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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

1965-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson / Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1964: Barry Goldwater / William E. Miller (Republican)
1969-1971: Hubert Humphrey / John Connally (Democratic)
1968: Richard Nixon / John A. Volpe (Republican), George Wallace / Harland Sanders (American Independent)
1971-1973: Hubert Humphrey / John Connally (Democratic / Republican)
1973-1977: John Connally / Charles Percy (Republican)

1972: Hubert Humphrey / Milton Shapp (Democratic), Pete McCloskey / Mike Gravel (Independent)
1977-1985: Jerry Brown / Terry Sanford (Democratic)
1976: John Connally / Charles Percy (Republican)
1980: Charles Percy / Phyllis Schlafly (Republican)

1985-1993: Frank Rizzo / Frank Borman (Republican)
1984: Terry Sanford / Birch Bayh (Democratic), Ramsay Clark / Ron Dellums (We The People)
1988: Richard Hatcher / Lawton Chiles (Democratic)

1993-1997: Frank Borman / Anne Gorsuch (Republican)
1992: Walter Mondale / Al Gore (Democratic), Ralph Nader / Karen Silkwood (We The People)
1997-: Elizabeth Hanford / Sherrod Brown (Democratic)
1996: Frank Borman / Anne Gorsuch (Republican)
2000: Bill Schuette / Matt Fong (Republican), Paul Weyrich / Virgil Goode (Independent)


John Connally was the saviour and destruction of Hubert Humphrey and the maker and unmaker of the modern Republican Party. His choice as Humphrey's running mate united Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and the protestors outside the convention hall in anger but likely put Humphrey over the line in many key Midwestern states - the last time this would be necessary thanks to Birch Bayh's constitutional amendment. But as the slow process of withdrawal from Vietnam faltered and economic crises escalated, relations between president and vice president deteriorated over everything from medicare expansion to aid to South Vietnam. Ultimately, supreme court nominee Shirley Hufstedler was the final straw for the Vice President, who announced that he was leaving the Democratic Party for the Republicans a week after Gerald Ford was sworn in as Speaker of the House.

This move had been long-planned by Connally in co-ordination with Richard Nixon and fellow Republican power brokers, who smoothed his way to the Republican nomination over defective opponents like Ronald Reagan and John Volpe. The slow-motion collapse of the South Vietnam through 1972 doomed doomed Humphrey's chances of re-election. The Connally administration worked quickly to roll back as much as the Johnson-Humphrey legacy as possible, especially on issues of civil rights and the economy. The latter caused him much trouble. Inflation remained cripplingly high and the austerity budgets drawn up by White House economic advisor Alan Greenspan, "short-term pain for long-term gain" led to massive battles with congress. The faltering economy likely did more to make him a one-term president than the emerging corruption investigations, ones that saw the former president convicted of bribery and mail fraud in 1979's "trial of the century".

His successor was not as much of a break from Connally as Democrats wanted. The youngest ever President was a new kind of Democrat, one that accepted that the New Deal had had it's time and that this was the age of new ideas. While achievements such as the Department for the Environment, the Amtrak Express Network and Equal Rights Amendment are still with us, his aggressive pushes for deregulations, tax breaks and welfare cuts alienated, outraged and severely weakened many Democratic Party voter blocs. A return to growth, a popular intervention in the Iranian Civil War and ideological battles in the Republican Party (culminating in Vice President Percy being forced to put his volatile, divisive primary opponent on his ticket) secured President Brown's re-election. Many more achievements were made in his second term - most notably steering the collapsing Soviet Union towards something resembling a democratic state - but by 1985 his party was hollowed out.

Frank Rizzo was both a symptom and cause of his hollowing out. The tough-talking Mayor of Philadelphia had long sought outrage and terror from liberal commentators and politicians, and had been a regular critic of Jerry Brown even before he formally switched party affiliations in 1978. As middle America grew tired of the Playboy President and his seemingly hands-off approach to race riots and liberal extremists, Rizzo quickly became the darling of the Republican Party and it's frontrunner for the 1984 election. His bombastic rhetoric did not dampen down in office, frequently picking fights with Congress, liberal celebrities and foreign leaders alike, fighting a "war on terror" against left-wing and jihadist extremists across the world. After the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1986 he pushed through a series of bills that empowered law enforcement across America and roll back the frontiers of the state, the latter of which empowered governors sympathetic to Rizzo to clamp down on civil rights protestors and all manner of "subversives" with force. With crime rates falling economy still booming in 1992, Rizzo retired enormously popular.

His successor was far less fortunate. Despite Rizzo's popularity the 1992 election was a near tie for the entire election campaign. The long boom of the 1980s finally faltered and Rizzo Republicans became increasingly impatient with the business-minded president trying to raise taxes to slay the deficit His rapprochement with nations previously considered America's antagonists also rankled, especially as a "pink tide" was seeing socialist leaders rise to power across the global south. But he only became a one-term president when the North-Cape scandal was uncovered. That the Rizzo Administration had illegally sent aid to the South African Apartheid regime during the South African Civil War soon consumed the election, and Borman's furious denials of any knowledge of wrongdoing were not terribly convincing. Which meant that the Democrat widely assumed to be a sacrificial lamb would defeat him decisively.

Elizabeth Hanford had worked as a staffer and cabinet secretary in the Johnson, Humphrey and Brown Administrations, and then had slowly worked her way up the ranks of the Democratic Party and the Senate as a reliable, forward-thinking technocrat. She only won the 1996 nomination because most of the big names had chosen to wait for 2000, and in the vague hope that she might be able to improve the party's issues with women and "Rizzo Democrats". In office Hanford has pushed a series of "Millennium Bills" designed to modernise the American state and its infrastructure, as well as making historic meetings with leaders such as Winnie Mandela and Fidel Castro. As the Republicans continued to feud over Rizzo's legacy, Hanford's problems exist elsewhere. The Russian State has elected a Communist President, and America's leader still thinks she can micromanage the White House.

I take offense at your blatant theft of my comment in the Democratic Reagan thread that ”Sure, it’s entirely possible for the Democrats to be the ones to bring in the new monetarist consensus, I suppose…”!!
 
I take offense at your blatant theft of my comment in the Democratic Reagan thread that ”Sure, it’s entirely possible for the Democrats to be the ones to bring in the new monetarist consensus, I suppose…”!!
I'd argue that they started it! The first big deregulation, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, was pushed through by Jimmy Carter; it's biggest cheerleader in the Senate was Ted Kennedy.
 

Presidents of the United States

1944-1949: Henry A. Wallace (Democratic)

1944 (Vacant) def: Thomas Dewey/John Bricker (Republican)
1949-1950: Thomas Dewey (Republican)†
1948 (With Joseph H.Ball) def: Paul V. McNutt/Millard Tydings (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace/Elliott Roosevelt (Progressive), Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (Dixiecrat)
1950-1957: Joseph H. Ball (Republican)
1952 (With Earl Warren) def: Brien McMahon/Estes Kefauver (Democratic), Elliott Roosevelt/Leo Isacson (Progressive)
1957-: Jerry Voorhis (Democratic)
1956 (With Mike Monroney) def: Earl Warren/Everett Dirksen (Republican), Douglas McArthur/Robert W. Welch Jr. (Freedom)
1960 (With Mike Monroney) def: Barry Goldwater/Cecil H. Underwood (Republican)


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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1945-1947: Clement Attlee (Labour)

1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1947-1951: Ernest Bevin (Labour)†
1950 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1951-1955: John Strachey (Labour)
1955-1957: Anthony Eden (Conservative)†
1955 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Jo Grimond replacing Clement Davies (Liberal), Konni Zilliacus (Independent Labour)
1957-1963: Selwyn-Lloyd (Conservative)
1959 (Majority) def: Kenneth Younger (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1963-: Tony Greenwood (Labour)
1963 (Majority) def: Selwyn-Lloyd (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)

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General Secretary of the Soviet Union

1922-1944: Joseph Stalin (CPSU)
1944-1949: Andrei Zhdanov (CPSU)
1949-1950: Lavrentiy Beria (CPSU)

1950-1953: Leningrad Troika of Kuznetsov, Zhukov and Kosygin (CPSU)
1954-: Georgy Zhukov (CPSU)


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Prime Minister of Israel

1948-1953: David Ben-Gurion (Mapai) †

1949 (Majority Coalition) def: Yehuda Leib Maimon (United Religious Front), Meir Ya'ari (Mapam), Menachem Begin (Herut), Israel Rokach (General Zionists)
1951 (Majority Coalition) def: Israel Rokach (General Zionists), Meir Ya’ari (Mapam), Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Menachem Begin (Herut), Shmuel Mikunis (Maki)

1953-1959: Moshe Sharett (Mapai)
1955 (Majority Coalition) def: Menachem Begin (Herut), Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Meir Ya’ari (Mapam), Israel Rokach (General Zionists), Shmuel Mikunis (Maki)
1959 (Minority) def: Menachem Begin (Herut), Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Ya'akov Hazan (Mapam), Pinchas Rosen (Progressive), Shmuel Mikunis (Maki)

1959: Menachem Begin (Herut leading Minority ‘Right’ Coalition)
1959-: Moshe Dayan (Mapai)

1960 (Majority Coalition) def: Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Ya'akov Hazan (Mapam), Yitzhak Shamir (HaIhud HaLeumi), Pinchas Rosen (Liberal), Menachem Begin (Herut), Esther Vilenska (Maki)

“Hinneh mah tov umah na'im

Shevet achim gam yachad”

“Behold how good and how pleasing

for brothers (people) to sit together in unity.”

-Jewish Hymn



"Those Bastards left us out to dry. The Arabs joined together and nearly slaughtered us all if it weren't for Dewey and the UN deciding to take pity on us after a year of bloody fighting we would have been wiped off the face of the earth. Giving up our holy city was a bitter pill but given the choice between extinction and swallowing pride I prefer the latter. Sure having Blue Berets patrolling the Holy Mount is disturbing but what can you do.

*Downs Beer*

Not everyone was as fond of this as folks like me, the fucking Sternists thought that David Ben-Gurion, the father of our nation had sold us out.

*lights cigarette and puffs on it*

Sharett was not much better but I like him, I voted for him twice.

*blows out a puff of smoke*

My Cousin said I should come to America, he said that they had elected a President who was actually a Social Democrat, but I told him that I had decided to move to Israel because it was the only place that Socialism could actually be built. Not that limp bullshit they had in Britain, Bevin was a bastard anyway, nor whatever the Soviet Union said was Socialism. Sure I'm sure the prancing General really believes he leads the Revolutionary Vanguard.

No, I'm talking the Cooperative sharing of Labour and Wealth which can only be achieved with a Kibbutz. Sure, sharing clothes and doing farm work can be tedious but it's what unites us...

*belches*

What was I talking about again...oh yeah. So the people were fucking disgusted when Sharett held talks with the Transjordan folks, which I can see, you don't shake hands with the enemy and say that things will be fine. But anyway, 1959 was a fucking mess. I remember Begin trying his little Mussolini routine with that 'Right Coalition' of his. Bastard.

But now we have things back in order again. Sure Dayan is a little impulsive but I'm sure in the long run things will be much more peaceful and calm for our nation..."


-Tel Aviv resident interviewed in 1960

"Urgent Message to Middle East Command, Jerusalem.

There seems to be an indication of increased Extremist Israeli activity in the recent months, at least 10% increase on shootings and assassinations and a 20% increase in car bombings. Analysis seems to indicate that most of the weaponry is Soviet which seems to come along with the increase in Soviet activity in recent years since the breakout of the Iranian Civil War and the Kurdistan Insurrection.

I recommend an increase in troops the weeks and months to come. I've heard the Americans, Irish and Belgians are willing to provide additional support though the same can't be said for India. Understandable due to recent events, we should try and find other potential sources of support as there is the possibility of things getting out of hand in the coming year. Please find enclosed additional information on potential strikes and battle plans

Sincerely,
Col. Bernt Juhlin, UNOJ.
22nd of May, 1964"
 
Very serious and original list:
1961-1963: Richard Nixon* (Republican)
1960 (with Nelson Rockefeller) def. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1963-1965: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
Replaced Nixon
1965-1967: John F. Kennedy** (Democratic)
1964 (with George Wallace) def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1967-1973: George Wallace (Democratic)
Replaced Kennedy - 1968 (with Robert Kennedy) def. Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1973-1981: Martin Luther King Jr. (Republican)
1972 (with Donald Rumsfeld) def. George Wallace (Democratic)
1976 (with Donald Rumsfeld) def. Robert Kennedy (Democratic)

1981-1989: Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1980 (with Fred Rogers) def. Ronnie Reagan (Democratic)
1984 (with Fred Rogers) def. Barry Goldwater Jr. (Democratic)

1989-1993: David Duke (Democratic)
1988 (with Jerry Brown) def. Duck Cheney (Republican)
1993-////: Billy Blythe (Republican)
1992 (with Tricia Nixon) def. David Duke (Democratic)

* Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
** Impeached for being a Kennedy.
 
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Very serious and original list:
1961-1963: Richard Nixon* (Republican)
1960 (with Nelson Rockefeller) def. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1963-1965: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
Replaced Nixon
1965-1967: John F. Kennedy** (Democratic)
1964 (with George Wallace) def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1967-1973: George Wallace (Democratic)
Replaced Kennedy - 1968 (with Robert Kennedy) def. Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1972 (with Robert Kennedy) def. John Lindsay (Republican)

1973-1981: Martin Luther King Jr. (Republican)
1972 (with Donald Rumsfeld) def. George Wallace (Democratic)
1976 (with Donald Rumsfeld) def. Robert Kennedy (Democratic)

1981-1989: Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1980 (with Fred Rogers) def. Ronnie Reagan (Democratic)
1984 (with Fred Rogers) def. Barry Goldwater Jr. (Democratic)

1989-1993: David Duke (Democratic)
1988 (with Jerry Brown) def. Duck Cheney (Republican)
1993-////: Billy Blythe (Republican)
1992 (with Tricia Nixon) def. David Duke (Democratic)

* Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
** Impeached for being a Kennedy.
Tired: "WI Reagan remained a Democrat?"
Wired: "WI President Wallace oversaw the first segregated moon landing?"
Inspired: "MLK, Mister Rogers, and Rumsfeld go into a bar at the RNC..."
 
List of Presidents of the Republic of Turkey:

2014 - 2022:
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development Party - from 2018 onwards People’s Alliance (Justice and Development Party,and Nationalist Movement Party), unofficially Patriotic Party)
  • 2014: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu (Independent - backed by Republican People’s Party, Nationalist Movement Party, Democrat Party,and Democratic Left Party), Selahattin Demirtaş (Peoples’ Democratic Party)
  • 2018: Muharrem İnce (Republican People’s Party - Nation Alliance), Selahettin Demirtaş (Peoples’ Democratic Party) in preventive detention since 2016, Meral Akşener (Good Party - Nation Alliance)
2022 - 2029: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (Independent formerly Repubican People’s Party - backed by Nation Alliance (Repubican People’s Party, Good Party, Democracy and Progress Party,and Democrat Party), Left Alliance (Peoples’ Democratic Party, and Workers’ Party of Turkey) Future Party, Felicity Party, Homeland Party,
  • 2022: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development Party - People’s Alliance (Justice and Development Party, Nationalist Movement Party), and New Welfare Party)
2029 - 2036: Mansur Yavaş (Independent formerly Republican People’s Party - backed by Good Party, Republican People’s Party (Nationalist faction), Democracy and Progress Party, Crescent and Star Movement Party)
  • 2029: Tunç Soyer (Republican People’s Party - backed by Republican People’s Party (Socialist, and Liberal faction), People’s Democratic Party, Workers’ Party of Turkey), Cem Uzan (Independent - backed by Democracy and Progress Party dissidents, and New Liberal Democrat Party)

List of Prime Ministers of the Republic of Turkey:

2022 - 2028: Ekrem İmamoğlu (Republican People’s Party)
  • 2022 (Coalition): Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development Party - People’s Alliance), Ekrem İmamoğlu (Republican People's Party - Nation Alliance), Meral Akşener (Good Party - Nation Alliance), Pervin Buldan, Mithat Sancar (Peoples’ Democratic Party - Left Alliance), and Erkan Baş (Workers’ Party of Turkey - Left Alliance), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement Party - People’s Alliance), Ali Babacan (Democracy and Progress Party - Nation Alliance)
  • 2023 (Coalition): Ekrem İmamoğlu (Republican People’s Party), Meral Akşener (Good Party), Hulusi Akar (Justice and Development Party, and Nationalist Movement Party coupon), Selahattin Demirtaş and Pervin Buldan (Peoples’ Democratic Party), Ali Babacan (Democracy and Progress Party), Erkan Baş (Workers’ Party of Turkey)
  • 2026 (Coalition): Ekrem İmamoğlu (Republican People’s Party), Meral Akşener (Good Party), Selahattin Demirtaş and Meral Danış Beştas (Peoples’ Democratic Party), Ali Babacan (Democracy and Progress Party), Ümit Özdağ and Tanju Özcan (Crescent and Star Movement Party), Erkan Baş (Workers’ Party of Turkey)
2028 - 20XX: Canan Kaftancıoğlu (Repubican People’s Party)
  • 2029 (Minority Coalition): Canan Kaftancıoğlu (Repubican People’s Party), Taylan Yıldız (Good Party), Meral Danış Beştaş and Garol Paylan (Peoples’ Democratic Party), Tanju Özcan (Crescent and Star Movement Party), Barış Atay and Sera Kadıgıl (Workers’ Party of Turkey), Selma Aliye Kavaf (Democracy and Progress Party), Fatih Erbakan (New Welfare Party)

>opposition remains united and pulls of a 59-41 victory
>everybody is happy
>country goes back to parliamentary system after a year
>with 5% threshold
>centrist coalition only lasts for 3 years because Good Party starts going right again to pick up former AKP-voters
>chp wins very narrow election and is expected to form another grand coalition
>Imamoglu goes to the left instead and makes a deal with the Kurds and commies
>nationalist kemalists go mental and join the hardcore kemalist crescent and star movement
>coalition pushes through based things
>assassination attempt on pm fails but he has to resign due to injury
>recommends his right hand as his successor
>party goes through with it despite it being political suicide
>the left wing firebrand loses her first battle as the presidency is won by the popular centre-right governor of ankara
>her coalition falls because liberal democracy and progress party’s leadership is won by a moderate islamist
>threshold dropped to 3%
>good party elects a liberal as their leader
>earthquake in istanbul causes rally around the flag effect just before election
>following 2029 election nobody is
able to form a majority
>two biggest parties form a minority coalition
>climate change causes forests to burn more than half the year
 
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Out of curiosity, why does the AKP crash and burn after just a few years?
Because it’s already in a state of constant infighting, and without the state’s resources keeping the party together, I can’t see them stay together if Erdogan is out of power.

In this scenario they tried to force the collapse of the new government, and criticized them for not moving back to a parliamentary system soon enough (and the usual Anti-Kurdish stuff). They joined forces with their MHP allies in the 2023 election, to at least secure enough seats to form a right-wing coalition, but nobody was interested in working with them, and slowly their former leadership either fled or was imprisoned.
 
Presidents of the United States:
1949-1957: Harold Stassen (Republican)
1948 def. (with Dwight Green) Harry Truman (Democratic), Henry Wallace (Progressive) Strom Thurmond (State's Rights)
1952 def. (with Dwight Green) Calvin E. Wright (Democratic),
Walter O'Brien (Progressive)
1957-1965: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Democratic)
1956 def. (with Johnston Murray) Dwight Green (Republican)
1960 def. (with George Docking) Johnston Murray (Republican), Orval Faubus (State's Rights),
Phil Willkie (Independent Republican)
1965-1966: George Docking (Democratic)

1966-1969: Alfred M. Gruenther (Democratic)
1964 Def. (with Alfred M. Gruenther) Jack Schroeder (Republican), Carroll Gartin (State's Rights)
1969-1973: Richard B. Kay (Republican)
1968 Def. (with James P. Mitchell) Alfred M. Gruenther (Democratic), James D. Johnson (State's Rights)
1973-1977: Stanley Arnold (Democratic)
1972 Def. (with Abe Beame) Richard B. Kay (Republican), James D. Johnson (State's Rights)
1977-1994[1]: Richard B. Kay (Republican)
1994-1995: Walter Boomer (Republican)
1976 Def. (with Jimmy Swan) Stanley Arnold (Democratic), Charles Mathias (Independent Republican)
1980 Def. (with Jimmy Swan) Tony Celebrezze Jr. (Democratic)
1984 Def. (with Patrick Buchanan) Bob Packwood (United Opposition)
1988 Def. (with Patrick Buchanan) James Longley Jr. (United Opposition)
1992 Def. (with Walter Boomer) none



Presidents of the Republic of America:
1995-1996: Walter Boomer (Nonpartisan)
1996-2001: Emma Wong Mar (Independent)
1996 Def. [backed by People's Union] Dan Lungren (Conservative), Pete du Pont (Independent), David Duke (Dixie)
2001-2011: Dan La Botz (Independent)
2001 Def. [backed by People's Union] Lynn Swann (Conservative), Joe Vogler (Sovereigntist)
2006 Def. [backed by People's Union] Wayne Allyn Root (Conservative/Sovereigntist)
2011-2016: Ron Paul (Sovereigntist)
2011 Def. [backed by Conservative] Bev Stein (Independent)
2016-????: Connie Johnson (Independent)
2016 Def. [backed by People's Union] Joe Deters (Conservative/Sovereigntist)



[1] Removed from office in "Boomer Coup".
 
Still a WIP

de Facto Commissars of the United American Socialist Republics

1933 - 1940: collective (Workers’ Communist Party)
1940 - 1944: Leon Trotsky (Workers’ Communist Party)
1944 - 1962: James P. Cannon (Workers’ Communist Party)
1962 - 1973: Henry M. Jackson (Workers’ Communist Party)

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2014 - 20XX: Mitch McConnell (Workers’ Communist Party)
 
Still a WIP

de Facto Commissars of the United American Socialist Republics

1933 - 1940: collective (Workers’ Communist Party)
1940 - 1944: Leon Trotsky (Workers’ Communist Party)
1944 - 1962: James P. Cannon (Workers’ Communist Party)
1962 - 1973: Henry M. Jackson (Workers’ Communist Party)

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2014 - 20XX: Mitch McConnell (Workers’ Communist Party)

Pain.

Though honestly Mitch is enough of an opportunist that this doesn't tell us much about 21th century red America.
 
It’s a mixture of the Trotsky to NeoCon trope and the USA as the PRC. I’m just trying to find a good way to fit the SDUSA in.

A Trotskyist USA with Neocon-like takes on its cold war with the USSR would be interesting for sure. That would do interesting things to the world.

I think it's a bit harder to fit in the PRC parallel considering there's no wealthy capitalist superpower to open up to anymore though.
 
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