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Here's a challenge, how can we achieve a peaceful union between Iraq and Kuwait, with a POD after the former's transition to Ba'athism? Note: peaceful means that no Iraqi may fire in anger at a Kuwaiti, or vice versa, but any level of internal strife in either nation is allowed.

What if the short-lived Rif Republic were to survive to the present day? What would stop France and Spain crushing this republic? Could this republic eventually consolidate control over all Morocco?

What if from the earliest days of civilisation, much more emphasis was made on breeding invertibrates, slugs, beatles lavae, etc? Much of the world does eat food from these sources, but, for better or for worse, it is considered a fringe form of nutrition. What if instead large livestock and...

What if, instead of the Asian and Indian tectonic plates slamming into each other, one of them were to be subducted under the other. For the sake of argument, assume the Asian plate slides under India. How would this change the overall story of human history? The Silk Road has just lost its...

The question is often raised as to where Chiang Kai-sek and his KMT might flee to after the Chinese Civil War if not Taiwan. Here's an idea, what about Vietnam? Following the immediately post-War power vacuum in Vietnam, the ROC was one of the most influential actors in the region, probably...

How's this for an idea, instead of the Roman Empire being divided by strongmen through the East/West, how about a decision that leaves the Senate (or a body emulating it) in charge of one half of the Empire? How plausible is this?

By the 1910s, the Western World was a powder-keg, waiting for a spark to set it off. In OTL, that spark came from the Balkans - but, your challenge, is to have that spark instead come from an incident that directly involves the United States of America.

Inspired by the other *Star Trek threads, WI a Roddenberry-esque figure emerged in India and sought to produce a utopianistic space opera for Indian television (or perhaps through a series of films). AFAIK, SF is not a very well established genre in India, but maybe this POD could change this...

With any POD you like, your challenge is to have a state known as Severoslavia be established in north-east Europe at some point during the late 19th or 20th Centuries. Points will be awarded according to how closely its fate resembles that of OTL Yugoslavia.

Your challenge, if you chose to accept it, is to have a nation established at some point before the modern age with a perfectly circular border. The border cannot be modified in or out at any point that may disturb the roundness. The location of the state, or the time in which it is established...

I was watching Richard Dawkins' new documentary last night, and he raised the point that the irrational stereotyping of people based on Zodiac sign would not be accepted on any other grounds, i.e. ethnicity. Which got me thinking: What POD(s) would be needed for people to take astrology so...

What if the philosophical position of Rationalism was less reasonable? What if rationalism never emerged as a significant school amongst the Ancient Greeks? Or perhaps Descartes is butterflied away, or maybe even never gets into philosophy, or, he does, but proposes a new irrational theory...

What if, instead of investing so much of its resources into trying to keep up with the USA's nuclear arsenal, the USSR instead invests in maximising their ability to survive an attack? To expand, the Soviets could bury their factories a few stories underground, to avoid the immediate impact of...

Just an idea I was having, but what if the Teslas never left for America? Assuming Nikola Tesla still developed his scientific theories, just how meritocratic was the Empire at that period? Could a Serbian scientist end up creating super-weapons for the Austrians? Ultimately, could this be a...

Your challenge, with a 20th Century POD have there be a significant movement for the creation of a Khazar (read: Jewish) state in the Northern Caucasus some time between 1945 and 1950.

Okay, so I just finished watching the Life of Brian, so bare with me. In the film the Peoples' Liberation Front of Judaea plots to kidnap Pontius Pilot's wife and ransom her safe return for the disengagement of the Roman Empire in Judaea. Alas, their plan fails when they discover that the...

Is there any way the League of Nations could have lived up to its huge expectations? Could it have survived the Second World War (or best case scenario, could it reduce or minimise the War)? Bonus points if there is a significant movement towards a United World Government by the present day!

What with all the Israel-related threads floating around, I thought I'd throw this one up. The prevaling argument seems to be that if Party A is responsible for the suffering of Party B, then they should impede the consequences. However, surely if Party C impedes the consequences of Party B's...

This is a bit of an abstract one, I'll admit. But what divergences would be needed to create a world in which nationalism, as a theory, doctrine and ideology never arises. Bonus points if the world is at a similar level of economic development by the modern day.

In OTL and ATL alike it is often taken as a given that Switzerland will remain neutral in any kind of conflict. But what if that was turned on its head? With POD no earlier than the Swiss Federation's establishment, come up with a scenario that would have Switzerland being the most aggressive...