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* [[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 on Soft Science|generally scoffs at anyone studying humanities]], minimizing their teaching to a "harmless enough" level, afraid of the potentially rising threat of [[The Evils of Free Will|pro-democratic freethinkers]]. Education in "hard sciences" and general blue collar vocational training is encouraged, supplemented by a [[Bread and Circuses]] approach in state propaganda.<br />[[Reality Ensues]] when one of the stories depicts a young couple smuggling banned philosophy books from German Atlantis to a [[Canada, Eh?|somewhat more democratic neighbouring country]].
* [[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 on the Reich|puts on the Reich]] as a so-called technocracy, [[Word of God|a crossbreed]] of ''"Prussia, the GDR and the American military-industrial complex should it ever seize power."'' Not that [[Black and Grey Morality|its]] [[The Mafia|major]] [[Make the Bear Angry Again|opponents]] were really [[Crapsack World|more pleasant in this regard]].
* [[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.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Kind of. While there are dictatorships, communists and fascists, secret polices, many wars, nukes and even worse weapons, this timeline has no equivalent of the Nazis and the Holocaust.
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* [[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.
* [[For Dummies]]: aka "[[Serious Business|The Rules]] for/to ______"
* [[Former Regime Personnel]]:
* [[Former Regime Personnel]]:<br /><br />The [[Word of God|entry at GURPS wikia]] suggests a term for a whole caste of high-profile [[Shell Shocked Senior|PTSD victims]], "ex-leaders", the collateral damage of the outcome of the [[Grand Finale]].<br /><br />{{spoiler|Effectively stripped of their former power, many of the people in leadership positions before the [[Velvet Revolution]] had their personal fortunes largely left intact, but still feel a void as a result of their loss of power. People obviously don't deal well with becoming [[Fate Worse Than Death|obsolete over night]]. Alcoholism is said to be rampant among these guys.}}▼
:The [[Word of God|entry at GURPS wikia]] suggests a term for a whole caste of high-profile [[Shell Shocked Senior|PTSD victims]], "ex-leaders", the collateral damage of the outcome of the [[Grand Finale]].
▲* [[Former Regime Personnel]]:<br /><br />The [[Word of God|entry at GURPS wikia]] suggests a term for a whole caste of high-profile [[Shell Shocked Senior|PTSD victims]], "ex-leaders", the collateral damage of the outcome of the [[Grand Finale]].<br /><br />{{spoiler|Effectively stripped of their former power, many of the people in leadership positions before the [[Velvet Revolution]] had their personal fortunes largely left intact, but still feel a void as a result of their loss of power. People obviously don't deal well with becoming [[Fate Worse Than Death|obsolete over night]]. Alcoholism is said to be rampant among these guys.}}
* [[Global Currency]]: At the end of the story, the GEM (short for Geld-Einheit der Menschheit - "money unit of humanity") is introduced. The sign for it looks like a G with a circle around it, much like our @.
* [[Grand Finale]]: [[World War III]], and the world being {{spoiler|taken over by the Logos and [[A Is]]}}.
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