1980s in Sheaman

## Overview

### Government & Politics

The 1980s are sometimes known as the liberation years in Sheaman as the Jackonian dictatorship fell and a democracy rose. The 1980s in Sheaman were full of liberal and progressive politics until the later part of the 1980s that would lead to the rise of progressivism in the late 80s and early 90s. Throughout the 80s the government would be led with a moderate conservative party that was considered quite liberal under its first term but would then subsequently become for conservative in their next term. The government was always against the Sheaman National Restoration Party which was a sort-of continuation of ROSP in the 1960s. The Conservative Party was considered a strong party but were shamed for failing to pass the Economic Sanctions on Apartheid & South African Governance bill 1983 which led to many protests by the public but the party would later sanction the South African government in 1987 under the South African Economic Sanction Act 1987 after Margaret Thatcher's stance on Apartheid and its controversy.. The government in the 80s rarely came under scrutiny until around 1989 when progressivism started to rise and the government wasn't making the effort to protect young people and stand for the ideals of progressivism which would spill into the 90s and eventually see them voted out of office in the 1992 Parliamentary Election.

#### Presidents & Prime Ministers

In the 80s there would be four Presidents including: Ivan Jacks who was only President until the 3rd of January after the dictatorship ended. he would then be replaced with Anne Twair who was the second female President in Sheaman history and the 1st elected female President in Sheaman history. Anne Twair was a quite progressive conservative and considered dissolving parliament due to the failure of the 1985 budget for not being passed in parliament but would later go back on that decision due to the budget passing after amendments were made. Anne Twair would go on to lose the 1986 Presidential election and was replaced with David Boeman who was a tougher President who took a lot of time to show himself in public and outline his Presidency. In 1989 he was quickly replaced as President with Michael Sefelfreid who would go on to be the President throughout the 1990s until 1999.

David McAffa would lead as the Prime Minister from 1980 - 1984 and would oversee many progressive policies in the early 80s such as the Death Penalty Act 1980 that criminalized the death penalty as a valid form of punishment for a crimes (making it illegal) as well as the Corporal Punishment Criminalization Act 1981 that criminalized corporal punishment in any form. These were momentous acts that had well been in demand since the late 60s. Alice Pretoria would go on to replace David McAffa in early 1984 and would continue the progressive policies of David McAffa's government but would push for a much more economically right-wing system. She would then be replaced with Sir Adam Jacks becoming the 2nd Jacks Prime Minister but would push for a much more conservative policy in his party and would reform and change it. By the time that he had resigned as Prime Minister his party had shifted more right-wing and he was replaced with another right-wing Prime Minister, Carol Heffewn in 1988. Carol would completely scrap any progressive ideals and would go on to pass the Sheaman Ports Act 1989 that sold/privatized all Sheaman sea ports to private companies. Although controversial it was generally accepted by most of the conservative public, even moderates because of many strikes at ports.

### Pop Culture

#### Music

See Also: 1980s Music in Sheaman

80s music in Sheaman was mostly known for its early influences of rock music such as Punk Rock which mostly lost its footing in 1980/81 and was replaced with a more experimental form called Post-Punk that continued being popular until it began to fall in 1986. Hard rock picked up in the late 80s and was mostly influenced by the American band Guns N' Roses who popularized hard rock in the late 80s leading to bands such as Das München and Prayers Before Hell who were the most popular hard rock bands in the late 80s. Metal also had major popularity due to Guns N' Roses with Das München contributing to that Metal & Hard Rock sound of the late 80s. The Alienators continued the success of Punk Rock in the late 70s and pushed that success into the early 80s with Post-Punk albums as well as Synth-Pop & Synth-Punk albums in the early to mid 80s that were relatively successful. They punched back with their 1989 album being a hard rock, Punk Rock, Hardcore Punk album that was popular with the other hard rock & metals bands of the late 80s. Pop also rose significantly in the 1980s with Synth-Pop becoming popular as well as Pop Rock increasing in popularity with Michael Jackson and Madonna being influential in the 1980s in the pop side of music. Disco failed to continue its popularity in the 1980s with many Disco bands changing and becoming Synth-Pop bands or even continuing into the post-disco genre. Some pop bands such as The Kite Walkers, The Music Sounders, and Don't Cry were among some of the most popular pop bands ranging from synth-pop, pop rock and even dance-pop. Although pop gained popularity in the 1980s it still remained less popular than rock as rock had become more progressive, artsy, harder and more powerful than ever before.

#### Film & Television

Sheaman isn't usually well known for films and television but there were a handful of popular films and TV shows in Sheaman such as a remake of the original Halloween movie that became quite popular and is considered the best remake of Halloween but it failed to make a lot of money in theaters. The highest grossing Sheaman filmed movie was called The Case of the Decade which was about a group of lawyers in the near future (2005) as they made a decision in court that could change the future if dealt with wrong. The movie grossed $120,000,000 (US) and was considered a pretty popular movie and grossed very highly for a Sheaman movie.

In terms of Television the sitcom "A day in the life" which aired between 1981 - 1991 was a very popular sitcom in Sheaman and lasted 10 seasons of which most of them were in the 80s. The show was very popular and was considered a major inspiration for future sitcoms and saw a sequel (non-sitcom) TV series called "The days in life" that aired between 1997 - 2001 and was considered quite popular but not as popular as the original sitcom. A day in the life would also see a remake in 2006 and would become relatively popular with the show going for 3 seasons until it lost a lot of popularity.

#### Fashion

Fashion was a powerful industry for Sheaman in the 80s but remained quite similar to western fashion seen in the United States and the United Kingdom. Clothing such as ripped jeans, neon clothing and other extravagant colourful designs were popular. Aviator jackets, jumpsuits, blue jeans etc were quite popular as well as slim jeans being the most popular type of jeans. Hairstyles such as the mullet, the perm, the Jheri curl and other types of big hairs/frizzly hairs were popular. Joseph Jacks also had some influence in the 80s with his beige chinos, beige shirt and sunglasses being very popular as well as colourful bracelets. His fashion was mostly popular between the mid 50s to the early 70s but saw a small comeback in the early 80s.

## Major Events

* 1980
	+ 3rd of January - Ivan Jacks resigns as President & King of the Democratic Republic of Sheaman ending the Jackonian Dictatorship of Sheaman; James Jacks also immediately became King James I
	+ 5th of January - The Sheaman National Restoration Party is formed
	+ 10th of January - The Conservative Party is formed
	+ 15th of January - An independent group of senior politicians from the 50s begin writing the constitution of Sheaman
	+ 3rd of February - The Green Party is formed
	+ 12th of February - David McAffa becomes Prime Minister of Sheaman after his party won the 1980 Parliamentary Election
	+ 1st of March - The new constitution of Sheaman is signed creating the Republican Kingdom of Sheaman which includes keeping King James I as King of Sheaman
	+ 1st of April - Anne Twair becomes President of Sheaman
	+ 18th of June - In commemoration of 20 years since Joseph Jacks died the Armed Forces stood still and Pointed their guns to their feet in respect to Sheaman at a march in the Memorial Square Gardens
	+ 15th of September - The Death Penalty Act is passed in Parliament
* 1981 - 1985
	+ 20th of February 1981 - The Corporal Punishment Criminalization Act is passed in Parliament
	+ 14th of May 1981 - A Day in the Life airs its first episode
	+ 20th of April 1982 - The Sheaman Liberal Party is formed
	+ 1st of September 1983 - The Black Independence Liberal Party is formed
	+ 10th of August 1983 - The Liberal-Conservative Free Party is formed
	+ 1st of September 1983 - Anne Twair is reelected as President of Sheaman for a 2nd term
	+ 19th of January 1984 - David McAffa resigns as Prime Minister and leader of CP of Sheaman due to his party raising suspicions towards his progressive policies; He is replaced by Alice Pretoria
	+ 17th of June 1984 - The 1984 Parliamentary Election leads to a CP minority government with SNRP gaining seats as well as LCFP winning a few seats

* 1985 - 1989
	+ 6th of April 1985 - Emma Hendrix is born
	+ 16th of February 1986 - Magnus Henrik is born
	+ 25th of May 1986 - Alice Pretoria resigns as Prime Minister blaming her minority government and the lack of power she had in government because of the minority; she is replaced with Sir Adam Jacks
	+ 15th of July 1986 - LCFP dissolves due to their electoral defeat in 1984 as well as falling in the polls
	+ 1st of September 1986 - Anne Twair is defeated in the 1986 Presidential Election by Conservative Party candidate David Boeman who becomes President
	+ 13th of March 1987 - The South African Economic Sanction Act 1987 is passed in parliament
	+ 25th of January 1988 - The Conservatives regain their majority in parliament winning 166 / 305 seats in parliament; SNRP winning 119, BIL winning 15 and P&D wining 8; Sir Adam Jacks also resigns after the election due to wanting to retire from politics and is replaced by Carol Heffewn
	+ 1st of September 1989 - David Boeman is defeated in the 1989 Presidential election by BIL candidate Michael Sefelfreid who becomes President of Sheaman

## Incumbents

**Monarch**

* King Ivan I (Until 3rd of January 1980)
* King James I (Since 3rd of January 1990)

**President**

* Ivan Jacks (Until 3rd of January 1980)
* Anne Twair (1st of April 1980 to 1st of September 1986)
* David Boeman (1st of September 1986 to 1st of September 1989)
* Michael Sefelfreid (Since 1st of September 1989)

**Prime Minister**

* David McAffa (12th of February 1980 to 19th of January 1984)
* Alice Pretoria (19th of February 1984 to 25th of May 1986)
* Sir Adam Jacks (25th of May 1986 to 25th of January 1988)
* Carol Heffewn (Since 25th of January 1988)

**Deputy Prime Minister**

* Alice Pretoria (12th of February 1980 to 19th of January 1984)
* Cecil Colins (Since 19th of February 1984)

## See Also

1970s in Sheaman

1990s in Sheaman