The year is 2011 and Elizabeth II, the Queen and Empress of Britain, reigns over half the world.
Imperialism never ended in this TL and Great Powers continued to conquer and pry each other apart in an unending contest that went on through the 20th, and now the 21st centuries. The most powerful nation is Britain, a British Hegemony stretches accross Asia having absorbed warlord-ridden China and the ruined Empire of the Turks. The Indian Ocean is a British lake, ringed by either Britain or Britain's Princely States.
The second greatest power is the United States, having succesfully vassalized or annexed all of Latin America except for Brazil, they have a navy capable of rivaling the RN and the second largest army on the planet. Hispanics are mostly second class citizens but with the first Mexican territories finally being admitted as states as well as the Phillipines there is hope for eventual equality. Desegregation is a major political issue, made even more major by the President's insistence that if blacks want equality they should just move to Haiti or Liberia and stop botherng the Anglo-Saxon race.
Power number three is the Empire of Germany. There's still a Kaiser on the throne who continues to wield limited power in parliment. Germany holds some of the few remaining African colonies that Britain has yet to appropriate, but their real power comes from dominion in Europe. Multiple wars with the British and the Russians have allowed them to carve out a significant base of power with massive industrial strength and a cutting edge technological advantage. The Kingdom of Italy is lesser partner within the German led European Union (it was German pressure that let Italy preserve its last colonies), as is Spain. The United Kingdom of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland (most people just call it Scandinavia) is another German ally, although their military (particularly the airforce, Sweden invented jets ITTL) means they can relate on nearly equal terms.
Next on the list, and the only soverign state in the southern hemisphere, is the Empire of Brazil. British aid in exchange for Mozambique got Pedro III on the throne of Portugal but it is still very much a Brazilian empire ruled from Rio. Portugal is a Kingdom in personal union with Brazil that elects representatives to parliment as is Angola. Currently the most liberal country on earth, socially and politically, it is very determined to keep its soverignty and remain independent of any of the other major powers. Pedro V is a well-beloved titular Monarch who has no problem with the constitutionally mandated authority possesed by the Prime Minister and Parliment. Freedom of Speech is strictly protected, as is Freedom of Assembly and the elections are about as free as they can be in any democracy. Race is a factor, but given how dark skinned the average Brazilian (or Brazilian MP) is its about as much a problem as in the OTL US.
The Russian Empire is technically a Great Power but regular coups and rebellions keep them unstable and they long ago fell behind the rest of the world militarily. One of the only reasons they're still around is because the rest of the world can't yet agree how to divide them up.
The only other country in the world that still has independent soverignty is Switzerland.
Technology is a bit behind OTL but only a bit. Germany only landed a man on the moon in 1982, but ironically already has a scientific base there as do Britain and the United States (since no one wants to fall behind technologically the Space Race has been very serious). Computers aren't as fast as OTL, nor do they posses as much memory but laptops exist and cellphones are a twenty-year old invention. Nuclear weapons have been developed independently in the utmost secrecy by the US, Britain, and Gemany (Brazil has its own thus far unsuccesful program) but they are crude fission bombs designed to be dropped from aircraft and have yet to be used in war.
