I think an exact PoD would be difficult, but I think you need to be at the very latest 1520 to keep Aragon seperate from Castile. There are definitely some serious space filling empires here, and I am a bit bothered by the use of borders so similar to OTL in the Americas, but as for things I find impossible about it;
1, Louisiana would almost certainly not be called that with a pre 1520 PoD. Probably more like a new France or something along those lines. Same thing about naming goes for Brazil, Columbia, and Oregon.
2, Russia going all the way to the east coast of Canada and greenland seems pretty super ASB to me.
3, While interesting, I think the three way France would be pretty far fetched for any length of time.
4, Brazil's incredible projection capabilities have far outpaced the OTL U.S. which I find unlikely to begin with, but on this scale impossible, though I wouldn't scrap the colonial Brazil idea alltogether.
5, The absence of any meaningful British expansion seems unlikely as well, when faced with France, Spain, and even Holland's overseas lands and breakaway states. Given it's position a Britan without a strong naval focus is quite unlikely, and they are pretty much perfactly placed for expansion into the new world and beyond.
Super Germany and Venice bug me a bit too, but it's okay I guess.
Still, it is very nice, and if you wanted to try to explain exactly how the world got that way I'd be interested in reading it.
Aragon doesn’t necessarily need to exist if that makes a POD difficult, there are certainly space filling empires and I would be happy to receive suggestions about cutting some of the empires down to size, and as for similar borders in America they could be changed if needed, like you said I didnt alter them much from OTL
1 I completely agree with you, I wouldn’t have any problem swapping out names
2 True but when you consider I was going to give all of Canada to Louisiana its quite tame
3 Shame I kinda liked that idea, I tried to make it possible by making a republic, Bourbon monarchy, and a communist state kinda an ideology barrier keeping them apart idea
4 Yea Brazil (or the Portuguese government in exile as I was going for) is
certainly a space filler here
5 My original pod was the Spanish armada actually overthrowing Elizabeth but I understand that wouldn’t really get the job done and it would have huge implications. For this map to have any chance the catholic god would have to throw a meteorite at London to one up the protestant god's
armada destroying storms
My idea for Super Germany was the Austrian Empire falling apart and the Austrian emperor at the time bringing Austria into the holy roman empire (the Hapsburg had the crowns of Austria and Holy Rome before napoleon if I remember correctly)
As for Venice it isn’t all that super it had all those territories at some point I believe
The trouble with the map is were to start... everything is changed. Also you have not said when the map was set (I am assuming a 2012 edition).
Lets look at GB - unification of England / Wales and Scotland, but no Ireland and Iceland instead. More importantly no Empire.
This could be caused by Britain loosing the Seven Year War to France (lose of India, America) and loosing out to the Dutch in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. Basically Britain looses everywar except the Cod War in 1974 against Iceland!
Europe looks as if it just exploded, but odd bits remain. Spain is still a power, and the Spanish Empire seems to have been existant (FLorida, Mexico, Columba etc.).
GB – Yea Britain is definitely an issue (see my meteorite solution above) but an early POD might be enough to knock them out of the game, ohh and the cod war joke was pure genius
Europe - Yep I just strapped a big old barrel of TNT to Europe in this map, but as for the Spanish empire it did exist but eventually disintegrated like OTL the major problem is the fact they own half of Africa , that should probably be changed but im not sure what to put in its place besides an ASB Moroccan empire, suggestions?