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Armenia is clearly European, Turkey is clearly not.
Argentina, of course, is European but France's territory in South America is not
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Argentina, of course, is European but France's territory in South America is not
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Well HECK this got out of hand.
Here is a vaguely realistic take on my Nationstates country circa 2008. Instead of a huge number of islands as the region was I've just written up my main nation.
Republic of Tyrylya
(Tyrylyan French: Tarilie, English: Taurilia)
Anthem: Husynn Styne
Settlement: 853
Republic status: 1999
Named for: the Norse god Tyr
Capital: Syohaven
Biggest City: Syohaven
Official Languages: English, Tyrylyan
Religion: 71% Christian, 17% None, 12% Neopagan
Demonym: Tyrylyan
Government: Unitary Parliamentary Republic
President: Sveyn Beauchamp
Prime Minister: Tycho Harrison
Tyrylya (French: Tarilie, English: Taurilia) officially “The Republic of Tyrylya” is a nation that covers an archipelago of islands in the North Atlantic, roughly on the mid-Alantic Ridge. Geographically isolated it is roughly 1500km west of Ireland, 3000km east of Newfoundland, Canada and 1500km south of Iceland. Despite this it is linked culturally primarily with Europe.
Like Iceland and the Azores the Tyrylyan islands are volcanic and it is located on a rift between tectonic plates. Tyrylya’s geologic activity includes Geysers and volcanic eruptions. Climatically the islands are temperate with a climate similar to the British isles as they are warmed by the gulf stream
Having been long rumoured by traders along the western coasts of Europe Tyrylya was discovered by vikings in 853 in an effort. Underwhelmed by the chain of six or so islands the islands were none the less settled by Vikings as a source of fish, whaling and volcanic glass, which soon became popular as jewelry in Europe. The name comes from the norse god Tyr. Common Tyrylyan mythology says the captain of the ship who found the main island lost a hand in a storm that brought the ship here and he took that as a sign to form a shrine to Tyr. Although sometimes called Vestway, the name of Tyrland or in latinised maps, Tyria, (the land of Tyr) however there isn’t a lot of evidence how this became the Modern Tyrylya. By the time of Spanish settlement of the island 700 years later the name Tyrylya was well in place. However, travel to Tyrylya remained difficult and the community there, never more than a few thousand at most, remained isolated.
Several explorers over the next century sought to travel west from Tyrylya but with no luck. It would later be found that Tyrylya was in the middle of the the prevailing westerly winds, meaning anyone sailing to the new world would have to make a much further southern route from the azores or canaries across to the carribbean. Despite this, the Italian born explorer John Cabot would stop at Tyrylya on his return trip from what we now call Newfoundland in Canada. While further attempts would be made to reach Tyrylya from Europe it was found the winds weren’t reliable enough and a more northerly or southerly route was necessary. Despite that Tyrylya became a stopping off spot for ships returning from the New World, notably Jacques Cartier on all four of his voyages. At this point Tyrylya was still technically a free territory linked only by its church to Norway. Until this point Tyrylya was mostly an oddity, mostly ignored by Europe. Seeing it as a potential useful territory in its exploration the New world, in 1542 the Spain carried out a small scale invasion of the islands, seizing the capital of Sjohavn and making the elected chieftain of Tyrylya swear an oath of loyalty to Philip II. However Spain would lose Tyrylya to France following the Franco-Spanish War of 1636-1648. From then on Tyrylya would technically be part of the French colony of Cartieria(1) although the island remained primarily old Tarylyan. When France lost the Seven years war it gave up all its continental American possessions and many Nouveau Francais people would move to Carteria but some would move to Tarylya, increasing the population and leading to a greater mix of Tarylyan and French cultures.
With the French Revolutions of the 1790s the King would flee to Cartieria. A revolutionary mutinee would occur in 1797 amongst sailors at Sanctuaire (as Sjohaven was called by the French) and the Republic of Tyrylya would be declared. With the Revolutionary wars being waged across Europe the French Republic didn’t have the ability to support Tyrylya. The island was seized by the Royal Navy. It was a bone of contention between the restored French Monarchy and the United Kingdom that Tyrylya remained a British possession.
Tyrylya would grow with the end of the age of sail. With the move to steamships the island was much more easily accessible from Europe. It became a regular stopping off point for ships traveling across the Atlantic and the population and economy grew with a Royal Navy base being established on the north side of the island by the town of Steinpont. The Barracks at the HM Naval Base Steinpont having the reporting name HMS Thor. The islands would be laid siege to multiple times during the Second Universal War (1893-1901) with the Royal Naval atlantic fleet being based there and the islands being a key thorn in the side of Franco-Iberian efforts to blockade Britain.
From the 19th century onwards the islands saw a resurgence in pre-Franco British Tyrylyan culture and with it a slowly building desire for independence. During the 2nd Universal War there were multiple protests and riots against the attacks on the islands. It was during the turn of the century that revivalist works such as Thomas Torvald’s “False Haven” and Ulrfic Delavigne’s spiritual work “Njord’s Land”.
Following the three day war of 1951, Britain begun the process of granting varying degrees of independence to its various colonies and in 1955 Tyrylya was made a commonwealth with King Henry IX as the head of state, this remained until the republic referendum of 1998 where 61% of islanders voted to replace the British monarchy with a directly elected president. However controversially the new republic kept up the agreement of having a royal navy base on the main island. Anglo-Tarylyan relations are a continued point of contention in the country, most recently during Queen Mary IV’s state visit to the islands.
Today Tyrylya is a relatively wealthy country with a population of 311,000. Primarily located in the cities of Syohaven and Steinpoint. It is a regular stopping point for transatlantic shipping and has extensive dockyards for ship repair. It is a centre for research into renewable energy, namely geothermal, wave and wind power, something that is the result of Tyrylya’s Green Party having a continuously strong presence as the nation’s main centre left party as well as the Islands being the birthplace of Omnimunda Industries, one of the world’s leading companies in renewable energy, biofuels and genetics research (2). It is also a successful tourist destination, primarily for its beaches, volcanoes and wildlife.
Here is a vaguely realistic take on my Nationstates country circa 2008. Instead of a huge number of islands as the region was I've just written up my main nation.
Republic of Tyrylya
(Tyrylyan French: Tarilie, English: Taurilia)
Anthem: Husynn Styne
Settlement: 853
Republic status: 1999
Named for: the Norse god Tyr
Capital: Syohaven
Biggest City: Syohaven
Official Languages: English, Tyrylyan
Religion: 71% Christian, 17% None, 12% Neopagan
Demonym: Tyrylyan
Government: Unitary Parliamentary Republic
President: Sveyn Beauchamp
Prime Minister: Tycho Harrison
Tyrylya (French: Tarilie, English: Taurilia) officially “The Republic of Tyrylya” is a nation that covers an archipelago of islands in the North Atlantic, roughly on the mid-Alantic Ridge. Geographically isolated it is roughly 1500km west of Ireland, 3000km east of Newfoundland, Canada and 1500km south of Iceland. Despite this it is linked culturally primarily with Europe.
Like Iceland and the Azores the Tyrylyan islands are volcanic and it is located on a rift between tectonic plates. Tyrylya’s geologic activity includes Geysers and volcanic eruptions. Climatically the islands are temperate with a climate similar to the British isles as they are warmed by the gulf stream
Having been long rumoured by traders along the western coasts of Europe Tyrylya was discovered by vikings in 853 in an effort. Underwhelmed by the chain of six or so islands the islands were none the less settled by Vikings as a source of fish, whaling and volcanic glass, which soon became popular as jewelry in Europe. The name comes from the norse god Tyr. Common Tyrylyan mythology says the captain of the ship who found the main island lost a hand in a storm that brought the ship here and he took that as a sign to form a shrine to Tyr. Although sometimes called Vestway, the name of Tyrland or in latinised maps, Tyria, (the land of Tyr) however there isn’t a lot of evidence how this became the Modern Tyrylya. By the time of Spanish settlement of the island 700 years later the name Tyrylya was well in place. However, travel to Tyrylya remained difficult and the community there, never more than a few thousand at most, remained isolated.
Several explorers over the next century sought to travel west from Tyrylya but with no luck. It would later be found that Tyrylya was in the middle of the the prevailing westerly winds, meaning anyone sailing to the new world would have to make a much further southern route from the azores or canaries across to the carribbean. Despite this, the Italian born explorer John Cabot would stop at Tyrylya on his return trip from what we now call Newfoundland in Canada. While further attempts would be made to reach Tyrylya from Europe it was found the winds weren’t reliable enough and a more northerly or southerly route was necessary. Despite that Tyrylya became a stopping off spot for ships returning from the New World, notably Jacques Cartier on all four of his voyages. At this point Tyrylya was still technically a free territory linked only by its church to Norway. Until this point Tyrylya was mostly an oddity, mostly ignored by Europe. Seeing it as a potential useful territory in its exploration the New world, in 1542 the Spain carried out a small scale invasion of the islands, seizing the capital of Sjohavn and making the elected chieftain of Tyrylya swear an oath of loyalty to Philip II. However Spain would lose Tyrylya to France following the Franco-Spanish War of 1636-1648. From then on Tyrylya would technically be part of the French colony of Cartieria(1) although the island remained primarily old Tarylyan. When France lost the Seven years war it gave up all its continental American possessions and many Nouveau Francais people would move to Carteria but some would move to Tarylya, increasing the population and leading to a greater mix of Tarylyan and French cultures.
With the French Revolutions of the 1790s the King would flee to Cartieria. A revolutionary mutinee would occur in 1797 amongst sailors at Sanctuaire (as Sjohaven was called by the French) and the Republic of Tyrylya would be declared. With the Revolutionary wars being waged across Europe the French Republic didn’t have the ability to support Tyrylya. The island was seized by the Royal Navy. It was a bone of contention between the restored French Monarchy and the United Kingdom that Tyrylya remained a British possession.
Tyrylya would grow with the end of the age of sail. With the move to steamships the island was much more easily accessible from Europe. It became a regular stopping off point for ships traveling across the Atlantic and the population and economy grew with a Royal Navy base being established on the north side of the island by the town of Steinpont. The Barracks at the HM Naval Base Steinpont having the reporting name HMS Thor. The islands would be laid siege to multiple times during the Second Universal War (1893-1901) with the Royal Naval atlantic fleet being based there and the islands being a key thorn in the side of Franco-Iberian efforts to blockade Britain.
From the 19th century onwards the islands saw a resurgence in pre-Franco British Tyrylyan culture and with it a slowly building desire for independence. During the 2nd Universal War there were multiple protests and riots against the attacks on the islands. It was during the turn of the century that revivalist works such as Thomas Torvald’s “False Haven” and Ulrfic Delavigne’s spiritual work “Njord’s Land”.
Following the three day war of 1951, Britain begun the process of granting varying degrees of independence to its various colonies and in 1955 Tyrylya was made a commonwealth with King Henry IX as the head of state, this remained until the republic referendum of 1998 where 61% of islanders voted to replace the British monarchy with a directly elected president. However controversially the new republic kept up the agreement of having a royal navy base on the main island. Anglo-Tarylyan relations are a continued point of contention in the country, most recently during Queen Mary IV’s state visit to the islands.
Today Tyrylya is a relatively wealthy country with a population of 311,000. Primarily located in the cities of Syohaven and Steinpoint. It is a regular stopping point for transatlantic shipping and has extensive dockyards for ship repair. It is a centre for research into renewable energy, namely geothermal, wave and wind power, something that is the result of Tyrylya’s Green Party having a continuously strong presence as the nation’s main centre left party as well as the Islands being the birthplace of Omnimunda Industries, one of the world’s leading companies in renewable energy, biofuels and genetics research (2). It is also a successful tourist destination, primarily for its beaches, volcanoes and wildlife.
- Newfounland, also named because Carteria was one of the other Nationstates names
- In the original game they purchased an entire island. Here theyre a theoretically altruistic company who probably have terrible business practices.
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Oh fuck Venezuala took both the Guyanas
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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The rest of the thread does have a good few amusing maps by people quibbling over the definition of
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After talking with @Lucon50 about their excellent Alliance TL I felt like updating this series.
Party rundown January 2024
His Majesty’s Government
Progressive Conservative: Rory Stewart continues to point towards the 2024 London Olympics every time he gets a back bench rebellion.
Independent Greens: They stopped HS2 though! And Sizewell D Right? Fuck trains, RIGHT?!
The Free Democratic Party: Having left the People's party, Liz Truss' band of merry rebels look ready to prop up the govt. Was she a Lib Dem Sleeper agent all along?
His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition
Labour: With them retaking Tamworth and Lichfield the govt is now a minority. As much as I want a Labour-Rad government Rachel Reeves probably would like the grand coalition back
Other Opposition:
Radical: Until the war in Gaza, looked poised to bring in fully automated nuclear powered socialism whether Reeves wanted it or not.
People’s: Sahra Wagenknecht fan club (Westminster branch)
Social Democrat: Are also here.
SNP: Who even knows any more, man. They even had a defector to the rads.
Plaid Cymru: Boy Scotland sure is doing well under Devo max! huh? huh?
English Party: No seriously, its not just a meme, they might actually back the govt in exchange for a federal England.
DUP: Stewart will ring them for supply and confidence.... any minute now
Sinn Fein: No one tell them about how Star Trek reunified Ireland
Alliance: Feeling like the awkward ex ever since the Lib Dems merged with One Nation
SDLP: Are also there
Scottish Independence Party: Have they only just noticed their leader has a show on Russia Today.
Workers: with that defection to People's, theyre down to literally just George galloway
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Tempted to write a second variation on this where Yvette Cooper doesnt resign over takeawaygate. Polling is a bit more favourable for the Radicals and A group of Lib Dem splitters back a Labour-Radical Government. Meanwhile in opposition the folks that would become the FDP have returned to the Tory fold. The final federalisation of the UK might have occurred too.
Its spring 2024 and the government is falling apart over Gaza, England faces its first regional elections and Westminster might be up for a vote too.
theflyingmgoose
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The Southern Liberation Organization is a right-wing political party and organization that has served as the governing entity in the majority of Dixie since the 1990s. While more moderate than the Christian Redeemer Brotherhood, it still holds racist and anti-American positions. Surveys show this opinion to be replicated by people under the SLO's control, with opinion polling showing that 91% of residents oppose the legalization of homosexuality and 93% the legalization of abortion. Dixie under the SLO's control is internationally recognized to be an autocracy, and Chairman Deal is extremely unpopular.
The Christian Redeemer Brotherhood is a far-right political party and terrorist organization that has controlled the Baja Peninsula since 2003. While similar to the SLO in many ways, the Brotherhood takes all of their positions to an extreme. The organization's official platform calls for the eventual conquering and subjugation of the United States, along with the summary execution of all queer people, minorities, and Jewish people in the country. The CRB has also proposed the enslavement of all remaining Americans as well.
From the Gallup America Survey (2022)
Do You See The United States Positively?
USA: 96%-1%
SLO: 13%-78%
CRB: 12%-72%
Do You See The Southern Liberation Organization Positively?
CRB: 44%-42%
SLO: 20%-71%
USA: 7%-82%
Do You See The Christian Redeemer Brotherhood Postively?
SLO: 60%-34%
CRB: 35%-59%
USA: 0%-99%
theflyingmgoose
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Dark Blue: Annexed into the United States. Under full civil and administrative law, with full voting rights in elections.
Light Blue: Land zoned as military bases. Under American civil law and military administrative law.
Pale Blue: Military occupation. Under full martial law.
Comrade Izaac
Secretary General of the Alt-Historians Union
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The results of a Collaborative List done on my page, featuring the minds of @Meppo / @Blackentheborg / @NVB / @Edmund / @Time Enough / @Excelsior / @Walpurgisnacht / @Steve Brinson / @Kaddeus / and @Stikfigur
Heads of State of the G20 Nations, 2031
Argentina: Juan Grabois (Patria Grande Front)
Australia: Ben Roberts-Smith (Independent leading Emergency Government)
Brazil: Rui Costa (Workers Party)
Canada: Aaron Gunn (Conservative)
China: Qie Yingcai (Communist Party of China)
France: Mathilde Paris (National Rally)
Germany: Hendrik Wüst (CDU)
India: Arya Rajendran (Bhārat kī Kamyunisṭ Pārṭī (Mārksvādī)-Janayuddh Gathabandhan)
Indonesia: Muhaimin Iskandar (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa leading Koalisi Indonesia Satu)
Italy: Elly Schlein (Democratic leading ‘Italy Now: Union of Left Forces’ Coalition)
Japan: Shinjiro Koizumi (LDP)
Mexico: Samuel García Sepúlveda (Ciudadanos por Justicia)
Russian Federation: Viktor Vorobyov (Union of Left Forces)
Saudi Arabia: Khalid II bin Salman al Saud (House of Saud)
South Africa: Mmusi Maimane (United for Democracy)
South Korea: Lee Un-ju (National Unity Government, elected as member of Taegeukgi Party)
Turkey: Erdal Beşikçioğlu (CHP)
United Kingdom: Keir Starmer (Labour)
United States: Raphael Warnock (Democratic)
European Union: Jaak Madison (Identity and Democracy)
African Union: Raymond Ndong Sima (Patriotic Alliance of Gabon)
Heads of State of the G20 Nations, 2031
Argentina: Juan Grabois (Patria Grande Front)
Australia: Ben Roberts-Smith (Independent leading Emergency Government)
Brazil: Rui Costa (Workers Party)
Canada: Aaron Gunn (Conservative)
China: Qie Yingcai (Communist Party of China)
France: Mathilde Paris (National Rally)
Germany: Hendrik Wüst (CDU)
India: Arya Rajendran (Bhārat kī Kamyunisṭ Pārṭī (Mārksvādī)-Janayuddh Gathabandhan)
Indonesia: Muhaimin Iskandar (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa leading Koalisi Indonesia Satu)
Italy: Elly Schlein (Democratic leading ‘Italy Now: Union of Left Forces’ Coalition)
Japan: Shinjiro Koizumi (LDP)
Mexico: Samuel García Sepúlveda (Ciudadanos por Justicia)
Russian Federation: Viktor Vorobyov (Union of Left Forces)
Saudi Arabia: Khalid II bin Salman al Saud (House of Saud)
South Africa: Mmusi Maimane (United for Democracy)
South Korea: Lee Un-ju (National Unity Government, elected as member of Taegeukgi Party)
Turkey: Erdal Beşikçioğlu (CHP)
United Kingdom: Keir Starmer (Labour)
United States: Raphael Warnock (Democratic)
European Union: Jaak Madison (Identity and Democracy)
African Union: Raymond Ndong Sima (Patriotic Alliance of Gabon)
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Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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What am I, Bill Finger? /s
Comrade Izaac
Secretary General of the Alt-Historians Union
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SHIT MY BAD. knew i was missing someone
Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
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"Identity and Democracy" now there's a scary name
Steve Brinson
The possum is not OK. Neither are we.
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Aaaaaaaa
Steve Brinson
The possum is not OK. Neither are we.
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First-Tier Regional Soccer Football Leagues of the United States by Estimated Viewership
- Union Southern League (USL, 11.4 million viewers), including all first-tier Southern teams outside Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Delaware. Formed in 1969 by merger of several segregated leagues. Historically, for desegregation reasons, has pursued a policy of "one city, one team"; this policy was weakened in 1987 with the formation of the Chalmette Charmers, widely regarded as a secondary New Orleans team, and removed completely in 1991 with the formation of Poseidon Louisiana. In 1998, disputes over TV revenues led to the departure of Texan and Oklahoman teams. Due to the USL's size, it (unlike most regional leagues) uses a divisional system; teams play twenty-six games a season, two each against their seven divisional partners and two each against two teams each from the other divisions. In Spring 2008, the USL sent Arkansas Diamond, Charleston City, Forza Baltimore, Mobile Submariner, and Onzancier New Orleans to the National League.
- Steel Belt League (SBL, 10.5 million viewers), including most first-tier teams in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as all Pittsburgh teams and Bethlehem Steel; the exceptions tend to be historically Afro-American teams in the NCSL (see below). Though the Midwest has long been the heart of American soccer football (albeit never as monolithically committed as the South or West), it was also the heart of American soccer football sectarianism, with interethnic rivalries fueling violent clashes throughout the region in the '50s and '60s. It also had the most complex institutional setup, with leagues owned by unions and fraternal organizations coexisting with membership regional leagues; interleague play was extremely common. The Nixon Commission Report of 1972 recommended the dismantling and reconstituting of the league system; the modern Steel Belt League is the product of several mergers, but began with the 1972 Steel Belt League (centered on Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburgh), itself a loose successor of the Amalgamated Steel and Mine Workers League. In Spring 2008, the SBL sent Akron Consolidated Tire, the Cleveland Roses, Indiana United, Magnificent Chicago, and Red Star Milwaukee to the National League.
- Sunset Pacific League (SL, 7.2 million viewers), including all first-tier teams in Alaska, California, Oregon, and Washington (except the Spokane Gray Wolves). Formed in 1966 from the breakup of the Great Western League amid broader cultural issues in American soccer football, the Sunset Pacific League has long been dominated by metro San Francisco, with more than half of its teams based in or near the city; that said, teams from other cities have been quite successful, with the simultaneous dynasties of the Seattle-based Mariners and Bakersfield Outlaws locking San Francisco out of the National League for most of the 1980s. Unusually in the modern league, many of its teams retain an ethnic or sectarian identity, though serious violence has been minimal; perhaps as a result, the Sunset Pacific League is also one of the few leagues to have a substantial following in Latin America, with teams like Arañas Sutro, Azteca San Diego, and Chivas Coachella popular among both Hispano-Californians and foreign fans. In Spring 2008, the SPL sent the Berkeley Bears, Defiance Tacoma, and Mazu Oakland to the National League.
- Gotham Group (GG, 5.5 million viewers), including most professional teams in Hudson City and Metro New York City (including Long Island and the Hudson Valley). In 1992, a group of New York teams led by Vince McMahon's Forza Bronx responded to disputes in the North Atlantic League, itself a four-year-old rebrand of the Eastern Football League after an accounting scandal, by departing to form the Liberty League; after a year, they changed the name to avoid comparisons to the far-right group of the same name. New York teams tend to be strongly geographically aligned; despite the fact that most of them were founded on explicitly ethnic grounds, it quickly became the case that (for example) Italian-American Red Hookers preferred the historically Irish Columbia Red Hook to the distant Forza Bronx. The Gotham Group is one of the few leagues to practice promotion and relegation, with three levels of competition. In Spring 2008, the GG sent the Bayside Acadiens, the Brooklyn Zouaves, and Hakoah Crotona to the National League; this is the first time Forza Bronx has been shut out since 1979.
- Northern Cities Soccer League (NCSL, 5.0 million viewers), including all first-tier historically Afro-American teams in the Northeast and Midwest. Formed in the aftermath of the Nixon Commission Report of 1972 by a group of Afro-American commercial leaders led by John A. Johnson, the NCSL is a major and indeed intentional part of the pillarization of American culture; though it is theoretically based among Northern Afro-Americans, a minority of a minority, its viewership numbers are improved by audiences in the American South and to a lesser extent the Caribbean and Africa. In Spring 2008, the NCSL sent the Chicago Defenders, Harlem Globetrotters, and Harlem Grays to the National League.
- Inter-American League (LIA, 3.7 million viewers in the United States), including several Southwestern teams but primarily based in Mexico. Formed in 1902 as the Primera Fuerza, a local CDMX league; in 1940, it went professional, and began expanding north of the border in the late 1980s. In 2003, the National League agreed to allow the top estadounidense team of the previous season to play in it. In Spring 2008, the LIA sent the Santa Fe-based Paisanos (named after the bird; not to be confused with the Correcaminos de Tucson) to the National League.
- Lone Star Soccer (LSS, 3.1 million viewers), including most first-tier teams in Texas. Formed in 1998; yeehaw, motherfuckers. In Spring 2008, the LSS sent the Beaumont Roughnecks to the National League.
- Canadian-American League (CAL, 2.6 million viewers), including most first-tier teams in the Canadian Maritimes, New England, Ontario, Metro Philadelphia, and upstate New York, as well as the Montreal Lions. After the departure of the Gotham Group (see above), the foundering NAL accepted a buyout from the Canadian Football League, only two years before its western teams split off into the Prairie-Pacific League. As a partial result, the CAL is widely regarded as a farm system for European leagues, particularly in England and Central Europe but also in Italy, Russia, and Scotland; its largest shareholder, Bill Browder, also owns large stakes in Chelsea, Hertha Berlin, and Murzinka Petrograd. Talks are ongoing to reunite the CAL and Gotham. In Spring 2008, the CAL sent the Hamilton Tigers and Minuteman Boston to the National League.
- Pioneer League (PL, 1.9 million viewers), including most first-tier teams in the Great Plains and Mountain West. Formed by the 2005 merger of the Missouri Valley League, Rocky Mountain League, and Bundesliga Amerikaner, the Pioneer League quickly gained a reputation as a league for transplants; this is broadly unfair, but it is true that the league covers a predominantly rural area and that, outside the metropoli of Kansas City, Omaha, and St. Louis, most of the Inland Empire prefers local leagues or (particularly in Utah and Idaho) baseball. Like the MVL before it, the PL is dominated by Kansas and Missouri; in Spring 2008, the PL sent the Wichita Linemen to the National League.
Comrade Izaac
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i've been trying to put together some kind of coherent basis for the list and here's what i've got so far:
- With the Climate Crisis in full swing, much of the exploited third world is under constant siege from the elements and various different imperial profiteers hoping to take advantage of the chaos, driving a massive wave of migration
- Anti-immigrant sentiment and the degradation of the European Union's economic zone has vaulted the ultranationalist far-right into power in many European Countries, with the exception of Italy and Spain, the Mediterranean Vanguard of European Social Democracy and the only people trying to actually do something about the climate crisis that isn't mass deportations and blowing migrant ships out of the water
- The Russian Federation would see a quick collapse of their economy after just two years following the conclusion of the Russo-Ukrainian War, as the stimulus that came from intensive military spending fades into nothingness and the Climate Crisis begins battering Russia
- Putin finally dies sometime around 2027 and a critical mass of the Russian Populace finally revolts in a Carnation Revolution Style mass uprising that earns the support of younger military officers frustrated with low pay and the continued exploitation of their loved ones
- India sees a Civil War emerge as they become hardest hit by the Climate Crisis and the CPI(M) demonstrates themselves as the most effective and compassionate administrators of a response to the ongoing ecological catastrophes, much to the dismay of the BJP
- The Communists win the Civil War
everything else is still in development
Europeans love naming their parties "Friendship, Happiness and Nation" (Far-Right) and "Revolutionary Soviet Socialist Proletarian Association" (Centre-Left)
frustrated progressive
SLPing Through the Cracks
Sinistrisme baybee
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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It does definitely add an interesting wrinkle to the list that the least Hitler-y countries of Europe are the ones who are on the actual front-line of immigration. Lot of ways you could take that situation, most of which I suspect end up with the AfD reasserting that Africa starts at the Alps and Pyrenees.