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The last anarchist/libertarian state featured in An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government, this time an Objectivist American government in exile in Guantanamo Bay. Ephraim Ben Raphael provided me with a description for this one. His description is in italics. The bullet points are mine.
So I wrote this scenario as an angry response to an Objectivist AH scenario posted on this site, a version of which can be found here (it has some minor differences). It had Bush nuking much of the Arab world including Mecca and Medina (which somehow resulted in less terrorism and swarms of Muslims converting to Christianity) the Republicans dominating American politics, the EU being gradually abolished, the UN quietly ceasing to criticize America, Israel committing full-on ethnic cleansing to solve the Conflict, a strong Putinist Russia re-integrating the Muslim Central Asian Republics, and the PRC falling apart as large portions of mainland China switch their loyalty to the RoC. Also Barack Obama ending up a disgraced former politician who loses his job as a university professor when he's caught artificially raising students' grades.
So, the world in my scenario (if you want some more detail check out EEUSG);
The NAU is most of the former United States but not all of it. There are a couple of odds and ends that chose a looser association (EU style and including a couple of places that weren't part of the USA) and Alaska which is fully independent but still friendly. With the Republican Party having gone the way of the Whig when a Republican President murdered hundreds of thousands and tried to impose a dictatorship, the NAU proper is just moving away from a Democrat-dominated dominant-party system with the Democrats moving to the right as the new Progressive Party attacks them from the left. Palestine and Israel are both around, they worked out a sort of post-Westphalian approach by which the West Bank and Gaza are Palestinian territory, Israel proper is Israeli territory, Jerusalem hosts both capitals, a whole bunch of weird borders and enclaves, and the Old City is under a joint administration. Citizens of both countries have freedom of movement between the two and freedom to live wherever they want... as long as they can afford to buy a house there, and you can opt for either citizenship regardless of where you're born. It's all very complicated, with lots of shouting and fights over jurisdiction, and periodic murders and bombings, but so far there hasn't been any open warfare. The Islamic Confederation is an Islamic state more along the lines of Iran (but Sunni) than ISIS and truly loathes America and the west. It’s a very unpleasant place to be a woman, homosexuality is punished by death, and non-Muslims are a persecuted minority.
Generally Islamic extremism is much stronger than OTL, given that (a) parts of its platform sound almost reasonable considering what was done to the Islamic world, and (b) every day religious Muslims all over the world pray five times in the direction of the radioactive crater where Mecca was and are reminded of what was done to them.
In the west there's a very loose Japan-NAU-EU-Commonwealth bloc composed of the old order and hanging together for fear of hanging separately while China is the world's #1 superpower but with relatively fewer allies. The Republic of China is no more, the Republic of Taiwan is firmly part of China’s sphere as much as the Taiwanese leadership finds it necessary to periodically assert their independence. China, incidentally is dominated by the conservative so-called “Tianjin Clique” of the CPC who are brutally putting down Islamic unrest in western China and pushing a foreign policy designed to expand Chinese influence and power. They’re challenged by the successors to the reform-minded Tsinghua Clique, many of whom belong to the eight legal minor parties and are making moves to actually challenge Tianjinites in competitive elections.
The UN (located in Geneva) is mildly stronger, the EU much stronger and more federalized. Putin's misrule of Russia (including dragging the country into bloody and expensive attempts to conquer the Ukraine and Kazakhstan once America fell into chaos) eventually resulted in a massive popular backlash that saw him defeated for the presidency by a member of the Reformer faction within the Russian Communist Party. When he tried to stay in power anyway, Euromaidan-style protests broke out and an army whose fixed salaries had been rendered worthless by runaway inflation stood back and watched while he was forced to resign. Although briefly controlled by a Communist-led coalition of former opposition parties, Russia has since settled down under a 2+ party system with the Communists as the main right-wing party, A Just Russia as the main left-wing party, and a fusion of the LDPR and United Russia as a minor far-right third party. Several small bits of the Russian Federation have been allowed to go their own way- notably Chechnya, Tartarstan, Daghestan, Kalmykia, and Tuva.
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So I wrote this scenario as an angry response to an Objectivist AH scenario posted on this site, a version of which can be found here (it has some minor differences). It had Bush nuking much of the Arab world including Mecca and Medina (which somehow resulted in less terrorism and swarms of Muslims converting to Christianity) the Republicans dominating American politics, the EU being gradually abolished, the UN quietly ceasing to criticize America, Israel committing full-on ethnic cleansing to solve the Conflict, a strong Putinist Russia re-integrating the Muslim Central Asian Republics, and the PRC falling apart as large portions of mainland China switch their loyalty to the RoC. Also Barack Obama ending up a disgraced former politician who loses his job as a university professor when he's caught artificially raising students' grades.
So, the world in my scenario (if you want some more detail check out EEUSG);
The NAU is most of the former United States but not all of it. There are a couple of odds and ends that chose a looser association (EU style and including a couple of places that weren't part of the USA) and Alaska which is fully independent but still friendly. With the Republican Party having gone the way of the Whig when a Republican President murdered hundreds of thousands and tried to impose a dictatorship, the NAU proper is just moving away from a Democrat-dominated dominant-party system with the Democrats moving to the right as the new Progressive Party attacks them from the left. Palestine and Israel are both around, they worked out a sort of post-Westphalian approach by which the West Bank and Gaza are Palestinian territory, Israel proper is Israeli territory, Jerusalem hosts both capitals, a whole bunch of weird borders and enclaves, and the Old City is under a joint administration. Citizens of both countries have freedom of movement between the two and freedom to live wherever they want... as long as they can afford to buy a house there, and you can opt for either citizenship regardless of where you're born. It's all very complicated, with lots of shouting and fights over jurisdiction, and periodic murders and bombings, but so far there hasn't been any open warfare. The Islamic Confederation is an Islamic state more along the lines of Iran (but Sunni) than ISIS and truly loathes America and the west. It’s a very unpleasant place to be a woman, homosexuality is punished by death, and non-Muslims are a persecuted minority.
Generally Islamic extremism is much stronger than OTL, given that (a) parts of its platform sound almost reasonable considering what was done to the Islamic world, and (b) every day religious Muslims all over the world pray five times in the direction of the radioactive crater where Mecca was and are reminded of what was done to them.
In the west there's a very loose Japan-NAU-EU-Commonwealth bloc composed of the old order and hanging together for fear of hanging separately while China is the world's #1 superpower but with relatively fewer allies. The Republic of China is no more, the Republic of Taiwan is firmly part of China’s sphere as much as the Taiwanese leadership finds it necessary to periodically assert their independence. China, incidentally is dominated by the conservative so-called “Tianjin Clique” of the CPC who are brutally putting down Islamic unrest in western China and pushing a foreign policy designed to expand Chinese influence and power. They’re challenged by the successors to the reform-minded Tsinghua Clique, many of whom belong to the eight legal minor parties and are making moves to actually challenge Tianjinites in competitive elections.
The UN (located in Geneva) is mildly stronger, the EU much stronger and more federalized. Putin's misrule of Russia (including dragging the country into bloody and expensive attempts to conquer the Ukraine and Kazakhstan once America fell into chaos) eventually resulted in a massive popular backlash that saw him defeated for the presidency by a member of the Reformer faction within the Russian Communist Party. When he tried to stay in power anyway, Euromaidan-style protests broke out and an army whose fixed salaries had been rendered worthless by runaway inflation stood back and watched while he was forced to resign. Although briefly controlled by a Communist-led coalition of former opposition parties, Russia has since settled down under a 2+ party system with the Communists as the main right-wing party, A Just Russia as the main left-wing party, and a fusion of the LDPR and United Russia as a minor far-right third party. Several small bits of the Russian Federation have been allowed to go their own way- notably Chechnya, Tartarstan, Daghestan, Kalmykia, and Tuva.
- There is a North African Republic that's the result of a more successful Arab Spring. Still very Islamic, with the dominant political parties being expressly Islamic in nature.
- India is a Chinese ally, but still democratic.
- The Islamist states aren't necessarily too bad, closer to OTL Pakistan, although some are ISIS or Taliban nasty. These include Afghanistan, the new Iranian regime, and the Maghreb.
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So, any details on how Christians (who I assume are largely Copts) are second-class citizens in North Africa? Are they openly banned from voting or are they denied the vote largely via harassment, literacy tests which require knowledge of the Koran, and the like? Also, is it accurate to say that Coptic Christians are used as a source of cheap labor for the North African economy (like maids, construction workers, servants, farm laborers, and the like)?