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One of my pet peeves regarding this site is the liberal usage of the term "balkanized" to mean any situation where a state fragments into multiple successors. The reason OTL Yugoslavia was so notable is because its fragmentation was intertwined by the incredible diversity of the region in religion, ways of life, modernization, history, and even alphabets used to portray the same language.

Thus, the challenge is to have the above scenario happen to an OTL nation (no combining countries and having them fall apart later) which in OTL isn't as diverse or fragmented as the western Balkans are. In other words, the POD would be whatever caused a gradual shift from national uniformity to several nationalities within a single state, to the point that that state is no longer viable.
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