Fun 19th century PODs after 1815

ottomans existing in the 1930's is a must have. their system of govt would depend on their reaction to the inevitable arab revolt & which western power decides to prop them up. for the latter possibly britain, with ottoman constitutional monarchists gaining the upper hand.

maybe a dynamic emperor who sides with the constitutional monarchists (& the bourgeoisie, which includes a considerable number of non-muslims) to weaken the pashas. perhaps a gentler but smarter mahmud II and a more successful tanzimat.

if italy is quick enough, it can grab some aegean island & crete, cyprus.

egypt should be an interesting one.

a couple of puppet states in the balkans. a theocratic statelet with grand ambitions around the hedjaz..
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Any G.P.s or German or other ehtni states? I could help with flag or "fun" ideas, which may not be plausible as that is not my strong points.:cool:

Well, the states I'm considering by the early 1900s are:

Grao-Para
Riograndence Republic
Juliana Republic
The Danubian Worker's Federation (the continental superpower with a Hapsburg figurehead stretching from the Rhineland to the Ukraine and Silesia to the southern Balkans which has failed in both its past pan-German and pan-Slavic aims)
Luxembourg (a French puppet)
Duchy of the Saarland (French puppet)
Third French Empire
Grand Duchy of The Rhine (Hapsburg possession)
Duchy of Westphalia (Hapsburg possession)
Prussia (rump barracks state under Russian protection and occupation)
Nicaragua (Walker's state which has annexed Costa Rica and Honduras and which constructed a canal with French, British, and CSA backing)
Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia (French puppet)
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
CSA (turns religiously-tinged populist/agrarian socialist in the 20th century)
Republic of Britain (run by a Chartist movement which became revolutionary and cut off from its colonies)
Columbia (escaped Britain's control and includes BC and the Pacific Northwest)
California (escaped Britain's control)
Deseret (US puppet)
Empire of Mexico (French puppet)
Maritime Confederation
Rupert's Land
Alyeska
Lakota Republic (US puppet)
Argentina (escaped Britain's control)
Kingdom of Sarawak (under the Brooke family)
North Borneo Company
Sultanate of Sulu (vassal of the Japanese Philippines with a presence on Borneo)
Maluka (under the Hare family)
Republic of the Lanfang Kongsi
Sultanate of Brunei (regained some of it's influence over Borneo)
The Cocos Islands (under the Clunies-Ross family)
Assiniboine ('Canadian' ie. Ontarian puppet)
Hohenzollern Spain
Ottoman Empire (won the Russo-Turkish War and continued modernising)
Aceh (Ottoman vassal)
Japan-Hawaii dual monarchy (captured most of Spain and Prussia's [OTL Germany's] Asia-Pacific possessions)
Nueva Germania (Prussian vassal in Paraguay)
Colombia (retains Panama)
Australasian Federation (Australia, NZ, Fiji, captured Prussian New Guinea, and all other British Asia-Pacific possessions taken from the revolutionary Chartist regime in Britain)
Quebec (with a Bourbon restoration)
Canada (essentially Ontario)
Irish Republic
Royalist British India (where the British royal family, navy and elite chose to relocate to)
Mughal Empire (reformed in Northern India in a revolt following the Chartist revolution)
South Carolina (a hard-liner CSA successor state)
Texas (seceded from the CSA during the revolution and took the CSA southwest, the Indian Territory, and San Diego with it)
Brazil (hasn't outlawed slavery and is South Carolina's main benefactor)
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Congo Free State

I'm currently trying to amalgamate them into a single TL, which involves a lot of butterfly nets since the PODs span from the 1830s until the early 20th century, though after that, I'd like to end the similarities with OTL. As I said, I'm open to more interesting ideas and would especially like something interesting to do with the parts of the world I haven't covered.

The above list also depicts those states as they exist at the turn of the century, and I would like to nuance them with their own eccentric ideologies, national aims, personalities, and unique challenges for the 1930s setting. A lot of history can happen in the space of 30 years, especially 30 years of the 20th century.
 
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