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A silly thing I thought up. Initially, I was going to show each individual party, but since there would've been almost one hundred I gave up, and instead decided to show coalitions..................................
During World War II, a successful Nazi invasion of Britain results in the British population halving, and the U.S. incorporating it directly (along with Canada). China never goes fully communist, and remains in a civil war (proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union) until '59 when Aliens start to invade. Over the next fifty years, as humanity faces an existential threat against an enemy which aims to eradicate it, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R become close (by 2009, the USSR is democratic). When the last remnants of the alien force are finally kicked off in 2010, humanity's population is a third of what it previously was. The UN is already much stronger (having served as a human alliance during the war), and is slowly converted into an actual united Republic of Earth (this is helped along by the discovery of more races of aliens, some of whom also hate us, and some of whom pressure us to unite to use us as a proxy to attack the race which invaded us). Starting in 2018, every four years an election is held in every 'province', and each province elects a representative. The representatives vote amongst themselves to elect a president.
43 elections, or 172 years later, Earth is again hugely prosperous, and is a rising power in an increasingly crowded solar system. For a space-faring civilization, culturally it's rather similar to the OTL 2000s (although the conservative Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists now get along with one another most of the time)
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Comradeathos45 [2019-11-28 14:48:25 +0000 UTC]
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Goliath-Maps In reply to InfernoMole [2016-12-25 23:29:04 +0000 UTC]
Improved, but to very varying degrees and slowing. Nobody can execute LGBT people or officially discriminate, but in large parts of the world discrimination persists fairly openly.
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InfernoMole [2016-12-11 15:20:16 +0000 UTC]
For some reason, I imagine that the leader of the Turanic Union is a descendant of Saparmurat Niyazov.
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InfernoMole [2016-10-21 19:09:30 +0000 UTC]
1. How did Liberals win in Rwanda-Burundi?
2. Is the Indonesian Archipelago one province or many different?
3. How many presidents of Earth were of a Soviet ethnicity?
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Goliath-Maps In reply to InfernoMole [2016-12-25 23:33:18 +0000 UTC]
1)At a certain point, the Leftist Communist Parties of Africa appeared not too different from their Right-wing counterparts (they bicker about the level of Jesus/Muhammad that needs to be mentioned in speeches, but both especially in Africa are very supportive of a dominating state. Eventually a slightly more socially-progressive business class (flush with foreign funding) was rather recently able to make headway in some places in Africa by appealing to those not helped by either of the two 'traditional parties.'
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InfernoMole [2016-10-21 18:57:29 +0000 UTC]
Here's the map of the world, if the entire world voted for either Trump or Clinton.
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Goliath-Maps In reply to InfernoMole [2016-12-25 23:35:33 +0000 UTC]
Individual Candidates mean a lot- sometimes a place votes for a party it doesn't usually vote for out of unhappiness with incumbents of ongoing scandals or sheer dislike-ability of a candidate.
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InfernoMole [2016-06-03 15:53:53 +0000 UTC]
Questions:
1. So, who won?
2. What would happen if a Turanic/Rajasthani candidate won the election?
3. How exactly different are the ideologies of Neutral Parties? Are they quasi-fascist?
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Goliath-Maps In reply to InfernoMole [2016-07-22 20:57:45 +0000 UTC]
1)The Conservatives
2)That would be like Trump winni-.... oh wait
3)Some of the minor parties in the globe are quasi fascist- the two 'neutral parties' are ones that the big three blocs do not want to touch with a ten foot poll. They don't have a clear or cohesive ideology- the Turanic one's leader is large an attention seeker embroiled in a corruption scandal, and the Rajasthani's leader alternate between Hindu nationalism, Rajasthani regionalism, Hardcore Marxism, Moderate Secularism, and whatever he's feeling that particular week
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InfernoMole In reply to Goliath-Maps [2016-07-22 21:32:02 +0000 UTC]
2) In all fairness, Trump's victory is actually possible. The neutral parties' victory isn't.
Is the Turanic "ideology" and leader similar to Saparmurat Niyazov? He was a very eccentric, hyper-conservative and illiterate dictator (who banned ballet because a Turkmen would never be a ballerina and closed all hospitals outside the capital) and his book, Ruhnama, was very full of Turkmen nationalism ("Did you know that the first cart was invented by turkmens?" and "Turkmens are great people, because we made our and foreign scientists alike to recognize the age of our nation - five hundred years old!") not too dissimilar from today's Ukrainian history books?
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InfernoMole [2016-01-08 13:52:04 +0000 UTC]
I want to know some things, though. How many presidents were from the Liberals or the Cooperativists? Hell, how many presidents were Turanic or Rajasthanic?
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Goliath-Maps In reply to InfernoMole [2016-02-21 22:03:48 +0000 UTC]
Almost all of the Presidents have been Conservatives or Cooperativists- only once or twice was a Liberal President, and none of those neutral parties have anything close to worldwide attention to get a President in charge
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Goliath-Maps In reply to Beastboss [2014-05-31 01:55:59 +0000 UTC]
Definitely. Most of the Presidents of Earth have been from the Conservative Bloc.
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Beastboss In reply to Goliath-Maps [2014-05-31 02:55:42 +0000 UTC]
Cool probably for the best, though the liberal bloc would be a better choice than the co-operativist block if the conservatives lose
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QuantumBranching [2014-03-11 04:49:01 +0000 UTC]
Interesting. Is there some sort of maximum/minimum for how large a state can be? (Presumably there's some exception to the minimum for very small countries? Or does, say, San Marino have to vote as part of a larger coalition?)
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Goliath-Maps In reply to QuantumBranching [2014-03-11 22:16:48 +0000 UTC]
Well, once each province a is created, the borders, by law remain fixed (thus, this is why Kurdistan is here- in the early 21st century there were huge calls for Kurdish independence, but by the late 22nd century, there are more Turks, Persians, and Arabs than Kurds there). They tried to have generally equal provinces, since each province gets only one representative (a system I would not actually recommend for any real united earth).
States like San Marino, are now combined within larger ones (Italy in this case), with only Vatican City having any sort of autonomy (but still within the Province of Italy).
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QuantumBranching In reply to Goliath-Maps [2014-03-12 02:53:29 +0000 UTC]
"Well, once each province a is created, the borders, by law remain fixed (thus, this is why Kurdistan is here- in the early 21st century there were huge calls for Kurdish independence, but by the late 22nd century, there are more Turks, Persians, and Arabs than Kurds there). "
There is a lot of inertia in these things. I'm sure that when they established the borders of California, nobody expected it to one day have almost one in eight Americans...
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Goliath-Maps In reply to QuantumBranching [2014-03-12 21:44:08 +0000 UTC]
That's actually what I was thinking of. There's no way that, for instance, Wyoming should be a state all by itself.
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