Contingency Lore Wiki

**Welcome to the Contingency Lore Wiki!**Contingency is an alternative world where the events are portrayed by the author’s (Garecian Republic Mapping) high school experience! Which leaves us with an interesting new story with new nations, leaders and motives. Most of the nations are named after someone GRM met in real life, and his or her beliefs and social strategies are reflected by their political ideology, form of government, and diplomacy. The technological level of the world is that of the same as our own. The ideologies are the same as well, with some unique and timeline exclusive alternatives.
By 1986, the world is divided among the Pendel and Professional Blocs. The status of the world by then, was shaped and molded by the First World War which started with the assassination of a colonial governor in Lindoncian Sahara in 1910. After the war, West and Eastern Europe fell into political turmoil and anarchy, which saw the socialists rise in the West and the communists rise in the East.

## **Major differences in the CTGY Universe from OTL**

* The new nations around the world across history result in different ethnic and linguistic demographics, especially in the Americas and Asia. Some regions are more divided or united than others in OTL.
* Due to the different nations that rise and fall throughout history, people who held political positions OTL, no longer hold these positions in CTGY and instead OTL people hold vastly different positions in society, for example instead of Adolf Hitler becoming a far-right wing dictator, he is instead an artist and a social democratic writer, and instead of Hitler becoming an iconic right-wing fascist, instead it would be taken up by someone named Till Hertzog or Albin Blecher.
* Following an alternative viking age (mid 800s - 1000s AD), Celtic groups and tribes became far more resistant than in OTL, leading to Celtic Culture not only surviving, but flourishing with little to no foreign ethnic influence or meddling.
* The rise of a long lasting Arabic empire (Suhlamanian Empire) instead of a Turkic empire (Ottoman Empire), results in a much stronger Arab and Islamic influence in the world, making Christianity and Islam equally rivaling religions in the world.
* Throughout history, instead of there being a bipolar world order or power struggle, instead it is much more expansive as three to four great powers struggle for control rather than there only being two.
* Women after the 1850s are much more politically active as a result of the imbalance of gender power following the 1840s Liberal Democratic Revolutions and the 1920s Western Syndicalist Revolutions, leading to a more balanced male-female demographic in the political field. For example Natasha Hill being a prominent 1960s and 1970s conservative figure in the Garecian Republic, or Hazel Scott being the current head of state in the Commune of Briayon.
* The world is much more geopolitically engaged, and culture is more defined by ideologies and conflict between them. This makes even the most youthful generations being much more politically involved on both the left and right wing.
* Due to WW2 happening in the 1990s, technological progress is stunted by a decade. This has the effect of the world never leaving a mix of 2000s and 2010s culture, style and attitude. On top of that, AI technology isn’t invested into as much as OTL, and same goes for the Social Media industry, which causes the modern youth to be much more in-person social, more extroverted and less toxic, yet while the toxicity from social media is removed, it is replaced by ideological driven toxicity.
* With the less interest in social media, people continue on to value family, tradition, friendships, love, cooperation. This goes for all sides of the political spectrum.
* Since the 2000s and 2010s mixed culture never goes away, radical social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ never pick up to become mainstream, and instead are only minor and are practiced in tiny social circles.

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