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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Some Canadian republicans in Wisconsin (part of Canada in this story) are so popular, they could have demanded the annexation of Wisconsin by the German ''Reich'', and people would have brought flags with the three-headed eagle. At least that's what they say about themselves.
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* MadeASlave
* MarySueTopia:
** While not really implausible, the Kingdom of Australia and its people are too perfect and successful to be a realistic country, in the eyes of some. This may be a case of AuthorAppeal (as is the case with many other things in the TL; the writer is Australian). Furthermore, real problems in the country have been talked about, including extreme environmental degradation and water shortages from having a population of 52 million people by TheFifties (greater than that of OTL's combined Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea -- in the present day, mind you).
** Whether or not Liberia, the land of former slaves from the Americas, counts is very much debatable. Unlike real-world Liberia, where different factions have fought one another in one of Africa's longest and cruelest civil wars, it is peaceful and prosperous, with leading figures declaring that race does not matter in their eyes. Even more remarkable when the citizens come not only from the United States, as in the real Liberia, but also from all over the Caribbean, yet still enjoy enlightened fraternal harmony.\\\
Liberia's status is explained in-story as the result of a more favorable location in Southwest Africa, greater immigration and investment into the new nation (especially once the *US starts expelling free blacks), and most importantly, the fact that the region being settled was only thinly inhabited prior to the creation of the first colonies. (OTL Liberia's location in West Africa is a disease-filled jungle that was already filled with natives, most of who viewed the African Americans as just another colonizing force.) And even then, Liberia's history isn't entirely rosy -- the government commits genocide against the native Herero and Namaqua tribes to make room for "civilized" Liberians, and it experiences [[spoiler:a coup d'etat in the last phase of the Great War by a general named Duvalier, a name that should raise eyebrows and red flags for anybody who knows their OTL Haitian history (Haiti, like many countries conquered by the *US, sent many refugees to Liberia, so this probably is an AllohistoricalAllusion to the OTL Duvaliers)]]. While it doesn't suffer the brutality, strife, and corruption of the real Liberia, this isn't because the seeds for such weren't present -- they just never blossomed because it took much less effort to ethnically cleanse the land and create a "model" nation.
* MarySueTopia:
** While not really implausible, the Kingdom of Australia and its people are too perfect and successful to be a realistic country, in the eyes of some. This may be a case of AuthorAppeal (as is the case with many other things in the TL; the writer is Australian). Furthermore, real problems in the country have been talked about, including extreme environmental degradation and water shortages from having a population of 52 million people by TheFifties (greater than that of OTL's combined Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea -- in the present day, mind you).
** Whether or not Liberia, the land of former slaves from the Americas, counts is very much debatable. Unlike real-world Liberia, where different factions have fought one another in one of Africa's longest and cruelest civil wars, it is peaceful and prosperous, with leading figures declaring that race does not matter in their eyes. Even more remarkable when the citizens come not only from the United States, as in the real Liberia, but also from all over the Caribbean, yet still enjoy enlightened fraternal harmony.\\\
Liberia's status is explained in-story as the result of a more favorable location in Southwest Africa, greater immigration and investment into the new nation (especially once the *US starts expelling free blacks), and most importantly, the fact that the region being settled was only thinly inhabited prior to the creation of the first colonies. (OTL Liberia's location in West Africa is a disease-filled jungle that was already filled with natives, most of who viewed the African Americans as just another colonizing force.) And even then, Liberia's history isn't entirely rosy -- the government commits genocide against the native Herero and Namaqua tribes to make room for "civilized" Liberians, and it experiences [[spoiler:a coup d'etat in the last phase of the Great War by a general named Duvalier, a name that should raise eyebrows and red flags for anybody who knows their OTL Haitian history (Haiti, like many countries conquered by the *US, sent many refugees to Liberia, so this probably is an AllohistoricalAllusion to the OTL Duvaliers)]]. While it doesn't suffer the brutality, strife, and corruption of the real Liberia, this isn't because the seeds for such weren't present -- they just never blossomed because it took much less effort to ethnically cleanse the land and create a "model" nation.
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* MarySueTopia:
** While not really implausible, the Kingdom of Australia and its people are too perfect and successful to be a realistic country, in the eyes of some. This may be a case of AuthorAppeal (as is the case with many other things in the TL; the writer is Australian). Furthermore, real problems in the country have been talked about, including extreme environmental degradation and water shortages from having a population of 52 million people by TheFifties (greater than that of OTL's combined Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea -- in the present day, mind you).
** Whether or not Liberia, the land of former slaves from the Americas, counts is very much debatable. Unlike real-world Liberia, where different factions have fought one another in one of Africa's longest and cruelest civil wars, it is peaceful and prosperous, with leading figures declaring that race does not matter in their eyes. Even more remarkable when the citizens come not only from the United States, as in the real Liberia, but also from all over the Caribbean, yet still enjoy enlightened fraternal harmony.\\\
Liberia's status is explained in-story as the result of a more favorable location in Southwest Africa, greater immigration and investment into the new nation (especially once the *US starts expelling free blacks), and most importantly, the fact that the region being settled was only thinly inhabited prior to the creation of the first colonies. (OTL Liberia's location in West Africa is a disease-filled jungle that was already filled with natives, most of who viewed the African Americans as just another colonizing force.) And even then, Liberia's history isn't entirely rosy -- the government commits genocide against the native Herero and Namaqua tribes to make room for "civilized" Liberians, and it experiences [[spoiler:a coup d'etat in the last phase of the Great War by a general named Duvalier, a name that should raise eyebrows and red flags for anybody who knows their OTL Haitian history (Haiti, like many countries conquered by the *US, sent many refugees to Liberia, so this probably is an AllohistoricalAllusion to the OTL Duvaliers)]]. While it doesn't suffer the brutality, strife, and corruption of the real Liberia, this isn't because the seeds for such weren't present -- they just never blossomed because it took much less effort to ethnically cleanse the land and create a "model" nation.
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* {{Utopia}}:
** While not really implausible, the Kingdom of Australia and its people are too perfect and successful to be a realistic country, in the eyes of some. This may be a case of AuthorAppeal (as is the case with many other things in the TL; the writer is Australian). Furthermore, real problems in the country have been talked about, including extreme environmental degradation and water shortages from having a population of 52 million people by TheFifties (greater than that of OTL's combined Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea -- in the present day, mind you).
** Whether or not Liberia, the land of former slaves from the Americas, counts is very much debatable. Unlike real-world Liberia, where different factions have fought one another in one of Africa's longest and cruelest civil wars, it is peaceful and prosperous, with leading figures declaring that race does not matter in their eyes. Even more remarkable when the citizens come not only from the United States, as in the real Liberia, but also from all over the Caribbean, yet still enjoy enlightened fraternal harmony.\\\
Liberia's status is explained in-story as the result of a more favorable location in Southwest Africa, greater immigration and investment into the new nation (especially once the *US starts expelling free blacks), and most importantly, the fact that the region being settled was only thinly inhabited prior to the creation of the first colonies. (OTL Liberia's location in West Africa is a disease-filled jungle that was already filled with natives, most of who viewed the African Americans as just another colonizing force.) And even then, Liberia's history isn't entirely rosy -- the government commits genocide against the native Herero and Namaqua tribes to make room for "civilized" Liberians, and it experiences [[spoiler:a coup d'etat in the last phase of the Great War by a general named Duvalier, a name that should raise eyebrows and red flags for anybody who knows their OTL Haitian history (Haiti, like many countries conquered by the *US, sent many refugees to Liberia, so this probably is an AllohistoricalAllusion to the OTL Duvaliers)]]. While it doesn't suffer the brutality, strife, and corruption of the real Liberia, this isn't because the seeds for such weren't present -- they just never blossomed because it took much less effort to ethnically cleanse the land and create a "model" nation.
** While not really implausible, the Kingdom of Australia and its people are too perfect and successful to be a realistic country, in the eyes of some. This may be a case of AuthorAppeal (as is the case with many other things in the TL; the writer is Australian). Furthermore, real problems in the country have been talked about, including extreme environmental degradation and water shortages from having a population of 52 million people by TheFifties (greater than that of OTL's combined Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea -- in the present day, mind you).
** Whether or not Liberia, the land of former slaves from the Americas, counts is very much debatable. Unlike real-world Liberia, where different factions have fought one another in one of Africa's longest and cruelest civil wars, it is peaceful and prosperous, with leading figures declaring that race does not matter in their eyes. Even more remarkable when the citizens come not only from the United States, as in the real Liberia, but also from all over the Caribbean, yet still enjoy enlightened fraternal harmony.\\\
Liberia's status is explained in-story as the result of a more favorable location in Southwest Africa, greater immigration and investment into the new nation (especially once the *US starts expelling free blacks), and most importantly, the fact that the region being settled was only thinly inhabited prior to the creation of the first colonies. (OTL Liberia's location in West Africa is a disease-filled jungle that was already filled with natives, most of who viewed the African Americans as just another colonizing force.) And even then, Liberia's history isn't entirely rosy -- the government commits genocide against the native Herero and Namaqua tribes to make room for "civilized" Liberians, and it experiences [[spoiler:a coup d'etat in the last phase of the Great War by a general named Duvalier, a name that should raise eyebrows and red flags for anybody who knows their OTL Haitian history (Haiti, like many countries conquered by the *US, sent many refugees to Liberia, so this probably is an AllohistoricalAllusion to the OTL Duvaliers)]]. While it doesn't suffer the brutality, strife, and corruption of the real Liberia, this isn't because the seeds for such weren't present -- they just never blossomed because it took much less effort to ethnically cleanse the land and create a "model" nation.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Hey, it covers more than a hundred years of (alternate) history, and events from all over the world.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: The author's intent was to create "Literature/TheDraka, but done right", with a much greater focus on [[SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility historical plausibility]], feeling that Creator/SMStirling's series was too historically inaccurate and implausible to take its {{Villain Protagonist}}s seriously. Others have also interpreted it as this to the film ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', a {{mockumentary}} about the values of the Confederacy taking over the US and turning it into an expansionist state that conquers Latin America and maintains slavery well into the 20th century, all while a smaller rival nation to its north (Canada in ''[=DoD=]'', New England in ''C.S.A.'') opposes everything it stands for but can't do much to actually stop it.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: The author's intent was to create "Literature/TheDraka, but done right", with a much greater focus on [[SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility historical plausibility]], feeling that Creator/SMStirling's series was too historically inaccurate and implausible to take its {{Villain Protagonist}}s seriously. Others have also interpreted it as this to the film ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', a {{mockumentary}} about the values of the Confederacy taking over the US and turning it into an expansionist state that conquers Latin America and maintains slavery well into the 20th century, all while a smaller rival nation to its north (Canada in ''[=DoD=]'', New England in ''C.''[=C.S.A.'') =]'', New England in ''DoD'') opposes everything it stands for but can't do much to actually stop it.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* CulturalPosturing: Due to the *US' pariah status discrediting the idea of white racial supremacy outside of its borders, racism is rooted more in this trope than in ideas of "blood and soil". Leaders proudly proclaim that anybody can integrate with the culture of their adopted nation provided they learn the language and embrace its values... but, for the record, ''their'' culture is clearly the superior one, and people should embrace it if they want to be considered civilized. Stenio Duvalier, a Liberian officer responsible for the genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes, firmly believed in this; as far as he was concerned, being "fellow Africans" didn't give them the right to reject the authority of the Liberian state, and for Liberia to think otherwise would have made them NotSoDifferent from the *US. Edmund Schulthess, Chancellor of Germany during the Great War, thought the same, and it heavily informed his decision to [[spoiler:[[BalkanizeMe break up France into multiple small countries]] upon winning the war -- he saw French culture as a fundamental enemy of German culture, and needing to be dissolved if Germany was to remain safe.]]
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* CulturalPosturing: Due to the *US' pariah status discrediting the idea of white racial supremacy outside of its borders, racism is rooted more in this trope than in ideas of "blood and soil". Leaders proudly proclaim that anybody can integrate with the culture of their adopted nation provided they learn the language and embrace its values... but, for the record, ''their'' culture is clearly the superior one, and people should embrace it if they want to be considered civilized. Stenio Duvalier, a Liberian officer responsible for the genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes, firmly believed in this; as far as he was concerned, being "fellow Africans" didn't give them the right to reject the authority of the Liberian state, and for Liberia to think otherwise would have made them NotSoDifferent no different from the *US. Edmund Schulthess, Chancellor of Germany during the Great War, thought the same, and it heavily informed his decision to [[spoiler:[[BalkanizeMe break up France into multiple small countries]] upon winning the war -- he saw French culture as a fundamental enemy of German culture, and needing to be dissolved if Germany was to remain safe.]]
* MirroringFactions: The Liberians engage in numerous human rights abuses against the natives in their lands, most notably a genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes that, in real life, was carried out by the German colonial authorities in that area. Ironically, they justify it in the name of anti-racism and avoiding this trope with regards to the *Americans. Stenio Duvalier, a Liberian officer who made his name leading the raids against the tribes, argues that refusing to repress African tribes disloyal to the Liberian state simply because they were Africans would make them no different from the white supremacists running the *US.
-->"The Americans obsess about race. They will not treat as equal any man they see as being of a different blood. If we obsess about race, if we refuse to fight men because they are of the same blood, then we are making the same mistake in a different way." Duvalier shrugged. "The simple truth is that race does not matter, or should not matter, not to us. If men threaten the State with armed force, then they will be met with armed force."
-->"The Americans obsess about race. They will not treat as equal any man they see as being of a different blood. If we obsess about race, if we refuse to fight men because they are of the same blood, then we are making the same mistake in a different way." Duvalier shrugged. "The simple truth is that race does not matter, or should not matter, not to us. If men threaten the State with armed force, then they will be met with armed force."
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* NotSoDifferent: The Liberians engage in numerous human rights abuses against the natives in their lands, most notably a genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes that, in real life, was carried out by the German colonial authorities in that area. Ironically, they justify it in the name of anti-racism and avoiding this trope with regards to the *Americans. Stenio Duvalier, a Liberian officer who made his name leading the raids against the tribes, argues that refusing to repress African tribes disloyal to the Liberian state simply because they were Africans would make them no different from the white supremacists running the *US.
-->"The Americans obsess about race. They will not treat as equal any man they see as being of a different blood. If we obsess about race, if we refuse to fight men because they are of the same blood, then we are making the same mistake in a different way." Duvalier shrugged. "The simple truth is that race does not matter, or should not matter, not to us. If men threaten the State with armed force, then they will be met with armed force."
-->"The Americans obsess about race. They will not treat as equal any man they see as being of a different blood. If we obsess about race, if we refuse to fight men because they are of the same blood, then we are making the same mistake in a different way." Duvalier shrugged. "The simple truth is that race does not matter, or should not matter, not to us. If men threaten the State with armed force, then they will be met with armed force."
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Thomas Jefferson dying from a heart attack in 1809 is what kicks off the story.
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'''Decades Of Darkness''' is an AlternateHistory timeline originating on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. The creator, Jared, got the idea from a contest to create a historically plausible version of Creator/SMStirling's ''Literature/TheDraka'' series: a [[TheEmpire mega evil slaver doom empire]], built on opposition to the very values that the Western world holds dear, takes over the world. "[=DoD=]", as it's commonly abbreviated, deviated considerably from this origin, which is just as well for that part of the world's population not living under said Empire.
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