The Provisional Government: A Dystopian Political RP [OOC]

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I'll fill up the OP as we go along. You know the rules to this sort of RP. There are no special rules - whatever happens in the story, happens in the story. If it can happen in the real world, with realistic lines of reasoning and logic, it'll be allowed. You can become a terrorist and suicide bomb the government building. As long it makes sense in the RP world, it works.

This is an RP set in a dystopian future of the United States. The Provisional Government - a term for an oligarchy of CEOs, military officials and former high-ranking politicians, have seized power in the light of a violent terrorist attack in 2021. The Covid Depression still hits the globe, with the world in an economic slump, in a social crisis and in turmoil, who will take the reins of the country?

Legal Parties (Ordered in size of membership, provided in brackets):

Democratic Party (43,000,000) -

Republican Party (31,000,000) -

Constitution Party (2,500,000) -

Socialist-Green Party (1,500,000) -

Libertarian Party (1,000,000) -

Major Terrorist Groups (According to FBI, in order of estimated membership):

American Citizens and Taxpayers Association (50,000) -

Red Army (30,000) -

White Liberation Front (15,000) -

2020 election happened, with electronic voting due to COVID-19. Trump won in a massive controversy and in a Supreme Court case, similar to Bush v. Gore. Some say he rigged the election. Terrorist attack happened, Washington D.C. hit by several sarin gas bombs, about 10,000 died. Continuity of government ended. Top officials met in the new capital, New York City, and decided on a temporary provisional government until 2024, having no official leader. The country is in turmoil. Will there be civil war, blood shed on American soil?

Well...there was. Not civil war, but rather bloodshed. Libertarians and the left alike rose up against the Provisional Government, and were met with extreme use of force, from live bullets on peaceful protesters to outright beatings. It was a mess as the government had put in martial law...

Statistics on COVID-19 final infected and dead (CDC and WHO estimates):
Infected (World): 1,000,000,000-2,600,000,000
Dead (World): 10,000,000-88,400,000
Infected (United States): 100,000,000-150,000,000
Dead (United States): 1,000,000-4,500,000

Statistics of the Modern United States:

Basic

Population: ~350,000,000
GDP: $20,300,000,000,000
Unemployment Rate: 18%
National Debt: $35,000,000,000,000
Ethnic Makeup: White - 58.1%, Hispanic (of any race) - 15.9%, Black - 11.9%, Asian - 6.8%, Multiracial - 5.3%, Other - 2%
Religious Makeup: Protestants - 32%, Catholics - 24%, Other Christian - 14%, No Religion/Unaffliated - 25%, Other - 5%
Temperature Anomaly since 1900: 1.8C

MORE COMING SOON

DATE: 1st of January, 2027

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[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Don't app yet. This'll have to do.

[Kargintina the Third]

Maybe move a bit further to the future? I feel like 2022 is a bit too close to the chaos for real political partisanship. Maybe like 2026?

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Maybe move a bit further to the future? I feel like 2022 is a bit too close to the chaos for real political partisanship. Maybe like 2026?

2027 so we can prepare for Presidential elections.

[Grand Bangouthia]

So will this be political only? Or will the military play a role as well? And Governors?

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

So will this be political only? Or will the military play a role as well? And Governors?

Everyone will.

[The Baton Rouge Free State]

Perhaps instead of the COVID Depression being the major catalyst, its a warning sign, so the Covid depression happens and then people get mad and elect the democrats, but then theres a second financial crisis the Democrats can't fix either (this can be the collapse of the 401K and Savings bubble) and so there becomes a massive distrust between the people and the current establishment which ends up driving extremists (likely some anarchist group) to do the terrorist attacks and then that allows this new provisional government to take power.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Perhaps instead of the COVID Depression being the major catalyst, its a warning sign, so the Covid depression happens and then people get mad and elect the democrats, but then theres a second financial crisis the Democrats can't fix either (this can be the collapse of the 401K and Savings bubble) and so there becomes a massive distrust between the people and the current establishment which ends up driving extremists (likely some anarchist group) to do the terrorist attacks and then that allows this new provisional government to take power.

It is a catalyst for the instability to come afterwards. 2020 election got electronic voting, tampering because of it. People angry, terrorist attack in Washington D.C. kills off continuity of government.

The question is, who are going to do the terrorist attacks? Modern-day anarchists don't have the strength to pull off an attack that size - although they would likely be much stronger due to the depression. So I'm guessing the later-Provisional Government does it, similar to the Business Plot except worse.

[The Baton Rouge Free State]

Perhaps instead of the COVID Depression being the major catalyst, its a warning sign, so the Covid depression happens and then people get mad and elect the democrats, but then theres a second financial crisis the Democrats can't fix either (this can be the collapse of the 401K and Savings bubble) and so there becomes a massive distrust between the people and the current establishment which ends up driving extremists (likely some anarchist group) to do the terrorist attacks and then that allows this new provisional government to take power.

It is a catalyst for the instability to come afterwards. 2020 election got electronic voting, tampering because of it. People angry, terrorist attack in Washington D.C. kills off continuity of government.

The question is, who are going to do the terrorist attacks? Modern-day anarchists don't have the strength to pull off an attack that size - although they would likely be much stronger due to the depression. So I'm guessing the later-Provisional Government does it, similar to the Business Plot except worse.

I mean such a rapid escalation is kind of unprecedented, it even took post ww1 germany a decade to become aquainted with fascism, the Russian Empire took a full 17 years of Nicholas the II's rule to start getting uppity. I'm proposing it as a remedy to this issue, you would get all the same events and situations but it would stretch them out over a more realistic period of time allowing you to put the RP start around 2027.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

It is a catalyst for the instability to come afterwards. 2020 election got electronic voting, tampering because of it. People angry, terrorist attack in Washington D.C. kills off continuity of government.

The question is, who are going to do the terrorist attacks? Modern-day anarchists don't have the strength to pull off an attack that size - although they would likely be much stronger due to the depression. So I'm guessing the later-Provisional Government does it, similar to the Business Plot except worse.

I mean such a rapid escalation is kind of unprecedented, it even took post ww1 germany a decade to become aquainted with fascism, the Russian Empire took a full 17 years of Nicholas the II's rule to start getting uppity. I'm proposing it as a remedy to this issue, you would get all the same events and situations but it would stretch them out over a more realistic period of time allowing you to put the RP start around 2027.

I am intending to start it in 2027 anyway. There'll be riots after the end of the COVID-19 outbreak, along with a major depression, which is what led Post-WWI to fully slide into fascism.

[Tinhampton]

What sort of electronic voting is used in 2020? I can agree with the sentiment of internet voting being vulnerable, but actual touchscreens at polling stations are undoubtedly vectors for other people's yucky bugs, not just coronavirus! + universal vote-by-mail has received more calls for support than e-voting (in the real world) as a result of the Cvirus... ballot stuffing/harvesting exists but not traditionally associated with Republicans IRL

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

What sort of electronic voting is used in 2020? I can agree with the sentiment of internet voting being vulnerable, but actual touchscreens at polling stations are undoubtedly vectors for other people's yucky bugs, not just coronavirus! + universal vote-by-mail has received more calls for support than e-voting (in the real world) as a result of the Cvirus... ballot stuffing/harvesting exists but not traditionally associated with Republicans IRL

By the time the 2020 election will have rolled around, there would've been around 30 million cases in the United States - not enough healthy unquarantined people to process and count the ballots, along with the problem of contaminated envelopes.

It's internet voting, not just buttons in polling stations.

[Tinhampton]

What sort of electronic voting is used in 2020? I can agree with the sentiment of internet voting being vulnerable, but actual touchscreens at polling stations are undoubtedly vectors for other people's yucky bugs, not just coronavirus! + universal vote-by-mail has received more calls for support than e-voting (in the real world) as a result of the Cvirus... ballot stuffing/harvesting exists but not traditionally associated with Republicans IRL

By the time the 2020 election will have rolled around, there would've been around 30 million cases in the United States - not enough healthy unquarantined people to process and count the ballots, along with the problem of contaminated envelopes.

It's internet voting, not just buttons in polling stations.

There are currently 155,000 active, confirmed cases of coronavirus in the OOC USA - and there will undoubtedly be more in the days and weeks to come. Not all of them will still be infected come Election Day, for whatever reason. Does the backstory of The Provisional Gov't assume a second wave of coronavirus in Fall 2020 (or any other nCoV-related event) that renders any form of physical voting impossible?

Regarding "C of G killed off by DC terror attack:" How did the terrorists manage to hit so many places at one time? C of G usually dictates that one cabinet minister be separate from the rest of the line of succession in events like SOTU, as I understand it (from the losinger side of the pond ).

[Ithalian Empire]

By the time the 2020 election will have rolled around, there would've been around 30 million cases in the United States - not enough healthy unquarantined people to process and count the ballots, along with the problem of contaminated envelopes.

It's internet voting, not just buttons in polling stations.

There are currently 155,000 active, confirmed cases of coronavirus in the OOC USA - and there will undoubtedly be more in the days and weeks to come. Not all of them will still be infected come Election Day, for whatever reason. Does the backstory of The Provisional Gov't assume a second wave of coronavirus in Fall 2020 (or any other nCoV-related event) that renders any form of physical voting impossible?

Regarding "C of G killed off by DC terror attack:" How did the terrorists manage to hit so many places at one time? C of G usually dictates that one cabinet minister be separate from the rest of the line of succession in events like SOTU, as I understand it (from the losinger side of the pond ).

Yeah, you will never see anyone in the line of succession be all in the same place at once. There is always a designated survivor, and they are under such tight security have fun getting to them. As for COVID-19, thats supposed to peak in mid to late April or early May and will be nowhere near 30 million people form the latest research Ive seen.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

By the time the 2020 election will have rolled around, there would've been around 30 million cases in the United States - not enough healthy unquarantined people to process and count the ballots, along with the problem of contaminated envelopes.

It's internet voting, not just buttons in polling stations.

There are currently 155,000 active, confirmed cases of coronavirus in the OOC USA - and there will undoubtedly be more in the days and weeks to come. Not all of them will still be infected come Election Day, for whatever reason. Does the backstory of The Provisional Gov't assume a second wave of coronavirus in Fall 2020 (or any other nCoV-related event) that renders any form of physical voting impossible?

Regarding "C of G killed off by DC terror attack:" How did the terrorists manage to hit so many places at one time? C of G usually dictates that one cabinet minister be separate from the rest of the line of succession in events like SOTU, as I understand it (from the losinger side of the pond ).

I'm from the loser side of the pond too, don't worry. And yes, we are presuming a second wave: the first wave ends around summer, having only about 18 million US cases in total. Second wave has 100 million cases.

That's what we're looking at: we could have had all the cabinet ministers + VP and President in the White House, all of the House and Senate in the Congress and then a few bombs go off. Two at the same time.

My original idea, which was a bit outlandish, is a full-on gas attack. Terrorists release sarin gas during SOTU, the ones outside of the SOTU get poisoned because their windows are open or because the gas floods into the bunker before people realise.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

There are currently 155,000 active, confirmed cases of coronavirus in the OOC USA - and there will undoubtedly be more in the days and weeks to come. Not all of them will still be infected come Election Day, for whatever reason. Does the backstory of The Provisional Gov't assume a second wave of coronavirus in Fall 2020 (or any other nCoV-related event) that renders any form of physical voting impossible?

Regarding "C of G killed off by DC terror attack:" How did the terrorists manage to hit so many places at one time? C of G usually dictates that one cabinet minister be separate from the rest of the line of succession in events like SOTU, as I understand it (from the losinger side of the pond ).

Yeah, you will never see anyone in the line of succession be all in the same place at once. There is always a designated survivor, and they are under such tight security have fun getting to them. As for COVID-19, thats supposed to peak in mid to late April or early May and will be nowhere near 30 million people form the latest research Ive seen.

They won't be in the same place at once. Either we get two attacks: one in Congress and one in the White House, kills off everyone.

Also, COVID-19 will get 30 million:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

40-70% of the US population is...120-210 million people infected.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Will be joining as a Republican candidate for President. Nationalist Libertarian. Will be making an app tomorrow.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Will be joining as a Republican candidate for President. Nationalist Libertarian. Will be making an app tomorrow.

App isn't finished yet, but I'll finish the app template tomorrow so it'll be ready by then.

Also, isn't nationalist libertarian a bit of an oxymoron?

[Sao Nova Europa]

Basically Libertarian but for closed borders. Think of paleolibertarianism.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Basically Libertarian but for closed borders. Think of paleolibertarianism.

Oh, I see.

[The Surge Empire]

I very interested in this, will like to see where it goes

[Tinhampton]

Yeah, you will never see anyone in the line of succession be all in the same place at once. There is always a designated survivor, and they are under such tight security have fun getting to them. As for COVID-19, thats supposed to peak in mid to late April or early May and will be nowhere near 30 million people form the latest research Ive seen.

They won't be in the same place at once. Either we get two attacks: one in Congress and one in the White House, kills off everyone.

Also, COVID-19 will get 30 million:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

40-70% of the US population is...120-210 million people infected.

That's a good article, but look at the timestamp - Lipsitch said that five weeks ago. Any more updatier updates?

[The Surge Empire]

haven't seen anything come out of this in a week. i was rather interested in this, i do hope its no dead or anything of that sort.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

They won't be in the same place at once. Either we get two attacks: one in Congress and one in the White House, kills off everyone.

Also, COVID-19 will get 30 million:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

40-70% of the US population is...120-210 million people infected.

That's a good article, but look at the timestamp - Lipsitch said that five weeks ago. Any more updatier updates?

I think it's still roughly on the same path, so I think we can still go ahead with that.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

haven't seen anything come out of this in a week. i was rather interested in this, i do hope its no dead or anything of that sort.

It's not dead, just working out the lore