The Union Forever: A TL
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Thanks for the map! Remember everyone, this shows sphere's of influence not just alliance members.
Here is a short list of the parties represented in parliament.
Conservative: -Center-Right, Also known as the Tories, economically liberal, socially conservative, strong on defense spending, Favors keeping Britian at the center of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Liberal: Center-Left, economically liberal but favors some form of welfare state, socially moderate. Favors a decentralized Commonwealth of Nations.
Democratic Labour Party: Left Wing, favors strong welfare state with protections for trade union and worker's rights, socially progressive. Contains elements of the now defunct Socialist Workers Party.
Imperial Progressives: Centrist, concentrates strongly on a closer and robust ComNat.
Union Party: Right Wing, Composed mostly of Northern Irish Protestants.
Irish Democratic Party: Left Wing, Composed mostly of Northern Irish Catholics.
British Technocrats: Krulikism. Anti-monarchism.
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What is going on with Wrangel Island ITL? Did the Russians still claim it or did the US do it? As it was unclaimed till 1914 OTL if memory serves but the US looked around at it a few times during the 1880s OTL.
World Map: 2010
Sorry for the delay regarding a proper update. Please accept this map circa January 1, 2010 as compensation.
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Good question. As Lalli said it is part of Russia. To be honest I wasn't really tracking the island. Would have been good to switch it up.
It is going well. Germany, China, and the U.S. are currently in a race to Mars but more on that later. Germany did indeed have a moon base for nearly a decade but that has sense closed down so they can concentrate on other projects. Germany, China, U.S. and Russia (currently unmanned) all have space stations.
2010: Foreign and Domestic Developments
2010
Foreign and Domestic Developments
Photograph from Port-au-Prince taken three days after the earthquake
On February 12, a massive earthquake struck near the Haitian city of Léogâne killing nearly 59,000 people. Within hours, aid from the League of American Republics came pouring across the border from the U.S. state of Santo Domingo. Later the Fellowship of Nations would also join in a concerted disaster relief campaign. Haitian president Sherisse Charpentier gave a heartfelt speech of thanks at FoN Headquarters in Geneva later that year.
The race to Mars intensified when news leaked that Chinese plans for a manned mission might not entail a return trip but instead the astronauts would remain on the Martian surface indefinitely if not permanently. The American and German programs, which had largely discounted Chinese efforts, realized that this could possibly allow China to beat them to the Red Planet.
In February, Denmark ratified several constitutional revisions. Chief among them were statutes granting Greenland and the Faroe Islands near total control over their domestic affairs. The nation now also had the longest official name in the world, the Federal Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland, Danish West Indies, Greenland, and Faroe Islands. King Christian XI remained the titular head of state for each of the various realms. The Danish Antarctic Territory would continue to be ruled from Copenhagen.
During the spring, American scientists Valentina McCune and Denis Pavoni announced a breakthrough in regenerative medicine with the first successful transplantation of tissue engineered from adult stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow. Many hoped that in the future, similar methods could be used to grow entirely new replacement organs.
In April, Dutch preacher Arend Beulens was seriously injured by a gunman after leaving a rally in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Over the past decade, Beulens and others had spread the contemporary evangelical Christianity of the Rainbow Rivival throughout protestant Europe and were now attempting inroads in the continent’s catholic dominated south. Beulens' swift, some would say miraculous, recovery only strengthened the movement's influence.
In late June, Orabi Pasha University in Egypt opened a full sized reconstruction of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Having already reopened an enormous museum and research facility in honor of the ancient Library of Alexandria, this latest achievement allowed OPU to compete with other centers of learning in the Arabic world such the Royal Islamic University in Jeddah and Syria's Aleppo University.
The XXIV Summer Olympiad was held in Tehran the Persian Empire’s most populous city. Shah Naser Ali Qajar presided over the opening ceremonies. The Persian government went to great lengths to try and limit the often heavy air pollution that plagued the city. Sadly, they were only partially successful and hazy skies dominated coverage of the games.
In October, during an international astronomical summit held in Potsdam, Germany scientists released a new planetary classification guide. In the wake of the discovery of several large bodies orbiting the sun in the distant reaches of the solar system, a revised standard of what constituted a planet was deemed necessary. It was decided that a planet must orbit a star, be roughly spherical in shape, be larger than 2,000 km in diameter, but not large enough to generate stellar fusion. Although some thought the 2,000 km diameter rather arbitrary, the definition prevented any of the previously agreed upon ten planets from being demoted in status.
During the U.S. midterm elections, the Republicans lost a hand full of seats to the Democrats, but retained control over both Houses of Congress by slim margins.
Per the terms of the Treaty of Manila (1980), Japan was prohibited from possessing aircraft carriers and naval tonnage was limited to 150,000. On land, Japan could retain no more than 500,000 troops including reservists. By the end of the year, these provisions officially expired and on December 22 the Diet approved a bill funding a limited Japanese rearmament. While relatively modest, the military expansion set off shockwaves in the Technocratic Union. Large well-organized protests erupted in major cities throughout East Asia. Chinese leader Yu Qishan bluntly stated that Japan’s actions posed an “existential threat” and declared he would “not allow a destabilization” of the balance of power.
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We have now gotten to the year of this timeline's birth! Congrats and thanks, @Mac Gregor!
