Playing Taps for the $$

[King Alboin]

[disclaimer]:

Given the hypothetical assumptions of this discussion, the following statements are not meant to be political in scope, but a re-telling of the hyperbolic history of the future. [end disclaimer]

Your querries are valid Bole, and have great merit. So with all due seriousness I will attempt to establish My reasonings for the future's geopolitical structure. {written from the future's pov of its history}

If then so, we agree to the point that the AFN has taken itself out of its former occupation of being the World's 'police' well as I see it, this pee'd some folks off, and the result of that pi'ssination ended up causing a free for all where as tyrants excelled in the exaltion of their "non friendly" agenda's.

We will use the timeline of thirty years.

As soon as the Affiliation withdrew, "oil dollars" instantly became "oil yuan"

The Saud's and Opec had to trade with China's booming economic surge.

The value of China's currency became the new 'gold', used as a hedge against inflation.

China as she has always tried to be, remained a closed society, yet grew to extreme bounds, populationwise. She finally attempted to take over Taiwan, and set her claims upon the small nation Isle, thinking the US and the AFN would not intervene. She was wrong. The US, still a force to reckon with, had pledged since the mid twentieth century to protect Taiwan, so The US sent its forces over and recaptured Taiwan, bloodying the nose of China. Pee'd the corn out of the Chicoms, so they called in their debt, and cashed in their US treasury bonds, finally crippling the US's ecomomy.

Seeing that the US was in disarray, and its people appearing downtroddin, North Korea, saw its chance to git back at the US and sent two nukes over to Okanawa, completely destroying the island and the US forces still stationed there. At the same time the NK's attempted to cross the 38th parrallel. This in turn really p'o'd Japan, and they readverted their JDF into and expeditiary force and completely annilated the North Korean army, and its government, and saw to the re-unification in an orderly manner. and after 7years of management they just left.

What most historian argue over is this. It is a little known fact that the area formally occupied by North Korea has the most saturation of gold deposits; first even compared to South Africa. The Japanese may have "confiscated" the already refined gold, yet no one knows, for there were no public accounts of the quantity and when the South was reunited with the North, the vaults were empty. Korea now enjoys what it has mined, and Japan has reasserted itself in IndoChina, peacefully bringing trade and technollogy throughout the three tiers of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. A small but very posperous Empire. And after years of poverty, the three tiers actually weclomed their old enemy. Amazing is it not?

Nao everyone thought the Chicoms would interfere, however, seeing a dragon on your doorstep [Japan], and another dragon with a long nuclear reach [US] who they just ****ed off by ruining their economy, they feared a retaliatory strike. So they just let happen what was bound to happen.

there is an old chinese proverb that goes like this, "man who go to bed with itchy butt, wake up with stinky finger" .. I know its not relevant but it had to be said.

China also saw its lack in fighting a modern highly technical war. [relatively speaking] when it lost its war over Taiwan. So to gear up, they pulled heavily on the oil reserves of the middle east, to power the beginning of China's most industrious epoch to date, consequently pouring tones of yuan into the hands of the Saud's and their surrounding neighbors.

No longer confined by the negotiated restrictive sanctions placed on the Iranians, and seeing that NK did what they did, and to who knows the f why, but, that Giligan looking dood, sent four nukes over to Israel, however the guidance systems on those low orbit pieces of junk were defective.

One fell on Syria, one fell on Lebanon and one spirraled away and landed in Lower Egypt [which is the northern part]. striking the Suez canal, effectively halting shipping for a 1000 years.

I have not been authorized to open the secret files of this umm .. er .. let's just say "debaucle" but I can hint at a rumor that says ... perhaps the guidance systems worked flawlessly. However this is pure speculation, and one for historians to debate at their leisure.


The last one fell and 'ploded in the mediteranian, and caused a sunami that washed over the whole eastern coast, completely destroying the lands there, even Gaza. The surge was so widespread, it wreaked death and devastation all the way to Monaco. The reports of the totall devastation can be read on any old kendal library, history of Nuclear Sunamis and Tidal Waves, entitled "How the Mediteranean Lost its Splendor"

The whole of Islam went left, they were so p'issed off. Sooo using Saudia Arabia's backing, they formed a body of like minded Sunni and Suffi and tore through Iran's Shiite population, killed them, enslaved them, chopped their heads off of them .. ya know stuff like that. The leader that arose from this conflaguration of the United 2/3rds was a decendent of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sooooo, He formed what would later be known as the Suleiman Caliphate. Nothing to do with the Ottomon Empire. He was from Dearborne, Michigan. He became the unwritten Law of Islam. The Saudi King's paid him homage and tribute as long as Shria Law [sp] and Wahabism [sp] was the foundation of his rule. Cali Suleiman took over Tehran, which as of now 2041 still is the capital of the Caliphate.

Cali Suleiman negotiated with the taliban in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Pahkistan. The Taliban finnally took over Pahkistan and with Afghanistan, there was a trade route from the Kyber pass to the open shores of the Arabian sea. And the poppy flowed.

Turkey got nervous
Georgia got nervous
Azerbaijan got nervous
Armenia got nervous
Israel got poked, but made a long lasting peace with the westbank folks and with the above mentioned along with Kazakistan became Nation Fortresses, with Israel's expertise, Georgia's revenue and access to the black sea, Turkey's political whip and access to the Med, Azerbaijan's grit and access to the Caspian Sea, and Armenia's steadfasteness and access to God.

Nao what do these Nation Fortresses have to do with anything .. well it turned out that they became a thorn in the Cali's side and are still that way in 2041, yet because there must always be an enemy for a catalyst for any tyrant's tyraids, the Calif Suleiman uses their very existance to further his claims on any previously occupied Islamic state. He succeeded by crook or corruption to solidify his hold on:

Morroco, Southern Spain, Albania,Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan North and South, Somalia, The Whole of the Saud peninsulia,Malaysia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pahkistan and others. Syria and Lebanon are still cleaning up.

One thing must be said about Cali Suleiman, like his ancient ancestor, he was very astute and well educated. Since the suez was no longer a viable trade route, he established and built the InterCalif Highway system, basing the architecture from the old plans originally put forth by none other than Eisenhower. The InterCalif Highway system spiders out all the way from Morocco to the Hindus river. Pointedly a remarkable achievment.

He sold out the Chechnyians to the Russians in exchange for their support in taking over India, or more or less their 'turning the blind eye' as he set his designs on India. The pressure was so great and the yuan so strong that India saw the writing on the wall, and did not want to loose her sovereignty to the Cali. And fearing getting into a nuke shooting war with Pahkistan's New Taliban controled government, especially without support from Russia, India held free elections, with those elections heavily seeded by Muslims, she elected an Islamic based Government, which quickly within five years, formed up a new constitution and new government structure very similar to the old Sultanate. China loved the idea, for it no longer had to deal with Government in Exile Tibet, who in case point moved to Bangledesh, [old East Pahkistan] who are under the protectorate of AFN. Sri Lanka not wanting to be austricized joined along, yet kept its Hindu/Sikh-ness in tact.

The Sultanate, who process the management of that Nation's affairs are similar to a parlementarian form of government, yet very much Islamic, so as long as the temples and worship are on private property, the worshipers wont be harmed. The reason being why is simple. There are still three billion Indians. So any attempt by the Sultanate to squash freedom of worship always had lead to riots and murders and general upheavals. so everone agrees to let you do your thing and I do my thing and no body dies no more. Live Long and Prosper .. Nanoo Nanoo. This did and still does keep the Caliphate from imposing its claim and rule.

What is a magistratum, and why would this be attractive to the Slavs? Is this all Slavs or just some? For example, does this include the Czechs? You know, the Russians really aren't that popular in Central Europe.

I will git to this querry as soon as some one posts so as not to double post