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Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.
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Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.

Have Scotland and Ireland got allies against the Valkist invasion? What was the casus belli? Also, how totalitarian is Angland? Have they got allies?

What governments do the INSR and the SSR have? How are the German states ruled?
 
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Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.

Hell yeah Africa I eat Balkanization for breakfast
 
Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.
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How powerful is Persia? How is Kurdistan doing? Any tensions with Turkey and Persia?
 
Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.
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So how are the Copts doing in Egypt?
 
Hey, anyone remember that one Soviet victory in the Cold War scenario I posted almost a year ago? Whelp, after turning it into an on-again off-again project, I have finally finished the present day map for "The Russian Rose!"


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  • Timeline: TL-TRR-922 ("The Russian Rose")
  • Point of Divergence: 1897 AD
  • Year Displayed: 2019 AD


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From the perspective of an individual residing in TL-OTL-005 (0TL), the Earth of TL-TRR-922 (TRR) circa 2019 AD is a very bizarre world. Rather than the United States, the global superpower is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which had emerged victorious in what TRR refers to as the Great Struggle over twenty years prior. Where an authoritarian United States of America had once stood as the rival to global Soviet power, there is now a fractured collection of backwater republics of varying ideologies and strength. With capitalism only remaining in a handful of forgotten states around the world, the global socialist revolution envisioned by generations of socialists dating back to Karl Marx himself has been more or less brought to fruition across the entire world of TRR. Even as minor wars continue to rage on across the Earth, it is undeniable that the Soviet Union is the ruler of the world.

To take things from the world outlined in my previous report on TRR to the world depicted in this report, I will begin where my last report ended in 1968 AD. Back in this time period, the Earth of TRR was divided between two global superpowers that would seem familiar to OTL on face value, the Soviet Union and United States, which clashed in a collection of proxies akin to OTL's Cold War that the Soviet sphere of influence referred to as the Great Struggle. Of course, as outlined in my previous report, the Soviet Union and the United States of TRR are not the same nations from OTL. TRR's USSR was founded not by Vladimir Lenin and his authoritarian brand of communism, but was rather founded by Rosa Luxemburg, who opted to stay in Poland in TRR and eventually rise to the top of the socialist movement of the Russian Empire, which led to the establishment of a democratic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in which electoral power was invested into local worker councils while industry was handed to collectivized syndicalist-esque unions. TRR's United States, on the other hand, fell to authoritarianism after increased backlash against what OTL refers to as the First Red Scare began a domino effect that led to George Smith Patton establishing a totalitarian military junta in the United States of America in 1934.

By 1968, the proxy efforts of the Great Struggle focused in on British East Africa, where the Soviet Union was funding Kenyan and Bugandan revolutionaries against British Imperial forces backed with American military and financial aid. As the East African War carried on for years, however, the conflict not only turned into a bloody war of attrition that millions of young Soviets died fighting in, but also became incredibly unpopular back in the Soviet Union due to the totalitarian ideology of the communist rebels being backed by the European Defense Accord. For many libertarian Soviets, especially the younger generation that had grown up in a post-March Revolution Russia, the reports of vicious bloodshed that claimed the lives of innocent civilians and conscripted Soviets alike combined with stories of revolutionary leaders purging dissidents were enough to make a call to pull out of East Africa one of the most significant issues in late 1960s Soviet politics, so much so that backlash against Marxist-Leninist Premier Nikita Khrushchev's policy towards the East African War caused an election to be called for within the Chamber of Representatives. With record numbers of electoral participation from younger voters in 1968 completely altering the shape of the Parliament of the Union, Khrushchev and the Marxist-Leninist Party was easily removed from power and Catherine Bryant Reed, the child of American immigrants John Silas Reed and Louise Bryant, of the more libertarian and syndicalist-leaning Workers' Democratic Party assumed the premiership by calling for a total withdrawal from British East Africa.

As a hardline opponent to the backing of authoritarian socialist regimes, Catherine Bryant Reed would be keen on immediately leading efforts to withdraw all Red Army forces from East Africa. By the end of 1968, no Red Army soldiers remained in British East Africa and coalition forces from the European Defense Accord and Ethiopia would soon follow suit in leaving East Africa. This, of course, meant that the totalitarian rebels in East Africa would eventually lose to British colonial forces, but with the East African War being incredibly unpopular within the Eastern Bloc by this point, not to mention series of condemnations of the authoritarian policies of guerrilla forces in Kenya and Buganda, no one outside of the Marxist-Leninist Party and propaganda ministries in the West made that much of fuss. Nonetheless, the anti-authoritarian policy promoted by Premier Reed in the East African War was applied to her premiership's entire foreign policy, which was marked by an end to aid to dictatorships previously allied with the Soviet Union. In Cameroon in particular, which had been led by a communist dictatorship advocating for "scientific socialism" since the early 1960s, Soviet condemnation of totalitarianism and an alliance with local libertarian socialist movements would actually cause the fall of the Cameroonian dictatorship in 1972.

As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics championed calls for socialist democracy within its own sphere of influence, the United States of America underwent a messy decade. At first, the 1970s seemed to being going well for the American sphere of influence. President Richard Nixon, the previous leader of the Bureau of Strategic Services (an organization that served a role roughly equivalent to that of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of OTL) that had been named George Patton's successor just after his death in 1963, established a clear hierarchy of authority within the ruling United Patriotic Party that purged the authority of Nixon's top rivals. J Edgar Hoover, Nixon's powerful rival and leader of the FBI, was kept around due to the backlash that could occur if he was removed, but control over the American plutocrats was nonetheless consolidated within Richard Nixon's new cult of personality, deemed the "New American Society." As the memories of George Patton faded away, the New American Society flourished and flashy new American propaganda turned Richard Nixon into the unquestioned symbol of the guardian of capitalism in the United States and the new face of bourgeoisie tyranny in the Soviet sphere of influence. It would be under the reign of Nixon an American landed on the Lunar surface in 1970, a cause for mass celebration across the United States even if the Soviet Union had accomplished such a feat a handful of years earlier.

Nonetheless, Richard Nixon's effective reign would be cut short in the June of 1971 when Nixon was assassinated by a lone gunman whilst giving a speech to a crowd in San Francisco. The death of the American Empire incarnate on the American Patriotic News Network (APNN) to a national crowd was an undeniably shocking event, and was arguably as publicly notorious in the East as it was in the West. But as Soviet news unions speculated about who Richard Nixon's successor would be and analyzed the chaos unraveling within the United States, a power struggle began in Washington DC between the most powerful men in the United States. While J Edgar Hoover was at first touted as Nixon's successor, the late president had made sure that his rival would not have the resources to ever assume the presidency (including during the Nixon administration), and so control over the United Patriotic Party was instead seized by Henry Ford II, the executive of the Ford Motor Company, American Secretary of the Treasury, and the Governor of the state of Detroit. Upon becoming president of the United States, Ford initiated a purge that killed off his two biggest rivals, a publicly humiliated FBI Director J Edgar Hoover (who had been the victim of a campaign of slander for months) and the notoriously fascist BSS Director G Gordon Liddy. The New American Society, which had not even reigned for an entire decade, was eventually scrapped in favor of an entirely plutocratic regime in which Henry Ford II crushed rival corporations and placed friendly industrial giants into positions of power. The new cult of personality was one that celebrated the dictatorship of the free market, one that Ford's weapons of propaganda named the Second Gilded Age.

Henry Ford II would, however, reign even shorter than his predecessor and would be forced out of the presidency by the United Patriotic Party elite after the American economy went into a tailspin in the September of 1976 due to the economic policies promoted during the Second Gilded Age. All the while, the Second Vietnam War (the first being the nation's war for independence against Japanese occupiers near the end of TRR's World War Two that resulted in the nation being split between a mutualist north and capitalist south), which had begun after a South Vietnamese blockade of North Vietnam turned violent in 1972, had just come to an end in the March of 1976 after the capitulation of South Vietnam, and as a consequence the viciously aggressive General William Westmoreland returned from Southeast Asia as a national hero within the United States. Therefore, with strong public support and a history of authority within the American military and political elite (which both strongly overlapped), Westmoreland was an apparent choice for the presidency and would assume control over the United States via the cession of power by the United Patriotic Party elite in just as Henry Ford II was forced to resign in the October of 1976.

As William Westmoreland sought to redesign the entire American political hierarchy around his own cult of personality, a strict and totalitarian military junta, the cracks in the American Bloc were beginning to show. The Mexican Civil War, which had been raging on between an American-backed junta led by Juan Arévalo Gardoqui and a Soviet-backed libertarian socialist provisional government led by the democratically elected victor of the 1970 presidential election Ernesto Guevara, was more or less over by 1976, with Gardogui's junta being little more than guerrillas hiding out along the Mexican-American border while Guevara had already brought about the creation of the Union of Socialist Mexican States. Despite preserving the independence of Rio Grande as an American puppet regime and annexing Baja California into the United States as a territory, the United States would soon give up on the Mexican Civil War and completely ended American military involvement in northern Mexico by the January of 1977. The defeat of the Gardogui junta in Mexico was an awkward way to start the Westmoreland administration and the the American economy would never really recover from the Recession of 1976, a downfall that would hurt all Western markets and weaken the North Atlantic Security Pact (NASP).

Outside of the United States, the 1970s were overall a great decade for the East and a bad decade for the West. The socialist libertarian and socially progressive policies of Catherine Bryant Reed would flourish in the Soviet Union and lead to massive boosts in the Soviet standard of living, and generally stable economic production led to a steady economy in the East to contrast the downfall of Western markets. China and the Asian Economic Community (AEC) especially prospered, especially as reforms were implemented that continued to strengthen economic bonds in East Asia. Industrialization efforts in the Confucian Federation of China (CFC) would help not only improve infrastructure in eastern cities but also built up communities and industry in the inland western provinces. Similar industrialization policies were implemented in the Democratic Federation of Sahelia, which was still suffering from the aftermath of colonialism in many ways but nonetheless emerged as the second strongest economic power in Africa by the end of the 1970s, just barely outpaced by the Union of Arab Socialist Republics.

Meanwhile, in the West instability wreaked the NASP as the seeds of the movements that would one day bring down the American sphere of influence were planted. Most notably, however, the United Kingdom would meet its end when a collection of instability within its own small sphere of influence, which brought down Rhodesia and the Kingdom of Norway, culminated in the independence of the communist People's Republic of Ireland via a war of independence that lasted from 1977 to 1979. Following such a disastrous decade marked with foreign and internal instability, the British government (by then a de facto absolute monarchy ruled by the young King Edward IX) was doomed to fall, and the sun would finally set on the British Empire in the September of 1979 when General James Callaghan overthrew the king, installing his younger and more populist brother Victor on the throne. As Callaghan, a socialist sympathizer, assumed power in London the old British government was scrapped into a federation in which all industry was nationalized and the monarchy was replaced by the "protector," an executive that would reign for life over a democratically elected parliament. This new nation would be named the Federation of Nations due to the establishment of internal republics where colonies had once existed, but it was nonetheless apparent that political power would continue to revolve around Great Britain. Furthermore, the Federation of Nations' government was highly centralized around Protector Victor Windsor, so much so that libertarian socialist movements condemned the self-declared socialist republic as a state capitalist regime in socialist clothing.

As the 1970s came to an end and the 1980s began, William Westmoreland had consolidated power within the United States but the fall of the American sphere of influence could not be stopped. African puppet regimes were being liberated from the grip of capitalism in revolution after revolution, the American economy simply could not completely recover from the fall of industrial production after the Recession of 1976, the West was well behind the East in terms of innovation, and retaliation against Segregation in the Deep South was erupting at an unprecedented rate. This decline in American power would culminate in the June of 1986 when a pro-liberalization students' group at Georgetown University organized a protest on the National Mall. Thousands of young Americans from across thew United States would arrive at this protest, however, William Westmoreland ordered the suppression of the protest, which resulted in military force being unleashed upon Washington DC in what became known as National Mall Massacre. As innocent Americans were killed by the might of the United States Army, Westmoreland thought that he had seen the end of mass resistance to his regime, but the opposite would instead occur. Horror erupted as rumors of the National Mall Massacre spread across the United States, and riots, many of which
were pro-socialist, sprouted up across the global capitalist titan.

In Chicago, the industrial center of the Midwest, rebellions would declare the Chicago Cooperative after a handful of days of rebellion, which adhered to the teachings of the exiled American socialist actor and activist Ronald Reagan. An advocate for cooperatives seizing the means of production and therefore a proponent of market socialism that tolerated exchange value, Reagan had been forced to flee the United States in the 1950s after protesting the Patton administration and had since been living in exile in China, but upon hearing of the declaration of the Chicago Cooperative, Ronald Reagan would organize his return to the United States, where he would subsequently be declared the leader of the Chicago Cooperative. By organizing mass rebellion across the Midwest, Reagan's market socialist faction would forge an organized front against the United States, and the Second Constitutional Convention (held in Springfield) would declare the Cooperative Republic of America (CRA) in the March of 1987, with Ronald Reagan becoming its governor. The Second American Revolution had begun, and as William Westmoreland failed to contain the Second Continental Army's push east, the United Patriotic Party removed Westmoreland in favor of Secretary of State Richard Bruce Cheney.

But the CRA was not the only rebellion Cheney had to worry about, for Noam Chomsky led a syndicalist revolution from New York Cit that would unite with revolutionary unionists in Canada and Quebec to form the Industrial Confederation of North America (ICNA) in the December of 1987. An assortment of rebels and warlords took over the chaotic south, with African American revolutionaries finally seizing their opportunity in the Black Belt, disgruntled coal miners in the Appalachian Mountains forming their own syndicalist factions, communists taking over South Carolina, a British-backed regime being installed in Florida, and nervous American governors turning to the resurrection of the Confederate States of America along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and the governor of Georgia turning to forming a fascist warlord regime. Meanwhile, capitalist secessionists in the West gave rise to the independence of California and Texas, which would help form an assortment of liberal republics surrounding them while Utah turned to Mormon theocracy and waged a holy war within the middle of the United States.

With the head cut off the snake that was the American sphere of influence, the Western Bloc would fall with the United States. First, the West German puppet regimes would be overthrown throughout 1987 and would unite with the Democratic Republic of Germany (which had annexed the socialist Bavaria via referendum a few months prior) in early 1988. The Iron Curtain would soon leave Italy and a civil war would establish a communist government in France upon victory at the Battle of Bordeaux in the September of 1989. Even Canada, the United States' backyard puppet regime, would fall to revolution and was partitioned between the ICNA in the east, a CRA-backed government called the Canadian Cooperative Federation in the prairie provinces, and the a Californian-backed liberal republic in the west called the Republic of Columbia. Washington DC would fall to the Second Continental Army in the February of 1991, and Orrin Hatch would consequently become the last president of the United States in Helena. After three more years of war, the CRA and the liberal secessionists would surround what remained of the United States and Hatch would surrender to the CRA in the July of 1994, which ended the Second American Revolution, the United States of America, and the Great Struggle.

In the two decades since the Treaty of Pierre was signed and the Second American Revolution came to an end, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has remained the global superpower in an age that many have nicknamed Pax Sovietica. Almost all of continental Europe has joined the EDA, the Soviet economy dominated the planet, and Soviet allies exist in every corner of the Earth of TRR. Nonetheless, the end of history that Karl Marx had foreshadowed has yet to arrive as many initially anticipated. From 1995 to 2003, the Union of Arab Socialist Republics would be at war against the theocratic absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia, which sought to usurp socialist dominance over the Middle East, but was ultimately defeated. The Cooperative Republic of America and Federation of Nations would also not join the Soviet sphere of influence, and instead opted to form their own spheres of influence as the two remnants of the Western Bloc put aside old rivalries from the Great Struggle to become allies in a new world. The CRA would become especially hostile towards the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when Joseph Dunford was elected governor in 2006. A veteran of the Mexican Civil War and the Second American Revolution (during the latter, Dunford fought on behalf of the CRA), Dunford was a prominent figure within past American administrations and had been the leader in proxies throughout the former United States. By the 2006 election, Dunford had become the leader of the American Populist Party, a nationalist organization that advocated for a rekindling of American culture, political centralization, and most notably the revival of American power on the world stage. Since assuming the governorship in 2007, Joseph Dunford has strengthened American military power and asserted the authority of the CRA both locally and abroad (Dunford founded the London Pact alongside the Federation of Nations and Argentine Socialist Republic in 2012), but this has come at the expense of the fledgling American democracy, with Dunford intimidating political rivals and rigging elections in favor of the American Populist Party.

Alongside the rise of the CRA and the London Pact, the syndicalist Fourth International has arisen as an alliance of libertarian socialist republics organized along industrial rather than geographic lines that dominates much of the New World. Noam Chomsky's ICNA remains a powerful force within the Fourth International, however, the recently formed Bolivarian Syndicalist Republic (BSR), a Pan-Latin American federation formed between Venezuela and numerous previously American puppet states in 2014, has since overtaken the ICNA in economic power and is speculated as a potential world power within the 21st Century. The eco-syndicalist policies of the BSR have already turned the young republic into a leader on the world stage in regards to combatting climate change. Alongside Bolivaria, China and India are also rising powers, with the ever-growing Asian Economic Community turning the two into titans no longer reliant on their Soviet ally. Perhaps one day, the Eastern Bloc will be the realm of the Confucian Federation of China rather than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Much like in OTL, the Earth of TRR has its own rogue states, all of which are reactionary successors to either American puppet regimes or the United States itself. The State of Detroit is an isolated totalitarian plutocracy led by Henry Ford III that has built its own small nuclear arsenal to defend against its two socialist neighbors, the Confederate States of America is an unstable league between what remains of the American states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and the Patriotic American State of Georgia is a fascist regime that will likely collapse due to a civil war that began in 2016. But the most alien rogue state of TRR is arguably the Holy Japanese Empire, a Christian theocracy formed from the former government of the American puppet state deemed the Kingdom of Japan. After World War Two, the United States was much more harsh towards Japanese culture than within the Japan of OTL, and so the Americans forced the Japanese people to convert to Christianity. After the fall of the United States, the Japanese monarchy assumed absolute authority as American military forces left and the Holy Japanese Empire, a totalitarian theocratic absolute monarchy, was declared. South Japan has become a nation completely cut off from the surrounding planet and continuously builds up a military force along its northern border while working on a very secretive fledgling nuclear weapons program.

Therefore, the Soviet Union may be the dominant world superpower of the world of TRR, however, world peace is still far away. Proxies rage on in Georgia and Zambia against the London Pact, rogue state aggression is difficult to contain, the authoritarian socialist Congolese Popular State is in the midst of a bloody civil war, and even the Soviet sphere of influence has suffered from a recent global economic recession in 2014 that sent parts of Europe into a such a downturn that Bulgaria voted to join Yugoslavia due to a shattered economy. Nonetheless, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics continues to lead the world into an uncertain century, with openly syndicalist Premier Baran Sanders of the Workers' Democratic Party at the helm of the world's superpower since the 2014 Soviet general election. Overall, the Earth of TRR is roughly on the same level as OTL was in 2019 AD technologically, with computers (called EVMs on the Earth of TRR) being more or less identical to OTL. The only notable exceptions to this is renewable energy, which is slightly ahead of OTL's 2019 AD due to more global efforts to combat climate change, and space technology, which more advanced due to a prolonged space arms race around the end of the Great Struggle. Ultimately, TL-TRR-922 is a fascinating inversion of the history of TL-OTL-005 and is facing an increasingly uncertain future.


Timeline-TRR-922 security briefing

  • Dominant power-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Dominant ideology-Council communism
  • Technological level (Kardashev Scale)-Type 0.5
  • Threat level-3 (Low threat)
  • Access to inter-dimensional travel-Nonexistent

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Skallagrim

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Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.

Not so much a question as three remarks (which feel like nit-picking, but are intended to be helpful):

-- You have accidentally misspelled "Brazilian Workers' Front" as "Brazilian Wokrer's Front" (note both the reversed letters and the misplaced apostrophe).

-- I think "Second California Republic" should be Californian instead.

-- "Transorangia" should definitely be "Transorania" without a "g".
 
First time doing a map in this style, but I'm really happy with how it came out. Here's the 2000 election for the German Confederation's lower house (The Assembly of Delegates).

The point of divergence is the 1863 Frankfurt Reform Act manages to pass (OTL it failed by a single vote), which enacted sweeping institutional revisions to the German Confederation. These reforms include an actually functional bicameral legislature. The lower house - the Assembly of Delegates - is proportional to that of their state governments. In the Upper House (the Bundesrat) every state gets one vote, except Austria, who gets 3.

Prussia, which threatened to leave the Confederation if this reform passed OTL, leaves the confederation two weeks after the reform bill is passed. The Austro-Prussian war happens 3 years early, however this time Austria comes out on top. Austria annexes Silesia, Westphalia is split off from Prussia to form a new state in the confederation, and Saxony takes back some of the territory it lost after the Napoleonic Wars. The confederation refuses to re-admit Prussia after the war. Hungary remains part of the Austrian Empire, however it is excluded from all legislation passed within the confederation. Hungary eventually splits off in the 20th century (I don't really know when, why, or how yet). Prussia never re-joins the confederation, and over the next century it goes on to form a unique national identity distinct from that of the rest of Germany.

At the turn of the millennium, the Social Democratic Party is on the back foot after dominating the Assembly of Delegates from the mid 70's through the mid 90's. The protestant, right wing National Conservative party has made sweeping gains in the past decade in the east. The Center party now seeks to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic party to gain a slim majority in the Assembly.

I plan on making more maps for this timeline sometime in the future, and I really want to flesh out this universe more.

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Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.
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Well for starters, what's the PoD? Is there one or many?
 
Alright, many of you probably don't remember this map I made like 7 months ago. Happens I used it as a base for a map-game and it ended up in a nasty WW1 which resulted in an even nastier post-war world, leading to a falling spiral of madness and darkness. Oh well, I thought I could just make another game out of it, this time set in 1972 but in the same universe. Feel free to ask any questions, in fact, I'd appreciate if you did so to force me to fill the lore gaps remaining.
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Not quite sure if those borders of Texas are viable in an ATL that has most definitely butterflied the Adams-Onís Treaty.
 
The confederation refuses to re-admit Prussia after the war.

I imagine an important part of that would be the Confederation within those borders being rather solidly Catholic-dominated, and the Catholic states would want to keep it that way (plus Austria won't want the competition for leadership) Quite probably secular nationalism will eventually become more influential, but by then Prussia may have developed that separate identity you mention.

(One thing I'd change is having Prussia hold onto Silesia: losing the geographically separate, mostly Catholic and mostly only held since the Napoleonic wars Rhineland is one thing, but losing strategically and industrially highly important Silesia, so close to Berlin, the west of which is solidly Protestant, indicates a truly smashing Austrian victory [1]: having Prussia hold on to it makes Prussia more plausible as a Power of some importance on its own, less digestible by a future German Confederation. (Also, "truly smashing Austrian victories" weren't too common in its last two centuries. :evilsmile: )

[1] And what happens to Prussia's Polish-speaking Posen area, much of which no longer has a border with Prussia?
 
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