The superimposing of modern OTL borders seems unlikely in that case, though. Otherwise you get the idea it's 2019, and the Randomid/Obligatid/Inevitablid Caliphates are out for it once again... 
Map Thread III
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Well, I ended up being inspired to do a (somewhat ASB) map…
A stalemate of exhaustion having been reached by the USSR and Germany by 1946, the balance of terror was maintained by the UK’s development of the atom bomb in 1949 and it’s swift duplication by the USSR and the Reich. The UK has not had a good time of it: after a decades-long struggle to retain it’s great power status by exploiting it’s empire slowly poisoned its democratic traditions, the failed fascist coup of ’77 led to the establishment of a hard-left governing coalition which has subsequently hardened into one-party rule. Nowadays the UK is allied with the USSR against the Reich, and First Minister Blair’s New Labor Coalition is the only legal political party.
The USSR is still afloat, the “Nazis will kill us all if we show weakness” idea having proven somewhat effective as a unifying glue, although the exceedingly painful economic adjustments of the 90’s have left the USSR in no shape to pursue any very ambitious actions in the near future. The USSR is less absolutist than it was under Stalin, but more so than under OTL’s Brezhnev (executed for corruption in this TL), and has a nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal truly ridiculous in size. China, liberated from Japanese rule after a 30-year guerrilla struggle backed by the USSR, is still allied to the USSR out of a lack of alternates, but is increasingly grouchy about Soviet “creeping capitalism.” (China is N. Korea in the Large Economy Size with ICBMs, but no mass starvation – at least, not yet).
The Japanese, although driven out of the majority of China, still maintain a puppet regime in Manchukuo, having found enough people sure to go to the wall under Communist rule (big landlords, Manchus, wealthy merchants, collaborators of every stripe) to run the place, and have managed to develop the economy enough so that there are a fair number of people with a stake in things continuing as they are. Red terrorism is still rife, though. The Japanese have also managed to set up a puppet regime in Vietnam, with a branch member of the Imperial family ruling as sub-emperor: the locals fear the Chinese enough to maintain a shaky assent. Islamicist and Communist terrorism is also a problem in Indonesia, where Japanese divide-and-rule efforts have been rewarded with a dozen radical resistance movements rather than one big one. In some ways, the Japanese empire is the most fragile of the major powers, and it’s alliance with Hindu-nationalist India (hates Communists and Muslims, but also dislikes the relentlessly racist Germans) and with the fascistic populists of S. America is of considerable importance.
Brazilian *fascism is different from the German variety, being rather more leftist and largely non-racist (think Chavez’s Venezuela, but less democratic and with nukes), reserving most of it’s vitriol for the US and meddling Commies. (It doesn’t want any competition in its populist shtick). It has fairly friendly relations with Japan (there’s a large and old Japanese immigrant community) and a fair amount of trade with Nazi Europe, although South American Jews are generally fairly safe as long as they keep their heads down and stay out of the public limelight. The Latin League is shaky, though, and the US has some allies in Latin America: the Brazilian intervention in Argentina to keep its man in power has caused a nervous Columbia to break away from the block.
The Reich still dominates Europe, although it finds running its huge empire an increasing economic drain. It has managed to pick up a few extra allies in recent decades, South Africa and Very White Australia looking for protectors after the UK went increasingly Red and dropped out of the colonial game. The mood is generally rather glum and apocalyptic: no matter how deep the shelters are dug and no matter how prodigiously they breed (and the penalties for non-reproduction are pretty harsh, especially for non-Party members), Germany is a small target. Attempts to establish Détente and a reversal of the arms race are hampered by the fact the Germany and Soviets don’t trust eachother an inch, and this world is distinctly short on Honest Brokers: still, the Canadians do their best, and talks continue in Toronto.
Canada is neutral, trades with everyone, and is the leading Confidential Banker now that the Germans have swallowed Switzerland. It’s a neutral meeting ground for all the big powers, and Toronto and Ottawa are full of spies, spying on spies…
US democracy recovered from William Pelley’s effort to establish a US dictatorship in the 40’s [1], although breakaway California was not reconquered until 1952: however, the US finds itself in a world with few allies and a number of competing, hostile power centers. With little foreign trade and a rather heavily-handedly interventionist government (nobody wants a repeat of the Unpleasantness), the US is poorer than OTL, and suffers from political polarization even worse than OTL (the far right in this TL is actually fascistic, while the far left does indeed contain quite a few genuine communists), not helped by the continuation of Jim Crow laws into the 1980’s (the Civil Rights movement was rather more violent than OTL). Although the US is still the world’s largest economy and potentially greatest power, it remains more concerned with it’s own internal concerns, unwilling to turn itself into a garrison state to overawe Japanese or Brazilians, isolationist by history and circumstance, somewhat marginal in a world where the center point of the world’s hopes and fears is still that bloody line running from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
[1] yes, stolen from Reich-5.
The superimposing of modern OTL borders seems unlikely in that case, though. Otherwise you get the idea it's 2019, and the Randomid/Obligatid/Inevitablid Caliphates are out for it once again...
In 2019, all your base will belong to us
I thought Himyar was in Yemen.....
Me too.
Unless the Jews established an earlier state near Jeddah on their way south, then moved the capitol to Himyar?
Philip
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I thought Himyar was in Yemen.....
Me too.
Unless the Jews established an earlier state near Jeddah on their way south, then moved the capitol to Himyar?
You are correct. Himyar is in Yemen.
IITL (as well as OTL), The Yemeni portion was conquered by the Sassanids c. 550. ITTL, the portion under Jewish control is reduced to the little strip along the Red Sea. In the 7th Century, they retake Yemen as the Sassanids undergo a general decline.
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TotrueTufaar
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Royals are different than elected officials.
The map clearly shows Germany as having Holstein and half of Schleswig. And why aren't the Americans going anything about the South American War?
Hapsburg
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Again, it's semantics. He quit his job; regardless of the job, it's still a job. An abdication is a form of resignation.
And you couldn't assume that, considering the context of a defeated Germany, that this was a mistake or an oversight on my part?
They...don't care?
I don't see any reason why they should or would. It doesn't immediately concern the United States.
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