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Hearts of Iron IV (2016)

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Here's a new custom super event compilation, once more focusing on my pet project: the RDNA-verse ( https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-rdna-verse-a-strange-worldbuilding-tl.479006/ ). The best way to describe the setting would be an alternate history worldbuilding project that's "Orwellian dieselpunk-atompunk with some magical realism," with the timeline's "present day" in the midst of a seemingly interminable cold war that could go south at any moment, or drive the remainder of the Free World mad, whichever comes first. With the events mentioned being either notable in-universe events, or potential outcomes.

This time, however, one "magical realism" element is spotlighted: the "National-Personifications". A carryover from he TL's earliest stages that kinda came into their own, they're pretty much what the term suggests: the embodiments of their respective countries and peoples, though predating philosophical, academic and political discourses into "nationalism." Officially, their existence is rejected by the authorities and academia...but what would happen should circumstances in-universe lead to this discreet "secret" becoming nearly impossible to brush aside? While some outcomes are predictable, it could all too easily go wrong...or go all too right.

You could find more information here on DeviantArt:

https://www.deviantart.com/mdc01957/gallery/32638563

For some added trivia, the Hungarian and Austrian clips are all taken from the 1970s (https://youtu.be/pfjfiET3z_Y , https://youtu.be/S9qvzA8tBog), though the general aesthetic and production values are more comparable to the early/mid '60s compared to other European countries. While the voice clip was taken from a rare 1959 English interview with Otto von Habsburg ( https://youtu.be/m1bdHBz8P74 ).

The original versions of the National Question entry can be found below:

https://www.deviantart.com/mdc01957/art/The-National-Question-RDNA-verse-Analytic-Data-826831784 , https://www.deviantart.com/mdc01957/art/Nation-of-New-Austria-AD-2021-RDNA-verse-824330625

"New Austria", meanwhile, is what another timeline would call "Mexico" had things played out a bit differently. Though if you look just a little deeper, you might find not just a few nods to her old Hetalia inspirations...but also a hint as to her lineage.

You're welcome.

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0:00 Login/Disclaimer
0:08 Incoming Transmission
0:24 A New Era/National Revelation (Smetana's "Die Moldau"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4&ab_channel=Maggy7187 )
1:04 An Imagined Construct/Status Quo (Shostakovich's "Waltz No. 2"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phBThlPTBEg&ab_channel=Jos%C3%A9Loma-ZonaBit%27s )
1:43 Brave New World? ("Turn A Gundam OST 3 - Sabishii Kihel
"; https://youtu.be/gcqEPFqBg7w )
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