On August 5th the world was a very different place. Washington's efforts to regain control over breakaway republics and various nations sliding towards American ultra-liberalism were very clearly off the top priorities list of Moscow. Even recently partitioned Switzerland realised this had at least as much impact on their lives as the recent war had. Ottoman citizens who had watched mushroom clouds rise across the border knew two things were coming: radiation and refugees. The nations of Asia sat watching to see if India could hold together. Indonesia turned its eyes towards Australia, fearing mushroom clouds over their own nation now that India might no longer support them. Oil prices skyrocketed. As did food prices as the world feared a nuclear winter and massive food shortages in both regions.
(The series has almost hit the present, so I thought I might as well finish it.)
Should not those longitudinal borders go the other way?Alright, here's edition number 2 of my South American Great Powers series that I started! (Also, look who owns the Falkland Islands ) Now for Argentina:
True, but this phenomenon doesn't take into account what would have happened if there was suddenly an enormous free space to expand in.It's a well-known phenomenon where as living standards rise, birth rates drop off. The United States could have easily grown to around 800 million by this time in OTL, but instead it leveled off just after WWI.
But what about countries with a negative natural growth rateAs for the actual mechanics, I used a negative exponent for the growth rate with a time constant of 111 years, so the birth rate halves every 77 years. It's a fairly crude approximation, but it works when it's only a 125 year timescale
It's not done. I'm just reviving it to get in the last decade or so.Quite a way to finish the series! Thanks for the good read and maps!
We shall.It'd be interesting to see the world after the Nuclear War.
The US has shrugged and celebrated commodity prices going up. Communism suffering is a good thing in their books.So how is Australia and the US feeling? Happy that the two powers wiped each other out (or at least badly injured each other) or are they scared that it happened?
And will Australia be looking for payback against indo?
It leveled from 3% per annum to 2% per annum, and that's including immigration. When you exclude immigration, the US's natural growth rate fell from a high of 1.7% in 1947 to just over 0.4% today.True, but this phenomenon doesn't take into account what would have happened if there was suddenly an enormous free space to expand in.
And the US still grew more than three times since WWI. This hardly looks like leveling.
But what about countries with a negative natural growth rate
@Arcvalons Note number 7 appears to be missing.
7. The British Protectorate of the River Plate. Talk abounds in Virginia of incorporating it directly into the UKP&B.
By Canadian standards the US is 'free space'. Compared to trying to tame the swampy frozen Canadian North it's a cakewalk, and yet plenty of people move to the rugged frontier to follow well paying mining jobs and the like.And virgin earth is not exactly "free space," since you have to build and develop the land, establish infrastructure, and so on; most people in first-world nations wouldn't want to move until development reaches a certain point.
By Canadian standards the US is 'free space'. Compared to trying to tame the swampy frozen Canadian North it's a cakewalk, and yet plenty of people move to the rugged frontier to follow well paying mining jobs and the like.
I'm sure there'll be some sequels in the near future...@DPKdebator Are you going to make a sequel map, set another century or so in the future? I would also like to see the US-implosion map.
An 80s Dystopic World. The United States and the Soviet Union have survived World War 4 (with world war 3 taking place in 1946 between the two), and now they face off across the melted Arctic Ocean. The technology to construct ICBMs was lost in World War 4, making the Arctic vital to any war effort. There is one problem; three states- the Graham Republic, the Realms of the Atom-Kings, and the State of Alert block them from fighting directly with one another.
Oh, and "The Realms of the Atom Kings" should be a band name.
They aren't set on a longitude, just running diagonally.Should not those longitudinal borders go the other way?