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4	Throughout the development of ''The New Order'', the devs released many teasers on official media channels, and released two Demo versions of the mod. These early content shown in the teasers and demos show that early TNO had significantly different directions compared to current TNO, with many cut and rewritten ideas and content.
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8	* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEuropeEinheitspakt Germany and the Einheitspakt]]
9	* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEuropeSphere Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere]]
10	* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEuropeRussia Russia]]
11	* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEuropeTriumvirate The Triumvirate]]
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15	[[folder:General]]
16	* The ''New Order'' was initially being developed for ''[[VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun Victoria II]]'', but it was later ported to ''Hearts of Iron IV'' as it was far more mod-friendly than ''Victoria'', especially in regards to province modding, which is necessary to portray Atlantropa in the game.
17	* In the earlier stages of development, Atlantropa dried [[https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/33/32106/thumb_620x2000/wankmap.png almost the entire Western Mediterranean Sea]], which became a separate Reichskommissariat Mittelmeer under the leadership of Karl Dönitz. Since then, Atlantropa was [[https://d24fkeqntp1r7r.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/25174013/map.png largely downplayed]] and, for the most part, it only opened new lands in the Adriatic Sea. Eventually, the Atlantropa project was removed altogether because it raised hundreds of FridgeLogic questions about its existence, which bottlenecked the development of the Mediterranean nations. Threatened with being stuck in DevelopmentHell, the developers opted to remove this element of the lore instead.
18	* [[WordOfGod Lonely Knightess]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/bb3dh7/has_anyone_thought_of_creating_a_tno_booknovel/ekgg68z/ has stated]] that they originally thought of writing an alternate history novel before deciding to develop the novel's ideas into a proto-TNO game mod instead.
19	* At one point, head writer Lonely Knightess had an [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-hearts-of-iron-megathread.15402/page-490#post-19517888 internal canon]] for a second start date in 1972. This plan has since been scrapped from the mod but would have included:
20	** Hitler choosing Heydrich as his successor, but Bormann winning the German Civil War, eventually heading Germany to a slow decline.
21	** Batov's Ural Military District uniting Western Siberia and being peacefully annexed by Georgy Zhukov's West Russian Revolutionary Front. In contrast, Magadan (who united the Far East) would have fought a war against Pokryshkin's Central Siberian Federation, with the latter emerging victorious. The WRRF would have proceeded to defeat the Siberian Federation, becoming a rising power in her own right once again in the 70s. After Zhukov's death in 1974, he was to be succeeded by Sergey Akhromeyev. During the second West Russian War, the resurgent Soviet Union would only manage to reclaim part of their lost territory up to Moscow before the OFN calls a ceasefire.
22	** The Great Asian War ending in China's victory and Japan losing its status as a superpower.
23	** The National Progressive Party in the United States never managing to win any Presidential elections (with the 1972 election being won by George [=McGovern=]). By the 1980s, the USA would be a de facto one party state, as this was before Toolbox Theory made rifts in the Republican-Democratic Coalition (then a wholly unified ''party'') far more palpable.
24	** The English Civil War ending with HMMLR losing to the collaborators and Margaret Thatcher becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
25	** Italy successfully undergoing democratization through Ciano’s reforms.
26	** The South African War ending in the pro-OFN leaning ceasefire.
27	* The economic mechanics of the game underwent numerous iterations during development, both before release and for the "Toolbox Theory" update:
28	** The [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/874370064042840065/880493425898696704/econ_screen_image_1.jpg?width=604&height=630 first iteration]] was a rather scant prototype that only allowed the player to control military spending, civilian spending, liquid reserves, and construction, as well as providing other economic data like GDP and income. [[CreatorBacklash The developers are not proud of this version of the economy.]]
29	** The [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/805766736543875083/880576827486261258/05m9epfbli861.png?width=378&height=630 second iteration]] was a facelift of the first version that altered its cosmetics and fixed some of its most severe flaws, such as improving the tax system, fixing government spending, and reworking the factors that would affect the economy. This was the version that was included in the final release.
30	** The [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ACrHwqMPJgQR_BYs3vK_yJAhUlHVmiRPGFFpqd_HbBY/edit third iteration]] established many mechanics that would've been kept in the final version, such as government revenue and economic spheres. The economic screen also changed its presentation [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/813833744146104360/880578512061358120/econgui_original.png?width=434&height=630 several]] [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/743601814460694592/758545342148378624/unknown.png?width=346&height=630 times]]. It was scrapped for being unnecessarily complex, while having little effect in-game, creating an unengaging mechanic that could easily be ignored by the player. The decision to remake it necessitated the removal of some features:
31	*** The [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/880579054963675189/880579857925406740/unemployment.png Employment and Sectors feature]] was intended to track unemployment that would contribute to political radicalism towards extreme ideologies like communism or fascism, in which it would been affect stats like factory output and affected by other factors like consumer goods.
32	*** [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/880579054963675189/880579686206439494/purchasingpower.png Purchasing Power]] was going to be an important economic variable that would tie into the international arms market, trade system, economic spheres system, and gold standard mechanic. It would've been used to illustrate economic crashes and the value of currency, in which it would've ideally emulated an exchange rate to gold and different currencies, as well as an arms trade from superpowers to less-developed nations.
33	*** During the transition between the fourth and fifth rework, economic spheres were kept, but it underwent some significant changes, such as removing its role in international arms sales and production licenses.
34	*** The international market was a feature that would've allowed countries to buy and sell resources globally, as detailed in these [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/880579054963675189/887745876381020200/valrinproposal.png?width=856&height=630 rough]] [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/880579054963675189/887745877467340900/lamoproposal.png?width=872&height=630 proposals]].
35	*** "Social" technologies like color photography were going to be implemented to reflect important technological advancements in the setting.
36	*** Researching technologies would've cost money, but it was cut for being an unnecessary element, especially since "Toolbox Theory" was being developed simultaneously with the "No Step Back" DLC for the official game, which would make changes to the research tree anyway and thus render any changes to research meaningless.
37	** The [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/455866490629914645/816754836258291782/uy6ptssps2661.png fourth iteration]] simplified the cosmetics and mechanics that were included in the economic screen, which would've made it an attractive addition to the game. However, the developers scrapped it because it was still a functionally broken system that barely affected the games of testers and thus felt like a pretty, but tacked-on feature. To the developers, this signified that the economy would need to be completely overhauled so that it could actually work.
38	* TNO, as a part of its narrative focus, was planned to feature [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/g7fzb2/ending_slides_collection/ ending slides]], inspired by those from ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' at the end of a country's game. They were implemented in the ''Old World Blues'' demo, but were cut after that due to the excessive file space that the ending slide images are taking up.
39	* The devs have posted a number of RealTrailerFakeMovie-styled media as TNO teasers. It's unclear how would they be implemented into the game, if at all, and how much did their contents reflect in-game lore at the time of development (as it is very possible some of them were just jokes).
40	** ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/adam8g/corpse_of_art_trailer/ Corpse of Art]]'' (video has since been deleted) is a Japanese documentary that tells about the hardships jazz musicians face in the corporate and exploitative world of Japan.
41	** ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/dcl0vv/the_ural_six/ The Ural Six]]'' is a film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, basically ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [[RecycledInSpace in the Southern Urals]] and VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
42	** ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/bmoj1k/tonight_on_usa_today/ Miami Untugend]]'' is apparently a TV show fictionalizing the life of Reichskommissar Kasche after he fled to Florida (back when he was characterized as a genuinely apathetic leader).
43	* [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/cxokcw/japan_leak/ One early leak for Japan]] shows that achievements were once available in game, a feature reportedly scrapped due to the achievements not being able to be carried over between games. Either this was an issue impossible to fix or it would require a whole ton of work to fix for little benefit.
44	* [[WordOfGod Lonely Knightess]], the person formerly known as [=ThePinkPanzer=], the interface would [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/473201311899451394/571027259503280138/tech123.png have]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/508495466309353483/570755685801787393/testcrt.png glowed]], but it was never implemented.
45	* An update named The Final Front was originally meant to add Space Race mechanics and content to the three superpowers, before the developers of the update decided to turn it into an independent game set in an original setting not connected to TNO, which would allow them to tell the story they wanted to.
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48	[[folder:Ideologies]]
49	* The furthest right, maximally dystopian ideology in the game used to be known as Ultranational Socialism in early development.[[note]] While the ideology's symbol is shown in the [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/8ovah3/development_diary_viii_g%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung_part_ii/e06d9m2/ Götterdämmerung Dev Diary]] as [[https://i.imgur.com/jEgDStu.jpg a skull on a sunwheel]], it has a [[https://i.imgur.com/8jt2IhO.png a completely different symbol]] still present in the game's files.[[/note]] It underwent multiple revisions throughout development:
50	** In early development, Ultranational Socialism was split into Ultranationalism (for nationalist, militarist and religious fanatics) and Burgundian System (a fanatical, ultra-dystopic, SS-centric style of Nazism), initially to prevent GameplayAndStorySegregation from arising as a result of the simultaneously ultranationalist and ''virulently'' anti-Nazi Black League. This definition of Burgundian System was criticised for being ultra-specific, playing into the myth that the SS was worse than the other Nazis (for the record, Heinrich Himmler, the creator of the Burgundian System, was actually slightly less racist towards Slavs than Martin Bormann, the orthodox Nazi, in real life), and the fact that it wasn't really that different from what the Nazis wanted to do to Eastern Europe, only this time it's western Europeans who are on the receiving end.
51	** In the Toolbox Theory ideology rework, Burgundian System was expanded to and made a subideology of Esoteric Nazism, turning it into something resembling an actually coherent ideological grouping. Esoteric Nazism could then be used for far-right esotericists who are comparatively milder than normal Nazis or have no ties to the SS, like José López Rega.
52	** The Ruin update turned Esoteric Nazism into a subideology of National Socialism (and its subideologies into National Socialist ones), rather than an ideology of its own. The purpose of merging Esoteric Nazism as a whole into National Socialism, according to the development team, is to prevent the misunderstanding that Hitler and non-esoteric Nazis had become the LesserOfTwoEvils in comparison to Himmler and the Esoteric Nazis, meaning that Nazism as a whole has now become the furthest right ideology in TNO and would be the worst of the worst in its story.
53	* In the demo and release versions of TNO, the far-left ideologies used to be Authoritarian and Libertarian Socialism. In addition to being a purely quantitative instead of qualitative difference (depending on how much power exercised by the state, instead of what they actually do with that power), many felt it was an arbitrary distinction that boiled down to 'good' Libertarian Socialists versus neutral or 'evil' Authoritarian Socialists, something not helped by a fair bit of the fanbase seeing it that way and discussing it that way. This was later changed into a more objective division between Communists (who subscribe to the October Revolution's ideology) and Socialists (a broad term for socialists who do not adhere to one or more key tenets of Leninism, like the vanguard party or dialectical materialism, among others); this classification was actually the original ideological classification during early development, but was changed to [=AuthSoc=] and [=LibSoc=] at release.
54	* Prior to Toolbox Theory, all moderate ideologies (other than Despotism) were known by different names.
55	** Liberalism was known as Liberal Democracy.
56	** Progressivism was known as Social Democracy (Social Democracy is now a subideology of Progressivism, while the former subideology Progressive Democracy has evolved into the main ideology)
57	** Conservatism was known as Conservative Democracy.
58	** Paternalism was known as Authoritarian Democracy.
59	** Liberal Conservatism used to be a sub-ideology of Conservatism before becoming a fully fledged ideological group with its own subideologies.
60	* Cut subideologies include:
61	** Deutsche Bolshevism (used by the old DSR before it was reworked into part of Germany's second decade content)
62	** Marxist Anarchism (cut alongside its sole adherent, Arrigo Cervetto)
63	** Autarkic Marxism (folded into Stratocratic Communism after a brief stint as Gorky's ideology)
64	** Leninism (folded into default Communism)
65	** Nasserism (used by Gamal Abdel Nasser himself and Jaafar Nimeiry, folded into Left-Wing Nationalism)
66	** Neocommunism (used by Enrico Berlinguer and Leonidas Kyrkos, folded into Reformist Socialism)
67	** Social Liberalism (folded into default Liberalism)
68	** Neoliberalism (folded into default Liberalism)
69	** Revisionist Zionism (a Liberal and Conservative subideology used by Menachem Begin before a lore change made it into a dead ideology)
70	** Manipulated Democracy (used by Armando Alba Zambrana, now folded into Liberal Conservatism)
71	** Neoconservatism (used by Jeane Kirkpatrick when she was still a FR-NPP member, now folded into Dynastic Liberalism)
72	** Guided Democracy (folded into Controlled Democracy)
73	** Stratocracy (a Paternalist subideology meant to be used for military governments with more democratic participation, folded into Military Junta; not to be confused with the current Stratocracy subideology which is classified under Ultranationalism)
74	** Dominant-Party Democracy (turned into a law)
75	** Traditionalist Monarchy (used by some African and Arab monarchies, folded into Absolute Monarchy)
76	** Bandit State (folded into Warlordism)
77	** Esoteric Despotism (an Ultranationalist subideology only used in Latin America and Africa that effectively only acted as a way to remove any nuance from the portrayal of these leaders, since these 'esoteric' things are done by every right-wing dictatorship)
78	** Neofascism (used by the National Front in post-fascist Italy, folded into default Fascism)
79	** Shia Theocracy (a cut Fascist subideology, originally meant to be used by Ruhollah Khomeini, folded into Theocracy)
80	** Nationalist Stratocracy (a cut National Socialist subideology, later reimagined as Stratocratic Coproratism)
81	** Ethno-Spartanism & Ultra-Spartanism (only used by Hans Hüttig and Friedrich Jeckeln respectively, folded into Spartanism)
82	** Universal Nazism and Slavo-Aryanism (Colin Jordan's and Valery Yemelyanov's personal subideologies, folded into Esoteric Nazism)
83	** Neo-Gothism (Alfred Frauenfeld's personal subideology which was a branch of Ultranationalism before he was toned down into a party line Nazi. An icon for the ideology was added in Silicon Dreams [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/11pnpc7/this_ultranat_subideology_neogothism_was_added_in/jbzjoy2/ due to an error]])
84	** Agrarian Spartanism (used by the SS-Aktionsgruppe Moskowien back when it was still ruled by the Herbert Backe-Richard Walther Darré diarchy)
85	** Esoteric Kemalism (an Esoteric Nazi subideology in Turkey)
86	* Renamed subideologies include: Bolshevism, Marxism-Leninism and Bolshevik-Leninism (formerly Bukharinism, Stalinism and Trotskyism, now called by names used by their creators instead of political opponents), Neosocialism and Stratocracy (formerly Proletarian Nationalism and Ultramilitarism, now using terms closer to real life).
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89	[[folder:America and the OFN]]
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91	!The United States of America
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93	* Robert F. Kennedy [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/mefv2m/looks_like_rfk_had_the_chance_to_resign/ used to be able to resign from office]], letting his Vice President Hubert Humphrey become the new President. In the final game, [[spoiler: the only person who can replace RFK as the president mid-term is Strom Thurmond due to both RFK ''and'' Vice President William Guy dying after an assassination with Strom blackmailing the the Speaker of the House in order to ascend to the presidency]].
94	* The US used to be able to support Hồ Chí Minh and the Viet Minh in their struggle for independence from the Empire of Japan. This was later cut, because the US would have a very difficult time sending aid to Vietnamese partisans through Sphere-controlled waters.
95	* The Falklands Islands was originally an occupied territory of the United States before it was later given to Canada, which houses the British government-in-exile from Europe.
96	* [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/qqb8nl/tno_star_wars/hk060zx/ Commented out events]] details the development of ''Film/ANewHope'' involving Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and Creator/GeorgeLucas negotiating with the Italian government to get permission to film in Tunisia (where the Tatooine scenes were filmed in our world). Depending on America's relations with Italy, the Italian government can either [[https://i.imgur.com/xDDqKcB.jpg grant them permission to film in Tunisia]] or [[https://i.imgur.com/Ejd23Pf.jpg deny their requests]], forcing a script rewrite that, among other details, has Skywalker born on the tropical Yavin 4 due to having to film in Guatemala instead.\
97	The aforementioned events, along with two more that detail the impact of [[https://i.imgur.com/dRT48li.jpg the New Hope filmed in Tunisia]] or [[https://i.imgur.com/buCzjox.jpg the one filmed in Guatemala]], were scrapped due to filming not having begun until March of 1976, well past TNO's current timeframe. The events also have not been updated to keep up with new developments in the lore, such as mentioning Tunisia being an Italian colony[[note]]Which was later reworked into an Italian puppet state with Toolbox Theory.[[/note]] and Goring's Sun Gun[[note]]A piece of old lore that only served as a BrickJoke for one of Oskar Dirlewanger's deaths.[[/note]].
98	* The original reason for the United States' weaker position in World War II was because [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDelanoRoosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt's]] campaign for the New Deal was compared unfavorably to Bukharin's disastrous New Economic Plan, meaning he never rose to political prominence and UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover won a second term by a hair's breadth. As such, Joseph P. Kennedy was the Democratic candidate who was elected in 1936, where he had a more limited response to the Great Depression and preached isolationism in World War II. This left the United States ill-prepared to fight the Axis when it did join the conflict and contributed to the Allies' ultimate defeat. As part of an overall reworking of the United States' political landscape, the lore was changed so that the point of divergence for America was Roosevelt's adherence to the two-term limit under the assumption that Harry Hawkins would continue the New Deal, the discovery of Hawkins' stomach cancer inducing his loss, and a victorious Thomas Dewey's neutering of the New Deal and of Roosevelt's attempts to bring America out of isolationism. Dewey's counterproductive policies subsequently led to defeat in World War II.
99	* In very early development, [[https://twitter.com/nemo_literam/status/1773529454758777104 Lyndon LaRouche]] was a potential Presidential candidate for the NPP, who would jump to a different NPP faction (from left-wing to right-wing) every election.
100	* The partisan politics in the United States were drastically changed:
101	** Originally, the Axis victory under two Democratic presidents (Joseph P. Kennedy and UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman) led to the collapse of their party, leading most of their remnants to defect to the Republican Party to form the new Republican-Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the National Progressive Party rose up as an anti-establishment faction opposed to the R-Ds, retaining the two-party system in the United States. This was later changed so that the Democratic Party is still alive and only in a coalition with the Republicans, while the National Progressive Party was split into fourteen separate parties working in a similar partnership (now called the National Progressive Pact), meaning that there are technically sixteen political parties now.
102	** Due to the absence of the New Deal it was originally stated that the Democrats never became more liberal and the Republicans more conservative, supposedly like in OTL around 1964 after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. As a result, in this iteration, the Republicans represented the liberal wing for the R-Ds, while the Democrats represented the conservative wing. However, this arrangement failed to acknowledge that the Republicans had a dominant conservative wing even before the New Deal with Calvin Coolidge being president, and eventually the relationship became as it is OTL when the lore was reworked (though with an added level of nuance; rather than simply being divided by liberal-or-conservative lines, the Democrats - with their precursor social liberals in the form of the Labor Democrats and their segregationist Dixiecrats - represent the radical wing of the coalition, while the Republicans - with Rockefeller's comparative moderate liberals and Goldwater's libertarian "natural conservatives" - represent the moderates). Related to this, while in older lore the Southern Democrats have all defected to the FR-NPP, in current lore some have stayed with and remain influential within the Democratic Party (though both potential Dixiecrat presidents are in the NPP).
103	* Astronaut turned senator UsefulNotes/JohnGlenn was originally a Republican presidential candidate during the 1968 elections (again predating the reworked partisan mechanics, so he was the liberal candidate in contrast to Barry Goldwater). He would've focused on a mixture of social welfare programs, appointing scientific and political experts in a vaguely technocratic system, and, naturally, the Space Race, including potentially overseeing the Ares program and a manned mission to Mars. He also focused on trying to "win" the Cold War through nuclear escalation, trying to create such a stockpile of weapons that any attempt at war would result in MutuallyAssuredDestruction, potentially even to the point of attempting nuclear piracy on the other superpowers, which could work to reduce tensions but could also catastrophically backfire, meaning he was actually pretty likely to cause a thermonuclear war despite not otherwise being very hawkish. He was replaced with Philip Hart by the Unfinished Business expansion from Toolbox Theory, both because plans are being made to expand Space Race mechanics and make them more independent of individual presidents, and because some of the creative team considered his content mediocre in quality and unfitting to his real-life self. (One described him as a "lackluster IRL Atari Dem who was a corrupt party stooge and deficit hawk who opposed social spending, and someone who couldn't give a speech to save his own life.")
104	* In 1972, many of the possible presidents were changed or switched around:
105	** Jeane Kirkpatrick was originally the candidate of the NPP-FR[[note]]the original name for the Nationalist caucus of the NPP[[/note]] before she was moved to the Democratic Party and replaced by Phyllis Schlafly. Ironically, her actual policy decisions didn't change that much; she was already an NPP "compromise candidate" in the mold of Margaret Chase Smith, marrying progressive social values and social welfare to her harsh, warhawk attitude to represent the interests of both the NPP-FR and NPP-P.
106	** UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern was the original Republican (back when they represented the liberal wing of the R-Ds) nominee, who ran on a platform of increased social programs and attempted pacifism to prevent further unnecessary casualties around the globe and limit the influence of the military-industry complex, although his initial content also involved reaffirming commitments to defent OFN treaty allies. When the developers reworked the American parties and the 1972 election, they couldn't find a place for [=McGovern=] (it was felt the most plausible anti-interventionist movements in an Axis victory scenario would stem from leftist or paleoconservative isolationism, and supporting outright pacifism would be downright idiotic), so they opted to move Kirkpatrick into his spot as the liberal candidate (since she was being replaced by Schlafly in the NPP anyway) and save him as a future president for 70's content. Amusingly, this became a DevelopmentGag in a [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/455866490629914645/974713617775738940/somethingwickedthiswaycomesagain.png teaser]] that mentions [=McGovern=] attempted to run in 1972, but was beaten out by the Kirkpatrick, whether due to a lack of focus in his campaign or Kirkpatrick's willingness to play up her hawkish and brutal side to a bloodthirsty voting base. (Creator/HunterSThompson opines the latter.)
107	** UsefulNotes/RobertMcNamara was the original Democratic (back when they represented the conservative wing of the R-Ds) nominee, acting as a ruthless pragmatist who prioritized objective results over any moral code or political concerns and preparing to engage in [[WellIntentionedExtremist dubious actions]] for the good of the OFN. He was replaced with George Romney, who is much more closely aligned to Bennett's brand of "don't rock the boat" conservatism, because it was felt that the real life [=McNamara=] had neither the charisma nor the ambition to attempt to become president in his own right and the 1972 elections already had three militaristic presidents.
108	* The original design philosophy of the communist and fascist caucuses of the NPP was that they both were equally evil, since neither supports capitalist democracy or sees America's institutions as sacrosanct, even though their actual intentions and policies couldn't be more different. The developers' efforts to force a negative perception of the communists and aggressively ban any so-called 'Hall apologists' from the Discord server weren't particularly well-received by players and other team members alike (including non-communists), and in some cases veered close to apologia for segregationists (who were clearly the worst non-radical options for America). The current policy is that the communist presidents can be perceived as good or bad (depending on your own values), like the moderate ones can (the only unambiguously bad things about them beyond the actual policies and pitfalls every president has are that they can only be elected if America is utterly screwed up and they will lose the Cold War); only the fascist presidents are completely evil.
109	* Related to the above, Gus Hall's initial 100-day tree originally featured him starting a Lavender Scare as an excuse to purge FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. This was cut for being contrived at best (Hoover died in May 1972 in real life, Hall takes office in January 1973, and the President can simply dismiss the FBI director as he desires) and offensive at worst (in real life, the people that would make up Hall's support base were the victims of the Lavender Scare, which was used by the American establishment to silence left-wing dissidents). As [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/yd7x86/this_subreddit_is_like_the_fbi_after_hall/itrd5mb/ one writer]] put it, it was fabricated out of whole cloth to make Hall somehow morally equivalent to Yockey (an actual neo-Nazi). It was replaced with Gus Hall dealing with the FBI's refusal to play ball with him by airing their dirty laundry on live television and mixing in some personal [[ConspiracyTheorist theories]] that they were behind the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to incite massive riots and destroy the FBI's power, a better indicator of the consequences of his [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] and [[PrinciplesZealot uncompromising]] approach to government and to American institutions that stand in his way.
110	* Robert F. Kennedy’s Vice President was originally UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey (who, in current lore, has stayed in the Democratic Party instead of leaving to join the Progressives) before he was replaced by William L. Guy.
111	* A [[https://discord.com/channels/286752091429535756/806276324297539586/993947271806865478 list]] of other presidential candidates that were considered to replace Glenn before Hart was chosen was given on Discord, these candidates included Hubert Humphrey (who plays a significant role in Hart's storyline), Walter Reuther (who also plays a big role in Hart's content), Edmund Muskie (who currently serves as LBJ's Vice President), Sargent Shriver, Abraham Ribicof, Chep Morrison (who is Hart's Vice President) and Richard Daley. Philip Hart was ultimately chosen as he was the best fit for the policy goals the developer wanted to explore in America's content.
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113	!Canada
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115	* UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau was originally meant to be a potential Prime Minister of Canada before being cut.
116	* One of Canada's national spirits would've addressed their Native Reservations and the horrid living conditions that the Native Americans were subjected to, which would've induced several gameplay debuffs. It would've even been a significant subject in Canadian politics, where the Liberals would've wanted to strengthen efforts to "integrate" the Native Americans and the Tories wanted to cut funding for such efforts. While this discrimination is still shown via in-game events and can be affected by the player, this specific spirit was later removed for being anachronistic, because the mistreatment of Native Americans was an issue largely ignored by the public during the 1960's.
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118	!Other
119	* Iceland was originally portrayed as not even an independent country, but an occupation zone ruled directly by the local US Army garrison, who invaded the country in the aftermath of World War II. In current lore, the Republic of Iceland is de jure independent, albeit with a 'special' relationship with the US that allows American troops to occupy its territory and appropriate large parts of its resources.
120	* The US Administration of Iceland could [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/aapk9y/another_hip_and_cool_iceland_leak_from_discord/ originally launch a program]] called "Civilian Outreach and Opportunities for Labor" or COOL for short as part of a plan to increase the fading popularity of their military regime. Meant to make the United States Forces in Iceland attractive among the youth, its description and lore invokes TotallyRadical and had [[Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids a very familiar cat]] as a mascot, with dev statements implying that the total cheesiness of the COOL propaganda would give rise to this world's first modern {{meme}}s. In the final game, Iceland has no focus tree.
121	* All of the Guianas used to be ruled by the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, an apartheid, sham democracy led by Forbes Burnham, who abused his power to arrest hundreds of his critics and execute dozens more. After a few months from the game's start, the United States would invade to remove him from power out of concern that his authoritarianism with the backing of the OFN would [[PragmaticVillainy threaten the PR of the Nixon administration]], replacing him with the exiled former President Cheddi Jagan. More significantly, it would lead to John F. Kennedy's assassination by a Guyanese nationalist and contribute to the subsequent political crisis in the United States. In a later update, the intervention was completely removed; Guyana now has the same territory as real life, is still a dominion of the exiled United Kingdom and starts as a more genuine democracy.
122	* Australia initially started out as a republic, having abolished its monarchy after Britain was conquered by Germany during World War II; in the current version, the monarchy is still in place as of 1962. Its starting Prime Minister was also changed from Harold Holt to Kim Beazley Sr.
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	[[folder:Central Asia]]
126
127	!Kazakhstan
128
129	* Kazakhstan used to be shattered into warlord states like Russia and had to be reunified. Among the seven warlord states present in the first release, four have survived in some form:
130	** Kyzylorda, the continuation of the Kazakh SSR led by Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, a Soviet loyalist who would pass power to Dinmukhamed Kunaev after reunification. The Kazakh SSR now controls the entire country and starts the game led by Kunaev.
131	** Pavlodar, a bourgeois nationalist democratic republic led by famed writer Sabit Mukanov. The concept survives in the form of the Kazakh Defense Force, which can rebel against a pro-Russian Kazakh SSR and replace it with a capitalist Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Free Kazakh Clans, a post-Midnight warlord.
132	** Kostanay, an Islamic theocracy led by OTL [=HotSU=] recipient Nikolai Zabelkin, who in TNOTL became a bandit warlord after the Soviet collapse, before turning into a theocrat after surviving a bandit attack.
133	** Aktobe, a nationalist republic led by OTL [=HotSU=] recipient Nikolai Onoprienko that could suffer from a famine. In TNOTL, Onoprienko created an unorthodox "National Renewal" ideology combining elements of capitalism, communism, and fascism.
134	** Kokshetau, a bandit state led by OTL [=HotSU=] recipient Abu Dusukhambetov, who in TNOTL proclaimed himself Abu Khan and adopted nomadic warrior aesthetics.
135	** Aktau, a clique of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Russophobic Kazakh ultranationalists]] (ideologically National Socialist) seeking to ethnically cleanse Kazakhstan and collaborate with the Nazis against a common Russian threat. It was originally (and nonsensically) led by ethnic Russian OTL [=HotSU=] recipient Viktor Kuzmich Boychenko [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/8uniot/development_diary_xi_the_land_of_wanderers/ in early development]], who was later replaced with Safa Gazizov. As the mod broadly moved away from gratuitous {{Historical Villain Upgrade}}s, Aktau was reworked into the Kazakh Purification Army, a post-Midnight warlord state with a more [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds justified]] characterization for their ultranationalism. Notably, Aktau was removed much earlier (with its territory given to Aktobe) than the Kazakhstan rework which did away with the warlords entirely.
136	** The Polish Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (commonly called Nowa Polska), which was originally formed by Bukharin for Poles who were exiled from Europe by the Nazis and congregated in western Kazakhstan, and became de facto independent after the fall of the USSR. Nowa Polska served as Kazakhstan's 'deunifier'; instead of reunifying the country, it would instead divide the rest of Kazakhstan (not inhabited by Polish settlers) into two countries, the Republic of Aktobe and Republic of Kazakhstan. While the Polish ASSR still exists in lore, it is no longer a tag since the Kazakh SSR is still unified and it's now possible to elect Stanisław Skrzeszewski (a Pole) to lead the Kazakh SSR.
137
138	!Other
139
140	* The earlier borders for Central Asia largely followed the real life borders of Central Asia; the Toolbox Theory Central Asia rework shifted the region's borders around (later slightly reworked again in Silicon Dreams), now apparently suggesting that the Soviet Union drew different borders in TNO, and that Afghanistan and Iran annexed bits of territories on the edges of the region.
141	* Karakalpakstan was originally led by Ibrahim Yusupov from the start. Currently, it is a socialist country led by Kadyrov Abdurashit at the start, with the possibility for Yusupov to take over.
142	* Poda Annaorazov from Turkmenistan was originally a committed anti-communist and enjoyed his leadership position before his personality was completely reversed into being a Bolshevik who despises the peacetime administration he leads.
143	* Uzbekistan, in its earliest renditions, was [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/8uniot/development_diary_xi_the_land_of_wanderers/ originally]] a nationalist dictatorial republic under [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulla_Qahhor Abdulla Qahhor]]. At release, it was reworked into a pan-Turkic fascist dictatorship under German collaborator Veli Kayyum Han. In another rework, Veli Kayyum Han's Turkestan Legion is now a rebel group against the Islamic Marxist government ruling in Tashkent.
144	* The Kyrgyz Socialist Republic used to be a military junta, led by Russian general Ivan Grishin, that was characterized as being socialist in name only.
145	* Turkmenistan's backer in the Turkes Kenes conference was changed from the US to Turkey.
146
147	[[/folder]]
148
149	[[folder:South Asia]]
150
151	India probably has most chaotic development history in TNO. According to one of the devs, the old Asia team made up of non-asians that didn't respect South Asian history and were more concerned with making the India independence movement into a source of comic relief, resulted in weird and sometimes distasteful ideas that totally go against the philosophy of Modern TNO development. While currently India development has an active team, it is seemingly making very little progress as most developers are busy with other content.
152
153	* Sri Lanka was originally owned by the Republic of India, before becoming an independent country in an early update.
154	* In India's original pre-rework plans, Savitri Devi was meant to be a potential Burgundian System leader of India, [[https://i.redd.it/ta4jti1k7ah51.png even having her own bio and flag]] before being cut from the game. She would've had a cabinet full of other esoteric fascist and Nazi thinkers from around the world, and would've started out winning an election in Azad Hind. Based on her leftover localizations in the game files at release, her policies involved Burgundian-levels of enforcing eco-fascism to reduce world population, and according to some devs on Discord, she wanted to dam the Ganges as a part of her plans.
155	* In earlier development, there were [[https://reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/abju5g/panzer_posted_this_on_discord_looks_like_it_has/ teasers]] for a dystopian British Raj restoration path as a possible path for India. According to multiple dev statements on Discord, the path specifically involved an Ultranational Socialist (later Ultranationalist) faction named "[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/858739173720457226/BEEF.png British Empire Expeditionary Forces]]", or [[FunWithAcronyms BEEF]] for short, rising up as an Indian Civil War Anarchy faction, led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma Lord Louis Mountbatten]][[note]]Who, hilariously, was also being developed into a leader in the English Catastrophe scenario (see above), ''at the same time in development'' (meaning that he can be simultaneously at two locations at once)[[/note]], who had gone mad, and is now hearing voices that tell him to reconquer the British Raj with an Indian garrison he hid inside India for 20 years. The contents of BEEF were a fever dream of horrific war crimes and nonsensical atrocities, such as burning down Gandhi's village ForTheEvulz, engaging in outright ''cannibalism'' to feed their soldiers during the ICW famine ([[https://i.imgur.com/DCM9qVQ.png event here]], NSFL warning), and, allegedly, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill Mad Jack Churchill]] ''engaging in human sacrifices to revive King Arthur''. Internal dev reception of BEEF was near-universally negative for its sheer, disastrous tastelessness (even during early TNO when expectations for writing qualities were laxer); BEEF was initially reworked into a "saner" version, before being fully cut during development (before Old India as a whole was cut for its general low quality writing).
156	* Pre-rework India was planned to have Indian ideologue and cult leader [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh Rajneesh]] as a potential National Socialist leader for Azad Hind, who would implement many deranged policies (such as abolishing marriage, launching a pyramid scheme in India, and renaming every city to Rajneeshpuram). Most bafflingly, he could have [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/853793038610464799/Old_Lore_-_john_lennon_was_a_minister_for_rajneesh_azad_hind.png John Lennon]] as one of his ministers. Only one peek into his rule, [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/c6su8h/rajneesh_leak_from_the_discord/ where he decriminalizes homosexuality]], was revealed to the public, although his localizations have survived in the game files at release.
157	* One of the plans for the Republic of India was a mechanic revolving around putting resources to resolve a famine in remote parts of India, before in the end revealing that the entire famine was ''fake'' and was made up by the Azad Hind Government in a covert operation. It was cut because the whole mechanic felt pointless, and made the Republic of India look excessively incompetent.
158	* Bal Thackeray was originally a potential leader for Azad Hind, leading a far-right Hindu ultranationalist faction of the All-India Forward Bloc. He was removed because his real life counterpart was a far-right Marathi nationalist and only politically relevant in his home state (which lies firmly within the Republic of India). According to separate dev statements on discord, as well as remnant localizations present in game files at release, Thackeray would've been portrayed as a Hindu ultranationalist, and initially aimed to conquer India, Afghanistan, and Indochina to reclaim the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhand_Bharat Akhand Bharat]]. However, he then would've invaded regions with major Indian populations beyond South Asia, including the Persian Gulf and most ridiculously ''Guyana''. Invading Guyana would've caused a nuclear war.
159	* In the early demos, before the Azad Hind occupation lore was developed, Bhutan was led by Jigme Dorji Wangchuck from the start.
160	* In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/90lknh/development_diary_xiv_the_spice_in_a_dumpster/ Dev Diary XIV]], one ''unusual'' Indian Communist faction are the Raoists. They're officially the Telanganites (named after the Telangana rebellion), and are agrarian socialists led by Chandra Rajeswara Rao, who subscribe to [[PunnyName Raoism]] as an equivalent to Maoism. They can take power if the Communists won the Indian Civil War, and would've implemented Maoist/pseudo-Pol Potist policies, including launching a Cultural Revolution in their bad path. A few other socialist paths, notably the Libertarian Socialists under Harold Wilson in HMMLR Britain, referenced their ideas internationally at release. Since Mao Zedong Thought still exists in the new post-TT TNO lore, and because the real Rao wasn't a Maoist, the Raoists appear to have been cut in the India lore reworks.
161	** In the initial released versions of the mod, one DummiedOut loc depicts a country named Peasant Republic of Odisha ruled by Raoists; this appears to be an Indian Anarchy splinter faction, and amplifies the extremism of the Raoists to outright ''[[EvilLuddite anarcho-primitivist]]'' levels. Raoist Odisha's focus tree has them embrace "post-socialism" and purge all other socialists as "pre-socialists", ban religion, abolish the currency, abolish the ''Odia and Indian identity'', abolish the ''ideology of socialism'' and embrace "post-socialist" "human nature", ''destroy all industry and technology'' and force everyone to farm, and abolish the military and arms industry and fight with militias armed with improvised weapons, all the while insisting that "There is no famine in Odisha".
162	* Azad Hind was originally portrayed as persecuting believers of Abrahamic faiths in its territory, a plot point that would've influenced some political developments in the country.
163	* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/dbmhwu/pakistani_mujahideen_leak_from_the_discord/ This teaser]] showed an Ultranationalist (likely a representation of Islamic fundamentalist, as the teaser was from before subideologies) Pakistani Mujahideen revolting against the Republic of India, led by OTL Pakistani ISI director Mahmud Ahmed. Notably, his portrait is actually created from a photo of Khuzestani Arab separatist [[https://www.memri.org/reports/mahmoud-al-ahwazi-leader-anti-iranian-ahwaz-liberation-movement-we-want-iran-be-attacked Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Ahwazi]].
164	* TT skeleton content included 1972 candidates in the Republic of India: Amar Nath Vidyalankar (Democratic Socialism), Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (Paternalistic Conservatism), E.M.S. Namboodiripad (Revolutionary Front), Mani Ram Bagri (Agrarian Socialism), N. G. Ranga (National Liberalism), Raghu Vira (National Conservatism), and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Fascist Populism). The only one who has a portrait is Vajpayee, and all have since been cut.
165
166	%%Other things to look into:
167	%%TV Tropes history (Asia and South Asia page) contains some history on India and Azad Hind paths; all contents featured in teasers
168	%%Loc still present in-game at release has more info on cut paths
169	%%Mercenaries under Mad Mike Hoare couping the Maldives
170	%%Spughatti mentioned Sahgal could lead an Indian Anarchy faction called Azad Guard
171	%% India intervening in 1970 Bhola Cyclone? Might have been reworked instead of cut.
172
173	%%Indian Civil War Anarchy factions
174
175	%% Azad Hind explosion: https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/e3p1id/azad_hind_breakaway_states_leak/
176	%%National Socialist Council of Nagaland was a Maoist organization ideologically categorized as National Socialist purely because of the name
177
178	%%LibSoc Azad Hind becoming a Pakt Observer for no goddamn reason
179
180	[[/folder]]
181
182	[[folder:Latin America]]
183
184	!Brazil
185
186	* Prior to the integration of "Cold Southern Springs", Brazil's starting leader was Juscelino Kubitschek, who can now only come to power if he wins the 1965 elections.
187	* On Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, one of the members of TNO's South America team has given statements on scrapped content concerning South America, particularly Brazil:
188	** The member [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-new-order-last-days-of-europe-thread-ii.508299/page-95#post-22388540 pitched an idea for an Ultranationalist Catholic path for Brazil]] led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinio_Correa_de_Oliveira Plinio Correa de Oliveira]], being similar to the National Redemption Front. It was rejected by the rest of the team for being "too memey".
189	** [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-new-order-last-days-of-europe-thread-ii.508299/page-96#post-22400520 Other content rejected by the rest of the TNO South America team]] includes:
190	*** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Albert_Boilesen Henning Boilesen]] was once Carlos Lacerda's economic minister, later replaced by Hélio Beltrão, who was once João Figueiredo's economic minister.
191	*** Plínio Salgado was classed as a Despotist but was later changed for three reasons: Because Despotism is an anti-democratic ideology, the South America team found evidence that Salgado was far more Fascist than at first glance, and because sub-ideologies made it perfect for him to be classed as a Fascist.
192	*** Adhemar de Barros was able to rewrite the election law and rule for a second term, but this was cut since it would overcomplicate every single election afterward.
193	*** [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-new-order-last-days-of-europe-thread-ii.508299/page-194#post-23359113 Filinto Müller was meant to have a route]], described as being a hardliner akin to a right-wing UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev. This was cut after the team found out that he never had aspirations to rule and preferes to be TheManBehindTheMan.
194	* An early teaser for Brazil in ''Cold Southern Springs'' shows Tancredo Neves being the 1965 election candidate for the PSD, instead of the current one Juscelino Kubitschek.
195	* After a portrait for Juscelino Kubitschek's wife Sarah was found in the files, it was revealed on [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930154208588615691/984943436295725136/unknown.png this Discord post]] that an initial idea for Kubitschek was him running his wife as a possible candidate for the Presidency after his term limit ended.
196	* According to this other [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930154208588615691/984949224166785024/unknown.png Discord post]], Adhemar de Barros was supposed to be the starting President of Brazil at some point.
197	* It was revelead in [[https://theneworder11.wixsite.com/tno-qna/post/brazil-qna-nr-o this QnA]] that it was suggested for Salgado to have a black foreign minister but it was rejected due to be considered "too much optimistic" about the status of racism in Brazil during the 60s.
198	* [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-new-order-last-days-of-europe-thread-ii.508299/page-195#post-23395248 According to a conversation]] between a Brazilian contributor and [=CSS=]'s original Brazilian Dev, Vargas would be in power in 1962, as the Brazilian starting leader under Despotism and Tancredo Neves would be his head of government with Felinto Müller as the security minister. Vargas would die in the carnival of 1962 and this would cause a government collapse that would result in a coup made by Lott that would put Tancredo as the head of a interim government to call new elections. The original Dev also recalled that the other presidential candidate would've been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affonso_Arinos_de_Mello_Franco Affonso Arinos]] and the capital would still be in Rio (with Brasília only being built if Juscelino Kubitschek became President).
199	* Lacerda was planned to run for the 1970 election, which was dropped so that someone else can be used in his place and give more gameplay variety.
200
201	!Argentina
202
203	* Juan Carlos Coral was the original 1969 president for the Partido Socialista, exploiting older mannerisms to appeal to the rural population and hiding his more extreme Trotskyist views so that the military doesn't coup him. He was later removed because he was deemed too young and extreme to have had the political prestige to run for president.
204	* Rogerio Julio Frigerio originally ran for president himself in 1963. It is now Carlos Alberto Pérez Companc who campaigns for the position, while Frigerio acts as his DragonInChief.
205	* In old lore, the Radical Civic Union was still one party divided into two wings led by Arturo Frondizi and Ricardo Balbín, which the player needs to [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763788284039790656/863111027473383444/argentina_leak.png keep united]] so that it can remain electorally relevant. This was reworked so that both factions have split into distinct parties before game start.
206	* The candidate who runs in the 1964 Presidential elections on the platform of bringing back Perón (and does exactly that after victory) was changed from Andrés Framini to Vicente Solano Lima.
207
208	!Peru
209
210	* Skeleton content used to expand into 1963 elections, including:
211	** Manuel Seoane, a progressive who ran on a program of more welfare for all Peruvians.
212	** Pedro Beltrán, a liberal conservative hated by the Peruvian left for his welfare cuts.
213	** Moreyra Paz Soldán, a successor and continuation of Manuel Prado Ugarteche's administration.
214	** Hector Cornejo Chávez, an obscure conservative figure, whom many suspect to be a puppet controlled by the Alianza Conservadora Democratica Nacional.
215	* If Prado was assassinated and the 1963 elections become too chaotic, Ricardo Pérez Godoy would lead a military coup and establish a junta, under a vague promise that it will be dismantled when "order is restored".
216
217	!Caribbean
218
219	* Fidel Castro initially started out as a US-backed Authoritarian Socialist (a communist, before the far-left ideologies were reworked) who was landed at the Bay of Pigs by the CIA to depose the German-backed Batista. This has been changed following the integration of the Cold Southern Springs mod to TNO proper, where Castro is a Cuban nationalist who can become a democratic socialist or Mexico-inspired dictator depending on his choices. [[note]]This is arguably a more accurate portrayal of Castro, as Castro seemingly embraced communism through his alignment to Moscow following the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the culmination of worsening relations between him and the US. During the revolution itself, he appeared to really hold no ideology other than a vaguely left-wing outlook alongside his own nationalism, and even Che Guevara stated shortly after their victory in 1959 that he personally believed Castro wasn't a communist.[[/note]]
220	* The Dominican Republic's starting President used to be Joaquín Balaguer; he now serves as Prime Minister under President Rafael Trujillo.
221	* François Duvalier was originally Haiti's fascist President by game start. He was replaced by Louis Déjoie as the starting President, and is no longer depicted as a fascist.
222	* When Kirkpatrick was originally an NPP presidential candidate and before the Puerto Plata invasion was implemented, her first mission as President was to overthrow Balaguer/Trujillo (depending on the game version) and install a pro-American puppet state in the Dominican Republic.
223
224	!Other
225
226	* Older versions of the game featured Victor Paz Estenssoro as Bolivia's starting leader, until he was replaced by Armando Alba Zambrana.
227	* Back in the early days of the mod, [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/mfaond/why_do_poland_and_venezuela_have_so_many_states/gsmso9r/ Venezuela was meant to be the site of a civil war]]. According to the dev in the link, it's why Venezuela has a lot of states despite not playing any role in the world.
228	* In this Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-new-order-last-days-of-europe-thread-ii.508299/page-150#post-22801360 post]] a dev from the Latin America team informed that during the early stages of the Cold Southern Springs mod he suggested for esoteric far-right dictator [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano_Hernández_Martínez Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]] to start as the leader of a Burgundian System regime in El Salvador. Said idea was rejected due to due the fact that the generation of military officers that kept him in power was retiring and newer officers were against his dictatorship resulting in they overthrowing it like in our timeline.
229	* David [=McDonald=] and Oscar Mario Aguerrondo were the original leaders of the Panama Canal Zone and the Uruguayan Occupational Zone, respectively.
230	* Colombia was originally a whole country and a liberal democracy led by Alberto Lleras Camargo, implying that La Violencia ended the same way it did in real life. In current lore, La Violencia is still ongoing (with a ceasefire being in place by game start), represented by Colombia's territory being divided into three separate countries, which declare war on each other when the truce breaks and the CivilWar resumes.
231	* The leader of the Colombian industrialists, who could overthrow the National Fascist Party after New Granada wins La Violencia, was changed from José Lisandro Sierra Velásquez to Diego Garcés Giraldo.
232	* José María Velasco Ibarra was the original starting President of Ecuador. Currently, by game start, Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy leads Ecuador while Velasco is living in exile, though he can return to power under the right circumstances.
233	* According to this [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/941434176580747264/957296735573659698/Ecuador_preleak.png old biography]] of Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, Peru invaded Ecuador because former President Camilo Ponce Enríquez tore apart the Lima Treaty in a desperate bid to save his unpopular presidency. This was later changed so that Ecuador was invaded because a communist revolution took place and Peru sought to put it down before it could reach Peru.
234	* The original far-right path for Uruguay involves a coup by the Death Squad led by Juan Pedro Ribas. He was replaced by actual fascists because conceptually the path couldn't work--most of the army is still legalist and wouldn't accept a Francoist paramilitary leader with ambiguous loyalties like Ribas.
235	* In the first release, Venezuela's situation was the same as real life: a liberal democracy dominated by President Rómulo Betancourt's party, Democratic Action. When the country entered design, the decision was made to have Betancourt die before game start so the Venezuelan political scene would be more colourful.
236	[[/folder]]
237
238	[[folder:Africa]]
239	For the African Reichskommissariats, see the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEuropeEinheitspakt Germany and the Einheitspakt]] subpage. For the Italian East Africa, see the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEuropeTriumvirate Triumvirate]] subpage.
240	----
241	!West Africa
242	* Old demos showed that Guinea was originally led by Lansana Conté before being replaced by Ahmed Sékou Touré.
243	* Inland West Africa was once represented as a large patch of Anarchy, showing that Germany's bombing campaign of the region has completely wiped out all forms of authority there. Countries would only begin to emerge from the rubble when Germany falls into civil war and stops the terror bombing. This African Anarchy was later removed and the states that normally would pop out of West Africa are present from the start, though they are all demilitarized to showcase the effects of the bombings.
244	* A country named Songhai used to occupy where Sokoto currently exists in West Africa.
245	* Guinea originally controlled the region between the Bafing, Senegal, and Falémé rivers in Mali (as a panhandle), but the territory was given to the Kayes Government when the devs realized that the eponymous city of Kayes lies within this region.
246	* Gbeland was originally led by Ibrahim Babangida, a completely out-of-place Nigerian statesman and military general.
247	* One dev [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/jedy0s/where_is_it_where_is_the_free_french_content/ produced content for Free France without telling the rest of the team]], which included a ton of provinces for the Ivory Coast and ''four monarchist paths''. Due to the dev going rogue and his implementations breaking the mod, the dev was sacked from the team and very little of his content is known publicly.
248	* The president of Wolofia installed by the FMA if they defeated the WAA in the West African War was changed from Mamadou Dia to Cheikh Tidiane Sy.
249	* In old versions, Wolofia had the Haven of Africa national spirit, describing it as one of the few functional liberal democracies in Africa. It was removed to avoid unwarranted HistoricalHeroUpgrade for Léopold Sédar Senghor, whose real life counterpart employed many repressive measures to enforce his rule as a lackey of France.
250
251	!Algeria
252	* In pre-rework lore, Algeria was only ''de jure'' part of the French State; the city of Algiers is controlled entirely by the OAS (represented in-game as a demilitarised zone), with the rest of the country entirely split between the Iberian Union and Italy (in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/a1xtrq/a_tno_world_map_leaked_from_discord/ super-early]] builds, these territories were directly annexed; [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/byxtfh/algeria_leak_from_discord/ later builds]] turned them into colonies with separate tags). This was later reworked so that the French State's control was expanded to include all of the coastal cities (with the inland desert being a demilitarised zone controlled by rebels); Italy and Iberia will only intervene when the Algerian War begins. After another lore revision, Iberian Algeria was cut entirely.
253	* The Algerian War was originally a two-sided conflict between the Iberian Union and Italy before it was expanded into a four-way war with the participation of the French OASA and native Algerians.
254	* Italy's Algerian colony was led by Giuseppe Castellano, who was portrayed as a corrupt and unpopular Italian general who was eager to take the country for Italy in the hopes of repairing his negative reputation. He was later replaced by Massimo Invrea.
255	* In preparation for the Algerian War/peace settlement in older versions, the Iberian force in Algeria would've replaced their original leader, Frederico Gómez de Salazar, with Jorge Pereira Jardim, characterized as an opportunist only interested in accumulating more power in an Iberian-influenced Algeria. Now, Salazar will no longer be replaced by Jardim.
256	%%* There were numerous endings in the Algerian War, depending on whether the conflict happens, who wins the war, and who the victor puts into power.
257	%%** If Italy and Iberia decided to resolve the conflict peacefully, they would officially decolonize the region and leave it in the hands of Messali Hadj. Despite this, both the natives and Europeans will be unsatisfied with this choice, as the former will think that Hadj is a foreign puppet and the latter will think that he's too powerless to serve their interests.
258	%%** If Italy won the war, they could've put Ferhat Abbas into power, allowing him to reform and democratize Algeria. Alternatively, they could've picked Saïd Boualam instead, as his eager support for European colonization would put Algeria firmly in the Italian sphere, much to the chagrin of the native population.
259	%%** If Iberia won the war, the Pied-Noir settlers (initially led by Yves Guérin-Sérac, who was subsequently replaced by Jean-Claude Pérez) would've usurped control of the country, ceding some territory to compensate the Iberians.
260
261	!South Africa
262
263	* The original dev team found a very passionate writer willing to work on South African content in some of the earliest days of the mod, when a direction for South Africa didn't yet exist. After someone made a joke about a silly path where Nelson Mandela becomes GodEmperor of South Africa, said writer exploded into a rant about how Mandela was a terrorist who destroyed Africa, revealing himself to be an Afrikaner nationalist and that, in the words of the original lead, "the dude was racist as all shit and his passion about South Africa had been the worst kind." After he was removed, no one was quite sure what to do with South Africa until the lead developer hit on the idea of having the Reichkommissariate invade during the German civil war, sparking the South African War that would turn into a huge disaster for everyone involved.
264	* The Boer ethnostate that secedes from South Africa and sides with the Nazis was renamed from Boer Republic to Afrikaner Volkstaat. Its leader Albert Hertzog's ideology was also changed from Revolutionary Nationalism to Clerical Fascism to better represent the real Hertzog's views in OTL, namely his pan-Afrikaner beliefs and his hardline Calvinism.
265	* A cut participant in the Third South African Civil War was the OFN Forces South Africa, led by John [=McCain=] III, who led a small army of stranded OFN [=POWs=] who had escaped from Huttig's prison camps, and struck a deal with Taffy Williams and Robert Oppenheimer to help protect them from the SS, in exchange for weaponry. they have been cut as a separate state, and have been moved into being part of the South African Republic proper.
266	[[/folder]]
267
268	[[folder:Antarctica]]
269	%%For the submod Operation: Deep Freeze, officially considered canon to TNO
270	* An early Ahnenerbe Antarktis Gruppe teaser featured Otto Ohlendorf as its security minister--as it was made before the submod was integrated, the developers had yet to know that he was being used in Ukraine.
271	[[/folder]]
272
273	[[folder:Others]]
274	* In the demos, Sweden's starting Prime Minister was Olof Palme, who succeeded Tage Erlander in 1959, ten years before he did so in real life. In the first release, Erlander is still leading Sweden by game start, before being assassinated and succeeded by Torsten Nilsson in 1963. After yet another revision, Erlander took over Nilsson's role while his old role is taken by Herman Zetterberg.
275	* Panzer once briefly remarked that there can be four possible Israel nations across the world. Two proper Jewish states were found in the game at release (Israel in Italian Middle East, and Eretz Ashkenaz in Madagascar), and old lore genocidal Kovner's UPO had some Zionist undertones[[note]]Kovner's old focus tree involved funneling as many Jews out the reach of Germany as possible[[/note]]. The fourth Israel, meanwhile, was a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/ciox9s/what_is_the_fourth_israel/ev89aej/ Jewish settlement in Alaska]], as a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheYiddishPolicemensUnion''. Eretz Ashkenaz was cut in Toolbox Theory, old lore Kovner was reworked in Europas Narben, and Alaskan Israel was cut during development.
276	* Kuwait was originally owned by Italy (later the Italian Gulf), and was later given to Iraq.
277	* A teaser on the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/aw1lex/middle_east_leak_from_discord/ Middle East]] from 2019 depicted several ''weird'' factions and wars in Arabia. These include Saudi Arabia becoming the Arabian Republic (and not from an invasion by the Yemen Arab Republic), Yemen being divided into North and South Yemen, the country of Hejaz, Iraq being divided into "Sunni Iraq" and "Iraqi Islamic Republic", and Iraq and Jordan expanding into Arabia.
278	* Finland was originally a military dictatorship ruled by general Karl Lennart Oesch, even having an [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1072264986375757854/1116543071203635222/image.png incomplete focus tree]] dealing with its neutrality between the OFN and the Pakt, the delayed promises of an election, and the Russian territory it acquired after World War II.
279	* In older versions, the Communist Party of Finland and the Patriotic People's Movement could take power in Finland after Oesch's government loses the war with West Russia and is forced to cede back all territories Finland originally seized from the USSR. Currently, the communists can rebel in the middle of said war, followed by the fascists being put in power after President Rihtniemi's resignation.
280	* In early versions, Urho Kekkonen appeared as a possible President of Finland in the aftermath of liberal democracy's return. In current lore, he is politically irrelevant, since his opposition to Nazism would never have allowed him to climb the ranks of the Agrarian League, which has remained unapologetically pro-Nazi in this timeline.
281	* Prior to the implementation of the Murmansk People's Republic, the war between Finland and West Russia could've ended in a ceasefire, where the Kola Penisula and Onega are given to Russia, while Eastern Karelia becomes a buffer state between the two known as the Karelian Autonomy, led by Jaakko Sakari Simelius.
282	* Before Sweden's lore was overhauled, the developers released a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sweden_leak_2.png teaser]] on what their skeleton content would have looked like, if it was finished. Here, Tage Erlander would have been assassinated under mysterious circumstances and put Torsten Nilsson in charge of the country, mere months before the 1964 elections. In the midst of these troubles, in addition to Nilsson, there were three possible candidates to take over:
283	** Bertil Ohlin, who focused on normalizing relations with the OFN.
284	** Jarl Hjalmarson, who would push market-liberal policies and try to democratically align with the OFN over the Einheitspakt.
285	** Nils Flyg, who led a confusing coalition of far-right and far-left movements, and is considered the dark horse of the election. One notable member of the coalition was Hilding Hagberg, another potential head of state and a communist whose had to moderate his beliefs so that he can appear more palatable to the public.
286	[[/folder]]
287
288	%%Some content from Panzer's old Poland video diary (link on the reddit wiki; video has been made private)
289	%%https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/9yzgtv/heres_a_massive_list_of_heads_of_state_i_compiled/
290
291	%% Someone on the subreddit found a massive dump of early India events. Since India's getting a rework in the future, the link to this subreddit post will be kept here to compare with the events from the rework: https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/kulb5d/some_events_i_found_in_the_files/
292	%% Independent Quebec lead by Francis Daniel Johnson Sr.: https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/o7c65h/interesting_secret_things_found_in_the_files/
293	%% Unused Azad Hind icon: https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/pkg6f9/i_found_this_icon_in_the_mod_file_it_is_used/
294	%% One early dev video showed some sort of monarchy-flavored civil war in Hungary
295	%% they apparently cut the Tsushima Tunnel in Toolbox Theory.
296	%% Some claim Dirlewanger's forth wall and Sun Gun death events have been removed. Can anyone verify? Dirlewanger death event album: https://imgur.com/a/vZGjqzx
297	%% The GAW lore from the Nightmare fuel page was removed for being outdated. Since 1970s content ain't coming for a long time, saving the full entry to see what is and isn't scrapped when the time comes:
298	%%* The Great Asian War between the Japanese Empire and [[TheStarscream Gao Zongwu's China]], while not in the first release, has been stated to be a conflict which will ''kill more people than World War 2'' with over a hundred million people dying as the entire Asian continent goes up in flames as the countries of the Sphere side with China or Japan, India joins the war against the side Azad Hind is in, a newly reunited Russia joins the Great Asian War in a bid to reclaim its lost territories in Outer Manchuria, and both Germany and the United States fan the flames of war by supporting China in its conflict against Japan. And that is not even going into what Japan would do if they win the war, which has been stated to be ''the Rape of Nanjing on a national level'' as a victorious Japan, wanting to permanently secure their hegemony over Asia, will seek to erase the Chinese national identity.
299	%% Russian dev Q&A sugguested that Krasnoyarsk could be reworked into a Trotskyist warlord. Keep an eye on that. Q&A: https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/s1f7zc/russia_qa_from_the_discord_by_whiskeyjack/
300	%% Regardless of whatever the hell becomes of Krasnoyarsk at this point, the old focus tree shown years ago (https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/e73tpl/krasnoyarsk_leak_from_discord/) will be outdated to some degree
301	%% Gorby and Kaminski already have victory events for RK Moskowien reunification while the other ones have a shared placeholder. Compare to the ones seen when EN is released: https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/sj5nwk/decided_to_do_three_more_moskowien_runs/
302	%%Outdated Iberian War [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/kevr93/all_iberian_wars_winnersevent/ starting factions]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/im7djc/iberian_catastrophe/ anarchy factions]]. The latest Iberia leak implies some of these factions are still around, so add in when IE releases.
303	%%[[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/16a267l/how_possible_would_it_be_that_obama_would_exist/jz5t5ly/ It was claimed]] that the original Italian dev back in TNO's early days wanted to make Obama Sr a possible Prime Minister of Italy. Sounds fucking insane, but also sounds like early TNO to. Can anyone verify?
304	%% [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/14tjnbs/free_aviators_content_appears_to_be_in_the_works/ Code for Free Aviators content]]. Remnants of scrapped content or something incoming?

Context WhatCouldHaveBeen / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope