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Enter the oligarch. The true rulers of the Republic. And on the payroll of the Russian Federation, I might add. This is where Chancellor May's strength will disappear.

...Good, Sam, Good. Now they will elect a new Chancellor, a strong Chancellor... One who will not let our tragedy continue.

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13 years later....








The attempt on my life... has left me SCARRED... and DEFORMED...

But I assure you... my RESOLVE has never been STRONGER!

In order to secure our stability and continuing stability...

The REPUBLIC... shall be REORGANISED....

Into the SECOND... BRITISH... EMPIRE!

For a SAFE... and SECURE...

SOCIETY!

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To the people of Antediluvian Upstate, the clouds of Black Flies are an ever-present force in the spring and summer months. And so they became associated with death among the pagans of the Adirondack Mountains. although not a figure directly worshipped, many venture to Black Mountain south of Lake Champlain to give sacrifices to the Lord of the Flies in the great festival of Deet Day.
 
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Gregory Sanders was a former American cowboy, musician, and superhero, operating under the name of "The Vigilante" during his years in New York. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Sanders left for New York to pursue a career in music, only putting it on hold to return to Wyoming after the murder of his father to apprehend the murderers responsible. Over the years he became known as a quick shot, a popular cowboy singer, and a staple of local radio stations.

In late 1954, Sander's friend and former sidekick Daniel "Stuff" Leong was murdered by The Dummy, a diminutive crime boss for Leong's role in his arrest and imprisonment. While never convicted of the crime, it is widely believed that Sanders retaliated by murdering the members of the gang, shooting most of them, hanging The Dummy, and stomping one man to death after he survived several bullets wounds.

After this, Sanders disappeared, never being conclusively found. Reports stated that people saw him in various parts of the west in the next two decades, including his home town of Cheyenne and even New York City at one point, but after several years of no sightings, he was declared dead in absentia. Nowadays he is largely known for his suspected role in the brutal end of The Dummy Gang, as well as the adoption of his superhero name by several other mass murderers and self-declared superheroes.

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I actually had this idea in the back of my head a little bit before I saw @aaa's challenge, which was perfect for me.

 
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Bradley Isilahi Lamar (11 March, 2023–12 September, 2074) was an American revolutionary, politician, internet personality and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of the United States of America's socialist government. Under his administration, America became a one-party socialist state governed by the People's Majority Party. Before taking part in the 2065 revolution, he was also widely known for his online presence, streaming on Twitch and regularly debating other figures in the same online sphere.

Born to a lower middle-class family in Alabama, Lamar became active in community organising from an early age, influenced by his parents careers as school teachers. His older brother, AJ Lamar, was brutally assaulted by police officers during an Amazon warehouse strike and quickly succumbed to his injuries. The officers in question were later pardoned by order of the President, Donald Trump Jr., who had furthered aggressive union-busting efforts in the wake of the 2038 Economic Downturn. This further radicalised Lamar, who saw his brother's death as "state-sanctioned execution". He also championed the need for Universal Healthcare, himself a longtime sufferer of epilepsy.

Expelled from Auburn University for participating in counter-protests against the reelection of Trump Jr., he he moved to Kentucky in 2041 and became a political activist, working for the Senate campaign of Robert LeVertis Bell. In 2047, when he received a three-year ban from Twitch due to the Digital Free Speech Assurance Act, he resumed community organising, and married a BLM regional organiser, Nadia Valdez. In 2053, he took a key role in the ideological split of the Democratic Socialists of America, leading the "People's Majority" faction against the Democratic Party-affiliated primary faction. Following America's involvement in the Latin-American war, he campaigned for long-suffering civilians to rise up against their local governments and law enforcement, which, as a Marxist, he believed would cause the overthrow of the capitalist system within the country. After the 2067 Revolution ousted the President and established a Provisional Government, he was elected as Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives (and subsequently the United States Assembly upon its creation) when the office of the President was abolished.

The Provisional Government initially shared power between the multi-party Assembly, although by 2068 it had centralised power in the new People's Majority Party proper. Lamar's administration redistributed factory ownership to workers, granted massive land claims to indigenous groups, and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. America withdrew from the Latin American War by popular acclaim, as Western Imperialism was demonised by Lamar and his associates. Opponents of the new system were suppressed in a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in labour camps. However, with his health failing and his epilepsy getting worse due to stress, Lamar died in 2074, with party chairwoman Jolene Stramore succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the American socialist government.
 
Airesien said:
Graham Stringer as Labour leader? Naomi Long as Lib Dem leader?! I have some questions…

Great boxes as always!
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Stringer is elected leader on a platform on a Corbyn-esque unexpected wave, like Corbyn survives a leadership attempt shortly into his tenure, but crashes and burns in the end. He later outright defects to the Conservatives in retaliation for Bercow expelling him for outrageous statements and serves on the Cabinet, ironically, of William Hague the man who won a majority against him and also Damian Green.

Naomi Long’s rise as successor to Clegg was facilitated by a ‘merger’ of sorts of the Alliance and Lib Dems, howeverone that kept most of the Alliance’s operational independence and also their name in Northern Ireland but increased their interconnectivity and cooperation.
 
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Chartism was by its very nature at the beginning of its existence, not an ideology, but the government of the new British Commonwealth began to forge it into one. This ideology became the political zeitgeist in the First American Republic, although it never caught on in the south until after the Southron Rebellion due to its antislavery. At the heart of this was the Chartist Correspondence Societies, which were regionalist groups advocating for a Chartist Program in their localities.

In 1842, the First American Chartist Correspondence Society Congress met in Boston to coordinate the activities of the society, establish common policies, as well as agree to join their societies together into the League of American Chartist Correspondence Societies, or American Charter Club for short. The ACC then spent the rest of the Second Party System advocating for Liberal causes.

The ACC reached the height of its power during the Second Era of Good Feelings, representing the Left-wing opposition to the increasingly Centralist tendencies of the Union Party. People’s Party candidate in 1892, Senator John Kyle* of Dakota was a high-ranking member of the ACC and would have denied Nelson Miles an Electoral majority if not for his tragic death.

The 1890s was the time of a brutal schism following the death of John Kyle, where the more radical faction of the Club left and formed the Sovereigntist Society with over a third of the society’s members.

The Club was integral to the creation of the Anti-Reelectionist Pact in 1908, which propelled the candidacy of Representative Joseph Cannon to the White House. When Miles responded with the infamous Junto Coup, the ACC was included on his List of Proscribed Organizations and was forcibly dissolved, with the Government-Controlled Loyal Reform Clubs formed out of its Unionist Members.
 
By the time of her election as President of the United States, Jael Patterson was one of the most experienced politicians in American history. Born in 2010 in Jamaica (she would become the first naturalized citizen to become President) and raised in Tallahassee, Patterson's career began when she dropped out of Florida A&M to join the Constitutionalists' guerrilla resistance. By the end of 2031, her heroic work led to a battlefield commission as Captain in the wake of the Liberation of Jacksonville. After the war and several years as a union organizer, she rose through the ranks of government as state representative, mayor, and Governor of Apalachicola, where she helped author the Manifesto for a Party of Communities. She then accepted an appointment from President Douglas to head the Office of Domestic Policy, and largely defined not only his policy but that of the People's Party going forward on decentralized welfare, education, civil readiness, and cultural programs. When he left the Presidency in 2068, she would run to succeed him. After being defeated narrowly by Vice President Duarte, she was nominated to the Senate from the political constituency, and organized the congressional opposition to the Mehta and Juarez administrations, staunchly opposing their centralizing tendencies on education and cultural policy and their unilateralist attitude to the Iberian War. There were people who had been waiting for her election for the better part of four decades.

Her election as President over Juarez represented the latter's dreams of a truly imperial Presidency being given to someone with no interest in it, but also represented the American people's choice of pluralism over progress, cacophony over consensus. Nevertheless, her nine-year administration was polarizing. Some considered it a victory for federalism and democracy, but it was not for nothing that the nation had elected Grace Juarez three years prior, and many people remembered why. Benign neglect towards state governments wishing to act as "laboratories of democracy" curdled into corruption scandals and led to a renewed focus on the problems of often stultifyingly conservative local autonomies, many of which rejected broadly popular social advances such as nootropics, plural marriage, and cybernetic government and/or faced serious issues with solvency. Many feared that the United States was falling behind in the Space Race and the Consciousness Race, and moreover that renewed focus on engagement with the Ascension Pact and Antarctica threatened the alliances with China and Europe that had won the Constitutionalists the war. Though Patterson was popular on a personal level across the nation, many Americans nevertheless saw her as essentially a relic of a bygone age and a bygone political climate.

Still, it is important not to overstate her unpopularity. Many sincerely believed in her mission; many others saw it as essentially worth pursuing if not necessarily in the same way; still others considered her better than the other side, which was still associated and often associated itself with the maximalism of Juarez and the War before her. Though middle-class liberals could and did endorse "universal human rights enforced by the sword, guaranteed by the central government against the periphery" without dissonance, many others, even the progressive activists in whose name they campaigned, did not trust that this could be justly carried out. At stake, in a very real sense, was the historical memory of a war that defined modern America, and furthermore a war most Americans could not remember. One side, the side which was now represented by the Spirit of '31 and could trace its ideological ancestry back through the Nationalists to Liberation to the Unionist-Democrats all the way back to Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, believed that the central mistake was allowing states the power to infringe on their people's rights. Another, which had been New Democracy before it rebranded as United for Democracy (aside from the spurious link to the war and postwar, nine years in government meant there was very little new about it), and before that the People's Party and the left dissenters of 2017 and 2003 and 1999 and 1968 and 1950, said that the key mistake was trusting the federal government over local governments and communities and activists as the guarantors of those rights. (A third faction, represented by Forward!, considered the whole question a distraction from the Consciousness Revolution and the advancement of AI use; they, however, represented an entirely marginal tendency.)

The former side, led by Patterson, nominated María Isabel Agustin, one of the few universally respected figures in the Patterson administration. Almost three decades younger, she had risen through the foreign service to serve as Ambassador to India shortly after the Centennial Revolution, then served as a foreign-relations Senator alongside Patterson. Patterson then proceeded to nominate her to represent the United States before the United Nations, working to negotiate the Convention Against AI As Weapons and establish permanent extraterrestrial representation on the Commission on Space Habitation. Despite Patterson's relative moderation on domestic issues, she was still a trusted adviser and Patterson's choice for her successor. Germán de la Paz, the arch-localist Governor of Cahuilla, represented the only meaningful intraparty opposition to Agustin, but he elected to run a third-party campaign instead three weeks before the primary.

On the other hand, it was unclear that the other side would be able to even unite behind one candidate. Ex-President Juarez dearly wanted to finish the job she believed had been left incomplete by her defeat nine years prior, but even within her own party she was deeply controversial, particularly for her support for formal incorporation of lunar and intralunar space habitats. In her wake, Senator Julia Moskowitz, formerly Vice President under Mehta, became the frontrunner, but many had doubts about her relatively scant executive resume and her poorly-run campaign for the nomination in 2086. Nashville Mayor Ardent Desmond had the opposite problem; like Patterson, she had gone from student activism and labor organizing into politics at a rather young age, but her political career did not predate the Patterson administration. If elected, she would be the youngest President in American history. Nevertheless, her executive career could be read in different positive ways by different people: ideological progressives praised her for her takeover and reform of the former Vanderbilt University, while swing voters saw her tenure as Executive Mayor of a special-status city as indicative that she would not run roughshod over such communities.

The rest of the election, after modern cybernetic campaigning, was less politics than mathematics; the campaign ran itself on autopilot, while everyone involved was more or less free to get on with the business of government. The first round concluded with Agustin five points ahead, but that success was illusory; many of de la Paz's supporters chose not to turn out rather than vote for the woman who defeated her, while Desmond was able to assemble a coalition of her own voters plus young, moderate, non-ideological runoff-only voters and supporters of Forward!.

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