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   Guys

So a non ISOT story?
The push for unification was strong but there were obstacles in the way. Say Russia or Thatcher in the UK says no and means it. Well... half of the people at least will leave even with a full on democracy. It makes a surviving East Germany near impossible.
Years ago on another board I started but never finished a surviving East Germany story. It was never going to work though because without the utmost ruthless border patrols, the country couldn’t survive.

This next one is inspired by a short story titled On the Steppes of Central Asia, and has a somewhat similar premise as well. Where it mainly diverges is that sometime in the distant future, the American Founding Fathers find themselves revived just after dying, and no doubt baffled at the fact that not only has their vitality been restored, but also the setting they’ve found themselves in. Not to mention the stranger who greets them, explaining their current situation and catching them up on the history of the United States as it unfolded after their passings. But for as much shock, awe and mixed emotions would overtake them once a few hundred years of history has been relayed to them, the real bombshell will drop once he tells them that the American experiment was ultimately a failure.

As even though it started out successful, the various checks, balances and constitutional rights that they enshrined still weren’t enough to stop government from growing larger and larger throughout the centuries. Rather, it’s fallen prey mainly to greedy politicians, a complacent citizenry, and moneyed interests who’ve hijacked Capitol Hill for their own ends. Combined, these have facilitated the emergence of a security state whose endless warring, propaganda, and casual diktats have both deceived and browbeat the public into accepting throughout the years. That is, until the ‘American Empire’ that formed in the Founders’ absence was finally brought down, leading to a more extreme social order holding that, for all their wisdom and deserved wariness towards big government, the Founders still didn’t go far enough.

Because now, the current paradigm is anarchism. More specifically, a brand of anarchism that embraces free markets, private ownership, and mutual non-aggression against others. And the real clincher is that, for as long as it’s been demonized and discouraged throughout the ages, it’s actually turned out to work far better than previous social orders have.