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	page	WhatMadnessisThisRedux
	comment	"What Madness is This?" Redux: The Union Forever is a dystopian alternate history timeline by Napoleon53, a member of AlternateHistory.com. This timeline is a Continuity Reboot of What Madness is This?, beginning in a way almost identical to the original before radically diverging from both it and our own timeline. It begins with an America that fails to adopt the Constitution falling apart in the wake of George Washington's death and the corrupt dealings of the Federalist Party. Meanwhile, Napoleon defeats the British Empire around the globe and Napoleonic France becomes the global hegemon.Things quickly turn sideways. The French force the Republican Union, the American remnant in the North stretching from Ohio to Maine, into an alliance with the Southron powers (Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia) and itself to defeat British Canada. The Canadians essentially raze the RU, while the French and Southrons refuse to help until it's too late. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the Republican Union survives, and even gains some Canadian land. However, the betrayal of their allies and the devastation wreaked upon them by the Canadians totally and irreversibly twists the American psyche, leading to the rise of the American Fundamentalist Church. In the aftermath, the RU slowly devolves from an expansionist, revanchist state into the world's first Fascist dictatorship, even as its society develops along lines both recognizable and alien to us. It just gets worse from here...You can read the new TL here.
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/ int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
/ int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While the other great powers in the original WMIT were acknowledged to be somewhat amoral themselves, it was generally overshadowed by the outrageous evil of the Republican Union. Here, the misdeeds of the Republican Union's rivals and allies are given greater attention.
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/ int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
/ int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: The Republican Union starts off as a very mildly sympathetic US remnant, albeit one that is extremely revanchist and racist. Soon they're committing genocide against Mexicans, Native Americans, and white Inferiors (Catholics, Irish, Italians, Slavs, etc), invading just about everybody they can, using poisoned vaccines to commit mass murder, and going full Orwellian.
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/ int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
/ int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Possibly the crappiest Crapsack World in the multiverse. Top 5 at least.
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/ int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
/ int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: Absolutely chock full of these, especially ones from American history: For example, in this TL the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debate is actually a fight between military cadets Lincoln and Douglas that ends with Lincoln killing Douglas with a single punch. The Union is an adamantly Marxist state. That's because Henry Marx and his son Charles are adamant Fascists who devise the Union's version of scientific racism and coked-out spiritualism respectively. The Great American War is a giant Allohistorical Allusion to the Civil War. Custers's "Washington Pub Revolt" is obviously based on Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch— except that Custer's coup succeeds. The Kissimmee Conference, where the Union's leaders decide to exterminate all Inferiors, is a reference to the Wannsee Conference, particularly its depiction in Conspiracy. The division of Germany into a conservative republic in the west and an Illuminist state in the east mirrors the division of OTL Germany after World War II. Manifest Climax begins with a devastating surprise attack on the American Naval Base at Point Pierce, Cuba, by the Neutrality Pact, serving as an allusion to Pearl Harbor. Manifest Climax and Enduring Climax also contain many references to the War on Terror. The above-mentioned Point Pierce attack that starts the war occurs on September 11, 1936, and revenge for it is a large part of the war's justification (but the government was already planning an invasion of South America-which is what motivated the Neutrality Pact to attack). It is also the longest continual war in TTL American History, much like the War in Afghanistan, and Enduring Climax serves as a giant engine to fuel the military industrial complex where the government only occupies a few areas and allows the rest to be controlled by guerilla's well launching bloody but ineffective offensives to make it look like they are still actively dedicated to winning the war, well relying on mercenaries and corporate paramilitaries to fight the war for them (in order to keep down official causulty lists)-a clear reference to the widespread use of private military contractors like the infamous Blackwater in the War's in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also contains a few references to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such as the government initially referring to it as a "ongoing national security operation" instead of a war, much like Russia insists the war with Ukraine is a ‘special military operation’.
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/ int_2b3e7d3e	type	Sketchy Successor
/ int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor: Napoléon Bonaparte defeated England and laid the foundations for French hegemony over Europe. His son Napoléon II goes even further, conquering huge swaths of the Middle East, liberating Jerusalem, founding the United Empire of Europa, and being canonized as a saint. His successors then proceed to bungle everything up, with Napoléon III doing absolutely nothing of note other than dying in a pool of his own piss and vomit, and Napoléon IV bringing France into a World War that wounds their prestige and costs them in money and manpower. Only time will tell if Napoléon V will reverse this downward trend. Abraham Aaron Lincoln's replacement as President, Hamilton Fish, was a mild-mannered man whose attempts to regain stolen Union gold from Mexico were laughed off, His replacement, George McClellan, was a fairly good president but had his terms marred by his inability to defeat the Southron guerilla movement. He was followed by Winston S. Hancock and Gideon Claywell, both of whom were lacked the ability to deal with the growing unrest and malaise in the Union. Their weakness paved the way for Custer's dictatorship.
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/ int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
/ int_2d4fa515	comment	Zig-zagged with Czar Viktor I, who is a lot less Ax-Crazy than he was in 1.0, and also isn't a Serial Killer. However, he also has a lot more power, persecutes Jews and brutally kills anyone who goes against him.
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/ int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
/ int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: The idea of Joe Steele eating "Pocket Bacon" as his equivalent of popcorn was originally a joke made by readers after the chapter "Yankee Stadium: A Seal is Broken". It was later canonized in the chapter "This is the War Room". “Cackalacky Mouse Wine”, a popular meme on the Discord Server, was also canonized in ''Of Mice and Men: Rise of the House of Gooch
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/ int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
/ int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: Let's see, vicious, Fascist, crazy America that covers most of North America, the Caribbean, and controls most of the Pacific. Absolutist Napoleonic Empire in Africa, the Middle East, and India. Throw in some other crazy powers and an alarming penchant for genocide, and that's about it.
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/ int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
/ int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed with Charles Goodyear I. He's given a Freudian Excuse in this timeline (his father died in the War of 1812), although it doesn't stop him from being the same corrupt and cruel taskmaster he was in WMIT 1.0. Zig-zagged with Czar Viktor I, who is a lot less Ax-Crazy than he was in 1.0, and also isn't a Serial Killer. However, he also has a lot more power, persecutes Jews and brutally kills anyone who goes against him.
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/ int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
/ int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Oh, this world is full of them. George IV's insanity costs Britain the Napoleonic Wars and its empire. Czar Viktor's delusions of a Russian Eurasian Mongol Empire start the First World War and cripples Russia. Napoleon III's decadence and weakness allow the Union and Russia to expand, fatally weakening the French (now Europan) Empire and indirectly causing the First World War.
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/ int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
/ int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The American Fundamentalist Church (AFC). They create fake "lost writings" from the long-dead Prophet Aaron Burr to justify political moves made by Philadelphia, have a private army/spy force that they use to watch and control much of the Union elite, and to top it all off, one Reverend-Colonel, Billy Sunday, is a wife murdering philanderer and child molester. Very Christian, these guys...
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/ int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
/ int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: The Federalists in the old United States resort to electoral fraud to win the 1796 and 1800 elections. While they're able to do it without the public catching on in the former, the administration's massive unpopularity with the people in 1800 means that nobody accepts the results as legitimate.
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/ int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
/ int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: No one is particularly nice in this timeline. The French were imperialist absolute monarchists until the Great World War (and even their period as a democratic constitutional monarchy is heavily implied to be a Hope Spot at best), as are the Prussians/Nordreichers/Germanian. The Southron nations have violent rivalries with one another and treat non-whites like crap. However, any of them are preferable to the later Republican Union and its Fascist Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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/ int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
/ int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: A dispute over ownership of Cuba leads to a war between Virginia and Carolina which Carolina loses. As a result, during the Great American War Carolina signed a non-aggression pact with the Republican Union and nabs some of Virginia's territory when Virginia falls.
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/ int_6451e544	type	Commie Nazis
/ int_6451e544	comment	Commie Nazis: The Republican Union, full stop. The RU combines elements of Nazism, Stalinism, Fundamentalist Christianity, and the worst parts of American history.
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/ int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
/ int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: The fate of the United States and the British Empire early on in the TL. Later on after the Great War Germania falls apart as a civil war between Illuminists and a Military Goverment consumes the German part and Poland secedes under an Illuminist government.
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/ int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
/ int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The Republican Union is the very embodiment of Type II, and is all the worst aspects of OTL America cranked up to eleven. Exaggerated patriotism and American Exceptionalism turns into a literal cult of national self-worship. Bad treatment of immigrants is reflected by the Union literally tricking unsuspecting foreigners into coming to America before using them as wage slaves. America's OTL outburst of Manifest Destiny expansionism never ends and results in the industrialized genocide of the Mexicans and Native Americans. America's drug problem is fully condoned by the government, and meth, cocaine, mescaline, and LSD are all perfectly legal and available at your local pharmacy. The marriage of fundamentalist religion and politics results in an actual state fundamentalist church. American worship of rugged individualists and strong leaders becomes a twisted form of Social Darwinism where the so-called "Strong Men" of the world are expected and encouraged to do whatever they want to get power and wealth. This mixes with the American civic religion to create the AFC's "Patriot-Saints". American prosperity in our universe is mainly a product of hard work and innovation, although there has also been a fair amount of imperialism to help. In WMIT Redux, the entire American project is built on innovation mixed with the most disgraceful greed and theft imaginable, including land grabs for the property of genocide victims. Of course, they insist that they are merely blessed by God.
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/ int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
/ int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: "The Star-Spangled Expanded Universe of 'What Madness is This?'", a thread devoted to fan content written in the same continuity. Some of the pieces have been canonized, such as Korea becoming a territory of the Confederation of the Carolinas.
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/ int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
/ int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: The Union is an explicitly Social Darwinist state, and believes that the Chosen races (non-Irish Protestant Northern Europeans, African-Americans, Jews, the Japanese and Koreans, and now the Arabs) have the destiny to conquer the world because they are "stronger." Politically, they believe in the so-called "Strong Man Theory" which holds that history is decided by certain people and that those people have the right to do whatever they please, no matter how immoral.
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/ int_8dfc21ee	type	Slave Market
/ int_8dfc21ee	comment	Slave Market: During Operation Manifest Climax, the inferior population of the conquered nations are sold in a "grand close-out" sale to the Clans and companies if the Republican Union, with Huey Long being a notable merchant of "Interntured Infees".
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/ int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
/ int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: The Confederation of the Carolinas and Norway count as this for the Fascist Free World. Neither prescribes to Fundamentalism like the Americans, Nipponese, Australians, or British. They aren't anti-Semitic like the West Germanians. And they don't appear as genocidal as the Mittleafrikans. Which one is better is up for debate. The Carolinians are more democratic than Norway, with a legitimate, if weak opposition party and a history of peaceful transitions of power. However, their colonial empire in Africa is about as exploitative as you'd expect, and they forcibly deported their Black population after emancipation (and later on deport almost all poor/lower class white people to their African Colonies to fill mainland Carolina with golf parks and suburbs for the upper and middle class). The Norwegians are a one-party state with a feared secret police (dubbed the Stasi). However, they haven't really harmed any foreign peoples. Yet.
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/ int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
/ int_9ab3da1a	comment	Evil Mentor: Stanley Morgan serves as this to Chuck Oswald.
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/ int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
/ int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Two variants exist in the universe: the Eduists and the Illuminists. The Eduists draw from Beutelism, but with a more centralized structure a la Leninism. The Illuminists, on the other hand, are anti-religious, anti-monarchist revolutionaries with a weird spiritualist bent, a la the French Revolution with a bit of OTL's Communism thrown in.
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/ int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
/ int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: Unfortunately, TTL’s history is full of many more examples of violent genocide than OTL, most of them perpetrated by the Republican Union and it’s allies. The Immolation of Mexico is one of the first major ones. Following a false flag attack on an American ship, the Union launches a full blown invasion of Mexico, which quickly leads to full occupation of the country. ORRA gets its start here driving Mexicans into the desert and shooting them dead with Machine Guns (called “Coffee Grinders” TTL). The majority of Mexicans are killed this way, and the few remaining Mexicans die out as a result of the government leaving them to die of the Becky Flu during Cleansing Month. Native Americans are thoroughly exterminated TTL, even moreso than in OTL. Custer gets his start massacring Natives, long before he rises to power as leader of the Manifest Destiny Party. During TTL’s World War One equivalent, America invades and conquers Canada and California. At the same time, it’s society is majorly destabilized by the widespread spread of a much worse Spanish Flu, called the “Beckie Flu” by Americans due to them blaming it on Canada, and numerous Inferior Ghettos rise up in rebellion, with several forming Beutelist communes. The government then arranges the Kissimmee Conference, after which they distribute poisoned vaccines among the Inferiors well giving normal Vaccines to Betters, poisoning the majority of Americans Inferior population and wiping out most Canadians and Californians. Oswald’s father makes his start leading Union soldiers to other Irishmen pretending to be a Scottish Protestant, and numerous Catholic Churches are also burned down by the Union well invading each nation. At the same time, Australia pulls something similar with French West Australia. Worst of all, with the beginning of Manifest Climax, America is now waging genocidal war against the entire continent of South America, and is largely victorious, wiping out several cities with Nuclear Bombs to destroy the last real organized resistance. However, large numbers of South Americans are still implied to survive in the so called “Quarantine Zone”.
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/ int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
/ int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Several examples, such as Sweet Victory, the House of Gooch, Phoenix Oil, and the Holyfield Oil Company.
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/ int_aaa1fa9	type	Captain Space, Defender of Earth!
/ int_aaa1fa9	comment	Captain Space, Defender of Earth!: The aforementioned Zap Zephyr: 21st Century Pinnacle Man.
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/ int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
/ int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: The Cult of the Worm serves as this, venerating a serpent god said to feed off of bloodshed and war. Followers carry out actions to cause mass death, including working on nuclear weapons, flooding vast swathes of the Congo and unleashing biological and chemical weapons on Britain.
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/ int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
/ int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Charles Dexter Armitage is very transparently modeled off of Aleister Crowley, with his writings about the Worm at times echoing Crowley's Thelema. Very telling about the setting we're in that the guy who went around calling himself 'the Great Beast 666' is saner and far less evil than his counterpart here.
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/ int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
/ int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Custer serves as one to Steele. Although he is not ever shown directly subjecting Steele to any physical abuse himself, he treats Steele as nothing more than a trophy child meant to aid Custer’s image by fighting and very likely dying for Custer’s honor and glory, and severely neglects him, barely ever speaking to him and leaving him with abusive tutors like the Blind Christian Gentleman who beat him and subject him to constant emotional and physical abuse, depriving him of parental love and affection from an early age until he turns to Charles Dewey and Matilda Richardson. Steele later becomes an example of this trope himself. Although he is shown to love his children through actions like threatening Oswald if he ever mistreats Wyetta, asking her if she wants to meet a performer she’d listened to and get his signature to try to cheer her up when she’s depressed about her fiancé going missing in action, and he has a genuinely affectionate father-son relationship with Oswald, he orders Oswald to murder his son out of the delusional belief he is the anti-Christ and then lies about it to his daughter, who loved her brother deeply, and then directly shuts down the investigation into it when Hendrick and Nixon discover evidence of the assassination. Joseph Kennedy crushes Oswald’s dream of writing for Zap Zephyr and lies to him about his submissions being rejected for being poor work while in reality they’d been greatly praised, has him put through torturous shock therapy, and sets his sons against each other, emotionally neglecting Oswald while showering his brother with praise, eventually leading to Oswald being driven to murder his brother. More than any other character, Kennedy is responsible for producing the monster that is Charles Alasdair Oswald through his horrible abuse and imparting of his sociopathic mindset onto his sons.
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/ int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
/ int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: George Patton is this after being paralyzed by the Beckie Flu, although he desperately works to overcome it.
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/ int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
/ int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Union under Custer, Steele, and in the future, Charles Oswald. Especially ironic in this case since the Union is actually very pro-Jewish and pro-African American.
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/ int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
/ int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The liberal interlude that Europa experiences after the Great World War is implied to be this with the rise of Julius Evola. Norway starts off as an island of democratic freedom in the midst of a Europe chock-full of absolute monarchies and has a major flowering of culture and art. Sadly, it doesn't last as the Norwegian Fascists come to power and they join the Republican Union's Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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/ int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
/ int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A president of a totalitarian United States named Joe Steele. One of the stories in the Expanded Universe thread is about Abaddon Earnhardt and his "Redneck Rampagers", who cut a swath of terror and bloodshed in the Philippines before being killed with his wife. After his death, he is nicknamed "Abaddon the Despoiler". His role as a mad white man creating a nightmarish reign of terror in a tropical country brings to mind Heart of Darkness (or Apocalypse Now, given that it's set in the same country Apocalypse was shot in). Henry Ford's racehorse is beheaded and left on his bed as a warning sign. The depraved founder of the Worm cult Charles Dexter Armitage is named in honor of two of HP Lovecraft's characters.
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/ int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
/ int_c868a42a	comment	Downplayed with Charles Goodyear I. He's given a Freudian Excuse in this timeline (his father died in the War of 1812), although it doesn't stop him from being the same corrupt and cruel taskmaster he was in WMIT 1.0.
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/ int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
/ int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Union is full of these guys. Charles Goodyear I is the penultimate example, albeit with a humanizing backstory. His father is killed by the Canadians and his family loses everything, inspiring a burning hatred of all things foreign. He channels this rage into rebuilding the Union economy and constructing the largest corporate empire in human history off the backs of immigrants he tricks into coming to America before basically enslaving them. He also supports the rise of Scientific Marxism (Scientific racism), the AFC, and Fascism. His son, Charles Goodyear II, also qualifies. He takes over the company after pushing his 100-year-old father off of a Zeppelin and then wages a violent mafia-Esque war against Henry Ford before being killed. Speaking of Ford, he qualifies too. He designs the auto carriage for Goodyear I, founded his own car company, waged a bloody war against Goodyear II, and then pioneers the rise of vaguely mob-like Economic Clans who in effect function as corporatist cartels. George Custer is this before becoming President of the Republican Union. He founds a private security company that polices immigrant ghettos, practices ethnic cleansing against Native Americans, and almost hunts the American Buffalo into extinction. George Washington Carver is an aversion of this trope that still manages to be hilariously, obliviously evil. The son of slaves freed by the Union, Carver is a legitimately patriotic, faithful, family loving man... who makes his money selling cocaine soda, and candies to children and the troops (who use it to hype themselves up for genocide).
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/ int_d4a4771e	type	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman
/ int_d4a4771e	comment	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: As in the original. Vladimir Lenin (or "Vladimir Ulyanov") is still a car manufacturer in this timeline. This time around, however, his poor treatment of his workers comes to bite him in the ass as they rise up and trigger an Illuminist rebellion in Russia. Stalin (or Joe Steele) is the leader of the Republican Union. Friedrich Nietzsche is still a philosopher, but his ideals more closely resemble humanism as he urges dropping religion in favor of friendship with one's fellows. Reinhard Heydrich is "Ryan Harvey Hendrick", chief of the Republican Union's Space Force. H. P. Lovecraft becomes Reverend-Colonel of the American Fundamentalist Church.
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/ int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
/ int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The Republican Union gets roped into a war against Britain by France, leading to the British army going on a rampage through the RU before being driven off. As a result, the Union develops a grudge against both their southern neighbors (for failing to come to their aid) and France (for dragging them into the conflict, then not giving them enough of a reward when Britain was defeated).
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/ int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
/ int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Exaggerated with figures from American history, and pretty much America itself. Name just about any major or noteworthy figure from OTL America, and in WMIT they will be monstrously evil sociopaths that make any of our world's dictators look like saints.
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/ int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
/ int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Edgar Immanuel Tobiason was noted to be the last original Son of Tobias before passing away in 2020 at 105.
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/ int_ec90f86f	type	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists
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/ int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
/ int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: George Patton to Joe Steele is an interesting example, as Steele is fully aware of Patton's ambitions, but made him his right-hand man and trusted confidant anyway since Patton's Becky Flu-caused paralysis keeps him from being President of the Social Darwinist RU.
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/ int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
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