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Here's my cover for Reich-5. I didn't do many filling in the blanks here, because Steve Jackson Games did a good job of explaining the world of Reich-5. GURPS Alternate Earths even provides a world map. Almost all of the annotations on the map are from GURPS Infinite Worlds or GURPS Alternate Earths, almost verbatim. I haven't made many changes from the provided map or the descriptions provided by Steve Jackson Games, except that what appeared to be French West Africa in the original map has been divided into various Italian puppets. This is because Vichy France is depicted as a very weak state, one that would not plausibly have control over that much of Africa, and because I wanted to give Italy more puppet states to match its status as a world power.

I think Reich-5 has many unique aspects as an Axis victory world. The Germans are far more powerful than we normally see, having control of India. Argentina is a major world power, just as it was a German puppet in Reich-2; this is why fascist Argentina shows up in my interpretation of other Reichs. The Germans have a Reichsprotektorate system which, as far as I can tell, never existed IOTL. The Japanese have kept China together, but as a part of their "Outer Empire," while Manchukuo was given former Soviet territory. The United States is a fascist ally, not divided between the two Axis powers. Suid-Afrika is much larger than what we could tell from actual Axis war plans. All in all, an interesting addition to the multiverse of Axis victories.

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