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This is an concept I've been toying with for my timeline, and I hope my write up won't be too spoilery.

The Democratic Federation of the Co-operative Republics of the Guianas (the Guianas for short) grew out of a massive labor dispute in Demerara City (Formerly Georgetown) that sparked an anti-colonialist revolution in both British and French Guiana. A revolution that joined together Afro-Guianese laborers, Asian-Guianese plantation workers, Natives, and French prisoners in a struggle against the colonizing powers. Allied to the North American powers, the Guianas have been slowly and carefully developing the extraction of the resource rich interior of the Federation and boosting the tourism industry on the coast. Tensions between the various ethnic and linguistic groups remain and the Federation still often struggles to maintain stability, due to a variety of structural issues (having three capitals where different languages are spoken in each city isn't a great idea, it turns out...). In spite of all its issues, the Guianas and the Guianese have a bright future to look forward to.
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