AHC: Largest possible cultures

Hkelukka

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AHC With a POD no later than 1911, form the largest possible unified cultures in the year 2011. Cultures are defined either as single nations or as large collective units that have more shared power than any single state in said unit.

So, EU is a single culture, US is a single culture, but the middle east or africa are not, neither is SE-Asia and so on.

Bring the total to a realistic smallest number you can. Bonus points for writing short TL's or making maps or participating.

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GO!
 
The problem I see here is that the EU and the US are totally different, the EU is a collective (limited control over member-states, both in the way pressure can be brought on, and in how much pressure can be brought), while the US is a single nation (much larger control over member-states). The Wikipedia definition that most closely fits is:
"The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group"
 

Hkelukka

Banned
Yup, its a difficult thing to draw a line between superstate, and an alliance. Say, NAFTA for example is an alliance, SCO is an alliance but EU is closer to a superstate.

And we are discussing superstate/nation/very closely unified cultural sphere. Think, commonwealth?
 
Federalise the British Empire (at least the Dominions) and butterfly away WW1 (& thus WW2), then have them wage a slow and methodical war of conquest in the far parts of the world.

That should produce the largest possible "British" culture.
 
Keep the spanish colonies in America somehow together in a kind of giant Latin American confederation and you would have a spanish-speaking nation streching from California to Tierra del Fuego
 

Hkelukka

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I'd imagine that to keep it without being ASB i think a latin union under spain seems very unlikely. Some kind of limited form where the largest stay and the smallest leave in a loose commonwealth might happen.

But i'm more interested in a world where the entire planet is unified to largest possible cultures at the same time, think, 10-15 superstates most. and no minor states?
 
Right now, the entire world has the same material culture - sure, there are core areas and peripheral areas, social stratification, language differences, etc. but archaeological cultures [or culture complexes] need not be politically unified, need not share the same language, religion, etc...
 
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