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Tyranny and Liberty

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Another mirror world, this time based on the Democracy and Dictatorship flip thread. Many thanks to MetalSlimeHunt, who brought this to my attention and inspired me to work on it. 

EDIT: For the record, here is original the flipped map: i.imgur.com/L76nRsF.png

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One of history's greatest ironies is the full-circle revolution, and the American Revolution was no exception. Almost as soon as the guns died down, a king once again ruled over the Thirteen Colonies. General George Washington took the offer of a crown, and now ruled and reigned as George I. 

This new country was not to be a monarchy in the European style. No, it was to be a new Rome, an empire that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This was the American dream, its manifest destiny. A few decades later, the French under Napoleon Bonaparte succeeded in creating a new Rome in France, making himself Emperor over most of Europe. These revolutionary victories inspired reactionary thought in Britain, one of the few traditional empires left on the planet, and it proceeded to build one of the largest militaries in the world and colonized it with gusto. 

Many conflicts would ravage the world throughout the 19th century. In the 1850s, the states of New England attempted to secede from the American Empire over the issue of slavery, and that revolt was brutally crushed by the Empire's forces. The French would fight two more wars against Britain, and one more against Russia, each of them ending in a stalemate. But nothing could compare with the next great revolution, this time arising from the heart of Europe. 

In 1898, the great National Socialist revolt began. German radicals, inspired by the works of Marx and Fichte, rose up against the French puppet monarchies and republics that kept them divided. This wave of nationalism succeeded in catching France off-guard, and they were quickly thrown out. Almost overnight, the Greater German Reich united the disparate German states and created a unified industrial juggernaut. An impromptu alliance of France, Britain and Russia attempted to crush this German juggernaut, but their mutual distrust and the weakness of the Russian army doomed the allied effort. Nazi Germany, as it became known, survived its trial by fire. The Russian Empire collapsed, replaced by a democratic federation. 

Another conflict, the Eurasian War, would once again pit Germany against much of Europe. This time, they had allies in the form of America, which had lost much of its Pacific empire to Japanese expansion a few decades prior. In the 1920s, this German-American axis went on the warpath, beginning what is known as the Eurasian War. The Eurasian War ended in a wash: the Germans succeeded in dominating Europe, but the Americans lost their Pacific empire against and gave up after the atomic bombing of Pearl Harbor. The British did lose India, and after the war became so exhausted in the war effort that they had to let go of their colonial empire. The Germans were uninterested in the commitments the French had in Africa and Asia, and let go of them as well. Thus began the democratic wave.

The modern world has been divided between the free world and the various autocratic blocs. The world's democracies are the poorer countries in the world, and even China and Russia are poorer than their contemporaries. This is slowly changing. The People's Republic of China, a large social democratic state, began as a revolutionary movement against the tyrannical Republic of China. Eager to ensure that the mistakes of the RoC and the United States would not be repeated, the People's Republic cultivated a strong democratic tradition from the outset. Now, after decades of peace, China has become the dominant power in Asia, challenging the Japanese. Their allies, Russia, was once the leader of the free world, but after some disastrous recessions in the 1990s has slipped. They are still powerful, and maintain a massive nuclear arsenal to keep the enemies of liberty at bay. The Russian government is rather corrupt, unfortunately, but the new President, Vladimir Putin, promises to clean things up. 

The democratic world's centers are in the Middle East and Africa. The Middle Eastern peace is maintained by the Arabian-Iranian alliance, leading the Sunni and Shia states respectively. These two governments are famous for their dedication to human rights and democracy, and some of the more progressive within them even criticize China and Russia for not living up to Middle Eastern standards. However, both the Middle East and Africa are very poor continents, but Chinese aid is slowly changing that.

The German Reich dominates a group of autocratic fascist states in Europe. Although their governments are totalitarian and their values of racial supremacy and genocidal fanaticism disgust the free world, the Germans know their engineering. This has turned Germany, and the rest of Europe, into one of the richest continents in the world, a fact that sounds perverse to the East. Much of Germany's wealth goes into its immense military, used to keep Europe firmly under Berlin's thumb. 

Then there's the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a remnant of the Eurasian War. Although they lost the war in Europe, they won in Asia, which has allowed Japan to inch closer to the position of dominant partner. Both Britain and Japan are very rich, technologically advanced countries, and the Japanese are known for being on the cutting edge of new technology. However, the other "cutting edge" the Japanese are known for is the edge of a katana blade - beheadings are still common in Japan's empire. Both states are dominated by autocratic, militaristic parties - Norsefire and Taisei Yokusankai. The Australian Union is a strange fusion of both cultures: an Anglocentric dictatorship with a distinctly Japanese style of militaristic fanaticism. 

Last, but certainly not least, is the American Empire. The emperors in Washington have lost their power long ago, and the Empire is now run by corporate committees made up of representatives of the Empire's most powerful corporations. The Americans maintain the most powerful military in the world, including a full half of the planet's aircraft carriers, but their military is focused mostly on ensuring that their enemies never cross the Atlantic or the Pacific, and maintaining their empire in the Americas. This has changed since the New York train bombings, conducted by pro-democracy rebels that had been funded from revolutionary cells in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Americans have a habit of supporting theocracies, such as Israel and India, although the latter was an alliance of convenience created recently. The Indians have conducted a genocidal campaign against their Muslim population, one of the greatest bloodlettings since the Jewish Genocide carried out by the Germans in the wake of the Eurasian War.
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Patton-42's avatar

Man. Imagine a world where the immense wealth of resources in Russia and the raw economic might of China were managed by people who cared about their nations and the people within them instead of their own imperial desires. In a world like that, the West might actually lose.