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So, this is a map of a Modern-Day world. Well, mostly modern day. Something just feels a little different, right? Also, the date of the map is suggested to be 10/4/21. Why? It makes sense.
So, the darker colors for a nation are to represent territories that are not exactly a core part of the nation.
The Point of Divergence (PoD) is during the Russian Revolutionary War, lasting until 1930. The Soviets still win, but is weaker compared to Our Timeline (OTL). Other lore can be found in the spoilers below.
No Territorial Disputes, Civil Wars, etc. are shown.
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After the Amero-Japanese War of 1941, a war which only lasted 2 years, and ended with America making some concessions to Japan (with Japan making some as well, refer to "Asia" spoiler), which made America insist on never integrating Alaska as a state of America. The Treaty also made America give some of the Southern Alaskan panhandle to Canada.

In 1943, Canada annexed Southern Alaska, naming the territory "Alaska Territory" (Someone tell me a better name for this please).
After plenty of Quebecois revolts, Canada grants Quebec limited autonomy, renaming the territories: Autonomous Zone of Quebec, Quebecois Zone of Newfoundland, Quebecois Zone of Labrador, Territory of King Louis Island (KLI), Quebecois Autonomous Zone of Nova Scotia, and Quebecois Autonomous Zone of New Brunswick
After decolonization, Canada was granted St. Pierre and Miquelon as well as Bermuda.

After decolonization, Belize was under threat by Guatemala. Eventually, the USA stepped in and annexed Belize. After the Amero-Guatemalan War of 1983, Guatemala was forced to never make a move to annex Belize again. Belize remains a US Territory.
Panama fell into economic despair (being literally chopped in half will do that to you). Eventually, during the War of 1983, America needed more space to stuff soldiers, and the government of Panama offered to just join America. Since then, Panama was a part of the US, becoming a state in 2013.
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After Decolonization, Britain gave their Caribbean territories to Canada, with them all being organized into the Territory of Canadian Caribbea (spelled exactly as it was intended).

After Cuba became a communist nation, the US immediately launched an invasion of the island. The Cuba War had lasted only 3 months, with Cuba being unprepared for war, and being totally alone. Well, not totally alone, but not enough help for it to be valuable. Cuba has been a territory of the United States ever since.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic made an alliance, the Hispaniola Alliance, and came to Cuba's aid in the Cuba War. After the war with Cuba was over, Hispaniola still kept fighting. The Hispaniola War had lasted 2 years, with it only ending after the detonation of the Nuclear Warheads in Port-au-Prince and Santo Domingo. The island was a territory of the US ever since.
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In 1928, with all of the world powers busy trying to defend the White Army, Brazil took the opportunity to invade and Annex Uruguay.

During decolonization, when Britain was on the verge of losing all of their colonies, Argentina came knocking, asking for "Islas Maldivas". Tensions began to escalate, and to avoid war, both sides agreed to split the archipelago.
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The Kingdom of Morocco, after becoming independent of France, was to cautious to expand too quickly. The expanded a little bit, but were hesitant to claim more of the Spanish Sahara. The Spanish Sahara then had a referendum. Stay with Spain: 23.1% Independence: 32.4% Join Mauritania: 44.5%
They joined Mauritania.

During decolonization, the Gambia was handed over to Senegal. So was Guinea-Bissau.

In 1936, Ethiopia beat back the Italians, keeping their lands safe. Also, after a border dispute, Britain agreed to grant Somaliland to Ethiopia.

In 1937, a naval skirmish in the Arabian Sea led to Italy gaining control of Socotra. Socotra then became a part of Somalia during decolonization.
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(yes, I am considering the Caucasus and Asia Minor as Europe for the sake of this explanation).
In 1937, the Spanish "Civil War" lasted only 3 weeks, with a massive influx of German, Italian, French and Portuguese volunteers fighting for the Nationalist side, and none for the Republicans. After the war, Spain pressured Britain to give up Gibraltar. In return, Spain would allow British passage through the straight.

Belgium, being too critical to both the Netherlands and France, both nations then signed a treaty with Britain, making their "guarantee" on Belgium void. The Netherlands annexed Flanders, France annexed Wallonia, and Germany annexed Ostbelgien in the year 1938. The City of Brussels remains independent as the City State of Belgium, renaming the city itself to Belgium. The nation is similar to Andorra in how it is lead. There are 5 leaders. The prime minister of France, the president of the Netherlands, the Chancellor of Germany, the king/queen of the United Kingdom, and an elected citizen of Belgium. A large crime empire is based here, due to there being laws dictating that Belgium allow free transportation, with no border checks, into the Netherlands, France, Germany and Britain.
Germany annexed Luxembourg in the Franco-German war to try and break French defenses. After the war, Luxembourg remained German.

Czechoslovakia is still standing today.

During the Italo-Yugoslav War, Italy led a large army into Ljubljana, and began heading down to Sarajevo and Belgrade. Desperate for an end to the war, Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Zurich, stating that Yugoslavia would grant Italy some borderlands in a straight line in Slovenia, and Italy shall not invade any more into the Balkans. As the Italian invasion was really just a bluff, and the army was weakened by the Ethiopians still, the Italians signed the treaty, with hesitance of course.

Seeing a weakened larger power with lands that you want means that you take advantage of the opportunity. Albania did this, and invaded Yugoslavia. The Albanian military was strong, and forced Yugoslavia to give up Kosovo and Montenegro. Albania still has those lands today.

Seeing Albania further weaken the Yugoslav army was something in and of itself. It was spectacular. Well, if you were a Bulgarian, or a Greek. Bulgaria and Greece both wished for Macedonia, and eventually it hurt their relations. In an attempt to patch things up, Greece offers Thrace, as long as Bulgaria helps Greece claim Macedonia in it's entirety. Bulgaria agreed, and both nations invaded Yugoslavia. Bulgaria took a few borderlands, but not much. Just a kilometer or two. Greece took the entirety of Macedonia. The kilometer Bulgaria snatched has been returned to Serbia.

After seeing Bulgaria go head to head with Yugoslavia and "still require Greek assistance" gave Turkey something. An ambition. Turkey performed a false-flag operation, and started a war with Bulgaria. Turkey was easily defeated though, as after the 3rd Balkan Wars, the Balkan Peninsula made an alliance. Instead of just Bulgaria, it was also Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania and Romania. Italy also joined in as well. After the war, the rest of the Balkans decided to grant Bulgaria the entirety of Turkish land in the peninsula, mostly so they do not have a repeat of the Second Balkan War. Again. After the 4th Balkan Wars disintegrated Yugoslavia, the rest of the Balkan Pact tried to get all new nations in the Balkans to sign the pact. The only Yugoslav nation that has not signed the Balkan Pact is Slovenia.

After the Breakup of the USSR in 1995, Abkhazia and South Ossetia became independent. They are now major Georgian allies. Armenia was granted Nakhchivan, and Azerbaijan was defeated by the Caucasus Entente, and alliance between Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Armenia. Azerbaijan is now a member of the Caucasus Entente.

After the Fracno-German War of 1940, Germany decided to stay still. Their war with Poland weakened them, plus a war with France? Devastating on the military. Eventually, Poland rose up and even took some lands from Germany, but at least Germany still has Ostpreussen.

The Breakup of the USSR let Russia keep Belarus.

The Baltic nations united, centralizing in Riga. Finland, after winning the Winter War with the Soviet Union, decided that they should be given Estonia, as Estonia was Finnic, like Finland. Of course, Balticia was not having it. Eventually, Ireland decided to mediate the situation. Ireland came up with a solution: Create a jointly-ruled nation, similar to how Andorra has always been, and how Belgium has been since 1938. In 1946, the creation of Finno-Baltic Estonia was accomplished. The King of Finland is one leader, the President of Balticia is the other.

Ukraine has declared independence from Russia in 1994, and tried to claim Ukrainian lands in Southern Bessarabia. Romania refused, and Ukraine still claims the land. The tensions between Ukraine and the Balkan Pact are high, and chances of war are high. In fact, it is thought that early next year, war will break out.
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During the Russian Revolution, China managed to keep hold of Tuva, after making a treaty with Mongolia to guarantee Chinese stuff to get there. Mongolia eventually constructed the Huang-Tuva Highway, with high funding from China.

The Kuomintang won the Chinese Civil War, with the Communist Party going into Tibetan Exile, being unofficially called the People's Monastic Commune of Tibet. Well, maybe not unofficially for long.

With no communist support, UN forces defeated North Korea.

After the Amero-Japanese War of 1941, Japan had to make some concessions. Japan was forced to give up Taiwan to the Philippines, who named the island "(La) Isla (de) Formosa".

Due to little Japanese invasion of India, Burma remains with India.

India signs a treaty with Pakistan: India will allow Pakistan to annex half of Kashmir and use the Pakistani Exclusive Highway to traverse from Pakistan's mainland to Bengal.

Japan was a victim of Decolonization, and quite early too. They at least kept that little island to the south (forgot the name, oof), and got the entirety of Sakhalin. Also, there was a coup that brought down the militaristic power structure and turned Japan from a land of samurai into a land of weebs.
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Literally nothing happened here.

Any thoughts or comments? Do not hesitate to share them.
Why am I doing this to myself? I had a lot of fun doing this.
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Sequel to a previous post in this thread. (I have quoted the previous post, putting it all in a spoiler so it does not take up too much space on this page.)

After a few months, chaos ensued. Many wars began, first one being the Sudanese charge across the Egyptian border. Egypt had managed to fight through a portion of the lines, but they don't make it far. The war is currently going in the favour of Sudan.

This sounds a lot like Egypt is totally innocent, despite the fact that the Egyptians had been constantly sending forces across the border in the Hala'ib Border.

Seeing the Sudanese-Egyptian conflicts escalate this quickly, the DROC, Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda all united into the Union of the Congo, with their capital (marked in white) being Leopobrazza. Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Malawi also decided to unite with each other, forming the East African Federation, with their capital being literally called "The Jewel of East Africa", being set on the old Kenyan-Tanzanian border, about the central point of the nation. After seeing this federation form, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi wished to join that one instead of the Congolese one they were in, but the officials in Leopobrazza said no. Eventually, in order to liberate their friends from congolese aggression, the East African Federation sent their boats across the rivers and lakes on their border, their soldiers across the lines, and invaded the Congolese Union.

Yeah right, Liberate. The EAF has just been spreading that false news since the war started, and with the Congolese communications being jammed, they have no one important to say it is false news!

Many regions of Canada decided to become full provinces, even the Autonomous Quebecois ones. They became provinces, as well as many islands, but Quebec had lost control. Eventually, a group, calling themselves the Libérateurs de Québec, rebelled against the Canadian government. The province of Quebec decided as a whole to remain Canadian, and thus the Guerre civile du Québec began.

Despite the fact that Canada has never even reintegrated Quebec. They always overlook the big things in these news articles.

Honduras and El Salvador fight over football. Again.

Come on, news articles! There is way more to it than that! The Hondurans have been terrorizing the Salvadoran residents in their nation.

Argentine forces launched a false-flag operation into Brazil, trying to frame the nation of Paraguay for attacking Brazil. This failed, as the personnel used Argentine-only supplies, and Brazil caught this. As such, Brazil was "forced" to invade Argentina.

Sounds like a successful FFO to me.

Thailand had enough of Cambodia being evil, eventually launching an invasion to make Cambodia a better place.

Or it could just be a rivalry between leaders.

Pakistan would constantly attack any Indian citizen when they would travel across the Indian mainland towards Bengal. India, obviously, could not stand for that.

Everyone knows that this is just an excuse to get back all the lands of the Raj.

After Communist attacks on Chinese border patrols, the Republic of China launched an invasion of Tibet. This shall make the last bastion of communism fall.

Or it could just be an excuse to both remove a rival and take historically controlled lands.

Irish military units are assaulting Belfast, killing many British citizens. The British army is ammassing to retake Ireland, and avenge our fallen allies.

Even though the Irish are just taking Ireland, and the only people they killed were the British soldiers that opened fire on them as they tried to take the city.

The Italians have been getting chummy with the Balkan pact. In order to reclaim their lands lost after the Great War, the Austrian armies have crossed the border, and took residence in our ancestral homes.

This is the most straightforward news article I have seen, but they still overlooked the fact that people already died defending their lands from Austria.

Polish forces have crossed the border into East Prussia. This is because of an attack on Polish forces by the Militaristic Germans.

Germany has not been under Nazi control ever since the Franco-German War ended.

The Finnish and Balkanians have stolen Russian lands, and Russian forces have moved to secure them. These people are under foreign control, despite being Russian people.

Yeah yeah, we all know you just want the land, Russia.

After the Romanians refused to give up what was rightfully Ukrainian, Ukraine had no way to solve this peacefully. The Ukrainian forces have moved across the accursed Romanian border separating brother from brother, son from father. Ukraine will take down the entire Balkan Pact, if it is required.

Ukraine is trying to be a superpower? That should go well. Not. Ukraine is just making excuses to have people fight for them, despite Ukraine being on the offensive.

The Turkish forces are on the run. The Caucasian Entente shall bring down the oppressive Turks, liberating the entire Caucasus region's people, and even more people the Turkish enslave, such as the Kurds and the Islamists.

And the Caucasian Entente will not stop there! Oh boy, this can only get worse. Before long, it is going to be the Caucasus versus the world.




How did you guys like this? Did I do a good job of making the explanation in-universe? Also, is the map good? Please, do not hesitate to let me know.
TELL ME OR ELSE YOU SHALL FACE THE WRATH OF THE SITH EMPEROR​
 
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The world in OTL as of 1 January 1989, for a map game. Still WIP, I guess — just waiting for any feedback on ongoing wars during this time period
 
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Here is a sneak little preview of the terrain map for a new TL I am making.
Very Light Blue: Ocean
Light Blue: Coastal Regions and Beaches
Brown: Savannah
Yellow: Desert
Light Green: Plains
Purple: Jungle
Dark Green: Swamps and Marshlands.
White: Snow-capped Mountains

Any thoughts or comments?
 
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FireCrispyHistory said:
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Sequel to a previous post in this thread. (I have quoted the previous post, putting it all in a spoiler so it does not take up too much space on this page.)

After a few months, chaos ensued. Many wars began, first one being the Sudanese charge across the Egyptian border. Egypt had managed to fight through a portion of the lines, but they don't make it far. The war is currently going in the favour of Sudan.

This sounds a lot like Egypt is totally innocent, despite the fact that the Egyptians had been constantly sending forces across the border in the Hala'ib Border.

Seeing the Sudanese-Egyptian conflicts escalate this quickly, the DROC, Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda all united into the Union of the Congo, with their capital (marked in white) being Leopobrazza. Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Malawi also decided to unite with each other, forming the East African Federation, with their capital being literally called "The Jewel of East Africa", being set on the old Kenyan-Tanzanian border, about the central point of the nation. After seeing this federation form, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi wished to join that one instead of the Congolese one they were in, but the officials in Leopobrazza said no. Eventually, in order to liberate their friends from congolese aggression, the East African Federation sent their boats across the rivers and lakes on their border, their soldiers across the lines, and invaded the Congolese Union.

Yeah right, Liberate. The EAF has just been spreading that false news since the war started, and with the Congolese communications being jammed, they have no one important to say it is false news!

Many regions of Canada decided to become full provinces, even the Autonomous Quebecois ones. They became provinces, as well as many islands, but Quebec had lost control. Eventually, a group, calling themselves the Libérateurs de Québec, rebelled against the Canadian government. The province of Quebec decided as a whole to remain Canadian, and thus the Guerre civile du Québec began.

Despite the fact that Canada has never even reintegrated Quebec. They always overlook the big things in these news articles.

Honduras and El Salvador fight over football. Again.

Come on, news articles! There is way more to it than that! The Hondurans have been terrorizing the Salvadoran residents in their nation.

Argentine forces launched a false-flag operation into Brazil, trying to frame the nation of Paraguay for attacking Brazil. This failed, as the personnel used Argentine-only supplies, and Brazil caught this. As such, Brazil was "forced" to invade Argentina.

Sounds like a successful FFO to me.

Thailand had enough of Cambodia being evil, eventually launching an invasion to make Cambodia a better place.

Or it could just be a rivalry between leaders.

Pakistan would constantly attack any Indian citizen when they would travel across the Indian mainland towards Bengal. India, obviously, could not stand for that.

Everyone knows that this is just an excuse to get back all the lands of the Raj.

After Communist attacks on Chinese border patrols, the Republic of China launched an invasion of Tibet. This shall make the last bastion of communism fall.

Or it could just be an excuse to both remove a rival and take historically controlled lands.

Irish military units are assaulting Belfast, killing many British citizens. The British army is ammassing to retake Ireland, and avenge our fallen allies.

Even though the Irish are just taking Ireland, and the only people they killed were the British soldiers that opened fire on them as they tried to take the city.

The Italians have been getting chummy with the Balkan pact. In order to reclaim their lands lost after the Great War, the Austrian armies have crossed the border, and took residence in our ancestral homes.

This is the most straightforward news article I have seen, but they still overlooked the fact that people already died defending their lands from Austria.

Polish forces have crossed the border into East Prussia. This is because of an attack on Polish forces by the Militaristic Germans.

Germany has not been under Nazi control ever since the Franco-German War ended.

The Finnish and Balkanians have stolen Russian lands, and Russian forces have moved to secure them. These people are under foreign control, despite being Russian people.

Yeah yeah, we all know you just want the land, Russia.

After the Romanians refused to give up what was rightfully Ukrainian, Ukraine had no way to solve this peacefully. The Ukrainian forces have moved across the accursed Romanian border separating brother from brother, son from father. Ukraine will take down the entire Balkan Pact, if it is required.

Ukraine is trying to be a superpower? That should go well. Not. Ukraine is just making excuses to have people fight for them, despite Ukraine being on the offensive.

The Turkish forces are on the run. The Caucasian Entente shall bring down the oppressive Turks, liberating the entire Caucasus region's people, and even more people the Turkish enslave, such as the Kurds and the Islamists.

And the Caucasian Entente will not stop there! Oh boy, this can only get worse. Before long, it is going to be the Caucasus versus the world.




How did you guys like this? Did I do a good job of making the explanation in-universe? Also, is the map good? Please, do not hesitate to let me know.
TELL ME OR ELSE YOU SHALL FACE THE WRATH OF THE SITH EMPEROR​
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Oh, also, Turkey and Greece split Cyprus, and are arguing over the land, and who it belongs to.
Also, Palestine was split between Egypt and Jordan. Israel is still fine, despite having lost parts of Jerusalem
 
FireCrispyHistory

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FireCrispyHistory said:
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Here is a sneak little preview of the terrain map for a new TL I am making.
Very Light Blue: Ocean
Light Blue: Coastal Regions and Beaches
Brown: Savannah
Yellow: Desert
Light Green: Plains
Purple: Jungle
Dark Green: Swamps and Marshlands.
White: Snow-capped Mountains

Any thoughts or comments?
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Here is the Nation Map. Follow my AH.com profile for a new thread if you wish to see the names of these nations. They all will have importance.
 
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