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The next of my ideologically-dominated worlds , this time of fascism. It ain't no Disneyland. Many thanks to SRegan for letting me use his excellent Axis wishes maps. I also used Totentanz0's Axis projections as guides for other portions.

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It was once believed that communism was the great threat to Western democracy. When Leon Trotsky took over the Soviet Union and attempted to spread his vision of a socialist revolution worldwide, it certainly seemed to be that way. The great Red menace struck fear into the hearts of the people, and when the Depression came in 1924, it seemed as though the Soviet Union weathered it unscathed. Many turned to the left, seeing the Soviet Union as the new model for social order; Trotsky's government funded those groups. In France, Poland, Greece, Romania and the Baltics, the Soviets succeeded in creating friendly governments.

Others, however, turned to different voices. Voices that were just as loud and radical as the communists, but opposed to them. Instead of the proletariat, these men wanted to build up the race. Instead of internationalism, these men wanted nationalists. They were the fascists, and their call was heard throughout the world.

Italy was first, becoming a fascist state in 1924 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. He served as the model for the other fascist leaders throughout Europe and North America. Britain was next, with the British Union of Fascists supported by the newly-crowned King Edward VIII. Then, in 1933, the Nazis in Germany, who would prove to be the masters of the continent in just a few years. America was next, with the Silver Shirts seizing power from the Roosevelt administration after the Business Coup. In the meanwhile, militarists took over the Japanese government, purging any who disagreed with them.

There were attempts to create a pan-fascist alliance against the Soviets, particularly by Germany, which sought to claim vast portions of the Soviet Union. However, the Germans only managed to bring the continental European powers into the fold. Britain and Japan went to war in 1936, as the Japanese seized portions of Britain's Asian colonial empire. Germany, incapable of convincing one or the other to join a war against the Soviets, instead focused its efforts on America. The Silver Shirts, having just crushed a Trotskyist revolt in the Rust Belt and losing the Philippines to a communist revolution, were eager to get revenge on Moscow. In 1941, after years of preparation, the Axis Powers, as they were known, struck. German troops swept over France, toppling the communist government and establishing a fascist state within six weeks. Then, the Axis swept eastward, demolishing Soviet forces. The Germans struck at the heart of the Soviet Union, while Italy and the Balkan fascists nibbled away at the south and Finland struck from the north. The Americans lent their massive economy to the Axis war effort, ensuring that the Axis would never be in want of supplies, but would not declare war until 1943.

By 1943, the Soviets were on their last legs. The British, losing the war in the Pacific, did not want to become hostile to Germany and America. The Japanese opportunistically struck at the eastern portions of the Soviet Union and invaded the Philippines, not wishing to let the Americans seize the entire eastern portion of the country or allow Washington to regain a foothold in Southeast Asia. By 1945, the last vestiges of Soviet resistance were being mopped up by Axis troops deep in Siberia. Massive swaths of the country were being depopulated, to be settled with Axis nationals. Undesirables of all sorts were marched into labor camps in Siberia, or worse, the death camps in former Poland. in 1947, a short war between Britain and the Axis saw most of Britain's African empire fall, and turned the British permanently against the fascists of the continent.

While the guns went silent in the 1950s, there was still a war. The Americans and the Germans, fairweather friends even during the Second World War, split when their mutual foe was destroyed. The Italians joined the Americans, seeking to overthrow Berlin as the master of Europe. Most of Europe did stick to Germany, however. And in the East, the Japanese created their own bloc, wishing to keep both Washington and Berlin out. As nation after nation successfully detonated nuclear arms, even the most crazed militarists realized that the world could not survive a third global engagement. Instead, wars would be fought by proxy around the world, as the great fascist empires competed for influence. In the 1970s, London and Berlin reconciled, as both saw the Americans as the greater threat.

The fascist empires are, all in all, very similar to one another in structure. The concept of Fuehrerprinzip has been adopted by almost all states - with Britain and Japan as notable exceptions - wherein an absolute leader rules over the entire state apparatus. There are no official transfers of power, with new supreme leaders rising and falling through unofficial political maneuvering. This has been a prevalent issue in Germany, where the SS, Nazi Party, and Wehrmacht are each independent power blocs that cannot stand one another, and in Spain, where the Falangist factions frequently assassinate members of rival factions. Some states have a variety of groups that they despise and seek to totally exterminate from the Earth; the Germans have the Jews, the Americans have blacks, and the French have Arabs. Other states, such as Italy, Britain and Finland, don't particularly care for genocide, but would rather impose their cultures on everyone else instead.

For the man on the street, these differences matter little. Practically everything of value, apart from those things owned by state-supported "private" entities, is owned by the government, so most citizens have little they could call their own. Surveillance is constant, with cameras on every street corner, telescreens in every home, and both crowds of thugs and secret police maintaining ideological purity everywhere. Dissent is punishable by decades in the labor camps, or summary execution. Flags and party symbols adorn everything, and there has been a trend of posters with the face of the nation's leader or founding figure looking down upon the people with a stern gaze; the Germans have even brought the face of Hitler into the home of every German. The average citizen does not mind these things; they are so pervasive, and have been around for so long, that they have become banal. Only a few aging men, locked up in retirement homes or psychiatric institution, remembers a time when things were different. But what do they know? They are just senile old fools.

Description
The next of my ideologically-dominated worlds , this time of fascism. It ain't no Disneyland. Many thanks to SRegan for letting me use his excellent Axis wishes maps. I also used Totentanz0's Axis projections as guides for other portions.

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It was once believed that communism was the great threat to Western democracy. When Leon Trotsky took over the Soviet Union and attempted to spread his vision of a socialist revolution worldwide, it certainly seemed to be that way. The great Red menace struck fear into the hearts of the people, and when the Depression came in 1924, it seemed as though the Soviet Union weathered it unscathed. Many turned to the left, seeing the Soviet Union as the new model for social order; Trotsky's government funded those groups. In France, Poland, Greece, Romania and the Baltics, the Soviets succeeded in creating friendly governments.

Others, however, turned to different voices. Voices that were just as loud and radical as the communists, but opposed to them. Instead of the proletariat, these men wanted to build up the race. Instead of internationalism, these men wanted nationalists. They were the fascists, and their call was heard throughout the world.

Italy was first, becoming a fascist state in 1924 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. He served as the model for the other fascist leaders throughout Europe and North America. Britain was next, with the British Union of Fascists supported by the newly-crowned King Edward VIII. Then, in 1933, the Nazis in Germany, who would prove to be the masters of the continent in just a few years. America was next, with the Silver Shirts seizing power from the Roosevelt administration after the Business Coup. In the meanwhile, militarists took over the Japanese government, purging any who disagreed with them.

There were attempts to create a pan-fascist alliance against the Soviets, particularly by Germany, which sought to claim vast portions of the Soviet Union. However, the Germans only managed to bring the continental European powers into the fold. Britain and Japan went to war in 1936, as the Japanese seized portions of Britain's Asian colonial empire. Germany, incapable of convincing one or the other to join a war against the Soviets, instead focused its efforts on America. The Silver Shirts, having just crushed a Trotskyist revolt in the Rust Belt and losing the Philippines to a communist revolution, were eager to get revenge on Moscow. In 1941, after years of preparation, the Axis Powers, as they were known, struck. German troops swept over France, toppling the communist government and establishing a fascist state within six weeks. Then, the Axis swept eastward, demolishing Soviet forces. The Germans struck at the heart of the Soviet Union, while Italy and the Balkan fascists nibbled away at the south and Finland struck from the north. The Americans lent their massive economy to the Axis war effort, ensuring that the Axis would never be in want of supplies, but would not declare war until 1943.

By 1943, the Soviets were on their last legs. The British, losing the war in the Pacific, did not want to become hostile to Germany and America. The Japanese opportunistically struck at the eastern portions of the Soviet Union and invaded the Philippines, not wishing to let the Americans seize the entire eastern portion of the country or allow Washington to regain a foothold in Southeast Asia. By 1945, the last vestiges of Soviet resistance were being mopped up by Axis troops deep in Siberia. Massive swaths of the country were being depopulated, to be settled with Axis nationals. Undesirables of all sorts were marched into labor camps in Siberia, or worse, the death camps in former Poland. in 1947, a short war between Britain and the Axis saw most of Britain's African empire fall, and turned the British permanently against the fascists of the continent.

While the guns went silent in the 1950s, there was still a war. The Americans and the Germans, fairweather friends even during the Second World War, split when their mutual foe was destroyed. The Italians joined the Americans, seeking to overthrow Berlin as the master of Europe. Most of Europe did stick to Germany, however. And in the East, the Japanese created their own bloc, wishing to keep both Washington and Berlin out. As nation after nation successfully detonated nuclear arms, even the most crazed militarists realized that the world could not survive a third global engagement. Instead, wars would be fought by proxy around the world, as the great fascist empires competed for influence. In the 1970s, London and Berlin reconciled, as both saw the Americans as the greater threat.

The fascist empires are, all in all, very similar to one another in structure. The concept of Fuehrerprinzip has been adopted by almost all states - with Britain and Japan as notable exceptions - wherein an absolute leader rules over the entire state apparatus. There are no official transfers of power, with new supreme leaders rising and falling through unofficial political maneuvering. This has been a prevalent issue in Germany, where the SS, Nazi Party, and Wehrmacht are each independent power blocs that cannot stand one another, and in Spain, where the Falangist factions frequently assassinate members of rival factions. Some states have a variety of groups that they despise and seek to totally exterminate from the Earth; the Germans have the Jews, the Americans have blacks, and the French have Arabs. Other states, such as Italy, Britain and Finland, don't particularly care for genocide, but would rather impose their cultures on everyone else instead.

For the man on the street, these differences matter little. Practically everything of value, apart from those things owned by state-supported "private" entities, is owned by the government, so most citizens have little they could call their own. Surveillance is constant, with cameras on every street corner, telescreens in every home, and both crowds of thugs and secret police maintaining ideological purity everywhere. Dissent is punishable by decades in the labor camps, or summary execution. Flags and party symbols adorn everything, and there has been a trend of posters with the face of the nation's leader or founding figure looking down upon the people with a stern gaze; the Germans have even brought the face of Hitler into the home of every German. The average citizen does not mind these things; they are so pervasive, and have been around for so long, that they have become banal. Only a few aging men, locked up in retirement homes or psychiatric institution, remembers a time when things were different. But what do they know? They are just senile old fools.