Ok, so here's what I came up with.
This idea has been going around my head for a while, so I decided to finally get it done. It turned out decently, I think, although I'll admit I've rushed a few things, with the holiday season and all. In any case, I think it's acceptable.
(NOTE: The two maps depict a Chinese Empire and a Roman Empire as seen by the Chinese)
So the idea is a Mohist China somehow winning out over the other philosophies during the Warring States Period, leading to an alternate and Mohist restored Shang Dynasty that works in very different principles from anything we are accustomed to. So we have a China that is kicking off the industrial period way earlier, with an emphasis on great project building (so I imagine the great works of defence of China, such as the Great Wall, would seem ridiculously small compared to the masterpieces of this empire. Imagine immense fortresses and walls and all kinds of engineering feats being accomplished for the sake of being accomplished) and on social harmony and equality. So we have a Chinese society that is strictly no-nonsense: very Spartan in its customs, without any wasteful rituals and without displays of wealth, which end up creating a very stratified and truly meritocratic society based on equality of opportunity, empowerment of builders and engineers and a great devotion to social well-being and to the Emperor, as Son of Heaven. So we end up with a very strange theocratic proletarian democracy of sorts, with at least the inhabitants of the Chinese core territories being allowed to elect their own magistrates and self-organising above all things. A type of confederalism on an electoral and technocratic level, so to say. With, of course, the legal framework of everything being the property of the Emperor, as Son of Heaven.
And a politic of expansion, fuelled by strict organisation and laconic living and by a robust industrial powerhouse, as can be seen from the map. But of course, being philosophically utilitarian, the Mohists don't see themselves as occupiers - their adjacent regions are justified by either a sense of protection of the people living there (for the more mild and well-adjusted regions) or a protection of the civilised world from the people living there (for the fiercer regions). In any case, the reality of the situation would be far more gruesome than the name suggests, as the Chinese, witht heir no-nonsense policies, would certainly be swift to crush any sign of dissent and have no mercy in doing it for the common good.
So yeah, below a thin layer of utilitarian beauty, there's a clear monstruosity happening in the Chinese map.
Regarding the Roman map, I tried my best to imagine how an hyper-advanced Chinese civilisation would see the Roman Empire. It was fun working out with the names, some of them are literal translations of the province names, others are more creative... A few also come from Chinese reports of the Roman Empire, but those are hard to find. Which brings me to the point - I am still not learning Chinese (I'll possibly take a course this following year) so I don't really know what kind of mistakes I may have done, but I imagine I used a lot of Simplified Chinese where Traditional was more appropriate, and may even have mixed the two. Well, that's life, the Chinese characters are there more to give the vibe to the map than anything, it was fun building a Chinese perspective on the West for a change.
(BTW: although not shown in the map, in my head-canon the next wave of Shang expansion would be going to Bengal and the Ganges Valley... And this time not to protect, but to settle en masse... with "utilitarian" ethnical cleansing being used generously to get rid of the pesky natives in favour of good Chinese stock)
Well, it was fun making these maps and fleshing out, if just a bit, this scenario. Mohism as a philosophy and as a path of History is something that fascinates me deeply, and so is China and the Roman Empire overall, so it was cool being able to make a map involving all of those things. It was also fun trying out the effects and the fonts to give it a more eastern look (although I hope I didn't overdo it). I hope you like it and, if you spot any problems, warn me, I'll try to fix them. This was a very fun challenge!