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What would you think of a 90s TL like this? In this TL America is embroiled in a civil war with Neo Nazi and libertarian militias along with a totalitarian evangelical Christian fundamentalist movement that has taken over large areas of the South and some parts of the mid West. The famous anti video game and rap attorney Jack Thompson is a prominent member of the fundamentalist movement along with Pat Robertson and Phyllis Schlafly. In fundamentalist areas video games, secular movies, and Dungeons & Dragons paraphernalia are burned. Northeast America is a mess with Stalingrad style fighting between government forces with libertarian and Neo Nazi militias along with fundamentalist forces advancing Northward. The fundamentalists even try to blow up a space shuttle that is launching in front of Americans watching. Florida and the West Coast are the strongholds of modern secular hedonistic video game playing America. Famous celebrities have even become war heroes with ROTC dropout and teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr becoming a squadron leader of a fighter plane squadron of misfits.

Meanwhile Russia went through a breakup far messier than OTL. EU and Chinese forces rapidly deploy to secure Russian nukes. Despite their best efforts terrorists manage to detonate a few nukes on civilian population centers throughout the world. In response the international community pushes for the creation of an organization like Rainbow Six or the Global Defense Initiative.

With America dealing with it's own problems how do the events in Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans play out? Does the EU play the role of world cop now?

In a TL this wacky do we want to go full fun wacky sci fi and have a secret Brotherhood of Nod or GI Joe Cobra like organization be the cause behind the all the chaos and in the end there is a battle between the GDI like force and the secret Cabal?

Can a TL that is a combination of fun, wacky, and dark work? What would you think of a TL like this?

The Handmaid's Tale meets Command & Conquer?
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