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dictum.
The ancient political dictum was: Just as there is not a single thing
in
the world without a dual nature, so imperialism and all reactionaries
have
a dual nature -- they are real tigers and paper tigers at the same time.
While political theorists in Peking quarreled over the meaning of this
political dictum, a new force arose with its center in the eldritch
city
of Angkor Wat deep in the jungles of old Cambodia. The new political
force
brought about a world feminist order. Its leader, following the example
of
Vo Tran Quoc, took the name of a mythic personage from another culture
than her own.
She proclaimed a New Khmer Empire stretching from the Urals to the
Rockies.
She took the name Vidya Devi. This means goddess of wisdom.
The former Slavic domain and the Maghreb suffered rivalry that led,
after
a century, to convergence and ultimate amalgamation. The old Roman
Empire
was reborn. It included all of Europe, the Near East, Africa, and North
America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (Niagara Falls now poured its
waters directly into the ocean; the former west bank of the Hudson
River
was choice seashore property. The Rockies overlooked pounding waves
that
stretched to the Asian shore.
The empire was ruled by an absolute monarch under the tutelage of the
world feminist order. She was known as the Empress Fortuna Pales I.
Latin America, from Tierra del Fuego to the southern bank of the Rio
Grande (but excluding Baja), was the greater Hai Brasil. The empress
claimed pure Bourbon ancestry. Her name was Astrud do Muiscos.
In the Antarctic a great land reclamation project had been undertaken.
Geothermal power was used to melt the ice in a circle centered on the
South Pole. The cleared area measured 1.5 million square kilometers.
The
soil was found to be incredibly rich in minerals. It was hugely
fertile.
 The scenic beauty of the region was incomparable. There were mountains,
lakes, glaciers to shame New Zealand or Switzerland or Tibet. Forests
were
planted and grew rapidly and fecundly. Imported wildlife throve. The
few
native species -- penguins, amphibious mammals, a strange variety of
bird
newly discovered and named the tekili-li -- were protected.
The new country was called Yisroel Diaspora. Its leader under the
feminist