Trivia / Chaos Timeline

• Ascended Fanon: Some fan suggested that the head of the Socialist part of Germany should have the title "Oberster Politischer Kommissar", which became canon.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The author originally had planned to call the internet of this world "Weltnetz" but found out that German neo-Nazis use this term already for the existing internet, so he changed it to "Weltsystem".
• Write What You Know: The author did CS studies and is also German. He stated that his Germanwank essentially runs on this because it's nigh impossible to competently employ local colors, proverbs and a global language that you know nothing about. ^note That would have been Russian and Italian.
  • Another reason was having a good villain for a desired Bait-and-Switch factor: The original version featured Japan instead of China as the other superpower beside Germany and a traveller from our world might easily assume it to be a very weird "Nazis victorious" timeline at first sight.
• Write Who You Know: Tatjana and Topper are based on two real computer cracks.