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A somewhat Alien Space Bat one, inspired again by Alternate History Travel Guides.– in this world, Germany took advantage of the Labor Uprising of 1909 to send the navy to help “liberate” London, and after having done so, forgot to leave. The Anglo-German Union exists to this day, and nowadays the British have largely accustomed themselves to the situation (British, not Irish. Ireland is independent, united, and allied with the Unites States).
Russia was driven back to its pre-Peter the Great borders and France stripped of many of its African colonies in the 1920s, and the Germans and their Austrian, Ukrainian, Italian, South African and Turkish allies run pretty much everything from the French border to those of India.
India is in fact ruled by one of the surviving branches of the British royal house, and in the view of the other branch (that running the Kingdom of Canada) have completely “gone native” – indeed, they allied themselves with the Germans in the late 60’s to push the French out of SE Asia and put a friendly puppet in control of Indochina.
Germany has had various problems with Russia, having had to invade again twice, and the current German puppet “imperial” regime doesn’t even control most of European Russia, the regions east and SE of Moscow having broken away to join the Siberian Republic in the 80s: only a large –scale German/Austrian military presence keeps the rest from joining them.
The United States, which includes Australia in this world, heads up an alliance hostile to the Imperial Powers, including aside from Ireland France, the Japanese Empire, the Siberians, the Philippines, and Indonesia, only recently liberating itself from Dutch rule in a long struggle in which the Germans backed the Dutch. China, a backward military junta is another German ally: it has historical bad blood with the British, the Japanese, (that whole Manchuria thing) and the Siberians.
The anti-colonial, pro-British independence stance of the US and its allies (Given Japanese rule of Korea and Taiwan, it's considered hypocritical by the Germans) makes them unpopular in German Europe, along with the “loose” and “dissolute” ways of Americans (Marihuana is legal in most US states).
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Imperial-Advocate [2019-12-09 05:44:25 +0000 UTC]
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AmongTheSatanic [2012-12-14 05:24:12 +0000 UTC]
So are the British-Imperial Germans well and truly united or is it basically the Germans incorporating an internal puppet British Empire into its own Empire and taking over its power?
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QuantumBranching In reply to AmongTheSatanic [2012-12-16 01:34:37 +0000 UTC]
Initially more the second, but through political changes, royal intermarriages, etc., it has become more of a true Union over the last hundred years.
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AmongTheSatanic In reply to QuantumBranching [2012-12-16 01:44:22 +0000 UTC]
Has British culture become increasingly Germanized or is there a healthy back and forth exchange?
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QuantumBranching In reply to AmongTheSatanic [2012-12-16 02:10:48 +0000 UTC]
The UK has been more Germanized than Germany has been Anglicized, but British influence has definitely created a flourishing hybridization in many fields, especially in popular culture. (Unfortunately, the post-1950s removal of the stick from up the British collective posterior which took place in our world has been delayed by German authoritarianism, and the repression-hatched creepier aspects of British and German private culture have also grown with hybrid vigor... )
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AmongTheSatanic In reply to QuantumBranching [2012-12-16 02:17:02 +0000 UTC]
Please give me the glorious details of these creepier aspects
On an unrelated note, we need to talk more
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QuantumBranching In reply to porygon-2000 [2010-01-16 06:50:57 +0000 UTC]
Initially looked to US protection after the fall of England, moved closer to the US due to fear of Japan (the US and Japan didn't become good buddies until the second half of the 20th century)and later moved to join the US after they fell out with the British government in exile in India.
Or something.
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