Great chapter! Although admittedly I was thinking that there would be some comment over how flooding the Congo would be going.

I also wonder what non-societist nations sided with Drakia. I would assume that they must be pretty geographically close to it to decide to do so.
 
How are the Scots and Welsh treated in Societist Britain ? Or for that matter, the Irish diaspora, the Jews, the British Catholics ?

We've established that Irish Catholics are treated pretty bad. I imagine the Welsh and Scottish are treated okay by virtue of being large enough populations with history of relative loyalty to Britain.
 
No idea why but they never actually used the term "Rexist" among themselves, Rex or Rex Thought all the way
Because it was just all too natural to conclude that they are saving Europe from Geoist heathenry, and needed the language to do so?
So on top of the Rodina Zeylma famines and mass death, the population of Russia was FURTHER HALVED?! Holy shit.
France being the most populous nation of Europe all over again
 
So question,How is Societism when it comes to economics? Is it totally into Central control over all things or does it have Capitalism but with government watching over everything, the corporations competing to please them to get more resources and slaves (ala Nazi Germany)
 
So question,How is Societism when it comes to economics? Is it totally into Central control over all things or does it have Capitalism but with government watching over everything, the corporations competing to please them to get more resources and slaves (ala Nazi Germany)
Nah, it's all about emphasising that custodian-bonded distinction. For much of its history, that meant just fucking over the latter, but diminishing returns did the Polemarch see, so does the recent emphasis on the capitalistic conception of efficiency through skills and technology.

Romania is just a plain imperial state that just uses that Societism schtick rn for ethnic cleansing. Slavery was never really established on these parts. They may be the most powerful of Drakia's princely states, though, that I contest calling it as such.

Russia is still its old, Geoist self just with Societist rhetoric for its ethnic cleansing done since God knows when.

Britain is pretty much a 1984-state now. With the lack of true bondsmen, I'd say that EBR just ripped it outright from the book. (heh heh)
 
By the 1950s Britain officially subscribed to the variant ideology of English-Societism, a heterodox strain of the movement that promoted the use of a simplified-English conlang called for law and business and ran much of its economy via the FATE computer network. Diplomatically isolated from just about everyone, economically crippled by war damage, and wracked with internal unrest, the Susan regime watched with nervousness the rise of a new and particularly flamboyant ideology of resistance…
Well if Chancellor Susan's Norsefire-esque regime is getting an infusion of IngSoc, I can only assume the opposition will be led by an elusive man known as Goldstein...
 
Well if Chancellor Susan's Norsefire-esque regime is getting an infusion of IngSoc, I can only assume the opposition will be led by an elusive man known as Goldstein...
Emmanuel Goldstein, who hid his own, mangled form behind the Guy Fawkes mask as his final rebuke to English Society itself.

Congratulations, Vicky and Benjamin. You've just played yourselves into simultaneously realising two, different dystopias.
 
Heh forget Britain being the NK analog, Drakia would make the Kims proud. Now Fortuna just needs to establish the Stoker Dynasty and all will be complete (with extra irony!).
 
So on top of the Rodina Zeylma famines and mass death, the population of Russia was FURTHER HALVED?! Holy shit.
Well, EBR mentioned sometime back that TTL has an overall similar population level, but "Lower in Africa and the Middle East [...] significantly higher in Europe, the Americas, and most of Asia" E.g. maybe we are talking about a France with a population of 60 million in TTL by 1950 compared to 40 million OTL.

For Russia, this means that the reduction was done from a much higher base, thus maybe we are looking at a surviving Russia with 75 millions in 1950 compared to 100 million OTL.

o/c, Russian culture must totally shell-shocked, more even than Cambodian culture was OTL. Memorial days will abound, you keep your distance from other people, and it is not uncommon to see people crying in the streets.
 
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