dystopia

Okay, so this AHC is pretty simple: Create a unified German state at the worst possible time using the worst possible nation to do the uniting in the worst possible way both for Germany and the rest of the world, though, if priorities conflict, make it worse for Germany first. The unification...

So this thread is inspired by the Photos of the Kaiserreich thread and the TL-191 photos thread. Only this time it's about the dystopian hellscape that is setting of the upcoming HOI4 mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe I know that the mod isn't even out yet, but I think we know enough...

So the lunatics in Columbia (the capital of the United States for those who are not knowledgeable about American geography) are threatening war against New England and Canada again. So that got me thinking, what would it take to get a United States that is an actual democracy, that doesn't...

Okay, so your alternate history challenge for today is to make the entire world as shitty as is semi-plausible by the turn of the millennium while avoiding the cliches of Nazi victory in WW2 and Soviet victory in the Cold War. Total nuclear warfare (such as was feared during the Cold War and...

"...When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..." - extract from the Declaration of Independence As the new decade dawns, America is...

In the novel 1984, It's speculated that the claim three superstates that makeup the governments of the world is a lie and that "Oceania" is only contained to the British Isles and essentially a European North Korea. So the challenge here, with a PoD after 1900, is to have a oppressive...

Okay so this is perhaps one of the most hellish AH TLs ever, but how could we have an alternate Cold War between the two major world powers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany? I think that the best case scenario for this TL is nuclear annihilation for the entirety of humanity, but we're still...

THE STAR-SPANGLED EXPANDED UNIVERSE OF "WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?" Due to an almost constant output of little bits of fiction written by fans of WMIT Redux: The Union Forever, dare I say one of the darkest - yet really fun and intriguing - dystopias you'll ever read (I hope you agree, at least)...

STARS, STRIPES AND A PINE Stars, Stripes and A Pine, Post #1: The War of 1812 was meant to be a quick war, an easy war, a “Second War of Independence” that would be as great as the first…or at least, would’ve been. No-one expected a British victory in Baltimore. No-one anticipated the death of...

Okay, so I had an idea. Probably a bad idea, but still an idea. It's a timeline where everything starts going to hell around the mid-late 1860s, and we see massive-scale nationalist, anarchist, and socialist revolts of all different varieties almost worldwide by the early 20th century. Got any...

So, I'm working on a dystopian TL with a POD where, instead of continuing to try to find ways to make trench warfare obsolete, various governments and scientists eventually decide that trench warfare is an inescapable fact of modern war, and begin investing in technology to make trenches even...

With PODs no earlier than 615, make a very dystopian world with several powerful factions.

Ok, here a dystopic question: Considering that against all odds, Beria becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, how would such state look like, and how it would develop different from the Kruschevist Soviet Union? First of all, one condition I want to stabilish is that Beria is prepared for...

Is possible? Get them to become a real dominant power?. And for it, which would be a good Divergence Point? Sure, Daddy USA could beat them as soon notice it but, how much it would last if it does?. I am peruvian myself and I really want to see the international opinions about it. Is possible...

FORMERLY KNOWN AS "What Madness Is This?" Redux: The Union Forever, Volume I here is the first in the planned WMIT Redux Trilogy, which will feature Vol. II: Prophecies in the Dark, and Vol. III: The Pinnacle Future. WMIT, as of July, 2022, is still going strong, thanks in large part to the...

With a POD after May 9th, 1945, how could Neo-Nazis take control of Germany?

So lets suppose I want to write a dystopic Cold War timeline. Following scenario to work with: China goes down a Maoist Rabbit Hole after the Cultural Revolution and goes full throttle after Mao's death. Brezhnev dies sooner and a Neostalinist hardliner takes over. And at some point in the 70s...

70% of Tutsis were killed in the Rwandan Genocide. What if it was successful, with 100% being killed? Let's say the RPF fails to reach Kigali, and Hutu militias use their weapons.

(Disclaimer: I am not condoning genocidal violence from any side. Please don't turn this thread into something that belongs into chat. This forum usually handles complex/ difficult topics well and I hope to see the same here. Especially as I just read the news about the horrible things happening...

Magnus Malan is always used as the leader of South Africa in an attempt to turn it into a hellhole, though I wonder if other people could be used who could have been as bad or even worse than Malan.