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Basically the POD is after WW2 and would have the independent Saarland retain its independence. From what I understand it was economically integrated into the French economy and could have remained as it was. I feel if they had tried to move more Francophones into the region they could've tipped the scale toward being like Belgium, a state divided between two major ethnic groups.