I guess it's a bit like a fair few tolatitarian regimes around that world that are linked to the internet - but only allow very restricted access to it their citizen, or in some cases either allow no access at all or just access to the closed-system intranet.
That also sounds plausible: an alternate George Washington who'd studied and admired the methods of Oliver Cromwell could feasibly go on to found the United Protectorate of America with him as Lord Protector.
All you'd need to do would give Washington a slightly different personal history/set of life experiences which hardened his attitudes somewhat. Make him believe the new nation could only be held together with an iron hand for some reason.
Here's another idea I've no idea if it's been done before, but here it is if people are interested...
The challange here is to make George Washington turn into a more ruthless, dictatorial and "Robespierre-esque" post-revolutionary leader of the USA. He could be reluctantly forced down the...
Every totalitarian regime is designed to be collapse-proof, but sooner or later collapse they do.
Best wishes to Will Ritson, btw, and hope he has a speedy rcovery.
Will Ritson mentioned in post #545 that many figures in the Labour/Trade Union movement were bought off with comfy jobs in Local Goverment.
Fantastic, excellent stuff from Will on this thread as usual. More, please! ;) :)
Great stuff - although wouldn't the flag at least have some sort of emblem added to it (think the Romanian flag under Ceausescu, or the flag of East Germany)?
Also, what are the Lyrics to the Oceanian National Anthem?
Still a fabulous thread, by the way ... :)
I guess if Nazi Germany had assembled some sort of "grand anti-USSR alliance", (especially if WW2 in this timeline is started by Stalin rather than Hitler for some reason) much of the world would have joined it in defeating Russia. Assuming the USSR is defeated, this would leave the world carved...
What does the flag of Oceania look like? I don't mean the Ingsoc Party flag - more whatever is mean to be the national flag of Oceania.
Also, what is the Oceanian National Anthem like under the Ingsoc regime?
Which rasies another interesting question; what becomes, in this ATL, of a certain Australian campaigning journalist called John Pilger? In OTL he did a great expose of the horrors in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. In this ATL does he perhaps do a similar expose of the Ingsoc regime in Britain...