To keep a country as diverse as Yugoslavia together, striking the right balance between centralization and regional autonomy is a must. To put it simply it would mean letting each member of the union have its own national assembly, national guard and ministry of internal affairs, while the country as a whole would have a federal parliament and the federal government would retain control over all of the other ministries (with the prime minister also being the federal minister for internal affairs), the ministry of treasury being the only partial exception, as its competencies would be split between a federal minister and a number of state ministers, the latter being mainly charged with looking after the budget of the national guards and the local police forces.
A country like this would also need to administratively partitioned along ethnic lines as closely as possible. Here's a possible set up:
1. Slovenia - Slovene ethnic majority - state capital: Ljubljana;
2. Croatia - Croatian ethnic majority - state capital: Zagreb;
3. Serbokraine (OTL western Bosnia Herzegovina) - Serbian ethnic majority - state capital: Banja Luka;
4. Bosnia Herzegovina (OTL eastern Bosnia Herzegovina) - Bosniak ethnic majority - state capital: Sarajevo;
5. Montenegro - Montenegrin ethnic majority - state capital: Podgorica;
6. Serbia (without Kosovo) - Serbian ethnic majority - state capital: Belgrade;
7. Bulgaria (OTL Bulgaria + OTL Vardar Macedonia) - Bulgar ethnic majority - state capital: Sofia.
Kosovo would have been ceded to Albania after World War One.
A country like this would also need to administratively partitioned along ethnic lines as closely as possible. Here's a possible set up:
1. Slovenia - Slovene ethnic majority - state capital: Ljubljana;
2. Croatia - Croatian ethnic majority - state capital: Zagreb;
3. Serbokraine (OTL western Bosnia Herzegovina) - Serbian ethnic majority - state capital: Banja Luka;
4. Bosnia Herzegovina (OTL eastern Bosnia Herzegovina) - Bosniak ethnic majority - state capital: Sarajevo;
5. Montenegro - Montenegrin ethnic majority - state capital: Podgorica;
6. Serbia (without Kosovo) - Serbian ethnic majority - state capital: Belgrade;
7. Bulgaria (OTL Bulgaria + OTL Vardar Macedonia) - Bulgar ethnic majority - state capital: Sofia.
Kosovo would have been ceded to Albania after World War One.
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