Is this possible?

aspie3000

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So, I watched a documentary on Tibet before the Dhali Lama was deposed by the Chinese and it was very interesting. Tibet was basically a feudal medieval state frozen in time do to geographic isolation in the mountains during the industrialized world of the 1950s. My question is my if it is at all possible through an alternate course in history to have a modern day reactionary feudal agricultural state with a European majority existing either in Europe or her colonies. I know that this is highly unlikely do to the obvious default of industrialization in western societies and the world in general. But I'm thinking of a society with an ideology like the antebellum south where aristocracy and agriculture is valued and industrialization is spurned. This whole thread may be a stupid question and asb but here it stands.
 
Maybe a weird Switzerland? Even then, I think it only maintained its independence by maintaining technological parity with the rest of Europe. Not to mention the who banking thing.

Maybe an island somewhere? Gotland?
 
Probably only WW3 on 1980's can do that. Even that wouldn't destroy all technology nor knowledge but we mght get closer Middle Ages, of course not literally.
 
Somewhere like northern Scandinavia, or maybe the Sahara, could host such a state. It would need to be quite remote and have nothing really worth the effort of the great powers.

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Albania took a shot at this, IMHO. Of course, you need some modern industry to keep your army in toys...
 
There's not really anything in Europe that compares to the geographic isolation in Tibet, so I don't think this is plausible unless there's a North Korea-style dictatorship purposefully preventing modernization.
 

aspie3000

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There's not really anything in Europe that compares to the geographic isolation in Tibet, so I don't think this is plausible unless there's a North Korea-style dictatorship purposefully preventing modernization.

This also extends to European colonies as well. The North Korea style dictatorship or kingdom is an interesting idea.
 
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