Chaos Timeline/Trivia


 * Shout-Out:
 * The two first Dutch men who founded a colony in Atlantis are named Jan and Kees van Houten.
 * And the first German guy there is a Hans Meier - the equivalent of John Smith.
 * Two German merchants, Herr Hagenström and Herr Buddenbrook talk about the emerging Atlantis business. A mijnheer Arnoldsen from Amsterdam is also mentioned.
 * The German land Anderland is named after the best song by the German punk band Fluchtweg.
 * A satirist writing an obituary "Today our beloved Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation passed away at the great age of 911 years", almost the same as a text in our world.
 * The aforementioned nationalized and decentralized versions of Catholic Christianity are basically the Anglican Church and the concept of Gallicanism from our real history, but taken Up to Eleven.
 * During one war story set in NW Germany of the 16th century, someone who's much like German comedian Otto Waalkes makes an appearance. (In fact, he uses Obfuscating Stupidity.)
 * The two greatest authors of this world are the Spaniard Alejandro Enrique Ruiz Rodriguez, who wrote several plays about kings (of biblical Israel), whose works are suspected by some people to be written not by him, but really by the Spanish king, or his daughter, or someone completely else; and the German Albert Franck Baltzer, who wrote tragedies like Der König von Leer about a Frisian yeoman and his daughters, or a jealous mercenary in Otto Leo, genannt Der Schwarze von Verden, which also were used for several Hollywood Paradies movies.
 * Russian general "Uncle" Popov (to an obscure German children's book).
 * A German Jew named German Seinfeld who complains that he's arrested for nothing.
 * Ronaldo Servio (whose name doesn't remind you of Maffeo Servitore for nothing), who's got the most terrible reputation all over Italia Nuova.
 * The first technocratic government of Germany has a technocrat for police named Schimanski and an experienced bureaucrat who is convinced he understands government work better than all of his chancellors named Alfred Neumann.
 * Two working class guys talking about stuff who sound very much like the Zomtec guys.
 * A Nipponese resistance group using a line from the Neon Genesis Evangelion Theme Song.
 * There also seems to be a counterpart of Discworld.
 * One Tyrolean partisan in this world's World War Two, of all people, starting to channeling Austrian fun rock band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung.
 * Karl Beller is a very popular author of the German kids series "Theobald the Technician".
 * Sally Kohn is a Token Israeli member of the gang in said series.
 * "Keep your fingers off him, Consuela!" is a translated Mondegreen of the German band Fettes Brot.
 * The way Ariel Ben-David got his name reminds of how a similar thing happened to Ephraim Kishon.
 * The firm Werstand refers to one German translation of RUR, where the titular firm was translated as this.
 * The name of one of the first men on the moon is Gorsky.
 * The supreme technocrat Slezak is a Shout-Out to the prime minister of Kurt Vonnegut's story "Report on the Barnhouse effect".
 * Weber (this world's term for "Luddite") is a Shout-Out to a political poem by Gerhart Hauptmann about Silesian weavers.
 * The last story begins deliberately similar as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
 * The Rasac (Japanese-influences group of radical sceptics - so radical, they even doubt logic and science) are a Shout-Out to a story by Heinrich Böll (in abbrev only - the other Rasacs are short for "Rasante Sadisten Capotas" [=rapid sadists of Capota]).
 * Technische Hochschule Argentinien/Neustadt für Delizierung und Eisenverarbeitung
 * Another timeline, "A Plethora of Princes", is also Title Dropped, and its author Grey Wolf is hinted at.
 * Russian WWII general and dictator Gridenkov is a Shout-Out to an older AlternateHistory.com timeline - Fire Eagle, Snow Bear - which had a Russian dictator Gridenko fighting Germany which won (our world's) World War I. Also, one of right hand man of this timeline's Gridenkov, a guy named Belochvostikov, is known as "Stalin, The Man of Steel" (like a certain dude from our history about whom you might have heard of).
 * Other Members of AlternateHistory.com are also mentioned.
 * There's even a Shout-Out to a defunct German AH forum, i.e. two members of it. Chamberlain, von Schleicher, in case you're reading this, this means you.


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