AHC: 'Korea' your country

You need to take your current country of residence and create a timeline where it split into two nations, like what happened to Germany, Korea and Vietnam.
Have an Ethiopian Monarchist movement (an earlier version of the Moa Anbessa Party or Ethiopian Democratic Union) be more successful in the late 1970s after the Derg carries out a more successful Red Terror campaign which has destroyed the leadership of the TPLF. Additionally, the EPLF is crushed in Operation Red Star without the assistance of the TPLF and the Eritrean resistance movements there are successfully crushed while TTL's EMM manages to play on nostalgia for the Monarchy against the Stalinist reign of the Derg that remains unable to deal the decisive blow to the EMM. The EMM enters into an alliance with armed ethnic nationalist movements in the southern and eastern regions of Ethiopia against the Derg which is becoming ever more reliant on the Eastern Bloc for aid while the Ethiopian economy continues to deteriorate under Mengistu Haile Mariam's grip.

Soon enough, the Derg falls much in the similar fashion it did IOTL but with different parties coming to the forefront of the post-Socialist government in the 1990s as the Monarchy is restored under Emperor Amha Selassie who oversees the reconstruction of Ethiopia. However, the ethnic nationalist movements in control of parts of southern and eastern Ethiopia agitate against this while demanding for the establishment of a decentralized federal republic along ethnolinguistic lines which the Emperor refuses. Soon enough, parts of southern and eastern Ethiopia break away to form the Federal Republic of Ethiopia while much of northern, western and central Ethiopia remains in the hands of the royalist Ethiopian government which sees the two proclaim they are the legitimate Ethiopian state.
 
A worse depression turns On To Ottawa into the revolution the authorities had feared it to be, its advance eastward is halted only by Maurice Duplessis mobilizing French Canadian nationalism. Northern Ontario/southeast Manitoba becomes the ambiguous contact line between the Canadian People's Republic and the Dominion, later Kingdom8, of Canada.

*as a compromise between English Canada and a far more powerful French Canada, a recusant English noble was set up in Rideau Hall.
 
Governor a Harry Moore, suspends local government during the depression in south jersey.
Recalcentrait mayors create a separate state based in Burlington county.
 
A successful communist revolution begins in the Midwest, after the second American revolution most of the industrial US is under the control of the USSA based out of Chicago. The US military fleeing west manages to hold them off at the rockys in the final peace the continental divide becomes the border between them.
 
I doubt the CPI could win electorally by that point.

Aldo Moro compromised with them in the 70s.
IMO, the CIA was willing to let already well-established far-right dictatorships like Salazar's and Franco's stay and even to let a far-right military dictatorship take over in Greece but to let actual fascists retake Italy was out of the question.
 
Britain loses World War 1 and goes into a Weimar-style depression in the early 20s that it never recovers from. A 1926-esque general strike happens but it is cracked down on massively (maybe by Home Secretary Winston Churchill). This starts an attempted Communist revolution but the government fight back and after a bloody civil war, the People's Republic of Britain is established in Wales, Scotland and England north of the Trent. The UK consists of the colonies, Northern Ireland and rump England.
 

Anawrahta

Banned
Challenge: Split the Vatican into two globally recognized sovereign states.
Have a union between the Sovereign Military order of Malta and the papal states take place in the early to mid 19th century, only to break off due to the reunification of italy and subsequent expulsion of the order results in the SMOM somehow setting up an actual nation state in the balearic islands claiming to be the continuation of the papal states. Then with Lateran treaties in 1929, you now have two nation-states formed from the splitting of a predecessor.
It's a bit a stretch though.
 
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