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Goodfellow's Corporation
Goodfellow's is one of America's most well-known shopping centers, with a presence across the galaxy. While in tight competition against Walton's, Cash-and-Carry, Sears-Roebuck and the millions of Citizen Markets that dot the stars, Goodfellow's is a standard byproduct of American capitalism, with stores appearing in nearly every major galactic system in US orbit, or, surprisingly, in Japan and her allies.
Adolf Hitler, Eternal Fuhrer of the German Nation (1934-present)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1961)
Basic Law for the United States of America
Fleet Admiral John Kennedy, 1st Watchman of the Celadon Hyperchain (1943-1990)
Goodfellow's Corporation
Goodfellow's is one of America's most well-known shopping centers, with a presence across the galaxy. While in tight competition against Walton's, Cash-and-Carry, Sears-Roebuck and the millions of Citizen Markets that dot the stars, Goodfellow's is a standard byproduct of American capitalism, with stores appearing in nearly every major galactic system in US orbit, or, surprisingly, in Japan and her allies.
Russian International no Международный, rigth ИнтернационалA Thousand Shades of Red - Stand up all victims of oppression...
The International and Factions, Part 1
The International
The International isn't quite a world government but it is close. With two chambers populated with five alliances, most citizens of the international are far more focused on world politics than on domestic ones. As revolution swept the globe from the 1920s through to the 1940s, not a single country was left outside the shade of the red flag. Organised by the British, French and Eurasian governments in 1935, the International was supposed to unite the increasingly disparate Socialist world and encourage ideological unity. Of course, it often did the exact opposite and the direct clashing of the five monolithic factions in the World Parliament only made the issues of division on the world stage clearer. Organsied in the impressive World Worker's Palace, the International is based around the world Parliament (an outdated term to be sure but one that has slipped through the cracks of modernisation) and operates from London, chosen due to it being the home of Marx at the time of his most important work, the Headquaters of the Original Communist League and (perhaps most importantly) a safer spot than anywhere in France or Eurasia, which were both battlegrounds at the time of founding.
Within the World Parliament, the division lines have been drawn; the two most powerful alliances are the British-led Cooperative Commonwealth Union (often called the CCU or simply the Cooperatives) and the Eurasian-dominated Alliance for International Communism (usually the AIC or AlCom), although the Sorelian/Strasserist Vanguard Communion punch far above their weight and could give either of the two larger alliances a run for their money in a military confrontation. The two smaller factions are the United Holy International, which is perhaps the militarily weakest but under the protection of the Cooperatives and the Global Anarchist Combine. Largely, votes in the World Parliament are points of ideology, although sometimes certain nations or groups have been censured or denounced, and almost always fall on partisan lines. Their names used only by their opponents and always as insults, they are split into the "Liberal" coalition of the Cooperatives and the UHI and the "Fascist" Coalition of AlCom and the Vanguard. The Anarchists often act as a tie breaker and tend to vote depending on whatever random council their leadership has rotated to, a system which is no small cause of frustration to the rest of the world.
Despite its flaws, the international has kept a tense peace across the world and shows no signs of weakening. It's greatest achievement is the United Space Agency of Man and the USAM has controlled, in name at least, all extra-planetary affairs since the 1990s, including the People's Space Station and the RedStar Mars Landings.
The "Liberal" Coalition
The Cooperative Commonwealth Union
As the British Empire fell, in its stead a democratic, moderated form of Syndicalist Socialism came to fill the gaps which would be codified by Eric Blair as Cooperative Socialism. Beginning in Britain and rapidly exported to many of her former colonies by the tireless work of the newly renamed Republican Navy (it helped to still call it the RN), this has come to be the preferred system of choice in more governments than any other (bar, of course, Anarchism with numbers higher than it is possible to accurately count). Cooperative countries tend to be smaller, richer and freer than most although often have slightly higher levels of inequality and many more trapping of their pre-Revolutionary past. Cooperative Socialism has been adopted in many nations never a part of the British Empire
The CCU also acts as a military alliance and has both standardised equipment and an integrated high command, with Central Naval Command based in Liverpool, Central Army Command in Sydney and Central Air Command in Seattle.
Only in member countries of the CCU and the Anarchists can representatives in the world council as members of another Alliance and as of now of the their 46 representatives in the Popular Chamber, 7 are associated with other factions. 3 of these sit as members of the United Holy International, 3 as members of the Anarchist Combine and 1 as a member of the Vanguard.
Notable members include the Commonwealth of Britain, the Republic of Nordalbion, the Australasian Union, the East African Federation, the Neo-Babylonian People's Republic, the Cascadian Concordant, the Texan Federation and more.
The United Holy International
Led from Lhasa by a coalition primarily consisting of the Nihonjin, Tibet and the Peacegrounds of California, the UHI formed as a pragmatic response to the dogmatic and aggressive state atheism practised by Eurasia and the Vanguard. While the religion of the states are different, with four major ones being represented; Shinto, Neo-Catholicism, Tibetan Buddhism and Reformed Islam, all of a sudden they seemed more alike than different. The practical ideologies of the nations vary; the Nihonjin are very left-libertarian, the Irish are not dissimilar to the British system of Cooperative Socialism and the Tibetans and Sudanese largely continued their traditional systems of government with layers of Socialism integrated somewhat at random. No doubt a disparate group, the UHI are united by their belief in both material and spiritual emancipation of the worker and are known for their humanitarian drives in the International as well as their large list of associated charities.
Bound by necessity to the CCU, relations between the two Alliances are genuinely warm and there is a great deal of cultural exchange between the two, a somewhat unique connection in the modern age. Meanwhile they are fairly abjectly loathed by the other factions, even moreso than the CCU and are officially regarded as a revisionist organisation by AlCom and as an oppressive neo-feudal regime by the Vanguard.
Life is peaceful and simple in most of the UHI, living standards are high but literacy is low and they often rank poorly in terms of democratic representation but high in terms of personal liberties. Their members include the Nihonjin, Tibet, the Peacegrounds of California, the Godly Irish Republic, the Iberian Catholic Union, the Korean Holy People's Republic, the Jainist-Construct and the Islamo-Communist Sudanese Union.
Authors note: I've gone full rule of cool here because honestly such a world was never going to exist so please don't expect any realism. I realise all the new terms and acronyms are confusing so please ask if you're interested/lost and I hope you enjoy! Maps are imprecise and there might be one or two mistakes so please give me a heads up if you notice them and I'd love to know what you guys all think!
Lana Daniel, also known by her stage name, Uriel, is a former U.S. House Representative, a former revolutionary milita commander, an award-winning musician and producer, a "socialist entrepreneur," a Liberation Party activist and surrogate, and a synthetic rights activist. Daniel was born in 2022, to Carla Daniel and Dale James Olson. Carla Daniel was a veteran activist, having been active in the Black Lives Matter movement, the anti-Trump movement and the early 2020 anti-war movement. Dale Olson was an artist, writer, board game designer and YouTuber. The two met in 2020, and entered a relationship. Carla Daniel was 25 and Dale Olson was 23 when Lana Daniel was born. With her mother's busy activism, Lana was mostly raised by her father. While her parents loved each other, and their relationship was mostly healthy, the pair came to odds over Carla's activism in light of escalating tensions in the country. According to Lana Daniel's memoir, she remembered a particularly viscous fight between the two when she was five, after Carla was hospitalized for a week after being shot in an anti-AMP protest. Shortly after, the two separated, with Dale taking full custody of his daughter. Lana would last meet her mother in the winter of 2030. It would take until 2034 for Dale and Lana to confirm that Carla had been killed in a march in 2032, the victim of bomb planted by a terrorist affiliated with the Sovereign Authority.
While Dale Olson would have other relationships, he never married or entered into a long-term partnership, being more focused with raising his daughter. Lana Daniel excelled as a student, influenced by her father's value on education and support from her grandparents. While her father tried to encourage her to pursue a lucrative STEM career, Daniel found that her interests resonated elsewhere. She took after both her father's artistic passion and her mother's commitment to political change. Lana Daniel's first music video was published in October 2033, a "nerdcore" song recorded with her father. While she wrote and sang a variety of such songs between 2033 and 2036, her musical interests soon became more political. In March 2037, Lana Daniel published her first "conscious hip-hop" piece to the internet, "Dreamers," a song about being a black student in a country still dominated by implicit white supremacy. While this song passed without much fanfare, her followup in May 2037, "Seeds," a memorial for her mother and other protestors killed by far-rightists and the AMP, went viral on Shouf!. After receiving a cavalcade of death threats for the song, Lana Daniel deleted her social media accounts. While she did not publish any other songs to the internet between 2037 and 2042, she did perform live at small events, both at local establishments for charity and at conventions for her father's up and coming game design company. Having recieved some implicit warnings from his ex-partner's friends, Dale took Lana out of school in the spring of 2039, weathing the May 31st rebellion at Dale's parents home in rural South Carolina. After returning to school in the fall of 2040, Lana Daniel would resume her public career in 2042. While her February 2042 party anthem "Graduation" was side project encouraged her high school friends, she would continue to post music to her new channel, a mixture of reports from her early work, her 2037-2042 backlog, and new songs. Going to Armstrong Atlantic State University as to study art, Lana Daniel had already accrued a significant musical portfolio.
While she didn't do particularly poorly in college, Daniel was often distracted by her activism. While the AMP and the state government had cracked down on anti-government activity, Lana Daniel was active in underground political organizations, such as the Rider's Club and the Big Society. Daniel's politics were not radical at this time. In her memoir, Daniel described herself as a "lukewarm liberal," adhering to a relatively moderate set of democratic reforms. However, this changed in 2046. While she was set to graduate that year, Lana Daniel's life was set off track by an encounter with anti-synth protesters. On April 3rd, 2046, Daniel ran into one her acquaintances, an army veteran and freshman at the college, being harassed for his cybernuerological implants. While Lana and her friends attempted to defuse the situation, it flew out of control. Using the telescoping baton that she carried for self-defense, Lana beat down two of the harassers, and was arrested that evening for battery and carrying a concealed weapon. Lana Daniel would plead guilty to a these charges, and was sentenced to nine months in prison. During her prison stay, Daniel ended up getting involved with the Thorn, an anarchist prison gang that had been cultivated by arrested rebels. Lana was inducted into the gang at some point in her stay, coming out of prison with her star. While the school allowed Lana to complete her studies and graduate in May of 2047, Lana had little interest in polite society or a professional music career. Lana Daniel's "Red Period" lasted from 2047 -2052, during which she was signed with the leftist The RED Label. Lana's sound during this period can be described as particularly harsh and militant, with Revolutionary Folk-inspired beats and verses. She released three albums during this period. Lana's most notable single in this period was "Bombshell," a brutally graphic song about murdering politicians and security forces in a highly sexualized manner. While Lana Daniel received several visits from security forces during this period, including threats of arrest for "advocating insurgency," Lana would continue her revolutionary rhetoric, and became a key member of local anarchist organizations. She participated in a swathe of anti-AMP demos during the first phase of the Water Riots.
In 2053, Red Summer happened. After building the Liberation Party for 4 years, the militant founders of the party and their allies felt that it was time for action. In May 31st, 2053, the 14th anniversary of the May 31st Rebellion, the Liberation Party delivered its Black Manifesto, urging all opponents of the regime to seize power in their localities. Dozens of Communes were proclaimed across the country, with hastily raised militias and anarchist cells storming city halls, security stations and other civic institutions. Lana Daniel's cell was one of these militias, and her peers elected her Unit Commander for the duration. Between June and August 2053, Lana oversaw combats with security forces, seizure of public and private infrastructure, and the organization of a provisional government. However, the movement stood down after the AMP announced in August that it would seek peace terms with the Revolutionary, and the Commune was officially disbanded in November, after the peace deal was signed. While higher level commanders accepted the peace deal's terms and turned themselves in to serve their 10-year sentence, Unit Commanders like Lana were given amnesty. Lana would focus her activism through the Liberation Party, becoming an important activist and even unseating veteran representative Kurt Woods in 2056 to represent South Atlanta. Lana Daniel quickly became jaded with Congress, where Liberation representatives were hardly allowed to speak on the floor. Lana Daniel would decline to run in 2058, instead returning to her musical career. Daniel signed with Interval under the stage name Uriel. From 2059 to 2062, she would release two records, both of which went Platinum. She left Interval in 2063 to found her own music collective, Pinnacle Records. While Daniel released her sixth record in 2066, she has mainly taken a back seat, focusing on producing others' music. Lana Daniel also spent time as a "socialist entrepreneur" since 2059, investing capital in worker-owned cooperatives and collectives across the South. Lana Daniel served on the Guiding Board of the Cooperative Confederation between 2064-2066, and has been a key member of the Atlanta Liberation Party. More recently, Lana Daniel has gotten involved with the synthetics rights movement, headlining both pro-synth and anti-municipalist rallies.
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The Second War on Terror, against the Confederation of Islamic Movements.
Which did include Iran, to a degree.
Bulldoggus
Banned
Ah? And who else? Also, who are the municipalists Lana Daniel is an activist against? Hopefully they're better than Anarchists and Authoritarian Technocrats.
Rosa Luxemburg
Banned
Did Georgia finally go Socialist?
Lana Daniel, also known by her stage name, Uriel, is a former U.S. House Representative, a former revolutionary milita commander, an award-winning musician and producer, a "socialist entrepreneur," a Liberation Party activist and surrogate, and a synthetic rights activist. Daniel was born in 2023, to Carla Daniel and Dale James Olson. Carla Daniel was a veteran activist, having been active in the Black Lives Matter movement, the anti-Trump movement and the early 2020 anti-war movement. Dale Olson was an artist, writer, board game designer and YouTuber. The two met in 2020, and entered a relationship. Carla Daniel was 25 and Dale Olson was 23 when Lana Daniel was born. With her mother's busy activism, Lana was mostly raised by her father. While her parents loved each other, and their relationship was mostly healthy, the pair came to odds over Carla's activism in light of escalating tensions in the country. According to Lana Daniel's memoir, she remembered a particularly viscous fight between the two when she was five, after Carla was hospitalized for a week after being shot in an anti-AMP protest. Shortly after, the two separated, with Dale taking full custody of his daughter. Lana would last meet her mother in the winter of 2030. It would take until 2034 for Dale and Lana to confirm that Carla had been killed in a march in 2032, the victim of bomb planted by a terrorist affiliated with the Sovereign Authority.
While Dale Olson would have other relationships, he never married or entered into a long-term partnership, being more focused with raising his daughter. Lana Daniel excelled as a student, influenced by her father's value on education and support from her grandparents. While her father tried to encourage her to pursue a lucrative STEM career, Daniel found that her interests resonated elsewhere. She took after both her father's artistic passion and her mother's commitment to political change. Lana Daniel's first music video was published in October 2033, a "nerdcore" song recorded with her father. While she wrote and sang a variety of such songs between 2033 and 2036, her musical interests soon became more political. In March 2037, Lana Daniel published her first "conscious hip-hop" piece to the internet, "Dreamers," a song about being a black student in a country still dominated by implicit white supremacy. While this song passed without much fanfare, her followup in May 2037, "Seeds," a memorial for her mother and other protestors killed by far-rightists and the AMP, went viral on Shouf!. After receiving a cavalcade of death threats for the song, Lana Daniel deleted her social media accounts. While she did not publish any other songs to the internet between 2037 and 2042, she did perform live at small events, both at local establishments for charity and at conventions for her father's up and coming game design company. Having recieved some implicit warnings from his ex-partner's friends, Dale took Lana out of school in the spring of 2039, weathing the May 31st rebellion at Dale's parents home in rural South Carolina. After returning to school in the fall of 2040, Lana Daniel would resume her public career in 2042. While her February 2042 party anthem "Graduation" was side project encouraged her high school friends, she would continue to post music to her new channel, a mixture of reports from her early work, her 2037-2042 backlog, and new songs. Going to Armstrong Atlantic State University as to study art, Lana Daniel had already accrued a significant musical portfolio.
While she didn't do particularly poorly in college, Daniel was often distracted by her activism. While the AMP and the state government had cracked down on anti-government activity, Lana Daniel was active in underground political organizations, such as the Rider's Club and the Big Society. Daniel's politics were not radical at this time. In her memoir, Daniel described herself as a "lukewarm liberal," adhering to a relatively moderate set of democratic reforms. However, this changed in 2046. While she was set to graduate that year, Lana Daniel's life was set off track by an encounter with anti-synth protesters. On April 3rd, 2046, Daniel ran into one her acquaintances, an army veteran and freshman at the college, being harassed for his cybernuerological implants. While Lana and her friends attempted to defuse the situation, it flew out of control. Using the telescoping baton that she carried for self-defense, Lana beat down two of the harassers, and was arrested that evening for battery and carrying a concealed weapon. Lana Daniel would plead guilty to a these charges, and was sentenced to nine months in prison. During her prison stay, Daniel ended up getting involved with the Thorn, an anarchist prison gang that had been cultivated by arrested rebels. Lana was inducted into the gang at some point in her stay, coming out of prison with her. While the school allowed Lana to complete her studies and graduate in May of 2047, Lana had little interest in polite society or a professional music career. Lana Daniel's "Red Period" lasted from 2047 -2052, during which she was signed with the leftist The RED Label. Lana's sound during this period can be described as particularly harsh and militant, with Revolutionary Folk-inspired beats and verses. She released three albums during this period. Lana's most notable single in this period was "Bombshell," a brutally graphic song about murdering politicians and security forces in a highly sexualized manner. While Lana Daniel received several visits from security forces during this period, including threats of arrest for "advocating insurgency," Lana would continue her revolutionary rhetoric, and became a key member of local anarchist organizations. She participated in a swathe of anti-AMP demos during the first phase of the Water Riots.
In 2053, Red Summer happened. After building the Liberation Party for 4 years, the militant founders of the party and their allies felt that it was time for action. In May 31st, 2053, the 14th anniversary of the May 31st Rebellion, the Liberation Party delivered its Black Manifesto, urging all opponents of the regime to seize power in their localities. Dozens of Communes were proclaimed across the country, with hastily raised militias and anarchist cells storming city halls, security stations and other civic institutions. Lana Daniel's cell was one of these militias, and her peers elected her Unit Commander for the duration. Between June and August 2053, Lana oversaw combats with security forces, seizure of public and private infrastructure, and the organization of a provisional government. However, the movement stood down after the AMP announced in August that it would seek peace terms with the Revolutionary, and the Commune was officially disbanded in November, after the peace deal was signed. While higher level commanders accepted the peace deal's terms and turned themselves in to serve their 10-year sentence, Unit Commanders like Lana were given amnesty. Lana would focus her activism through the Liberation Party, becoming an important activist and even unseating veteran representative Kurt Woods in 2056 to represent South Atlanta. Lana Daniel quickly became jaded with Congress, where Liberation representatives were hardly allowed to speak on the floor. Lana Daniel would decline to run in 2058, instead returning to her musical career. Daniel signed with Interval under the stage name Uriel. From 2059 to 2062, she would release two records, both of which went Platinum. She left Interval in 2063 to found her own music collective, Pinnacle Records. While Daniel released her sixth record in 2066, she has mainly taken a back seat, focusing on producing others' music. Lana Daniel also spent time as a "socialist entrepreneur" since 2059, investing capital in worker-owned cooperatives and collectives across the South. Lana Daniel served on the Guiding Board of the Cooperative Confederation between 2064-2066, and has been a key member of the Atlanta Liberation Party. More recently, Lana Daniel has gotten involved with the synthetics rights movement, headlining both pro-synth and anti-municipalist rallies.
Uh, it kind of is. The only modern presidents who fit this description would be LBJ (mostly the "bully" part and he only bullied people in private, unlike Christie) and, of course, Trump.
I feel like Christie's "bully" personality would be scrutinized like Trumpy OTL, but he doesn't have the baggage of being bigoted, so perhaps he does better in the election especially from Independents and Democrats? I can still see Trump's base going to Christie because he is different than the status quo and outspoken.
Georgia, as well as the rest of the South, knows what it wants.
Guns, freedom and socialism.
Guns, freedom and socialism.
You... monster...
I take it then that the north is full of Puritan killjoys such as myself?
The Greater Islamic Revolution, called the Second War on Terror in West, began in early 2022, starting in Egypt. A coup plotted by a cabal of islamist-sympathizing colonels to dispose the generals and take control of the Egyptian deep state escalated into the complete overthrow of Sisi's government in Feburary 2022. An unconnected, but similar incident happen in Iran in March, where a radical branch of the Revolutionary Guard, protesting the government's decision to defund Hamas, occupied the assembly and seized control of the government.
The new Islamist juntas quickly realized that they were at a unique point in history. With the West exhausted and two of the largest countries in the Middle East under their control it would be possible to fulfill the goals of the original Islamic Revolution. The third player in this game was the Confederation of Islamic Movements, a secret conference of various anti-ISIS Jihadist groups that had begun to form in the late 10s in the wake of Assad's victory in the Syrian civil war.
The Islamist alliance quickly came into conflict with other governments in the Middle East and their western allies. However, feet-dragging by the U.S.'s anti-interventionist left-populist president prevented a rapid response by the U.S. or its NATO allies. By the time that the U.S. had impeached the president and began to intervene, the Confederation had already installed allied Islamist governments in Iraq, Jordan, Yemen and Sudan. By the beginnning of the 2027 ceasefire between the Confederation and the UN task force, the revolution was essentially complete, with Israel, Turkey, and the new nation of Kurdistan being the only Middle Eastern nations not under the Confederation's sway.
The municipalists are these guys:
Yeah, the Municipalists are relatively benign. Still, they're ultraconservative collectivists who want to abolish the nation-state, what remains of privacy and every barrier between church and (city)-state. Municipalists tend to be incredibly nice and compassionate people, but if one believes that synths are people, then the Municipalists want to commit genocide. The Municipalists are fine with homosexuals and transgender people, but they better get married and conform to traditional gender roles. They're capitalists, but they believe that corporations and any other form of "legal fiction" should be eliminated so that enterprise can be conducted between real people. They're anti-institutionalist, because they believe that there should only be one institution, society, that everyone must conform to whether it brings them personal happiness or not. Freedom means something very different to them than it does to our contemporary society.
Also, they want to tear down every building built since 1904, at least ones made in any sort of modernist style, and replace it with some nice historicist buildings. (This made the old logo impossibly ironic).
However, they are nonviolent in both policy and politics, and denounce direct action or revolution. And not all Municipalists adhere to every piece of Municipalist canon. The Metropole Quebecois, for example, reject the Citizen's Manifesto in particular and urban conservatism in general. (Albeit I guess that makes them worse, not better.
Really, Municipalism is alien and seemingly idiosyncratic, but so is almost every ideology of 2068.
Kinda? Georgia is very mixed. Atlanta is dominated by Municipalists, who control the state government, while much of rural Georgia is fiercely Libertarian.
You... monster...
I take it then that the north is full of Puritan killjoys such as myself?
Pretty much. Parts of the north Atlantic, anyways.
U.S. Election of 2064
It was hard to believe that the U.S. had only had free elections for the last 8 years. Already, the art of political punditry and horse race reporting had returned to America. Perhaps the news media had dusted off their history books, delving into forgotten lore and rites. Perhaps it was just another import from China, like C-Dance or the Dactyl Rot. Regardless, the spin cycle ratings hadn't been this high since the water riots, causing the American Moderate leadership some groans. It was hard enough trying to keep democracy under control; why did the media companies need to keep reminding people about it? Despite their complaints, one had to admit that the spin cycle wasn't exactly hurting them, to the disappointment of the opposition. The AMP had already moved to absorb its puppet parties and restructure the party apparatus, which was used by the media to construct a narrative of consolidation and reform, rather than erosion and decline. Al-Jazeera America writers were gleefully putting out hit pieces against the socialists, and Brietbart was leveling its own against the moonies. The party's own memetic engineers were hard as work at well, hammering in the message that a vote for the opposition was a vote for revolutionaries and anarchists. As for the nominee herself, Valorie Bak was an elder stateswoman of the party, and her role as a reformist and moderating influence did not go unnoticed by the public. The party's internal projections lined them up for further consolidation and gains against the opposition across east coast. Donors were confident, and while hesitant to increase their already risky investment, did not seek to cut off the party's revenue.
Of course, there was one major issue that the party did not account for. In their exhaustive projections and polling, there was one serious error. Following the election, pundits would compare it to the Shy Labour factor in terms of errancy. One of the major assumptions in the party's polling models was that the libertarians and Municipalists were so divided, almost on every issue, that their partisans would be sufficiently ideological to avoid casting a vote for the other member of the opposition. In some states, this was indeed the case. The South, for example, was a heated battleground between the Left and Right.
However, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic were not. While many of the Liberationists were loathe to admit it, the Municipalists had done well in local governance. Their attempts to reorganize communities for eventual independence was frustrating and frightening, but they did a good job in fighting against the post-liberal commodification of city life. Even more so, the local libertarian parties themselves gave up trying to compete against the moonies, and quietly let their activists tactically support the Right. Even many in the apolitical masses perceived this development, and decided to take a stand. It was in no way a landslide for the opposition, but it was what the Municipalists needed to surge across the region.
Prior to 2064, the Municipalists had been seen as a regional force, and a minor one at that. Their ideology and rhetoric were inherently tied to the urban experience and the anomie that came with it. The Midwesterners appreciated their anti-synth rhetoric, but saw them as city-slickers that had no business telling anyone about authentic living. The Southwesterners already had religion, and the Church, whether Catholic or Latter-Day Saints, was no friend to the Municipalists. The Northwesterns tended to like their synthetic friends and co-workers, and were horrified by the moonies' rhetoric. And Dixie, well, Dixie knew what it wanted: guns, freedom, and socialism. People respected the Municipalists for not being bought out during the limited election period, and they respected their fight to open up the ballot.
Still, there was a reason that they were called moonbats.
2064 changed all that. It was a minor victory for the Liberationists, but a huge one for the Municipalists, who dramatically increased their popular vote and congressional seats. The AMP could not help but stand in shock, with Senate Leader Roy Wong resigning from leadership over the results. David Stamm, ever the maverick, stood firm and refused to head the calls for his resignation as Speaker. Bak accepted her victory, but quietly informed the party leadership that she would not run again. It was a deeply troubling experience. Yes, they still had domination over the government, but this election was supposed to shore up their position, not see it continue to erode. Yes, they could amend the constitution to kingdom come, but without an overwhelming mandate, it would spark civil unrest. Donors were furious, and many threatened to withdraw their support if the AMP did not turn things around. The U.S. media was stunned to see their stocks plunge due to their blindness, and some began to believe that they were backing the wrong horse. The Municipalists, both in the U.S. and aboard, rejoiced in their victory, pledging to redouble their effort to turn the United States into the first municipal confederation on Earth. The Liberationists were much less jubilant. While they officially declared a victory, they knew that it was going to be a long struggle, and they would have to be careful about their alliances.
Maximilian XI L'Ermite (14 July 2913–18 February 2971) was a hermit crab and the head of the L'Ermite Privateer and Mercenary Organization, as well as one of the most infamous members of the House of L'Ermite (itself intertwined with the hyenine House of Zig). The only son of the worryingly, debilitatingly schizophrenic Bernard XXII, Maximilian was orphaned at the ripe age of three. From there, he was raised by Lucii Zigmund, Bernard XXII's hyena handmaiden and one of his youngest mercenaries, who was older than Maximilian by ten years. Lucii was also the head of the L'Ermite Organization at the time, grooming the young Maximilian to be the next head of the L'Ermite estate. Historians and Maximilian's subordinates described Lucii and Maximilian's relationship as "sickeningly intimate" and "an object of obsession by the Boss". As such, Maximilian XI was grief-stricken followed Lucii's death in 2970, which might have been one of the factors resulting into the weakening of the L'Ermite Organization at the end of Maximilian's tenure.
For the most of Maximilian XI's tenure, however, L'Ermite Organization was deadly and extremely efficient, earning its head the nicknames "Crawling King" and "Skull Hermit". Aside from being the head of an organization of assassins and private mercenaries, Maximilian XI was also somewhat of an archaeologist, and wore a human skull as his shell. To his subordinates, Maximilian was known for being cold, stoic and extremely competent, as well as having unusually good hearing. According to Lucii, Maximilian despised noise and hated talking a lot, but was a good listener. Using his army of loyal mercenaries, Maximilian declared war on the Free City of Sandiko, which was under the rule of Lorenzo the Baboon (a barbaric, surprisingly idiotic warlord who was, indeed, a zoo-born Hamadryas baboon) and seized control of the city, becoming its "enlightened president" for fourteen years and making it his headquarters.
As a member of the House of L'Ermite, Maximilian XI actively supported the (Eastern Branch of the) House of Zig, which made him a lot of enemies. His nature as a head of assassins, paranoid dictator and hermit crab meant that he would soon contend with not only ACME (whose leader he may have indirectly assassinated), but also with the "democratic forces" of the United Towns of Neumerika, the Seal Republic and the remnants of what was once the most technologically advanced power in the world, the Cephalopod Commonwealth.
Operation Beach Cleaning was an operation that started on 26 July 2970 and ended on 3 August 2970, in which the combined forces of Neumerika, local dolphins, local cephalopods and the Seal Republic (whose army also included seagulls) stormed Sandikozu and captured Maximilian XI in his house. The Operation was prolonged by "landlubber resistance", attacks by Maximilian XI's bodyguards and the many, many booby traps in certain parts of the Sandikozu. Nonetheless, the L'Ermite Organization was not unable to respond quickly and their boss was captured. Maximilian XI officially remained the Head of the Organization, though de facto the Organization was scrambling to find a leader, as Maximilian XI, who never romantically pursued anyone other than Lucii, hasn't had children. Maximilian XI L'Ermite would be transferred to a remote jail in Freiport, a small town under the jurisdiction of the Seal Republic. Though numerous hermit crabs, seagulls and hyenas tried to bail Maximilian out, they always failed, and Maximilian XI L'Ermite would eventually die from suffocation on 18 February 2971.
Heaven as a Monkey House (working title):
Wilma W. Coyote and the Siege of Fortsmitt
Maximilian XI L'Ermite and Operation Beach Cleaning (YOU'RE HERE)
For the art itself, I credit hwango.
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Viva la revolution!Georgia, as well as the rest of the South, knows what it wants.
Guns, freedom and socialism.
President Henry A. Wallace is regarded among the best Presidents in the post-war era, leading the nation through the defeat of Nazi Germany, the siege and firebombing of Japan, the end of World War II, and the Berlin War. Wallace was the only President to order the dropping of a nuclear bomb, in the bombing of Moscow, where the nuclear weapons Big Top and Gonzo fell on the city. People have criticized the President for his failure to stop the Soviet Union from invading BPG West Berlin and his immediate reliance on the nuclear arsenal. The bombings, however, ended the Soviet Union's organized war in a fell swoop, with the death of Soviet military leadership and of Josef Stalin. Vyacheslav Molotov, de facto leader of the Soviet Union with the death of Stalin, signed the Berlin Accords in early 1948, which officially ended the Soviet Union. However, fighting continued as late as 1956.
Following the his assassination on June 15th, the popular FDR was widely viewed as a martyr, which allowed Wallace to win a landslide victory in 1944 after being chosen to replace FDR on the ticket. This allowed Wallace to push forward the "Second New Deal", an action which pushed for extensive civil and political rights, desegregating the military. The Second New Deal even continued with the Presidency of Thomas Dewey, despite being a Republican. It is thought that if Wallace had been replaced by someone else as President, the Civil Rights Revolution would have been pushed back a decade.
Henry Wallace left office after electing not to run for reelection, after facing massive hostility from the southern Democrats. It was thought that if Wallace was nominated again, the Southerners would have launched their own ticket. The Democratic ticket, Richard Russell and Harry S. Truman, lost in a landslide to Thomas E. Dewey, following Democratic fatigue.
Bulldoggus
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Oh, wow, those municipalists sound just dreadful
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It sounds just like me (minus the "tearing down most pre-1904 buildings part", I actually quite like much of modern architecture, although the over-smoothe iLook needs to be done for a while, and by 2064, that would have to be very hard to do). I'd vote for them. How did you come up with such an excellent ideology?
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