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World Powers of interest, c. 2040

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Member states of the"Red Corridor" national bloc, c. 2040

1. the Workers Republic of India
Dominant ideologies: Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, agrarian socialism, state capitalism, national syndicalism, anti-industrialism
Secretary-General: Arya Rajendran (भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी)

2. the Federation of the Philippines

Dominant ideologies: Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, national democracy
Chairperson: Renato Magtubo (Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas)

3. the Autonomous Administration of Kurdistan

Dominant ideologies: Democratic confederalism, libertarian socialism, anti-capitalism, communalism, jineology, Kurd nationalism
Co-Presidents: Jihan Khadro & Juzif Lahdo (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê)

4. the Arab Republic of Egypt

Dominant ideologies: Democratic socialism, anti-capitalism, trotskyism, feminism
Prime Minister: Haitham Mohamedain (إجماع مصري)

5. the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Dominant ideologies: Direct democracy, Islamic socialism, Arab nationalism
Prime Minister: Zahra' Langhi (Independent)

6. The Republic of Azania

Dominant ideologies: Marxism-Leninism, Fanonism, anti-capitalism, pan-Africanism
President: Marshall Diamini (EFF)

7. the Italian Republic

Dominant ideologies: Democratic socialism, libertarian socialism, euroscepticism, non-interventionism
Prime Minister: Viola Carofalo (Potere al Popolo)

8. the Kingdom of Norway

Dominant ideologies: Communism, democratic socialism, euroscepticism
Prime Minister: Bjørnar Moxnes (Rødt)

9. Jamaica

Dominant ideologies: Democratic socialism, pan-Africanism, Jamaican republicanism, eco-socialism
President: Jhannel Tomlinson (LANDS)

10. the Republic of Grenada
Dominant ideologies: Left-wing populism, democratic socialism, Grenadian nationalism, participative democracy
Prime Minister: Michelle Alexander (Independent)

11. the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Dominant ideologies: Democratic socialism, libertarian Marxism, socialist nationalism
President: Javier Tarazona (Socialista Democrático)

12. the Republic of Chille

Dominant ideologies: Libertarian socialism, autonomous Marxism
President: Jorge Sharp (Convergencia Social)

13. the Federative Republic of Brazil

Dominant ideologies: Democratic socialism, anti-capitalism, eco-socialism, libertarian socialism
President: Guilherme Boulos (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade)
 
Electoral History of Juan Casimiro de Rozas y Obes, Duque de San Andres
1917-1919: Partido Blanco Deputy for Durazno
1925-1929: Nationalist Party Stormont MP for Antrim

1929: Nationalist Party Stormont candidate for North Tyrone
1932-1933: Partit Nazzjonalista MLA for District 4
1934-1935: Nationalist MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone
Feb-Jul 1936: Traditionalist Communion Deputy for City of Seville
1943-1945: Bloc Populaire MP for Stanstead, QC

1945: Bloc Populaire candidate for Stanstead, QC
1948-1951: Clann na Poblachta Senator Appointed by the Taoiseach
1954-1957: Social Credit MP for Wanganui

1957: Social Credit candidate for Wanganui
1958-1962: Partido Nacional Senator
1962: Union Popular Senator


Juan Casimiro de Rozas was one of the most notable of the scions of the family descending from Juan Jose de Rozas, Conde de Castelblanco, who had been born to Spanish parents in South America and risen to be given the Dukedom of St Andrews by the exiled James II of Great Britain. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Rozas dynasty found itself on the morally wrong side of every war going, motivated by reactionary politics, loyalty to the Catholic Church and the mystical legitimacy of the monarchy, and opposition to the British. Members of the lineage can be found in the Jacobite risings, the Carlist wars, the fight against Spanish American national liberation, and even - somewhat bizarrely - the defence of the Boer Republics.

Our subject, Juan Casimiro, was born to a Rozas who had found himself fighting for the suitably reactionary Paraguayan President Francisco Solano Lopez against the army of an Empire commanded by a French Prince, and consequently had to have a little lie down. He settled down in Uruguay and died peacefully in a hail of bullets fired by Colorado forces against the backward-looking Blanco cowboys. Juan Casimiro broke the mould of Rozas political participation by recognising that elections and democracy were here to stay, and entered the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies for the obvious party. However, soon after, reports from Ireland began to make themselves heard in the Uruguayan press, and Juan Casimiro was unable to restrain his hereditary urge - he joined the IRA and participated in the Irish War of Independence, committing the requisite atrocities before again showing his fundamental moderation by supporting the pro-Treaty side. To recognise the Treaty while campaigning for a constitutional end to Partition, Juan Casimiro went north to contest an STV election in the Stormont Parliament, although he abstained from attending the sessions and was defeated when First Past the Post was introduced.

The Irish climate having proved too harsh for de Rozas, he travelled to an island in the middle of the Mediterranean, where he found another devoutly Catholic population struggling against British imperialism. After learning Italian, he joined Mifsud's Nationalist Party and helped to overturn the Constitutionalist-Labour coalition in 1932, right before the colonial authorities completely coincidentally closed down the local legislature. The time now came to complain directly to head office, which required taking advantage of a by-election in a seat held by Juan Casimiro's NI Nationalist friends. This time, he took his seat on the green benches without forewarning his party members, costing him their support at the general election. It was a wasted effort, though, as the British Government failed to heed his complaints about the oppressive disrespect for democracy and Catholic civil rights in Ulster and Malta. Worst of all, they even refused to address him by his Jacobite titles.

A short period of heel-kicking transpired, before Juan Casimiro again sallied forth into the lists - this time as a Carlist candidate in Spain. Many other reactionary monarchists were also compromising with the exigencies of democracy in this period, meaning that the Traditionalist Communion formed one of the more important sectors of the Right until the Cortes was put into its long hibernation by Franco. Juan Casimiro again returned to the family trade, and put his IRA experience into practice on behalf of the Nationalist forces. Unfortunately, Carlism was neutralised in the fast-paced politics of the late 1930s, and a disgruntled Juan Casimiro ended up taking ship for the Americas, where he discovered the wonderful culinary milieu of Quebec (its fondness for potatoes in various forms fed his sense of nostalgia). In 1943, the restaurateur again became a politician, as he was elected in a federal by-election for the Bloc Populaire, a short-lived party which opposed conscription and British Imperialism over Canada.

Juan Casimiro intended to retireat into anonymity after yet another defeat at the first post-war general election, but was tempted out of retirement by an invitation to join the Irish Seanad and support the anti-Partitionist Clann na Poblachta. In the Mother and Child confrontation with Noel Browne, the Duque (naturally) backed MacBride and the Hierarchy. But the influence of the Clann radicals had an impact on his own socio-economic outlook, replacing old-style conservatism with a belief in the power of the state to create prosperity. He landed on Social Credit, which fit nicely with his belief that a truly genealogically legitimate King would make flowers bloom and scrofula disappear with a simple touch. Moving to New Zealand (as far away from England as he could manage to get), Juan Casimiro participated in the founding of the Social Credit Political League and became its first MP on a split vote in the town of Wanganui. The swing to Labour at the next election swamped him, though, and he went home to Uruguay - where his ancestral party now finally stood a chance of winning an election.

The Duque of San Andres spent four years as a Senator on the Government benches, but the experience of being in the mainstream unnerved him. Castro's Revolution in Cuba electrified the continent, and now de Rozas was an old man, failing to realise that the Great Satan of England had substantially been defeated (geopolitically speaking). Communism now seemed to be the only global force taking a direct fight to a power bloc involving the UK, so in 1962, the elderly Duke took the momentous decision to spin out his time in the Uruguayan Senate as a representative of a pro-Castro Socialist alliance for national liberation.

Juan Casimiro de Rozas was a pivotal figure in his family's history, transitioning them from militaristic opponents of the British Empire to actors on a constitutional level - a process which would continue apace in later decades. His grandson continues the ancestral struggle to this day by positioning himself as Prince Harry's main supplier of NFTs.
 
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A really old idea of mine that I've been meaning to turn into a proper writeup for about a year. (The rundown is from like ~18 months ago but I realise it fits here). The idea was to fit as many different parties into one TL as possible. Some of the leader choices are less phresh than I remember but I'm still pretty satisfied with how it turned out.


Major Alliances and Parties of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda ect, circa 2021

Labour Federation:

Formal Name: Federal Labour Party of the United Kingdom
Nicknames: Labour, Feds, Reds.
Ideologies: Socialism, Social Democracy, Cooperative Economics, Internationalism, Federalism, Commonwealth Reformism, Pro-Detente
Structure: Federalised Party with Sub-Parties and "Socialist Organisations".
Leader: Prime Minister Hillary Benn (Elected by entire membership in OMOV, STV system from leaders of sub-parties)
Colour(s): Red and Purple
Symbols: Torch-Pen-Spade, Cog, Red Flag, Hammer, Work Horse
Seats: 427/800
Members: 556,988
Member Parties:
  1. Labour | Hillary Benn 2009 - Present | Labourism, Trade Unionism, Social Democracy, Socialism, Commonwealth Reformism | 163 seats | 183,165 Members
  2. Co-Operative | Anneliese Dodds, 2018 - Present | Socialism, Cooperative Economics, Social Liberalism, Federalism | 74 seats | 79,683 Members
  3. Independent Labour Party | Danny Dorling, 2016 - Present| Centrist Socialism, Internationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-Commonwealth Union | 51 seats | 45,368 Members
  4. Common Wealth | Shami Chakrabarti 2011 - Present | Left Libertarianism, Social Liberalism, Internationalism, Market Socialism | 44 seats| 53,110 Members
  5. Christian People's | Libby Lane 2014 - Present | Christian Socialism, Communitarianism, Internationalism | 29 seats | 20,877 Members
  6. Social Democratic | Charlie Kennedy 2008 - Present | Social Democracy, Social Liberalism, Internationalism | 23 seats | 38,654 Members
  7. British Workers | Alexander Hitchens 2020 - Present | Blairism, Socialism with English Characteristics, Monarchism, Social Conservatism | 17 seats | 28,154 Members
  8. Republican | Alison Johnstone 2018 - Present | Republicanism, Federalism, Celtic Interests | 11 seats | 41,380 Members
  9. Red-Greens| Alexandra Phillips 2015 - Present | Eco-Socialism, Social Liberalism, Alter-Globalism, Green Populism | 8 Seats | 66,597 Members
  10. Independent Labour/Trade Unionist/Socialist | N/A | Independent Politics, Regionalism, Socialism, Trade Unionism | 7 seats

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National Coupon:
Formal Name: Conference of National Parties
Nicknames: Nats, Coupon, Tories
Ideology: Broad Tent, British Nationalism, Christian Democracy, Social Conservatism, Mixed Market, Dirigisme, Commonwealth Unionism, British Unionism, Anti-Communism
Structure: Loose alliance of parties who agree to sit in a single group in Parliament.
Leader: Leader of the Opposition Sir Alistair Jack (Chosen informally by National MPs, often Tory leader)
Colour(s): Black, Blue, Green
Symbols: Torch and Sword, Ship, Crown, Trident, Lion
Seats: 308/800
Members: 465,237
Member Parties:

  1. Conservative | Penny Mourdant 2019 - Present | Conservatism, British Unionism, Social Conservatism, Commonwealth Unionism | 135 seats
  2. National Labour | Frank Field 2007 - Present | Social Democracy, Social Conservatism, British Unionism, Anti-Federalism, | 47 seats
  3. Liberal National | Nick Clegg 2009 - Present | Liberalism, Economic Liberalism, Liberal Conservatism, Social Liberalism | 41 seats
  4. Ecclesiastic | Tim Montgomery 2016 - Present | Christian Democracy, Social Conservatism, Monarchism | 28 seats
  5. British Peoples | Alexandra Phillips 2018 - Present | Populism, Social Conservatism, Christian Democracy | 16 seats
  6. National Ecologist | DWD Cameron 2011 - Present | Green Conservatism, Social Conservatism, Christian Ecology | 9 Seats
  7. Unionist | Alistair Jack 2015 - Present | Scottish & Welsh Interests, Liberal Conservatism, Centrism, British Unionism | 23 seats
  8. Independent National | N/A | Independent Politics, National Interest, Social Conservatism | 11 seats

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Liberal Alliance:
Formal Name: Alliance of British Liberal Parties
Nicknames: Alliance, LAs
Ideology: Liberalism, Social Liberalism, Federalism, Devolutionism, Secularisation, Atlanticism/pro-United States
Structure: Formal Electoral Alliance with Central Steering Committee and annual Alliance Conference
Leader: John Leech, MP. (Elected by an electoral college of delegates at Alliance Conference)
Colour(s): Orange/Yellow/Gold
Symbols: Torch and Book, Wings, Globe, Open Hand, Dove
Seats: 71/800
Members: 174,966

  1. Liberal | Layla Moran 2016 - Present | Liberalism, Economic Liberalism, Social Liberalism, New Liberalism, Europeanism, Commonwealth Skepticism | 28 seats
  2. Progressive Reform | Nick Boles 2010 - Present | Progressive Conservatism, One Nation-ism | 16 seats
  3. Together | John Leech 2015 - Present | New Liberalism, British Unionism, Liberal Trade Unionism | 15 seats
  4. Home Rule | Jane Dodds 2014 - Present | Federalism, Devolutionism, Populism, Regional Interests, Social Liberalism | 6 seats
  5. Social Credit | Guy Standing 2008 - Present | Social Credit, Populism, Regionalism, Agrarianism | 5 seats
  6. Independent Liberal/Progressive | N/A | Independent Politics, Liberalism, Social Liberalism | 1 seat
 
Cross-posting in an attempt to promote @cikka's AH challenge, the next one of which will be up tomorrow!

In case you're wondering what version of Star Wars canon this takes place in, the answer is "yes".

Political Parties of the Second Galactic Republic, 113 ABY
Governing Parties

Alliance To Restore The Republic:
It's Convention season, which means that in the spirit of party unity, the Alliance's various factions turn their eyes away from internal backbiting and towards the real enemy--the other factions of the Alliance.
  • Organaists: Y'know, normally I'd love changes to make the Senate more accessible for minorities, but considering the ongoing corruption scandal, the Hand bombings, and oh yeah the fucking invasion of the Outer Rim by post-Stone Age fuzzballs, I'd maybe move that down the rota a tad. Unfortunately these guys are the only faction who ever have their shit together.
  • Populist Republicans: Want the police, which they think the Republic should not have, to arrest Senator Dod, a power they think the police should not have.
  • High Republicans: Fun fact! As of next year, Ch-Tak will have spent ten times more time mourning the lost grandeur of the pre-Imperial senate than he did actually serving in said senate. Less fun fact! As of next year, Ch-Tak will still be in office.
  • Good Ol' Boys: Still burning through their political capital trying to get a shrine to General Grievous built, despite the opposition of [checks notes] every citizen of Utapau. Remember, the Separatists stood for local autonomy.
  • Outer Party: Hate to say "we told you so" about the Ewok threat, but actually they love to say it and are doing it constantly. Which, like, fair play, half of you can't go home anymore, I think you're entitled to a little snarking.
  • New Centre: Aren't human supremacists, because look at our new Durosian senator, and our policies on Nemiodian colonisation, and someone let Carise Sindian out unattended and she used the hard R-word twice. But the Durosian senator! He's very shiny!
  • Localists: Want more money for their various home planets, but I could stick that here every rundown until the end of time.
League for Equal Sapience: Not technically in the government, but they're very supportive of the upcoming procedural changes, since their new leader can't physically attend the Senate meetings on account of being a space station larger than the entire building.

United Watchchildren's Front: Another day, another duel with one of the opposition's Mandalorians. I kind of miss the days when they did it in the Chamber--I get that the new duelling hall is better for religious reasons, but it really livened up the live broadcasts. Oh yeah and the latest Vizsla has a bill about raising auxiliaries or something, but the only people who care about that are the Alliance whips.

Opposition Parties

Anti-Federalist League:
Scoffing and laughing at the Alliance's government program being stymied by local interests draining their money, while also spending most of their budget proposals on the Corellian Way.

Coalition for Order and Progress: "The Kuat Shipyards employed thousands! The Kuat Shipyards employed thousands!" I continue to insist as I slowly shrink down and turn into the secret Alderaanian bioweapons program.
Mattias Patrach: lol he's really going all in on the superweapons--sorry, "megaprojects"--comment. When people said he'd return the party to the centre-ground, I didn't think they meant the centre-ground of the Moff Council.
Spotted Fel: Trying to imagine the hypothetical guy who agrees the COP need to elect a female leader but is mad that her campaign announcement used the current year from Yavin rather than from the Imperial foundation. I'm sure there's someone.
Gerber Hux-Daala: Astonishing that he hasn't screwed up yet. Maybe if a failson and a faildaughter have a kid the failure genes cancel out? It's the only plausible explanation to me.

Chainbreakers: Chrys Tico still isn't apologising for her "Fall of Nal Hutta" party, which, yeah, on the one hand, they are asshole slavers who deserve what's coming to them, but I don't think the Ewoks exactly treat their new subjects with respect and dignity.

Prosperity Movement: Dod's current defence appears to be that he didn't accept any bribes, his behaviour was unaffected by said bribes, and bribery shouldn't really be a crime in the first place, and he's never heard of this thing called "money", and the real crime is high tariffs, which he will lower because of the generous and legal donations he did not receive. Next week, he'll say that his bribes were used to kill Palpatine.

Bothan Democratic Representation League: Doing that thing where they try and hijack the Yuuzhan Vong War Remembrance Day to be all about avenging Borsk Fey'la and wiping the Vong out again. At least this year they're not doing their parade right next to the official one, at least.

Harmony: Nom I'pan literally wants Jedi to go back to being honorary generals. I mean, was he not around the last time we trie--oh yeah, right. Guess this is how I get cancelled. Maybe I can pivot to being a BDRL senate candidate now.

Other Forces of the Galaxy

Jedi Order:
Meditating peacefully and staying out of galactic politics in favour of greater enlightenment, just as Skywalker intended. Oh, there were Force-wielders spotted on Indoumodo just before the Hand base there collapsed? Must have been rogue Padawans, you know what they're like. Have some tea and stop being so silly.

Second Outbound Flight: Is now going to have Ssi-Ruu on board so they can pass through their sectors. You know, at first this sort of thing was annoying, but honestly "a big unnecessary megaproject full of different species who hate each other, formed as a massive compromise" is a way better representation of the galaxy to outsiders than whatever the original plan was.

Pentastar Alignment: Endorsed Patrach, despite the fact that the two other candidates both hate them for killing their father and not being New-Order-y enough, respectively, and their endorsement is the kiss of death for obvious reasons. This is the kind of political nous that'll see the Seventh Fleet back on Coruscant by Life Day!

Provisional Government of the New Order: Very annoyed that the Empire of the Hand are destabilising the Republic through ideological terrorism, seeing as they called dibs on that. At least, they probably are. They've stopped carving the Supreme Commander Phasma Memorial out of Ilum at least, but that might just be mechanical failure.

Chiss Ascendancy: Have no idea what this "Empire of the Hand" could possibly be, and to make that clear, have started repeating this to ambassadors even when they don't mention it.

Huttspace: Gnuda Tower is tall enough to link Klatooine to its moon! Full of spectacular wonders, artworks, and games! Please ignore the slavery! We're legitimate businessmen now! See! See! Please don't let the Ewoks kill us!

Ewok Horde: Not to be outdone by the Hutts, have raised their own tower on Nal Hutta. Made of skulls. Remember when these guys led lost kids to safety in cruddy B-holovids?
 
Okay, this sounds like a really swell list and I quite

  • Outer Party: Hate to say "we told you so" about the Ewok threat, but actually they love to say it and are doing it constantly. Which, like, fair play, half of you can't go home anymore, I think you're entitled to a little snarking.
Chainbreakers: Chrys Tico still isn't apologising for her "Fall of Nal Hutta" party, which, yeah, on the one hand, they are asshole slavers who deserve what's coming to them, but I don't think the Ewoks exactly treat their new subjects with respect and dignity.
Ewok Horde: Not to be outdone by the Hutts, have raised their own tower on Nal Hutta. Made of skulls. Remember when these guys led lost kids to safety in cruddy B-holovids?

...Ewoks?
 
...Ewoks?

The Star Wars galaxy's always got to have something going on, and I thought a vast Ewok invasion would be kind of funny.

On a more in-universe level, they took out an Imperial army with rocks and sticks. Rocks. And. Sticks. Now, imagine the result of them receiving the elements necessary to form an industrial war machine from, say, the ruins of one of the galaxy's most advanced battle space stations raining down on their planet...
 
...Ewoks?

i looked at it a little weird too at first, but no, honestly it's entirely realistic. if u want to do Star Wars Realpolitik, then the only real outcome that makes sense for the Ewoks, a society of developed but non-industrial rural forest dwellers who lived under and fought against Imperial rule, is absolutely either becoming space maoists or T H E H O R D E
 
The Star Wars galaxy's always got to have something going on, and I thought a vast Ewok invasion would be kind of funny.

On a more in-universe level, they took out an Imperial army with rocks and sticks. Rocks. And. Sticks. Now, imagine the result of them receiving the elements necessary to form an industrial war machine from, say, the ruins of one of the galaxy's most advanced battle space stations raining down on their planet...
I’ve never been a Star Wars guy, but I’ll read whatever EU material you want if it means I get to see the wacky adventures of Ewok Pol Pot.
 
Less wacky than your average western Maoist, think Nepal's just got the novelty of multiple competing MLM parties that've been in power.
It’s wacky in the sense that Nepal is now ran by a Maoist Government who still keeps the semblance of a Parliamentary Democracy, just if most of the political parties were various shades of Red.
 
Less wacky than your average western Maoist, think Nepal's just got the novelty of multiple competing MLM parties that've been in power.

I think honestly if you take Maoism in general as the baseline, parliamentary Maoism is wackier than most of the western maoist crowd, although Black Hammer might still have them beat. Although from what might be considered general normalcy, the Nepali are pretty reasonable.
 
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