Challenge: keep the Austro Hungarian Empire alive to the present day

This is a pretty hard one, but try to make the AH Empire live into the present day. Civil war and Federialism is allowed as long as in our time the empire still exists and has a reasonably strong central government.
 
A Short Victorious WWI, either by the Entente or the Central Powers, would see AH survive, albiet with some sizeable chunks sawn off in the first place, and in a German stranglehold in the second. I'd go with the Entente victory myself (US gets involved 1915? Ottomans on the Entente side?), if only because if Germany wins big, they are likely to suffer from "victory disease" and drag AH into yet another war somewhere down the line.

Bruce
 
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