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FASCIST AUSTRALIA WORLD (A BRUCE M. /TORMSEN PRODUCTION)

This is my version of a scenario by Tormsen, one of the regulars of ah.com.

In this world, a delayed invention of the atom bomb led to a devastating invasion of Japan, which left all of Korea in Soviet hands as well as Hokkaido. (Germany was occupied and divided into zones well before the invasion of Japan, so no change there). With Japan a wreck and Korea in Soviet hands, the US needed other cockpits in Asia. Taiwan was a major base from early on, and Australia also found itself playing a larger role in US Far East strategy – especially after most of Indonesia went Red. (This led to a more right-wing and Asian-Hordes paranoid Australia than OTL). The Australians, with US help, built up their military, and by the 1970s Australia had its own nuclear deterrent and Aussie troops were helping out the US in “Free Indonesia”, Vietnam, and Sarawak…

The British-Australian-US strategy of ATL was more successful, and there still was a wobbly South Vietnam in 1983, when the balloon went up after an overzealous Soviet officer failed to realize his radar system had been assembled by someone who had been hitting the vodka a little too hard that day at Radar Unit Assembly Factory 7. Australia got nuked at a couple places hosting US bases, but overall the majority of Australia’s population and infrastructure survived, and it found itself in a position of strength post-war.

Not that things weren’t unpleasant (economic collapse, resource shortage, rationing and hunger, loads of miserable refugees…) and before long things had gone from “emergency measures” to outright military dictatorship. And the new regime, once it had consolidated its rule, was quick to expand its resource and manpower pool by alliance or conquest: New Zealand and various Pacific isles were annexed, most of “free Indonesia” ended up as puppets or directly ruled by Australia, and the Australian navy joined forces with exiled fleets from the north to join forces with the desperate Israelis to make a grab for the vitally important oil fields.

27 years after Doomsday, the world is dominated by four or five “great powers.” The most technologically developed (having largely managed to maintain or regain 1983 levels of tech, in spite of the greatly shrunken pool of talent) is the Australian alliance, which has expanded around the globe. Thanks in part to heavy emigration from devastated lands Australia and New Zealand proper have more people than OTL 2010, and with its Indonesian, Pacific and American territories, the new capital at Newcastle runs either directly or through puppet regimes the lives of almost 90 million people. With the largest remaining nuclear arsenal and an aging although still powerful fleet (Australian shipyards aren’t up to cranking out aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines), Australia and its major allies (Argentina, Israel, and Thailand) are the closest of the Powers to having a “global reach”, although in practice lacking the human and material resources to project much power outside of SE Asia – Pacific region.

The Capetown Alliance is fairly friendly to Australia, although it has its own interests. South Africa and Portugal didn’t received much hurt in WWIII, although the horrid famines brought about by nuclear winter brought about an exile of Portuguese to its remaining African possessions (still in Portuguese hands in this ATL). Nowadays, emigration from devastated Europe and North America and commie-plagued South America has allowed the South Africans and the Portuguese to consolidate and maintain white dominance in Africa, and an alliance exists to keep the black man down. South Africa is the dominant partner in the relationship, although the Portuguese Junta has some friends of its own among the more conservative (nay, reactionary) Catholic, Latin states of the Med. South Africa is one of the few remaining democracies – albeit for whites (and, lately, Asians) only.

Taiwan, which got a couple nukes but managed to survive as a society (being far enough south to avoid the worst of the nuclear winter helped), is only moderately friendly with Australia nowadays: they both see the other as a competitor for influence and power in the region. Although Taiwan managed to conquer quite a bit of south China during the worst of the pre-war chaos, regional warlords – former Red Army folks – have managed to consolidate enough control in the interior to make further expansion difficult, although the warlord tech kit is not developed enough as yet to build jet planes or tanks better than 1945 issue. Taiwan is usually considered the least of the great powers, and some don’t count it so at all.

If Australia is the most high-tech, India is by far the most populous. Even with a substantial die-off from famine and radiation poisoning, there are still over three quarters of a billion inhabitants of the Republic of India, which has reabsorbed the Punjab after the collapse of Pakistan. India’s leftist, authoritarian government has so far managed to hold off calls for a restoration of democracy with mumbles about Islamicist terror and unrest, not to mention the Siberian or possibly the Australian menace. Technology, which dropped back to an essentially 19th century level for a while, is gaining fast on the 1950s, and a revived nuclear program gave them a Deterrent in the late 90s.

The universally disliked Power is the People’s Republic of Brazil: with economic collapse, fallout, etc. a Junta of more than customary incompetence established itself in Brasilia, and managed to so thoroughly alienate the population in a mere decade than in 1995 the revolutionary movement were willing to let the radical left take the head. The radicals, once in power, shortened their partners in power by their heads, and established a nastily Stalinist regime which is, admittedly, rather more efficient than the Junta that preceded it, and which, in a gentlemanly manner, never starves people to death unintentionally. As yet Brazil isn’t developed enough to have much power projection (although the Argentines are grateful indeed for Australian nuclear munitions), but they have plans. Multiple five-year ones, in fact.

OTHER STATES
The US, after almost three decades, is only now congealing into something resembling a unified nation, the Reunited States of America. It is very unhappy with Australia, which moved into particularly devastated California to “give aid” and then never left, not to mention the Cubans and traitorous Virginians and Mormons, but there isn’t much that can be done right now: there are less than 25 million Americans left in the new states and territories, and the standard of living and industrial development is generally rather poorer than Australia: aside from some old warheads which may or may not work, the US is no longer a nuclear military power (although there are still a few working power plants), and much of the country is still struggling to get back out of the 19th century. The radioactive mess of the heartlands is a no-man’s-land where government writ is nonexistent and there roam various odd groups and sects and crazed survivalists who don’t care about the still-high radiation levels in so much of the region. For now the big issue is reconstruction, and trying to attract immigrants from areas equally or even worse screwed up.

To keep what they took in the aftermath, the Israelis have brought in a great many European immigrants, who don’t like the idea of being overrun by angry Muslims, but like staying in the radioactive hellholes of their homelands even less: between them and Israel’s Muslim subjects, Jews are now a minority in their own country, and a crazy jumpy genocide-spooked bunch they are. To the north, things are fairly chaotic: the Israelis were perhaps a bit quick on the nuclear gun when the Arab leaders (trying to distract their hungry, radioactive, out-of-jobs subjects) started on the business about Allah punishing Israel for its sins and leaving it vulnerable. (At least the Israelis were polite enough to set off one of their nukes near the Aswan Dam as a warning, rather than actually hitting it).

The Russian Republic (not so much post-Communist as highly pragmatic) survives along the north edge of the Black sea, where nuclear winter wasn’t quite so bad: they have some scraps of remaining tech, but are a purely regional player, as is the other “heir to the USSR”, the Soviet Republic of Siberia, an oddball pseudo-Communist dictatorship inhabited mostly by Mongols and other ridiculously tough Siberian people who survived on a diet of frozen animal parts, Vodka, and, it is rumored, by moving into depopulated N. China in the winter to eat anything – and anyone – they can find. The present Supreme Commissar-Khan is a man of reputed Von Sternberg-ish awfulness, and although there aren’t many Siberians, they are all armed to the teeth and reputedly batshit insane. (A reputation, admittedly, they work rather hard on cultivating).

Although the collapse of trade and civilization throughout much of the globe was bad indeed for Sub-Saharan Africa, in the subsequent chaos a certain amount of Darwinian competition set in: sans outside aid and food and fuel and electronics, a warlord had to have some competence to rule over an area larger than a few days march. As a result of this, plus the revival of world trade after the first horrible decade, and the “tech support” provided by Europeans seeking a less cancer-y environment, although much of the continent is still flea-bite warlords hoarding their shrinking bullet supply, some functional, albeit mostly pre-industrial states exist. Most important are the English-speaking Kenyan-Tanzanian East African Federation, now closely allied to India, lest S. Africa kick it in like an egg carton, and the French-speaking and rather unwieldy anti-S.African, anti-Portugal Union of Free Africa, which has reestablished close ties with the French states and with the RSA, which although no longer a Power, is still an industrial nation with an influential African minority.

The Italians don’t like the Swiss: the Swiss didn’t get nuked (although the fallout was bad), but the weather was rather horrible in their mountains when Nuclear Winter set in, and the whole Swiss-march-to-the-sea-and-still-marginally-productive-farmland displaced a lot of Italians. The whole “they would have starved anyway thanks to your inferior Italian farming technique” argument somehow does not placate many Italians.

Un-nuked, the neutral Swedes fished and did a remarkable industrial job of extracting nutrition from such unlike sources as tree-trunks and clothing, and their egalitarian society meant that only a minority fully starved while everyone else almost starved to death, but survived. Colder Finland and nuked Norway did rather worse, which is why the new Scandinavian Union is dominated by Sweden (the Danes had some problems themselves when the cows and the butter ran out).

Japan, given that both sides wanted it united under their leadership, wasn’t nuked as badly as some other northern hemisphere states, but it was bad enough that along with the bloody invasion from Hokkaido there was a considerable breakdown, and there was no hope of doing as well as the Swedes. Currently, what is left of Japan is divided into two hostile regimes, one a dictatorship, the other rather worse. Japanese immigrants form a sizeable minority in Taiwan and a smaller but still influential one in Australia.

Description
FASCIST AUSTRALIA WORLD (A BRUCE M. /TORMSEN PRODUCTION)

This is my version of a scenario by Tormsen, one of the regulars of ah.com.

In this world, a delayed invention of the atom bomb led to a devastating invasion of Japan, which left all of Korea in Soviet hands as well as Hokkaido. (Germany was occupied and divided into zones well before the invasion of Japan, so no change there). With Japan a wreck and Korea in Soviet hands, the US needed other cockpits in Asia. Taiwan was a major base from early on, and Australia also found itself playing a larger role in US Far East strategy – especially after most of Indonesia went Red. (This led to a more right-wing and Asian-Hordes paranoid Australia than OTL). The Australians, with US help, built up their military, and by the 1970s Australia had its own nuclear deterrent and Aussie troops were helping out the US in “Free Indonesia”, Vietnam, and Sarawak…

The British-Australian-US strategy of ATL was more successful, and there still was a wobbly South Vietnam in 1983, when the balloon went up after an overzealous Soviet officer failed to realize his radar system had been assembled by someone who had been hitting the vodka a little too hard that day at Radar Unit Assembly Factory 7. Australia got nuked at a couple places hosting US bases, but overall the majority of Australia’s population and infrastructure survived, and it found itself in a position of strength post-war.

Not that things weren’t unpleasant (economic collapse, resource shortage, rationing and hunger, loads of miserable refugees…) and before long things had gone from “emergency measures” to outright military dictatorship. And the new regime, once it had consolidated its rule, was quick to expand its resource and manpower pool by alliance or conquest: New Zealand and various Pacific isles were annexed, most of “free Indonesia” ended up as puppets or directly ruled by Australia, and the Australian navy joined forces with exiled fleets from the north to join forces with the desperate Israelis to make a grab for the vitally important oil fields.

27 years after Doomsday, the world is dominated by four or five “great powers.” The most technologically developed (having largely managed to maintain or regain 1983 levels of tech, in spite of the greatly shrunken pool of talent) is the Australian alliance, which has expanded around the globe. Thanks in part to heavy emigration from devastated lands Australia and New Zealand proper have more people than OTL 2010, and with its Indonesian, Pacific and American territories, the new capital at Newcastle runs either directly or through puppet regimes the lives of almost 90 million people. With the largest remaining nuclear arsenal and an aging although still powerful fleet (Australian shipyards aren’t up to cranking out aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines), Australia and its major allies (Argentina, Israel, and Thailand) are the closest of the Powers to having a “global reach”, although in practice lacking the human and material resources to project much power outside of SE Asia – Pacific region.

The Capetown Alliance is fairly friendly to Australia, although it has its own interests. South Africa and Portugal didn’t received much hurt in WWIII, although the horrid famines brought about by nuclear winter brought about an exile of Portuguese to its remaining African possessions (still in Portuguese hands in this ATL). Nowadays, emigration from devastated Europe and North America and commie-plagued South America has allowed the South Africans and the Portuguese to consolidate and maintain white dominance in Africa, and an alliance exists to keep the black man down. South Africa is the dominant partner in the relationship, although the Portuguese Junta has some friends of its own among the more conservative (nay, reactionary) Catholic, Latin states of the Med. South Africa is one of the few remaining democracies – albeit for whites (and, lately, Asians) only.

Taiwan, which got a couple nukes but managed to survive as a society (being far enough south to avoid the worst of the nuclear winter helped), is only moderately friendly with Australia nowadays: they both see the other as a competitor for influence and power in the region. Although Taiwan managed to conquer quite a bit of south China during the worst of the pre-war chaos, regional warlords – former Red Army folks – have managed to consolidate enough control in the interior to make further expansion difficult, although the warlord tech kit is not developed enough as yet to build jet planes or tanks better than 1945 issue. Taiwan is usually considered the least of the great powers, and some don’t count it so at all.

If Australia is the most high-tech, India is by far the most populous. Even with a substantial die-off from famine and radiation poisoning, there are still over three quarters of a billion inhabitants of the Republic of India, which has reabsorbed the Punjab after the collapse of Pakistan. India’s leftist, authoritarian government has so far managed to hold off calls for a restoration of democracy with mumbles about Islamicist terror and unrest, not to mention the Siberian or possibly the Australian menace. Technology, which dropped back to an essentially 19th century level for a while, is gaining fast on the 1950s, and a revived nuclear program gave them a Deterrent in the late 90s.

The universally disliked Power is the People’s Republic of Brazil: with economic collapse, fallout, etc. a Junta of more than customary incompetence established itself in Brasilia, and managed to so thoroughly alienate the population in a mere decade than in 1995 the revolutionary movement were willing to let the radical left take the head. The radicals, once in power, shortened their partners in power by their heads, and established a nastily Stalinist regime which is, admittedly, rather more efficient than the Junta that preceded it, and which, in a gentlemanly manner, never starves people to death unintentionally. As yet Brazil isn’t developed enough to have much power projection (although the Argentines are grateful indeed for Australian nuclear munitions), but they have plans. Multiple five-year ones, in fact.

OTHER STATES
The US, after almost three decades, is only now congealing into something resembling a unified nation, the Reunited States of America. It is very unhappy with Australia, which moved into particularly devastated California to “give aid” and then never left, not to mention the Cubans and traitorous Virginians and Mormons, but there isn’t much that can be done right now: there are less than 25 million Americans left in the new states and territories, and the standard of living and industrial development is generally rather poorer than Australia: aside from some old warheads which may or may not work, the US is no longer a nuclear military power (although there are still a few working power plants), and much of the country is still struggling to get back out of the 19th century. The radioactive mess of the heartlands is a no-man’s-land where government writ is nonexistent and there roam various odd groups and sects and crazed survivalists who don’t care about the still-high radiation levels in so much of the region. For now the big issue is reconstruction, and trying to attract immigrants from areas equally or even worse screwed up.

To keep what they took in the aftermath, the Israelis have brought in a great many European immigrants, who don’t like the idea of being overrun by angry Muslims, but like staying in the radioactive hellholes of their homelands even less: between them and Israel’s Muslim subjects, Jews are now a minority in their own country, and a crazy jumpy genocide-spooked bunch they are. To the north, things are fairly chaotic: the Israelis were perhaps a bit quick on the nuclear gun when the Arab leaders (trying to distract their hungry, radioactive, out-of-jobs subjects) started on the business about Allah punishing Israel for its sins and leaving it vulnerable. (At least the Israelis were polite enough to set off one of their nukes near the Aswan Dam as a warning, rather than actually hitting it).

The Russian Republic (not so much post-Communist as highly pragmatic) survives along the north edge of the Black sea, where nuclear winter wasn’t quite so bad: they have some scraps of remaining tech, but are a purely regional player, as is the other “heir to the USSR”, the Soviet Republic of Siberia, an oddball pseudo-Communist dictatorship inhabited mostly by Mongols and other ridiculously tough Siberian people who survived on a diet of frozen animal parts, Vodka, and, it is rumored, by moving into depopulated N. China in the winter to eat anything – and anyone – they can find. The present Supreme Commissar-Khan is a man of reputed Von Sternberg-ish awfulness, and although there aren’t many Siberians, they are all armed to the teeth and reputedly batshit insane. (A reputation, admittedly, they work rather hard on cultivating).

Although the collapse of trade and civilization throughout much of the globe was bad indeed for Sub-Saharan Africa, in the subsequent chaos a certain amount of Darwinian competition set in: sans outside aid and food and fuel and electronics, a warlord had to have some competence to rule over an area larger than a few days march. As a result of this, plus the revival of world trade after the first horrible decade, and the “tech support” provided by Europeans seeking a less cancer-y environment, although much of the continent is still flea-bite warlords hoarding their shrinking bullet supply, some functional, albeit mostly pre-industrial states exist. Most important are the English-speaking Kenyan-Tanzanian East African Federation, now closely allied to India, lest S. Africa kick it in like an egg carton, and the French-speaking and rather unwieldy anti-S.African, anti-Portugal Union of Free Africa, which has reestablished close ties with the French states and with the RSA, which although no longer a Power, is still an industrial nation with an influential African minority.

The Italians don’t like the Swiss: the Swiss didn’t get nuked (although the fallout was bad), but the weather was rather horrible in their mountains when Nuclear Winter set in, and the whole Swiss-march-to-the-sea-and-still-marginally-productive-farmland displaced a lot of Italians. The whole “they would have starved anyway thanks to your inferior Italian farming technique” argument somehow does not placate many Italians.

Un-nuked, the neutral Swedes fished and did a remarkable industrial job of extracting nutrition from such unlike sources as tree-trunks and clothing, and their egalitarian society meant that only a minority fully starved while everyone else almost starved to death, but survived. Colder Finland and nuked Norway did rather worse, which is why the new Scandinavian Union is dominated by Sweden (the Danes had some problems themselves when the cows and the butter ran out).

Japan, given that both sides wanted it united under their leadership, wasn’t nuked as badly as some other northern hemisphere states, but it was bad enough that along with the bloody invasion from Hokkaido there was a considerable breakdown, and there was no hope of doing as well as the Swedes. Currently, what is left of Japan is divided into two hostile regimes, one a dictatorship, the other rather worse. Japanese immigrants form a sizeable minority in Taiwan and a smaller but still influential one in Australia.