AHC: 'Soviet Union' your country

Your country of residence breaks apart in a similar manner to the Soviet Union. What new countries arise? Bonus points for including a map and flags.
 
Bavaria is by far the most likely candidate to break off from Germany - though that's pretty far from a post-Soviet-like breakup. Flags already abound.
 
Aland is pretty much only region which could break out from Finland but hard to see that happening. The islands are economically too dependent about Finland and it would be quiet vulnerable nation in possible conflict in Baltic Sea. Breaking Finland like USSR is pretty much impossible. Perhaps if central government and most of infrastructure is destroyed on WW3 there might be war lord era but even that is not like collapse of USSR. Finland is just too homogenous for that and there is not much of political/econiomical/cultural different between different areas. And any Finnish country hardly would be viable as independent nation. At least neighbours would have quiet easy pressure them to make whatever they want.
 
In the case of Canada, Québec is an obvious successor state. Beyond that, the dissolution of Canada would likely come on the lines of the existing provinces, though they I that the Maritimes particularly will have to find some way to cooperate amongst themselves.
 
Balkanized United States. Or as I call it, ohhhhhhhhh shit.

New England probably does its own thing. The Beltway - NYC, NJ, eastern PA, eastern MD, Delaware, DC, and northern VA probably form one nation. Then there’s Appalachia, the Poconos and the Adirondacks; unite them as you see fit.

The South is very tied to state identity so any lines would likely be along state lines. A least one state goes its own way entirely, and I mean a state NOT called Texas.

Utah and a swath of Idaho and Nevada probably join Deseret. The west coast joins up with Alaska, Hawaii and all the Pacific territories; chunks of the coastal states probably splinter off. The Big Sky areas probably go one way, and the Plains do much the same (though the Dakotas May go with the Great Lakes.)

Speaking of the Great Lakes, everything probably centers around Chicago in the middle with borders around Buffalo, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the Dakotas.

And a free, self-sufficient areas in southeast Ohio known as the People’s Republic of Athens.
 

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In the case of Canada, Québec is an obvious successor state. Beyond that, the dissolution of Canada would likely come on the lines of the existing provinces, though they I that the Maritimes particularly will have to find some way to cooperate amongst themselves.
If the United States is still around the Maritimes could become a US satellite or even become American states. If the US also balkanized, the Maritimes would probably seek close ties with whatever entity arises in New England.
 

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The Åland Islands, which would be a very small country (less than 30.000 inhabitants). I doubt anything else would actually break away, I think instead local governments that claim to be under a central government, or even claim to be the central government would be a thing. So not official secessions, but the country really not acting as a country in general.
 
Well, China would not be recognizable.

Excluding the independent and unofficially recognized Taiwan, you would likely see this:
Tibet (including the southern half of Qinghai)
Xinjiang / Uyghurstan / East Turkestan (split into a Uyghur state and a Chinese state)
Manchuria
Inner Mongolia (likely not following the administrative borders though)
Gansu (including Ningxia, the northern half of Qinghai, and westernmost parts of Inner Mongolia)
Shanxi (possibly including northern Shaanxi and southern Inner Mongolia)
Huabei (basically Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, as well as northern Jiangsu and Anhui)
Xi'an / South Shaanxi
Sichuan (including most of Chongqing)
Hubei
Zhejiang (including southern Jiangsu and Anhui, as well as possibly Shanghai, but with the possible exception of Wenzhou)
Hunan (definitely shrunken)
Tujia State
Guizhou
Yunnan
Jiangxi (excluding Ganzhou, which joins the Hakka state)
Fujian (balkanized into three: South Fujian, Fuzhou, Nanping)
Guangdong and Guangxi (balkanized into four or five: Canton, Hakka State, Chaoshan, Zhuang state / Gvangjsih, Guilin (perhaps added to Canton))
Hainan
Hong Kong and Macau may end up in Canton, or independent in this scenario. Shanghai may end up independent, as may Wenzhou.
 
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