Kaiser in Berlin in a glittering annual ceremony broadcast live worldwide. Bulgaria In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove During Horst Witzleben’s Seven O’Clock News, an unnamed Tsar of Bulgaria is reported as welcoming the Poglavnik of Croatia during a state visit. The unnamed Tsar is also one of many fascist puppet or sympathising heads of state to commiserate the death of the German Führer, Kurt Haldweim. Year of the Rabbit Prince Hector, the heir to the Bulgarian throne, attends Balkan peace talks in London but is kidnapped whilst under the protection of Detective Inspector Eli Rabbit and his team. His sister, Princess Juliana, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the kidnapping, wanting the Bulgarian throne for herself. She is also an expert sharpshooter and a member of the secret organisation, 'the Vision'. C China and the Greater Chinese Empire Curse of the Golden Flower Emperor Ping is the imperial ruler of the Tang dynasty and the father of Princes Wan, Jai and Yu, who is in the place of Puyuan and takes Princess Phoenix to be his Empress in the 2006 Chinese film Curse of the Golden Flower. Mulan An unnamed Emperor is the wise, old ruler of China who makes Fa Mulan an honorary heroine for saving his empire from the Huns. He is based on the real-life Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Disney's animated film Mulan and its live-action remake, which based on the legendary folklore about Hua Mulan. War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches In the story "Foreign Devils" by Walter Jon Williams, the Martians of H.G. Wells's War of The Worlds land in China, destroy Beijing and cause widespread death and destruction throughout the country, but the Guangxu Emperor survives by fleeing to a faraway province. In the aftermath the Emperor - whose plans for reform were foiled in actual history - takes advantage of the chaos to stage a bloody coup and establish himself strongly in power. He then the uses the disarray of European powers, still recovering from the Martian invasion of their home territories, to shake off colonial tutlelage and make China a world power 50 years ahead of schedule. China in this history will remain a monarchy, there will be no Chinese Republic nor a Communist Chinese regime, and there will be many more new Emperors from among the progeny of the Guangxu Emperor. D Denmark Hamlet by