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Rebels And Draka:

An ASB scenario by metalheadjohn based on the Domination of Draka book series and the CSA: Confederate States of America mockumentary. Credit to B Munro/Quantumbranching for the design of the CSA and its empire.


The story of the Domination of Draka happens more or less like it did in canon with a few exceptions (hello Canada nice to see you're still hanging around). Things really diverge in the 1860s where the Confederate States manage to gain the support of the British and French. With foreign support (which the Draka participated in as part of the British Empire) the Confederacy is able to pull off a victory against the Union. What followed was an almost unbelievable phase of expansion north and the eventual annexation of the entirety of the Union.


As the Draka rapidly expanded across the African Continent and gained dominion status, the Confederate States consolidated white rule and expanded their systems of slavery to new and disturbing extents. Unlike the Draka who gave their indentured labourers the moniker of serf, the Confederacy continued to refer to their system as slavery.


Against all the odds history continued in a very familiar manner to OTL. Canada, now the most popular destination for runaway slaves and political dissidents, became an increasingly progressive nation and an arch-enemy of the repressive Confederate States. The Draka continued to expand, the empires of Europe formed very familiar alliances that culminated in a WWI equivalent. The Entente emerged victorious over the German led Central Powers but the Russian Empire fell to communist revolution.


Shortly after the war the Draka made their total independence from the British Empire official, declaring the Domination of Draka. At the same time the Confederate Latin America and soon had subjugated all of the Western Hemisphere that was not directly controlled by another rival power. Disgruntled at losses in the First World War and the ensuing economic depression, Germany instated a new governmental regime known as the Third Reich and began rearming and expanding once again. At the same time militant nationalism rose to power in Japan, prompting more expansion in East Asia. The British Empire - now bereft of all of its African territories - along with its few remaining allies found itself standing virtually alone in a sea of repressive totalitarianism.


Eventually the Second Great War started when the Nazi Third Reich and Imperial Japan began to expand into Europe and East Asia respectably. Both fascist powers made great gains and drew a lot of attention for it. The Draka, seeing the Germans were over-stretching themselves after invading the USSR, launched an enormous invasion that swept across Europe. The Japanese, on the other hand, were attacked by the CSA in what the Confederates considered a pre-emptive attack. The Draka overran all of Europe outside of the parts the USSR had been able to retake. The Japanese Empire fell apart but with such great distances the CSA failed to grab it. Instead the British, who had been sitting out most of it after France fell, devoted their efforts to grab and secure as much of Japan's crumbling empire as possible.


The conflict ended with the Confederacy successfully developing the atom bomb and crushing the Japanese with it. The British followed up shortly afterwards with their own successful test, then the Draka and finally the Soviets. With these new weapons threatening every major power, the world settled down for the Protracted Struggle.


By the year 2000 whatever camaraderie there was between the Draka and the Confederacy is long gone. Both empire are now devoted to wiping the other out. To the Draka its just another case of subjugating what they consider feral serfs whilst to the CSA its another battle over realpolitik. Recently the Americans have been able work in a crusade angle due to the Draka's rampant neo-paganism and aggressive atheism (and let's not forget their tolerance for homosexuality, endorsement of bisexuality and unorthodox attitudes towards women and how liberated they should be, giving women the vote and letting them fight in the army? What's wrong with these guys).


The modern Confederacy is a nightmarish state covered by a veneer of civility and prosperity. Despite their slave-based system they have managed to build a massively powerful economy that helps prop up the incredibly draconian class system.


By this point the entirety of the Confederate States of America is built upon mass slavery and harsh white supremacy in their culture, politics and social organisation. Non-whites and people of mixed heritage, with only a very few exceptions, are subjected to slavery or some similar form of indentured status. Only Jews (who get put on a reservation on Long Island) and Amerindians (who get re-educated to white culture) are allowed to remain free. Some of the colonial territories in Latin America are subjected to an Apartheid system of social government instead of outright slavery as well. For a short time there was a renewed slave trade but it didn't last after the alliance with the Draka broke down.


Slavery is a far more well organised system now as it has been extended to all other facets of society and the economy. They are now forced to rely on their existing breeding population but the sheer number of people who qualify as slaves or other forms of indentured servants help alleviate that.


Despite maintaining slavery the CSA has managed to remain on top of technological advancement, endorsing the sciences amongst its white population and pioneering new methods of physically and psychologically restraining other human beings. Despite this relative technophilia, the CSA is an incredibly conservative society. Traditionalist attitudes towards religion, gender roles and homosexuality ensure that the CSA remains a homogeneous, repressive and thoroughly Christian nation. Traditional sexism is still in place, including a lack of female suffrage (which has caused problems in the past) and the CSA has gone to great lengths to promote large families to ensure the white population remain stable.


Bizarrely white citizens do have unspoken support networks to ensure their prosperity. Every citizen can expect some kind of fulfilling work set aside for them through the support of the slaves who get relegated to the dangerous work. There are also certain fields such as slave-psychology (which is technically considered an extension of veterinary sciences) which are seen as a viable option for high-school drop-outs and hold the pop-culture status of OTL liberal-art degrees.


All forms of Christianity are accepted in the CSA though Catholicism is still seen as rather suspicious, especially since the Pope fled to the British Empire and remains there. Out right atheism is not tolerated and even agnosticism is seen as questionable. Islam, whilst a tiny minority, is actively oppressed by the government who are given over to crusader rhetoric.


The primary rival of the CSA is the Domination of Draka, their old ally turned enemy. The Draka, much like the CSA, are a slave and racial-supremacy based society but have taken it to extremes that disturb even the Americans.


The Domination follows a form of racial-supremacy developed around the idea of the Draka being a new ethnic group. Despite being derived from primarily Anglo-Nordic settlers, the Draka consider themselves a brand new ethnicity and have the same kind of contempt for the people of Europe as they do for any other non-white race in their empire. All races who are not Draka or more recently enfranchised citizens are enslaved and relegated to the status of serf. Whilst it is essentially slavery, the Draka do insist on this terminology.


Draka society is based on a reverence on classicalism from religion (which is very informal but tends to lean towards neo-paganism) to social organisation and even slavery. They are a republic, with the citizens having permission to elect archons. Only citizens are allowed to vote but the franchise does encompass both men and women and there isn't much of a glass ceiling in politics. The Draka are generally lenient towards an individual's sexuality. They do accept homosexuality and seem to actively encourage bisexuality amongst much of the population. The citizenry, however, are all expected to contribute to the continuation of the race and by law are required to produce a certain number of children by a certain point in their lives. These days they do this through artificial insemination in either serf surrogates or artificial wombs.


They too are a technophilic society though they have issues with keeping up with computer technology. The serf population are not trusted with handling advanced technology but the Draka do go to great lengths to recruit renegade scientists from other nations with offers of citizenship, estates and serfs of their preference. Much of their technology is considered from a practical perspective, often being researched to improve some issue that currently exists. They do have a conservationist attitude as well though, actively promoting the spread of species into environments they had previously been exterminated from and developing renewable energy sources to prevent the devastation of the environment.


Africa has been thoroughly subjugated and thanks to forced relocation of indigenous people and the occasional ethnic cleansing, they have been able to settle the parts they want secured by citizenry. The Middle East and Europe, being further away from the Domination's core and closer to the enemies of the Draka, are much more troublesome. Campaigns of repression commonly take place to deal with slave revolts and social unrest. Enemy infiltrators and the spread of socialist, nationalist and democratic propaganda are also common problems in these areas.


The Draka have begun their most controversial move to begin engineering a master race. Already the first generations of Homo Drakensis, engineered in the womb, have grown to adulthood. They have adaptable metabolisms and the ability to project specialised pheromones to help cow other forms of human on an instinctual level. They are still few in number but the Domination intends for the entire next generation to be developed in this manner, making the Draka a true superhuman master race. Plans are also in development to produce a docile slave race that can be trusted with more delicate matters than the current population of serfs.


The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whilst sustaining some damage from the Draka, are the third of the great powers.


The Second World War gave the USSR the impetus it needed to industrialize and militarise. Through forced labour they too have become a powerful superstate but, unlike the Draka, have become much more paranoid as well. The USSR is an extremely repressive police state with an extensive state surveillance network. There are large networks of cameras and microphone bugs watched by a wide variety of agents that keep control over the population. There have been many attempts to integrate the various people of the USSR into a single Soviet nationality in order to promote further unity within their nation.


Thanks to somewhat more advanced computer technology and a better ability to infiltrate the US than the Draka, the USSR has managed to set up a computerised economy. Things are still very heavily regulated and the new computerised economic system has actually led to even more repression in order to reduce the margin of error. Theoretically regular allotments of commodities and luxuries to the citizenry do help keep the people compliant but frequent shortages mean that the scheduled deliveries often don't make it on time. Tight media control keeps the population informed or ignorant depending on the demands of the government at the time. Though some regions do pick up British transmissions despite the government's best efforts the frequencies that draka and Confederate broadcasts work on are easier to spin as enemy propaganda.


The Peoples Republic of China, who the USSR had a hand in creating, are the current rising partner in the Comintern. Due to having a different formation, they adopted a form of Marxism rather than Maoism and remained in the USSR's orbit.


China is a heavily industrialised nation and has largely overtaken the USSR in terms of economic productivity. They are, however, dependent on Russian resources and stay close due to their close proximity to so many other enemies. The current leadership stay with Russia out of realpolitik and pragmatism and have plans to usurp the USSR when the opportunity presents itself to them. Despite trying to suppress many of the features of the old Taiping government the Party has been less destructive towards traditional Chinese culture than the OTL Maoists. They are also slowly shifting towards their own semi-capitalist economic system as they start to openly trade with the Americans and the British.


Last but not least are the British Empire and their few remaining allies. Often called the Alliance for Democracy, they are the final bastion of liberalism (with British features).


Britain has lost all of its empire in Africa thanks to the Draka secession and had to work hard during the Second World War to hold onto their Asian colonies. Having already begun the process of converting their empire into a federated state the aftermath of the Second World War led to an acceleration of this process. The Imperial Union, as it is now called, as now a fully federated state, held together by economic ties and fear of the various other powers around them. There is a central parliament and a shared constitution that all members are expected to uphold and that every nation contributes to. Regional parliaments manage each member state and appoint representatives for the central government.


There have been attempts to establish a more homogeneous central culture for the union and after so many decades of trying what could be called an Anglo-Indian culture has begun to emerge. Regional identities, cultural traditions and beliefs still persist though as do local religions. There are further attempts to integrate the various territories of the Union which have created numerous reactionary movements in response. Most of the Union's politics are a bizarre combination of progressive and traditionalist ideals combined together to serve the demands of the government. Despite supporting religiosity (but not fundamentalism) and large families, the Union also supports post-racial politics and multiculturalism.


India is one of the centres of the Union and its most contentious constituent. Trying to find a balance in the Union was difficult and even to this day many of the other member states are concerned about the amount of power India, as a whole, can wield. They have also contributed a lot to the current over-culture that is starting to become the norm across the Union. They, unfortunately, still have a problem with poverty in many areas of the country and the religious and ethnic conflicts are still troublesome.


Much like canon Draka technology is ahead in many areas and behind in others. Nuclear fusion as a power source is only a couple of years away from becoming a reality and has been applicable as a weapon for decades. Space travel, whilst tentative at first, has also been a common part of the world's politics and society since the 60s. There are extensive claims and properties off-world now and every major power has gone out of its way to secure the resources of the wider Solar System. The opening up of outer-space has also allowed the great powers to slowly start moving their industries into orbit where they present a (theoretically) lower threat to the environment. The British have been experimenting with their super-collider devices in the Australian Outback and the antimatter that has been produced in them.


Computer technology is both more advanced in terms of efficiency but also more primitive. There is no internet and public computers are still very large and chunky compared to OTL. The very idea of what Apple has managed to produce is almost inconceivable to the people of this timeline. Public information networks do exists but they are far more limited than OTL's internet and closely guarded in order to prevent infiltration by enemies. These advances were intrinsic to the Draka cracking of the human genome and their subsequent genetic engineering projects. There have also been ongoing projects by all sides to find a way to infiltrate and sabotage the other power's computer networks.


In deep space, the Alliance for Democracy have set up bases. There they have devoted immense amounts of resources to a secret project, an ark that will take people to a viable, life-bearing planet they recently found in the Alpha Centauri system. It is slower than light but also equipped to keep thousands of personnel in cryogenic preservation until they arrive. Through this humanity and decent civilization will be preserved and Britannia will be able to begin to rule the stars.

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Now I REALLY want to move to Canada.

But seriously, great job.