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[[Inspired By]] the [[RPG]] ''[[GURPS Alternate Earths]]'' - the scenario "Centrum", to be precise.
It has managed to get its own fanfiction work called ''[[
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=== Contains examples of the following tropes: ===
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<ref>'''General Tropes''' denote tropes that don't belong to any other category. This folder is also sub-structured into [[Language Tropes]] that didn't get its own folder for the sake of clarity.</ref>
<ref>'''Character Tropes''' are just that. Political leaders get described here just as well as the functional equivalents to your [[Ordinary High School Student]].</ref>
<ref>'''Religion Tropes''' were introduced to tidy up ambiguities towards other folders. [[Exactly What It Says
<ref>'''National And Political Tropes''' denote tropes about countries and politics, domestic and international alike including warfare and nation-building.</ref>
<ref>'''Modern World Issues''' have been introduced as a folder because of the spoileriffic nature of many issues regarding the timeline's later 20th century when the timeline acquires a contemporary and even futuristic feel that hardly fits with the rest.</ref>
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* [[Ironic Echo]]: "It didn't really take long, but the world will never be again as it was before."
* [[Language Tropes]]
** [[Call a Rabbit
*** A pretty complete list of the TL's alternate terminology can be found on [http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/alternate_history/alternate_terminology these] [http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/alternate_history/alternate_geographic_names pages] of AH.com's wiki.
** [[Gratuitous German]]: Germany is a superpower at the end, so don't be too astonished to find a bit of it. For example, [[Virtual Worlds]] are called ''Märchenwelten'' - [[Fairy Tale]] worlds.
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: In one of the stories, someone on the <s>internet</s> Weltsystem asks "Max" (counterpart of the author?) why he doesn't write a timeline himself instead of criticizing others'.
* [[Serendipity Writes the Plot]]: The author originally had planned to call the internet of this world "Weltnetz" but found out that [[Schmuck Bait|German neo-Nazis use this term already for the existing internet]], so he changed it to "Weltsystem".
* [[Shout-Out]]: Quite some, e.g. to ''[[Seinfeld]]'', ''[[Gone
* [[Steampunk]]: Germany invents and deploys [[Tank Goodness|steam-driven tanks]] in this timeline's [[World War One]]. {{spoiler|And wins.}}
* [[Sure Why Not]]: [[User:Dr Nodelescu|Some fan]] suggested that the head of the Socialist part of Germany should have the title "Oberster Politischer Kommissar", which became canon.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: King Gioacchino of Italy and his successor, [[The Napoleon|Alessandro]] [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Napolione]].
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: There are some German princes (and other guys) named Kraft, which means "power / strength". Yes, this once was a real first name in Germany.
* [[
* [[The Caligula]]: The fifth Chinese adoptive emperor, the protagonist of ''Samowar In Atlantis'' even calls him that way, "Kaiser Gaga". His precedessor was actually rumored to overthink his decision for succession, but got literally cut short by the events of 1993. And then [[It Got Worse]].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Humphrey VII/II of New Albion
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** Condolcessa, last one of the Florentine ruling family, reminds of Lucrezia Borgia, at least in that people claim both to have committed [[Parental Incest]], though this hasn't to be true.
** "Christnacht" is a text about a rich but avaricious landowner, who isn't willing to share his wealth with others, until he is suddenly experiencing... something at the evening of christmas. And his name (Thimotheus) becomes synonymous with "miser". [[A Christmas Carol|Sounds familiar?]]
** [[Lawrence of Arabia|Lauritz von Arguim]]. Also has a [[
** A technical genius who's a Swede from Finland inventing a codebreaker machine. (Linus Torvalds, anyone?)
** [[wikipedia:Karl Kraus|Carlo Carosio of "La Fiamma"]]
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** Germany has a populist (from the left!) named [[wikipedia:Franz Josef Strauss|Josef F. Krause]] who suggests that his party should split to have more success with the voters: "Marching seperatedly, striking together!"
** A guy named [[Those Wacky Nazis|Röhm]] unsuccessfully protesting race-mixing. He barely escapes unscathed.
* [[Not Good
* [[One Head Taller]]: Topper. He even dwarfs Tatjana, who's six feet tall.
* [[Playful Hacker]]: The Logos.
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* [[Balkanize Me]]: North <s>America</s> Atlantis, sometimes China, France and Russia.
* [[Black Shirt]]: The post-WWI Italian ''[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Fascisti]]''. A subversion, since they're actually the right hand of [[The Mafia]] analogue (the mafia of this history being an amalgam of both organized crime and Italian ultranationalism).
* [[Blessed
* [[Bread and Circuses]]: Part of the technocratic agenda in Germany is making the working class unpolitical by the [[Gratuitous German|titular "three F"]]: Fußball (soccer), Fernsehen (television), Fernreisen (vacation). One feels tempted to add a fourth F like Fressen (food).
* [[Cincinnatus]]: General Boulanger
* [[Cold War]]: At the latter half of the 20th century, the three major superpowers fighting for balance with each other are the German technocracy, the Socialist Block and the Chinese Empire.
* [[Culture Police]]: In the German technocracy. Censors the book "Das Paradies der Goldis" by Katherine Geller (apparently a bit like ''Valley Of The Dolls'') for the depiction of mental diseases, drug addiction and lesbian love.
* [[A Degree in Useless]]:<br />Subverted. The German technocracy [[Hard
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Here, Socialists. They take over Britain in the mid-19th century and spread over all of Western Europe. [[And Zoidberg|And Greece]].
* [[Eagle Land]]<br />Speaking German. In both parts of <s>the Americas</s> Atlantis. <ref>Guess which ethnicity most Americans in our lifetime claim to hail from? Right, the Germans. Guess where else in the New World Germans liked to settle? Right, Southern Brazil and the Plata countries.</ref> And appropriately, this Germany has three eagles in its crest, among them a condor that got dubbed as an "Andean eagle" in this world.<br />Even [[Alternate History Wank|absorbs the old motherland]] at one point. Becomes a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|political]] [[Weimar Republic|clusterfuck]] and quickly [[Putting
* [[Easy Logistics]]:<br />Commenters raised one or another eyebrow about transporting six- to seven-figure numbers of soldiers across the Atlantic in each direction during this world's [[World War II]]. The author responded that several factors like bigger navies on both sides <ref>That of Italia Nuova '''alone''' was supposed to be bigger than that of the USA in our world.</ref> and improved technology would work it out, but also confessed that [[Rule of Cool|there wouldn't be a world war in this world if it wouldn't]] because the odds were [[Curb Stomp Battle|so one-sided in each half of the world]].
* [[The Empire]]: As this is a realistic (hi)story, it's a question of your POV. The New Roman Empire, the German technocracy and others might all qualify.
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** Greece is considered a highly corrupt Chaos country and a drain on the Socialist Block's power.
* [[Electronic Telepathy]]: An important factor. Helped the Logos to form what is for all practical purposes a [[Hive Mind]] {{spoiler|and later take over the world.}}
* [[The End of the World
* [[Everything Is Online]]: Exploited big time at one occasion.
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: In the [[GURPS]] adventure based on this, one dealer tries to sell the PCs the drug "black niig", which supposedly makes people feel "like Stalin <ref>Not our [[Joseph Stalin]], but still a bad guy</ref>, when he [[Groin Attack|crushed his enemies' balls]]", and later they meet a crazy fundamentalist Christian who claims he knew a girl who never listened to advice, took nanodrugs and one day literally fell apart to dust.
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* The two first Dutch men who founded a colony in Atlantis are named Jan and Kees [[The Simpsons|van Houten]].
** And the first German guy there is a Hans Meier - the equivalent of John Smith.
* Two German merchants, [[Buddenbrooks
* The German ''land'' Anderland is named after the best song by the German punk band [[Music/Fluchtweg|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.
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* 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), [[Gone
* The first technocratic government of Germany has a technocrat for police named [[Tatort
* 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]].
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* "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 ''[[
* The name of one of the first men on the moon is [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.asp 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
* 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 Name Only|in abbrev only]] - the other Rasacs are short for "Rasante Sadisten Capotas" [=rapid sadists of [[Ruritania|Capota]]]).
* [[Tropers/Thande|Technische Hochschule Argentinien/Neustadt für Delizierung und Eisenverarbeitung]]
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