Two small QBam/EqualA country map.
This Portugal suffered the Anglo-German partition plan after a bankrupcy in the first decade of the 20th century, losing all its colonies but cape verde. After WW1 the northern German part of angola comes under british and belgian occupation, Both parties agree to sell it to Portugal (along with Sao tomé and British Luanda). Now in possession with a colony the dictatorship in portugal proceeds to flood it with settlers, the small colony would become by the 1960s an european majority place - although most living near the coast and in luanda -, with a thriving export economy based on cheap and inhumane african labor in plantations and farms. The early 60s would see a first quick colonial war that portugal would swiftly win, causing a few dozen thousands african death, the lack of international communism ITTL prevents a long conflict, by the 70s (the country democratized in the 50s) the Alt-UN ask for decolonization, which portugals answer by giving a full independance referendum, the majority white population concentrated in the cities votes to stay, and portugal official enfranchize all the population living in the border but put very strict rules preventing illegal -majority african seeking opportunities- migrants from becoming citizen. There is a second, less intense but longer struggle in the 80s more like the troubles, which portugal manages to calm by giving increased subsidies and promising some far away referendums. Today portuguese Angola is a highly unequal region, with a GINI coefficient comparable to Brazil, a majority of citizens are of european origin, and there is a thriving african middle class in the city, but native living in the countryside or suburbs are signficiantly worse, the situation is particularly bad for african migrants -those that manage to cross the Great Congo Wall, imagine the palestine wall but in Africa - , who are forced to work in the mines of the Lunda Autonomous Region for over a decade to even be able to become residents, let alone citizens. The region has some of the highest alcoholism rate and gun ownership rate in the world, and has the highest violence rate for a developped country. Luanda is home to striking inequalities and is the largest African Business center.
THis is supposed to be a draft of a larger map i'll eventually make where i'm speculating what would have happened if Portugal had the same colonial policies as IRL, but managed to have a sufficiently small colony that they can hold it through sheer demographic - a situation comparable to New Caledonia IRL in France, which is a recent tropical settler colony where the natives are in the minority -, It's quite ugly indeed.
So this is actually a DBWI of a large map i'm currently making, showing a larger french settlement in Louisiana (particularly upper louisiana - to a level comparable to Quebec), i've been working on this map for over a month and originally planned to post it on MOTF but it turned out much harder than planned... One of the event in this Scenario is that a republican revolt (against Spain) is put down in the 1790s, this speculates it succeeds and becomes an independant state at the fringe of the United States, it eventually gets invaded by the US since it controls valuable region in the upper missouri, but gets accepted as a republic, with large autonomy, among other things this sets a precedent for such autonomous republic to be accepted in the US. In this scenario Florida isn't sold to the US, but the american invade it but face far more trouble against seminoles, war weriness results in them being allowed inside the US as a republic (at the same time many of the south-east tribes went there, the Cherokee had at this time also written their own constitution IRL, which i guess they could help the seminole set up this republic).
The presence of this Louisiana Republic diverts some of the midwest migration toward texas, which is more settled and manages to enforce larger border, this california actually rebelled with british help in 1845, but after the gold rush was ̶c̶o̶u̶p̶e̶d̶ peacefuly integrated into the US.
And yes the olympic peninsula exclave was an actual british proposal IRL
And also yes I know that I took heartland maybe a bit too literally