MotF 136: Ferdinand's Gambit

[Upvoteanthology]

MotF 136: Ferdinand's Gambit

The Challenge
Make a map of a surviving Austria-Hungary.

The Restrictions
There are no restrictions on when your PoD or map may be set. Fantasy, sci-fi, and future maps are allowed, but blatantly implausible (ASB) maps are not.

If you're not sure whether your idea meets the criteria of this challenge, please feel free to PM me.

Please try to keep images posted in this thread a reasonable size - feel free to post a smaller version of your image and provide link to a full-size version if you want to.

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[jakp25]

Many suspected that Austria-Hungary, pushed to the edge in fighting the Entente to a stalemate alongside it's ally in Germany, would fail to continue on into the next decades. Within three years after the end of the First World War, Austria-Hungary had descended into a chaotic state. With Germany sidetracked by the newly restarted arms race with both France and Britain, and issues in their African colonies, only a few nations intervened - and none for the benefit of Austria-Hungary.

Poland first seized Galicia-Lodomeria, followed by the secession of Croatia and Bosnia to the nascent Yugoslavian nation. Romania took Bukovina, but was stopped at the Carpathians from seizing Transylvania. The heartlands of the Dual Monarchy still stood, albeit in a state of open revolt against the von Hapsburgs. Stability would only be found in 1925, when a single faction, supported heavily by the USSR, came to overthrow the von Hapsburgs.

The Danubian Commune was formed from the remaining lands of Austria-Hungary, and with it the ethnic and nationalistic values that drove the region began to decay. The proletariat found himself surrounded by the like-minded, regardless of the language that they spoke.

This is my first post on AH.com, although I have been lurking. Hope I haven't done anything wrong...

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[trejiokla]

The Imperial Hexarchy of Danube

Brief history of the Imperial Hexarchy of Danube​

Since the death of Franz Joseph I in 1916, Franz Ferdinand I was crowned 'Emperor and King' and started a process of reforms againt the 'Little Compromise' of 1867.

Despite the opposition of Magiar nobility, he met with representant of other nationalities of the Empire. Finally, in 1917 was signed 'the Wide Compromise', Franz Ferdinand I reformulated the state(s): Six Kingdoms, two with Constitutional rank (Austria and Hungary) and four with Autonomous rank (Cheko - Eslovakia, Galitzia, Transilvania and Yugo-Eslavia), and five Autonomous Territories (Silesia, Sudetes, Eastern Transilvania, Trento, and Trieste and fiume). With the support of non-magiar minorities, principally of Romanian and Polish, he broken the Hungarian opposition and forced them to accept the new Compromise.

In 1921, after a failed attempt of assessination, made the first ''addendum'': the 'Law about the Imperial House'. In this regulation, his son (born in a morganatic marriage) was allowed be promote at throne. In this case, the opposition was leaded by Karl, his heir presuntive. However, the proposal was sucefull and the son of Franz Ferdinand was proclaimed 'Archiduke' and 'Crown Heir'.

During the 'Crisis of the 20s', caused by the crack of 1925 and the Russian Revolution (1927), the Compromise was reformated again: the Imperial Ministry of Social Development was created, 'Imperial Declaration about the Wrights of Peoples and the Citizen' was santioned, and the deputy to Imperial Diet passed to be choissen by the people of each Kingdoms and Territories. Also was created the Counsil of the Kingdoms and Territories, and the Supreme Court of Constitutional Justice.

This crisis afected the political parties sistem, and several new agrupation arose in this age, specially comunist and authoritarian nationalist grups.

In the decade of 50, Maximilian Franz I established the Imperial Council of State, the 'Carte about Constitucional Action' and the 'Law about Constitutional Distric Courts in the Kingdoms and Territories'.

The last ''addendum'' to the Compromise allowed the daugther of the Emperor to be heir of him, in equal condition of a male.

Government:
The Emperor, unlike another constitutional monarchy, has some faculties and power. He proposed the judges and Imperial Courts to the Imperial Diet, as like the Ombusdman of the Peolples of the Empire, the President of the Central Bank of the Empier, etc.

The Gabinet of the Empire is composed of five ministres: the Chief of the Imperial Gabinet, the Ministre of Foreing Relations, the Ministre of Economy and Finances, the Ministre of Defense and the Ministre of Social Development. They must be apoved, and can be removed, by the Diet.

The governments of all Kingdoms and Territories make up the Counsil of the Kingdoms and Territories. They send a delegation whem must deal with theire affairs and the delegation must vote unanimously. Each Constitutional Kingdom has 15 votes, each Autonomous Kingdom has 7 votes, and each Autonomous Territories has 3.

In each Kingdom or Territory, the Emperor appoint a person as 'Imperial Lieutenant', the representant of the Emperor in this place. He/she can be of any nationality of the Empire, except in the Constitutional Kingdoms, in wich case must be national or long time residence of this (except for member of the Imperial House).

Political Parties:
The Imperial Hexarchy of Danube is a democracy. The two principal parties are the Party of Workers and Countrymen (PWC; socialdemocracy) and the Party of the Union and the Convergence (PUC; liberalism [in the european means]).

Another important parties are the Party of Christian Democracy (PCD) and the Party Magiar Dignity (PMD; ethnic, wright wind)

Various ethnic in the Empire has their own party, generally minority: Party Our House (polish), Party Moravian Legacy (PML), National Party of Transilvania (NPT), etc. There are a confesional muslim party in Bosnia: the Party of God's Comunity (PGD); a ecologist one, the Party House Earth (PHE), and even a feminist Party of Female Freed (PFF).

Just out of curiosity:
According a friend of Franz Ferdindand I, he said "I prefer establish the Republic, before see my nephew in the throne".

In this temporal line (aka FSTL), World War I do not happen, neither the defeat of German Empire, neither the Treaty of Versailles. Intead, in 1925 happened the crack in New York, the world economical crisis and the Russian Revolution of 1927.... but this is another story.

In FSTL, Adolf Hitler was a failed artist, one of the founder and leader of the Party for the Laborious People during the decades of 20 and 30. This party, originally german ethnic, xenophobe and antisemitic, is now democratic, but still xenophobe.

The first Chairman of the Supreme Court of Constitutional Justice, and one of the sponsor of it, was Hans Kelsen.

The Ernest Mach Institute organized a competition to create a 'perfect scientific and intercultural language', to use in the Imperial Administration and across the Empires. The award has not winner still.

In FSTL, Vladimir Franz is Chairman of the Supreme Court of Constitutional Justice, and Milan Babić is the Ombusdman of the Peoples... strange, rare, if-world, not?


PS:
I used this resource:
For the flag:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_Standard_of_Austria_(1828-Late_19th_Century).svg
For the map:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austria_Hungary_ethnic_ES.svg
and edited with Corel Draw and Photoshop

Finally, remember that english is not my mother tongue; sure there are several mistake... let's be acquiescent

 

[Zek Sora]

The End of an Empire

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From trading post to Imperial seat—Karlsland has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a mere outpost of the Austrian East Indies Company. There have been many milestones along the way: the founding of its capital city, Charlesburg, the shift from Company rule to full province hood in the Empire, the granting of self-government early in the 20th century, and of course the flight of the Austrian monarchs to the colony in 1921. Now, it seems that Karlsland is nearing yet another milestone: the abolishment of the monarchy.

The Emperor Charles I of Austria (and King Charles IV of Hungary) fled with his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma to Karlsland, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s only overseas colony after the 1919 Peace of Versailles, in 1921. It survived being picked off by one of the victorious Entente powers for two reasons: first, it was full of Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs, and other ethnicities that would be difficult to assimilate, and second, it held very little of value in the way of natural resources. The reason for their flight was simple: Weimar Germany, in accordance with the principles of ethnic self-determination, had requested they be allowed to annex Austria, and after a quick plebiscite, the League of Nations reluctantly acceded.

Neither the Emperor nor the vast majority of Karlslanders wished to live under German rule, but there were large Hungarian and Czech minorities also living in Karlsland who were reluctant to allow direct rule by an Austrian monarch, fearing it would lead to discrimination against them. Thus, a compromise was made, in which the Emperor restored the old title of Austria-Hungary, guaranteeing the Hungarian and Czech minorities full citizenship in the Empire.

For 72 years Karlsland continued on in much the same way, as the Emperors grew slowly less and less potent and the Diet gained more and more power. By the early 1990s, the royal family was little more than a bauble, as in the United Kingdom. However, unlike in the United Kingdom, they were not a well-liked bauble, though they were most certainly an expensive one, with estates in almost all of the provinces requiring massive upkeep that came directly out of government coffers. The calls to abolish the monarchy grew with the spending reports each year.

Thus, in 1993 a referendum was held to determine the future of the Karlslander government: Should it continue to be a monarchy, or should it become a full republic? When the results came through in the end, they were not close. 68.13% of Karlslanders voted to abolish the monarchy, with only the capital city and Jaquin Province voting against it.

The new Karlslander constitution has yet to be written, and the nation of Karlsland faces an uncertain future, but one thing is for sure: There will be no more Emperors reigning from Charlesburg.​

 

[Gwrtheyrn Annwn]

And my first MOTF entry for a long time:

In this world, Austria was never involved in Polish Partitions. This led to a surviving Poland and a world of two camps:
1. The Two Emperor's Alliance: Germany, Russia and various other small states.
2. The Entente: Austria, Britain, France and other small states.
The Great War broke out in 1912, following the assassination of the Russian Prince Alexei by Polish activists. As the Russians moved to crush the Polish rump state, the Entente declared a guarantee over the nation. Russia ignored this and invaded anyway. In retaliation France invaded Germany. As the war escalated, Austro-Hungary was devastated by German and Russian forces, before being liberated by the French and Italians (who had joined mid-way through the war). The reborn Austria had lost several territories, but remained a regional power. The war ended in 1917 and the map shows Austria and surrounding countries after the treaty, including the new nations of Wurrtemburg and Bavaria.

 

[MoralisticCommunist]

Spartacist Austria-Hungary​

Hopefully I'm not too late on this entry, but I finally managed to finish a map for MotF again yay! Here is the link to my DeviantArt page with the higher resolution map: http://moralisticcommunist.deviantart.com/art/Spartacist-Austria-Hungary-606250366

The PoD for this scenario is that Kaiser Wilhelm II isn't such a meanie to Britain so they stay neutral in WWI. After implementing a different version of the Schlieffen Plan the Central Powers and Entente settle into a stalemate just as OTL. In this timeline the Central Powers included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Bulgaria while the Entente had Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, and France.

Without Britain's blockade of Germany the Central Powers are powerful enough to defeat Russia and then France after several years of grueling trench warfare in 1918. In the process Austria-Hungary fell as revolutionaries went on bread riots and troops mutinied against the incessant slaughter of trench warfare. With the Emperor deposed a temporary republic was established in October of 1918, however this government grew weak and soon became merely propped up by German troops. The German Spartacus League then took advantage of this weakness, proclaiming an end to WWI if they came to power in Austria-Hungary.

By January of 1919 the communists had a following of many peasants and urban workers all across the country so that is when they struck and stormed Schönbrunn Palace. Thus began a three year long civil war as the country exploded under ethnic tensions. In the end the Spartacist managed to become the dominant force in Austria-Hungary, though they did lose many peripheral territories to other nations and different nationalist groups.

Thus on March 1921 the Austro-Hungarian Union of Spartacist Republics was formed, with a total of six different republics for the six ethnic groups within its borders.

 

[Stuyvesant]

In 1875, a private company was founded named the Walfischbucht Company and was founded to create a coaling station at Walvis Bay on the Namibian Coast. The station was moderately successful for the first five years of operation; however in 1880 the British Navy sailed a flotilla into the harbor demanding a cessation of tolls against British vessels. The management of the coaling station reluctantly agreed, and saw a steep decrease in profits. In dire financial straits, the Company was bought by the Austro-Hungarian emperor, as a prestige project for his empire.

It was technically two separate colonies that entirely overlapped each other: Österreich Südwestafrika and Magyar Délnyugat-Afrika until 1901 when it was merged into Österreichisch-Ungarischen Südwestafrika. Emigration was encouraged by the Imperial government for troublesome minorities, seeing much Ukrainian and Croation emigration. These groups quickly came into conflict with the native Bantu peoples, namely the Herero and Namaqua. They were defeated, and pushed onto reservations akin to those in the United States, however the Emperor decreed that the were still subjects of the empire, and under his protection.

In 1885, the king of Batswana, following increasing encroachment by the South African Federation to his nation's south, appealed to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor to grant him protection. This saw the colony stretch to the Vaal river to the south, the Zambezi basin to the East, and Angola to its North. In 1912, the Great War broke out between the Emperor's League of Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States, and the Entente of France, Russia, The Confederacy, and Canada[1]. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor declared his nation's neutrality in the conflict, despite his ties to the Emperor's League. This angered the Imperial Army and they launched a Coup d'Etat, but the Emperor was killed in the process.

The heir was whisked away by retainers, and the Navy (who were still loyal to the Imperial Family) first to Italy, and then to Southwest Africa until the end of the war (which the Empire was now in.) However a Revolution broke out after the war started to swing against the League, and they overthrew the puppet Emperor and replaced the Empire with a Danubian Federation. The Emperor [in Africa] refused to recognize this revolutionary republic and remained in Ferdinand [OTL Windhoek].

Fast forward to the modern day, and following a long fight for civil rights, the native Africans were granted voting rights. Today, the African Empire of Austria-Hungary[-Namibia-Batswana...] is a diverse nation of nearly two dozen languages, primarily based upon the mining industry and tourism.

 

[Rubberduck3y6]

Phew, finally finished this monster!

The Federation of Leithania


(click the map for full size)​

The Austo-Hungarian Empire emerged battered, bruised and, in many people's eyes fatally wounded, from the Great War. Southern Tyrol, the Austrian Littoral and Dalmatia had been lost to Italy while Serbia had taken Bosnia and large areas of southern Hungary. Nevertheless, the empire had survived the war and under Emperor-King Charles I and IV and his successor Otto I somehow managed to weather the turbulence of the 1920s as the dual forces of ethnic nationalism and economic difficulties threatened to tear the country apart.

During the following decades successive attempts at reforms designed to keep Austria-Hungary together where implemented, such as the elevation of Croatia-Slavonia to a full Kingdom within the now Triple Monarchy, which did little to appease anyone except some Croatian politicians who now had more money and power to play with, and the recognition of Croatian, Czech, Polish, Rumanian, Ruthenian (now being written using a Polish-based Latin alphabet), Slovak and Slovene as co-official languages alongside German and Hungarian.

By the 1950s though it was clear that extensive reforms and modernisation of the country's political system was needed. It was out of these seemingly endless discussions, talks and committee meetings that the idea of sweeping away the old states with the boundaries based on medieval dynastic lines and replacing them with new approximately equal sized states based around economic and geographic communities and ties was born. The country would get a new name too - the Federation of Leithania - emphasising the unification of the old divisions of Cisleithania and Transleithania under a single, new cohesive system. The monarchy would be retained, but as an exclusively ceremonial position as a living symbol of national unity. Power would instead be shared between a new federal government based in Pressburg, chosen due to its central location and the 21 new state governments. Thus on 1 January 1956 the new nation of Leithania emerged.

The early years of the new country however seemed to bring little change with the economy struggling due to the uncertainty caused by the protracted constitution reforms and the global effects of the Franco-German and Pacific Wars. One major issue was that of language as although the country now had a plethora of official languages, there was little provision to ensure access to official services in the language of your choice or protection from discrimination on linguistic grounds. In order to address this problem, a second constitutional reform process was put in place in 1968, known as the Little Convention, which introduced a second type of federal unit - Language Communities. The country was divided into 9 Language Communities (LCs), plus a number of bilingual or multilingual areas, which would function separately from the states. The LCs would be responsible for ensuring that all speakers of their particular language, including those living outside their geographical area, would have access to justice, housing, healthcare, education and other state services in their native language and for enforcing anti-discrimination legislation.

The reforms were starting to show positive results by the 1980s with the number of inter-communal hate crimes and nationalist attacks falling dramatically across the country and nationalist political parties finding themselves increasingly irrelevant in a society more focused on social and moral issues such as abortion, legal recognition of same sex relationships and economic inequality. Fast new roads, known as Autoways were built to physically connect the country and more recently a network of high speed rail has been built with new lines planned to connect the southern states to the network.

 

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red ärächnid's 1989 Red Europa tour

From the red ärächnid Universe
(For Part 1 from MotF 77, which goes into red ärächnid's 1987 Red Venom tour, see here.)
(For Part 2 from MotF 87, which goes into red ärächnid's 1988 Red Rucker tour, see here.)

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red ärächnid's 1989 Red Europa Tour

"Larry! Come help me pronounce these names!"

"Dude. What are you doing?"

"Setting up my factprinter."

"You bought a factprinter? Those cost like $2000"

"So? We're big rock stars now. Besides it was only 300 Marks."

"Dude. 300 Marks is $2000."

"Doesn't matter. I need it for the map. You have the phone book? I need to call the Veen library catalogue."

"Dude. Stop doing that. Just say Vienna. What did I tell you about trying to say city names over here?"

"C'mon, man. How many times do I have to say I'm sorry for that?"

"Dude. You said 'Hello Munchin' at the show. It's München. Or Munich. Not Munchin."

"God. Who knew umlauts mattered?"

"Dude, we're metal. We have umlauts in our name."

"Yeah, but we don't pronounce them."

"Whatever. The show rocked and that's all that matters. Just please don't try to say Prague."

"Sure. Okay, I got the factprinter set up and I plugged it into the hotel phone. Read me the number from the phonebook."

"Dial 1 for Europe. 04 for Austria-Hungary. Then 1 for Austria. 01 for Vienna. 900 for the catalogue. 16 for Reference. 09 for Maps. Ummm, which map did you want?"

"Basically the rest of the tour."

"Okay, then dial 1252 for Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. That should be the English version."

"Cool. Now I just hit dial."

"So what happens now?"

"It prints out a map. Dude, this factprinter is so cutting edge. It has four colorblock printing and it has integrated text."

"Cool."

"Yeah. You could even dial and print an entire novel if you wanted. But you might run out of ink. ...And it might be in German."

"Cool."

"Ha ha. Look at this. The phone book lists the number that you can dial to print out parts of the phonebook."

"Dude. That's so weird."

"Yeah."

"You know why the capital of Austria-Hungary has three names?"

"You've been reading history again haven't you?"

"Damn right, Mr Geography Drummer. When the country stopped being an empire in 1957, it picked Pressburg as its capital because it was right near the border of Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia. And it was close to Moravia -- well, sort of. And it had three names in each of the three main languages: one in German, one in Slovak, and one in Hungarian. They kept all three."

"Hey. You said Pressburg correctly. Good job."

"Shut up. Hey look. It's printing the internal boundaries of Austria-Hungary in yellow colorblocks!"

"Cool."

"And the country borders are in red. It's Red Europe! Just like the tour name!"

"That's so metal."

"So where are we playing next?"

"Okay, Prague is next. Then Vienna, Budapest, Trieste, and Sarajevo. We end in Istanbul on the 16th."

"Sarajevo? I thought it was pronounced--"

"Dude. Just don't even try."

"Hey, so what do you call a cricket referee from Tasman City who never eats before games?"

"Oh no..."

"An Australian Hungry Umpire!"

"That's so bad."

"So tonight we're playing in Prayg? Can I yell 'HELLO PRAYG'?"

"Dude. Don't even. I will kick your ass all the way back to Brooks-Eels"

"Hey! I got Brussels right. And I know how to say 'Prague.'

"Just don't mess it up, okay?"

"Chill, dude. This is going to be the best tour ever."


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[Upvoteanthology]

PoD: Charles VI waits longer to put Maria Theresa on the throne as his heir, leading to the survival of the Austrian Ostend Company.

Scenario: Without Charles VI's suspension of the Ostend Company, it continued to grow in massive amounts. In 1726, they were able to declare a 33 percent dividend, and by 1730 it grew to nearly 50 percent. The ports in Cabelon quickly expanded north, and more trade posts were founded until the small town grew into a full-fledged colony, much like French Puducheri. Austria greatly profited from the venture, and the Emperor was able to more peacefully push for an heir to be put on the throne. Austria was able to avoid internal conflict, and began to expand deeper into India. In the 1740's, the Ostend Company gained the blessing of the government, as long as the colonies founded could be supported directly by the Imperial Court. With that, the government continued to profit from the trade of goods, and began to silently push for expansion inland.

After the breakout of the Seven Years' War, the Austrians sided with the British, pushing out the advancing French from their settlements in India. At the end of the war, they were granted French Guadeloupe, Puducheri, and the rest of the French colonies on the eastern coast of India. The Ostend Company continued to flourish, and began to work even more closely with the federal government. However, it was still an independent entity, and still continued to keep part of the profit. With the British winning the war more successfully, they were able to get more out of India, and the Americas didn't rebel until the 1780's. When they did, only the southern part succeeded, forming the nationalistic Republic of Columbia. However, Austria took advantage of the Columbian revolution, buying out the British ports in Southern India in exchange for helping them out in the north (which they did, helping to topple New Jersey). In 1793, after the revolution was finally over, the port of Gadilam (named after the river it was on), commonly known as Frederickstadt, was founded in. It was a large city, meant to be the gateway between Austria and India. And, with Austria finally having secured most of British South India, the Ostend Company was ready to govern it as a true colony.

With focus shifting to the south, the Company sold off most of their possessions in Bengal to the hungry British, mostly to hold together their alliance. However, even if Bengal was gone, they continued to grow, buying out parts of the Spanish Philippines and British Borneo. For a brief period of time in the early 1800's, Austria owned Formosa, and held large ports on the coast of Japan. Quickly, though, all focus shifted to the tip of India, as it began to be milked for all it was worth. With the advent of railroads, new routes were built to the center of the subcontinent. The first major railway in Austrian India was built from Frederickstadt to the new settlement of Fort Patrick, passing through Salem and ending in Maisur. Speaking of Maisur, the Austro-Hungarian government was quite nice to the stronger Indians, allowing them (puppet) governments of their own! But uhh, they weren't REALLY very nice, only allowing the kingdoms special privileges because they didn't have the ability to completely conquer them without outside help (which they didn't have). However, that didn't make them any less profitable, and Austria didn't need to fix what wasn't broken.

With Austria raking in the riches, they continued to attend to matters at home. In Central Europe, Austria was the main superpower, in union with Prussia, Venice, and Hungary. However, the union soon fell with Venice due to the expansion of Lombardy, but both Hungary and Prussia were strengthened. In the 1850's, an expansionist Austrian king attempted to unify Germany, and managed to create a series of client states known as the "German Federation". However, not all power could last, and the Imperial Era began to wane in Europe. Power passed from Austria and Britain to France and Russia. Prussia and the German Federation both broke away, even though they both chose to remain separate from one another. By 1870, it was just Austria and Hungary left, and even though their empire was still huge, they were at risk of becoming the "Sick Man of Europe". So, as a way to hold itself together, Austria agreed to acknowledge the Crown of St. Stephen as its equal, forming the Empire of Austria-Hungary. The newly-formed Austria-Hungary was becoming less and less strong (they weren't even as powerful as they were IOTL), and they agreed to dissolve the Ostend Company in 1888, putting their colonies under direct governmental rule. Hungary was given direct rule over around half of Austrian India, founding a few ports under Hungarian name. India began to grow more and more distant, and they were nearly ready to sell their colonies by the turn of the century. However, in 1901 war broke out, between the collapsing British Empire and the opportunistic (and newly-founded) Republic of France. Austria chose to join the side of the British, honoring their centuries-old alliance. However, halfway through the war their military began to falter, collapsing the government along with it. The Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart, with the French and Russian government establishing puppet states in the wreckage.

After the end of the war, the Royal family debated on whether or not to sell their Indian colonies. After finding out that the Austro-Hungarian state wouldn't exist in the peace treaties, however, they chose to escape to the very same colonies they were about to sell. Thousands of Austrians and Hungarians came with them, and a new imperial government was established in the bustling city of Frederickstadt. Cities and towns on the coast were renamed by their German and Hungarian names, with the culture becoming less and less Indian. The French took all of British India, while Germany was meant to take the former Austrian colonies. However, after the Imperial government escaped with all of their sympathizers, they agreed to recognize the new nation, hoping that it would stave off revolution from Austria, at least for a little while longer. The new Osterreich, or "Uttarastraka", was finally alive! With the establishment of the new government, more railways were built, and the advent of the automobile provided for even better transport. The new Austria-Hungary was an odd amalgamation of European and Indian culture, as it tried to stay in the "First World" as much as possible. By 1922, the mystery still remains; will Austria-Hungary be swallowed up by the imposing French India, or will it survive to the present day? (Hint: it's the second one, but I just wanted some suspense in there)

One of the things that the Austrian and Hungarian governments did after their arrival was divide the country into three special types of segregated provinces: European Settler States, Indian Provinces (also called "Republics"), and Princely States. There was also one colonial government (Ceylon). The provinces are as follows:

European Settler States:
- Gewürz Küste (Austria)
- Madras (Austria)
- Nyugati (Hungary)
- Tinnevelli (Hungary)
- Ùj Debreceni (Hungary)

Indian Provinces/Republics:
- Chittur (Austria)
- Konubatur (Hungary)
- Nilgiri (Hungary)
- Paluai (Hungary)
- Ponnar (Austria)
- Trichinopoly (Hungary)
- Tripalur (Hungary)
- Tuttukudi (Hungary)

Princely States:
- Hundri (Austria)
- Kadapa (Austria)
- Madura (Hungary)

Full Map Here