AHC: Risk

I've always thought of Risk as taking place in the far future, where technology has fallen back to 18th century levels due to exhaustion of fossil fuels and what not.
 
I've always thought of Risk as taking place in the far future, where technology has fallen back to 18th century levels due to exhaustion of fossil fuels and what not.

That's actually rather brilliant, as it explains why there are fewer islands, and why Siberia is apparently so habitable.
 
I want to see the POD for Kamchakta... :D

I love Risk, i have also the game but nobody of my family wants to play it :(
 
And I guess Taiwan was nuked out of existence-- unsinkable aircraft carrier no longer! That sort of makes sense, I suppose.
 
Here's my attempt:

The Reformation is a little different and more successful. The Protestant parts of the HRE break off and form the Protestant Federation (Northern Europe on the Risk map).

The significantly weakened Hapsburgs centralize what little remains of the HRE and they make a deal with the Italian states to absorb them as well. In order to improve morale, the Pope orders a crusade to retake the Balkans from the Ottomans. This is very successful, but stops short of taking Constantinople back. This creates the Southern Europe area on the Risk map.

Later, due to Dynastic weirdness, either the French inherit Spain or the other way around. This forms the nation of Boubonia (Western Europe on the Risk map). They later conquer Portugal.

The Kalmar Union manages to hold together a little better. Denmark leaves to join the Protestant Federation, and Greenland and Iceland are later given their independence in the era of decolonization, but Sweden, Norway, and Finland stay together.

Russia unites as OTL (this is the "Ukraine" on the Risk map) but due to butterflies, the Central Asian tribes are stronger and prevent them from expanding too far to the east.

The aformentioned central asian tribes keep their independence and form the basis of nations that correspond to Afghanistan, Ural, Irkutsk, Siberia, and Yakutsk on the Risk board.

The British never take Quebec, and it remains a Bourbon colony. The American Revolution takes place as OTL, and afterwards the UK has no way of reinforcing its Canadian holdings. This leads to the native rebellions out west being successful. A rump Canada still exists (the Ontario area on the board), but Alberta and Northwest Territory are now indepedent native states, with native names. Quebec ends up gaining its independence from the Bourbons later.

The US government doesn't react well to western expansion. The Western states feel that the far off federal government in Washington DC is incapable of governing them propoerly, so they rebel. Somehow they manage to pull it off.

With no Russia to colonize it, Alaska also ends up as a native state.

The revolutions in Latin America go a little different, leading to larger nations afterward.

The European powers colonize most of Africa and the near east like OTL, but when decolonization happens, it is more organized and they are more prone to leaving large stable multi-cultural federations than mass chaos. This explains the large African states, the larger India, and Siam (Southeast Asia was presumably dominated by only one colonizer ITTL).

As the Europeans pull out of the near east, a Pan-Islamic movement breaks out that unites Arabia, Persia, Asia Minor, and the Levant (The Middle East on the map).

Western Australian manages to break off from the rest of Australia for similar reasons as for Western USA.

The Japanese Empire is much more successful. They take Korea like OTL, and a larger portion of Manchuria. They also grab Mongolia and the Eastern portion of OTL Russia. However, they never bother to take Taiwan from China. They end up fighting an alt-Pacific War with the British which ends in a negotiated peace and Indonesia is divided between them. The Japanese portion becomes the Risk board area of Indonesia (i.e. Western Indonesia + The Phillipines), while the British portion is New Guinea. When decolonization rolls around, the British portion and the Japanese portion both gain independence.

The Japanese largely follow Europe's lead in terms of decolonization, releasing their mainland Asian colonies as two states. One is the East Asian Federation (Mongolia on the Risk board) and the other is the Kamchatka thing which I am not creative enough to come up with a name for.

Rump China (which includes Taiwan, since the Japanese didn't bother to take it) later manages to stabilize itself. To say that irredentism is a rather big issue there would be an understatement.

Alright, I think that's everything. Do I win? :D
 
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