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[NotDavidSoslan]

Some historians consider the deliberately engineered famine known as the Holodomor to be part of the White Terror, as its goal was likely to prevent a Ukrainian independence movement. mom

Virtually all scholars outside of Russia agree the Holodomor was man-made and that the Second Russian Republic's government was directly responsible, but the majority of Russians, as well as the present-day government, deny it.

Shortly after the Bolsheviks were defeated, Platov estabilished the Russian Intelligence Service as a military intelligence agency, and the Ministry of State Security as a secret police force. Both of them violently cracked down on Communists, separatists and Left-SRs, resorting to torture, mass executions and large-scale propaganda.

The White Terror was also marked by antisemitism. On 4 January 1922, Platov decreed a Jewish quota for Russian universities, followed by the confiscation of businesses owned by Jews, which were handed over to gentile entrepreneurs, with there being several pogroms throughout the 1920s that are said to have killed almost 150,000 Jews by 1930. The military government's propaganda portrayed Jews as enemies of Russia and proponents of Western values, and responsible for the death of Christ. These antisemitic laws remained in effect for decades.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

The First Five-Year Plan focused on heavy industry, with the goal of making Russia an industrial power.

The theory that Platov and his government copied the Bolshevik industrial agenda is false, although he did codify into law the eight-hour workday, universal education, and other things the Bolsheviks had proposed. Some of them, such as universal healthcare and the confiscation of estates of the Orthodox Church and nobility, were dropped, and land reform was conducted through the formation of farm cooperatives and maintenance of traditional peasant communities. Strikes, lockouts and the formation of soviets were illegal.

During the plan, the Russian military government built the first hydroelectric dams in Russia, and implemented a progressive income tax in order to fund its plans. It also enforced a protectionist policy with heavy tariffs, which Platov saw as the key to industrial development after reading a Russian translation of Friedrich List.

In 1925, the government of Russia created a state-owned oil company with a monopoly on the production and refinement of petroleum and its derivatives, a monopoly that would later be repealed. That same year, railways were nationalised, bringing internal transportation under the control of the autocracy, which also imposed a standardised railway gauge for the first time.

Further five-year plans were implemented in 1927–1932 and 1932–1937, when the restored constitutional monarchy ended the planning approach, although by then, Russia was an industrial powerhouse due to Platov's focus on industrialisation.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

From 1973 onwards, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, of Medellin, Colombia, became a multimillionaire lawyer who argued for and against laws and represented the Colombian government in the dispute with Nicaragua.

In 1979, Escobar established a bicycle rental business that quickly thrived, as he was a natural at public relations, and used his profits to build houses, power lines and football fields, with government permission. He kept distance from politics during their time, but considered to run for President the first opportunity, being elected an alternate deputy in 1984 and a full deputy in 1988.

By that time, he was one of the most wealthy and powerful people in Colombia, and frequently attacked the country's political elite during his speeches. While Escobar had no clear ideology or program, and was a corrupt and demagogic politician, his views seemed left-wing, and he regularly engaged in charity and social works and proposed welfare programs, some of which were adopted by the Liberal administration; another cause he championed were peace negotiations with the guerrilas. While Escobar was rumoured to have ties to drug traffickers (which was proven after 2002), the Liberal government refused to investigate him, and his popularity grew by the day, especially after he attempted to sue FIFA for not hosting the 1986 World Cup in Colombia.

On 27 May 1987, Escobar held a rally in Medellin to announce the creation of the Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas) political party. Borrowing a slogan from Gary Hart, the party was a big tent for opponents of the Liberal and Conservative establishments, and claimed the legacies of Simon Bolivar, who Escobar repeatedly compared himself to, and Jorge Eliacer Gaitán. NI soon became a major party with expressive congressional and local benches; the following year, Escobar was the most voted federal deputy in Colombia while NI became the third-largest party in Congress, allowing him to announce his candidacy for President on 9 September 1989.

Escobar's campaign platform supported the estabilishment of cheap restaurant, wealth transfer, children's nourishment, and other programs to reduce poverty; the privatisation of non-essential industries; peace negotiations with the communist guerrilas, as long as they laid down their arms; an independent foreign policy free from US imperialism; the use of plebiscites and referendums; and guaranteeing the placement of Colombian products on international markets. He was always the frontrunner and few expected him to lose, although the populist politician suffered death threats and had to be surrounded by loyal bodyguards. But Escobar was elected by a majority of the vote, and followed most of his campaign promises.

 

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[NotDavidSoslan]

The greatest mistake of each one of my OCs

• Ed Donnell: Bomb the Gaza Strip alongside Israel.
• Todd Edwards: Run for President as a Democrat in 2020, while being pro-life.
• Gustavo Henrique: Prolong the civil war instead of taking power through free and fair elections.
• Maria the Conqueror: Cheat on her husband constantly and not follow him and the army during their campaigns (until she repented).
• Marian Andreescu: Imprison and torture his political opponents, especially the moderate PNT.
• Carlos García: Be an expansionist fascist.
• Abdillahi Masoud: Invade Ethiopia in 1976, when Somaliland was a multitude of times weaker.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

Atlantis (Portuguese: República de Atlântida) in a world map.

Atlantis is the largest independent island country in the world, containing the third-largest island (Ilha dos Lagartos, or Lizard Island, which is only smaller than Greenland and New Guinea), and a global biodiversity hotspot, with 71% of native fauna and flora there not being found anywhere else.

Atlantis' natural resources include gold, manganese, tin and coal, the former of which made the archipelago's colonial economy boom during the 1600s, until it ran out and gold was found in a large scale in Brazil, with the latter three also having been profitable exports for the Atlantic government for decades.

Atlantis (named after the mythological Greek islands) existing has affected the geography and demographics of the South Atlantic.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

Names of Atlantis' three main islands.

• "Ilha dos Lagartos" means "Lizard Island", and was named such shortly after the Portuguese arrived, when they found jungle alligators who were described as lizards.
• "Novo Algarve" was named after a region in southern Portugal.
• "Portugal Antártico", meaning "Antarctic Portugal", refers to its location, thought to be on the opposite location to the Arctic. It's actually thousands of kilometers away from Antarctica.

Atlantis, like Antarctica, has no indigenous population, and the Portuguese in 1500 are the first known to have arrived in the region. From this point onward, they built a civilization from scratch, that was mosfly sidelined by Brazil, except during the 1630s when the Dutch occupied Brazil's sugar plantations following an unsuccessful attempt to conquer Atlantis. Ilha dos Lagartos was the first to be settled, followed by Novo Algarve and Portugal Antártico.

Atlantis gets hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, most of whom come from Brazil, Argentina and Southern African countries, and seek to visit the beaches and forests in the archipelago.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

Rivers and lakes of Atlantis (still unnamed)

Ilha dos Lagartos, originally having a major tropical rainforest, is crossed by three major rivers, and several minor ones, which were traditionally home to fishing communities made up of black slaves and their descendants.

However, when Atlantis industrialized in the 20th century, much of this rainforest was deforested to urbanize the region and expand agriculture and manufacturing, with the fishers being forced to sell their catch on the free market. By 1960, the Atlantis Rainforest was critically endangered, and only 7% of it was left, significantly damaging life in Ilha dos Lagartos and giving many people in the tropical zone respiratory illnesses.

The liberal government elected that year imposed strict pollution controls on water, outlawed the slash and burn method of deforestation, cracked down on illegal mining and logging operations, and passed legislation protecting the traditional fishermen of Ilha dos Lagartos. All subsequent governments, including the 1970s military dictatorship, continued this work, and the centre-left administration that followed the military one began a reforestation campaign that substantially improved the environment.

The major river in Novo Algarve was used by the Portuguese colonizers to irrigate their rice plantations; during the 16th and 17th centuries, Atlantis was the West's only major supplier of rice, which became a staple of Atlantic, and Western in general, diets to this day, and contributed to an economic boom in the colony alongside gold that only ended circa 1700, with the discovery of gold by the Portuguese in Brazil.

The rivers of Portugal Antártico were only mapped in the 18th century, decades after large-scale settlement of the island had begun, and the island's extreme poverty and lack of major economic activities prevented significant environmental damage to the pair of rivers there.

The tropical zone has three lakes, all of whom are crossed by rivers, and major tourist destinations. Boating competitions in the lakes have taken place since they were depolluted, and are Atlantis' most well-known sport competitions besides football tournaments.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

In June 1934, France's far-right leagues, led by the 54-year old WWI veteran and clerical fascist MP Jacques Dutroux, overthrew the "judeo-Masonic" government of the Third Republic in a coup d'etat.

The new government faced widespread unrest from secular liberals and leftists, and there was widespread infighting in the governing coalition, which ranged from national conservatives to Catholic integralists. Substantially fueling tensions was Dutroux's decision to distract from this by beginning a rearmament program and stirring up patriotic feeling against Germany; he also ordered the AN (Action nationale)'s paramilitaries to attack members of rival far right groups and liberal and left-wing organisations, while concentrating key government posts on the AN, allowing his agenda to be pushed with no effective opposition.

France's major businesses remained untouched, except for the removal of Jewish owners, and several important businessmen received government position. In fact, the French industrial sector was completely satisfied with the Jacqueries, since they outlawed the PCF, SFIO and all independent unions. Only the arms industry was nationalised.

The fascist regime also skillfully signed an anti-German alliance with Italy and Austria, which led French propaganda to contrast the three authoritarian regimes of majority-Catholic nations to the "Pagan Teutonic" Nazi Germany. While Great Britain, the "Perfidious Albion", sought a policy of appeasement due to fearing a new war, its glorification by fascism led France to an opposite policy, but that did not dissuade Hitler, who saw the French as inferior to Germans.

When the Rhineland was remilitarized by Germany, the Maginot Line was garrisoned with 200,000 soldiers armed with state-of-the-art weaponry, and French leaders privately discussed their intention to attack Germany. French intelligence carefully watched German military moves for the next two years, and Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg resisted Anchluss until the threat of a German invasion led him to agree to a referendum. Austrian Germans, who were said to not understand the hostility of France and Italy towards reunification with their German brethren, overwhelmingly voted for it, leading to French mobilisation in Alsace.

On 23 September 1938, a summit was held in Munich, with Philippe Petain, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain being in attendance, but they could not come to an agreement, and five days later, the war began.

The German monarchy was restored after the war, while Fascist Italy became a conservative authoritarian regime after Benito Mussolini retired in 1943 and was replaced by Ciano, and Jacques Dutroux remained Le Chef until Britain and the United States defeated France, Japan and Italy in 1947; in January 1942, the Franco-Italian bloc, joined by Japan, attacked Britain and the United States, and were defeated in five years.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

After years of tensions and threats on both sides, including France giving Japan access to Indochina's resources and Thailand some land, a Franco-Italian force of 200,000 invaded Egypt on 10 February 1942.

They rapidly advanced and eventually captured Alexandria, but were unable to take Cairo until February 1943, after Gibraltar and Malta fell to the Axis forces. France conquered the Netherlands and Belgium in 1942, while putting Italy, Czechslovakia and Hungary under its sphere of influence; a "Third French Empire".

The Battle of Suez lasted between September 1943 and March 1944, and ended with an Allied victory and British push towards Libya. Morroco had already been occupied by the United States, which encircled 60,000 French troops between Algeria and Tunisia; they surrendered on 10 May 1945, ending World War II in Africa.

While the Western European countries were distracted fighting eachother, Stalin steamrolled through Eastern Europe, making Poland and Romania satellite states and pushing into Hungary and Bulgaria, all of whom could not be helped by France. The Normandy landings, carried out by hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, distracted the Axis further, but it took almost three years for Paris to be captured, and that was after Italy surrendered in October 1945 and Spain in January 1947 (Franco committed suicide, a fate that had befallen Salazar in 1942).

After the Armee d'Air failed to destroy the RAF, Operation Joan of Arc (a planned invasion of Britain) proved completely impossible, and North Africa fell to the Allies, the RAF and USAAF began their strategic bombing of French cities such as Paris, Marseille, and Bordeaux, which crippled the country's industry and led to growing demands for a peace settlement, but as Dutroux was France's most powerful leader since Louis XIV, he dismissed them and promised to fight until the Perfidious Albion was defeated.

Earlier in the war, the Low Countries were captured by France within months, and Portugal fell within a week. In 1944, Brazil under Getúlio Vargas invaded and occupied French Guyana, defeating the weak French contingent there, and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force took part in the Italian campaign until its end. Yugoslavia and Greece were backstabbed by the ally France, although with French intervention being ruled out, the Greeks held out and eventually occupied the entirety Albania, whereupon Zog I was restored to his throne. Dutroux avoided an invasion of the Soviet Union, knowing how well it went for Napoleon – the historical figure he has been compared to the most.

In the two 1940 general elections (one after Chamberlain resigned and a regular election), the Conservative Party under Anthony Eden was successful, and during the war, Eden formed a National Government of the Labour and Conservative parties, where Clement Attlee was deputy PM.



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[NotDavidSoslan]

Europe and the world in 1939, 1943 and 1947, after the Munich War, in the middle of WWII, and in the aftermath of WWII, respectively.

In March 1942, the Soviet Union invaded Poland, which had been mostly bereft of French aid after 1939, soon followed by the rapid invasion and annexation of the Baltic republics, and then of Finland, an invasion that was militarily unsuccessful but resulted in territorial concessions.

On 21 October 1939, the Republic of the Rhineland was created by French military occupation authorities as a puppet state covering the most most industrialized region in Germany. Historians believe the Rhineland was separated from Germany to provide France with an economic colony and effectively deindustrialize its defeated enemy, which appeared to be successful as Germany's industrial production noticeably declined after 1939, and the restored German Empire was effectively ruled as a military dictatorship pragmatic towards France. During the Second World War, France used Germany, which remained neutral until 1947, as a buffer state against "Jewish Bolshevism" represented by the USSR and its satellite Polish People's Republic.

The Rhineland was effectively a French economic colony, as most of its industrial production was exported to France instead of consumed domestically, while French secret police agents were present in their puppet state to crack down on unions and strikes.

Between 16 and 27 June 1944, the Brazilian Army, under the command of General Juarez Távora, invaded and occupied French Guyana, defeating the weak French contingent there. After 1947, French Guyana was incorporated into the Brazilian territory of Amapá, itself later elevated to a state.

From 1945 onwards, the three European Axis powers suffered Allied naval landings, in chronological order Spain, Italy and France (in the Mediterranean coast and Normandy). By V-E Day in 1947, Jacquerie France under the leadership of Marcel Bucard only controlled Paris and surrounding areas, as well as isolated pockets in rural France that had not surrendered, and French Polynesia (which nevertheless was annexed by the United Kingdom after WWII). It was also in the aforementioned order that these countries unconditionally surrendered to the Allies, who occupied Spain and France after the war.

During the war, Walloon was annexed by France, which imposed a fascist puppet government on Belgium, led by Leon Degrelle of the Jacquerie Rexist Party. After the war and the liberation of the Low Countries (Luxembourg having remained neutral), the prewar monarchy was restored.

French India, Central Africa, Madagascar, French Somaliland and parts of West Africa also came "under new management" after the war, whereupon independent kingdoms were formed in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

In late 1943, when Cairo fell to the Axis Powers, King Farouk brought Egypt to the war on the Axis powers, but the Egyptian Army was weak and redundant and is said to have played a role in the failure to take Suez.

Dutroux escaped to Buenos Aires after the war, then to Patagonia, where he rented a penthouse under a false name, and died there with an Argentinian wife in 1954.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

On 10 February 1934, France's far-right leagues under the command of MP Jacques Dutroux and Lieutenant Colonel François de la Rocque carried out a successful coup d'etat against the government of Édouard Daladier.

Dutroux, a Catholic fascist demagogue and founder and "Le Chef" of the Action nationale party, was first elected to Parliament in 1921 as an independent, and founded the AN in 1925, three years after Mussolini's March on Rome, along with dissenters from Action Française.

Initially a small party which only counted Dutroux as a MP, his powerful oratory that relied on scapegoating and understanding of crowd psychology and the sentiment of economic victimization of the working class led to the party, that put a great deal of effort into infiltrating unions, growing exponentially during the Great Depression. It blamed Jews, Freemasons and foreigners for the economic crisis, and advocated dirigisme instead of laissez-faire capitalism or communism, as shown in the post. The AN's paramilitary wing, which the Gendarmerie became when an one-party state was formed, protected the party's rallies and attacked SFIO and PCF demonstrations.

During its rise to power, the AN relied on the support of peasants, military veterans, conservative Catholics, and small and medium sized business owners, with most of its voterbase being middle-class, like with the majority of fascist parties. However, as the Depression worsened and the CdG government became mired in scandals, its working-class support grew, especially in Dutroux's birthplace of Saint-Denis.

Back on topic, the Jacquerie government left the majority of industry, with the exception of the arms industry, in private hands, cracked down on unions and left-wing movements, and merely placed private capital under state direction, similar to the economic policies of the other two fascist governments.

The owner of L'Oreal was especially supportive of the new order, as he credited Dutroux with stopping a socialist revolution in France. By 1937, the first motorways connecting Paris to the provinces had been built.

French industries produced 115,000 aircraft of varying models during WWII, including jet aircraft after 1945, although the strategic bombing of industrial capacity meant only 13,000 jets could be produced, mostly interceptors. France did not use ballistic missiles (although some research was conduced), and its nuclear program failed as the African uranium reserves could not be transported to Europe. Other unsuccessful areas of research included helicopters and more modern submarines.

Between 1934 and 1942, France slowly recovered from the Great Depression due to the Jacqueries' dirigiste economic strategy and international trends in the United States and pre-Munich Germany, with unemployment falling sharply and the majority of growth being concentrated in heavy industry, particularly weapons production. They introduced cheap credit for farmers, making rural folks supportive of the Jacquerie government.

The word "Jacquerie" originally referred to a 1358 peasant revolt, and while Jacques Dutroux referred to his movement as French nationalist, the press referred to his followers as Jacqueries, and they eventually reclaimed it; the majority of historians have used the term to refer to the AN and France under its rule, as well as composites such as "Jacquerie war crimes".

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

Claus von Stauffenburg ran Germany as a right-wing dictator, in close cooperation with Wilhelm III, until the latter died in 1951 and the new Emperor, Ferdinand I, sacked him and named Konrad Adenauer.

By that time, Germany had taken the side of the United States in the Cold War, and became strategically important. Zentrum and the FDP won the 1951 general election, defeating the SPD, DP and BVP (the KPD was still illegal and remained so until the next SPD administration).

After overthrowing and exiling King Carol II in June 1942, the government of the USSR installed his son Michael back on the throne, but for all intents and purposes Romania was governed by the local Communist Party, which formally proclaimed Romania a people's republic on 5 February 1946 after pushing the PNT aside. Czechoslovakia was satellitized around the same time, due to large-scale election interference and the damage to estabilishment parties done after East Carpathia was given to the Soviets in 1942.

After WWII, Germany experienced an economic miracle, and developed its nuclear arsenal, testing a nuclear bomb underground on 2 September 1959 and forming a strike force aimed at the Soviet Union. This alarmed Soviet General Secretary Lavrentiy Beria, who continued to follow an anti-Western, hardline policy, and brought the world on the brink of nuclear war. Romania remained a Soviet satellite.

As of 2024, Germany remains a constitutional monarchy under the reign of the Hohenzollern emperors, who are figureheads, actual power being exercised by the Reichstag. After the Second World War, relations with France improved, as both countries sided with the West, and they played the greatest role in Western European integration.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

Beria replaced the cult of personality around Stalin with his own, which emphasized his role in Stalin's government during the 1940s, and glossed over the fact the totalitarian dictator hated his henchman.

Portraits of Beria were carried during military parades and hung in public buildings alongside those of Lenin and Stalin, but Beria did not claim an ideology; he claimed to follow "pure Marxism-Leninism" and declined requests to found "Beriaism". Nevertheless, he wrote several ideological works during his premiership.

Beria was not only premier of the Soviet Union, but also General Secretary of the CPSU, holding both offices until his death from a heart attack. His personal violence as dictator, especially against women and children, has led to comparisons to Ivan the Terrible, who likewise killed his son and caused his daughter-in-law to miscarry.

As part of Beria's economic reforms, several costly public works were scrapped, and the industries in the Gulag camp economy came under other government departments. Throughout 1953, he purged the faction of the CPSU that had supported Khrushchev during the leadership struggle, with Khrushchev and thousands of his supporters being shot or deported to Siberia. Immediately after coming to power, all posts in the Soviet republics were filled with Beria loyalists, which substantially reduced opposition to his totalitarian rule.

In September 1959, Lavrentiy Beria ordered that the USSR's strategic bombers be placed in high alert after Gernany conducted a nuclear test, which the Soviet leadership saw as a threat to the balance of power, as they thought Germany should have served as a buffer state in the Cold War (the same view the Jacqueries held during WWII). Also in foreign policy, the Vietnamese and Cuban revolutions counted on significant Soviet aid in their aftermath, with Vietnam becoming Soviet-aligned and giving the Soviet Navy a base in Cam Ranh.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

Franklin D. Roosevelt left office as POTUS in 1941, and was succeeded by Republican Arthur Vandenberg.

During the Vandenberg presidency, the United States declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor, and war on France, Italy and Spain on 16 November 1942, following the 1942 midterms, when Democrats made major gains and recovered control of Congress. (The 1946 midterms were rather stationary)

Cooper's path to the Democratic nomination was that, after a deadlock between supporters of Henry A. Wallace and Richard Russell Jr, party leaders turned to the racist New Dealer from the former Confederacy and whose mobilization efforts were useful in the context of WWII. Given this, he was nominated and chose a Democratic senator for New Jersey, and the father of future Vice President George Smathers.

During his presidency, Cooper launched a major rural electrification scheme, expanded social security, and signed a major housing bill into law. The war in Korea was the first major crisis of the Cold War, and the President could not refuse to carry out the UN order to pursue the retreating KPA into North Korea. However, no major politician challenged him from the nomination in 1952.

Harold Stassen was 44 years old at the time of the election. He looked young and handsome, and while not brilliant in using television, he was more telegenic than Cooper, who was born the same year as Vice President Bridges (Bridges did not run in 1960, and was succeeded by Nelson Rockefeller). While both major candidates promised to negotiate an end to the war, Stassen vowed to personally travel to Korea to negotiate it, which he did and became important to his popularity as president; he ended the Korean War and did not fight any other ones, in spite of Vietnam falling to communism in 1955 after a long and bloody civil war with the involvement of the US, UN, USSR and PRC. On domestic policy, Stassen built an interstate highway system, proposed monthly pensions to unemployed mothers, made several statements in support of civil rights, and implemented middle-class tax cuts that helped him win reelection against Estes Kefauver, another Tennessee Democrat, in 1956.

Vandenberg and Stassen are considered by historians to be upper-tier presidents, but Cooper has been widely criticized for his segregationist views and the war in Korea.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

After 1947, Germany rebuilt its military, with the economic miracle fueling a buildup that made the Reichswehr the second strongest military in NATO, behind the United States Armed Forces.

By 1959, German military technology was seen as the most modern in Europe, with its tanks and combat jets particularly standing out, and Soviet wargames showed a ground invasion of Germany would be a massive failure for the Warsaw Pact.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

1948 presidential election in the aforementioned TL:

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

All the 27 states and federal district of Atlantis since 1997, when the centre-right Atlantic Democratic Party administration created its last state, Antípoda.

Several state borders are delineated by rivers, such as those of Mesopotâmia and Moreira (Mesopotamia means "between rivers" in Greek, and originally referred to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates).

Mariana do Oeste is the most populous state in Atlantis, with 12,345,865 inhabitants out of over 40 million. It also holds the country's largest city, and was the spot Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in 1500, giving him the title of being credited with the discovery of two nations. Before the mid-20th century, Mariana do Oeste was a relatively small to medium-sized state with a mostly agricultural economy (Atlantic industry being concentrated in the old Federal District, now Atuns, Eldorado and Mariana), but the populist military dictatorship led by Vicente Gama, who took power in 1930, chose it to be the industrial heartland of the archipelago, leading to rapid growth in industry, mining and the population, and a widespread rural exodus. By the 1962 census, it was the most populous state in Atlantis, and the rural migrants became centre-left voters after moving to the cities and unionizing, making the Socialist Party (PS) win the 1972 presidential election in a platform that called for major reforms. It was subsequently a major hotbed of opposition to the military government, before shifting rightwards as Atlantis deindustrialized; it is now a swing state in presidential elections.

Rubens, named after a 19th century President of Atlantis, is the least populous state, with a population of 163,976, 101,146 of whom are concentrated in the state capital. The inhabitants of this city mostly vote for the centre-left PSA, while the rural voters are hardline right-wing and have always supported the centre-right or rightwing populist candidate. They value self-sufficiency, and the expanded social programs of the PSA governments that helped poor rural inhabitants elsewhere do not appeal to them.

The state of Ribeira is actually named Arrozal do Leste, or "Eastern rice field", in reference to the importance this crop had in Atlantis' prosperous early history. Arrozal do Leste has 4,145,975 inhabitants, making it the most populous Atlantic state outside of Ilha dos Lagartos, and has voted for the PSA in every presidential election since 2002.