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Very nice... Looks like a historical document our ATL contemporaries might gaze upon at a museum.

I really like the idea, not sure about the plausibility. I could see a different WWII ending leading to the smaller, German-centric IDR and thus the Netherlands thing, but I am not entirely sure what those circumstances might be. You could also probably expand them to Eastern Europe with the...

Not sure about how much it would have helped the Spaniards, but so early into things I can easily see a big American backlash against Roosevelt. First, to most Americans, getting involved in a civil war that has involvement from major European powers is likely as bad as getting involved in a...

I'd love to see a TL for that map... The German bits in South America particularly intrigue me.

Errr... This is OTL maps. ATL maps go into the Map Thread.

Constantinople, I think within a week I'll have an update. Probably be a general one for the world, but I might throw in some other stuff in there. Keenir, thanks for the kind words.

Cultural damage is not as severe as economic damage, because EMP has much less of an effect on buildings/items of historic or cultural importance. But it is certainly bad: While area bombing of major civilian centers is nowhere near as severe as it was during WWII or my other TL's Great War, it...

Yes, the highest casualties, both by proportion and by number, were in the India-Persia theater of operations. And actually, yes, the war is going to radically change the infrastructure in the nations lucky enough to recieve significant foreign aid.

Yeah... WWII was roughly 2.5% of global population by most figures... This war is higher in proportion because it literally touches everything. If one were to look at the combat related deaths, it would be similar in proportion, but the nature of the war means that you cannot ignore the indirect...

Total world casualties from 2062-2072 (The "10 Years Wars" title is the ATL scholarly name for the time period) are roughly 3% of the total world population, at the time this was 9 billion. Counting the indirect casualties from Refugee Flu, food shortages in Europe, radiation-related problems...

Thank you... Your support isn't in vain :D .

Well, the ones with the power are the Catholic aristocracies, the hardcore families... They command most of the military as well, but overall only 20% of the population is really Catholic, despite all the efforts to convert the Islamic revival is chipping away at their power... Eventually...

I'll be getting back to the TLs in awhile, right now I'm working on Glen's TL contest. But eventually the war-torn nations will reunite. But I plan on some big political changes first. I guess I'm in a bit of an old Romantic mood, it might be time for a 'Spring of Nations'...

I highly recommend historicalstatistics.org , it has all sorts of good stuff (including Angus Maddison's survey of all nations GDP, GDP per Capita, and Population from 1 CE to 2001 in massive Excel file form.)

Do what you like because you like it, that should be enough satisfaction... Nobody has an obligation to reply to you... If you don't get replies, then either change your writing and/or content, or be satisfied with it yourself.

John Wayne died in 1979...

Of course they could raise their standard of living at the expense of their military, but the point is that the USSR was so inefficient at producing what consumer goods it did (when it chose to) that the costs of decreased military production would far outweigh the benefits of new consumer...

Yes, shame on this map for doing such a horrible, horrible thing! Young maps should know better than to advocate violence.

That's the problem. Bureaucrats are not very good at figuring out which consumer goods to produce and how many they should produce. The government will always be behind the actual desires of the people, because it is much harder to have a comparatively small group of people manage the consumer...

For the Soviets to produce consumer goods with the effectiveness of a capitalist economy would likely require either widespread liberalization of the economy or significant cutbacks in defense spending. While planned economies are good for producing the needs of the state (military goods), they...