Übercliché map

I've recently tried a map including the greatest clichés of alternate history. Here's the result about Übercliché Europe (sorry for the poor quality, I've tried to keep rivers and OTL's frontiers, but...) I'm currently working on an Übercliché North America.

It could go well with an Übercliché chronology, as contemplated here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=244465&highlight=clich%E9

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ROMAN EMPIRE
or what's left of it, after ages of invasions. Now centered upon Constantinople.
Official language: Greek, coexisting with Latin in Italy.

BURGUNDIAN KINGDOM
Formed during the 5th Century Germanic invasions.
Official language: derived from Latin.

VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM
SUEBIC KINGDOM
Both formed during the 5th Century Germanic invasions, the Muslim 8th Century invasion allowed rumps of them to survive.
Official languages: derived from Latin.

THE CALIPHATE
A large theocratic monarchy, including more or less autonomous emirates, and covering large parts of Asia, Africa and, since the Muslim victory of Poitiers in 732, Southern Europa.
Official language: Arab, coexisting in Europe with various languages derived from Latin.

EUSKADI
A small confederacy (think Switzerland) which used the 8th Century collapse of the Visigothic kingdom to secure its independence.
Official language: Basque.

KINGDOM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND
Both kingdoms, originating from the Germanic invasions, were united by the 100th Years' War in the 14th and 15th Centuries.
Official language: French. In the insular kingdom, English is still the people's language.

HIGH KINGDOM OF IRELAND
KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND
Two Celtic kingdoms, feebly influenced by a long Roman occupation (1th-5th Centuries), which always managed to keep their independence from England.
Official languages: respectively Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic.

DUCHY OF BRITTANY
Another Celtic state. For long a vassal of France, got its independence thanks to the 100th Years' War.
Official language: Breton.

SWITZERLAND
As in Eternal Switzerland.

THE REICH
Successor of the Holy German Empire and the Second Reich, the Third German Reich managed to keep the largest part of its conquests in WW2.
Official language: German. In the Eastern provinces, inferior races speak various Slavic, Baltic or Finno-Ugric dialects.

NETHERLANDS
As in Eternal Netherlands. A confederacy of principalties and city-states formerly belonging to France or the Holy German Empire.
Official language: Dutch.

SCANDINAVIAN UNION
A kingdom formed in 1397 by the Union of Kalmar.
Official language: United Scandinavian

MONGOL EMPIRE
Divided into various hordes, invaded a large part of Europe in the 13th Century, then had to withdraw, but keeps the Pannonian Horde as an outpost into Central Europe.
Official language: Mongolian.

RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Got its independence from the Mongol Empire and widely expanded, lost a large part of its Western conquests to the Reich during WW2.
Official language: Russian.

A NOTE ABOUT RELIGIONS
The most widely spread religion in Europe is Mithraism, coexisting with various pagan cults, like Odinism in Scandinavian Union (the only country with a pagan majority).
No country has a state religion, but for the Caliphate and the Roman Empire: respectively Islam and the Emperor's cult, both coexisting with aforementioned religions.

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Continuing with a same-quality map of Übercliché North Hesperia.

This continent is divided between native states and colonies or independent states founded by Europeans:

VINLAND
The common name of several Viking settlements founded around the year 1000.

BASQUE COLONY
The name says all.

NEW IRELAND
An Irish settlement founded after St. Brendan's expedition in the 6th Century.

Those three are loosely tied to their mother countries (respectively: Scandinavian Union, Euskadi and High Kingdom of Ireland).

NOUVELLE FRANCE and NEW ENGLAND
Created from the 17th Century, both colonies belong to the Kingdom of France and England. Each one has its own governor and language, Nouvelle France being mostly populated by continental French-speaking colonists and New England by insular English-speaking ones. The Kingdom barely managed to keep New England under its control during the 18th Century Revolution that led to the loss of more southern territories.

NEW AMSTERDAM
A Dutch colony since the 17th Century.

UNITED STATES OF HESPERIA
English-speaking colonies that got their independence from New England during the 18th Century Revolution.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF HESPERIA
They seceded from the United States and secured their independence during a victorious war in the 1860s. They later expanded south, annexing former Imperial Roman colonies in the Greater Antilles.

ALASKA
A colony of the Russian Empire.

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CASCADIA
A former part of Alaska, that Communists managed to keep under their control after the crushing of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

FUSANG
A former Chinese colony, annexed by victorious Japan during WW2.

AZTLAN
The Aztec Empire. It controlled a large part of North Hesperia before being forced to recede from European colonists and the will of independence of some tribes.

TEXAS
An republic founded in the 19th Century, at the expense of Aztlan, by immigrants from New England.

COMANCHERIA
A confederacy of native tribes that got its independence from Aztlan and secured it from Texas.

DESERET
A theocratic republic also founded in the 19th Century at the expense of Aztlan, by a religious sect from New England.

RESTRICTED AREA
Created after the Arrival by a treaty between Deseret, Cascadia and the Japanese governor of Fusang, this area is under military control by those three nations (ASB only if you don't consider alien space-travelling beings as a rational conjecture).

NICARAGUA
Another republic founded in the 19th Century, at the expense of Aztlan, by adventurers from New England. Its independence and prosperity come from the Transoceanic Canal crossing the Nicaragua Lake.

TAHUANTINSUYU
The mighty Inca Empire, controlling the largest part of South Hesperia (the remnant, like the Lesser Antilles, being mostly colonies of the Caliphate and the Mali Empire).

HAUDENOSAUNEE LEAGUE
FIVE NATIONS
TLINGIT LEAGUE
Other tribal confederacies that managed to keep their independence from neighboring European colonies.

Of course, as in Europe, any other cliché political entity you can think of also existed, but was absorbed through history by those aforementioned.

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