Erinthecute
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Time for a real thing:
And the full map:
I had a thought today that one of my favourite very specific details in alternate elections is when someone takes a real-life political party and gives it a different colour than it has irl (apart from the Dem/Rep red/blue swap - that's expected by now). This made me want to do a little tweaking to a German election - i.e. make the CDU orange, which is their official colour. The idea snowballed into this. It's basically Germany but slightly off. The parties are more or less the same, but have different colours and brands.
The Social Democratic Party is a modern centre-left progressive party, who style themselves with a friendly pink. The CDU/CSU, referred to as the Coalition rather than the Union, use classic Christian democratic orange. The Free Democrats use blue like other liberal parties in neighbouring Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland. They are a catch-all liberal party with substantial wings both left and right-of-centre (Alvaro, for his part, represents the social liberal wing.) The Socialist Left was formed as a left-wing splinter from the Social Democrats, and represents trade unions above all, though socialists and left-ecologists are well-represented in its ranks. Unlike the Left party of reality, relations between the SPD and Socialist Left are fairly warm. The Greens are a right-of-centre environmentalist party, who draw heavily from Christian ethics in both their social and economic platform. Of the five parties, they are the most estranged from the rest.

And the full map:

I had a thought today that one of my favourite very specific details in alternate elections is when someone takes a real-life political party and gives it a different colour than it has irl (apart from the Dem/Rep red/blue swap - that's expected by now). This made me want to do a little tweaking to a German election - i.e. make the CDU orange, which is their official colour. The idea snowballed into this. It's basically Germany but slightly off. The parties are more or less the same, but have different colours and brands.
The Social Democratic Party is a modern centre-left progressive party, who style themselves with a friendly pink. The CDU/CSU, referred to as the Coalition rather than the Union, use classic Christian democratic orange. The Free Democrats use blue like other liberal parties in neighbouring Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland. They are a catch-all liberal party with substantial wings both left and right-of-centre (Alvaro, for his part, represents the social liberal wing.) The Socialist Left was formed as a left-wing splinter from the Social Democrats, and represents trade unions above all, though socialists and left-ecologists are well-represented in its ranks. Unlike the Left party of reality, relations between the SPD and Socialist Left are fairly warm. The Greens are a right-of-centre environmentalist party, who draw heavily from Christian ethics in both their social and economic platform. Of the five parties, they are the most estranged from the rest.