The One Millionth and One "People from alternate universes"-Thread

James Harold Wilson (1916 - 1990)

One of the youngest ever dons of the old Oxford University he showed little interest in politics (bar joining the Liberal Unionists club as a student). He gained a seat in Parliament in 1943 by-election he rose through the party and was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the civil war broke out.

In 1967 Wilson was of the delegation sent to Zürich by parliament out shinning almost every other delegate (with the notable exceptions of Sir Alex Douglass home).
In 1969 he joined the break Liberal fraction of the LU and headed the Liberal delegation to the British peace talks in 1969.

Wilson remained a Frontbencher in the new Republic till 1977, it was under Wilson that the rapid expansion of the space department took place.

Wilson’s biggest political failure was the negotiations with the federation of South African States (the former federation of Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, Belgium Congo and South African union) about African majority Rule on behalf of their former European “mother countries”

Wilson died at his home in Yorkshire in 1990
 
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By the way, besides the Confederation of American States (established 1901), The American Socialist Workers' Federation (established 1990) and Texas (established 1945), none of the other countries formed from the shattered remains of the US has a date of independence or any information on them (Except for the Duchy of the Plains, and the Californian Republic).

Color Key

Confederation of American States
American Socialist Worker's Federation
New England
Empire of Canada
Duchy of the Plains (The tan one)
Some Country that Needs to be Named
The Texan Republic (Not in yellow to help you all see)
Cascadia
California (AKA the USA's Successor/ Remnant thing)



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Chizuo Matsumoto (1955-), Prime Minister of Japan (2008-10). Graduated in the University of Tokyo in 1978, Matsumoto became a well-known pharmacist in Japan. In 1990, Matsumoto was elected to the Diet representing the conservative Freedom Party. In 2001, the Freedom Party merged with Prime Minister Koizumi's Minshuto and became the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From March 2003 until June 2006, Matsumoto was the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi which gained him huge popularity. In 2006, Japan narrowly escaped recession in the global financial crisis, and Prime Minister Koizumi retired in 2008 after serving 9 years in office. As the most popular MP of the ruling FDP, Matsumoto became the new prime minister.

Matsumoto continued Koizumi's economic reforms, and the Free Democratic Party won 364 out of 480 seats in the January 2009 elections despite allegations of electoral fraud and widespread intimidation on opposition candidates. However, his plans to privatize the pension system so as to introduce competition to pension providers made him increasingly unpopular.

In November 2009, opposition leader Tsutsumi Sakamoto of the People's Frontier Party was beheaded. Soon, it was revealed that the Matsumoto government was behind the murder and had tried to intervene police investigation. NHK reporter Kenji Nagai, who secretly filmed the relevant evidence, was shot to death on December 2, 2009. The People's Frontier Party, which has replaced the Socialists as the biggest opposition party since the early 2000s, called for a nationwide general strike. On January 1, 2010, Matsomoto ordered the riot police to fire at protesters in Tokyo, Osaka and Taihoku, killing more than 700. Riot police stormed the People's Frontier Party headquarters, killing 4 PFP MPs.

On January 2, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi openly called for the resignation of Sakamoto in a televised speech, but was shot to death during the broadcast. 36 anti-Matsomoto MPs of the FDP called for an imperial intervention, and announced their withdrawal from the ruling party and the formation of the Liberal Party. On January 5, 2010, Emperor Akihito openly denounced the "fascist and dictatorial" regime of Matsumoto, and used his reserved powers to sack Matsumoto and dissolve the parliament. Still loyal to Matsomoto, Defense Minister Ichiro Ozawa and the riot police attempted to stage a takeover of the palace, but was stopped by the heavily pro-democracy army.

The opposition PFP won 345 out of 480 seats in the 2010 elections, while the Liberal Party, with Shinjiro Koizumi - the 29-year old son of late Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as its leader, became the official imperial opposition. PFP leader Seiji Maehara became the new Prime Minister and is still in office today.

List of Prime Ministers of Japan (since 1994):
Furui Suihen (Socialist) 1994-99
Junichiro Koizumi (Minshuto, later FDP) 1999-2008
Chizuo Matsumoto (FDP) 2008-10

Seiji Maehara (PPF) 2010-
 
By the way, besides the Confederation of American States (established 1901), The American Socialist Workers' Federation (established 1990) and Texas (established 1945), none of the other countries formed from the shattered remains of the US has a date of independence or any information on them (Except for the Duchy of the Plains, and the Californian Republic).

Color Key

Confederation of American States
American Socialist Worker's Federation
New England
Empire of Canada
Duchy of the Plains (The tan one)
Some Country that Needs to be Named
The Texan Republic (Not in yellow to help you all see)
Cascadia
California (AKA the USA's Successor/ Remnant thing)



In one of my post's I had California as Mexican
 
Simon Cowell (1959-)

Director of Communications for Prime Minister Sir Michael Ironside of the Canadian Empire. Born in London his family fled to Canada during the civil war. Following graduation from university. He started a career in media journalism, first working for the Edmonton Herald. He soon got a job as a media journalist and columnist for the Canadian Telegraph (one of the few newspapers to move with the Monarchy to Canada). He'd go on to become political editor for the National Post. Over the years Cowell built up a reputation for dry scathing comments and quick reactions to changes in media.

Whilst working for the National post Cowell became friends with MP Jeremy Bieber and agreed to be director of communications for Senator Ironside's run for president in 2002. Cowell has remained in this post since. Being "spin doctor" to president Ironside as well as helping Ironside and the Liberals to reelection in 2007 and 2009 respectively.
 
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Simon Cowell (1959-)

Director of Communications for President Bieber of the Canadian Empire. Born in London his family fled to Canada during the civil war. Following graduation from university. He started a career in media journalism, first working for the Edmonton Herald. He soon got a job as a media journalist and columnist for the Canadian Telegraph (one of the few newspapers to move with the Monarchy to Canada). He'd go on to become political editor for the National Post. Over the years Cowell built up a reputation for dry scathing comments and quick reactions to changes in media.

Whilst working for the National post Cowell became friends with retired MP Sir Jeremy Bieber and agreed to be director of communications for the push to get his son Justin elected as president. Some say Cowell never expected Bieber to get elected but at the same time was key in what the The Globe and Mail called "A highly suspicious political miracle"


OK. I invalidate the Bieber post..

Sorry but the Bieber post was just too ASB and the Empire is more likely to have a PM other than that nice post, I can see Cowell as a Mandelson esc figure all too vividly :( .
 
Sorry but the Bieber post was just too ASB and the Empire is more likely to have a PM other than that nice post, I can see Cowell as a Mandelson esc figure all too vividly :( .

Yup, a Mandelson/Alistair Campbell type character.

Also, edited to someone slightly less ASB who'd make for badass press conferences.
 
Ian Paisley (1926-) - A notorious Northern Irish politician and Presbyterian minister. In 1970, as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, he issued the unilateral declaration of independence after the establishment of the United Commonwealth and the expectation that the new republican government would pursue peace negotiations with Éire, forming the Ulster Free State and reinstating the monarchy. He remained Prime Minister until 2000, when the non-sectarian Centre Party under John Alderdice won election, and retired from parliament the next year.

While his regime was considered by it's critics as near dictatorial, and is alleged to have tortured hundreds of British and Irish republicans and other activists and detained and spied on opposition leaders and communist and IRA sympathizers, amnesty and removal of his persona non grata status in the south was a condition of the 2008 Treaty of Leningrad. He originally planned to stay in the new united Irish state, and was urged by his supporters to run for Commissioner of the Northern Irish Devolved Government, but after an attempt on his life he went into self-imposed exile in Canada in 2009.

Shinkai Makoto (1973-) - Imperial Japanese Air Force officer. He chose to join the officer corps in 1993 when he reported for his mandatory military service, and rose through the ranks to become a bomber pilot. He became internationally known when in December 2009 he and his copilot defected and flew his Mitsubishi Ki-400 bomber, a supersonic, nuclear capable aircraft, across the Formosa Strait to Amoy in protest of the Matsumoto regime. While dishonorably discharged from IJAF, he was pardoned of his criminal charges by Prime Minister Maehara in the aftermath of the Matsumoto Crisis and returned to his home in Nagano Prefecture, where he wrote and released an autobiographical book about the incident and life in the Japanese military, which was a critical and commercial success.

He is currently writing a novel about a future crisis between Japan and the Soviet Union, and has advocated for detente between China and Japan to counter growing Soviet interest in the far east and revival of Korean-Soviet ties under Korean President Kwon Young-ghil.
 
Damn. I was looking forward to becoming the ruler of Some Country That Needs To Be Named and forbidding anyone from ever naming it ...

Curse you non-permanent space filling nation. You will be missed...:(

John Nance Garner (1868 - 1967): Chairman of the Austin Brotherhood and First Premier of Texas from 1945 - 1950. He first practiced law as both a lawyer and judge in Uvalde County. He was elected into the Texas State House in 1898, where he voted and argued extensively for the Prickly Pear to be the state's flower, earning him the nickname "Cactus Jack".

The CAS's formation in 1901 caused an uproar in Texas, which voted to stay with the Union by a decent margin (108 - 82). Garner however would continue to side with the secessionists, ruining his chance of being on the national stage. He also found the Austin Brotherhood at this time, an organization whose goal was to establish Texan independence. He remained a key player in the House, being elected fourteen more times until he became the Speaker of the House in 1934. By this time, the US was facing some harsh issues with stability as the US hit a hard depression due to China selling many of the same products with lower tariffs. New England's independence in the late 30's convinced Garner and his supporters to vie for independence.

Garner presided over the vote for independence that was started by one of his confidants in 1942. It would take nearly two years before the vote was concluded, with 111 votes for secession. Texas would declare independence on May 7th, 1944. It would take another year before a constitution was drafted and elections would be held. Garner would win easily, considering that he was the architect and chief founding father of the nascent republic.

His term was marked with industrialization and the creation of many new jobs for the country. He would refuse his party's nomination again, believing that he was a bit too old to be running again (he was 81 at the time). He spent most of his remaining years at his home in Uvalde, providing advice and speaking with every premier until his death in 1967. His funeral had nearly a quarter of a million spectators, and his house to this day is a popular tourist spot.
 
First off, it isn't size that determine's a nation's power. It's its industrial power, resources, population, and military power that determines strength. Second, I'm dead sure that very few posts mention the US, but rather its successor states and third...

Updated map. I want an Cascadia please, with BC if possible.

I agree, I like a Cascadia.

Besides, that's a map from at least 1990, when the US falls apart even more...
 
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