Incorporated Confederate Ship. In this timeline, around ~1938-39 or so, the US Government was replaced by a large-scale holding company which owns stock in most of the other monopolies and big corporations in the country. Ayn Rand is a big political player, and the entire thing is Objectivist-flavored and is reminiscent of a technologically- and aesthetically-updated version of the 1880s.
I may end up changing the name though, because I originally had a different idea of what the country was like and the name is now kind of a relic of that.
edited 12th May '12 7:57:05 PM by Flyboy
"Shit, our candidate is a psychopath. Better replace him with Newt Gingrich."The People's Democratic Republic of Greater China for the Guardianship of the Glorious Revolution.
Hm. I can see that. Just with less book-burning (except the Bible, of course) and more worship of rich people.
edited 12th May '12 8:02:37 PM by Flyboy
"Shit, our candidate is a psychopath. Better replace him with Newt Gingrich."![]()
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: I probably also should have mentioned that I want to avoid "(Direction) China", so I can call one just plain China and the other something else. The conflict between the two plays a somewhat major role in the story, and it'd be harder to differentiate between the West Chinese and the Chinese. By no means impossible, but it could still get a little confusing.
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New Shu sounds promising, and is catchy to the English ear. Would an inhabitant of that be a Shuan? Or just a Shu?
I lol'd, simply because of its length.
edited 12th May '12 8:12:46 PM by TeraChimera
And vague Wikipedia articles can never be wrong! That should be good, thanks. And if I need some more names, Wikipedia also has a list of the various names of China
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I question the wisdom of using an ancient Chinese name, though. Wasn't Communist China (when it was actually hardcore Maoist) disdainful of its past because, you know, Imperial and Nationalist China were kinda awful from a Revolutionary standpoint?
Maybe I'm wrong, though. My Chinese history is shitty shit.
"Shit, our candidate is a psychopath. Better replace him with Newt Gingrich."During the sixties, China had this supposed 'Cultural Revolution' where hundreds of old buildings, gardens, writings, religious relics, and other objects of historical origin were destroyed. This
◊ propaganda poster from that time even sports a caption translating to 'Destroy the old world, built a new world' and emphasized, like all Communists, building up the country for the people.
Just thought I'd throw that out there. Chinese history and infrastructure were what we spent my Chinese language class learning, so at least this stuff is somewhat useful.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

I need a mythological reference of some kind (preferably not Greeco-Roman and a proper name, not a generic; i.e. like Zeus, not griffon) to name an American-made experimental aerial superbattleship.
To give a vague idea of what the thing is, it's something like five times the size of the next-biggest aerial dreadnaught and carries nothing but laser banks and Tesla batteries, in a retro-futuristic alternate history 1950s Cold War-gone-hot setting. Simply put, it's big, it's mean, and it wipes the floor with enemy fleets.
"Shit, our candidate is a psychopath. Better replace him with Newt Gingrich."