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Sally Yates, a former Crown Prosecutor and civil servant in the Justice Ministry, succeeded Julie Payette in 2021.and btw, who's Governor-General ITTL?
Sally Yates, a former Crown Prosecutor and civil servant in the Justice Ministry, succeeded Julie Payette in 2021.and btw, who's Governor-General ITTL?
Wow, I can't believe I deleted that and forgot to re-edit it. I'll redo that infobox tomorrow.What was the final score of the Grey Cup?
A few years ago, I decided to launch a project entitled the Yankee Dominion. The project sputtered out, but I've been keen on revisiting the concept ever since. I am trying one more time to launch a collaborative parliamentary America project similar to Yankee Dominion, True North, and the American Commonwealth. This project is largely a reboot of Yankee Dominion, but with a more Anglophile slant - many features of the original timeline have been altered, while th e bulk of the world remains the same. I owe an enormous amount of credit to a number of contributors to the original project, including @GBehm, @CosmicAsh, @Oryxslayer, @RileyUhr, @Pokemon Master, @aaa, and many many many others for giving me ideas and assistance along the way with this project and others.
Some key differences and retcons from the original Yankee Dominion:
- The homegrown monarchy of the original project is retconned and replaced by the Governor-General, who represents the Queen as head of state of the Commonwealth of America.
- Rather than Confederation taking place in the 1780s following a failed American Revolution, the actual independence of the Commonwealth is pushed back to the 1860s. Between 1785 and 1860, Britain begins forming colonial "confederations" of colonies - an idea I borrowed from Lord Caedus's second variation of the American Commonwealth project. These regional confederations enjoyed a relative degree of autonomy within the framework of the Empire, before being merged together into the Commonwealth of America in 1860 after a series of revolts and a revival of the colonial troubles.
- The party system, list of Prime Ministers, and internal politics will be tweaked.
- The internal provincial boundaries will be adjusted slightly. This will be posted soon enough.
Born from the nexus of history and philosophy, the Commonwealth of America is the foremost economic and military powerhouse on the North American continent and one of the most critical member states of the British Empire. Extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic sea with a population of just over 250 million citizens, the Commonwealth is the predominant English speaking nation on the North American continent. The capital is located in the city of Philadelphia, though other prominent cities include Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Calgary, Caernarfon, Charleston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Halifax, Liverpool, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New Orleans, New York, Pittsburgh, Quebec, Seattle, Toronto, and Winnipeg.
A highly developed nation, the Commonwealth boasts an abundance of natural resources and a long tradition of industry. With the highest GDP per capita and ranked first by the Human Development Index, the Commonwealth of America is both the foremost economic power of both North America and the broader British Empire. Its advanced economy, the fourth largest in the world, relies on well-developed trade networks, agricultural and industrial export, finance, technology, and tourism. America is part of several major international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the G7 (formerly G8), the Group of Ten, the G20, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
The Commonwealth of America is a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II reigning as head of state, though executive powers are wielded through the Governor-General, who is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The American Parliament is a bicameral legislative body, with the lower chamber, the House of Commons, allocating its seats in proportion to population whereas the Senate consists of only two members for each province. The Commonwealth is an autonomous realm within the British Empire, and is officially bilingual. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, and education. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries.
Various indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now the American Commonwealth for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. What followed after was a period of unrest over taxation, colonial autonomy, and corruption led to the ultimate Confederation of Britain’s continental holdings. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the British North America Act of 1981 which severed the last vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament, except for the power to amend its constitution.
And we're off! All contributions or inquiries about lore are welcomed! Credit to @Oryxslayer and @Riley Uhr for the world map. More info to come in the coming days.
TTL uses OTL people because Nazi Space Spy thinks it gives them more meaning than random names, and for TLs that 1) are short in terms of the time they cover/have late PODs 2) go to the modern day, like this one, I’m incThe Eternal Queen Elizabeth II. Will apparently exist in all timelines despite all rhyme or reason.
Thanks for the comment! Most of the information on the Balkans is in the original Yankee Dominion thread, so I'll dig through it and refresh myself as to the established cannon relating to it. I'll get back to you soon.I liked TTL so I’ll be watching and might be down to contribute a bit, especially with Eastern Europe which I sort of specialize in.
What do you mean by Anglophila? That the TL is gonna depict the British less ambiguously as good guys? I’m not a fan of that but eh, it’s not my TL at the end of the day and it’s the norm in these “no American Revolution” TLs anyway.
I’m very interested in the Balkan lore (and wonder if you’ll welcome contributions to it but for now am just asking questions and making observations).
The first things that jump out at me as interesting in the modern situation are Gigadonia and Serbia’s borders.
Gigadonia obviously comes with the question of what Slav-Greek relations are like, how big the Albanian population is, how they’re treated, and when and how not only a Macedonian identity separate from a Bulgar one developed (as it happened quite late IOTL but there’s all kinds of possibilities in AH), but how a United Slavic+Greek Macedonian identifying developed.
I see Serbia includes Kosovo, mostly. I won’t start a political chat here but I’m a Serb so I’m sure you can guess how that makes me feel. I hope we’re nice to the Albanians there (assuming the Albanian migration into the region under the Ottomans goes similarly to OTL though ofc without the refugees from Hoxha’s regime the population could be a lot more ethnically balanced too), but an interesting story/dynamic can sprout out of a cursed situation too.
I also see Montenegro still has Peć. This is MASSIVELY interesting as that means that the ceremonial/official see of the Serbian patriarch is in Montenegro (I assume Montenegro is Serbian Orthodox ITTL like IOTL). While for all intents and purposes, if the Serbian revolution of TTL resembled OTLs one, which I imagine it did, a patriarchal residence in Serbia’s capital, I assume Belgrade, will probably be the norm for a few generations before Peć is retaken from the Turks, it still might mean a more balanced ecclesiastical power dynamic between Serbia and Montenegro within the Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbia will also be even more concerned with retaining ecclesiastical unity with Montenegro, as an autocephalous Montenegrin church would make things awkward. All depends on what Montenegro’s relationship with Serbia is like.
Other things I notice
- Bulgaria is huge. Was it just very successful in its wars of independence or did it kick ass in a large post-independence war like the second Balkan war or the world wars?
- Does Serbia own Eastern Slavonia? It’s hard to tell but vaguely interesting.
- Bosnia has OTL borders (does it have Herceg Novi? It was ceded along with Neum and remained part of Bosnia up until the end of WWI and I find that massively entertaining). What’s the history behind Bosnia, frankly how the hell did it make it to the modern day as both independent and with those borders? Not saying it can’t or shouldn’t, evidently it can since it did IOTL (barely) and whether it should isn’t a discussion worth having, especially online, but Bosnia is likely to have a rough ride so there must be interesting twists and turns that land is with a United and independent Bosnia and God knows what the internal setup is like.
Generally how fleshed out and set in stone is Balkan lore?
Was there ever a Yugoslavia?
Whats the earliest divergence in Europe?
What Eastern European things are you certain you intend to have ITTL, either in the modern day or in history?
What’s up with the Baltic question mark? I can probably help with that once I have a better idea of the northeastern Europe lore.
TTL uses OTL people because Nazi Space Spy thinks it gives them more meaning than random names, and for TLs that 1) are short in terms of the time they cover/have late PODs 2) go to the modern day, like this one, I’m inc
Thanks. I might try to give it a comb through myself. I followed the thread pretty late in the project’s life so I only skimmed and thus I’ve missed parts of the lore.Thanks for the comment! Most of the information on the Balkans is in the original Yankee Dominion thread, so I'll dig through it and refresh myself as to the established cannon relating to it. I'll get back to you soon.
Before I run it by you, what are the official languages of the American Commonwealth?A little pre-election worldbuilding. Expect more infoboxes, news updates, and the like soon. Please feel free to offer your own contributions, just run them by me first!
English and French.Before I run it by you, what are the official languages of the American Commonwealth?
McCain’s family comes from OTL Mississippi but he was actually an MP for Virginia ITTL.It's great to see this timeline back again in a new iteration. Quick question: Where is John McCain from ITTL since Arizona doesn't exist and I presume America never controlled the Panama Canal?