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Nazi Germany, militarist Japan, and fascist Italy were vanquished in the Second World War, and their lands were split up by the victorious Allies. However, the Axis bankrupted the British Empire and devastated so much of Europe that the Allies were able to set up their own puppets and annex much of the former Empires outright.

The United States actually takes the role of Germany, though the Soviet Union is not a close analogue to Japan.

The United States has been under the control of the Democratic Party since the election of President Roosevelt in 1932. He was succeeded by James Farley in 1947, who was followed by Joseph Kennedy. The government expansion of the New Deal and Second World War years kept on without stopping. By the present, the US government is massive and technocratic. Like The Man in the High Castles Hitler, Joe Kennedy Sr. is old and frail. Despite there being a Vice President and a written line of succession, various factions – the CCC, Army, Marine Corps, and a host of other departments, are preparing for a power struggle.

Segregation has continued in the United States, though with the conquest of Africa, vast numbers of African-Americans have moved to the newly conquered territories. There, with few whites, they are able to have their freedom.

The United States of Europe is ruled by TTLs Gaullists with a healthy dose of Moseley’s Union Movement. Its rocket programs and technological firms are in competition with American ones.

After Stalin died in 1959 he was succeeded by Vyacheslav Molotov. He has discontinued some of the most extreme Stalinist programs, but there moderates that say “Destalinization” has not gone far enough. The Soviets gained much of Eurasia after the Second World War but have not shed the image of being Russian-dominated.

The East Asian Federation was founded by Chinese Nationalists and handed British and French territories after the collapse of those empires. Strongly technocratic.

Brazil, under the rule of technocrats, sided with the Allies and gained European territory. It has recently expanded in South America.

Ethiopia managed to defeat Italy early on in the Second World War and was awarded with much of British East Africa. Haile Selassie is still Emperor and has modernized his empire.

Technocracy is in the vogue worldwide. Pneumatic tube technologies are common, and government fueled R&D is nearly universal. Despite this, technology is still around the level of the late 1940s in many areas.

The world never really demilitarized after the Second World War, so the United States and its allies have large militaries and have kept on producing weaponry.