The Yankee Dominion: A Map and World Building Project

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ElectricSheepNo54

ElectricSheepNo54

Here's a logo I made for the Liberals:

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(Obviously adapted from the Australian Liberal logo)
 
Riley Uhr

Riley Uhr

I keep looking at California and I keep thinking about the possible living conditions of California. I believe that Cali is a bit like Costa Rica in the way that it is a relatively progressive liberal republic however it isn't going to be a very rich nation. I imagine California having a GDP per capita close to somewhere like OTL Chile at $16,000. Politically Cali has a very large variety of parties, a possible current PM may be Loretta Sanchez.
 
Pokemon Master

Pokemon Master

Riley Uhr said:
I keep looking at California and I keep thinking about the possible living conditions of California. I believe that Cali is a bit like Costa Rica in the way that it is a relatively progressive liberal republic however it isn't going to be a very rich nation. I imagine California having a GDP per capita close to somewhere like OTL Chile at $16,000. Politically Cali has a very large variety of parties, a possible current PM may be Loretta Sanchez.
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so I'm guessing Silicon Valley won't exist here, but California could still have a decent amount of wealth from agriculture
 
ElectricSheepNo54

ElectricSheepNo54

Just some ideas on the state of world politics:
  • The American/British Commonwealth is more interconnected economically than OTL, and developed into a defence arrangement with other close allies.
  • There is a rivalry between the Commonwealth and a German-led alliance. Not at Cold War levels, relations between the nations are cordial, but as an economic rivalry. Maybe competing for spheres of influence in Africa and Asia.
  • Both the Commonwealth and the Germans are threatened by the economic ascendancy of a new Japanese-led trade bloc (maybe we could call it the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere for some easy Irony Points™).
  • TL;DR - ITTL's current world, like IOTL, has no serious threat of a global war, the main competition is between trade blocs.
I think there's a few things we need to decide to do with recent history - I think we've overall agreed that the Great Imperialist War was a German victory, but was there a *WW2? We know Spain, Italy and La Plata became socialist, but did any more countries become socialist and were they ever seen as a united threat to the capitalist nations? How did decolonisation go in this timeline?

Just some thoughts on decolonisation:
  • I imagine British decolonisation went similarly to OTL. As far as settlement patterns go, I can see more white settlers heading to Katanga (which is British ITTL), considering there were a decent amount of Belgians there and the mining industry might be a draw for immigrants. Congo I imagine will be off to a slightly better start without having a civil war right off the bat (better British administration and already separate Katanga hopefully prevents that) and in this map is mentioned as one of the more successful African counties.
  • South Africa I think has been mentioned as being a more independent protectorate ITTL, so this might prevent more extreme Afrikaner nationalism developing, which might butterfly away apartheid. Inevitable apartheid seems to be a bit of an AH cliche, so it would be interesting to create an alternate South Africa where the system was never in place.
  • French decolonisation I imagine also happens in a similar fashion to OTL, with the exception of the north of Algeria.
  • Germany I imagine will be more hesitant to give up their colonies. The social democrats will be supportive of independence for Africa, the Protestant authoritarians against it and the Catholic conservatives somewhere in the middle. I doubt there would be significant colonisation in Kamerun, Chad and Central Africa so I doubt the state would expend much resources to keeping them. East Africa might be a different story. Eventually by the mid 1970s (if not earlier) the state will give up and work with moderate nationalists to offer independence. However, Germany still tries to keep a close relationship with, and sphere of influence in, Africa (think Françafrique turned up to 11). I have a few ideas to do with this.
Any thoughts on these ideas on geopolitics and decolonisation?
 

Nazi Space Spy

Banned
Zyxoriv said:
Can we not use so many prominent politicians from OTL?
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The whole parliament is filled with them, though? Plus Carte Goodwin is a completely unknown figure in OTL. I don’t see why Romney is a bad choice? I could substitute Kasich for him, but I’m looking for a free marketer who is socially moderate (ie, moderate, not socially liberal) with a business background but no names pop out to me. If you don't like Romney as being too close to OTL, I'm sure we can find some form of replacement. But I'd rather not pick some random boring backbencher who I've never heard of.

What about Brian Pallister?
 
ElectricSheepNo54

ElectricSheepNo54

Nazi Space Spy said:
The whole parliament is filled with them, though? Plus Carte Goodwin is a completely unknown figure in OTL. I don’t see why Romney is a bad choice? I could substitute Kasich for him, but I’m looking for a free marketer who is socially moderate (ie, moderate, not socially liberal) with a business background but no names pop out to me. If you don't like Romney as being too close to OTL, I'm sure we can find some form of replacement. But I'd rather not pick some random boring backbencher who I've never heard of.

What about Brian Pallister?
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Pallister could work. It's best to find the sweet spot of people who are not overly familiar but in a different context you could easily see be in national leadership positions.
 
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