AWWA-Yesterday, Today, and Forever(OOC-Closed)

[Luziyca]

No seriously for what? Writing a dystopian novel? The Von Lichts don't own the genre.

The title. Belinsky took one of Georg von Licht's titles- Liberty and Justice for All- and is now terrified that Belinsky's book will be confused with von Licht's book and that someone might decide to attack him and his family. Also, CS copyright law and "passing off" law apply.
Also, it's been established ICly that Gavriil fon Likht/Gabriel Light is a bit of a self-centered self-righteous douche, so this seems like something he'd do.

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is fighting against Congress to keep Belinsky's book legal, and the case will inevitably be tried by SCOTCS.

That is why in (east) Guyane, they release it as The Liberators.

[Ruridova]

The title. Belinsky took one of Georg von Licht's titles- Liberty and Justice for All- and is now terrified that Belinsky's book will be confused with von Licht's book and that someone might decide to attack him and his family. Also, CS copyright law and "passing off" law apply.
Also, it's been established ICly that Gavriil fon Likht/Gabriel Light is a bit of a self-centered self-righteous douche, so this seems like something he'd do.

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is fighting against Congress to keep Belinsky's book legal, and the case will inevitably be tried by SCOTCS.

Despite there being no legislation protecting international copyright in Venezuela, Belinsky shall humor Mr. von Licht.

Venezuela doesn't recognize copyright law?

That probably has some serious economic consequences.

[Ruridova]

FFS slavery ended in 1891, and it's 1897 now.

[Unicario]

FFS slavery ended in 1891, and it's 1897 now.

Yeah, but it's going to be used as a means to attack the Confederacy by implying that Jim Crow is just another form of it. Most countries had abolished slavery long before 1891, and popular analysis of the Confederate Rebellion would be that they were fighting for slavery, since the British wanted to abolish it. So the stain of "you're slaveholders" isn't going to go away very easily.

[Ruridova]

FFS slavery ended in 1891, and it's 1897 now.

Yeah, but it's going to be used as a means to attack the Confederacy by implying that Jim Crow is just another form of it. Most countries had abolished slavery long before 1891, and popular analysis of the Confederate Rebellion would be that they were fighting for slavery, since the British wanted to abolish it. So the stain of "you're slaveholders" isn't going to go away very easily.

Hendricks is actually going to fight Jim Crow and lose, try to get the Jim Crow laws overturned by SCOTCS, but they rule that it isn't the federal government's place to be involved. He's a Democrat, but he's also from Indiana, one of the "free states"(both with slavery and Jim Crow).

[Unicario]

Yeah, but it's going to be used as a means to attack the Confederacy by implying that Jim Crow is just another form of it. Most countries had abolished slavery long before 1891, and popular analysis of the Confederate Rebellion would be that they were fighting for slavery, since the British wanted to abolish it. So the stain of "you're slaveholders" isn't going to go away very easily.

Hendricks is actually going to fight Jim Crow and lose, try to get the Jim Crow laws overturned by SCOTCS, but they rule that it isn't the federal government's place to be involved. He's a Democrat, but he's also from Indiana, one of the "free states"(both with slavery and Jim Crow).

That's true, but a significant number of the states continue to support the racist ideology, so the whole cultural interpretation by many countries that the CSA isn't all that great will carry on until Jim Crow is toppled, or until the CSA reconciles differences with it's neighbors. Japan's view on the CSA is that of an imperialist evil until the Pearl Harbor summit in the early 1950s, then they're viewed as racists and rivals, so on and so forth until they reconcile.

[Bojikami]

Despite there being no legislation protecting international copyright in Venezuela, Belinsky shall humor Mr. von Licht.

Venezuela doesn't recognize copyright law?

That probably has some serious economic consequences.

It recognizes copyright of VENEZUELAN works. Not international ones.

[Unicario]

Venezuela doesn't recognize copyright law?

That probably has some serious economic consequences.

It recognizes copyright of VENEZUELAN works. Not international ones.

*Japanese glance* Moving on.

[Unicario]

Question, how do we justify George Takei being Confederate? His parents were Japanese, he was a Buddhist, and his dad was a vehement Anglophile... if not Japanese, he'd be Canadian.

Because by standard, we'd follow the "birthplace" rule, which would mean that George Takei is indeed a Confederate, but if we follow the Benjamin Netanyahu/Kim Kardashian rule, then his ancestry and the influence of the events before his birth would place him elsewhere. His father was an Anglophile and Japanese, which would naturally disposition him against the Confederate States in it's entirety, seeing it as an evil to both of his loved nations.

So what standard is it? Birthplace rule doesn't work necessarily, considering several people in the RP's history have been moved around based on their ancestral homeland, not their actual birthplace...

[Ruridova]

Question, how do we justify George Takei being Confederate? His parents were Japanese, he was a Buddhist, and his dad was a vehement Anglophile... if not Japanese, he'd be Canadian.

He was born in Los Angeles. His father was born in Yamanashi, Japan, but his mother was born in Sacramento.

And as Anglophilic as Takei's father might have been, OTL and ATL, he still moved to California, not British Columbia.

[Unicario]

Question, how do we justify George Takei being Confederate? His parents were Japanese, he was a Buddhist, and his dad was a vehement Anglophile... if not Japanese, he'd be Canadian.

He was born in Los Angeles. His father was born in Yamanashi, Japan, but his mother was born in Sacramento.

Yeah, but we haven't exactly followed the birthplace rule regularly. Kim Kardashian and Ben Netanyahu are two examples I can think of, of people we've changed their birthplace due to circumstances. I don't see Norman Takei walking over to the CSA considering his ardent Anglophilia. He'd likely go to Canada before the CSA.

That makes no sense for him to go to California.

[Ruridova]

He was born in Los Angeles. His father was born in Yamanashi, Japan, but his mother was born in Sacramento.

Yeah, but we haven't exactly followed the birthplace rule regularly. Kim Kardashian and Ben Netanyahu are two examples I can think of, of people we've changed their birthplace due to circumstances. I don't see Norman Takei walking over to the CSA considering his ardent Anglophilia. He'd likely go to Canada before the CSA.

That makes no sense for him to go to California.

OTL Norman Takei moved to the USA instead of Canada.

[Unicario]

Yeah, but we haven't exactly followed the birthplace rule regularly. Kim Kardashian and Ben Netanyahu are two examples I can think of, of people we've changed their birthplace due to circumstances. I don't see Norman Takei walking over to the CSA considering his ardent Anglophilia. He'd likely go to Canada before the CSA.

That makes no sense for him to go to California.

OTL Norman Takei moved to the USA instead of Canada.

Yeah, but the OTL USA didn't bomb Japan in 1891 and wage war against the British Empire.

[Ruridova]

OTL Norman Takei moved to the USA instead of Canada.

Yeah, but the OTL USA didn't bomb Japan in 1891 and wage war against the British Empire.

Can you please just let me keep Takei? I don't want this to blow up into a massive argument.

[Unicario]

Yeah, but the OTL USA didn't bomb Japan in 1891 and wage war against the British Empire.

Can you please just let me keep Takei? I don't want this to blow up into a massive argument.

Fine.

[Ruridova]

Can you please just let me keep Takei? I don't want this to blow up into a massive argument.

Fine.

I just want to make sure that we don't get into a situation where I might blow this up into a huge thing that destroys the thread.

[Shrillland]

Fine.

I just want to make sure that we don't get into a situation where I might blow this up into a huge thing that destroys the thread.

Well said, how often we've neared that is beyond count anymore.

[Unicario]

I just want to make sure that we don't get into a situation where I might blow this up into a huge thing that destroys the thread.

Well said, how often we've neared that is beyond count anymore.

The obvious personality conflicts are going to continue, as per obvious.

[Unicario]

Major published works of note in the RP including some not yet published ICly

Georg von Licht / Dzhordzh fon Likht

1. The Righteous Cause
The year is 1951, and the world is divided between eight superstates: Freistaatland, Südamerika, Nordseeallianz, Mitteleuropa, Großarabien, Zentralasien, and Ostasien. These nations are in a state of constant war that has left the world ruined. Karl Eichemann, the protagonist, is sent to end the war and bring peace; however, catastrophe kills Eichemann and restarts the feud.

2. Neither Victory Nor Peace
The empires of Jiaozhande and Hakuchi, led by the shortsighted monarchs Kangsong and Tennohito, turn a war of words and baseless accusations into a devastating continent-wide conflict that leads to millions of deaths, mass rebellions, and ultimately their own deposition. The novel was published as a criticism of escalating tensions between China and Japan.

3. Blessed are the Persecuted
Jewish German Yaakov Fiegenbaum and his family live in a defeated 1930s Germany that turns to anti-Semitic politicians Ludwig Ernst and Johannes Heisenberg, who initiate ever-increasing persecutions against German Jews. The book chronicles Yaakov and his family trying to live through the persecution. At first forced into ghetto, then into hiding, and then into a death camp, only Yaakov and his son Yitzhak survive(and Yitzhak loses his legs along the way). After the anti-Semites are deposed, the two try to rebuild their lives.

4. With Liberty and Justice For All
Black Confederate Miriam Robinson unintentionally becomes the leader of the equal rights movement in the CSA, but she gladly accepts the role, leading strikes and marches that force the Confederate government to grant equal rights to all citizens and end segregation. Surviving assassination attempts, she is elected President by a sweeping majority in 1964, cementing the progress made by the civil rights movement.

5. The Miserable Ones
Jan Janowski, a redeemed criminal who has broken his parole, must try to avoid the relentless Eugen Marschall, who seeks to put him back in chains. Meanwhile, Jan's adopted daughter Andzelika falls in love with Polish revolutionary Maksymilian Mysliwski- who is torn between his love Andzelika and his fellow revolutionaries Ostromir Wieczeslawski and Szymon Topolski. The revolutionaries rebel, but most die in the German response- though Janowski manages to save Maksymilian and bring him to Andzelika. Marschall, realizing that Janowski is indeed redeemed, kills himself; Janowski also dies shortly thereafter.

6. Vox Populi
Valentin Pushilin, head of one of the subdivisions of the Union of Federative Unified Republics, a Russia without a Tsar, works for the country's repressive dictatorship, established 80 years earlier in the 1910s. When a dispute about reform in the country leads to a hardliner coup against the country's reformist leader, Pushilin heeds the voice of the people and demands that the UFUR be done away with and replaced with numerous democratic states- a vision that ultimately comes true.

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Viktor Eberharter
(see "the Miserable Ones" under Georg von Licht)

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Josef Ibakov
1. Blood of the Crescent
In a semi-propagandized account of the siege of Sevastopol/Aqyar, Ibakov accuses the Crimean army of committing various war crimes during its fight for independence from Ukraine.

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Michael Matsudaira

1. The Fading Sun
In an alternate timeline, the Japanese shogunate defeats Go-Daigo and initiates a period of isolation that leaves Japan technologically backward and abused by foreign powers. Despite a push to modernize and gain the respect of world leaders, Japan is largely destroyed after several brash and dictatorial leaders wreck the country, leaving it devastated. The story ends with the few remaining Japanese chafing under Chinese rule.

2. Unit 731
Written as an unofficial partner to Blessed are the Persecuted, this book follows the bloody trail left by a Japanese army unit committing mass crimes against Chinese civilians and Americaner POWs in a dystopic war-torn world.

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Gavriil fon Likht / Gabriel Light

1. The Great World Wars
Fon Likht, taking a page from his father's books, writes about a hellish world dominated by poor economics, warring nations, technology used for genocide, and brutal dictators. The book follows the world through two Great Wars that leave much of the world devastated and millions dead, and foments decades of international division and distrust. In the end, every one of the book's six main characters dies, whether they 'won' the wars or 'lost' them.

2. The Life and Times of Edward Harper
Canadian intelligence worker Edward Harper realizes that the Royal Intelligence Agency of Canada is breaking Canadian privacy laws with its spying program, and decided to steal classified documents and leak them to the press. Fleeing to the Confederacy, he begins releasing the documents, which reveal Canadian spying at home and abroad. The news spreads like wildfire, and he is variously declared a hero and a traitor as a global debate on surveillance begins. The book ends with the RIA's head telling the press that Harper has only released a tiny fraction of the data he took.

3. A Time of Destruction (original)
Nongbu Jeonghwan, a member of the Yeojeon ethnic minority, begins to lead a fight against the oppressive rule of the Henkyoese Emperor Go-Yowai and his bloodthirsty general Satsujin Hijoshikina. The ability of the Henkyoese to respond is hampered by Henkyo's war on the Free States of Terranova; however, Satsujin's army are still able to exterminate and enslave hundreds of Yeojeon. Seeking peace, Nongbu meets Satsujin to discuss peace; Satsujin kills him. Nongbu is ultimately avenged by his rival and Deputy Chancellor, Jyeonlyeong Dongmaeng: Jyeonlyeong strangles Satsujin and forces Henkyo to let Yeojeonia become independent.

4. A Few Good Men
Two Confederate Marines, Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Louden Downey, are accused of murdering Private Guillermo Santiago while they were stationed at the CS military base near Guantanamo, Cuba; Navy JAGs Lieutenant Commander Joseph Galloway and Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee are assigned to the defense. Eventually, it comes out that Dawson and Downey are innocent, and that Santiago was in fact killed by their commanding officer, Colonel Nathan Jessup.

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Muhammad Abbas

1. The Crescent and the Star
In a book postulated to be Rumite propaganda by some, Abbas describes a Middle East without Rum as a Middle East in total chaos. Islamic radicalism, ideological coups, ethnic feuds, and Zionism all lead to the deaths of thousands and permanent instability, which is taken advantage of by various foreign powers seeking to exploit the region.

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Chodren Dawa / Eva Koch

1. The Effects of Leftism
The book begins in a totally uniform world- however, we soon learn that the hero, known only as Equality, has a hard time fitting in. He falls in love with a woman named Liberty, and after the government tries too hard to impress conformity on them, they form a rival society that brings back individuality to the world.

2. Obscurity
Architect Wei Nianqing and his colleague Se Jidu face difficulties as they lose out to architects better at sweet-talking clients. However, people eventually turn to Wei and Se's more inspired and modern architecture. Se turns on Wei and attempts to destroy his empire and kill him; ultimately, though, Wei comes out on top.

3. The East is Red
In Chodren Dawa's first play, she describes an alternate future where China is not as fortunate as it was. In several wars over opium and rebellions over everything the emperor does, China grows steadily weaker and more divided before having the monarchy overthrown and a period of total warlordism break out. As the period of warlordism ends, a period of ideological warfare breaks out(supported by the Japanese, who invade and establish various puppets). Ultimately, China winds up under a group of dictatorial rulers who must be defeated by the government-in-exile of China's brief period of democracy. After the return of peace and liberty to the country, it is unified, strong, and happy at last.

4. The Asian Manifesto
Chodren Dawa here outlines her plans for the creation of a libertarian Asian Union, dominated by China. Though initially weak, this Asian Union would grow stronger and stronger as time passed, eventually uniting Asia under one banner once and for all.

5. The Expedition
In a world where volcanic winter has nearly destroyed humanity, a pair of Indians named Rajacamaka and Kalibeta explore the world to see if any other humans remain alive. They pick up some survivors and explore much of the coast, Rajacamaka and Kalibeta fight often, and Rajacamaka ultimately maroons Kalibeta on Sri Lanka, before returning to Dhaka with the survivors.

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Jean-Louis Bouclier

1. The Impure Blood
The first play based on the Righteous Cause, Bouclier's work is a pro-Guyanese and anti-Brazilian propaganda piece in which Eichemann dies in Südamerika and is replaced by violent revolutionary Maxmilien Bouclier, who united the world by force and exterminated his opposition to bring about utopia.

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Karl Jung / Rong Kai-er

1. The Autumn of Empires (book)
The fictional realm of Ojczyzna, once a great empire, has been divided between the nations of Westens, Südens, and Dong, which has left the people demoralized and abused. Farmer Alojzy Swidzinski takes up the cause of his country and leads a campaign to liberate his homeland from foreign rule. Alojzy is initially successful, and named King of Ojczyzna as reward, but is murdered and replaced by a turncoat who returns foreign rule to the country.

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Li Xiagong

1. The Final Solution
In the most hated book ever written, Li Xiagong calls for the total extermination of 'Japonic races', declaring them to be inferior to 'Sinic' races. He also calls for the Chinese Empire to grow significantly, to the point where it spans the entire Orient.

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Tamerlan Jaharnaev

1. The Autumn of Empires (play)
Based on Karl Jung's book, this play adaptation replaced Dong with Vostok(an anti-Russian move, which in unsurprising given that Jaharnaev was Caucasian). The ending is also modified: Alojzy's brother Wladyslaw finally finishes his brother's dream and guarantees Ojczyzna's independence.

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Ardghal O'Berach

1. Fruit of Freedom
The author outlines his idea of a united, independent Ireland, free from British rule and run by a secular High King and Catholic clergy. O'Berach also outlined plans to promote Irish culture and to 'cleanse' the island of English influence. However, he warns, the book is for Ireland only, and is not for foreign use.

2. Ireland and the World
Furious at global support for Britain, O'Berach returns to criticize the world standing by as the British exploited Ireland. He also proposed that an independent Ireland should colonize Africa or the Caribbean. He also advocates ethnic nationalism globally.

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Mao Peng-hui

1. Entrance to Heaven
A Chinese family moves to the imperial colony in Chinese East Africa to seek a better life for themselves and to 'civilize the continent'. When stranded, a group of kind but backward Africans and heroic Chinese soldiers help them to Tianshang. The book was released to promote colonization of Africa by East and West alike, portraying Africans as savages in need of civilizing by foreign powers.

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Phillip Engel

1. The Fates of Men
The play version of the Righteous Cause endorsed by Georg von Licht himself. The Fates of Men stole bits and pieces of the other plays about the story to create something of an anthology, containing something from every one.

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Antero de Quental

1. Slaughter of the Moors
Ibrahim Muladi, a wealthy Moor, rebels against the oppressive Prince João of Algarve. Establishing a small Moorish emirate, they briefly experience independence before the Portuguese reclaim the land and slaughter the Moors en masse, leaving Algarve a barren wasteland.

2. Twilight of the Peace
After criticizing the Portuguese monarchy and being driven out of the country, João Llano travels the world searching for a place to start anew. Llano's unfortunate association with the dimwitted Antero results in them being driven from Guyane, Italy, and the Confederacy. Ultimately, Llano drowns Antero and returns to Portugal- where he is pardoned on the morning of his execution.

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Haruna Hachisuka

1. The Eternal Soldiers
A six-part series focusing on the rebellion led by Riku Sukaiuoka against the Dark Shogun, once Riku's father Anakin. Riku briefly falls in love with her long-lost sister Kiki, but the relationship doesn't last.

2. The Story of Haruka Kamakura
An adapted form of the Chinese fable of Hua Mulan, this story follows Haruka Kamakura in her adventure to find honor and justice through the Imperial Restoration of 1331 and the later Kyoto Rebellion of 1340.

3. Freedom in the Stars
In the year 2009, British bureaucrat William MacAlister must face the Confederate States of America, led by President Lewis Wright and General Robert Jenkins, to reveal the fact that it has revived its slaving practices, banned by the CSA in 1891, and taken them into space. The Confederacy, in the process, makes several other incriminating errors. Ultimately, the rest of the world forcefully balkanizes the Confederacy, dividing it into several small puppet states.

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August Breckenridge

1. The Battlestar
After the United States of Kobol are destroyed by the evil robotic Cylons, who view humanity as inherently cruel and evil, the surving humans- led by President Rosalyn Laurent and Captain Frederick Adamson- must face against the Cylons and their allies, largely represented by Cylon Model Six and Dr. Hadrian Callis, as they attempt to find the long-lost thirteenth state of Earth.

2. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
Based off of Gavriil fon Likht's time in a Russian gulag, this book follows Ivan Shukhov as he attempts to survive a ten-year jail term for a crime he did not commit. The book describes his relations with the other members of his work gang: Tyurin, the foreman; Yushenko, his assistant; Klevshin, a former soldier; Markovich, an intellectual; Kilgas, a Lithuanian separatist; Golpchik, a boy accused of treason; Fetyukov, a prisoner for decades; Buynovsky, a former naval officer; and Leshenov, a Baptist. Ultimately, the book says that it was only their unity and solidarity that allowed them to keep living.

3. The Kings of Folly
A book criticising Venezuela's two-faced attitude, it depicts a group of students stuck on an island in the South Pacific. In the process, the initially friendly parties of Brazilians, Venezuelans and Confederates turn on each other, leading to the insanity of one student and the death of the Confederates.

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Jeffery Date

1. Seigi no Gen'in
Japanese operatic adaptation of The Righteous Cause.

2. Dai Nippon Teikoku
Sengoku Games play for 1837, it illustrates numerous points in Japanese history, and highlights the mantle of Meiji's glorious reign.

3. The Sunrise of Nations
A play to illustrate the unity of nations, involves numerous national anthems and representation of world leaders as of 1837.

4. Aux Armes Citroyens
An opera about the French Revolution and the cause of the Jacobins and later, Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Hirosuke Satsuma

1. Kamikōgō
First publication that started the Sanguinist Movement in Japan. Called Meiji the "daughter of the Lord" and declared her a divine person. Sparked massive religious movement around Meiji in Japan after her death in 1837.

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Oleksandr Kostiuk

1. Moya Borotʹba
"My Struggle", a book that highlights the plans of Kostiuk against the Crimeans, whom he blames for most of the world's problems. Considered Nazi propaganda and banned in most nations who forbid Nazi imagery and symbolism.

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Grigory Petrovsky

1. Petrovsky's Testament
Grigory Petrovsky, sensing his coming death wrote his ideas on how the Soviet government should change into a more democratic state. It criticized current Soviet leaders and heavily suggested removing Pavlenko from power, as Petrovsky viewed Pavlenko's reforms to both the soviet system and to the government as totalitarian. Petrovsky died a few years later and the book was both published and distributed throughout the USSR by Ivan Kasparov.

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Lev Bronstein / Leon Trotsky

1. Animal Farm
Written as an attack on the brand of communism employed by the USSR, Leon Trotsky tells the story of the Azovsk Farm. The overworked and mistreated animals overthrow their human masters, seeking to create a utopia under the principles of their ideology, Animalism. However, the farm's pigs quickly become a ruling class, usurping the role that humans once held. They replace the Seven Commandments of Animalism with a single one that upholds their ultimate authority: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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Ayn Rand

1. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand describes a nation similar to the Confederacy and Canada in an unspecified time. She follows the entrepreneur Dagny Taggart, who must attempt to keep the Taggart Transcontinental rail lines open in spite of collectivization and statism and mitigate the poor decisions of her brother James. Dagny becomes an associate of steel magnate Hank Rearden, and the two notice that many other magnates are destroying their empires and vanishing. Searching for the inventor of an advanced motor, they find John Galt, who invented it- and is convincing tycoons to vanish as a form of strike against statism. Dagny refuses and returns to her home- but Galt follows her, seizes a radio station, and delivers a speech to explain the ideology of objectivism. The government collapses and Galt is picked to be the new leader of the country.

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Chaimas Galvanauskas / Hayim ben Tziyon

1. The Hope
Yitzhak Katsav, a Sephardi Jew living in al-Mayiquh, becomes the leader of a Zionist group which quickly becomes the international Zionist World Congress. He goes before the League of Nations, and gives an impassioned speech, pleading for the League to return Israel to the Jews, telling them that the only way for the long-persecuted Jews to ever know liberty and peace is to return home. The League agrees, and Katsav becomes leader of the new country. Within two years of Israel's creation, however, Rum invades, seeking to exterminate the Jews and reincorporate the territory. The international response is swift and harsh, and soon, Rum is divided up between its various ethnic groups, with the various new nations agreeing to work together in peace and cooperation to bring about a future where all people can life happy lives.

2. No Place Like Home
By now something of a formal rival to Carasso- with Galvanauskas representing the Zionists and Carasso the anti-Zionists- Galvanauskas refutes Carasso's proposals for the creation of a new Jewish state in Africa, as well as attempts by Russia to do the same with their Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Galvanauskas claims that no place but the Promised Land of Israel could ever serve as a true home for the Jews, and compares Carasso's proposal to the deportation of Native Americans to reservations by Canada and the Confederacy.

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Emmanuel Carasso / Ferdinand Eichemann

1. The Lies of Zionism
Penned as a response to the growth of Zionism among most of the world's Jews, Greek Jew Emmanuel Carasso's "truth against Zionism" treatise claims that the global Zionist movement had no legitimate grounds for seeking the return of the Holy Land to Jewish hands. Carasso praises Rum's just and fair rule of the Holy Land, and says that it belongs to Christians and Muslims as much as it does to Jews.

2. A New Zion
A follow-up to his own work, The Lies of Zionism, Carasso floats the idea of creating a new Israel in Africa, carving out land from a European or Asian colony and creating a Jewish state. He says in the book that it would satiate the Zionist desire for a Jewish homeland, and allow for Rum to retain it's own territorial integrity. Proposed lands are Japanese Mozambique, British Rhodesia and Chinese Madagascar but he says that "almost anywhere with fertile land would do wonderfully."

3. Beyond the Hill of Macedon
Turning his attention from Zionism to revanchism, Carasso advocates for countries giving up their irredentist and nationalist territorial claims- as he views Rum's release of the Balkans to Yugoslavia. He says that aggressive nationalism is the ideology most likely to plunge the world into a second Great War, and advocates more global internationalism.

4. Roma Orientalis
Here Carasso expresses an approval of Benito Mussolini's statements that Italy and Rum should be more closely united as the descendants of Rome. He also proposes rebuilding the old ruined monuments of Rome and Byzantium. He closes the book by expressing his belief as a Jew that only Sunni Islam is legitimate, and that the Sunni Caliph or Calipha should rule supreme over all Muslims, and that Shiism, Andalism, and Shurism are illegitimate.

5. The Science of Slavs and Tatars
A horribly racist criticism of a horribly racist book, Carasso expresses his distaste for Professor Suprun's assertion that Ukrainians are inferior to Crimeans by calling the Crimeans no more than slaves and mud creatures. The book is almost universally condemned and is a massive black stain on an otherwise popular author.

6. The Great Dictator
The first book under the name Ferdinand Eichemann, the story follows a soldier during the Great War, named Oleg. Oleg serves with honor on the Crimean front, but is severely injured and left in a coma for two decades. When he awakens in 1912, he finds his motherland, Ukraine, subsumed under the tyranny of "Mikhail", the all powerful Tsar-Vozhd. Under Mikhail's political group, the Sons and Daughters of the Double Cross, "liberty was banished, freedom was suppressed, and only the voice of Mikhail was heard." After encountering a group of Tatars living in a ghetto in Donetsk, he and his former commander, now a member of the secret police, orchestrate and assassination of Mikhail by poisoning him. Oleg, who looks exactly like Mikhail, replaces him, and gives a passioned speech about the need to "restore humanity to it's rightful peace with itself" and that "racism is an evil, dark belief", and the book continues into a strong criticism of Carasso and Suprun's racist texts.

7. A Headless Revolution
Here Eichemann viciously attacks Guyane, accusing it of violating the tenets of the French Revolution that it claims to draw inspiration from. He dismisses the Cult of Reason, and compared Guyanese governance unfavorably to the bloody rule of Maxmilien Robespierre. He then compares it to the other nations of the Americas, concluding that Guyane is the least democratic one on the continent.

8. The Crucible
The story begins in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1692. Reverend Parris is presiding over his daughter Betty, who is afflicted with an unknown illness. It is rumored in the town that she and other girls have been in contact with witches through Parris' slave Tituba, who the Reverend caught dancing with several teenage girls in the forest the night before. The Putnams, a very wealthy family in a nearby farm have a daughter Ruth, afflicted with a similar problem. The girls assemble by Betty's side and Abigail Williams, the leader of the girls, threatens to "behead" those who speak out against the girls for what they did that night. In the ensuing mess, the girls are caught up in fervor to quickly put many to their deaths over not believing in witches, among other things. Danforth, governor of the province, arrives and helps with the girl's hysteria, sending several good, innocent people to die. John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth live on the outskirts of the town, and are oblivious to the problem. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail some months prior while Elizabeth was afflicted with typhus, and Abigail and Betty then accuse Abigail of witchcraft, a charge which she denies ferverently, and John does as well. John admits to his lust, but Elizabeth, in passion for her husband, rejects the idea. John grows angry and decries God, saying "God is dead". He is then accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang as well. John is given one chance to repent, and admit he contracted with the Devil, but refuses, choosing to die. The book ends with the Lord's prayer being recited by Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor, before they are hung.

9. The Sublime Porte
In a sequel to von Licht's the Righteous Cause set in the year 1984, a Greek woman in Großarabien, known only as Eudokia, begins to search the world for the grave of the deceased Karl Eichemann, believing that there might be a secret way to end the global war. However, all she finds inside are a series of numbers- missile launch codes- that are stolen from her and used to trigger nuclear war, extinctions most of what remains of humanity.

10. Ibrahim of Arabia
This book follows the story of Ibrahim, an English convert to Islam, who rises up and unites the peninsula with his armies. However, at the end of the war, he is betrayed by a British commander. Afterwards, the Middle East is nearly totally destroyed by a mixture of European colonialism and fascism.

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Manami Hosokawa

1. A War of Brothers
A play depicting the Great War, opened for the first in 1899. The play depicts a Japanese soldier and a Confederate soldier's story as they fight on the frontlines of the Meiji Islands campaign. They encounter each other and soon discover that they are biological twins, seperated at birth on the Hawaiian Islands between an Americaner father and a Japanese mother. The father took the Confederate son back to the Confederacy and raised him in California, while the mother returned back to her home in Kyushu and raised the other son as Japanese. The two realize that they're more alike than different, despite being from two nations. They reconcile at the end of the war, and seperate, but remain in contact until they grow old, where they meet once again on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor, for the last time.

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Gaius leFevre

1. To Rome and Back
In this book, leFevre talks about the possible outcome of a war between France and Italy, held to reclaim the lost territories of Provence and Côte d'Azur. LeFevre concludes that- despite France's defeat in the recent Great War- a conflict between France and Italy would be laughably one-sided, with French forces easily fighting their way to Rome, taking it, and then fighting back to the French border.

2. Hell for Rome, Heaven for Paris
Here, leFevre mocks Italy's leadership, comparing its Emperors to the old Roman emperors Caligula and Nero. He thoroughly satirizes the Italian political system and mocks its politicians. He contrasts this with his perception of French politics: calm, rational, and proud.

3. 1892: A Part Lost
LeFevre now accuses Italy of barbarism in its conquest of Provence-Cote d'Azur, and the displacement of French that followed. He details French civilians being forced out of their homes and stripped of their lands, to be replaced by Italian citizens. He also accuses the Italian military of unfairly targeting French civilians on numerous occasions.

4. Amsterdam a Mystery
Turning his attention away from Italy, leFevre now questions the legitimacy of the Treaty of Utrecht, in which France lost Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, and Provence-Cote d'Azur. He accuses the Dutch of working with other global powers- most notably Japan- to intentionally humiliate France on the global stage, and leave it crippled and divided.

5. Avignon Forever After
LeFevre now turns his attention towards religion. He praises the French Church, which he views as morally superior to other Christian churches. He also praises the isolated French city of Avignon, where the church is based.

6. Rome: Example of Sin
In contrast to his praise for Avignon, leFevre has nothing but bitter criticism for the Roman Catholic Church- which he views as a pit of debauchery, corruption, and immorality. He dismisses the Catholic clergy as a band of pedophiles and frauds.

7. Monarchism: Ideology of Evil
Here leFevre rails against the evils of monarchies, linking all of France's failures to monarchies and monarchism- absolute, constitutional, and ceremonial. He proposes that France ban monarchies and that the country's legislature be made more powerful to prevent autocracy.

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Alaric Bisser

1. My Best Enemy
In the 1960s, a crippled France and a declining Germany work out an alliance out of mutual goals, in spite of centuries of conflict. Over the ensuing decades, France and Germany stand together against a communist Britain exporting the revolution, a Russian-Spanish-Dutch triumvirate, a Chinese war of colonial conquest in Africa, a massive fascist uprising in both countries, and a war to reclaim territories taken from them by their neighbors. After this final war, the French President and German Chancellor realize that the old animosity is gone, replaced by mutual friendship and admiration.

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Benito Mussolini

1. Renovatio Imperii
This book describes an alternate where Italy conquers all of France, annexing it and committing a genocide against the French people and French culture before forcing Rum under Italian rule through political union. The book ends with both countries preparing to destroy the German and Russian 'barbarians'.

2. The Doctrine of Fascism
Mussolini now writes a political treatise, preaching his own version of the ideology of fascism(first adopted, ironically, by the French, who Mussolini despised). He praises the army and the emperor, dismissing Italy's democratic institutions as weak and corrupt. Mussolini proposes the creation of a militaristic autocracy that would bring France back to greatness- by force.

3. Magni Resurrecto
In his third book, Mussolini declares Italy to be the only successor to Western Rome, and Rum the only successor to Eastern Rome. He also expresses a great admiration for the British Empire. He also declares that Italy should attempt to rebuild the Roman Empire by force and conquer its former territories- excluding those held by Rum and Britain.

4. Life in a Fascist State
Dedicated to the Kostiuks and Agriolis, this book describes Mussolini's ideal fascist nation, including the full mobilization of the populace, the military as a social class, and the government's power being consolidated at its highest echelons.

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Antony Belinsky

1. The State of the Working Class
In a criticism of capitalism, Ukrainian-Romanian communist revolutionary Antony Belinsky describes the horrors of life for a poor laborer in the country through the perspective of a fictional Ukrainian-Romanian named Ciprian Ianscu. Ianscu works inhumane hours in slavelike and lethal conditions in a weaponry factory, for almost no reward whatsoever. Though originally intended only for Ukraine-Romania, it soon became a tome used by communist groups globally.

2. Liberty and Justice For All
A criticism of the Confederate States, this book depicts a dystopian future in which the Confederacy rules all of the Americas and has suppressed the Spanish language. Condemned by the CSA and banned, the book was embraced in South America as an example of their need to resist American imperialism.

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Alexander Yamato

1. Aboard the Circumstance
Emperor Alexander, nearing death after many years of rule, tells the story of his travels around the world as a young man. He also describes his meetings with various levels of society and various world leaders across the globe. He explains why he left on the trip(a vision of his grandmother, Akiko Meiji), and why he chose the countries that he did.

2. Die Wacht am Rhein
A musical dedicated to the Germans, an ally of Japan in the Great War, it involves the story of the rise of Germany after the Seven Years War through Heinrich and Wilhelm von Pfalz.

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Mehmet Suprun

1. A Time of Destruction (Crimean edit)
A version of fon Likht's original novel, intensely edited to serve as anti-Caucasian literature. The Yeojeon are replaced by Azeris, and the Henkyoese are replaced with Georgians, in reference to the Holocaust that had occurred within Caucasia's borders.

2. The Science of the Crimean and the Ukrainian
A racist comparison of Crimeans to Ukrainians -- Suprun insists that Ukrainians are mentally, physically and in general, inferior to the Crimean Tatar, as a justification of segregation between the two races.

3. The Civilized
Yusuf Ugyar, the teenage son of a wealthy Crimean merchant in Ukraine, is forced to run away after the government of Oleksandr Kostiuk enacts the Poltava Laws. He disguises himself as a Ukrainian, and founds the Greater Khanate Movement, which seeks the return of Crimea's borders to their situation in 1600. He attempts to rebel against Kostiuk, but the Crimean Khan fails to support him and Ugyar's army is crushed at Mariupol. After the rebellion, Ukraine-Romania orders the extermination of every Crimean in the country and prepares to invade Crimea.

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Robert Lee Light

1. The Sons of Israel
Though slightly fictionalized, the book is intended to be a decently accurate summary of the lives, times, and interactions of Chaimas Galvanauskas/Hayim Ben Tziyon, founder of the Zionist World Congress, and Emmanuel Carasso/Ferdinand Eichemann, the leading anti-Zionist Rumite author.

2. Entrance to Hell
In 1899, the partially-colonized region of South Apenica is controlled by three groups: the Umthetwa Kingdom, the only black South Apenican state, led by King Isandlawhayo Zibhebu; the Griekwa Free State, populated by the descendants of a previous colonizer, led by President Benedijkt van der Ijssel; and the Dominion of South Apenica, a territory of the mighty Albionian Empire, ruled globally by Queen Alexandra, with the Dominion being led by Governor Edmund Everard. The three nations are all fighting a bloody war- the Umthetwans driven to defend their home and the Griekwans to keep their sovereignty, whereas the Albionians fight only for gold and blood.

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Charlotte Fengliguoda Huang

1. A Scheme for the Simplification of Hanzi Characters
Ultimately adopted by the Jiaozhouan government, and now one of the major distinguishers between Chinese and Jiaozhouan, Fengliguoda here proposes simplifying several hundred Chinese characters in order to make Chinese languages easier to learn, which she says will increase education and literacy rates in areas speaking Sinic languages, and will ease trade and communication with foreign countries.

2. An Analysis of the Jiaozhou Situation
Here Fengliguoda analyzes the situation between Jiaozhou and China. She discusses the increasingly unique culture of Jiaozhou, including its religion and language, interviews Jiaozhouans about their feelings, and ultimately concludes that Jiaozhou is now a distinct area with little will to join China or remain in its present situation under Germany.

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Matthieu Sylvestre de Lict

1. The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Armenian peasant Hovek Hayaren joins the revolution led by Mikheil Svanidze to fight for freedom, liberty, and justice, serving in the war against imperial Russia. As time passes, however, Svanidze quickly grows despotic and cruel, destroying everything the revolutionaries were fighting for. At the end of the book, Svanidze begins the genocide of non-Caucasians in Georgia, and Hayaren is shot.

2. Separate but Equal in Dixie Land
Proposed by Robert Light but published by de Lict, this book follows the Clayton family- a family of black sharecroppers- in the fictional town of Logansburg, Alabama during the 1930s and 1940s. The book describes their suffering under the state's Jim Crow laws, and the harassment that they and other blacks face from many of the whites in Logansburg, including harassment, fraud, kidnapping, assault, and murder. He also describes the continued existence of a 'Dixie aristocracy' of wealthy whites descended from plantation owners, who can easily bribe local, county, and sometimes even state governments into doing their will.

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Unspecified / Unknown Author

1. AD 1951
The British play version of the Righteous Cause, based off of the Impure Blood, but lacking any joy to its ending. The main notable difference is the addition of weapons known as 'sun bombs'(nuclear weaponry).

2. The Deserter
Written in Italy in the early 1800s, this novel follows Adalfredo Capaccio, an Italian soldier during a war against the Ottomans. Deserting in Bosnia, he flees towards Italy to see his home and family- but is executed outside of Zagreb after being found and captured.

[Ruridova]

Handy Reference List:
Passage and Repeal of Jim Crow Laws in the CSA

Key:
No Jim Crow Laws Passed
Jim Crow Laws Passed, Repealed Before Desegregation in 1953
Jim Crow Laws Passed, Not Repealed Before Desegregation in 1953

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[The Vaktovian Empire]

I need opinions. Use the already ATL-installed Brazilian female chick as an antagonistic murderous and sexually dominant orderly and womanly, or have it be in the Spanish Moroccan province of which would pattern what I tried to do in II with Portugal and Al-Andalus (In that one as Spain). Which is more original and which sounds better and more readily interesting? (A Brazilian Republican trained at an early age as a killer by the anti-South American Pro-Confederate puppet-like Republican Brazilian Government who will turn up rocks on both the Republicans and Fascists in what I plan to be a long winded conflict in Brazil itself, or Audrey Balizar just torturing Spaniard Catholics and Andalusians alike in Morocco. Both will happen, I just want an opinion on which one I should proceed to go with now, assuming I can't wipe Bridgette Botello (The Brazilian 16 year old) from ATL History now that she assassinated the Emperador in 1891. Opinions? I'm leaning towards the Brazilian option but that's just me.

[Ruridova]

Edits: Added a Chodren Dawa book from last Part III that was missed
Some edits to the description of Breckenridge's new book

New policy: if you disagree with the summary of a book made by one of your authors, propose an alternate summary. Seriously, it's your book, you know it best.

Major published works of note in the RP including some not yet published ICly

Georg von Licht / Dzhordzh fon Likht

1. The Righteous Cause
The year is 1951, and the world is divided between eight superstates: Freistaatland, Südamerika, Nordseeallianz, Mitteleuropa, Großarabien, Zentralasien, and Ostasien. These nations are in a state of constant war that has left the world ruined. Karl Eichemann, the protagonist, is sent to end the war and bring peace; however, catastrophe kills Eichemann and restarts the feud.

2. Neither Victory Nor Peace
The empires of Jiaozhande and Hakuchi, led by the shortsighted monarchs Kangsong and Tennohito, turn a war of words and baseless accusations into a devastating continent-wide conflict that leads to millions of deaths, mass rebellions, and ultimately their own deposition. The novel was published as a criticism of escalating tensions between China and Japan.

3. Blessed are the Persecuted
Jewish German Yaakov Fiegenbaum and his family live in a defeated 1930s Germany that turns to anti-Semitic politicians Ludwig Ernst and Johannes Heisenberg, who initiate ever-increasing persecutions against German Jews. The book chronicles Yaakov and his family trying to live through the persecution. At first forced into ghetto, then into hiding, and then into a death camp, only Yaakov and his son Yitzhak survive(and Yitzhak loses his legs along the way). After the anti-Semites are deposed, the two try to rebuild their lives.

4. With Liberty and Justice For All
Black Confederate Miriam Robinson unintentionally becomes the leader of the equal rights movement in the CSA, but she gladly accepts the role, leading strikes and marches that force the Confederate government to grant equal rights to all citizens and end segregation. Surviving assassination attempts, she is elected President by a sweeping majority in 1964, cementing the progress made by the civil rights movement.

5. The Miserable Ones
Jan Janowski, a redeemed criminal who has broken his parole, must try to avoid the relentless Eugen Marschall, who seeks to put him back in chains. Meanwhile, Jan's adopted daughter Andzelika falls in love with Polish revolutionary Maksymilian Mysliwski- who is torn between his love Andzelika and his fellow revolutionaries Ostromir Wieczeslawski and Szymon Topolski. The revolutionaries rebel, but most die in the German response- though Janowski manages to save Maksymilian and bring him to Andzelika. Marschall, realizing that Janowski is indeed redeemed, kills himself; Janowski also dies shortly thereafter.

6. Vox Populi
Valentin Pushilin, head of one of the subdivisions of the Union of Federative Unified Republics, a Russia without a Tsar, works for the country's repressive dictatorship, established 80 years earlier in the 1910s. When a dispute about reform in the country leads to a hardliner coup against the country's reformist leader, Pushilin heeds the voice of the people and demands that the UFUR be done away with and replaced with numerous democratic states- a vision that ultimately comes true.

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Viktor Eberharter
(see "the Miserable Ones" under Georg von Licht)

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Josef Ibakov
1. Blood of the Crescent
In a semi-propagandized account of the siege of Sevastopol/Aqyar, Ibakov accuses the Crimean army of committing various war crimes during its fight for independence from Ukraine.

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Michael Matsudaira

1. The Fading Sun
In an alternate timeline, the Japanese shogunate defeats Go-Daigo and initiates a period of isolation that leaves Japan technologically backward and abused by foreign powers. Despite a push to modernize and gain the respect of world leaders, Japan is largely destroyed after several brash and dictatorial leaders wreck the country, leaving it devastated. The story ends with the few remaining Japanese chafing under Chinese rule.

2. Unit 731
Written as an unofficial partner to Blessed are the Persecuted, this book follows the bloody trail left by a Japanese army unit committing mass crimes against Chinese civilians and Americaner POWs in a dystopic war-torn world.

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Gavriil fon Likht / Gabriel Light

1. The Great World Wars
Fon Likht, taking a page from his father's books, writes about a hellish world dominated by poor economics, warring nations, technology used for genocide, and brutal dictators. The book follows the world through two Great Wars that leave much of the world devastated and millions dead, and foments decades of international division and distrust. In the end, every one of the book's six main characters dies, whether they 'won' the wars or 'lost' them.

2. The Life and Times of Edward Harper
Canadian intelligence worker Edward Harper realizes that the Royal Intelligence Agency of Canada is breaking Canadian privacy laws with its spying program, and decided to steal classified documents and leak them to the press. Fleeing to the Confederacy, he begins releasing the documents, which reveal Canadian spying at home and abroad. The news spreads like wildfire, and he is variously declared a hero and a traitor as a global debate on surveillance begins. The book ends with the RIA's head telling the press that Harper has only released a tiny fraction of the data he took.

3. A Time of Destruction (original)
Nongbu Jeonghwan, a member of the Yeojeon ethnic minority, begins to lead a fight against the oppressive rule of the Henkyoese Emperor Go-Yowai and his bloodthirsty general Satsujin Hijoshikina. The ability of the Henkyoese to respond is hampered by Henkyo's war on the Free States of Terranova; however, Satsujin's army are still able to exterminate and enslave hundreds of Yeojeon. Seeking peace, Nongbu meets Satsujin to discuss peace; Satsujin kills him. Nongbu is ultimately avenged by his rival and Deputy Chancellor, Jyeonlyeong Dongmaeng: Jyeonlyeong strangles Satsujin and forces Henkyo to let Yeojeonia become independent.

4. A Few Good Men
Two Confederate Marines, Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Louden Downey, are accused of murdering Private Guillermo Santiago while they were stationed at the CS military base near Guantanamo, Cuba; Navy JAGs Lieutenant Commander Joseph Galloway and Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee are assigned to the defense. Eventually, it comes out that Dawson and Downey are innocent, and that Santiago was in fact killed by their commanding officer, Colonel Nathan Jessup.

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Muhammad Abbas

1. The Crescent and the Star
In a book postulated to be Rumite propaganda by some, Abbas describes a Middle East without Rum as a Middle East in total chaos. Islamic radicalism, ideological coups, ethnic feuds, and Zionism all lead to the deaths of thousands and permanent instability, which is taken advantage of by various foreign powers seeking to exploit the region.

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Chodren Dawa / Eva Koch

1. The Effects of Leftism
The book begins in a totally uniform world- however, we soon learn that the hero, known only as Equality, has a hard time fitting in. He falls in love with a woman named Liberty, and after the government tries too hard to impress conformity on them, they form a rival society that brings back individuality to the world.

2. Obscurity
Architect Wei Nianqing and his colleague Se Jidu face difficulties as they lose out to architects better at sweet-talking clients. However, people eventually turn to Wei and Se's more inspired and modern architecture. Se turns on Wei and attempts to destroy his empire and kill him; ultimately, though, Wei comes out on top.

3. The East is Red
In Chodren Dawa's first play, she describes an alternate future where China is not as fortunate as it was. In several wars over opium and rebellions over everything the emperor does, China grows steadily weaker and more divided before having the monarchy overthrown and a period of total warlordism break out. As the period of warlordism ends, a period of ideological warfare breaks out(supported by the Japanese, who invade and establish various puppets). Ultimately, China winds up under a group of dictatorial rulers who must be defeated by the government-in-exile of China's brief period of democracy. After the return of peace and liberty to the country, it is unified, strong, and happy at last.

4. The Asian Manifesto
Chodren Dawa here outlines her plans for the creation of a libertarian Asian Union, dominated by China. Though initially weak, this Asian Union would grow stronger and stronger as time passed, eventually uniting Asia under one banner once and for all.

5. The Expedition
In a world where volcanic winter has nearly destroyed humanity, a pair of Indians named Rajacamaka and Kalibeta explore the world to see if any other humans remain alive. They pick up some survivors and explore much of the coast, Rajacamaka and Kalibeta fight often, and Rajacamaka ultimately maroons Kalibeta on Sri Lanka, before returning to Dhaka with the survivors.

6. Girl of the Springs
Marie is an orphaned girl who raised by her aunt in the fictional Malagasy village of Celeste. Her gandfather, Louis, is a recluse; going up a mountain to meet him, she meets a boy named Peter. When Marie turns 8, her aunt sends her to the city of Mahajanga to be a hired companion to a girl, Jin Wunai, who is an invalid. Marie and Jin become good friends, and Marie teaches Louis the comfort of prayer. When Marie and Jin meet in Celeste, Jin suddenly becomes able to walk despite being unable to do so for years.

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Jean-Louis Bouclier

1. The Impure Blood
The first play based on the Righteous Cause, Bouclier's work is a pro-Guyanese and anti-Brazilian propaganda piece in which Eichemann dies in Südamerika and is replaced by violent revolutionary Maxmilien Bouclier, who united the world by force and exterminated his opposition to bring about utopia.

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Karl Jung / Rong Kai-er

1. The Autumn of Empires (book)
The fictional realm of Ojczyzna, once a great empire, has been divided between the nations of Westens, Südens, and Dong, which has left the people demoralized and abused. Farmer Alojzy Swidzinski takes up the cause of his country and leads a campaign to liberate his homeland from foreign rule. Alojzy is initially successful, and named King of Ojczyzna as reward, but is murdered and replaced by a turncoat who returns foreign rule to the country.

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Li Xiagong

1. The Final Solution
In the most hated book ever written, Li Xiagong calls for the total extermination of 'Japonic races', declaring them to be inferior to 'Sinic' races. He also calls for the Chinese Empire to grow significantly, to the point where it spans the entire Orient.

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Tamerlan Jaharnaev

1. The Autumn of Empires (play)
Based on Karl Jung's book, this play adaptation replaced Dong with Vostok(an anti-Russian move, which in unsurprising given that Jaharnaev was Caucasian). The ending is also modified: Alojzy's brother Wladyslaw finally finishes his brother's dream and guarantees Ojczyzna's independence.

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Ardghal O'Berach

1. Fruit of Freedom
The author outlines his idea of a united, independent Ireland, free from British rule and run by a secular High King and Catholic clergy. O'Berach also outlined plans to promote Irish culture and to 'cleanse' the island of English influence. However, he warns, the book is for Ireland only, and is not for foreign use.

2. Ireland and the World
Furious at global support for Britain, O'Berach returns to criticize the world standing by as the British exploited Ireland. He also proposed that an independent Ireland should colonize Africa or the Caribbean. He also advocates ethnic nationalism globally.

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Mao Peng-hui

1. Entrance to Heaven
A Chinese family moves to the imperial colony in Chinese East Africa to seek a better life for themselves and to 'civilize the continent'. When stranded, a group of kind but backward Africans and heroic Chinese soldiers help them to Tianshang. The book was released to promote colonization of Africa by East and West alike, portraying Africans as savages in need of civilizing by foreign powers.

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Phillip Engel

1. The Fates of Men
The play version of the Righteous Cause endorsed by Georg von Licht himself. The Fates of Men stole bits and pieces of the other plays about the story to create something of an anthology, containing something from every one.

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Antero de Quental

1. Slaughter of the Moors
Ibrahim Muladi, a wealthy Moor, rebels against the oppressive Prince João of Algarve. Establishing a small Moorish emirate, they briefly experience independence before the Portuguese reclaim the land and slaughter the Moors en masse, leaving Algarve a barren wasteland.

2. Twilight of the Peace
After criticizing the Portuguese monarchy and being driven out of the country, João Llano travels the world searching for a place to start anew. Llano's unfortunate association with the dimwitted Antero results in them being driven from Guyane, Italy, and the Confederacy. Ultimately, Llano drowns Antero and returns to Portugal- where he is pardoned on the morning of his execution.

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Haruna Hachisuka

1. The Eternal Soldiers
A six-part series focusing on the rebellion led by Riku Sukaiuoka against the Dark Shogun, once Riku's father Anakin. Riku briefly falls in love with her long-lost sister Kiki, but the relationship doesn't last.

2. The Story of Haruka Kamakura
An adapted form of the Chinese fable of Hua Mulan, this story follows Haruka Kamakura in her adventure to find honor and justice through the Imperial Restoration of 1331 and the later Kyoto Rebellion of 1340.

3. Freedom in the Stars
In the year 2009, British bureaucrat William MacAlister must face the Confederate States of America, led by President Lewis Wright and General Robert Jenkins, to reveal the fact that it has revived its slaving practices, banned by the CSA in 1891, and taken them into space. The Confederacy, in the process, makes several other incriminating errors. Ultimately, the rest of the world forcefully balkanizes the Confederacy, dividing it into several small puppet states.

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August Breckenridge

1. The Battlestar
After the United States of Kobol are destroyed by the evil robotic Cylons, who view humanity as inherently cruel and evil, the surving humans- led by President Rosalyn Laurent and Captain Frederick Adamson- must face against the Cylons and their allies, largely represented by Cylon Model Six and Dr. Hadrian Callis, as they attempt to find the long-lost thirteenth state of Earth.

2. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
Based off of Gavriil fon Likht's time in a Russian gulag, this book follows Ivan Shukhov as he attempts to survive a ten-year jail term for a crime he did not commit. The book describes his relations with the other members of his work gang: Tyurin, the foreman; Yushenko, his assistant; Klevshin, a former soldier; Markovich, an intellectual; Kilgas, a Lithuanian separatist; Golpchik, a boy accused of treason; Fetyukov, a prisoner for decades; Buynovsky, a former naval officer; and Leshenov, a Baptist. Ultimately, the book says that it was only their unity and solidarity that allowed them to keep living.

3. The Kings of Folly
In a criticism of the growing rift between North and South America, Breckenridge describes the story of three groups of schoolchildren stuck on an island in the South Pacfic; a group of Brazilian students led by a boy named Goncalo, a group of Venezuelan students led by a boy named Esteban, and a group of Confederate students led by a boy named Frederick. Working together, the three delegations initially do well together; they also initially experience success against those among the boys who would see their unity destroyed, in the form of a power-hungry Brazilian boy named Cristovao and a bigoted Confederate boy named Adam. However, when the hateful and bloodthirsty Antonio convinces Esteban and the Venezuelans that they are being cheated by the others, the system collapses as Antonio has the Venezuelans kill everyone else on the island. Esteban murders Frederick despite his pleas, then realizes what he has done, and the two reconcile as they die. With everyone else on the island dead, Antonio is left alone, laughing maniacally about the victory he thinks he has won.

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Jeffery Date

1. Seigi no Gen'in
Japanese operatic adaptation of The Righteous Cause.

2. Dai Nippon Teikoku
Sengoku Games play for 1837, it illustrates numerous points in Japanese history, and highlights the mantle of Meiji's glorious reign.

3. The Sunrise of Nations
A play to illustrate the unity of nations, involves numerous national anthems and representation of world leaders as of 1837.

4. Aux Armes Citroyens
An opera about the French Revolution and the cause of the Jacobins and later, Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Hirosuke Satsuma

1. Kamikōgō
First publication that started the Sanguinist Movement in Japan. Called Meiji the "daughter of the Lord" and declared her a divine person. Sparked massive religious movement around Meiji in Japan after her death in 1837.

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Oleksandr Kostiuk

1. Moya Borotʹba
"My Struggle", a book that highlights the plans of Kostiuk against the Crimeans, whom he blames for most of the world's problems. Considered Nazi propaganda and banned in most nations who forbid Nazi imagery and symbolism.

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Grigory Petrovsky

1. Petrovsky's Testament
Grigory Petrovsky, sensing his coming death wrote his ideas on how the Soviet government should change into a more democratic state. It criticized current Soviet leaders and heavily suggested removing Pavlenko from power, as Petrovsky viewed Pavlenko's reforms to both the soviet system and to the government as totalitarian. Petrovsky died a few years later and the book was both published and distributed throughout the USSR by Ivan Kasparov.

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Lev Bronstein / Leon Trotsky

1. Animal Farm
Written as an attack on the brand of communism employed by the USSR, Leon Trotsky tells the story of the Azovsk Farm. The overworked and mistreated animals overthrow their human masters, seeking to create a utopia under the principles of their ideology, Animalism. However, the farm's pigs quickly become a ruling class, usurping the role that humans once held. They replace the Seven Commandments of Animalism with a single one that upholds their ultimate authority: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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Ayn Rand

1. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand describes a nation similar to the Confederacy and Canada in an unspecified time. She follows the entrepreneur Dagny Taggart, who must attempt to keep the Taggart Transcontinental rail lines open in spite of collectivization and statism and mitigate the poor decisions of her brother James. Dagny becomes an associate of steel magnate Hank Rearden, and the two notice that many other magnates are destroying their empires and vanishing. Searching for the inventor of an advanced motor, they find John Galt, who invented it- and is convincing tycoons to vanish as a form of strike against statism. Dagny refuses and returns to her home- but Galt follows her, seizes a radio station, and delivers a speech to explain the ideology of objectivism. The government collapses and Galt is picked to be the new leader of the country.

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Chaimas Galvanauskas / Hayim ben Tziyon

1. The Hope
Yitzhak Katsav, a Sephardi Jew living in al-Mayiquh, becomes the leader of a Zionist group which quickly becomes the international Zionist World Congress. He goes before the League of Nations, and gives an impassioned speech, pleading for the League to return Israel to the Jews, telling them that the only way for the long-persecuted Jews to ever know liberty and peace is to return home. The League agrees, and Katsav becomes leader of the new country. Within two years of Israel's creation, however, Rum invades, seeking to exterminate the Jews and reincorporate the territory. The international response is swift and harsh, and soon, Rum is divided up between its various ethnic groups, with the various new nations agreeing to work together in peace and cooperation to bring about a future where all people can life happy lives.

2. No Place Like Home
By now something of a formal rival to Carasso- with Galvanauskas representing the Zionists and Carasso the anti-Zionists- Galvanauskas refutes Carasso's proposals for the creation of a new Jewish state in Africa, as well as attempts by Russia to do the same with their Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Galvanauskas claims that no place but the Promised Land of Israel could ever serve as a true home for the Jews, and compares Carasso's proposal to the deportation of Native Americans to reservations by Canada and the Confederacy.

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Emmanuel Carasso / Ferdinand Eichemann

1. The Lies of Zionism
Penned as a response to the growth of Zionism among most of the world's Jews, Greek Jew Emmanuel Carasso's "truth against Zionism" treatise claims that the global Zionist movement had no legitimate grounds for seeking the return of the Holy Land to Jewish hands. Carasso praises Rum's just and fair rule of the Holy Land, and says that it belongs to Christians and Muslims as much as it does to Jews.

2. A New Zion
A follow-up to his own work, The Lies of Zionism, Carasso floats the idea of creating a new Israel in Africa, carving out land from a European or Asian colony and creating a Jewish state. He says in the book that it would satiate the Zionist desire for a Jewish homeland, and allow for Rum to retain it's own territorial integrity. Proposed lands are Japanese Mozambique, British Rhodesia and Chinese Madagascar but he says that "almost anywhere with fertile land would do wonderfully."

3. Beyond the Hill of Macedon
Turning his attention from Zionism to revanchism, Carasso advocates for countries giving up their irredentist and nationalist territorial claims- as he views Rum's release of the Balkans to Yugoslavia. He says that aggressive nationalism is the ideology most likely to plunge the world into a second Great War, and advocates more global internationalism.

4. Roma Orientalis
Here Carasso expresses an approval of Benito Mussolini's statements that Italy and Rum should be more closely united as the descendants of Rome. He also proposes rebuilding the old ruined monuments of Rome and Byzantium. He closes the book by expressing his belief as a Jew that only Sunni Islam is legitimate, and that the Sunni Caliph or Calipha should rule supreme over all Muslims, and that Shiism, Andalism, and Shurism are illegitimate.

5. The Science of Slavs and Tatars
A horribly racist criticism of a horribly racist book, Carasso expresses his distaste for Professor Suprun's assertion that Ukrainians are inferior to Crimeans by calling the Crimeans no more than slaves and mud creatures. The book is almost universally condemned and is a massive black stain on an otherwise popular author.

6. The Great Dictator
The first book under the name Ferdinand Eichemann, the story follows a soldier during the Great War, named Oleg. Oleg serves with honor on the Crimean front, but is severely injured and left in a coma for two decades. When he awakens in 1912, he finds his motherland, Ukraine, subsumed under the tyranny of "Mikhail", the all powerful Tsar-Vozhd. Under Mikhail's political group, the Sons and Daughters of the Double Cross, "liberty was banished, freedom was suppressed, and only the voice of Mikhail was heard." After encountering a group of Tatars living in a ghetto in Donetsk, he and his former commander, now a member of the secret police, orchestrate and assassination of Mikhail by poisoning him. Oleg, who looks exactly like Mikhail, replaces him, and gives a passioned speech about the need to "restore humanity to it's rightful peace with itself" and that "racism is an evil, dark belief", and the book continues into a strong criticism of Carasso and Suprun's racist texts.

7. A Headless Revolution
Here Eichemann viciously attacks Guyane, accusing it of violating the tenets of the French Revolution that it claims to draw inspiration from. He dismisses the Cult of Reason, and compared Guyanese governance unfavorably to the bloody rule of Maxmilien Robespierre. He then compares it to the other nations of the Americas, concluding that Guyane is the least democratic one on the continent.

8. The Crucible
The story begins in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1692. Reverend Parris is presiding over his daughter Betty, who is afflicted with an unknown illness. It is rumored in the town that she and other girls have been in contact with witches through Parris' slave Tituba, who the Reverend caught dancing with several teenage girls in the forest the night before. The Putnams, a very wealthy family in a nearby farm have a daughter Ruth, afflicted with a similar problem. The girls assemble by Betty's side and Abigail Williams, the leader of the girls, threatens to "behead" those who speak out against the girls for what they did that night. In the ensuing mess, the girls are caught up in fervor to quickly put many to their deaths over not believing in witches, among other things. Danforth, governor of the province, arrives and helps with the girl's hysteria, sending several good, innocent people to die. John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth live on the outskirts of the town, and are oblivious to the problem. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail some months prior while Elizabeth was afflicted with typhus, and Abigail and Betty then accuse Abigail of witchcraft, a charge which she denies ferverently, and John does as well. John admits to his lust, but Elizabeth, in passion for her husband, rejects the idea. John grows angry and decries God, saying "God is dead". He is then accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang as well. John is given one chance to repent, and admit he contracted with the Devil, but refuses, choosing to die. The book ends with the Lord's prayer being recited by Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor, before they are hung.

9. The Sublime Porte
In a sequel to von Licht's the Righteous Cause set in the year 1984, a Greek woman in Großarabien, known only as Eudokia, begins to search the world for the grave of the deceased Karl Eichemann, believing that there might be a secret way to end the global war. However, all she finds inside are a series of numbers- missile launch codes- that are stolen from her and used to trigger nuclear war, extinctions most of what remains of humanity.

10. Ibrahim of Arabia
This book follows the story of Ibrahim, an English convert to Islam, who rises up and unites the peninsula with his armies. However, at the end of the war, he is betrayed by a British commander. Afterwards, the Middle East is nearly totally destroyed by a mixture of European colonialism and fascism.

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Manami Hosokawa

1. A War of Brothers
A play depicting the Great War, opened for the first in 1899. The play depicts a Japanese soldier and a Confederate soldier's story as they fight on the frontlines of the Meiji Islands campaign. They encounter each other and soon discover that they are biological twins, seperated at birth on the Hawaiian Islands between an Americaner father and a Japanese mother. The father took the Confederate son back to the Confederacy and raised him in California, while the mother returned back to her home in Kyushu and raised the other son as Japanese. The two realize that they're more alike than different, despite being from two nations. They reconcile at the end of the war, and seperate, but remain in contact until they grow old, where they meet once again on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor, for the last time.

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Gaius leFevre

1. To Rome and Back
In this book, leFevre talks about the possible outcome of a war between France and Italy, held to reclaim the lost territories of Provence and Côte d'Azur. LeFevre concludes that- despite France's defeat in the recent Great War- a conflict between France and Italy would be laughably one-sided, with French forces easily fighting their way to Rome, taking it, and then fighting back to the French border.

2. Hell for Rome, Heaven for Paris
Here, leFevre mocks Italy's leadership, comparing its Emperors to the old Roman emperors Caligula and Nero. He thoroughly satirizes the Italian political system and mocks its politicians. He contrasts this with his perception of French politics: calm, rational, and proud.

3. 1892: A Part Lost
LeFevre now accuses Italy of barbarism in its conquest of Provence-Cote d'Azur, and the displacement of French that followed. He details French civilians being forced out of their homes and stripped of their lands, to be replaced by Italian citizens. He also accuses the Italian military of unfairly targeting French civilians on numerous occasions.

4. Amsterdam a Mystery
Turning his attention away from Italy, leFevre now questions the legitimacy of the Treaty of Utrecht, in which France lost Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, and Provence-Cote d'Azur. He accuses the Dutch of working with other global powers- most notably Japan- to intentionally humiliate France on the global stage, and leave it crippled and divided.

5. Avignon Forever After
LeFevre now turns his attention towards religion. He praises the French Church, which he views as morally superior to other Christian churches. He also praises the isolated French city of Avignon, where the church is based.

6. Rome: Example of Sin
In contrast to his praise for Avignon, leFevre has nothing but bitter criticism for the Roman Catholic Church- which he views as a pit of debauchery, corruption, and immorality. He dismisses the Catholic clergy as a band of pedophiles and frauds.

7. Monarchism: Ideology of Evil
Here leFevre rails against the evils of monarchies, linking all of France's failures to monarchies and monarchism- absolute, constitutional, and ceremonial. He proposes that France ban monarchies and that the country's legislature be made more powerful to prevent autocracy.

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Alaric Bisser

1. My Best Enemy
In the 1960s, a crippled France and a declining Germany work out an alliance out of mutual goals, in spite of centuries of conflict. Over the ensuing decades, France and Germany stand together against a communist Britain exporting the revolution, a Russian-Spanish-Dutch triumvirate, a Chinese war of colonial conquest in Africa, a massive fascist uprising in both countries, and a war to reclaim territories taken from them by their neighbors. After this final war, the French President and German Chancellor realize that the old animosity is gone, replaced by mutual friendship and admiration.

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Benito Mussolini

1. Renovatio Imperii
This book describes an alternate where Italy conquers all of France, annexing it and committing a genocide against the French people and French culture before forcing Rum under Italian rule through political union. The book ends with both countries preparing to destroy the German and Russian 'barbarians'.

2. The Doctrine of Fascism
Mussolini now writes a political treatise, preaching his own version of the ideology of fascism(first adopted, ironically, by the French, who Mussolini despised). He praises the army and the emperor, dismissing Italy's democratic institutions as weak and corrupt. Mussolini proposes the creation of a militaristic autocracy that would bring France back to greatness- by force.

3. Magni Resurrecto
In his third book, Mussolini declares Italy to be the only successor to Western Rome, and Rum the only successor to Eastern Rome. He also expresses a great admiration for the British Empire. He also declares that Italy should attempt to rebuild the Roman Empire by force and conquer its former territories- excluding those held by Rum and Britain.

4. Life in a Fascist State
Dedicated to the Kostiuks and Agriolis, this book describes Mussolini's ideal fascist nation, including the full mobilization of the populace, the military as a social class, and the government's power being consolidated at its highest echelons.

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Antony Belinsky

1. The State of the Working Class
In a criticism of capitalism, Ukrainian-Romanian communist revolutionary Antony Belinsky describes the horrors of life for a poor laborer in the country through the perspective of a fictional Ukrainian-Romanian named Ciprian Ianscu. Ianscu works inhumane hours in slavelike and lethal conditions in a weaponry factory, for almost no reward whatsoever. Though originally intended only for Ukraine-Romania, it soon became a tome used by communist groups globally.

2. Liberty and Justice For All
A criticism of the Confederate States, this book depicts a dystopian future in which the Confederacy rules all of the Americas and has suppressed the Spanish language. Condemned by the CSA and banned, the book was embraced in South America as an example of their need to resist American imperialism.

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Alexander Yamato

1. Aboard the Circumstance
Emperor Alexander, nearing death after many years of rule, tells the story of his travels around the world as a young man. He also describes his meetings with various levels of society and various world leaders across the globe. He explains why he left on the trip(a vision of his grandmother, Akiko Meiji), and why he chose the countries that he did.

2. Die Wacht am Rhein
A musical dedicated to the Germans, an ally of Japan in the Great War, it involves the story of the rise of Germany after the Seven Years War through Heinrich and Wilhelm von Pfalz.

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Mehmet Suprun

1. A Time of Destruction (Crimean edit)
A version of fon Likht's original novel, intensely edited to serve as anti-Caucasian literature. The Yeojeon are replaced by Azeris, and the Henkyoese are replaced with Georgians, in reference to the Holocaust that had occurred within Caucasia's borders.

2. The Science of the Crimean and the Ukrainian
A racist comparison of Crimeans to Ukrainians -- Suprun insists that Ukrainians are mentally, physically and in general, inferior to the Crimean Tatar, as a justification of segregation between the two races.

3. The Civilized
Yusuf Ugyar, the teenage son of a wealthy Crimean merchant in Ukraine, is forced to run away after the government of Oleksandr Kostiuk enacts the Poltava Laws. He disguises himself as a Ukrainian, and founds the Greater Khanate Movement, which seeks the return of Crimea's borders to their situation in 1600. He attempts to rebel against Kostiuk, but the Crimean Khan fails to support him and Ugyar's army is crushed at Mariupol. After the rebellion, Ukraine-Romania orders the extermination of every Crimean in the country and prepares to invade Crimea.

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Robert Lee Light

1. The Sons of Israel
Though slightly fictionalized, the book is intended to be a decently accurate summary of the lives, times, and interactions of Chaimas Galvanauskas/Hayim Ben Tziyon, founder of the Zionist World Congress, and Emmanuel Carasso/Ferdinand Eichemann, the leading anti-Zionist Rumite author.

2. Entrance to Hell
In 1899, the partially-colonized region of South Apenica is controlled by three groups: the Umthetwa Kingdom, the only black South Apenican state, led by King Isandlawhayo Zibhebu; the Griekwa Free State, populated by the descendants of a previous colonizer, led by President Benedijkt van der Ijssel; and the Dominion of South Apenica, a territory of the mighty Albionian Empire, ruled globally by Queen Alexandra, with the Dominion being led by Governor Edmund Everard. The three nations are all fighting a bloody war- the Umthetwans driven to defend their home and the Griekwans to keep their sovereignty, whereas the Albionians fight only for gold and blood.

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Charlotte Fengliguoda Huang

1. A Scheme for the Simplification of Hanzi Characters
Ultimately adopted by the Jiaozhouan government, and now one of the major distinguishers between Chinese and Jiaozhouan, Fengliguoda here proposes simplifying several hundred Chinese characters in order to make Chinese languages easier to learn, which she says will increase education and literacy rates in areas speaking Sinic languages, and will ease trade and communication with foreign countries.

2. An Analysis of the Jiaozhou Situation
Here Fengliguoda analyzes the situation between Jiaozhou and China. She discusses the increasingly unique culture of Jiaozhou, including its religion and language, interviews Jiaozhouans about their feelings, and ultimately concludes that Jiaozhou is now a distinct area with little will to join China or remain in its present situation under Germany.

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Matthieu Sylvestre de Lict

1. The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Armenian peasant Hovek Hayaren joins the revolution led by Mikheil Svanidze to fight for freedom, liberty, and justice, serving in the war against imperial Russia. As time passes, however, Svanidze quickly grows despotic and cruel, destroying everything the revolutionaries were fighting for. At the end of the book, Svanidze begins the genocide of non-Caucasians in Georgia, and Hayaren is shot.

2. Separate but Equal in Dixie Land
Proposed by Robert Light but published by de Lict, this book follows the Clayton family- a family of black sharecroppers- in the fictional town of Logansburg, Alabama during the 1930s and 1940s. The book describes their suffering under the state's Jim Crow laws, and the harassment that they and other blacks face from many of the whites in Logansburg, including harassment, fraud, kidnapping, assault, and murder. He also describes the continued existence of a 'Dixie aristocracy' of wealthy whites descended from plantation owners, who can easily bribe local, county, and sometimes even state governments into doing their will.

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Unspecified / Unknown Author

1. AD 1951
The British play version of the Righteous Cause, based off of the Impure Blood, but lacking any joy to its ending. The main notable difference is the addition of weapons known as 'sun bombs'(nuclear weaponry).

2. The Deserter
Written in Italy in the early 1800s, this novel follows Adalfredo Capaccio, an Italian soldier during a war against the Ottomans. Deserting in Bosnia, he flees towards Italy to see his home and family- but is executed outside of Zagreb after being found and captured.

[Ruridova]

This is a strip from the webcomic Sheldon that I think sums up Gabriel Light at the moment.

[Ruridova]

Misc. Reference Guide:
What Represents What in the Kings of Folly


Item in book - Actual thing
The title, the Kings of Folly - the foolishness of those who rely on fostering hatred
The Big Island - North and South America
The Little Island - the "dustbin of history"
The student conference in Seoul - A hypothetical future of unity, equality, fraternity, and liberty
The Confederate students - the Confederacy
Frederick - the CS executive branch, particularly Thomas Hendricks
Michael - the remainder of the CS government
Adam - Edward D. White, creator of "separate but equal"
Adam's followers - antiabolitionists and segregationists
The Venezuelan students - Venezuela primarily, but also Guyane, Tawantisuyu, and Central America
Esteban - the Venezuelan, Guyanese, Tawantisuyu, and Central American governments
Antonio - Antony Belinsky, communist revolutionary and anti-Confederate writer
Antonio's followers - communists and Confederophobes
The Brazilian students - Brazil
Goncalo - the democratically-elected Brazilian government
Cristovao - Alfonso Durant, Brazilian fascist leader and rebel
Cristovao's followers - the Brazilian fascists and their self-proclaimed state
The nightly meetings between all the boys - the Organization of American States
Cristovao's attempt to seize power from Goncalo - the fascist revolt in northern Brazil
Cristovao's exile to the Little Island - the victory of the Brazilian government over the fascist revolutionaries
Adam's attempt to lynch Rodrigo - the rise of Jim Crow in the CSA
Adam's exile to the Little Island - a hypothetical overturning of Jim Crow law
Antonio's murder of Duarte - the murders of anticommunists in Ukraine-Romania by Belinsky's followers
Antonio's speeches to the Venezuelans - Belinsky's recently-published book
Frederick arguing to Michael that Antonio should not be exiled to the Little Island - The CS Department of Justice fighting against Congress to keep Belinsky's book legal
The Venezuelans attacking the Brazilians and Confederates in an attempt to slaughter them - the trans-American war that Belinsky seems to be endorsing in his book
Antonio, Adam, and Cristovao ultimately being on the same side - the concept that Belinsky, White, and Durant are all ultimately fighting for hatred, immorality, and bloodshed
The fact that the signal fire is extinguished - the destruction of the hope that the Americas can be continents of peace
Frederick's plea to Esteban, reminding him of how they triumphed when they worked together - less any real event, more August Breckenridge basically stating the message he wants to send
The reconciliation between Esteban and Frederick as they die - the rekindling of the aforementioned hope, facilitated by international reconciliation
Antonio laughing maniacally among the bloody bodies of the dead, ranting and raving - the bloody truth that lays behind the smooth words of Belinsky, Durant, White, and their ilk
The "great victory" that Antonio claims to have won - the dark, bleak future that awaits should Belinsky, White, or Durant triumph in their hateful goals

[The Vaktovian Empire]

I need opinions. Use the already ATL-installed Brazilian female chick as an antagonistic murderous and sexually dominant orderly and womanly, or have it be in the Spanish Moroccan province of which would pattern what I tried to do in II with Portugal and Al-Andalus (In that one as Spain). Which is more original and which sounds better and more readily interesting? (A Brazilian Republican trained at an early age as a killer by the anti-South American Pro-Confederate puppet-like Republican Brazilian Government who will turn up rocks on both the Republicans and Fascists in what I plan to be a long winded conflict in Brazil itself, or Audrey Balizar just torturing Spaniard Catholics and Andalusians alike in Morocco. Both will happen, I just want an opinion on which one I should proceed to go with now, assuming I can't wipe Bridgette Botello (The Brazilian 16 year old) from ATL History now that she assassinated the Emperador in 1891. Opinions? I'm leaning towards the Brazilian option but that's just me.