NationStates Jolt Archive

Hey. Not a new player, here, but a new nation, and though when I was initially thinking of creating this account I didn't imagine a problem, I found myself feeling a little less certain when I actually got around to filling in the motto and fleshing out the idea et cetera... I'll elaborate:

I'm quite sure that there's been plenty of them in the past, but I'd still like to see how everyone feels before starting a nation based on the Third Reich. As you'll note I've already chosen the German tricolour rather than any direct Nazi symbol in the national flag, but of course, even when creating an alternate history, it would be hard to ignore the motto, "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" and to be honest filling that out was the first thing that made me hesitate for a moment. Should I invent something different, or is it enough that the slogan is more about national unity than anything else?

I don't really want to give away all the plot ideas I have by saying ahead of time exactly what I plan to do with the nation, but I can quite readily say that my interest in creating this account is more of a curious, 'what if?' and something of a fascination with the curious advancement of much German technology in the 1940s rather than with Nazi ideology (which I personally revile, in case that has any bearing!).

I imagine that some may say it'd be better just to steer clear of this whole hornet's nest, and I am prepared to abandon the account if it really is a major controversy (or of course if it does actually break any rule I've previously missed) and just go back to making things up entirely, but if I can go ahead with an alternate timeline (following the Fall of France, if you're curious, with a botched scheme that begins the process of Hitler's premature discrediting and his eventual fall from power in a still-strong Reich that remains imperialist but increasingly disinterested in Hitler's personal racial doctrines) I'd prefer to do that, of course. (Again, to be honest, I wouldn't even have supported non-Fascist imperialism by Germany (or anyone else for that matter), it's just a curiosity and roleplay challenge.)

I suppose, in short, am I okay creating an alternate history nation (bearing in mind the account's use of a name from history, so it is still about my Nationstate) with roots in the Third Reich, so long as I avoid the Swastika and don't give the impression that I want to kill-all-Gypsies or ramble on about experiments on invalids and such?

Anything I should bear in mind? Or should I just scrap the whole project?

You're totally fine in creating such a nation, just as long as anything that you do is not in a malicious manner (which it doesn't seem like in this case, obviously. :p ).

Very good. Then let this simply stand to indicate that, should anyone ever take offence to something in Tausendjahriges-Reich roleplay, I certainly didn't intend it, and will work to rectify any such controversy.

On with the European war, then! More apolitical Heer, less Hitlerlovin ahoy.