Re: Elliott's peoples

From: "Wesley Parish" <wes.parish@...>

> Or keeping in mind a particular person currently being placeholder for
various
> vested interests, "Manifest Density".  He's the sort of person who'd save
his
> life by dying.
Presidents in some countries are basically that already, figureheads who
only protect the "military-industrial-religious-media" complex in the
nation. It's all related to "shadow governments" and that sorta thing. My
conworld consists of several superstates, based on commonwealths mostly
based on common language (one of the "Big Six" languages in other words),
and in one case, religion: an Islamic Confederacy also known as WAHID.

So there's an Anglosphere (the American-British Empire), a Hispanosphere, a
Russosphere (former USSR), an Arabosphere (the core of WAHID), and of course
China and India, already megastates united by law under one language,
Mandarin and Hindi-Urdu respectively.

[I wrote:]

> > Harrowing? I like that... my work is pretty seedy myself. A big part of
the
> > story is how a failing college student and peeping tom starts a
religious
> > cult in Texas and wins some powerful friends (and horny women), adopts a
> > theocratic-fascist agenda and takes over the Western Hemisphere.
>
> Only in Texas ... ;)
Exactly. I've lived here my whole life. In my conworld, Dallas-Fort
Worth-Austin-San Antonio-Houston become a trianglular megalopolis (EXTREME
urban sprawl), and in the middle, a new capital which functions as a type of
conservative/fundamentalist Protestant Vatican.

The pervert loser "gets religion"; years later he's the Texas Ayatollah.

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