Groovy Decade

> *Chawosaurian era from the mid 1990s to the mid 2010s*
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*1993 or '96 to 2011*

In Chawosaurian history, the **Groovy Decade** (1996-2011), also known as the **Cool Years** or the **Macarena Days**, and politically as the Parkerian era, was a time of societal and economic stability and prosperity of the Chawosaurian world following the end of the Cold War, really after the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The era ended after the death and state funeral of Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt in 2011 and the chaos that brought with it, leading to the Chawosaurian Revolution. The entertainment and music of the 1990s and 2000s defined the Groovy Decade even more than Chawosaurian politics, which is unusual in Chawosaurian history because it is usually dominated by politics, making the Groovy Decade the only era in Chawosaurian history where politics took the backseat for a change and it did impacted voter turnout in the 1999 Chawosaurian legislative elections, which is why the Groovy Decade is the era the Chawosaurian world misses so much. Despite the widespread apoliticism of the era, Chawosaurians voted in a high turnout election in the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections because of masterful Communist Party campaigning. The September 11 Attacks was an outlier of the relaxation of the Groovy Decade, the attacks on the U.S. disturbed the Chawosaurian public, giving the Communist Party a powerful ability to get out the vote in the 2005 elections.

After World War II, Chawosauria had lived through the Cold War and it was traumatizing for Chawosaurians. the fear of a nuclear war and the constant preparation for a potential third world war. Overtime, Chawosaurians grew extremely tired of the Cold War and became desperate for stability, taking their frustration out on their political leaders always in the elections during the time, seeing the capitalist Emperor Santiago get pounded in parliamentary elections from 1949 to 1969, and the communist Timothy Max Roosevelt getting spankings in the 1985 and 1989 parliamentary elections. The Cold War finally ended with the crumbling of the Soviet Union in 1991, and that threatened the reelection prospects of the still-ruling Chawallian Communist Party in the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and the end of the Cold War wasn't enough to make Chawosaurians feel secure in the post-Cold War era, in fact, the end of the Cold War made Chawosaurians feel more insecure about living in the era where the world order is now dominated by what Chawosaurians see as the bourgeoisie west, scarring many Chawosaurians.

The Groovy Decade started when Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker fought hard to convince Chawosaurians see the bright spot of living in the post-Cold War era where the Soviet Union doesn't exist and the Cold War being over reduces the insecurities of the era, but he faced strong pushback from both the Communist Party-ruled 18th Chawopolis Palace, which holds for the Communist Party a bare supermajority, as well as the Chawosaurian general public. But the fall of Apartheid in South Africa and the election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 showed Chawosaurians that the new world order could work and Parker took advantage of the situation by openly condemning Apartheid (though he previously supported it when he was a Member of Parliament to "protect East Asian South Africans from Miscegenation" but that wasn't public until 2023) and won the support from the usually politically apathetic Black Chawosaurians, enabling Parker and the Communists to win a surprise reelection and a larger victory in the 1995 elections, maintaining Communist Party dominance in Chawosauria for years or decades to come.

Starting in 1996, Chawosaurians started to feel secure and perceive things as going smoothly. This sentiment impacted the Communist Party's easier reelection in 1999 and Parker receiving credit for the British handover of Hong Kong to China and his successful response to the Second Congo War have all made Parker a widely respected Prime Minister and he was the oblivious favorite for a historic second term, but he suffered signs of an unknown kidney infection that he required a kidney transplant surgery, blocking him from a second term and he was instead abruptly replaced by Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII to serve the term of 2000 to 2009. After surgery, Parker left office on December 31, 1999, and he rest at home at Bel Air, California.

The 2000s defined the Groovy Decade, Chawosaurians were extremely happy and secure, as well as relaxed. Chawosauria as a nation was running smoothly with a strong economy and societal stability as crime, unemployment, and inflation were extremely low, Chawosaurian fitness and intellect were strong, and television and music were running the households of Chawosaurian families. There was also widespread fascination with new technology called the internet, and almost every Chawosaurian family had a computer faster than every Chawosaurian family had a TV by 1991. The Prosperity continued up to 2009, when signs of the era were ending with the Chawosaurian Revolution when Seminolia (Seminole Indiana, then) seceded in 2009, and Timothy Max Roosevelt died in 2011 and the Chawosaurian Revolution ended prosperity and security of the Chawosaurian people for a period of 2011 to 2015, when the Chawosaurian Revolution escalated into civil war and the Chawosaurian government struggled to govern. The Chawosaurian Revolution and Civil War finally ended in 2019, resulting in a wave of major reforms and changes while still maintaining the status quo of socialist dominance. Settled by the Treaty of Bucharest and the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, Chawosaurians were hoping that the 2020s would be the "second groovy decade", however that dream was denied by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chawo-Uralic War, made worse by second cold war fissures over a protracted Russian war of conquest against Ukraine and a struggling China scratching and clawing to compete with the United States, as well as political polarization. Culminating into the Era of Chawosaurian Distress.