AH Challenge: A Much Better World

Saying that this thread is ASB, is similar with saying that OTL Third World are "destined" to be poor and undeveloped countries.
 
I would say maybe the settlement of New Harmony happens near a junction of key strategic natural ressources(coal, iron, etc), which allows it to develop an igualitarian/utopian socialist model properly without being invaded by pigs(literally; the experiment flopped when the local farms were invaded by pigs)
New Harmony would become the model of settlement in the western US for its humane living and work conditions, changing the US government from within, and, so I hope, the rest of the world.
I thought once about making a TL about that, though I'd have to use ASBs big time.
 
Saying that this thread is ASB, is similar with saying that OTL Third World are "destined" to be poor and undeveloped countries.

I wouldn't say destined, but the Third World countries are generally the way they are for fairly hard to shake reasons.

It would be relatively easy to address making Iran or Mexico better off, but it would be difficult to find a POD where both do better than OTL. And "Western Europe gets kicked in the nuts." is emphatically not the POD you need, though it might help Mexico.

Picking two countries with little in common in terms of why things went wrong except both not being as good as this "better world" is assuming is possible.
 
a Neutral Ottoman Empire in WWI statisfies a number of these, a stable arabia, and Russia might avoid revolution since the allies might be able to knock Germany out of the War earlier.

Conversely, Greece and Bulgaria stay completely out of the war, making things slightly easier on the Central Powers in the Balkans and freeing up people for other fronts.
 
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