AHC: European hermit kingdom

Romanian being a hermit kingdom was actually mentioned in the thread about what if the cold war never ended.
DBWI: End Cold War
 
I actually wrote most of that part problem is I wrote most of it in Romanian using Google translate so The grammar is garbage
 
Brittany becames independent when nationalists collaborated with Nazis (they did it and Germany planned to create an independent Brittany after the war). During Overlond, Brittany changes side and helps decisively the Allies so survives with a referendum in post-war. The Nationalist Pro-Nazi Goverment, after a short democratic period to appease Allies, evolved in a semi-fascist and authoritarian nation until Jean-Marie LePen's election, that turned the country in a totalitarian state. Brittany can gain nuclear material from Libya or Iraq and create his arsenal. Today it's a sort of totalitarian and oppressive villain-nation with a major arsenal, completely dominated by the personality cult of LePen dynasty.
Wonder if a post-Liberation France would then try to reconquer it?
 
Well, the idea was that Brittany was able to survive against a weakened France, with many colonial questions open and near to a civil war. After all, a rivalry with the bigger France is a good pretext to mantein a state of emergency and a militarized population permanently.
 
What about a capitalistic Corsica hermit kingdom that stands against a Peoples' Republic of France that was in the post war Communist USA/NATO sphere of influence?
 
WI French resistance fighters never surrender their weapons in the Massive Central or Vercors?
These mountain people remain deeply suspicious of lowlanders and restrict lowlanders traveling in mountainous “republiques.”
The French Army and central gov’t are too exhausted to care and allow local councils to administer isolated (few roads) mountain republiques as long as crime rates remain low and trade goods are allowed to flow.
 
So in this Alternate history challenge, how can North Korea esque hermit kingdom can be form in Europe post 1900?

Eastern Europe is fine but if possible I would prefer that the nation is in western Europe or central Europe.

Could such nation exist without too much change in history? Or is it outright ASB?
Maybe a fascist Spain or Portugal manages to continue in some form of personality cult. Maybe tries to ban any liberal and modern influenced and thus strictly observes the borders.
 
What if the Basque region of Spain managed to gain independence from Spain? A nation born of violence and bloodshed in the late 50s or early sixies could be a pariah state that eventually becomes a hermit nation.
 
What if the Basque region of Spain managed to gain independence from Spain? A nation born of violence and bloodshed in the late 50s or early sixies could be a pariah state that eventually becomes a hermit nation.

Ooh, they could even integrate some of Marija Gimbutas's linguistic theories into their form of Juche and portray themselves as the last holdouts of Old Europe defending themselves from the perfidy of the evil Indo-Europeans...
 
Ulm is created in 1945 before the Nazi defeat. It creates an alpine-based army and creates massive fortress around the country to avoid allied invasions or reconquest attempts by possible new German states. Developes a nuclear program with the collaboration of the Nazi scientists. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ulm turns a nazi dictatorship but with no fuhrer, they have a Politburó-like council as head of state. In 2015, Ulm decides to expand further into Germany profiting refugee crisis and they conquer half Germany, declaring the First Reich of Ulm. The new Reich, although it's hermit, promotes independence movements in Ryukyu, Jan Mayen and Central Korea.
 
Ulm is created in 1945 before the Nazi defeat. It creates an alpine-based army and creates massive fortress around the country to avoid allied invasions or reconquest attempts by possible new German states. Developes a nuclear program with the collaboration of the Nazi scientists. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ulm turns a nazi dictatorship but with no fuhrer, they have a Politburó-like council as head of state. In 2015, Ulm decides to expand further into Germany profiting refugee crisis and they conquer half Germany, declaring the First Reich of Ulm. The new Reich, although it's hermit, promotes independence movements in Ryukyu, Jan Mayen and Central Korea.
At the risk of looking ignorant, what is Ulm?
 
Don't they have an alliance with NATO?
I actually forgotten that, and I think it is more of a "relationship" than an alliance.

NATO is the hot girl on campus that insecure Russia hates, and at whom Belarus periodically smiles while passing in the bookstore just to make Russia appreciate it more.
 
Albania and Romania are the safest bets. Maybe Spain if Mola got to power; from what little I read about him he seemed much more into purging than Franco was, maybe you could get a rightist version of Stalinist Russia.
 
I actually forgotten that, and I think it is more of a "relationship" than an alliance.

NATO is the hot girl on campus that insecure Russia hates, and at whom Belarus periodically smiles while passing in the bookstore just to make Russia appreciate it more.
Love the analogy.
 
Eoin O'Duffy takes over Ireland in the 1930s and seeks aid from Francoist Spain and Nazi Germany. Population is heavily militarized to ensure neutrality in WW2, and is propped up by Franco's government throughout much of the Cold War as well as some under-the-table US aid to prevent the ITTL Communist IRA from taking over. After the war is over Ireland drifts towards neutrality and an ultracatholic conservativism, but never makes itself enough of a threat for Britain to quash.
 
Maybe a fascist Spain or Portugal manages to continue in some form of personality cult. Maybe tries to ban any liberal and modern influenced and thus strictly observes the borders.
How would Mola' s and bis supporter' s relationship with the West be ?
 
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