Countries that benefit the most in AH

Anyone perceived as an interesting "loser" in OTL. That would of course include:

Prehispanic Mexican and Peruvian Empires
Byzantium
Ottoman Empire
Austria-Hungary
Confederate States
Maximillian's Mexican Empire
Imperial Germany
Imperial Russia
Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
Imperial Japan

and gobs more.

Although there are the obligatory wanks of powerful sucessful nations (mostly the British Empire and the USA on this board), I think "what ifs" surrounding the "losers" are more common on this board.
 
I suspect the wanks/etc loosely correlate with the numbers of active posters from certain regions, with Britain getting an advantage because a lot of posters from CANNZAU have similar views on the Empire

This is true. The beauty of post WW2 Britwanks is that the Commonwealth usually does well, gets a carrier or two etc so Aussies etc like them.

I'd give an honourable mention to the Crusader states, they don't succeed but people do try.
 
A few others:

Bulgaria (though OTL could be considered a mild screw)
Portugal (especially in its overseas empire)
Japan (always industrializes before the rest of Asia, is never colonized)
Colombia (Gran Colombia seems to be rather popular)
Sweden (other than occasionally not holding Malmo, tends to be bigger/stronger than IOTL)
 
In published AH, it's the CSA and Nazi Germany. On this site, it's the Byzantines, the Ottomans, Austria-Hungary, Wilhelmine Germany, Japan (OTL is actually a pretty unlikely Japan-wank, especially from the perspective of any year before 1854, and in the years right after World War II, few thought that Japan would recover as quickly as it did), and the USA.
 
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