Here's a WIP of a world I'm doing for Coascendancy, a fanfic which I do hope to get back to soon. Technically an adaptation of an established work, but so far from the spirit of the original that it might as well not be.
Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa basically finished. The world has a POD in the 1920s, and the modern day is 2011.
The idea is that a shorter WW2-equivalent and lack of a real American build up as in OTL led to a stronger communist footing on the world stage, and while that largely quieted down after major economic collapses and reforms in the communist bloc throughout the 1990s, the world today is still filled with rather nasty dictatorships and civil wars. India, which is not finished or even started yet, is unifying, its independence TTL having been rather cluttered. The Soviet Union is recovering from its economic troubles of the past, which worries America and France, its two biggest geopolitical rivals.
Under the surface (literally) creatures called dronemakers, who live at the bottom of the earth, use their telekinetic and telepathic powers (they aren't sapient, maybe fish-level intelligence) to subvert the minds of intelligent life to bring them biomass. In one area, a dronemaker tries but fails to subvert three humans.
This is the state of the world when Emperor Joseph, the dimensional travelling mage who rules over around 1.9 billion people arrives, looking for a new source of personal power before he explores and acquires more dangerous worlds.
Questions, criticism and comments welcome, I hope to finish this on Wednesday. Sorry for the incoherent rambling, I am a bit tired as of the time I'm posting this.
I haven't posted a WIP here in a while, I hope that's still kosher?