Re: Another political question re: Tuffleverse

--- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> The Sayeed Khalifate would be a theocracy.
> The Islamic Federation is a Sultanate.  The khalif
> is the religious > head, the sultan is the military
"protector".  It's > somewhat analogous
> to the Japanese shogunate--everyone revered the
> emperor but the shogun > was the one who can have
your head on a spike.  And > the infighting
> between the amirs is rather reminiscent of the fun
> and games in which > the daimyos
participated--except the amirate is > usually a little
less
> concerned about culture.

Question:  The Sultan of the IFed:  Does he have a
puppet Kalif, does he combine the offices in his
person, or do they just do without?  I understand the
Sayeed Kalifate has a Kaliph determined by Shi'a
rules, and the IFed is Sunni (and/or Wahabi or
whatever that wierdo varient that the House of Saud
and OBL are).  

Then if you put in a Secularist Turkish state things
get really confusing.  

Oh yeah, and we've got a completely non-Canon
Secularist Bedouin Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  

You know who sounds like the most likely looser with
the introduction of a TR?  The ESU.  You've got all
those Central Asian Turks being agitated by
Pan-Islamic demagouges from the IFed and now also by
Pan-Turkic Demagouges from the and/or inspired by the
Turkish Republic.  Would make me really annoyed if I
were a good Scientific Socialist.

> And as far as standoffs go, you can always get
> enemies to work
> together if you try hard enough.  The AE  declared a
> truce with the IF
> as soon as we figured out the magnitude of the KV
> threat.

Maybe.	But the NRE and the TurkRep will work together
when Osman returns from the dead to dance the Rhumba
with the Basilissa Theodora's rotting corpse.

John

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