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* [[Manga]] / [[Manhua]]: Not of this story, but in this story. They mostly come from China and are called "Wan Tu", meaning "ten-thousand pictures".
* [[The Plague]]: The Black Death, happening somewhat later and spread through longer time than in our world.
* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]]: The modern Red Pirates of the Socialist Block, robbing ships of the capitalist nations. And also Nipponese terrorists doing this, who are [[Kill
* [[Schizo Tech]]: Some of the sciences and technological advances are discovered or perfected earlier than in our history, Novorossiya e.g. invents the telegraph and electrical devices nearly a century before it happened in our history. Let's just say that a resident from that timeline would compare our real world's present tech level with his 1960s at best.
* [[Self
* [[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 With the Wind]]'', [[Shakespeare]], and also to a number of [[Alternate History Dot Com|AH.com]] members. See below.
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* [[The House of Plantagenet]]: Reigning not only England, but also Spain and Portugal for some time, until they fall in a civil war in the 17th century.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Sophie Stein, aka Sofonisba Leoncavallo, aka Shayna Löwenpferd.
* [[Jade
* [[Lady of War]]: Or rather Lady of Diplomacy, Queen Kristina I of Sweden, forging an alliance against the French king.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: [[Matzo Fever|Tatjana]]
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* [[Balance of Power]]: It's about world history, and patterns repeat.
* [[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 With Suck]]: The epically dramatic description of Germany in the 1920s.
* [[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).
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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.
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** {{spoiler|And the whole human race owes some Judean citizen on how [[World War III]] ended, [[Mary Sue|if nobody else]].}}
** Oh, and they constantly make some really awesome tech, [[Truth in Television|no matter if here or there]].
* [[Nuke
* [[Nu Spelling]]: The "Nu Inglish" used in Socialist Britain.
* [[One World Order]]: The German technocracy probably strives for it. {{spoiler|The Logos succeed instead.}}
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* [[Barbie]]: Has an equivalent in the German toys line "Goldi".
* [[Cyberspace]]
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
** In 1993, Japanese [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|terrorists/freedom fighters]] crash a plane on the Chinese Summer Palace, killing the emperor.
** Greece is considered a highly corrupt Chaos country and a drain on the Socialist Block's power.
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{{quote| '''Fynstr:''' ''They beat up androids, just for fun, and have the most perverted sex with them - because they can!''}}
* [[Succession Crisis]]
* [[Utopia]]: What the Logos try to achieve after they save the world from [[World War Three]] and impose a new, peaceful world order on the Earth. Your mileage may vary if they succeed, but flash forward fifty years {{spoiler|and there are [[Jade
* [[Velvet Revolution]]
* {{spoiler|[[Why
* [[World War III]]: Appropriately at the end of the story.
* [[Write What You Know]]: The author did CS studies.
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