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POD can be any time after 1 AD - no ASBs are allowed aside from existing epidemics occurring at an earlier or later point.

The things I want you to avoid, as many as possible, are:

-A large, space-filling power that is a major player in Afro-Eurasian geopolitics

-A large federation that, while it might be ethnically diverse, generally shares a common tongue and flag

-A major power that is markedly more capitalistic/consumerist/individualistic than most other countries at a comparable stage of development for much of its history (not necessarily more unequal, as at certain periods the capitalistic US was more egalitarian than the paternalistic countries of Europe)

-A widespread culture of self-defense/guns, agrarianism/suburbanization, and low-church religion

-A cultural abhorrence of unelected nobility, royalty, regulation, or hierarchies not driven by ability or wealth

-One of the world's dominant creative powers in technology, arts, literature, and film, with many if not most of the world's richest and most revered entertainers and innovators living there and a significant ceiling on one's success without doing business with that power

-Anything else you can think of that you'd associate with an "American" counterpart culture.
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