To clarify, Asides are not meant to be a knockoff of Weiss Reacts. Although some Asides are comedic and some are even solely comedic, the primary purpose is to explore the way the girls see and adapt to Earth and to explore the difference between Earth and Remnant. I know we all want to see them react to certain things. I'd be more willing to entertain requests if they are about an aspect of Earth's technology, culture, politics, society, etc than if they are about a specific work.
That's what I intend to do. It's not a guarantee that I will accomplish it. This chapter, for example, is pretty much useless.
Remnant's politics are simple. There are four kingdoms, each with a monarch and council, and all are fighting to survive. Earth's politics are somewhat more complex.
Canon: Full.
Context: post-Urban Panther
Perspective: Third-person.
Emergence: Aside
Realpolitik
"Fucking tories," Ruby had heard Jen muttering after she came home from work. "How did they get a majority government in the first place?"
Jen was distracted and busy, so just told them, "Canadian government stuff. Look it up."
Two hours of Googling later, they were even more perplexed. Currently, a diagram of the Canadian government was up on the monitor.
"How does this even function?" Weiss exclaimed. "There's three branches, each one is bigger than the governments Vale and Atlas combined, and everything has to be voted on..."
"Badly," Cliff explained, coming in and dropping his bag carelessly on the table beside them.
"How can you waste so much effort on getting nothing done?" Blake said.
"It's not a waste of effort, it's responsible government," he replied.
"I still don't understand why you place so much importance on this," Weiss said more diplomatically.
"Politics are a big thing on Earth," Cliff explained, shrugging. "Both internal and external."
"I don't understand," Blake interrupted. "How does anything get done? How do your governments even make effective decisions?"
He shrugged. "Honestly? We screw up a lot. But when push comes to shove, we can really haul ass. It may be in a roundabout manner, but our system works."
He paused. "Other systems, on the other hand, well, not so much."
"Other systems? What other systems?"
"What we have is a form of parliamentary democracy," Cliff explained, cracking open a can of Pepsi. "The United States has a different republic kind of democracy, and then there are dubious democracies like Russia where the parliament just rubber-stamps what the President says, and then there are actual dictatorships, though they usually at least pretend those are elected now."
Blake was nearly speechless. "But... how?"
"There's something like two hundred countries, totalling seven billion people. Do you think they're going to agree on anything?"
Ruby summed up their feelings. "Earth is weird. On Remnant, everyone just has a monarch and ruling council."
"Yeah, on Earth we'd call that a dictatorship," Cliff countered. "Remnant is weird."