Beedok, I'm not sure why (well, that straight line in the Sahara doesn't help) but I'm a bit less fond of World F than previous maps. Not that I wouldn't choose it over a World like D.
Here's another ISOT map
Devanagari ISOT World- फ ('Ph'). Devanagari and other Indian scripts were always much more precise in their usage than other alphabets; Linguistics as a field was invented in India. Though a language like Hindi has more sounds than one like English, the advent of Persian/Arab/Turkish conquerors and later British ones has brought even more sounds into the language. Several of the sounds needed for the pronunciation of foreign words needed a letter, and so the standard has been to add a dot to a pre-existing letter for a different pronunciation. 'फ' is 'Pha', but with a dot ('फ़') it becomes pronounced as 'Fa.' Ultimately (this won't affect this map, but it will later ones) I decided to count these as the same letter, since in more 'pure' (rural/dialects never under Muslim rule/re-Sanskritized) speech, foreign sounds are dropped entirely.
In this world nations whose Hindi name starts with फ have ISOTed to a human-less earth which diverged about four million years ago from our own. Like with Beedok's map there's France (फ़्रान्स- 'Fraans'), Fiji (फ़िजी- 'Fijee'), and Finland (फ़िनलैण्ड- 'Finlaend'), but there's also Palestine (फ़िलिस्तीन- 'Filisteen') and the Philippines (फ़िलीपीन्स- 'Fileepeens').
It is, of course, a France-dominated world. Nevertheless, France is precarious. GDP is only growing as more colonies are built in far-away places, but even there Politicians worry of a stagnation like what has gripped Metropolitan France. In the first few decades after the event, large numbers of Socialist Communes, Cult Movements, Rogues with large followings, disgruntled Tourists not happy in France, and businesses ready to leave began setting up their own settlements throughout Europe; though quite a lot of the original died off after the first winter on this few-degrees-cooler-than-ours World, the ones that survived prospered enough to keep more settlers coming. As France has increasingly had to contend with the prospect of do-it-yourself states being set-up in Germany and Eastern Europe, it has worked closely with Finland to use the European Union (now headquartered in Helsinki) to act as a filter on 'acceptable states'. Some of the best-run states accepted into the common currency are Skane (built up mostly ethnic Swedes leaving Finland), Spain (or the non-French bits that is), and Turkey (founded by French Muslims who wanted to have their own state but remain Democratic and allied to France- mostly speaks French and Arabic). Some of the wackier communes in Germany, the proudly English anglophone states on the islands, and a Sharia state in North Africa have more cordial or even sometimes hostile relations with Paris.
France has reluctantly been pushed to resume a colonial empire of the seas- much of the Islands and French Guina controlled by France are now more Pro-French than ever, but they do sometimes wish for more leadership. The most decisive action taken at high sea was the annexation of Fiji after the islands descended into civil war and rule by a Cannibal dictator. Currently the Fijans are spread through the Pacific and even European France as low-wage workers- evidence to some that for all France's talks of 'not resuming imperialism' such a resumption may be underway.
The two halves of Palestine were happy to see Israel go, but neither were happy to see one another. The Palestinian Liberation Organization is larger and better run (being mostly a Democracy, and more secular), but Hamas has been energetically trying to make up for its smaller size by settling the Nile River valley. The two have fought three wars, each one ending with a French-supported peace agreement. Meanwhile, more Palestinians have moved to France, Turkey, or set up other states throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.
By far the most populous state on the globe, and rapidly catching up to France, is the Philippines Empire. For famine, corruption, and crime, Duterte proved to be the perfect man. For dealing with a rising insurgency (both Islamic and Democratic in nature) in the South, he proved heavy handed enough to encourage the rebels. After decades of a war which would not end, a general of the Philippine government declared himself Emperor, and made peace with the mostly Islamic (but sometimes Catholic) states of the south and with the very Catholic rebel colony in Vietnam. Since then the region has gotten along better, although the English speaking elites of cities have protested the populist and authoritarian rule of what has become a monarchy. The Philippines, in technology and economy is set to one day eclipse France, as it has in population, though such a beating may be what France needs to edge itself out of decline doldrums.
I thought they were dull and uncontroversial enough to be realistic.
