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WIP update!!
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The Warhammer map is coming along well. Finished Brettonia, Athel Loren, Estalia, and Albion and started on Tilea and Kislev. Still not sure if I want to leave the dwarfholds as their own states or color them as vassals of Karaz-a-Karak when I get there.
 
The Two Americas

Here is a teaser for the new version of my first TL, Heart of Dixie. It is of a continent deeply divided against itself, as much in 1900 as it was in 1860. Much has changed over the past decades in the latter half of the 19th century that has caused the two nations, once a loose whole, to become as different as any other two countries. In the north is the United States, a mighty beast of industrialization and capitalism that spans the continent as a colossus. It is a land of great inequalities and contrasts, from the farmers and workers rising up from impoverishment in populism and leftism to the rich industrial capitalists, bankers, stockbrokers, and other purveyors of wealth who seek to make America the greatest workshop the world has ever seen. It is a place where one can get lost in the West forever, in plains and mountains larger than all of India, or lose one's self in cities no larger than some farmers' ranches, whose seemingly-endless blocks grow in every direction. It is a land like no other, and the envy of the entire western world.

To the south is the Confederate States, an altogether different animal who lumbers along, sick and weak, into the 20th century. As much as the United States is a land of contrasts, the Confederate States is even moreso. Rich industrialists and slavers (in some states in all but name as even without slavery the rich white men are always favored and provided a way to rule over their black workers) are far separated from the masses of teeming poor white farmers, laborers, and factory workers who stand only a little above the slaves or former slaves who toil endlessly in a system designed specifically to oppress and subjugate them in the most inhumane and evil way that could possibly be conceived by man. Yet it is not an enduring system, and by 1900 that becomes ever more clear, as agitation among the poor black and poor white communities only continues to grow (helped along by a sympathetic United States). The works of Marx, Engels, and Clemens--known for a certain tract known as "Heart of Dixie"--spread like wildfire through the lower classes of the Confederacy, and only time will tell what will be birthed from this seed.

It is a world both similar to and vastly different from our own, of the many millions of peoples who inhabit it and their contributions to the world. It is a world of destinies and fortunes, spread across so vast and great a land as has never been known before. It is the world of Heart of Dixie, and it is a world coming this summer, 2017.

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Interesting alternate borders. However, the border between New Hampshire and Vermont isn't highlighted.

Otherwise, once again, @ToixStory = Awesome. :cool:
 
Another Nightrise Map!
Woo!


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This is an ethnic map of the German Reichsbund in the Year of its creation, 1878, and modern day, 1972.

Due to several factors, the Reichsbund is often equalized with Germany, and thus is often just called "Kaiserreich" (a common name for Germany as well) or just "Reich".

The development of the ethnic composition of these 6 countries is defined and predefined by several factors such as the history before the creation and the political goals of the Reichsbund and the Community it's part of: the Northern World.

1st: History prior to the Reichsbund's creation on the Vienna Congress 1878

The Reichsbund's roots derive from the creation of the Greater German Kaiserreich by the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom.
By that, the German Kaiserreich stretched from Schleswig to Dubrovnik, from Metz to Suwałki.
However, it also controlled parts of Ukraine and other Eastern European Nations, as the Russian civil war continued. The Reichsbund was created after Germany eventually beat them in 1874 to establish several nations under german administration in order to protect these territories from Russia and its inquisition which continued to exist until 1897.
This has set the Germans/The German Kaiserreich as liberators of most ethnic groups and Transhuman species which were equalized under German Control, a privilege that resembled a rhetoric "heaven" to most awakened citizens who were living in persecution the last decade(s).

2nd: German as traffic language
Since German was enacted as both major official language of the Reichsbund and as the Lingua Franca, the spread of both ethnic Germans and the knowledge of German language. The idea of a traffic language was enacted by the Kaiser, who wanted that every ethnic community retains its cultural and political importance while enabling people from various ethnic groups to communicate with each other or to communicate in the german-speaking areas.
This has proven itself as a major opportunity as the spread of the internet and electronic communications which are mostly on german profit from the german-skilled population.

3rd: German Construction aid
The German-speaking Areas have been well-industrialized, something the Kaiser wanted to achieve in the east as well. It was also partly making the east dependent on Vienna, when the Kaiser encouraged many skilled german workers to aid industrial Development in the east and partly in the Northern World as well. This has lead to a large german population in cities such as Lemberg, Budapest, Warsaw or Riga.

4th: standardization of a "Dalmatian" standard language for Serbocroat languages
In order to improve the intelligibility of the various non-Slovene south Slavic dialects, the Reich has enacted a "South Slav Standard lecture" or "Dalmatian Standard" which also sort of acts as a mini-traffic language between the various south Slavic dialects.
Its Concept is based on the German "High German Standard" in order for everyone to write in a standard german lecture.
The Dalmatian Standard is, albeit its name, based on the Agram dialect of Croatian. It's based on Latin script, in order to lessen the use of Cyrillic in the area.

5th: Free Traffic between nations of the Reichsbund

The open border policy, widespread use of the German mark as support currency whom every other Reich currency is bond to, and the exact same legislative status in the member states has made it incredibly easy for people to accept the Reichsbund as an entity. Ethnic groups which would've been separated by the eastern border of Germany can now easily cross the borders or work somewhere entirely else since the location of one does not change or matter in the Reichsbund. This has essentially helped the Reichsbund to maintain its territorial and national integrity.

6th: Trieste/Sevastopol Doctrines and population transfers

In the early 1900s, French, Italian and Russian Irredentism was claiming the french-, Italian- and Russian-speaking areas of the Kaiserreich, which of course responded with a disagreeing attitude. When foreign claims became violent, the Kaiser agreed in the Trieste and Sevastopol doctrines the resettlement of ethnic Italians, French, Danish, Romanian and Russian Irredentists/Nationalists. They are considered the only incidents in which the Kaiserreich got a bit pushing and partly expulsed population groups. Those who remained mostly were assimilated into the new ethnic majority or maintain a small minority community.
The Sevastopol doctrine also was a very fortunate decision for the Ukrainian Question, in which Ukrainians living in Russia wanting to live in a Ukrainian State and Russians living in Ukraine wanting to live in Russia were exchanged, establishing clear Ethnolinguistic borders between Russians and Ukrainians.

7th: The Awakening and the impact on species

Another major role in the damming of nationalism was the development of a "species identity" caused by the hundreds of new species created during the awakening and the years during the demonic revolutionary wars. Since everyone was capable of speaking german as traffic language by the early 1900s, some species began to migrate into communities which thus also changed the ethnic composition of some settlements.
 
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