A question?

How do you get the world to look like this map?

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It's not totally impossible, but the RL borders are extremely unlikely...Extremely unlikely to the point of impossibility.
 

mowque

Banned
Can't, for several reasons. The mix of modern borders and borders that would take an old POD though, doom it the most. Why do you ask? We can work on it, if you want.
 
Just a try...

-15th century
Holy Roman Empire (or Prussia, or Germany, or whatever) united/centralized much earlier, Iberian Union succeed, and Ottoman Empire industrialized/westernized. Together with Britain and France, those three empires engaged in colonial race during Discovery Age.

-16th century
France conquered the Aztecs, Holy Roman Empire conquered the Incas, Iberia colonized Brazil, Britain colonized North America, while Ottoman East India Company dominated the East Indies (Sweden became minor colonial power by colonized Greenland and Iceland).

-18th century
In an ATL analogue of Seven Years War, Britain-Russia-Ottoman Empire alliance defeated France-Iberia-Holy Roman Empire alliance. Britain get Argentina (as well as domination over China), Russia get Japan, and Ottoman Empire get Italy. However, Iberia and France retained its domination over Persian Gulf and India respectively, while Holy Roman Empire shifted its attention to Indochina. ATL analogue of American Revolutionary War was crushed.

-19th century
Scramble of Africa (and Asia) began.

-20th century
All global empires gradually evolved into federal unions or commonwealths (instead of decolonization).

Cool enough for a TL, huh? :D
 
No way would you ever get a map with only 7 different powers controlling the entire world like some sort of board game. It just wouldn't happen.
 
Modern day mexico borders for a world with a pod 15th century or earlier. of course!

I'm pretty sure that it's just a somewhat rough version of borders that he had in his mind, and he use modern borders to make it easier to visualize rather than have to drawing a random line on the map...

IMHO many people in this forum should give some useful comments instead of an usual "modern borders?! WTF!!!" or "they're just fucking space-filling empires!!!" thing...
 
WHY?

My innocence, my eyes, my brain, my mental sanity...All gone now.

Seriously, i think you had created the map equivalent of the Necronomicon.
 
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