NationStates Jolt Archive

let us dicuss and compare and contrast to the nations of the modern world :)

I can really see this sort of thing happening now, in the not so distant future.

The three states would be the industrial centres of the world: North America, Western Europe and East/South Asia.

Very far fetched and highly unlikely, but possible.

1984 was satire against Stalin's USSR. The parellels between the two are obvious - the cult of the leader, his posters everywhere, benefits for members of "the party" while the proletariat get less, secret NKVD-like police, nationalized everything, and in some film adaptions of the book, Big Brother even has a big, bushy moustache.

Cuba? But they don't have telescreens... (too expensive)

1984 was satire against Stalin's USSR. The parellels between the two are obvious - the cult of the leader, his posters everywhere, benefits for members of "the party" while the proletariat get less, secret NKVD-like police, nationalized everything, and in some film adaptions of the book, Big Brother even has a big, bushy moustache.
Yeah.... Exactly what I was thinking about.

Political Correctness is a form of Newspeak - absolutely no doubt there.

Cuba? But they don't have telescreens... (too expensive)

Sure they do. People in Cuba who have money do great. Its the poor people who are screwed. I know someone who is planning to move back to Cuba.