Politics of the Moon Kingdom

[robkelk]

This won't be particularly detailed, even for me.

Language and Secret Prehistory

The Language of the future Moon Kingdom is English.  I think this is telegraphed pretty hard, with everyone's titles being "Princess" or "Neo-Queen" in English, the magical attack names being in English, Chibi-Usa being called "Rabbit" by the people in the future.  Even future!Usagi doesn't ever bother to learn kanji.  Names from the future are "Wiseman" and "Nemesis", and they have droids.  The Moon Stick.  I mean, come on, these are pretty much all English words.

The only counterfactual I can think of is Luna-P, whose activation phrase is "Luna-P Hen-ge", which I hyphenated because it's not a henge, stone or otherwise.  It just means "change" in Japanese.  But there was also "Luna-P Magic", which is another English word.

Possibly a case of the translation convention... or Luna-P serving as a translator with Chibiusa speaking English all along.

Which means that all of us still using Sailor Senshi should really be using Sailor Guardian as their titles. 

On the other hand, there's always Tradition to take into account. (We still have sheriffs instead of police chiefs in some places, after all.) And Rei can be very Traditional.

I guess because this is a politics thread, I'll just mention that this makes them natural allies of other English-speaking countries, which includes the US, the Commonwealth of Nations, and strengthens ties with India and South Africa.

One current and once historical counter-example at the end of that list, I see.

Other dates are possible in different fanfic crossovers, especially if you want to include some Nadia or Evangelion stuff about the real First Impact.  But knowing you guys, we're more likely to see someone fall into Cursed Spring of Drowned Moon Kingdom.  Very sad story.

Which reminds me of a reasonably-successful (in that it didn't get derailed or abandoned) tabletop RPG where the nasty GM had Minako fall into the Spring of Drowned Penguin. I was using her way too much as a GMPC.

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Nationalism and State-building
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The Moon Kingdom of the Silver Millennium is, if you think about it, perhaps not the best state to model from.  One of the most important things to a state is the survival of the state; not only did it not survive, their last stand failed in perhaps the most horrible way possible: the killing of all its inhabitants, and the destruction of the cities and the entire environment.  The only thing saved were their souls.

It's hard to think of a historical parallel to this.

The only thing I can think of is the hypothetical MAD scenario, once the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight.

I agree that we don't want to do this to a "live" setting.

The one thing I don't get to is: what's beyond nationalism?

So far, federalism.

AFAIK federalism is completely unknown in Japan, so somebody would need to teach it to Usagi. And she is not the type t soak it up from newspapers or high-school homework. ("Go audit some Poli-Sci courses, Usagi. Or major in Political Science, whichever you prefer." Then she comes back with more questions than she started with.)

If we go with federalism, we could use either federalism within a single country (the Québécois "form a nation within a united Canada", after all) and multi-country federalism (such as the EU).