On the topic of Russia, I noticed that during the Cold War Russia was represented in the Congress of Nations as the Russian State rather than the Russian Empire. What's the story behind that, and for that matter what did the Cold War look like ITTL?
Also, it looks like Prussia represented Germany in the Congress until 1960 despite the Confederation forming in 1958. Is there a reason for this two year gap?
I'll have a lot more on that soon! But the basics of it are this, after WWI, Russia briefly becomes a shaky republic. That republic explodes into a Civil war, and the winners are ITTL version of the white movement that form the Russian State. Russian Emperor Nicholas III, would eventually bring democracy to Russia after becoming Emperor, and removing the last of the so-called Old Order. Imagine it as a mix of the Russian Civil War, and the Spanish one, and you're almost there! The Cold War was closer to the great game, less ideological and more about influence on the global stage. Neither state was all that concerned about spreading their form of government or economic system
Basically, Prussia refused to give up the seat, and had to be bought off. Officially members of the confederation are allowed to make certain "Foreign agreements" and Prussia read that to mean that they would retain their seat in the Congress.
Italy as a classical republic in the modern age sounds fascinating. I'm wondering if monarchism became the standard form of government here in the middle ages at all. Sounds and it is a tedious project, but could we get a list of countries once with the dates they acquired their present form of government?
The POD was in the 1750s.
I am working on something like that right now! And I figure you meant the modern age? Basically, Monarchy isn't really standard, so much as it's not considered anachronistic, retaining a Monarchy, even an active Monarchy, is just something some countries do.
The Italy Republic, or
The Most Serene Republic of the Italians will have a very strange system of government that will make you think. Wow, the UC is normal.
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Now, for those paying attention, you might have noticed a ninja edit to the map and the King's boxes. Unfortunately, I uploaded the wrong one. Opps to me.
Now, to explain the new borders.
In Brief, I'll have more on this later.
The King decided to order an intervention into the Yucatan Caste War, hoping to use it as a stepping stone to further expand into the Caribbean and take back lost territories in the region. Under the agreement it will be an American protectorate and not a state, the South concedes to the effort. During the Mexican-American War, he was proclaimed King by the region's elites, hoping to force the Americans to act in their defence rather than abandon them to Mexico. Which works, and a larger American force is dispatched there to defend the now Kingdom of Yucatan.
While the war goes well enough to secure Texas and much of Northern California. The Mexican manage to do well enough to force a smaller Mexican cession. The Mexican-held territory will later fall into chaos due to a flood of American settlers illegally migrating into the area, many of whom belong to the so-called
Old American Republican Movement and are aiming to escape the Province's relentless push west
. After the civil war, which resulted in quite a number of ex-confederates moving in as well, America and Mexico ended up going to fight again, over the matter of what we might call the American Boers. Who go on to form
- United States of California - Currently locked in a decades-long civil war over the question of who the President is, though at this stage it's barely noticeable, and a whole generation of California youth would look at you funny if you asked them what they thought of the war. "What war?" they might ask.
- Republic of Deseret - Polygamy? Check! Deseret alphabet? Check! Theocracy? Check!
- Free Republic of Freedonia - A border republic that's barely holding on, and looks increasingly likely to be annexed by Mexico in the next few years, though many of the country's English speakers are begging the UP for annexation, Baker has no interest in doing that.
In all this chaos, the Navajo manage to form their own state as well, the Navajo Republic.
With little appetite for the annexation of the region, they end up protectorates of the American Crown. A state of affairs that comes to an end in 1971 with the death of King Charles III, as each state decides not to renew it.
As for Nicaragua, well, after breaking off from Mexico, they requested American protection, and they needed a King. The place today is a segregationist hellscape. Just look at who the Prime Minister is. But they hold the Canel, so America has long turned a blind eye to it. However Queen Victoria won't stand for it any longer and has privately told Baker she'll abdicate.
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