In Götterdämmerung
Chapter 372: Total War the Angeloi set up puppet states in with Taiwan becoming a Republic of China, Qiandao the Republic of Qiandao and Sulawesi Republic. I was thinking about possible inspiration you could use with those three. So far I was thinking that the ROC be based off of OTL's
Republic of Formosa and
Wang Jingwei's Republic China while Qiandao could be based off of the
Second Philippine Republic?
I am unsure about what to do with Sulawesi. Mabey inspire TTl's Indonesians to fight for their independence in the Cold War?
I will probably retcon them all away since my primary motivation for adding them was "haha funny reference." They'll just be military occupations with some local collaborators.
Probably whenever the Paulluists took over.
As for the Angeloi invasion of Japan maybe you could have TTL's Tojo be similar to OTL's "Bose" in that he was a collaborator with the Angeloi to try and force independence instead of the more gradual process that "Hirohito" advocated only to fail like Bose did in OTL?
Perhaps as a collaborator.
One possible idea if you decide to keep the in game decision in Nanjing could be that it was a series of extensions to the existing palace instead of a completely new one?
Another of my past assumptions and rationalizations, which turned out to be incorrect. Due to its size and design, the Forbidden City can't be made as a simple add-on to the Ming Imperial Palace, which is why I decided to make it the summer palace. That doesn't quite make sense either since the Forbidden City was always designed to be a "main" palace, but I'll go with it for now.
I remember reading on the Code Geass Reddit and seeing a thread on why Britannia despite being an Empire was not as racist against non whites since there are characters like Villetta Nu as a member of the Purist Faction and Dorothea Ernst being the Knight of Four. One commenter suggested that Britannian racism was similar to what it was in antiquity in that those born within the Empire were considered citizens and those that were born outside it like their conquered peoples were discriminated against regardless of race. This seems to be the case in TTL since once Jurusalem forms all you needed to be was straight, German and Christian and you were a citizen race did not appear to have been a factor?
Racism developed along different lines in the Hohenzollernverse, which is why I never use the terms "white" or "black" (even if similar terms had started emerging in the medieval era to differentiate Christian Europeans from Muslim Arabs and North Africans). The Reich primarily labels people based on language and geography: French are French speakers (usually in France), Poles are Polish speakers (usually in Poland), Germans are German speakers (with regional differences) and so on. A dichotomy of European compared to non-European emerged as the Reich expanded into South Eimerica, sub-saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, though most people just used the linguistic labels for convenience. In the modern era, "European" becomes accepted to refer to people with lighter skin colors characteristic of having ancestors from Europe, "African" for African people, and so on. Modern genetics allows people to start defining ethnicities in terms of what genes they have, but most people stick with the linguistic/geographic distinctions they're used to since it's more obvious in day to day life. Most Roman racism is cultural or religious, rooted in the belief in Christian German/Greek-centered Romanitas being the "superior" model of civilization. Sure, it has almost always been the case in the Reich that anybody can be a Roman, but in practice those who fully adopt German/Greek culture and Christianity can best enjoy the benefits of Roman society. That's where you have the systemic discrimination against the French, Poles, and Arabs who violently resisted the Reich, the Islamophobia against the Muslims who were Friedrich the Great's main enemies in the (officially) religiously-motivated Crusades, and the continued marginalization of Africans in the 21st century. Jerusalem, meanwhile, has an even more restrictive concept of Romanitas, believing that only Christian Germans (hewing to their particular sect) can be Romans and that everybody must be thrown in the melting pot of Romanitas to discard their "barbarian" non-Roman cultures and become Christian German Romans.
Building on this discussion, how would the
eugenics movement develop in TTL?
Since the Reich stuck to older conceptions of race and racial differences based on language and geography, eugenics would develop much the same as it did, only in a "race-neutral" way. Some would see it as a way of achieving true Romanitas by creating the ideal Roman people through selecting the best genes, no matter where someone came from or their skin color. On the other hand, it also means that those with bad genes are not Roman and thus looked down upon. The Indians develop it based on their emerging understanding of the Indo-Aryan migrations, deeming the descendants of Indo-Aryans the "true" Indians and everybody else (Muslims especially) as either foreigners or subhumans to be swept aside. I can imagine "Gandhi" making full use of rhetoric proclaiming the superiority of the Aryan race and the annihilation of the Muslims he calls invaders and traitors.
