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Sliversun [2018-11-21 07:14:40 +0000 UTC]
What's the CSA and New Africa like in 2018?
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Mobiyuz In reply to Sliversun [2018-11-21 07:27:29 +0000 UTC]
The CSA is currently seeing some economic growth, but the economic stagnation they faced as an aftermath of the maintaining of slavery and being slow to adopt many more industrialized methods of things as part of their stubborn clinging to the "Peculiar Institution" has left them far behind many of the other advanced economies of the NAU. New Africa is similarly many years behind, having languished under a communist dictatorship from 1920 to 1982, but their economy was the fastest-growing in North America from 1983 to 2003, and even saw continued growth during the Great Recession. The CSA has problems with businesses moving production to New Africa and costing the CSA jobs (which sent them into an economic stagnation period during the 80s), but New Africa is still growing and industrializing, and is a great example of a post-communist success story, something like the Baltic States OTL.
Politically, the CSA is much more tightly held together by its central government, with the term "Confederate" being mostly an anachronism. After the First World War and the Red African Rebellion, when the lack of coordination at local and even national levels nearly killed the war effort, it was recognized that the CSA needed a stronger central government in order to survive. This led to two factions (ironically called the Democrats and the Republicans) fighting over whether the CSA should remain a confederation or become more federal, respectively. The Republicans ended up winning out, and in 1924 the elections gave them the ability to hold a "Second Constitutional Convention" in order to replace the old Confederate Constitution of 1861 with the Confederate Constitution of 1924, which created a stronger central government and weakened the state governments. This constitution remains in place to this day.
New Africa, meanwhile, started out idolizing a "Marxist-Leninist" ideology patterned after the USSR with some elements of Lincolnism to it as well. After World War II, however, when the USSR's atrocities were revealed to the world, they changed stance to a "Marxist-Lincolnist" ideology. It made little effective difference, however, as the nation was a dictatorship either way that went so far as to name its subdivisions simply as "District 1", "District 2", etc. After the death of Marcus Fischer, the man who served as its dictatorial leader from 1920 to 1963, the nation passed through the hands of several weaker leaders until it broke down into a civil war starting in 1979 and ending in an NAU-led intervention in 1982 that moved it towards a democratic government with a market socialist economy.
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Sliversun In reply to Mobiyuz [2018-11-21 10:36:00 +0000 UTC]
What are human/civil rights like in these nations?
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Mobiyuz In reply to Sliversun [2018-11-21 15:14:16 +0000 UTC]
Slightly behind that of their contemporaries in much of the NAU, but not exceedingly so.
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Arbarano [2018-11-20 22:48:10 +0000 UTC]
What about languages?
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Mobiyuz In reply to Arbarano [2018-11-20 22:53:03 +0000 UTC]
The NAU has 4 official languages: English, Spanish, French, and Russian. However, of those languages, only 3 nations speak French: Louisiana, Quebec, and Haiti. And only Alaska speaks Russian. So the "Working Languages" of the NAU are in practice English and Spanish, and even then the fact that the Anglophone nations still outnumber Hispanophone nations by both number and population (and economic output) makes English the de facto primary language of the NAU. Still, that's a good idea for a map.
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Abbieisurqueen In reply to Mobiyuz [2018-11-20 23:03:56 +0000 UTC]
Alternate timelines tend to fuck with me, I may personally disagree with them but that doesn't make them less interesting. Perhaps the Union could've broken up, perhaps the Republic of California could've lasted more than a month, etc. Overall, nice map.
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Mobiyuz In reply to Abbieisurqueen [2018-11-20 23:04:59 +0000 UTC]
It's funny you mention those possibilities in particular, because this timeline prominently features the California Republic and the Union breaking apart in the Civil War (although in this timeline, California becomes independent in 1862 rather than being the result of the Bear Flag Revolt).
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Mobiyuz In reply to themutantlizard [2018-11-20 20:56:47 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for not being constructive.
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