With a POD(s) no earlier than 1900/01/01 what is the smallest number if countries that could exist by 2016/01/01?
Currently there are almost 200 nations on Earth. Can you get it down to 100 or even less?
Big ways I see is unified India, strong Ottoman Empire, USSR equivalent, dominant China, no independent Ireland and other Isles.
Is there a way to eliminate microstates? Monaco, etc.
There's the Caribbean and Africa too but I don't know enough about those places to suggest reasonable conglomeration, perhaps all of French Africa is left as a single nation or stays with France?
A lot of tiny countries on mainland central America too
Currently there are almost 200 nations on Earth. Can you get it down to 100 or even less?
Big ways I see is unified India, strong Ottoman Empire, USSR equivalent, dominant China, no independent Ireland and other Isles.
Is there a way to eliminate microstates? Monaco, etc.
There's the Caribbean and Africa too but I don't know enough about those places to suggest reasonable conglomeration, perhaps all of French Africa is left as a single nation or stays with France?
A lot of tiny countries on mainland central America too