Map Thread XIV
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Didn't stop the Highlands of Scotland from producing the utter horror that was Cromarty-shire
That much is true. Perhaps Viking lore would be helpful in dividing the region too?
It might, but not much. Norway's the only place I know of that had anything like a feudal period, and we don't know exactly what the borders of the petty kingdoms were. The rest appear to be pretty consistently unified.
Perhaps there could be Sami and Finn protectorates to add some variety, but in all Scandinavia's going to be pretty simple.
I presume that among the British monarch's titles will be Emperor of All the Penguins.
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Who is in control? And what's going on in Burgundy and Portugal?
Seems like I should restart my world balkanization again..
It's Worldraj time again!
Now with added key.
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Holy crap, it's so beautiful.
In the Austrian circle, you seem to have made a typo. It's Styria, not Sytia.
If they were close technologically and demographically it would be implausible yes (e.g. Britain in 1860 is not going to be able to successfully hold the area), however that is not the case here, this is 1940 America against 18th century Arabia, there is basically no comparisons here; not only does America have massively overwhelming technological and military superiority, but it has demographic superiority; America in 1940 had a little over 132 million people compared to the area of Hejaz which only had around 200,000 people (compare that the Kingdom of Hejaz in 1930 was only at about 850,000) and Arabia as a whole probably around 2-2.7 million.
In short it does not matter what the people of the time and place think, America in this situation has such a massive advantage that they can do whatever they want.
That is not the 'general rule' it's an extreme position taken that is ironically the flip-side of the coin of the 'No Butterflies' attitude; a PoD's affect is based on what it is exactly, when it happens and where it happens, so for instance an Aboriginal Australian leader in the Outback being killed and replaced and/or having a child of the opposite sex from OTL in 1400 is not going to stop Richard III being born in England in 1452.
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Alex Richards
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Britain's in control (well, it's actually the United Kingdom of the 7 Crowns [England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Castile, Bohemia and Sicily, with the Great Electorate and United Provinces being integral territories but not Kingdoms), and there's an Imperial Parliament as a top level thing. Burgundy and Portugal are Autonomous Kingdoms which have representation in that Parliament and a representative of the Westminster Government with a degree of influence but are essentially allowed to run themselves.
There's always going to be a couple...
And how do you see this working out in practice when our tame ruler of the Hejaz acts up? Lets the wrong things be preached, befriends the wrong people, tries out alliances we didn't give permission for, etc?
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The Sami are divided into several tribes, ethnic homelands/reservations, maybe? Free island duchies, free port cities and jarldoms in the Finnish Archipelago. Coastal bilingual sudetenland-esque regions. Kingdoms according to the six tribes of Finland. Large areas of forest property and hunting grounds owned by families. Domains of ostrobothnian gangs/mafias. Lots of ideas even in a very sparsely populated country.
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