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So how does the Empire run under Joseph? Can a more stable Napoleonic Europe be forged, without Napoleon himself in the driver seat?

That seems more like a failure of imagination. Or perhaps, the impossibility of imagination. Imagine you live in a CP victory universe. And you are know discussing the possibility of an Entente victory scenario. You are aware of all the monstrous ideologies that came to power in your world...

That's because those were the areas of historic Poland which Prussia had conquered. As conquerors, the Prussians would want to keep the Poles down. Poles who migrate to the Ruhr and Rheinland are like the Irish who migrated to Britain - they were economic migrants drawn from a poor oppressed...

Or the German plans for the Polish Border Strip. Because what a way to start off a new bright era with the expulsion of 3 million Jews and Poles from their homes.

The general idea that a central powers victory creates a happier world overall. That people's beloved German Empire will lead Europe into an early European union and broad sunlit uplands. This seems predicated on the idea that Versailles made the Nazis and WW2 inevitable, which is a rather...

I think you've got it reversed - Thande's is a reversal of the Canadian national anthem. The "true North, strong and free" is one the verses.

Shouldn't all of the Americas belong to Italy? Amerigo Vespucci was Italian. EDIT: also, Brunswick is in Germany, not the UK. SECOND EDIT: Shouldnt BC be a British Italian condominium?

So... Anglicanism and the dissenting religions weren't protestant? Also consider me minorly skeptical on Weber's hypothesis since many people use it to go the whole "protestantism better than catholicism".

Why would England be richer if it was Lutheran?

Now the question of butterflies would pertain to James V of Scotland. He died in 1542 after the Battle of Solvay Moss. The story goes that the shock of it killed him. It seems that Henry VIII and James were destined to a fight over politics and religion. So its not out of the realm of...

Henry Brandon was dead by the time Edward VI was born, so he pre-deceased the POD.

We often see in PODs Henry VIII getting his desired son from one of his earlier wives, be she Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn. You also see PODs with Edward surviving his teenage years, or his mother suriving his birth. All our interesting, but how would it play out if Henry's search for a...

If you want a romance speaking England, why not just have the Plantagenets really win out, and early on. No losses during Richard or John, and have them secure their French holdings. Prior to the Hundred Years war, the nobility spoke a variant of French - Norman French, which wasn't quite the...

As I understand it, Warsaw was chosen because of its centrality within Poland-Lithuania. To move a capital further east, you would likely need to have Poland Lithuania be much bigger. As a further limit though, its unlikely that the Poles would want the capital to be within the Grand Duchy, so...

Thanks. Palestine, Egypt snd Cyprus are held by the "Frankish Empire". I've not quite decided what the formal name of the country would be. "Frank" is a translation of the common exonyms for the Empire, since its a translation of various terms for west Europeans (Farangi/Barang/etc) in Asia...

Its been a long time since I've posted a map - potentially years. I have, for a long time, wanted to do a map in the semi-modern style, such as in an atlas, with roads and airports and other geographic notes. So this was me experimenting with that style while playing with borders for a...

Prince George is BC's northern center. It only has one way roads leading into the city. None who enter can escape.

The very fact that you actually included Kamloops (and other parts of BC outside of Vancouver) into your feudal future pacific northwest gets all the likes from me. And you didn't make Kamloops part of the Okanagan gets double points from me. I especially like your corruption of the central...

As far as I understood, the Russians don't really want to cross the Elbe. I was reading Churchill's "Keys to the Enigmatic Empire" and he argues that PanSlav ideology sought first the restoration of all traditional Slavic lands, and the destruction of the 'German menace' as a secondary...

You have a very curious notion of whole and complete... I've never understood the American fascination with preserving the old thirteen colonies, when you let the Pacific go. I mean, America is one of the Great Powers yes, but it's lost so much potential. It's really only an Atlantic power...