Countries of an Alternate World Thread (Triple Alliance Victory in WWI)

[Lalli]

Official Name: Federation of Austria-Bohemia
Also Known As: Austro-Bohemia, Austria and Bohemia
Capital: Vienna
Form of Government: Federal Republic
Head of State: president Heinz Fischer
Head of Government: chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel
Languages: German, Czech
Religions: Catholic
Currency: Austrian Schilling
Year of Modern Formation: 1962
Range of Territory: OTL Austria and Czech

 

[yourworstnightmare]

Official Name: Kingdom of Greater Trieste
Also known as: Habsburg Land
Capital: Trieste
Form of Government: Monarchy
Head of State: Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg-Lothringen
Head of Government: Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam von Habsburg-Lothringen
Languages: Italian, German, Slovenian, Croatian
Religion: Catholic
Currency: Triestean Schilling
Year of Modern Foundation: 1962
Range territory: Gorizia, Trieste, Istria, Slovenia

 

[Noravea]

Official Name: The Republic of Somaliland
Also known as: Somaliland, North Somalia
Capital: Hargeisa
Form of Government: Republic
Head of State: Ahmed Silanyo
Head of Government: Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi
Languages: Somali, Arabic, English
Religion: Islamic
Currency: Somaliland shilling
Year of Modern Foundation:
1950 (Independence from UK)
1958 (Liberation from Ethiopia)
1962 (Foundation as Republic of Somaliland)
Range territory: Somaliland, Djibouti (Annexed in 1974), Somalia (Annexed in 1984), and Northern Ethiopia (Gained from a War from 2007-2009).

 

[mcdo]

Official Name: Republic of the Tamil People
Also known as: Tamil Republic
Capital: Chennai
Form of Government: Republican
Head of State: Surjit Singh Barnala
Head of Government: Same as above
Languages: Tamil (official)
Religion: 88% Hindu, 6% Christian, 5.5% Muslim
Currency: Tamil Mark
Year of Modern Foundation: 1953
Range territory: OTL Tamil Nadu, approx. one-third of north-eastern Sri Lanka

 

[Mr J]

Official Name: Viceroyalty of Ceylon
Also known as: Ceylon
Capital: Colombo
Form of Government: Consitutional Monarchy
Head of State: Mahinda Rajapaksa/Elizabeth I of Australia
Head of Government: D. M. Jayaratne
Languages: Sinhala, English
Religion: 88% Hindu, 6% Christian, 5.5% Muslim
Currency: Ceylon Dollar
Year of Modern Foundation: 1949
Range territory: OTL Sri Lanka excluding OTL Tamil Nadu, approx. one-third of north-eastern Sri Lanka
Note: does not recognize the Republic of the Tamil People

 

[kichinichini]

Official Name: Republic of the Tamil People
Also known as: Tamil Republic
Capital: Chennai
Form of Government: Republican
Head of State: Surjit Singh Barnala
Head of Government: Same as above
Languages: Tamil (official)
Religion: 88% Hindu, 6% Christian, 5.5% Muslim
Currency: Tamil Mark
Year of Modern Foundation: 1953
Range territory: OTL Tamil Nadu, approx. one-third of north-eastern Sri Lanka

Why would Barnala be president? He's not Tamil, and this is an ethnic nationalist state that has no connection to Punjab.

 

[kichinichini]

Official Name: Empire of Bengal
Also known as: Bengal
Capital: Kolkata
Form of Government: Despotic Empire
Head of State: Sayyid Akbar Ali Khan
Head of Government: Sayyid Akbar Ali Khan
Languages: Bangla, German (business)
Religion: 59% Muslim, 38% Hindu, 3% indigenous
Currency: Bengal Taka
Year of Modern Foundation: 1924 (declaration), 1930 (internationally recognized)
Range territory: Bangladesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Assam and other states in Northeast India.

 

[LNSS]

Official Name: Third Mexican Empire
Also Known As: Mexico
Capital: Mexico City
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Head of State: H.I.M. Maximillian III of Hapsburg and Iturbide
Head of Government: Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard Cassaubon
Languages: Spanish
Religions: Catholic
Currency: Mexican Real
Year of Modern Formation: 1945
Range of Territory: OTL Mexico, and most of Central America

 

[glenn67]

Official Name: Viceroyalty of Ceylon
Also known as: Ceylon
Capital: Colombo
Form of Government: Consitutional Monarchy
Head of State: Mahinda Rajapaksa/Elizabeth I of Australia
Head of Government: D. M. Jayaratne
Languages: Sinhala, English
Religion: 88% Hindu, 6% Christian, 5.5% Muslim
Currency: Ceylon Dollar
Year of Modern Foundation: 1949
Range territory: OTL Sri Lanka excluding OTL Tamil Nadu, approx. one-third of north-eastern Sri Lanka
Note: does not recognize the Republic of the Tamil People

I believe the majority of this country would be Buddhidt, not Hindu.

 

[theReturner]

Can anyone update the map? I wouldn't want to lose track of all these countries.

 

[kichinichini]

Beleaguered kingdom bordering local powers Tibet and Bengal gets a boost when a bunch of Western meditation enthusiasts move in and overnight form a political class that can curry influence with the west.

Official Name: Invincible Peace Kingdom of Sikkim
Also Known As: Sikkim
Capital: Maharishi Vedic City (formerly Geyzing)
Form of Government: Constitutional Transcendental Meditation Monarchy
Head of State: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam
Head of Government: Raja John Hagelin
Languages: English, Nepali, Hindi, Lepcha, Sikkimese, Bhutia
Religions: Hinduism (Transcendental Meditation) 27%, Hinduism 45%, Buddhism 28%
Currency: Sikkim rupee
Year of Modern Formation: 1976
Range of Territory: Sikkim

 

[mcdo]

Why would Barnala be president? He's not Tamil, and this is an ethnic nationalist state that has no connection to Punjab.

You are right. I just copied the current president out of laziness. Can you suggest a good Tamil leader? I didn't want to use some Tamil Tiger figure...

 

[Hominid]

Official Name: Dominion of Newfoundland and Labrador
Also Known As: Newfoundland; Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland-Labrador
Capital: St. John's
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Head of State: King William
Head of Government: Kathy Dunderdale
Languages: English
Religions: Christianity (94%)
Currency: Newfoundland Dollar
Year of Modern Formation: 1944
Range of Territory: OTL Newfoundland and Labrador

 

[Wendell]

Country: Malagasy Socialist Republic
Also Known As: Madagascar
Capital: Antananarivo
Form of government: Communist state with an increasingly nationalistic outlook
Head of State: Didier Ratsiraka
Head of Government: Roland Ratsiraka
Languages: Malagasy (Official), French, Comorian, Mauritian, English, others
Religions: Officially atheist; Christian, Muslim, and other communities exist underground.
Currency: Ariary
Year of Formation: 1929
Range of Territory: Madagascar, Mayotte, Comoros, and Mauritius.

 

[yourworstnightmare]

Hmm, does the USSR claim East Galizia?
Edit: oh, I see they do that. Okay.


Anyways...

Country: Hungarian People's Republic
Also known as: Hungary
Capital: Budapest
Form of government: Communist dominated republic
Head of State: Commissar of State: Gyula Thürmer
Head of Government: Chairman of the Hungarian Communist Party: János Fratanolo
Languages: Hungarian (official), Slovakian, Serbian, Romanian (minority languages)
Religions: Officially Atheist, Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Judaism
Currency: Forint
Year of Formation: 1938
Range of Territory: Modern day Hungary, Slovakia, Carpatho- Ruthenia, Transylvania, the Banat with Vojvodina

 

[kichinichini]

You are right. I just copied the current president out of laziness. Can you suggest a good Tamil leader? I didn't want to use some Tamil Tiger figure...

I think Karunanidhi should be sufficient. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karunanidhi

 

[kichinichini]

Official Name: United Provinces of Free Central America
Also Known As: Central America, ACL (Spanish), FCA (English)
Capital: San Juan
Form of Government: Socialist Revolutionary
Head of State: José Figueres Olsen
Head of Government: Daniel Ortega
Languages: Spanish
Religions: Catholic, Protestant (Pentecostal)
Currency: ACL Córdoba
Year of Modern Formation: 1967
Range of Territory: Costa Rica, Western Nicaragua, Panama, San Andrés and Providencia Department, Ecaudor, and Colombia along the Pacific coast

 

[kichinichini]

Official Name: Kingdom of Colombia
Also Known As: Colombia
Capital: Cartagena
Form of Government: Military Regency
Head of State: vacant
Head of Government: General Harold Bedoya Pizarro
Languages: Spanish
Religions: Catholic
Currency: Colombian Real
Year of Modern Formation: 1948
Range of Territory: Remainder of Colombia

 

[Wendell]

Official name: Miskito Republic
Also Known As: Mosquitania
Capital: Bluefields
Form of government: Unitary presidential republic
Head of state: Norton Cuthbert Clarence
Head of government: Norton Cuthbert Clarence
Languages: Miskitu, Coastal Creole, English, Rama Cay Creole
Religions: Christianity, Animism
Currency: United States Dollar
Year of modern Formation: 1968
Range of territory: Zelaya Department

 

[wietze]

Country Bio

Official Name: The Imperial States of Germany
Commonly Known as: ISG, Germany
Capital:Berlin
Form of Government: Consitutional Monarchy
Head of State: Kiaser Georg I
Head of Government: Chancellor Angela Merkel
Languages: German, Danish, French, English
Religions: Protestantism, Catholicism
Currency: Deutshce Mark
Year of Modern Formation: 1955
Range of Territory: Include OTL Germany circa WWI, as well as the the low countries, parts of Poland and all of Denmark


Feel free to include flag and other facts as well. If anyone has a good blank map we could use, that would be cool too. In this case, I think it would be good if we left the history until the map is complete.

Have at it.

It contains the low countries but it has not Dutch as language?