The Union Forever: A TL

[Earl_of_Somerset]

also if we have a india split up, could there be a Sikh state? Instead of Just a Muslim and Hindu one?

[Earl_of_Somerset]

Bump

[Darth_Kiryan]

I have to concur. It has been too long.

BUMP!

[Epic History]

please don't end the TL, do a seque!l

[kevvy2010]

Everyone calm down. I'm sure that MacGregor is working on it. You can't rush perfection.

[Earl_of_Somerset]

Im not rushing Perfection, Im rushing MacGregor!

(Im Kidding 100%, He could take all Summer and I wouldn't care, I just wanna bring attention to this again)

[kevvy2010]

Originally Posted by Earl_of_Somerset

Im not rushing Perfection, Im rushing MacGregor!

(Im Kidding 100%, He could take all Summer and I wouldn't care, I just wanna bring attention to this again)

understandable. It is bloody brilliant isn't it?

[Earl_of_Somerset]

yes it is

[GeneralTigerXVII]

AMEN!!!! BUMP!!....uh ......ahem......

[Mac Gregor]

Originally Posted by JamesPhoenix

I have to concur. It has been too long.

BUMP!

Originally Posted by Earl_of_Somerset

Bump

Originally Posted by Epic History

please don't end the TL, do a seque!l

Originally Posted by kevvy2010

Everyone calm down. I'm sure that MacGregor is working on it. You can't rush perfection.

Originally Posted by Earl_of_Somerset

Im not rushing Perfection, Im rushing MacGregor!

(Im Kidding 100%, He could take all Summer and I wouldn't care, I just wanna bring attention to this again)

Originally Posted by kevvy2010

understandable. It is bloody brilliant isn't it?

Originally Posted by Earl_of_Somerset

yes it is

Originally Posted by GeneralTigerXVII

AMEN!!!! BUMP!!....uh ......ahem......

Ok everyone, thanks so much for the kind words they are great to hear. To tide you over here is the section for the Imperial Eurasion Federation. More to follow this weekend. Cheers!

Imperial Eurasian Federation


Flag of the Imperial Eurasion Federation

Domestic Policy

Despite the name change, part of the 1971 restructuring, the Imperial Eurasian Federation (IEF) is still often known in the West by its old name, the Russian Empire. Having slugged its way to victory in both the Russo-Japanese War and the Great War the IEF is arguable the greatest world power behind the United States. A Federal Constitutional Parliamentary Monarchy, the IEF is the world’s largest country and the world’s fourth biggest economy behind Germany and Britain. The IEF describes itself as a multinational state composed of several “ethnic nations” all who claim allegiance to the Emperor, currently Alexander VI, all though he no longer holds any real governmental powers. Since the 1980’s, the Imperial Eurasian Federation has been plagued by increasingly active secessionist and autonomist movements from within the Empire by minority groups from Finland to Poland to Georgia to the Muslim and increasingly volatile central Asian provinces. As a result, the Federation’s parliament, the Duma, has ceded increasing amounts of control over domestic affairs away from the central government to the provinces. Despite some internal instability the IEF still manages to maintain one of the planet’s largest militaries and a respectable space program.

Foreign Policy

While a period of prolonged tension with the British Empire characterized the first half of the Twentieth Century, Anglo-Russian relations thawed considerable in the late 1950’s. Since the end of the Great War, the German-Russian alliance has been a cornerstone of international diplomacy, although disagreements between the Germans and Russians over spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the Balkans has in recent decades rendered the alliance less effective than is often perceived in the West. Despite being a democracy herself, the IEF is often criticized for its support of the repressive regimes in Mongolia and East Turkistan and its often belligerent attitude in East Asia. Despite America’s strong security and trade agreements with the Korean Empire and the Republic of China, the IEF and the United States have maintained relatively close and mostly friendly relations since the end of the Great War.

[IchBinDieKaiser]

Fantastic... Now I want more!

[Darth_Kiryan]

*Shakes head in absolute shock*

...WHAT?

[Earl_of_Somerset]

Intresting, a surviving Russian Empire. Looks like the Communists never got hold of Russia.

Did russia expand at all? I cant really tell from the update.

[CurlyGangster]

Originally Posted by Earl_of_Somerset

Did russia expand at all? I cant really tell from the update.

I am pretty sure that is a no.

[Darth_Kiryan]

Guessing they just changed their name and solidified control over their domain. Actually pretty smart for Russians.

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I wonder if decolonization will happen in this TL.

[Earl_of_Somerset]

Algeria and Tunisa-Tripoli wont decolonize i think

[Mac Gregor]

The World in 2011. Please note that the Imperial Eurasian Federation has granted considerable autonomy to its constituent nations which are not shown.

[Mac Gregor]

The World in 2011

Imperial Eurasian Federation

Despite the name change, part of the 1971 restructuring, the Imperial Eurasian Federation (IEF) is still often known in the West by its old name, the Russian Empire. Having slugged its way to victory in both the Russo-Japanese War and the Great War the IEF is arguable the greatest world power behind the United States. A Federal Constitutional Parliamentary Monarchy, the IEF is the world’s largest country and the world’s fourth biggest economy behind Germany and Britain. The IEF describes itself as a multinational state composed of several “ethnic nations” all who claim allegiance to the Emperor, currently Alexander VI, all though he no longer holds any real governmental powers. Since the 1980’s, the Imperial Eurasian Federation has been plagued by increasingly active secessionist and autonomist movements from within the Empire by minority groups from Finland to Poland to Georgia to the Muslim and increasingly volatile central Asian provinces. As a result, the Federation’s parliament, the Duma, has ceded increasing amounts of control over domestic affairs away from the central government to the provinces. Despite some internal instability the IEF still manages to maintain one of the planet’s largest militaries and a respectable space program.

While a period of prolonged tension with the British Empire characterized the first half of the Twentieth Century, Anglo-Russian relations thawed considerable in the late 1950’s. Since the end of the Great War, the German-Russian alliance has been a cornerstone of international diplomacy, although disagreements between the Germans and Russians over spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the Balkans has in recent decades rendered the alliance less effective than is often perceived in the West. Despite being a democracy herself, the IEF is often criticized for its support of the repressive regimes in Mongolia and East Turkistan and its often belligerent attitude in East Asia. Despite America’s strong security and trade agreements with the Korean Empire and the Republic of China, the IEF and the United States have maintained relatively close and mostly friendly relations since the end of the Great War.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The British Empire reached its height in the years following the Great War ruling more than a quarter of the world’s territory and people. However the seeds for the the United Kingdom’s slide from global hegemon to simply a great power were sown long ago. The start of the decline of the British Empire is usually fixed at 1957 when after several bloody years of trying to keep the rebellious Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh subjects of India under their rule the British were forced to withdraw. A legacy of Britain’s divide and conquer strategy is the fragmented state that the subcontinent assumed in the years following independence. Ireland which had achieved home rule as a dominion in the years following the Great War would not officially break away until anger over the war in India made the Irish finally declare themselves a republic in 1956. After trying to keep India by force the UK allowed most of her other possessions and dominions to drift away in the second half of the twentieth century. In 2011, the UK still holds an impressive array of territories such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Gibraltar, the Falklands, British Honduras, and over a dozen smaller islands in the Pacific and Caribbean. The UK also has considerable influence over the dominions of Jamaica, Guiana, and Cyprus. Economically, the UK is the third largest economy in the world only slightly behind that of Germany.

During the first half of the twentieth century Britain was principally concerned with stopping Russian encroachment in South Asia and the Far East. The second half of the twentieth century saw Britain preoccupied with keeping as much of its crumbling Empire as it could. It was also during this time that Britain saw several of its traditional allies such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand drift increasingly away from the crown and towards the United States. This however, did little to hamper Anglo-American relations which have remained strong since the Great War as seen in the current cooperation between the American and British space programs for the missions to Mars in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Federal Kingdom of Germany

While victory in the Great War had come at a heavy price, it did achieve all of Germany’s territorial ambitions. This allowed Germany to concentrate on its economy becoming the second largest in the world by 2011. Although the Federal Kingdom of Germany continued to liberalize over the decades the German army remains the strongest in Europe. Diplomatically Germany is on good terms with the United States, the IEF, and the Italian Republic while tensions with Britain on continental leadership have flared up from time to time. Germany was forced to grant Independence to its only colony, Kameroon, in the 1980’s although it keeps a small swath of territory from where it operates its highly successful space program.

Third French Republic

In the wake of their defeat in the Great War, France was left bankrupt and striped of nearly all of her once great colonial possessions. The newly created Third French Republic however was able to survive the turbulent post war years retaining both Corsica and Alsace-Loraine in their Treaty of Brussels mandated referendums. In the decades following the war, the republican government weathered the storm of extremist parties from both the left and the right with a small number of centrist parties eventually coming to monopolize modern French politics. Forsaking territorial aggrandizement France concentrated on its economy which steadily improved over the years until it became the sixth largest in the world.


Diplomatically isolated after the Great War, France pursued a policy of strict nonalignment until the 1940’s. Partially estranged from both Great Britain and Germany due to proximity France has over the years developed a close alliance with the United States, and in recent years with the Italian Republic. By the end of the 1980’s France had granted independence to most of its North African territories with the exception of the Mediterranean Coast which is incorporated as a part of Metropolitan France due to heavy French immigration over the decades. France exercises effective suzerainty over the sparsely populated Free State of Algeria.

Republic of China

After nearly 18 years of fighting in a conflict that left untold millions dead from war and famine, Republican forces finally secured the capital of Peking in 1921. General Chen Ching-Kuo was installed as the first President of the new Republic of China (RoC). During the chaos, the Russians succeeded in creating independent states out of Mongolia and East Turkestan. Tibet with British aid also achieved international recognition as an independent country. Exhausted from its long Civil War, the Republic of China experiences decades of turbulent rule until its transition to true democracy in the 1980’s. Today, China is the world’s 5th largest economy and an important manufacture center.

The RoC has often found itself at odds with the Russian Empire, later IEF, over the Russians support for the repressive regimes in Mongolia and East Turkestan as well as the RoC’s support for greater autonomy in Russian Manchuria. In recently years however, Sino-Russian relations have mellowed considerable as the IEF has relaxed its military posture in the Far East. The Republic of China maintains good relations with the Empire of Korea, having singed a collective security treaty with Korea in 1952 aimed at deterring Japan from any future aggression. China’s greatest ally continues to be the United States with the Chinese being an active if somewhat junior partner in the American space program.

Hindu Republic of India

In what proved to be the bloodiest conflict of the 20th Century after the Great War and the Chinese Civil War, the Indian War for Independence (1949-1957) left the former British possessions on the sub-Continent impoverished and fragmented. With its capital in New Deli, the Hindu Republic of India is the largest successor state to the British Raj. For most of its history since gaining independence in 1957, India has struggled with an often corrupt democratic government that has engaged in several small skirmishes and conflicts with its non Hindu neighbors. Starting with the leadership of President Singh Vikrama during the 1990’s, India has made considerable progress in recent years towards eradicating corruption and establishing peaceful relations with its neighbors. Diplomatically speaking, India is somewhat of a wildcard often switching alignment between the Russians, Germans, British, and Americans depending on the circumstances.

Empire of Japan

Having been evicted from Korea by the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1910, the Empire of Japan entered a period of deep self imposed isolation until 1941 when the authoritarian Kobushi party came to power which still rules Japan to this day. Throughout the second half of the 20th Century Japan has from time to time, with its large and well equipped military, threatened war with its neighbors the most memorably being the 1964 Philippine Crisis when it took the presence of the U.S. Navy to ultimately force the Japanese to back down. In the 21st Century the Kobushi regime has come under increasing international pressure to open up and liberalize Japanese society and maintains friendly relations with an ever decreasing amount of nations which in 2011 are limited to a few of the remaining militant regimes in Africa and south Asia.

Latin America

In the century since the end of the Great War, Latin America has experienced long periods of steady economic growth and developed into functioning democracies. The biggest success stories of Latin America are the United Mexican States, the Federated States of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, and the Republic of Chile. Known as the Latin Four these powers all have a high standard of living and are important actors on the world stage. All nations in Latin America, along with the Canada and the USA, are members of the Alliance of American States (AAS) headquartered in Havana which, despite allegations of being a tool of the United States, has over the years proven to be the most capable and competent economic and military alliance on the planet. Many nations in Latin America remain further tied to the most powerful nation in the hemisphere by either using or having their own currencies tied to the U.S. dollars.

The Middle East

The Middle East of the 21st Century is to mostly divide into the five powers of the Sultanate of Arabia, Kingdom of Mesopotamia, Republic of Greater Syria, the Persian Empire and the Turkish Republic. Created in the wake of the Great War, Arabia remains one the world’s few remaining absolutely monarchies ruled by Sultan and Caliph of all the Muslims Abdullah III, with a high standard of living and large military purchased with the nation’s enormous oil wealth. Persia and Mesopotamia are functioning constitutional monarchies that also benefit from the large amounts of petroleum found within their borders. The Turkish Republic is the successor state to the Ottoman Empire which finally collapsed in 1943 when its Arab provinces broke away to form the Republic of Greater Syria. Both nations are nominally democratic although interference from the militaries has prevented further democratic reforms. Overall, the Middle East since the Great War has been largely at peace and is today beginning to approach the same status of living as many European countries.

Africa

In the 50 years following the Treaty of Brussels, Africa was nearly completely divided and ruled by the victorious Coalition powers. Although the Kingdom of Egypt gained complete independence from Britain in 1941 most historians place the start of African decolonization at 1964 when the Congo gained independence from Belgium. Over the next 30 years the European powers were forced to withdraw from their African possessions, some nations like Portugal and Belgium fought bitter guerrilla wars to keep their colonial holdings while others like the United Kingdom gradual disengaged from their African territories when they were deemed to be ready for self government. During this time the United States was the chief champion of African independence a fact which no doubt accelerated European disengagement. By 1993 nearly all of Africa had achieved independence. Three notable exceptions being parts of the Mediterranean coast which due to the influx of European settlers remained parts of France and Italy and a small patch of territory known as German Kameroon which serves as the main hum for the German space program. In the 21st Century, Africa remains the world’s most impoverished and political unstable continent. However, some nations such as South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, the East African Federation, and Kameroon are growing to become regional powers both economically and militarily.

[Darth_Kiryan]

BOO-YAH! UPDATE!

Is that, like, an epilogue?
And seriously, no world war II analogue in the ATL.