Is TTL France the home coutry of the greatest Zeppelins and are Zeppelins differently termed?
Zeppelins are "Dirigibles" ITTL; they are indeed rather popular in France.
Thus, it should read "L'Ardèche", not "La Ardèche"
Yep, realised that depressingly quickly and have changed for future use. Perils of posting at half eleven in the evening...
Speaking of good design transcending universes, it doesn't matter how differant Germany has become, how early the PoD is,
Germany is Stahlhelms! 
Of course, pickelhaubes are
so 1914... Plus, it's a design that seems to work well, so a certain amount of timeline convergence is plausible I think.
I think FWR and failed "state" are the only really likely options, with the independent states being Chinese clients (speaking of which, maybe Tibet is more independent from Beijing than Mongolia because Britain grabbed it at some point before the Great War, and China took it back?).
Seems possible; as for Tibet, the Great Game goes rather differently ITTL as you might expect, and Francis Younghusband has to do
something in his summer holidays...
I don't think an alliance which seems to consist Australia-sans-WA, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Fiji can hold down India in a flagless state. And if the Axis of Stahlhelms took India, one would expect the whole thing to go the way of Manipur: local monarchies into small Chinese puppet states.
Just remember the DoD-verse where a substantially stronger alliance of Australia, South Africa and Ceylon did not even try to hold down India becauce it would be futile.
The mentioned states in the FabR-verse will likely only hold the other British-controlled Pacific Islands.
By the way, you forgot the Kingdom of Hawaii as a likely part of this alliance.
Don't forget South Africa, which is another potential member of any post-Imperial British successor alliance. Either way though, they'd find it difficult to hold down India without significant local support or a lot of troops that have appeared from somewhere.
Oh, and Hawaii is likelier to be an American protectorate than a British one, barring something dramatic.
Well, for all we know, the FWR might actually be an effectively Indian institution. The only thing really "British" we've seen about it is Chairman Mosley: maybe his position is analogous to that of Georgia's most notorious son. I'm not saying I think this is the case, just that we're really not sure how the FWR works, but we do have strong reasons to believe it includes most of India.
Speaking of which: on the "Workers of the world united" poster, the top-left photo shows what appears to be a South Asian woman. The chaps at the bottom also look Indian to me.
If India is in the FWR then Indians will play an increasingly major role in the running of it, that's for sure. As for the poster- what's to say they aren't, say, Guyanan?
That puzzles me: Russia loosing Ukraine is a a sure sign of bad times, yet I can't make a scenario with the Ottomans on Russia's side work in my head: that would mean that the "Russian troops in Central Anatolia" are up against Germans, who are in the enemy heartland and a long way from home... doesn't figure. But if Russia was thrashed, why would they be allowed to make gains? It does seems likely that a pragmatic Russian regime would sell out Slav compatriots in order to retain the Baku oilfields, though.
I'm not going to be drawn on which side the Ottomans fight on, but you could probably spin it either way. I mean, IOTL who'd have thought countries like Romania and Italy would end up on the German side in WW2?
During the early Soviet era many minorities were very quite overrepresented within the Soviet elite.
I would expect the early FoWR-elite being still chiefly British while the majority of the population within the new federation is non-British.
Seems eminently plausible. They'll mostly all have been to Oxbridge anyhow, regardless of nationality.
I wonder how happy China is, though. The existence of Estonia and "Livonia", rather than some sort of Baltic German neo-Teutonic oligarchy suggest that the Kaiserreich is a better egg than its OTL counterpart of 1918 (which is not terribly difficult, of course), but I wonder just what China looks like.
I've actually just finished the magazine article on China over the weekend, but you'll have to wait until the TL is finished before I post it, I'm afraid; suffice to say that compared to OTL it's rather happy, though frankly that's not exactly difficult.
We got a fjord! we got a fjord! We got a fjord! I was going to say 1940 was too soon to drop the Red Ensign, but given the whole FWR thing it's probably not that bad. Just two comments: By 1940 I suspect Quebec would have gotten its hands on Ungava, and (french minorities aside) StP&M probably wouldn't end up part of Quebec - in the 1890s the French Canadians hadn't yet resigned themselves to only ever having the one province. My vote is for Newfoundland to get it, not least since that keeps the whole fisheries thing under control.
Glad you approve of *Skagway... As for the other two points, if you think that's more plausible I'll retcon- I almost gave St Pierre to Newfoundland anyhow and on Ungava I was motivated more by the desire to have a different border than considerations of plausibility.
...Good God, EdT, you put waaay too much work into the photoshops for this. I am humbled.
Glad you like them! The idea is to have a little scrapbook of stuff from within the TL to include with the finished product. Hopefully should be quite fun, give an idea of what living ITTL is like and gives me a way of working around writer's block by doing seperated but linked projects.
