[quote=@ClocktowerEchos]
[@RHODESIANRLI]You have not listed out what kinds of countries, groups or organizations people can play and have failed to provide any sort of Nation Sheet guide for people to use; the jump-in style is not recommended for NRPs because NRPs tend to have a lot more moving parts and OOC information that can't be provided with a name, flag and picture.

You have not given any interesting story conflict or global event outside of "my white supremacist fantasy nation exists" and "fight communism" which lets be realistic, I doubt anyone playing any sort of communist would be allowed to even win anything and instead just spontaneously explode in the prescience of [s]glorious Rhodesian supersoldiers[/s] democracy and freedom and capitalism. And of course its already a given that you would be the one playing as Rhodesia.

You have not made anything interesting with the concept of a pretty shitty IRL nation outside of glorifying it to satiate your own alt-history boner; people have made plenty of "What if the Nazis won" games and stories without this level of mockery because they're actually interesting and not meant to jack off wehraboos with poorly disguised "analysis" that serves more as praise than critique.

You have not created an alt-history NRP prompt, you have created an alt-history fantasy where your idealized, unrealistic version of Rhodesia becomes the super based, badass chad African nation by ignoring all of the issues it had, pretending racism doesn't exist to the point where it would affect Rhodesia and otherwise glossing over societal issues in favor of an imaginary, self serving, self indulgent narrative that exists only to let you alone live out your questionable view points while hoping everyone else gets dragged along as side characters in the story of Super Rhodeisa.

None of what you have provided says "I am someone interested in roleplaying this alt history scenario" and all of it screams "hey look at my totally original OC alt history, isn't it so cool and based and don't you want to read more about it?" like an edgy teenager trying to own libs and prove that he isn't an NPC with his own superficial historical hot takes.
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	So if i'm gonna go full /unjerk for a moment and give actually serious For Real[sup]TM[/sup] takes on this idea for a bit, Clockwork has basically hit the nail on the head for this kind of reception. A lot of the scenarios presented here as they are fly right in the face of motivations of persons involved, ideologies of the states from which they were from, geopolitical realities, and dare I say even common sense. The US busting out Rhodesia with a free "get out of jail free" card right after the Vietnam War would be a sure-fire way to rekindle the massive anti-war movement in the United States - which they had [i]just[/i] spent the past 5 years trying to quell and had withdrawn from Vietnam after popular opinion of the war completely evaporated and it was clear the position spent there wasn't just going to be something that could sit well with everyone. Doubling back on all of that immediately and sending the GI's to Rhodesia after they were promised a trip back home would have been [i]more[/i] than political suicide for most of the folks in the White House at the time. 

	This doesn't even say anything about the geopolitical situation of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, either: South Africa alone was more than enough of a geopolitical counterweight to states like Angola during the Cold War, and that doesn't take into account the MPLA/Angola's motives during it, either. Most communist-aligned nations in Africa during the time (Angola included) really didn't give a rat's ass about communism and just knew that they could get mountains of free stuff if they just went, "Hey America: You suck!". Angola took that note and as soon as their civil war was done, they just said, "Yeah so actually, we just want stuff like healthcare and infrastructure, but i'm not real big into full communism. Thanks for the AK's, though!" 

	Even the idea of apartheid era sanctions wasn't a real thing against South Africa until well after the Civil Rights Act: And it was the USSR and the Eastern Bloc that put the most pressure on South Africa to end apartheid until the very tail end of the Cold War. So then why would the US - who had just spent the better part of a decade in a very tumultuous period just getting civil rights acts together - just go "Yeah so no more apartheid and we'll give you aid, k?". Like, they wouldn't give a shit about whatever civil rights abuses Rhodesia or South Africa would really do if there's no mass movement against it globally. If anything, giving Rhodesia a free pass for free guns and money would just get them to say whatever to the United States so long as the gravy train keeps going. There's no accountability in the relationship: It's just another case of America doing some classic realpolitik so they can give it to the dirty reds. 

	So yeah, the idea isn't exactly soylent. So what does the whole NRP community on this site do? We just say it's a joke and go along with the meme. If that was the whole point, cool. If not: Jesus Christ, please actually read a book and do more research into things beyond the Joe Rogan podcast.