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--- offtopic:madagascar [2013/06/20 09:28] – Petike
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 A very large island off the coast of Africa. Its [[alternate history:OTL]] history is quite interesting, being populated by Malays who came all the way across the Indian Ocean rather than Africans. It was united and modernised by Moric Benovsky, a <del>[[offtopic:Slovakia|Slovak]]</del> <del>[[offtopic:Poland|Pole]]</del> <del>[[offtopic:The Czech Republic|Czech]]</del> <del>[[offtopic:Hungary|Hungarian]]</del> [[running jokes|[CITATION NEEDED] ]] central European fellow. Later, it became a [[offtopic:France|French]] colony.
+==== In AH.com Culture ====
 Though no AH.commers thus far come from there, it has entered forum lore as the last place on Earth safe from a virus pandemic, a legend originating from a popular Flash game in which you play as the virus and Madagascar is usually the most difficult place to infect. Thus in times of [[Highlander#virus scares]], everyone announces they're decamping to the island.
-Madagascar is furthermore known in the context of alternate history as a norious pirate hideout (see [[offtopic:pirate_madagascar|Pirate Madagascar]]), as well as a location for one location of the many, many [[offtopic:israel|Alternate Israels]]. In //**[[timelines:Lands of Red and Gold]]**// it is the first place that Aururian diseases spread to the Old World, possibly as an ironic reference to the forum gag about it being immune to pandemics.
+==== In AH.com Fiction ====
+Possibly as an ironic reference to the above [[running jokes|running gag]] about it being immune to pandemics, Madagascar in [[Jared]]'s //**[[timelines:Lands of Red and Gold]]**//  becomes the first place in the Old World that [[Australia|Aururian]] diseases spread to...
+==== Alternate history clichés involving this country ====
+Madagascar is far too often associated in the context of alternate history as either a notorious pirate hideout (see [[offtopic:pirate_madagascar|Pirate Madagascar]]) or as a location for one of the many, many [[alternate history:Alternate Israels]].
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