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was quick but thanks

any rundown of the world

The superpower conflict of our world never really took off, and the Soviet Union is still about and to all intents and purposes is still the Big Bad.

The United States never quite emerged from out of its shell, which was something worsened by the election of Huey Long in the 30s and the establishment of an undemocratic political machine which only really fell apart many years after his passing. The USA is still the biggest economy in the world but is much less self-confident than in OTL. Latin America is mostly still in the USA's pocket but democracy is considerably less advanced there.

In Europe, Germany is reunited but very fragile. The German State lost her empire in the 1980s, having fought a costly war to keep it, resulting in a refugee crisis as German settlers returned to the Vaterland, and this caused the authoritarian government to collapse. Coming at the same time that Red Germany was experimenting with democratic reforms, Germany reunited. There are quite stark regional differences, but Germany is re-emerging slowly as a European power. France, despite everything that happened, is the biggest economy in Western Europe and has drawn Southern Europe into her economic sphere. With Britain doing her own thing, there isn't any impetus for an 'ever closer union', especially as French leadership entails some worrying connotations.

In Asia, China is on the rise, having inherited Japan's sphere of influence and is considerably more convincing with the Pan-Asian rhetoric. China is a much more truncated country thanks to the post-war division, but has all the major population centres and if anyone looks at a map of Imperial China, places like Tibet etc are viewed as old Imperial territories not 'China proper'. They are flexing their muscles and worrying the Soviets but the dictatorship is if anything more closed than OTL's China and it's corporatist economic model is rather corrupt which holds them back.

The other big power is the British Empire, usually referred to simply as The Empire. It's basically India and her little buddies and the White Dominions have mostly made their peace with that, though there are secessionist movements which advocate separation from the Empire. These dissenting voices tend to be small however, and is mirrored by republican movements in the New Dominions which want to abolish the Empire altogether and pursue their own agendas. These days, the Empire is held together by the sheer economic weight of India which has benefited from inwards investment and industrialisation efforts from the White Dominions since the Second Mutiny. The Imperial Workers Administration means ethnic diversity is somewhat higher in the Dominions. There are a few Mandates, which are generally either in Africa being a Kingdom of Rhodesia still undergoing Reconstruction, or a Pacific island which too small a population to be truly self-sufficient. There are few remaining colonies which are governed from another Dominion but these tend to be teeny-tiny little places.
 
Loved it, very good. Had been hoping to hear what the Cooperative Commonwealth was like these days, but all good things must end somewhere.
 
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Loved it, very good. Had been hoping to hear what the Cooperative Vommonwealth was like these days, but all good things must end somewhere.

I don't think it specifically comes up anywhere but perhaps it says something about the CCB that the President who ran the country while the British Empire endured the Rhodesia Secession was Harold Macmillan?
 
I don't think it specifically comes up anywhere but perhaps it says something about the CCB that the President who ran the country while the British Empire endured the Rhodesia Secession was Harold Macmillan?
Sounds rather "revolutions, like circles, end where they began" in that regard.
 
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