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"We Have Always Been At War With Eurasia" is a famous speech by British President Foot in 1984 - after several decades of cold war between the Congress of Oceanic Socialist States and the Eurasian Soviet Alliance, a detente was agreed with Britain and Ireland no longer containing COSS missile bases. Foot spoke for acknowledging the decades of "fear, famine, and fighting that have consumed us" but to "move on from this eternal conflict". (Unspoken was that it allowed both blocks to focus on their borders with the People's of East Asian.)
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Civilization IV: Leaked Civs and New Leaders!
With Civilization IV ready to hit shelves in just a few months, enough playtests and advance copies have been sent out that we have a good idea as to which leaders we'll be seeing in the new game, assuming that Starraxis aren't hiding a secret Ninja civilization under their hat or something. (Thanks for all the letters into our office about that one, by the way--I'm glad you liked our little April Fools gag.) As such, it's about time for Strategy Gamer to give you all a run-down on the faces and names we'll be seeing in this brand new game.
The originals are, of course, still here. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, Aztecs, English, Americans, French, and Ottomans are returning, just as they've been in each game since the start, with the same cohort of leaders as in Civilization III--Alexander the Great and Azhuitol and Ulysses Grant and so on--bar a couple of inclusions from older titles. Instead of Qin Shi Huangdi, Sun Zhongshan will be joining Taizong as one of China's two leader options, right the way back from Civ I, with his unique ability granting Food and Production adjacency bonuses from Culture and Military buildings, plus an extra Welfare Policy slot after researching Nationalism. Meanwhile, for the English, Oliver Cromwell is being joined by Civ Mobile(!)'s Queen Elizabeth instead of Alexandrina, whose boni to recruiting Great Admirals and stealing others' Traders should translate the fast-paced Economic Victories she could win in that game to the PC.
The majority of Civ III's newer civilisations are also still here, so fans of the Germanics, Italians, Inca, and Tagalog can rest easy, knowing their favourites are returning. There have been a couple of tweaks, most notably to the Tagalog, as Jose Rizal has been demoted down to a Great Writer and replaced by Kalangitan. A very different leader to Bonifacio, her ability to build housing districts that produce extra Culture and can't take disaster damage, and her ability to effectively use Traders twice internally and externally, make her a much more peaceful leader than the Katipunan Spam Man. There's been an even more drastic change for the Zulu, seeing as how they weren't even a civ in the last game! With Hordes firmly removed as a feature in this installment, Shaka has managed to swoop past Genghis, Attilla, and Sitting Bull to claim playability--and as someone who's had to restart many a game thanks to his damm spearmen, I for one can't wait to be on the other end of the Horns of the Bull. (Yeah, yeah, there's a second leader, Magogo, culture-based, makes Bards, whatever, it's Ibuthko time, baby! uSuthu! uSuthu!)
Of course, it's not as though Civilization III is the be-all and end-all of the series. As much as some gamers might like to pretend otherwise, Starraxis did put out a few games in between, and some of them even counted as Civilization--indeed, the newest game owes just as much to them and the mechanics they introduced as it does to its immediate predecessor. While none of the leaders from Civilization: Orion's Belt can appear unless one of them invents time travel, and Civilization Mini wouldn't exactly be breaking new ground with "what if Augustus but a Japanese children's cartoon", there's plenty of characters from a popular, fast-paced, conflict-based spinoff that can, and have, made a profitable return.
A fan-favourite from Civilization: World on Fire, the Celtic civilisation is joining the game under a double-sized cohort of leaders--Hugh O'Neill, Brian Boru, Robert Cunninghame Graham, and, as a new face replacing William Wallace, Hywel Dda! While some (including yours truely) may mourn the loss of Wallace's truly broken abilities to defend on home territory and the way his early Wars of Liberation could steamroll into an easy win, Hywel's ability to unlock Law Courts early on and his massive discount on buying Policies with Culture make him a pretty versatile leader. Otherwise, bar a few tweaks to the Irish name-list which have earnt a couple of angry press releases from Saor Eire!, the Celts are, bar necessary adaptation, the same as they were in the last game--a testament to how, despite the community's reaction at the time, World on Fire changed the franchise for the better.
The other new civs are totally original to this installment, sadly--while there was some speculation about the Vietnamese also joining, the current court cases in Mississippi over the end of the Catfish Wars has pushed that back. (Incidentally, to the guy who wrote in to this magazine with his pitch for a mobile game based on that? My uncle lost his hand defending his farm from the Black Star Legion. Go to hell.) Instead, South Asia's representative is the Tamil civilisation, under Rajaraja Chola and Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan. Their unique abilities allow them to easily earn and spend Great Writers roughly an era before everyone else, which fits well with Pandyan's Culture boosts from Religious Buildings and ability to spam upgrades to them, but meshes oddly with Chola's naval combat bonuses--not to mention the increased trader range for Luxuries, which doesn't gel with either. (I smell squeaky-bum time at the office.)
Leaving controversies behind us, we have the Jewish civilisation, with its leaders Solomon and Esther. For obvious reasons, they're very much a Faith-based civ, able to pump it out from more powerful, military-boosting, Prophets and their unique Wonder, the First Temple, which is far and away the best Faith Wonder in this or any other game. (Extra Faith yield per population? That scales?) I'm sure you all know my thoughts on Religion Victories by now, and frankly Solomon's Wonder-construction bonuses and extra advisor slots don't grab me either. Esther, though, might warrant a game later on, given how she meshes with the new Policy system--"locking in" Policies from previous eras seems like a whole new perspective on what's already a new system. The Unity production buffs from Military buildings are pretty nice, as well.
There was also a promise of finally getting a northern Native American civ in this game, which has been kept, but despite all the claims about a deeply thought-out selection process, I think the devs just went with what was around them in Niagara. In all fairness, the Haudenosaunee civ is an absolute beast. With their bonuses to moving units through forests, they can make some of the most annoying terrain in the game a piece of piss, and whether you want a Conquest game with Thayendanegea's massive enemy Unity loss from raiding and ability to spend stolen Culture on civics, or a more peaceful Cultural or Economic game under Jikonsase, who can grind Order off of road adjacency and takes over City-States with ease, this is a versatile civ that can play up there with the rest of them, and one I am very much looking forward to.
Finally, and most importantly from a geopolitical perspective, Civ IV will be the first installment of the series that can be sold in the Unio de Europaj Laboristoj since the original! There have, of course, been a few changes made to the game to comply with their current cultural policies. In the edition our European brothers are recieving, the French, Italian, and Germanic civs have all been merged into the European civilisation, led by (who else?) Eugene Adam, but with the option to still play as Robespierre or Garibaldi (given their status as "liberal revolutionaries"). Friedrich Barbarossa and Arminius, however, were both deemed too nationalistic by the Unio's cultural authorities, and have been de facto replaced by Adam Weishaupt. (Yes, really. Technically not the first Civ leader to never run a country or try to, seeing as how Father Gapon was in one of the Civ III DLCs no-one brought, but...c'mon.)
Anyway, the Europeans forgo the mechanical boni of the civs that make them up in exchange for an absolutely unholy ability to grind Culture off of Industrial and other Production districts, which synergises interestingly with at least one of the leaders. The government-mandated origin of Weipshaut really shows in his gameplay, as even an unique building to build in other people's cities can't hide the fact that he's a reskin of Louis XIV--and nobody has started caring about the Espionage system since Civ II. On the other hand, Adam's ability to make fully completed districts work as loyalty bombs for civs around him, sap it away through foreign Trade Routes, and skip the free-city stage and have cities flip directly to him makes him capable of the holy grail of Civ challenges--the No Warfare Conquest Victory. I for one couldn't be happier that us non-Esperantists still get access to him. Antauen Homaro!
All of the exciting leaders above will be available to pick up and play, for vets and newbs alike, on the 7th of August! Or earlier, for those of us sensible enough to preorder. See all of you then!
Cong Tang Phan has been writing for Strategy Gamer for four years, a games journalist for eight years, and blabbering on about Civ to anyone that will listen for twelve years. She is also the current office champion at World on Fire multiplayer, which isn't relevant but she asked me to put it here. Currently, she lives in outer Los Angeles, Colorado, with one PC and three cats.
With Civilization IV ready to hit shelves in just a few months, enough playtests and advance copies have been sent out that we have a good idea as to which leaders we'll be seeing in the new game, assuming that Starraxis aren't hiding a secret Ninja civilization under their hat or something. (Thanks for all the letters into our office about that one, by the way--I'm glad you liked our little April Fools gag.) As such, it's about time for Strategy Gamer to give you all a run-down on the faces and names we'll be seeing in this brand new game.
The originals are, of course, still here. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, Aztecs, English, Americans, French, and Ottomans are returning, just as they've been in each game since the start, with the same cohort of leaders as in Civilization III--Alexander the Great and Azhuitol and Ulysses Grant and so on--bar a couple of inclusions from older titles. Instead of Qin Shi Huangdi, Sun Zhongshan will be joining Taizong as one of China's two leader options, right the way back from Civ I, with his unique ability granting Food and Production adjacency bonuses from Culture and Military buildings, plus an extra Welfare Policy slot after researching Nationalism. Meanwhile, for the English, Oliver Cromwell is being joined by Civ Mobile(!)'s Queen Elizabeth instead of Alexandrina, whose boni to recruiting Great Admirals and stealing others' Traders should translate the fast-paced Economic Victories she could win in that game to the PC.
The majority of Civ III's newer civilisations are also still here, so fans of the Germanics, Italians, Inca, and Tagalog can rest easy, knowing their favourites are returning. There have been a couple of tweaks, most notably to the Tagalog, as Jose Rizal has been demoted down to a Great Writer and replaced by Kalangitan. A very different leader to Bonifacio, her ability to build housing districts that produce extra Culture and can't take disaster damage, and her ability to effectively use Traders twice internally and externally, make her a much more peaceful leader than the Katipunan Spam Man. There's been an even more drastic change for the Zulu, seeing as how they weren't even a civ in the last game! With Hordes firmly removed as a feature in this installment, Shaka has managed to swoop past Genghis, Attilla, and Sitting Bull to claim playability--and as someone who's had to restart many a game thanks to his damm spearmen, I for one can't wait to be on the other end of the Horns of the Bull. (Yeah, yeah, there's a second leader, Magogo, culture-based, makes Bards, whatever, it's Ibuthko time, baby! uSuthu! uSuthu!)
Of course, it's not as though Civilization III is the be-all and end-all of the series. As much as some gamers might like to pretend otherwise, Starraxis did put out a few games in between, and some of them even counted as Civilization--indeed, the newest game owes just as much to them and the mechanics they introduced as it does to its immediate predecessor. While none of the leaders from Civilization: Orion's Belt can appear unless one of them invents time travel, and Civilization Mini wouldn't exactly be breaking new ground with "what if Augustus but a Japanese children's cartoon", there's plenty of characters from a popular, fast-paced, conflict-based spinoff that can, and have, made a profitable return.
A fan-favourite from Civilization: World on Fire, the Celtic civilisation is joining the game under a double-sized cohort of leaders--Hugh O'Neill, Brian Boru, Robert Cunninghame Graham, and, as a new face replacing William Wallace, Hywel Dda! While some (including yours truely) may mourn the loss of Wallace's truly broken abilities to defend on home territory and the way his early Wars of Liberation could steamroll into an easy win, Hywel's ability to unlock Law Courts early on and his massive discount on buying Policies with Culture make him a pretty versatile leader. Otherwise, bar a few tweaks to the Irish name-list which have earnt a couple of angry press releases from Saor Eire!, the Celts are, bar necessary adaptation, the same as they were in the last game--a testament to how, despite the community's reaction at the time, World on Fire changed the franchise for the better.
The other new civs are totally original to this installment, sadly--while there was some speculation about the Vietnamese also joining, the current court cases in Mississippi over the end of the Catfish Wars has pushed that back. (Incidentally, to the guy who wrote in to this magazine with his pitch for a mobile game based on that? My uncle lost his hand defending his farm from the Black Star Legion. Go to hell.) Instead, South Asia's representative is the Tamil civilisation, under Rajaraja Chola and Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan. Their unique abilities allow them to easily earn and spend Great Writers roughly an era before everyone else, which fits well with Pandyan's Culture boosts from Religious Buildings and ability to spam upgrades to them, but meshes oddly with Chola's naval combat bonuses--not to mention the increased trader range for Luxuries, which doesn't gel with either. (I smell squeaky-bum time at the office.)
Leaving controversies behind us, we have the Jewish civilisation, with its leaders Solomon and Esther. For obvious reasons, they're very much a Faith-based civ, able to pump it out from more powerful, military-boosting, Prophets and their unique Wonder, the First Temple, which is far and away the best Faith Wonder in this or any other game. (Extra Faith yield per population? That scales?) I'm sure you all know my thoughts on Religion Victories by now, and frankly Solomon's Wonder-construction bonuses and extra advisor slots don't grab me either. Esther, though, might warrant a game later on, given how she meshes with the new Policy system--"locking in" Policies from previous eras seems like a whole new perspective on what's already a new system. The Unity production buffs from Military buildings are pretty nice, as well.
There was also a promise of finally getting a northern Native American civ in this game, which has been kept, but despite all the claims about a deeply thought-out selection process, I think the devs just went with what was around them in Niagara. In all fairness, the Haudenosaunee civ is an absolute beast. With their bonuses to moving units through forests, they can make some of the most annoying terrain in the game a piece of piss, and whether you want a Conquest game with Thayendanegea's massive enemy Unity loss from raiding and ability to spend stolen Culture on civics, or a more peaceful Cultural or Economic game under Jikonsase, who can grind Order off of road adjacency and takes over City-States with ease, this is a versatile civ that can play up there with the rest of them, and one I am very much looking forward to.
Finally, and most importantly from a geopolitical perspective, Civ IV will be the first installment of the series that can be sold in the Unio de Europaj Laboristoj since the original! There have, of course, been a few changes made to the game to comply with their current cultural policies. In the edition our European brothers are recieving, the French, Italian, and Germanic civs have all been merged into the European civilisation, led by (who else?) Eugene Adam, but with the option to still play as Robespierre or Garibaldi (given their status as "liberal revolutionaries"). Friedrich Barbarossa and Arminius, however, were both deemed too nationalistic by the Unio's cultural authorities, and have been de facto replaced by Adam Weishaupt. (Yes, really. Technically not the first Civ leader to never run a country or try to, seeing as how Father Gapon was in one of the Civ III DLCs no-one brought, but...c'mon.)
Anyway, the Europeans forgo the mechanical boni of the civs that make them up in exchange for an absolutely unholy ability to grind Culture off of Industrial and other Production districts, which synergises interestingly with at least one of the leaders. The government-mandated origin of Weipshaut really shows in his gameplay, as even an unique building to build in other people's cities can't hide the fact that he's a reskin of Louis XIV--and nobody has started caring about the Espionage system since Civ II. On the other hand, Adam's ability to make fully completed districts work as loyalty bombs for civs around him, sap it away through foreign Trade Routes, and skip the free-city stage and have cities flip directly to him makes him capable of the holy grail of Civ challenges--the No Warfare Conquest Victory. I for one couldn't be happier that us non-Esperantists still get access to him. Antauen Homaro!
All of the exciting leaders above will be available to pick up and play, for vets and newbs alike, on the 7th of August! Or earlier, for those of us sensible enough to preorder. See all of you then!
Cong Tang Phan has been writing for Strategy Gamer for four years, a games journalist for eight years, and blabbering on about Civ to anyone that will listen for twelve years. She is also the current office champion at World on Fire multiplayer, which isn't relevant but she asked me to put it here. Currently, she lives in outer Los Angeles, Colorado, with one PC and three cats.
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Love.
We need more AH through cultural lenses like this.
(Los Angeles, Colorado? man what)
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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ahhhh.
This is absolutely lovely, W.
It has something for everyone, for example
Did you hear that? My socks just blew off!
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- Das Böse ist immer und überall
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I’m going to start referring to Southern California as “the Cow Counties” from now on.
Very original idea, I like it.
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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- Pronouns
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You'll be pleased to know that Shaka is not only in Sid Meier's Civilization in OTL, he's actually more frequently used than in this timeline, being one of six leaders to appear in every Civ game! (However, the fact that the main representative of African civilization in-game is an insanely bellicose conqueror has been, uh, somewhat controversial.)
Though not as much as Atomic Gandhi - which is itself a fascinating study in globalisation, how something that could remain a silly running gag because obviously only Americans (or at most westerners) will ever play this game, and then continuing into it being seen as Problematic because of how long-running the series is.
Would be easy to do an AH version of that on reflection. Maybe a Civilisation-like game from another country where Americans eventually get upset that Martin Luther King Jr acts like Osama bin Laden.
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A wee bit of nonsense I wrote up for a TL where Napoleon prevails and one of his successors establishes a Belarusian state that remains predominantly Catholic. (Rephrased from this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Catholic_Major_Archeparchy_of_Kyiv–Galicia)
The Archeparchy of Smaliensk is an ecclesiastical province of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church - a particular Eastern Catholic Church, that is located in the Duchy of Minsk. It was erected in 1625 as the Ruthenian Catholic Archeparchy of Smolensk, suppressed in 1778 and re-established by Pope Leo XIII in 1835. The cathedral church - the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary - is situated in the city of Minsk. The metropolitan bishop is - ex officio - the Primate of the Belarussian Greek Catholic Church. The incumbent major archbishop is Bazyl Savicki.
The Archeparchy of Smaliensk is an ecclesiastical province of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church - a particular Eastern Catholic Church, that is located in the Duchy of Minsk. It was erected in 1625 as the Ruthenian Catholic Archeparchy of Smolensk, suppressed in 1778 and re-established by Pope Leo XIII in 1835. The cathedral church - the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary - is situated in the city of Minsk. The metropolitan bishop is - ex officio - the Primate of the Belarussian Greek Catholic Church. The incumbent major archbishop is Bazyl Savicki.
shearsforest
The Authentic Shears
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- Test Domain
- Pronouns
- he/him
Political parties post-2045 in The Cause of Humanity:
Following the overthrow of the Patriot Party / New Social League and the Second Constitutional Convention, the Electoral College has been abolished and replaced by a national popular vote system. Here's the parties pretty much all voters consider the "major" ones:
Progressive
Ah, the progressives. It was them who slowly took hold of the Democratic Party starting in the 2030s, with the murder of Vanessa McCoy, the victory of Jim Jordan in 2036, and the ensuing political chaos in the United States. The best example of a 2023 Progressive would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as expected. A descendant of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, this is the furthest left most people are willing to tolerate.
Liberal
Not unlike its northern neighbor, the United States has adopted a Liberal Party of its own, composed of those Democrats that politically fit in between the Progressives and Moderates. Amy Klobuchar and former vice president Jon Ossoff would fall into this party if this party system was around in 2023. A liberal candidate, Amelia McCoy (sister to transgender activist Vanessa McCoy) won the 2048 election.
Moderate
Moderate is the centrist-est you can get, full of Blue Dog Democrats and liberal Republicans. Liz Cheney, for instance, would fall within this category if this was the party system in 2023. Given the fact that they have largely lost their purpose as "moderates" due to the moderation of the Democrats and Republicans post-War on Authoritarianism, they're the least popular of the Big Four.
Conservative
Full of people like Adam Kinzinger, Sara Rasmussen, etc. (credit to @allthepresidentsmen for the suggestions), the past 3 decades of conservatism has soured it in the eyes of many, but it seeks to make a comeback when the time is right. A descendant of the moderate wing of the pre-Hatter Republican Party, this is the furthest right most people are willing to tolerate in the wake of the War on Authoritarianism.
Following the overthrow of the Patriot Party / New Social League and the Second Constitutional Convention, the Electoral College has been abolished and replaced by a national popular vote system. Here's the parties pretty much all voters consider the "major" ones:
Progressive
Ah, the progressives. It was them who slowly took hold of the Democratic Party starting in the 2030s, with the murder of Vanessa McCoy, the victory of Jim Jordan in 2036, and the ensuing political chaos in the United States. The best example of a 2023 Progressive would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as expected. A descendant of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, this is the furthest left most people are willing to tolerate.
Liberal
Not unlike its northern neighbor, the United States has adopted a Liberal Party of its own, composed of those Democrats that politically fit in between the Progressives and Moderates. Amy Klobuchar and former vice president Jon Ossoff would fall into this party if this party system was around in 2023. A liberal candidate, Amelia McCoy (sister to transgender activist Vanessa McCoy) won the 2048 election.
Moderate
Moderate is the centrist-est you can get, full of Blue Dog Democrats and liberal Republicans. Liz Cheney, for instance, would fall within this category if this was the party system in 2023. Given the fact that they have largely lost their purpose as "moderates" due to the moderation of the Democrats and Republicans post-War on Authoritarianism, they're the least popular of the Big Four.
Conservative
Full of people like Adam Kinzinger, Sara Rasmussen, etc. (credit to @allthepresidentsmen for the suggestions), the past 3 decades of conservatism has soured it in the eyes of many, but it seeks to make a comeback when the time is right. A descendant of the moderate wing of the pre-Hatter Republican Party, this is the furthest right most people are willing to tolerate in the wake of the War on Authoritarianism.
(Inspired by today's article by @Thande )
Major 20th Century Wars Britain Fought In
The Great Civilisation War of 1914-19
The Dail's War
The Great Civilisation War of 1936-45 (initially with volunteer soldiers to Spain and economic support to China)
The Korean Intervention
Colonial Wars of Independence
The Ulster Emergency
The South Atlantic War
First Allied-Iraqi War
First Allied-Serbian War
Second Allied-Serbian War
Major 20th Century Wars Britain Fought In
The Great Civilisation War of 1914-19
The Dail's War
The Great Civilisation War of 1936-45 (initially with volunteer soldiers to Spain and economic support to China)
The Korean Intervention
Colonial Wars of Independence
The Ulster Emergency
The South Atlantic War
First Allied-Iraqi War
First Allied-Serbian War
Second Allied-Serbian War
theflyingmgoose
Well-known member
PARTY PLATFORM (Because manifesto sounds Communist) OF THE LIBERTY ALLIANCE:
The Liberty Alliance is a political party dedicated to upholding the principles of left libertarianism, rooted in a commitment to individual liberties, social and economic justice, a strong national defense, and civic libertarianism. Our vision for the United States- unlike the SDP- is one of a prosperous, socially progressive, and responsibly governed nation.
CIVIL RIGHTS
The Liberty Alliance vows to fight for rights of all citizens, regardless of religion, sexuality, gender, or race. We believe every person deserves to be treated equally and equitably. We will fight for protections for oppressed groups, and fight for laws that will prevent discrimination in this nation.
WORKER FREEDOMS
The Liberty Alliance vows to fight for better wages and better conditions for our vital working class. As corporations get richer, the workers deserve to see a cut of the profits, and all workers deserve to be treated well by corporations and by our government.
WELFARE
The Liberty Alliance vows to fight for the social safety nets that protect the impoverished and homeless from hunger and further poverty. We will fight for this vulnerable group.
HOUSING
The Liberty Alliance believes in the Vienna-San Francisco model of public housing. We plan to eliminate homelessness with a combination of universal housing initiatives and mixed-use development.
INFRASTRUCTURE & TRANSPORTATION
The Liberty Alliance vows to invest in our transportation and our infrastructure. We plan to increase investment in our high-speed rail, and improve and rebuild our highways and existing rail system. We plan to invest in environmentally-safe transportation for the entire nation.
HEALTHCARE
The Liberty Alliance believes that all citizens deserve healthcare. All citizens, poor or rich, deserve equal care from medical professionals, deserve equal availability to medicine, and equal quality care. To that end, we will continue fully funding our healthcare system, which we will rename Patriot Care instead of the current Communist-sounding Social Medicine Service. That said, decades of SDP rule have resulted in billions wasted and siphoned off, with SDP members taking priority and denying your family the healthcare you deserve. Because of this, our first order of business will be to fire all the commie gatekeepers at Healthcare Oversight Administration.
ABORTION
The Liberty Alliance vows to fight for a woman's right to choose. Abortions should be easily available to all women, and should be covered by Patriot Care. All women should be able to have good and equal quality abortion facilities, and receive the care they deserve. The current first-trimester policy is inadequate, and should be expanded to include the second trimester.
EDUCATION
The Liberty Alliance believes that all citizens deserve an equal opportunity to receive a good education. We believe in a free education for all, and reform our education system and curriculum to better teach our nation's future leaders. College and trade schools will remain free. Additionally, we will launch our signature Patriot Subsidy to trade and vocational students that will provide them with assistance for living expenses during their education.
IMMIGRATION
The Liberty Alliance believes that our nation rests on the shoulders of immigrants. To that end, we will encourage greater skilled immigration. However, we will enact a "shared values test" to prevent radical anti-LGB Muslims from infiltrating our great country.
JUSTICE REFORM
The Liberty Alliance vows to reform our nation's justice and prison system. We believe prisons should be more humane, and be more about rehabilitation than punishment. We plan on abolishing the already sparingly-used death penalty and life without parole, and fully legalizing and taxing marijuana nationwide.
ENVIRONMENT
The Liberty Alliance vows to protect and fight for our environment. We plan to invest in green energy, and increase the carbon tax on corporations. We will fight to prevent pollution and fight against global warming. We pledge net zero by 2030.
ECONOMY
The Liberty Alliance vows to make our economy work for the people, not the corporations. We will fight for a wealth tax on the rich, and cap the incomes of the millionaires and billionaires. We will strengthen the public sector, fight for worker cooperatives, and make our economy stronger and more united.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
We stand with Prime Minister Odeh of Israel and Chancellor Dorsa Derakhshani of Iran in their fight against the evil Saudi theocracy. We also believe that SDP support to Taiwan and Ukraine has been subpar, and we pledge to rectify that. China and the CCP are fake leftists running an AnCap shithole, and we believe they are part of the Axis of Evil along with Saddam's Iraq and the Taliban's Pakistan.
GAY RIGHTS
Polling shows that 86% of Americans support the legalization of gay marriage, and the advisory referendum last year had 83% vote in favor. Yet the SDP continues to drag their feet. When we take office on January 31, 2024, this will continue no longer. Gay marriage will be immediately legalized throughout the country. We also oppose efforts by some conservatives to discriminate against lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens. However, the view of some that a majority of "transgender kids" are anything but LGB kids pushed to be straight by their parents and teachers is incorrect.
(NOTE: I don't believe in the LA's views on transgender people or Muslims, it's simply a way to illustrate an alternate overton window)
frustrated progressive
SLPing Through the Cracks
Great stuff, but the idea of a political party saying "shithole" in an official document does strain my credulity, somewhat.
theflyingmgoose
Well-known member
Another alternate tradition I've thought up- party youth organizations write the platforms.
Steve Brinson
The possum is not OK. Neither are we.
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In 2010, we asked 1,000 American high school and college* students to list historical events from memory by decade. Here are the five most common events** for each decade:
1910s:
*In American English, this refers to vocational college. 91% of American students attend college in their late teens (with 82% completing it by age 22), but only 38% go on to attend university, usually in their late twenties or early thirties.
**Some events have been combined. For example, 'Battle of New Utrecht', 'rise of Second Klan', and several other events are listed under the umbrella of '1920s civil violence', and 'Japanese Revolution' and 'Kerensky resignation' (among other answers) are similarly contained within 'Global Democratic Movement'. A full list of answers and events can be found in Appendix A.
***A significant number of respondents misidentified Reagan's election as occurring in the 1960s; if added to the total, Reagan's election would be in third place for the decade.
****A significant number of respondents identified this as a 1980s phenomenon; economists debate the precise beginning and ending dates.
1910s:
- Revolution of 1916
- Great European War
- Mexican Intervention
- Women's Suffrage
- 1915 General Strike
- 1920 Presidential election
- 1920s civil violence
- Seaburyism/Thermidor of 1927
- Social Revolution in France
- German Revolution
- Global Anti-Imperialist War
- Revolution of 1931
- War Socialism
- Popular Front
- Formation of East Asian Commonwealth
- 1944 SPA Convention
- Formation of Peace Corps
- Decolonization
- Mena Agreement
- Postwar delinquency wave
- "Annus Horribilis"/resignation of Heinlein
- Euro-Japanese War
- Vermont Avenue Congress/Human Rights Movement
- American Renaissance
- tie: Cod Wars and Western boom-bust
- Equality and Human Rights Act
- Ecology movement
- Great Centralization Debate
- Normalization of relations with Canada
- Test of first atomic bomb
- Bicentennial Constitutional Convention
- Global Democratic Movement
- Moon landings
- Rise of Reagan/Reaganomics***
- Portuguese intervention
- Conference on New Christian Socialism
- Consumerist reforms
- Immigration and Naturalization Control Act
- Maastricht Accords
- Rise of China
- Early '90s global economic crisis****
- Election of Fonda-Reagan
- Niantic disaster/New Ecology Movement
- Bengali-Bihari War
- PBS reforms
*In American English, this refers to vocational college. 91% of American students attend college in their late teens (with 82% completing it by age 22), but only 38% go on to attend university, usually in their late twenties or early thirties.
**Some events have been combined. For example, 'Battle of New Utrecht', 'rise of Second Klan', and several other events are listed under the umbrella of '1920s civil violence', and 'Japanese Revolution' and 'Kerensky resignation' (among other answers) are similarly contained within 'Global Democratic Movement'. A full list of answers and events can be found in Appendix A.
***A significant number of respondents misidentified Reagan's election as occurring in the 1960s; if added to the total, Reagan's election would be in third place for the decade.
****A significant number of respondents identified this as a 1980s phenomenon; economists debate the precise beginning and ending dates.
- Location
- Western New York
The North Sea Fleet Strike Group is one of the Chinese Navy's three surface battle groups. It is stationed in Weihaiwei in Shandong Province, although the CN plans to relocate it to a newly built base in Yantai. The Strike Group was formed in 1975 when the CNS Yan was commissioned and reached its present composition in 2009 after a major refit of the CNS Yan and replacement of the CNS Taishan (ex-USS Saratoga) with the CNS Huanghe.
The Strike Group is currently made up of the nuclear battleship CNS Yan, the nuclear aircraft carrier CNS Huanghe, nuclear cruiser CNS Liaoning, conventional cruisers CNS Andong and Hebei, guided missile destroyer CNS Qingdao, destroyers CNS Weihaiwei and Yancheng, and frigates CNS Jiaozhou and Zhuanghe, as well as various support vessels. It often carries out bilateral and multilateral exercises with the Soviet, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Australian, American, Canadian and British navies. In 2012, it spent eight months on a "trans-Pacific strategic partnership tour", calling at Donghae, Vladivostok, Yokosuka, Esquimalt, Pearl Harbor, Sydney and Haiphong, before returning to home port.
While many civilian and naval commenters have labeled the CNS Yan and its sister ships as an archaic waste of money completed to demonstrate the Chinese Navy's ability to outmatch the Kriegsmarine (Germany's single nuclear battleship took almost twice as long to build as the CNS Yan) instead of for any strategic purpose, especially in light of China's lack of significant naval threats, the Naval Ministry and Presidential Palace insist the battleships are a vital backbone of the Chinese Navy.
The Strike Group is currently made up of the nuclear battleship CNS Yan, the nuclear aircraft carrier CNS Huanghe, nuclear cruiser CNS Liaoning, conventional cruisers CNS Andong and Hebei, guided missile destroyer CNS Qingdao, destroyers CNS Weihaiwei and Yancheng, and frigates CNS Jiaozhou and Zhuanghe, as well as various support vessels. It often carries out bilateral and multilateral exercises with the Soviet, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Australian, American, Canadian and British navies. In 2012, it spent eight months on a "trans-Pacific strategic partnership tour", calling at Donghae, Vladivostok, Yokosuka, Esquimalt, Pearl Harbor, Sydney and Haiphong, before returning to home port.
While many civilian and naval commenters have labeled the CNS Yan and its sister ships as an archaic waste of money completed to demonstrate the Chinese Navy's ability to outmatch the Kriegsmarine (Germany's single nuclear battleship took almost twice as long to build as the CNS Yan) instead of for any strategic purpose, especially in light of China's lack of significant naval threats, the Naval Ministry and Presidential Palace insist the battleships are a vital backbone of the Chinese Navy.
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The League of Nations was a series of pulp novels starting in the 1920s, beginning as a vague knock-off of Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men and the Sexton Blake novels.
Aristocratic "gentleman detective" and RFC veteran Ulysses York formed an international "private law enforcement agency" with playboy Russian count Nikolai Markarov, "modern knight" and air veteran Gunter Danelaw, hardbitten Mexican "gaucho sheriff" Gonzalez, and Singapore's "modern day Artful Dodger" Manchu Chan. Together they faced a series of globe-trotting criminal masterminds, most notably the "last bastard of the House of Stuart", 'Queen' Charlotte Stuart, a spoiled sociopath who felt the British Empire should be hers. Many of the books have dated in their racist outlook and sexism, but for a long time a German hero - one that York had once duelled with in the war - and two non-Europeans made the books shockingly progressive.
A film serial adaptation came out in America, replacing the Russian with an American named Nicky Markson and making him the true lead of the League.
Aristocratic "gentleman detective" and RFC veteran Ulysses York formed an international "private law enforcement agency" with playboy Russian count Nikolai Markarov, "modern knight" and air veteran Gunter Danelaw, hardbitten Mexican "gaucho sheriff" Gonzalez, and Singapore's "modern day Artful Dodger" Manchu Chan. Together they faced a series of globe-trotting criminal masterminds, most notably the "last bastard of the House of Stuart", 'Queen' Charlotte Stuart, a spoiled sociopath who felt the British Empire should be hers. Many of the books have dated in their racist outlook and sexism, but for a long time a German hero - one that York had once duelled with in the war - and two non-Europeans made the books shockingly progressive.
A film serial adaptation came out in America, replacing the Russian with an American named Nicky Markson and making him the true lead of the League.