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* [[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'Em All|even]] [[Groin Attack|worse]].
* [[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-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 With the Wind]]'', [[Shakespeare]], and also to a number of [[Alternate History Dot Com|AH.com]] members. See below.
* [[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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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
** A great general who was born on an island west of Italy, fought in Egypt, became emperor and brought the church under his control was already mentioned.
** Matthias Lieber, one of those who translated the Bible into German, is a [[Shout -Out]] to Martin Luther. And at the same time, a [[Shout -Out]] to the RPG ''[[Seventh Sea]]''.
** Friedrich von Hohenzollern who might be [[Frederick the Great]] born in an Atlantean log cabin and successfully running away from his tyrannical father.
** Explorers / travellers Markus Poller and Mao Polou
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** [[Lawrence of Arabia|Lauritz von Arguim]]. Also has a [[Captn Crazy (Comic Strip)|brainless captain]].
** A technical genius who's a Swede from Finland inventing a codebreaker machine. (Linus Torvalds, anyone?)
** [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kraus:Karl Kraus|Carlo Carosio of "La Fiamma"]]
** Canada has the presidents [[Benjamin Franklin|Joseph B. Franklin]] and [[Andrew Jackson|Jacob Andrews]] (a war hero).
** Germany has a populist (from the left!) named [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss: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 With People]]: Ignaz ''[[No Pun Intended|"Nazi"]]'' Schuhmann, [[Secret Police|security police]] officer working his shift on another continent [[Alternate History Wank|of the German Reich]] in order to eventually get promoted. Got increasingly fed up with its inhabitants, thinking that their mentalities make excellent [[Balkanize Me]] fodder that the [[Dirty Communists]] in Brussels would thankfully like to swallow up.
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* [[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]]}}.
* [[The Great Politics Mess -Up]]: In-universe at least for any work of fiction {{spoiler|done before the Logo and AI induced abortion of [[World War III]] but set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].}}
** The sci-fi universe "Ordo" wherein Germany's [[One World Order]] has expanded to the stars some centuries into the future.
** Another example would be a work of a Vlachian sci-fi author Mircea Savu who imagined an inter-galactic civilization with [[Balkanize Me|lots of independent states]].
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* 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.
* The aforementioned nationalized and decentralized versions of Catholic Christianity are basically the Anglican Church and the concept of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Gallicanism |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 ''[[King Lear|Der König von Leer]]'' about a Frisian yeoman and his daughters, or a jealous mercenary in ''[[Othello|Otto Leo]], genannt Der Schwarze von Verden'', which also were used for several <s>Hollywood</s> Paradies movies.
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* The firm Werstand refers to one German translation of ''[[RUR (Theatre)|RUR]]'', where the titular firm was translated as this.
* 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 Hitchhikers 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 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]]
* Another timeline, "A Plethora of Princes", is also [[Title Drop|Title Dropped]], and its author Grey Wolf is hinted at.
* Russian WWII general and dictator Gridenkov is a [[Shout -Out]] to an older [[Alternate History Dot Com]] timeline - ''Fire Eagle, Snow Bear'' - which had a Russian dictator Gridenko fighting Germany which won (our world's) [[World War One]]. Also, one of right hand man of this timeline's Gridenkov, a guy named [[Bilingual Bonus|Belochvostikov]], is known as "Stalin, The Man of Steel" ([[Sarcasm Mode|like a certain dude from our history about whom you might have heard of]]).
* Other Members of [[Alternate History Dot 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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