Johnny Hicks

Hi All,

The Martians  or Bahar have an Empire of  25 billion galaxies, a quarter of the known universe, but also have tremendous informal influences on the rest. Not only that they also controlled transcendental, different time , varied  dimensional space bridges to a further 1.6 million other universes.  They rule an Empire "upon which the  universe never sets"  a vast hyper power  without equal. 

Thankfully Martians are generally genial , small c conservative, risk adverse , folksy, deeply religious  and  have an ordered  society ,but also in full contraction to this - they are also urbane , risk takers,   with a flair , arts , poetry and  a cultural passion akin to France , Greece, Israel  and other Mediterranean basin countries.  They liked to say "well no-one died from a contradiction" when asked about this seemingly split personality cultural  clash. 

At present the universe , despite 'minor'  skirmishes and local wars is at peace ,with the more established areas, the great and minor regional powers,  becoming in effect one giant earthly middle class .  That left the third "universe" areas and  the places of Hobbsonian horror where life is nasty , brutish and short;plus  the" newly industrially progressing"  areas, such as Earth, the People's Republic of Chard and their  many billions of colonies ( most of which Martians helped to fund) where the culture wars take place.  Then there are the other dimensional realms which are beyond even third universe standards, but not quite Hobbsonian but practically 'barbaric' by interstellar standards.  It was these areas which taxed policymakers the most.

Universe 121608 is  of particular concern. Here humans - well actually Americans- have discovered the space bridge and explored a bit. Martians and other aliens have been revealed to the general population. It is in their time frame 2021.  

The most powerful country is the USA, followed by the Federated European, African & pan Islamic states. Donald Trump in this alternative reality is just like our world counterpart. But in this other reality he is considered by pundits to be  a relatively moderate to liberal left wing  GOP President , but he  has recently lost re-election to Johnny R Hick of 'bama,  a nationalist of the" American Dream First Party " by 1  electoral vote . He won, however , only 0.6 %  of the popular vote - there were 229 candidates on the ballot - and won only 1 House seat, with 1 Senate seat ,  a gentleman from Mississippi  who was an antebellum southern democrat ,  first elected in 1854. 

This insurgent party advocated  the usages of nuclear weapons against terrorists, even in Europe,  reducing federal  taxes to zero,  but at the same time  massive increases  spending on the military and infrastructure. 13,000%  tariffs on foreign imports , a border wall with Canada and Mexico which would be as high as the stratosphere  , to "keep the  Canuks and Latinos out" . Plus expulsion of "illegals" ,   Jews,  African-Americans , Latinos and most importantly  Canadians. Then  repeal of welfare checks, Medicare, Medicaid, Obama care and other "leftist bullshit"; war with anyone who "goes against American values. 

 Culturally they'd be abolition of gay marriages, and other "abominations",  expulsions of any American who isn't a white fundamentalist Catholic or Protestant   bible belvin' Christian , plus a  law to automatically allow  extras terrestrial governments or peoples to be sued for alleged historic " kidnapping " and "probing". Finally they'd be a  "new deal"  of "America first and foremost"  , especially toward the  " trade manipulative"  , "touch of the tar brush"  Martians, who "should be nuked" if they didn't "improve" on the free trade ,military and diplomatic treaty called " the trans dimensional partnership",  the Martians  were after all ruled by a mere woman-  "a total slip of a girl who'd quickly be ma  bitch"- who would  clearly be overwhelmed by Johnny Hicks and his superior business acumen. One thing Hick did was to keep his base whipped up by his use of  intergalactic Twitter, in which he constantly abused and said God knows what toward many other heads of state, including the Martian Queen- Emperor. That he has 46  million followers and she has 1 novemquadragintillion followers might have hinted as to how a Twitter spat, let alone a war  would all end....