Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes II

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Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

LeinadB93 said:
Haha, thanks!! :p

What I meant was, given that the year length (and I'm assuming date length) on Venus and Mars (and the moons of Saturn etc) are different to Earth, is it the case that different planets have local calendars which are used alongside Gregorian?
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Yeah, there's local calendars, but most people tend to default towards the Gregorian calendar. Most worlds have near-24 hours days, which really raises lots of questions amongst astrophysicists.
 
Georgepatton

Georgepatton

Archangel Michael said:
Yeah, there's local calendars, but most people tend to default towards the Gregorian calendar. Most worlds have near-24 hours days, which really raises lots of questions amongst astrophysicists.
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Questions that reputable astrophysics journals have a standing policy against accepting papers about, I'll wager.
 

Upton_Sinclair

And now for the Progressive Party of the American Empire:

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Five Kingdoms of the American Empire:

Political parties:
Socialists

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TwiliAlchemist

TwiliAlchemist

Wikipedia Article for the Sasquatch genus.
(Had to travel across 3 different dimensions to find this, I hope you're all happy. :p )

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((OOC Note: Yeah, I know it's short and incomplete, but I've only made three infoboxes for the Sasquatch genus, so those are the only ones I've put there.))
 
LeinadB93

LeinadB93

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Archangel Michael said:
Yeah, there's local calendars, but most people tend to default towards the Gregorian calendar. Most worlds have near-24 hours days, which really raises lots of questions amongst astrophysicists.
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Thanks :) I guess that makes things easier!!

Upton_Sinclair said:
And now for the Progressive Party of the American Empire:

Four Kingdoms of the American Empire:
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Very nice :) And "Four Kingdoms"... Interesting...
 
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Upton_Sinclair

LeinadB93 said:
Thanks :) I guess that makes things easier!!



Very nice :) And "Four Kingdoms"... Interesting...
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Actually made a mistake, there are actually Five Kingdoms: New Gaul (French-speaking), New Albion (English-speaking), New Hispania (Spanish-speaking), New Germania (German-speaking), and New Batavi (Dutch-speaking). Also, here's th bio of the current Prime Minister, Andrés Manuel López Obrador:

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Five Kingdoms of the American Empire:

Bios:
Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Political parties:
Socialists
Progressives

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Upton_Sinclair

Turquoise Blue said:
OK. Interesting. What's the Socialists' main opponents?
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The American Empire has four major political parties: the Socialists (See infobox), Progressives (see infobox), Liberals (in alliance with Progressives; similar to LibDems), and Conservatives (similar to UK Conservatives and the former Canadian ProgCons). Currently, the Socialists and Conservatives are the largest political parties, but the Progressives and Liberals have also been in the top two historically.
 

Upton_Sinclair

LeinadB93 said:
How large are the five kingdoms, and the entire American Empire? Do you have a map?
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Unfortunately due to lack of a photo editor I don't have a map. But the Empire covers all of North America (excluding Greenland). However the stuff is basically this:

New Hispania: Mexico, Central America, 1760 Spanish Caribbean (excluding Haiti of course), Texas, Colorado, California, Utah, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida.

New Gaul: Louisiana, Missisippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennesse, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia (settled by Huguenots), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Labrador (mainland Newfoundland), PEI, Haiti, rest of French-speaking Caribbean.

New Albion: 13 colonies, Vermont, Newfoundland (the island), Nova Scotia, Jamaica, Bahamas, rest of English-speaking Caribbean.

New Batavi: Dutch Caribbean.

New Germania: Cascadia, Dakota, Nebraska, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Wyoming, Montana.

Also Alaska, Yukon, NWT and Nunavut is basically one giant Indigenous reservation, so they aren't part of any of the Kingdoms.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Here's the 2009 election infobox from the Affiliated States of Boreoamerica. The politics is my work, but the country is False Dmitri's creation.

The leaders' seats are shown as just their states just because OU we don't know exactly what the states do for electoral systems and IU because which state the MPs are elected for are the only constant, with Virginia going for an electoral college, some probably has PR and others MMP, with a chunk FPTP.

And the blue flag is a filler, not a real flag because the ASB doesn't have a flag yet (FD will likely work on that at some point).

Now, yes, this election is a landslide. However, I have to point out that the ASB has been roughly following OTL British trends since the 50s, only a decade later. So this is the 1997-equivalent, with Suzie Bellamy (ATL Tammy Baldwin) being the Blair-analogue and the hapless Harman (ATL Huckabee) Major.

Here's what the parties are... Oh and where it says "endorsed" that means by state-level parties. States have more powers in ATL (especially after Paul).

Socialist Party: Social democracy, centre-left to left-wing. Endorsed by a fair lot of centre-left parties.
Democratic Party: Conservatism, centre-right to right-wing. endorsed by a fair lot of centre-right parties.

Whig Party: Liberalism, Centre-to-centre-right. Endorsed by some centrist parties. Used to be a major party.
Progressive Party: Liberalism, Centre-to-centre-left. Endorsed by some centrist parties. Split off the Whigs in the 1920s.
Bloc National: A "national" party that mainly represents the French-speaking people. Endorsed by state-level Francophone nationalists. Centrist.
Partido Colombiano: A party representing Hispanic interests, especially in Cuba, East Dominica, and the Floridas. Tends to be centrist, but strong factions.
Aboriginal Party: Anti-establishment, pro-Aboriginal, pro-"states' rights". Non-ideological. Endorsed by most native-based parties.
Liberation Party: Libertarianism, Economically laissez-faire, civic libertarian. Endorsed by most libertarian parties.
Green Party: Agrarianism, but blended with ecologicalism since the 1980s. Centrist-ish. Endorsed by most state-level Green Parties.

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Callan

Callan

Lovely stuff TB: I've never seen Francophone Nationanists from the South of a "Chief Minister" Before. Keep it up!

Now, another one from the World-Building thing I've got going:

Thomas Sean Connery is a Scottish Politician who served as First Secretary of Scotland 1981-86 and 1994-1998. He is the First Secretary and SNP leader to serve non-consecutive terms.

Connery was first elected to the Scottish Assembly at its founding in 1968 (he was a campaigner for Scottish Devolution) and quickly made a name as a passionate and engaging speaker, often overshadowing the SNP leadership. After successfully challenging Gordon Wilson for leadership of the party, Connery moved the party away from the left and beyond sectarianism, winning government over Millan's Radicals in 1981. He resisted calls for an immediate Independence referendum, insisting that a term of "Good Government" was needed to show that independence was practical. His first term was marked mainly by an attempt to create a Scotland-Specific wealth fund for Oil from the North Sea. After achieving a second majority in 1985, Connery successfully called a referendum on Scottish Independence, which was defeated 54-46. Many put this result down to the last-minute interventions of Radical Politician and future Prime Minister Nancy Dewar, who earned the nickname "Captain Britain" for her role in the referendum. Connery resigned after the referendum result.

While he never seriously considered retiring from politics, Connery became increasingly dissatisfied by the unpopular leadership of Gordon Wilson and successfully, for the second time, challenged the incumbent for the leadership. After winning another majority in 1994, Connery again resisted calls to hold another referendum. His second term was most notable for the controversial consolidation of Scotland's local government and very warm relations with Prime Minister Nancy Dewar. Connery retired for good in 1998, wanting to "quit while I'm ahead".
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OOC: Basically, Connery never gets a break in acting and earlier discovery of North Sea Oil makes the Scottish Nationalist Movement more powerful; hence devolution in the 1960s.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

The First World War ended with the Borealians on the winning side, but it was intensely controversial. Internationalist Socialists like Victor DuBois and isolationist Democrats like Gamaliel Harding bitterly opposed the war. Chief Minister Wilfrid Laurier, on the advice of President Thomas Wilson approved the Sedition Act shortly after the war began. The Sedition Act was considered a blatant example of national overreach, as it approved the arrest of people who significantly hindered the war effort. This was aimed mainly at the Socialist Party, with Victor DuBois, future Chief Minister Urban Stendahl, Augustijn Claasen and Fleur Blumstein notable arrests of this.

The war ended in 1919, and people was massively displeased with the Whigs for dragging Boreoamerica into a "foreign" war, for violating democracy and states' rights with the Sedition Act and for not even pressing for repartitions in the treaty. The Socialists and Democrats gained much votes in by-elections and successfully won many states' assembly seats. Many left-Whigs pushed for a leadership challenge, and much to their dismay, Dougal McAdoo, a "Laurier Whig", narrowly won out over Marion La Follette, the progressive faction's champion who they saw as the best chance of another election victory.

When McAdoo won the Whig leadership, the right thing to do would be to reconcile with La Follette after a particularly divisive leadership election which created grudges and distrust between the moderates and progressives, but McAdoo focused on his government and ignored La Follette. After two months, La Follette started his own Progressive Party and took enough MPs to reduce McAdoo's government to a minority.

The deep rivalry between McAdoo and La Follette started to seep in their respectful parties, and after the Socialists surpassed both in 1922 with the Whig Party plummeting from a majority to third place in seats and fourth in votes, they turned their hate on each other, blaming each other for the "freak" result. The death of former Chief Minister Wilfrid Laurier in late 1922 seemed to stop that as both paid their respects to him and attended the funeral, but this proved temporary.

That rivalry would result in the death of Boreal liberalism as a major force, becoming squeezed between capital-supported conservatives and labor-supported socialists.

The 1922 election wikiboxed below is considered a major nail in the coffin for liberalism as a major force in Boreal politics.

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