By the 45th anniversary of the war the following geopolitical changes have taken place.
The United States is no longer the only surviving super power. It shares that spotlight with China. The U.S. still has an armed force but it is implied it is not on the level of what it was pre-war. Also, the attitude in the U.S. is pretty much an extension of the "duck and cover" attitudes of the pre-war years with civil defense taking a major forefront (see epilogue from Amerigo's TL)
China now controls the largest landmass of any nation on Earth occupying both the area it controlled in our TL and Siberia and the Korean peninsula. Though officially Korea - which was "united" by force after the Third World War is an independent nation, unofficially it is a puppet state of the PRC. China has expanded into what used to be Soviet Siberia (see map below). She is now an economic and military powerhouse with nuclear weapons.
There are now 11 nations in the nuclear club.
The United States
The United Kingdom
France
China
Japan
Taiwan
India
South Africa
Brazil
Israel
Pakistan
NATO no longer exists. But an organization known as AAN - Alliance of Asian Nations made up of Japan, Taiwan, India, Burma, Vietnam, and Thailand forms a similar organization to protect themselves.
Western Europe is relatively stable. France and Spain have recently emerged from authoritarian dictatorships to recover stable democracies.
The UK however is anything but stable. Public housing known as Estates has become the forefront for violence between Labor and Conservative factions - with both sides blaming the other for the start of the war so long ago, and the present economic disaster. The British economy is slowly recovering - the pound is once again accepted as legal tender-but there is a 28 percent unemployment rate.
East of the Rhine things get interesting. Essentially except for Switzerland most of central and eastern Europe is made up of small "feudal" states.
The Soviet Union no longer exists. Instead those in the unoccupied area of the former U.S.S.R. are struggling to survive in individual villages and communities that work together or fight one another for needed resources.
South Africa is still practicing apartheid. And is the dominant African power. It became a major refuge for refugees from Europe after the war-provided you had skills that were needed.
Switzerland is trying to live down the onus of running concentration camps-there's no kinder word for it-to help repair and rebuild infrastructure. Many refugees faced a choice of being worked to death or being starved or freezing to death.
Here is a map of the post war world.
Given all of this - and many of you have asked what things are like today in this world and where they may be going (I touched on Cuba, Brazil, the United States of course, and the U.S.S.R. in VOD) what do you see as the major trouble spots that will develop? What is life like do you think in your favorite nation (careful you don't contradict canon too much-see link above)?
So, the TL ends in January 2000-where does the world go from here?