That of course depends on which sector you are referring to - economically, military, political?
Regarding the military, the Federal State of Russia is the clear leading power ITTL, however it is not quite the hyperpower that the USA is in OTL. In the military sector, they are followed by - in no particular order - Japan, Germany, the American Federation, South China, Australasia, the United States of Brazil, the Ottoman EMpire, Bharat and the East African Federation.
Taken together, the technocratic/stratocratic meritocratic bloc significantly outstrips the Federal State of Russia.
Several nations, namely Liberia, Aksum, Anyanya and Zaire, boast massive militaries with some of the highest numbers in the world, these are however massively outdated and in a derelict state and/or acquired via long compulsory military service. Thus, these nations despite their nominally massive militaries are not to be considered great powers, although Zaire and Aksum can be considered regionally significant powers.
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Major Economic Powers
Economically, however, although the Federal State of Russia (through its sheer size and development) still has the world's highest GDP, it is very closely followed by - in that order -
- Federal State of Russia
- United Republic of Germany
- Empire of Japan
- State of China (North China)
- Ottoman Empire
- Union of China (South China)
- Union of Bharat
- Federal Republic of France
- Czechoslovakia
- Free Spanish Workers' Syndicates
- United Kingdom of Australasia
- Republic of Poland
- Union of Brazil
- American Federation
- State of Ghana
- United States of Brazil
- British Workers' Syndicates
- Texas
- Nation of Nusantara
- Cuba
- Lithuania
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Demokratieindex 2023
Demokratieindex 2023
des Instituts für Politik und Demokratieforschung an der Universität Danzig:
Democracy Index 2023
by the Institute for Politics and Democracy Research at Danzig University:
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des Instituts für Politik und Demokratieforschung an der Universität Danzig:
Democracy Index 2023
by the Institute for Politics and Democracy Research at Danzig University:
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