I really recommend you find out, I'm surprised you don't know about it, it happened in Europe.
More across Europe and Western Asia but yeah, it is a fairly huge part of history and certainly an interesting one...
I agree with those who think CL and NCR are just as bad as each other, both are trying to find something in the past to cling to, NCR the failed democracies, CL the failed dictatorships, both are essentially corrupt with Caesar allowing his followers to think of him as a god, demonising his lieutenant to use him as a tool, despite his own impending death (which would leave CL without leadership if Lanius wasn't smart) and the NCR just full of power play, pull and the other banes of democracies the world over.
House is the only real progressive (exempting Yes Man because it's a straight wild card, it's either the Courier's tool or it becomes something else entirely) of the lot.