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Saladan

Krall said:
I finished Italy and worked out a bit of history for it. From what I've said so far, it appears the PoD was during or around the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Italy is much stronger in this world that it was in our own. Italy was Conquered by France during the Napoleonic Wars, but something had to be done with it once it was removed from France's iron grip. It couldn't be divided back up into tiny duchies once again, that would leave each nation weak and vulnerable, the British wanted Italy to be strong, so it could resist any further attempts to conquer it. It was decided that Italy would be divided into a few, large states, with some smaller states where unique or distinct cultures and languages were present. In addition to this, the Italian Confederation was created, mirroring the creation of the German Confederation to the north which acted as a successor to the Holy Roman Empire.

Within the Italian Confederation, it quickly became apparent that Milan was THE power in Italy. Not the largest Italian nation in terms of land, but the largest in terms of population and economy. Under the guidance of King Alfonso V Milan set about using its power and influence to unite Italy. Of course, some nations resisted, especcially the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, but the entire north of Italy united, and their military might crushed the south in the War of Italian Unification once and for all.

Now Italy enjoys a comfortable position as a naval power in the Mediterranean. They're not as strong as Britain or France, but they dominate the Balkans to the east, where they have worked to free many nations from the grip of the Ottoman Empire. Combined with an old, but active, alliance with Britain and a colonial empire not to be coughed at, this makes Italy one of the most powerful nations in the world.


A higher quality version can be found here:
http://kurarun.deviantart.com/art/TL-442-Kingdom-of-Italy-112945906

Comments and criticism welcome (though I'd prefer it if you just started worshipping me as a god now and get it over with :p).
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I love it. I'm always for a strong Italy.
 

Krall

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Saladan said:
I love it. I'm always for a strong Italy.
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Thanks! It was going to be balkanised, like Germany and (to an extent) Hispania are ITTL, but I realised that I've never really seen a stronger-than-OTL Italy prior to the World Wars on maps, so I decide to something a little different.

Next up: Hispania (the area, not a country).
 

B_Munro

One of a few maps I'm currently working on, a "future past" inspired by a late-80's SF novel entitled "Rinn's Star."

It's the mid-22nd century (FTL starships as in the novel optional). The USSR is still around, although the economy is run by supercomputers rather than commissars now. Slow population growth in the late 20th and much of the 21st centuries have led to a relative decline in power, and it is still a major power principally through it's alliance with the rather radical South Africans, the only other important Communist (more or less: even the south Africans have a fair amount of "market socialism") power of importance.

(Yes, those internal borders are _meant_ to be largely arbitrary: new politial subdivisions were meant to break up existing nationalisms and loyalties).

New political movements have arisen: technocracy, which failed to take off in the 20th century, has had a revival after aplied science and technology, backed by powerful governments, got the world through the nastier bits of climate change. (The sea level has gone up, although it's not too noticeable on a map of this scale.)

Also, after the breakup of the Catholic church in the second half of the 21st century, a powerful "green-black" environmentalist-Christian movement arose in Brazil, which after devastating it's extraodinary ecological bounty in the first half of the 21st was groaning and moaning like a man with a bad hangover remembering all too well the night before. This spread to a number of countries, and although only in Brazil did it become a major political force, it served well as an excuse for Brazil and some friendly states to disengage themselves from the US-Mexican effort to create a more closely united economic union of the Americas.

(The United States of the Americas, as it eventually became, was forced to legnthen its name when the New Zealand-Australian alliance came on board in the 22nd century: it's mostly called the "United States" for short, which annoys some Latin Americans.)

The EC is still the European Community, after a failure to agree on a new name after Turkey joined: it's generally accepted nowadays that being European is a state of mind, and the joining of the community by several Arab states between 2080 and 2120 has generally led to some talk about a restoration of the natural unity of the Mediterranean but not too much in the way of an identity crisis: the fact that more than a third of the EC's population is nowadays Muslim raises few eyebrows, given the slow secularization of the Mahgreb over the course of the 21st century.

Iran, which expanded westward [1] after the wacky Islamicist regime in Arabia (overthrew the House of Saud after the economic collapse of '37) tried to "liberate" Iraq. Along with India, they are the major examples of "techno-theocracy", states with official religions which have at the same times embraced science and technology as a means of spreading and indoctrinating the faith (quietly squashing the annoying voices of young-Earth creationists and other yahoos who don't realize that if the universe _demonstrably_ works one way, then that just must be the way Allah swings.

One arguably positive point was that with the Iranians on the border, Israelis and Palestinians finally found a common enemy: the present joint Jewish-Islamic fundamentalist government is very odd indeed, but somehow functional.

Modern East Africa has its roots in the rather unwise decision by Ethiopia and Kenya to "restore order" to Somalia by partitioning the place. The whole thing worked rather badly over the medium run, although the EAF is doing alright nowadays.

Although China had some periods of democracy over the 21st century, what with the disruptions of two periods of major decline in international trade, global warming and rising sea levels, etc., the crumbling of the old Communist regime failed to bring stable democratic government, and in the end the Technocratic Party came to power, and has for several decades refused to share power with other political movements which can be demonstrated to have "irrational" bases.

China has reestablished its traditional dominance over its immediate neighbors, and managed to scare the Japanese into a mutual-protection alliance with the Phillipinos and Indonesians: thanks to failing to reproduce themselves through much of the 21st century, the Japanese are second fiddles in this alliance, which annoys nationalists (although not as much as the fact that non-idiot Japanese politicians finally managed to force through legislation allowing desperately needed immigrant labor in, after the arrival of the "second long slump" and Japan began to get alarmingly full of old people and not very competent robot nannies. Japan's big cities are now as polyglot as European ones, which the young find normal and the huge population of over-70 Japanese - Japanese average lifespan is now over 100 - an endless source of things to grumble over.)

India is currently a bit politically isolated, but they don't really care: India is currently even more populous than China, and has currently an economic growth rate only surpassed by the West Africans, who anyway still have some catching up to do, although things are vastly better than a century ago. "India as number 1" is selling quite well abroad...

Bruce

[1] Since the world had moved into the "post-oil era" by then, nobody really cared to get involved: the "time of troubles" was in full swing, what with global climate change, new diseases, the Near War between China and the USSR, and increased Millenarian terrorism in the US.
 

B_Munro

And heres der mappy.

Bruce

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VT45

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The next station is Concord. Change here for the Marathon Line.

An improvement on a couple of maps I posted in the Future Map thread a while ago. Now it looks more like the subway map it is.

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VT45

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Imajin said:
Hm, very interesting, so a suburban version of the T for the North Shore? Reminds me of this map I made while back:
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Well, it's not just for the North Shore. That's all I've done so far. I'm planning on doing the entire metropolitan area eventually.
 
Beedok

Beedok

North America the day of the Japaneses assault on Mexico's Pearl Harbour and Philippines.
Yellow: United States of Mexico -Neutral
Olive Green: Cuban Republic -Allies
Light Green: Cuban Puppets -Allies
Red:Canada-Allies (note Newfoundland is an ally)
Grey Blue: USA -Axis
Light Blue: US occupied
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Hapsburg

Hapsburg

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World, 1530

By 1505, Maximilian's son, Philip, had had several sons. Among which were Charles and Ferdinand, raised for future kingships. The succession to France was secured within the Habsburg-Valois line.
In 1508, three monarchs died. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor; Matthew Corvin, King of Hungary-Croatia; and Anthony, King of Arles. A brief succession crisis in Burgundy was averted when Maximilian was recognized as King by right of his wife's proximity of blood to Anthony. Thusly were the the Kingdoms of Burgundy and France united under one crown.
Germany, however, was not as fortunate. French troops, supporting Philip the Fair as candidate for King, marched into the Rhineland. They were met with forces of the Duke of Bavaria, and of Sigismind "the Traitor", Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia.
Fighting broke out in Italy, as Maximilian's forces also supported the Duke of Orleans as Duke of Milan. They were opposed in this endeavour by Austrian and Tuscan forces.

The War of the German Succession raged for almost ten years, ending only in 1516, with the death of Maximilian. Philip was forced to relinquish his Imperial titles in order to retain the French throne. Thousands had died in a bloody struggle for dynastic control. Many Germans began the view the Habsburgs as traitors to the kingdom, for pursuing such a destructive agenda. William II, King of the Germans and Duke of Bavaria issued and edict banning Maximilian's line of the Habsburgs from entering Germany ever again. In 1517, with the death of 90-year-old Archduke Sigismund, William also became Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia, by right of his mother, the previous Emperor's daughter.
Around this time, several German theologians, spearheaded by the monk Martin Luther, began a movement to reform the Catholic Church. By the mid-1520's, Lutheranism had become a full-fledged branch of Christianity in Europe, adopted by several Dukes and Princes in Germany.

This mass-movement culminated in 1525, when King William the Bavarian converted, partly out of personal conviction and partly to temper the burgeoning peasant revolts in his lands. The move worked, and secured peace in Germany, with the exception of sporadic violence.
In 1527, a historic truce was signed, which affirmed the right of the princes to choose their religion, and that the religion of the prince would be the religion of their dominion. It effectively affirmed the right of freedom of religion for Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews. However, more fringe sects of the new Reformist movement, like the Anabaptists and Calvinists, were deliberately snubbed.
However, sharp violence was avoided, for the most part, in Germany as well as in France.

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Legolas

Hapsburg said:
World, 1530<...>
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What is the country coloured much like the Papal state on the Eastern coast of the Baltic (i.e. *Lithuania)? Yes, I know, I am completely disregarding the main focus of your TL in favour of my area of interest... But the other parts are detailed enough to not warrant any questions :)
 
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