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I've some ideas for (again) a cool story. I mostly can't even start the story ideas (only a couple of them), let alone finish them (at the moment there's only one which I think I'll really manage to finish). Yet, it's always fun to 'brainstorm', sort of.

You're challenge is:
1. Design a short timeline which involves the things listed below. Please make it short, clear and orderly. You may choose the POD yourself. Please don't make it too complicated.
2. Help me with an idea to build a story in this world. Think of events, people, who's the main character, what he does and will do, what the main plot is, what problems arise etc. etc. One requirement: the story can't be set only in Europe, since too many of my story ideas are set there.

Here're the ideas that must be in the timeline:
- An alternate First World War which has more advanced technology.
- The First World War results in a stalemate situation resulting in a cold world war.
- Not too much war, also other interesting things, like alternate technology and alternate discoveries and exploration.
- Russia, Lithuania and Poland form a union in the Late Middle Ages. The union remains until the First World War and perhaps even longer.
- France is the main colonisator in North America.
- There must be a Kingdom of the Three Sicilies.
- Bavaria and Austria unite, creating a powerful empire.
- No Ottoman Empire allowed.
- No CSA winning the American Civil War allowed.
- Union of Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia could be a very interesting idea to use. You don't have to use it, though.
- Prussia must remain independent. It can't be too small, but also not all of Germany.
- Some North American state called 'Borealia' would be cool too, but is not really required.
- France and Germany aren't allowed to be the main enemies in Europe.
- Texas can be indpenedent. Could be pretty awesome.
- Same goes for a Greco-Italian union. Possible, but not required. Well, I'd really like it, though, so it has more priority than the other not-required ones.
- A union of Sweden and Prussia could be cool as well.

- There must be the Holy Republic of Ragusa and the Adriatic! See this map I made a while ago.

Go ahead :D
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