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Oh Happy Day
I'm so stoked to see this is back.
Thanks for the encouraging words, guys.
It's alive!!! I cannot wait for more thanks!
Hooray! Welcome back!
Oh Happy Day
I'm so stoked to see this is back.
I also missed it; I was going to comment but I'm being overworked this week and was exhausted.
Your "Germany" is evolving in an interesting, perhaps fundamentally non-Westphalian sort of way. It struck me that what the confederation, or conglomerate of overlapping federations, is, is highly dependent on different points of view of its different members. With Prussia, Austria, and even Denmark and the Netherlands in some sense all more or less members, the two great German powers and the two that strike us as non-German see it as a vehicle for their ambitions. But the smaller German principalities see it as a confederation to leverage each little state some of the status of a great power of Germany more or less united. Kingdoms like Bavaria are somewhere in the middle on this.
If the confederation(s) only wind up serving to divert rivalries between these far-flung states away from open warfare and toward diplomatic and political intrigue, that alone is quite a good accomplishment. And we know there is more than that alone.
OTL, nations like the Netherlands or Denmark had to be in or out, they couldn't exist in some shadowy quantum indeterminacy. The Westphalian paradigm of what a nation is made them indigestible by Germany as it were; both had distinct peculiar identities going back centuries or in Denmark's case the better part of a thousand years that prevented their being merged into some overall ideal German identity; for them to join the German Reich that evolved OTL would have required them to give up too much and could only have been the result of bloody conquest and severe repression for generations. Here though there seems to be some sort of softer boundaries, more room for them to be partly in and partly out. I wonder if even say Bohemia could wind up attached just as closely as either of these countries, despite the non-Germanic language and identity of the Czechs.
The more the confederation takes on some solid meaning of its own, even if it remains shadowy compared to a "proper" nation-state, the more confusing the lives of the timeline's cartographers is going to be!
dziękujęGlad to see the updates have returned!
What's happening in Central America (seeing as it hasn't fracutred apart like OTL), Mexico (with all dem extra rebels), and Canada (since post war wasn't covered quite extensively yet)?
shevek, for what it is worth, Australia used its own currency of pounds till 1966. Pre-Federation different colonies also sometimes printed their own currency. I do not know how it related to Sterling though.
So I'm just wondering - the way you're setting up *Germany and *Italy and TTL, will they remain "mere geographical expressions" for a while? Or will unification be along different lines?
Since I have a horrible time keeping track of this TL, I'll bet you guys find it impossible.