jcw3's Map Thread

[Jcw3]

This has been a long time coming, I think. I'm going to go through and find all the maps I've made that aren't embarrassing for me to look at, and I'll put them in here. Watch this space.

The New World Still Stands!

In the 1750s, the supernatural came back. Faeries, monstrous beings like goblins, trolls, and even the alluring sidhe overwhelmed Europe within five years, with the continent eventually being united under the Winter Queen, Mab herself. Now Europe is ruled by a petty mob of squabbling fae, all vying for Mab's attention or assistance in some manner. Mab herself rules from Prague, and pays little mind to her suitors or servants, instead focusing on the Silver City.

The Ottomans were almost overwhelmed by the fae, until an angelic visitor visited them, and offered them help in their darkest hour. The angels have converted the Islamic world into a gestalt, in which their is no anger, no fear, no hope, no happiness, only contentment and satisfaction.

In China, the Monoliths appeared. Enormous beings, dragons, giants, mountains of people, they took one year to completely take over China, and from there, it was a straight shoot to Siberia, Korea, and Central Asia. Unfortunately, Bharat is posing quite a threat, with its terrain and their own spirits that they managed to summon. Siamia has its own monstrosities to call, as well as official support from the American governments, to say nothing of Nihon's abominations or Goryea's resistance.

Ah yes, the American remnants. The European powers mostly had enough left to flee the Old World with their tail between their legs. The United Kingdom of America is the strongest of these powers, and relies upon a steady peace between the natives to the west, the settlers to the east, and the newer immigrants and refugees from the Old World that still come in at a steady trickle. It allows considerable autonomy for its Quebecois and Cherokee populace.

On the other hand, there's the Spanish Empire, a genocidal empire that was recently forcibly dissolved by the Americans, who carved out the nations of Platinea, California, and Mexico from the remains. Today, Spain is vying for a chance to rejuvenate its old power, but they're finding fewer and fewer options.

Brasil, the inheritor of Portugal. The Dutch and French Republics, close friends and allies after the loss of their homelands. The Russians, a hardy people who are still struggling to settle their new homeland, and are also still fighting a heavy resistance in eastern Siberia. German Patagonia, a refugee nation for Central and Eastern Europeans.

Africa is the new goal for the human powers, with the Monoliths not caring and the fae that rules Morocco barely moving down the coast at all. Millions of humans pour into the new colonies, and what they discover appalls them. The native Africans were consumed and devoured by feral supernatural monsters, and barely any above the Congo have survived without calling upon their own eldritch monsters. An estimated seventy percent of natives died during the war.

Brasil has drawn controversy for holding the largest claims over Africa, but it defends this by pointing out that the others are no better, with America having colonies in both Australia and Africa already, as well as dominating North America. Spain is crazy, France and the Dutch have enough land to work for them, and the others are too small.

Ignoring the latest land dispute, there is one major upcoming event that could prove...problematic. The Americans are pointing out to their French, Dutch, Brasilian, and Russian allies that they have superior weaponry now. It's 1925. They have flying machines, gatling guns, warships of metal, and the fae, according to every recent escapee, have stagnated. They stand a chance of retaking their home!

Comments, questions, and criticisms wanted.

 

[PachPachis]

Awesome!

 

[Jcw3]

The year is 1962. It's been sixteen years since the Zweite Weltkrieg came to a close, and since then, Germany and Japan have largely secured their respective new blocs' borders. Germany maintains an iron fist over Europe, the entire continent under its firm and cold boot. There are no longer Jews living publicly in Europe, the Russian population has decreased by forty percent, and progress is being made on the more rebellious groups in the Balkans. Germany needs its own Mediterranean port, and it's tired of having to even pretend to go through these untermenschen for that purpose. Italy is growing restless, and attempting to break away from the Greater German Reich, as it breaks the backs of its African subjects in a desperate attempt to surpass its patron.

On the other side of the sea, the Japanese Empire launches yet another assault into the arechi states of interior China, rayguns and nuclear weapons (they work a bit differently on this world) ripping partisans to shreds, and they even have the support of coastal Chinese, who are rather happy with their subordinate but equal position in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Firipin Islands have finally settled down, the Korean language is more spoken in California than in the peninsula proper, and the last car bomb in Sarugon was in 1960. But its position in China is, as always, shaky. This latest rebellion is proof of that.

The United States of America and the Commonwealth of Earth are the third power on this world. The Commonwealth is a loose confederation of the remnants of the British and French Empires, and see themselves as the last bulwark against a fascist world. They're constantly bogged down in guerilla campaigns in Africa, but they're steadily making progress, especially in the Congo and Rhodesia. The United States of America, while allied with the Commonwealth, is largely neutral in world affairs outside of the Americas and Liberia.

It's not commonly known, but during the Philippine War of Independence (1939-1941), America gave tacit approval for Japan to take over the island nation, as well as buying a few Pacific Islands and a non-aggression pact between the two nations, in exchange for all of the technology Japan had access to. This deal has made America the wealthiest nation on Earth, and potentially, the most powerful. Germany and Japan both shy away from annoying the Americans. They saw what happened to Peru, after all, and that barely took four months for them to pull off.

So Germany and Japan, the former lovebirds, are turning their attention on each other. Japan sees that Germany will one day be too powerful for them to overwhelm, while Germany sees weakness. War is inevitable. German saucers and stratocarriers begin to make their path over to the Ribbentrop-Asai line, and bombs begin to fall on Japanese military bases.


Questions, comments, criticism, all welcome.

The finished map of a world in which the nations with the largest populations are sent to the nations with the largest land areas. It's based off of a map I found on the Internet, which apparently has inaccuracies, a lot of them. I figured that out halfway through the map. I ignored the Antarctic claims, and some countries may have been missed in this clusterfuck. Here's the link with the full list of nation swaps. Based off of this thing I found in the A.S.B. maps thread.

This takes place in 2066, 50 years after the initial transfers.

 

[Jcw3]

It's 1960, sixty years since the Endless Stretch opened to humanity. An infinite number of virgin worlds, loosely connected to Earth via the Pacific Ocean, were gifted to humanity by an unknown patron. Settlement of these worlds has been slow going, especially in the early years, but is now beginning to pick up steam. The United States, Association of Commonwealth States (A.C.S.) and the Russian Empire are presently the most successful settlers of the two worlds 'closest' to Earth (Hamilton and Gaea on the left and right respectively).

On Hamilton, the United States and Mexico are the most prominent settlers of the continent of New Eden, while Canada has claimed the large island of Goodland (the sailor who named it really needed a better imagination). On Gaea, the situation is much more tense, as the various powers compete with each other over the settling of Satisia, the continent that dominates that world. The A.C.S. is happily ahead here, and is busily claiming islands on the Grand Ocean, as well as preparing to settle more of the landmass proper.

This world is much more peaceful than ours is, and World War One was even a more minor affair, with Britain and France not even getting involved at all. There was no followup, beyond minor colonial skirmishes.

Questions, polite criticism, and comments are welcome and wanted.

EDIT: The nations of this world have visited other worlds, but Hamilton and Gaea are the only ones that have seen settlement beyond a few thousand people.

The year is 2000. One hundred years since the worldscape (Earth's collective name for the infinite worlds they're now connected to) and the exploitation of Hamilton (left) and Gaea (right) is going smoothly. The two closest worlds to Earth, they're increasingly as important as Earth proper.

The United States has, at present, seventeen states on New Eden, the largest of Hamilton's two (two and a half if you ask the Canadians) continents. Notable states are Treasure Coast, where the United States found a massive reserve of platinum, or the first state, Greenwich, which evolved naturally from the first American settlement. The United States is working on claiming Libertatem, the smaller of the two continents, but their efforts are being annoyed by states founded by the Church of Latter Day Saints, nutso Christians, and a socialist commune.

The rest of New Eden is largely being ignored by the powers of Afroeurasia, and has only seen sparse settlement from Britain and France. Britain is even pondering selling their colony wholesale to Canada. Portugal, on the other hand, is profiting well from the plentiful mineral deposits in their colony, and is more and more considering itself a 'Latin American Power' or a Romance language speaking nation under heavy American influence that's settling New Eden. The states of Latin America are doing well. Mexico is happily settling down the Walson Bay, while Brazil begins to look for more land down the southern coast of New Eden, now that their settlement on the east coast is beginning to slow its gains.

On Gaea, China is making the most of the rather poor land it received, and is flooding the area with peasants, to the point where Japan and the Dominion of Near Satisia (they finally gave their colony home rule in 1992) are growing concerned at their comparatively slower growth. Japan is looking into forming another settlement on the northern coast of Satisia, and is looking into forming an agreement with Russia over the area.

France and Germany's colonies are seeing very slow growth, which is being to frustrate their colonial overlords. France is looking into increasingly recruiting its black African population, which is a bit awkward, as Paris had afforded the natives in the French System high autonomy at the cost of not being able to do much, and they worry they may lose control. Germany, on the other hand, is bringing in more people from its Allianz von Europa. The Netherlands are happy with their small bit of Big Shadsworth Island, and as such, their progress on a newer settlement is sluggish at best.

Back on Earth, the exploitation of oil reserves on Gaea means that the great powers are leaving the Middle East alone, and the British influence has virtually vanished into thin air. America has loosened its grip over Central America. The Congolese Civil War has died down. The Indian states in the Association of Commonwealth States are flexing their muscles, and are exerting influence over formerly neutral states in the area.

Oh, and now, just to tell you guys, if you want to make your own worldscape, here's a link to what I use to get the worlds. Select 850 Width, and 625 Height to make it fit next to a worlda, you might want to adjust the measurements there a bit, but I think it's fine. The Seeds for Hamilton and Gaea respectively are 4831616 and 16358317.

Questions? Comments? Thoughts? The next map will take place in 2050, and will show Phoebea and Otherworld. I apologize for making you wait to see them.

The seventeen states admitted to the United States since the arrival of the worldscape in 1900 (presently 2000). All are on the continent of New Eden on the planet of Hamilton.

 

[Jcw3]

The year is 2075. Settlement of Hamilton and Gaea is almost finished, and projections show that within fifty years, both planets will have (proportionally) standards of living equivalent to Earth itself. And then the colonizers will move on to Phoebea and Otherworld.

The United States officially has sixty-one states that aren't even on its homeworld, and the Hamiltonian states are increasingly lobbying for the capital to be moved to Honolulu, as a compromise between Earth and Hamilton. States are largely named after one of four things nowadays. Native tribes (Paiute, Seminole, Choctaw), nice sounding words (Felicity, Benediction, Inspiration, Resplendence), increasingly obscure people from American history (Audubon, Stanton), and even places on American Earth (New Scranton, Georgia Novum, Coronado).

Mexico is stretching its legs in Central America, now that America couldn't give two shits about the place. The rise of the Internet-equivalent, economic domination of America and Mexico, globalism, and a lack of foreign interest in the area meant the end to the Central American states. Mexico's rebranded itself as a Central American Union of sorts, and while Nicaragua and Panama opted instead to join the United States, it's increasingly becoming a dominant factor in the Gulf of Mexico. America is beginning to withdraw from global diplomacy on Earth altogether, with the population more and more not caring about the escapades of other nations when they have worlds to settle. Outside of Haiti, Liberia, and other states that will never escape the Pax Americana, you could be forgiven for thinking that Brazil was the dominant American power.

But when you go to Hamilton, the United States of America is everything. Oh, Brazil is working on an intercontinental connection between the New Edenite east and southeast coasts, and Mexico is building its own little native empire. But if you want to deny the American hegemony on this world, there are one hundred and twelve million American settlers who would like to have a word with you. Still, the Latin American powers are gleefully enjoying the economic benefits of Hamilton's resources, and it's largely the reason why Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina all have economies larger than France's or Italy's, powers whose colonial efforts have been absolutely minimal. There are also the independent states.

The Theorepublic of Deseret had some poor years where a demagogue held power, but an American-sponsored democratic revolution has largely brought it back to normalcy. Well, whatever qualifies for normal when it comes to Mormon fundamentalists. The American People's United Republic, however, was only limited by its population, and by the naivete of its leadership, which saw several remote villages completely fall apart. Still, it's a functional nation, a far cry from the beachside huts set up by radicals in the 1990s. The Christian Republic of New Crete is being held back by its backwards treatment of women, and the economic restrictions placed on it by the United States. There are also the American nationalist states, or the states founded by those who think Washington is far too oppressive.

Gaea is being busily settled by the Afroeurasian powers. China's racing cross-continental, and Japan, Russia, and the A.C.S. (Association of Commonwealth States) aren't far behind. I'm afraid I'm not especially interested in talking about this half of the world, so feel free to ask questions if you have any.

On Earth, Germany's sort of soured by their poor results in the colonization game, but they couldn't be doing any better in Europe, laying the roots for a United Europe, having annexed such nations as Norway, Hungary, and Poland, molding a prosperous, democratic union, as the sixth largest economy on Earth. South Africa's coming back to normal after their brief fling with apartheid exploded spectacularly, but is completely offended by A.C.S. attempts to recontact them, the blacks angry that they didn't receive any help, and the whites angry that they didn't receive any help. Germany is looking mighty friendly, and Johannesburg is increasingly turned towards them.

Feeling a bit under the weather, so the write-up will be more limited.

Phoebea-Hamilton-Earth-Gaea-Otherworld

*The year is 2125. Hyperloop-equivalents connect all of the five settled worlds, but there are still noticeable discrepancies in power difference now.
*The United States still has its capital in Washington D.C., but the Hamiltonian economy has been larger than the Earther one for a long time.
*The Realized Republic of Colombiana is a rising power on Hamilton. They were formed by conservative-leaning states that thought that the United States was going the wrong way. You can see them in dark gold on the left side of Libertatem. They're settling the northern longcoast on the entryside of Phoebea.
*Phoebea earned its name when the initial expedition leader's daughter died, and he decided to name the world after her. The name stuck.
*Scientists think Phoebea was sliced out from a bigger world and transported to the worldscape. The longcoasts are the remnant of when it was once part of a greater, larger planet, and are steadily collapsing into the sea over the years.
*The emergence of mining colonies, or interior colonies built around large mineral deposits, are becoming more noticeable as scanning technology and tubechutes (hyperloops) become more and more commonplace.
*The United States has fully withdrawn from Earther politics, having annexed Haiti and Liberia, its last remaining client states, and is now solely focused on exploiting the worldscape. It still keeps in touch with Mexico and Brazil, especially in terms of colonizing, but doesn't really talk with the other powers.
*Canada's left the A.C.S., having grown annoyed with the comparative lack of assistance on its preferred side for settlement. Now, it operates in lockstep with America, the two adjusting laws to match each other, and so on. Pundits are talking about unification being possible within twenty years or so.
*Spain is officially under Portuguese influence.
*Brazil is working diplomatic wonders in Africa, and is in sort of an economic cold war with Germany in the area. There hasn't been major armed conflict on Earth for over a century, so no worries there.
*Germany officially goes by the European Union nowadays.
*Britain is now only the seventh largest economy in the A.C.S., after Mysore, Bharat, Rajasthan, Australia, East Africa, and Near Satisia (Far Satisia is rapidly catching up).
*Mag Mell, the smallest and closest of Otherworld's continents, is seeing major settlement by the powers. Indonesia's even staked a claim, officially embracing the A.C.S. A good tradeoff for Canada, London thinks.
*The official power blocs/alliances are...
*The United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Canada, Deseret, New Crete, and the American People's United Republic. This bloc dominates the westworlds almost entirely on their own, and they generally cooperate to the full extent. Thanks to translation software, they're growing closer and closer, but they can't quite agree on how to form a united nation, and aren't sure that they want to.
*The European Union, Italy (States under Italian influence), Russia, Japan, Indochina, and the Ottoman Empire. Nothing much to say here.
*The Association of Commonwealth States, China, Ethiopia, Thailand, Ireland, France, Indonesia, and the Netherlands are the final bloc, and are regularly competing with the Russo-Japanese bloc.
*Questions? Comments? Thoughts? Criticism? All welcome.

 

[CannedTech]

Aye, I'm down for this too.

Funny thing, I was gonna' do a map for that land swap world too, but I never finished it.

 

[Jcw3]

This talk of New Jersey inspired me to finish an ISOT idea I've had for a while. Camden, New Jersey, one of the shittiest of America's cities, is ISOTed to a virgin earth. This is the world map, two hundred years later. Some notes below.

*World population is 23.7 million, from the original eighty-something thousand. Almost all of it is on North America, but there is a small settler state in Portugal.
*The Camdenite government, corrupt, incompetent, and honestly a bit evil, lost control of the city the minute the food ran out. To this day, there are two governments in the city, originating from the police remnants drafting private citizens, and a loose, unstable coalition of gangs drafting private citizens. The wars between the two stopped around thirty years after the ISOT, and the North Camden-South Camden governments don't actually mind each other as much.
*North Camden, while it praises the original gangbangers as heroes, is not really so gangsta anymore. It's settled down, is largely a fairly ordinary presidential democracy with a fourth branch, the military, which occasionally launches coups when it's not feeling important enough. Some gangs dissatisfied with the existing government trekked out to form their own states, but they've long since gone legit.
*South Camden's incompetent on the domestic front, but it's still managed to luck out with the other states. Chesapeake, New Philly, and the Atlantic Republic are all fully aligned with South Camden, military dictatorship that it is.
*South Camden is not the most important state in its union. New Philly has a better economy and industry, and has a stranglehold on South Camden's maritime industry. It's actually causing the South Camdenite leadership to consider letting the Americans just wipe out the New Phillians, but that would run the risk of losing their already tenuous grip on their populace, and given the American annexation of Delmarva and Westpenn, they aren't looking forward to that possibility.
*There were two massive groups that left Camden during the initial die off and gang wars. The first was the Christians, who fled north, both to escape the fighting/dying, and to start a new kingdom as God ordained.
*The Hudson Christian Republic (HCR) is the second most powerful state in the world, having exploited the Hudson River to its fullest potential, and gone through the trial and error of restarting industry. It didn't have the advantages the USA did, but it's more than made up for it in sheer determination.
*The Hudson Christian Republic is the most conventionally aggressive of the states. Its perpetual punching bag is the Erie Alliance, a group of towns founded around Lake Erie. Currently, it's sponsoring a violent rebellion, and is preparing to just move in and annex the place.
*The HCR is led by the First Prayer Leader, a leader elected by a conclave of regional Prayer Leaders who rule the larger communities. First Prayer Leader Deonte Marks is a very aggressive man, having issued direct insults against the Plymouth Christian Republic, and committed war crimes against rebellious towns in the Erie Alliance. Marks is bringing back some of the more vile traditions associated with Hudson in the past, having brought back burning and drowning as death penalty enactments, rather than the more humane guillotine or drop off a high cliff. His statements against women's rights are particularly offensive to many, especially given that female church leaders were some of the most important Hudsonian heroes. Prayer Leaders Wayne, Lopez, and Michaels have met in the backroom of a Galilee church, and agreed that Marks must be removed, for God's people to prosper.
*There's also the Plymouth Christian Republic. In the initial founding of the HCR, there was a disagreement over whether or not Christianity should be the enforced state religion, i.e., if the government would perform regular 'faith checks'. The soon-to-be founders of Plymouth disagreed with the idea of the Church being responsible for performing mandatory religious tests, and from there, differences spouted. Plymouth is a more moderate fundamentalist republic, and has cordial relations with the other American nations, but it largely keeps to itself.
*There's also the Kingdom of Nazarene, in case you were worried Hudson was too moderate.
*On the other hand, there were the general groups that fled Camden. People who were on the road in Camden, people who had to make a rest stop, people who were visiting family, or people who just thought Camden was a shithole, and didn't get on the church train. Those people eventually coalesced into the United States of America, and is now the most prosperous nation on the continent.
*America isn't too different from the modern-day government, but there's a lot less separation of church and state, the state promotes natalism (in order to be a voter, you have to be married with at least one child, for instance), but it's still probably the best state to emerge from Camden.
*Coal mines in what used to be West Virginia, as well as a newfound oil colony in Texas, are fueling American expansionism, even if they have to interact with the Linite Futurist Republic. Washington is talking about taking in a few islands of their own so they don't have to bother with the cultist weirdos. Regardless, America is the most advanced nation on the planet (followed by New Philly, Hudson, and Plymouth).
*The Linite Futurist Republic was founded in the late 21st century by a cultist named John Lin from South Camden, who proclaimed that they should not have to adhere to a cruel God or a despotic, unhelpful government. He got together around five thousand followers, fled south to the Bahamas, and set up a state worshipping him.
*By some miracle, the state held together, and worship of Lin is still common, even with the best efforts of Hudsonian and Plymouthite missionaries. The Linitites are polite enough, but there's something about the non-Christian nature of the LFR that creeps out a lot of northerners.
*Camden itself, the city, I mean, has largely fallen apart over two hundred years. A few buildings here and there are maintained, but only around forty thousand people live there nowadays, especially since it's split between two governments, neither of whom like each other.
*Technology is roughly early twentieth century. The United States is modernizing fast, though, using copies of ancient texts scavenged from Camden libraries.

Questions? Thoughts? Comments?

Here's another ISOT map from yours truly, this time, it's North Korea sent to a virgin world on its lonesome. This is actually the first map I've made with with a legend, as far as I can remember. Notes below. Oh, and if you guys have any ideas for other entries in this series, PM me! I'd love to hear your ideas, because these are fun.

*The initial ISOT was the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as of August 2, 2016, to a virgin Earth. This map is two hundred years afterwards.
*World population is 1.36 billion, from 25 million in the initial ISOT. Technology level is roughly 1980s in most places, but they're making great strides forward.
*The world as a whole is highly militaristic and paranoid, but there aren't many places where the leaders mandate that their subjects worship them. Generally, the governments are bog-standard dictatorships or state capitalist systems.
*Kim Jong-un was killed in the first few weeks post-ISOT, and his generals couldn't quite agree on who would be in charge, nor could they figure out who killed him. It devolved into a civil war, where eventually, a coalition of three factions eventually retook control of the original nation, while a variety of others fled to other parts of East Asia, often carrying with them ships of refugees.
*From there, it was a period of frantic and sporadic expansion on the parts of the North Korean successor states. Pyongyang was unquestionably the most powerful, and evolved into a sort of militaristic technocracy over the years, juche worship thrown to the wayside with humanistic self-worship taking more of an upper hand in Pyongyang's society.
*Tanbaek, a corruption of an ancient Korean word that has long since been lost to history, is the second most powerful successor state. Not because of their initial military power, but because of what they grew into. Eager colonizers, proud natalists, and forceful expansionists, they've sort of overextended themselves. Still, with enough reproduction and enough faith in the Long Lost Leader, they're sure they can get through it.
*Jeonneung (name origin unknown, believed to be a corruption of one of the founders' names), the southernmost of the original successor states, honestly could not give less of a fuck about further colonization. They have enough oil, enough satellites, and friendly enough relations with Indo and Tanbaek, so they could not care less about growing further. It's why many Jeonn emigrate to Pung-yo or Indo when they want to own their own land. The languages are similar enough that it's no real issue, so why not?
*Indo's an up and comer. There were four nations that emerged from the myriad of settler colonies on the Indian subcontinent, and Indo managed to become the strongest through luck and starting their industry before anyone else. They're actually fairly democratic on the local level, but the ruling family gets to pick the provincial governors.
*Pung-yo was originally a Pyong colony for harvesting oil in the mid 21st century, but declared independence during a period where Pyongyang was unstable, and never came back. They're the richest nation on Earth per-capita, barely beating out Bogdo, the nation built around the Strait of Malacca. Pung-yo, having satisfied itself with the stupid amount of oil it controls, is also idly sponsoring colonization, and exploiting the resources in the Caspian Sea. Immigrants, primarily from Jeonneung and other states in what was once China, are their favorite people to use as sorta-kinda slaves.
*Gallilli is the only Christian state in the world, and has moved places several times. Originally on Luzon, then Orissa, and now on Madagascar, seemingly permanently this time, Gallilli is used to being persecuted and mistreated by the entirely non-Christian North Korean successor states. They've claimed Madagascar for themselves and are working on building up their military. Indo, ever the pragmatist, is looking into recruiting and building them up. After all, Africa will soon need to be exploited, and Gallilli's already there...
*Ilban was a powerful successor state, until conflict between Pyong and Ilbanese settlers on Sakhalin erupted into full scale war, and the warlord state occupying Japan was dismantled and neutered. Pyongyang is contemplating annexing it, but the locals aren't at all wealthy, the infrastructure is poor, it's barely worth keeping as a vassal. So they're nabbing the valuable bits, then leaving the rest to rot.
*Pyongyang and Tanbaek are having a rather lopsided competition in settling Australia. Pyongyang was smart enough to go over the parts with the good land, then send out military expeditions to harvest the good stuff. Plus, they have a larger economy to fund the settlement. Still, Tanbaek has a modest resource collection zone based around what would be Darwin.
*Pyongyang's navy is the strongest of all the powers, with the possible exception of Pung-yo's merchant fleet, so it's been able to fund settlements far away from its homeland, including the newer expeditions to the Americas. They knew there was oil in the Gulf of Mexico and gold in California, but they didn't know anything beyond that. But with trial and error, they're rapidly finding that they can diminish Pung-yo's firm grasp on the oil economy. Plus, good idea to build up more territory in general, especially in a place far away from your rivals.

Questions? Thoughts? Comments?

The ISOT this time (sorry, it’s been a while) is the German Empire and all of the territory it controlled, in 1916. I’m including the various fronts nearest to German-occupied territories in this ISOT, as well as any town nearby those that had reasonable concern over being part of the front. The only overseas German colony that wasn’t occupied was Tanzania, and the part that wasn’t occupied by Anglo-Belgian forces has been ISOTed. The part of Germany proper occupied by the Entente has not been ISOTed.

Below I describe the world, in 2116, two hundred years after ISOT.

*Population is 1.64 billion.
*Tech level is roughly 1950s overall, with some discrepancies, such as the lack of nuclear weapons and the early development of an Internet-like system.
*The Great War ended over the course of a few months, with the remaining Entente forces on the Western Front rapidly running out of food and supplies, and a surrender was reached. Anglo-French forces would get their own bits of land in their homelands to resettle and Belgium would be partitioned to Germany’s liking.
*On the Eastern Front, it was a fair bit more chaotic, where German-occupied Russia falling quickly to anarchy. A settlement was reached by mid-1917, where the Russians would retreat and found their own state on the Black Sea, or recognize themselves as German citizens. Of course, this wound up being a lot more complicated, as will be later explained.
*The present day is 2116. Germany is very decentralized, with Berlin only responsible for organizing meetings between the various interior republics and announcing colonization for Germany as a whole. This decentralization likely began in the 1940s, with a notorious corruption scandal involving the Kaiser that almost devolved into a civil war, which gradually devolved into a complete distrust of the Imperial government.
*Today, the various interior republics are more focused on trade with each other than listening to Berlin. Prussia, Bavaria, and Britannien are the leader of their various intra-German blocs, and their divisions may someday threaten to split the Empire.
*France still resents its domination by Germany. It and Britain both suffered problems with having an almost eighty percent male dominated nation to build up, and the civil rights issues that came with having to bring Indian and African soldiers back with them.
*In the modern day, France is little more than a more independent minded interior republic, and is trying to raise money to restart their empire in Africa, the youth nowadays tired of Prussia and Britannien ordering them around, and finally having something to do about it.
*France is a state run mostly by its military (long since become inexperienced and incompetent) with a government that attempts to mimic pre-event France, but has lots of irregularities.
*Britain’s a bit better off, but that’s more because of luck and closer integration with Germany. Unlike France, they didn’t even have a few towns of their own to build off of. They were forced to become an extension of Germany for a while, and still are today.
*Britain’s done a better job at replicating its pre-event government, but it’s accidentally developed two separate governments that struggle to cooperate with each other. The military regime (bit better off than France) and the government.
*Both Britain and France are a bit tan nowadays, thanks to the reluctant integration of their colonial brethren.
*Belgium was partitioned into Flanders and Wallonia, and nowadays, the two states wouldn’t even consider uniting. They’re perfectly happy where they are, getting rich off of Germany’s work and occasionally sending colonists to bolster German colonies.
*Poland’s been more of a hard case, constantly trying to break free of German influence, but Prussian boots on the ground has usually fixed that. The Polish government is composed of incompetent yes men who do whatever Berlin has to say. I belatedly realize I forgot to include them on the map key. Sorry. I’m inexperienced with legends. That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
*Russia is a result of two Russian states uniting. One was formed by a few thousand people trekking to what was once Moscow, during the year or so where German-occupied Russia was a chaotic wasteland. The other was a more coherent settlement that was actually supported by Germany to an extent. Today, Russia is a democracy with two local governments that struggle to cooperate over the long distances between the two.
*Russia’s fairly united today, especially with the Encirclement, but the difference between the poorer North and the ‘lackadaisical’ South. Regardless, the two have competed to circle a territory they wanted for themselves, connecting via the myriad of rivers and lakes in what was once Russia. The Encirclement gives the Russian state the bonus of squaring off a territory for future exploitation.
*There’s also Romania. A state founded by the various Romani peoples of Germany and Russia, it’s long since fallen under German influence. A sort of stable tribal anarchic state.
*The Germans set up an autonomous zone for Catholics where Rome used to be, and then some. Not like there wasn’t land to go around.
*The Jews set up their own state in Israel, and when they finally reached the same standards of living as the average German town, they received a (heh) exodus of new citizens. Today, they’ve purchased a large amount of land from the Germans, and are eagerly settling. Their economy is too large for Berlin to vassalize them like the Romani, so Berlin isn’t even going to bother. Some of the worse elements of German society are glad to see so few Jews in Germany proper.
*Tanzania’s a different story. The Germans were, understandably, blindsided by the event, and contact with Tanzania was not even properly (some sailors had noticed people there in 1916, but not formal contact) made until 1922. By then, the area had entirely collapsed into roughly three factions.
*The occupying Entente forces, which were initially winning, but were forced into a stalemate by the event. The remnant colonial government. The natives, who took up arms, seeing that the imperialist powers were knocked down.
*Even today, the East African area is divided. There’s a coastal strip that’s an autonomous part of Germany, and the interior is fully occupied by Entente-types or by the natives. The Governorship of East Africa (larger state in Tanzania area) is a favorite area for British and French to visit, and for a long time, was a place where diehard nationalists would go to get away from German supervision. Nowadays, it’s a lot more a pawn of Germany, but only inasmuch as it’s in a friendly relationship with the German-aligned Tanzania. And of course, the overbearing economic might of the German state.
*German colonies have been founded in Panama, Argentina, Nigeria, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Hawaii, and South Africa, for various reasons, and Berlin hopes that within the next few decades, they will be developed enough to be loyal interior republics. Well, as loyal as those usually are, anyway.
*Kalifornien already is a fairly loyal interior republic, and is happily enjoying the gold money.
*The only state that’s successfully resisted German influence is a state founded by Germans. The colony in the United States peacefully declared independence (too much of a struggle for Berlin to wage war to reunite itself) from Germany in 2022, and has been growing rapidly ever since. They claim to represent the American Dream, a fable that was exploited by Berlin when it was colonizing North America, unity, prosperity, and equality, and have been doing an okay job at it.
*The Union Amerikaner is a loose, decentralized, roughly democratic government that’s barely holding itself together in the farther reaches of its little empire, but it’s still the second largest economy on the planet, having surpassed Israel long ago.

That’s about it. Questions? Thoughts? Criticism? Comments? Suggestions for future ISOTs? I’d love to hear it.

 

[Jcw3]

This time it’s a summer 2016 Canada ISOT to virgin earth. I’ve included some appropriate background music, please enjoy. This is probably the world I would most want to live in, and I worry that might show in the update. I just can’t see many ways Canada going to a virgin earth can go wrong, and I honestly think it would go very well for humanity. No legend this time because there’s really only one sovereign state.

So, with that said, here you go. Canada ISOTed to Virgin Earth, 200 years later.

*Canada didn’t really suffer much from the initial ISOT. A food exporter and a stable, peaceful, prosperous and united democratic nation, the initial confusion and loss of outside resources, or the usual dark times after an ISOT, only lasted two years, as opposed to the usual ten or fifteen in these scenarios.
*Expansion began around twenty years after ISOT, almost entirely as resource exploitation in the former United States.
*World population is 527.9 million, with roughly a 1.29% yearly increase in population, the Canadian population not particularly eager to turn into breeding factories, and Ottawa was never authoritarian enough to demand it. However, birth rates for the average family have increased fairly dramatically, since there are fairly massive tax benefits for it if you want to be a settler.
*Tech level is roughly OTL 2050s. It’s advanced enough that Canada does have a base on Luna and a few Mars landings, and an entire town can be fabricated in a week or so by the factory-scale 3D printers (or fabs, as the slang term goes.). AIDS, diabetes, and a myriad of other diseases are things of the past. Hyperloops zipping back and forth at fifteen hundred miles an hour make commuting between oceans a reality of the new world. The average human lives to ninety-four years of age.
*So, now that you know the state of the world's development, let’s talk politics.
*Canada’s still technically the only state in the world, despite what the map might lead you to believe.
*It remains a multiparty parliamentary democracy, albeit politics is a lot more segmented and regionalized nowadays, since the Canadian state has major territories on two continents. There are roughly five parties of import, and Canadian politics can be a very confusing beast at times.
*The thirty-six Canadian provinces are putting their all into the settlement of Europe. North America has largely been exhausted of useful, easy to acquire resources, and the local territorial governments are trusted to settle the rest on their own. Meanwhile, Iberia, Greece, and Scandinavia see a push forward, with the Canadian settlement beginning to overshadow the autonomous polities (AP’s).
*AP’s are a product of Canada’s multicultural policy, allowing Canadian citizens like tourists, expatriates, and ethnic groups to rebuild their nation under Canadian inspiration. In 2216, there are a variety of ‘independent’ states under Canadian mandate, from Quebec to the Gracious Arabian Union to China.
*In almost all cases, AP’s have been fully assimilated as Canadian citizens with slight, local twists, and in most cases, they end up rejoining Canada, as the Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, Spanish, and a few others did.
*English, and to a much, much lesser extent, French, are the world’s languages, and other languages are about as prevalent as Irish in modern-day Ireland. Instant translation tech makes language barriers largely irrelevant, anyway.
*Poland, India, China, Italy, and France, in that order, are considered the most successful and developed AP’s, and none of them really have an interest of joining up with Canada as full provinces, which disappoints Ottawa.
*Quebec is very indecisive on whether or not it wants to be an AP, or return to full provincial status. They’ve actually switched over twice thus far, and Quebecois indecision is a popular topic in political comedy.
*Ottawa is in talks with two AP’s about reintegration. The Philippines have seen economic stagnation and absolute mismanagement since their foundation, and the region has seen a significant brain drain to other, more developed parts of the world, and Bagong Luzon is ready to cede power to Canada, as long as it will keep their population from lynching them. The poverty of the Philippines, whether or not to intervene, and who to blame for the Filipino state’s failure is a hot topic in Canadian political discourse.
*Then there’s the Chesapeake AP. There are actually two United States’ in this world. The first is the America-in-Canada Transitional Authority (ACTA), made up of the remaining legitimate American government, which chose to assimilate into Canada rather than go on some silly crusade to resettle an undomesticated homeland virtually on their own.
*ACTA is still around in the present day. Its responsibilities have largely faded, rather than helping Americans adjust to Canadian life, it now governs Canadians of American descent, but its membership slips every year as the American identity fades. Indeed, it only has 1,204,000 registered members now, and almost all live in the original Canadian provinces, which are themselves becoming increasingly irrelevant.
*ACTA largely functions as a community effort in Ameritowns and other communities with significant remaining American cultural heritage, helping promote charities, celebrations of their past, and electing local officials who...probably do something. President Waters is on record saying that the organization is largely superfluous nowadays.
*On the other hand, we have Chesapeake. Chesapeakeans were originally Americans who thought it was a smashing idea to rebuild the homeland, and started around Washington DC. They didn’t make terribly much progress, and their AP only continues to exist out of inertia. Well, no more. The Chesapeakean people have spoken, and their President has voted to annex themselves into Canada as another province. And so seven million people become Canadians.
*I’m afraid the rest of the world isn’t that interesting. There’s a Sikh state in what would be Pakistan, a Latin American state on the Rio de la Plata, and a Dutch state, though it may be difficult to make out on the map due to the similarity between the colors.
*Canada has the perfect recipe for a world-state, and in many ways, they already have it. There are open borders, no language barriers, there hasn't been any form of armed conflict since the initial riots and a few ethnic tensions in India, the Gracious Arabian Union, and the Philippines, Ottawa is technically the capital of every nation on Earth. In a few hundred years, Earth will be fully settled, and Canada will move on to exploit and settle the stars.

Never finished the write-up for this one. 1776 British Empire, 200 years on.

So this is a WIP that might never be finished. All of it besides China+Southeast Asia+Oceania is finished. I realized that the map was missing New Zealand and Antarctica in its entirety, and decided it wasn't worth the bother to go tracking down a minor global warming map of those two areas, so I called in the nuclear options.

The premise of this map was finding a way to make the movie In Time sensible. For those of you not in the know, In Time was a movie where society had discovered the secret to biological immortality, but the way it worked was that time was currency. Rich live forever, poor die off in the streets. It was a silly movie. But I was going to use it in a multicross fanfic called Coascendancy (it's on SpaceBattles, never finished it). I thought of the scenario I worked out to make In Time a sensible world, while keeping as much true to the movie as possible.

Basic premise is that it's a future scenario. 2169. In the early 21st century, America and Europe both wound up going down a path of right-wing populism that led into authoritarianism that led into corporatism. They led a violent crusade of sorts against the Middle East in the 2030s and 2040s that solidified the alliance of America, Europe, and Israel, and eventually, once they figured out how they could create an effective nuclear missile shield (it wasn't really that effective, 13% of nukes got through), they launched everything they had at Russia and China in the late 2000s. Both nations were a far cry different from what they are today, but their positions were roughly equivalent.

From there, the plutocratic culture of In Time set in. Biological eternal youth needs regulation, or else you wind up with overpopulation. The United Conglomerate of Nations, a unification of America, Europe, Israel, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and friends (their corporate masters decided it would be more convenient to mulch everything together) had their stupid idea, but India, the Trans-Tasman Union (not on map), and East Africa, the three great powers aligned against the Conglomerate, simply sterilized their populace over a period of a few decades and used childbirth as a reward, using a highly bureaucratic, often rigged system to do so. Even with eternal youth, people get hit by cars, commit suicide, or die of disease. So there's still a need for new people.

In the current setting of the map, the United Conglomerate of Nations seems like it's falling apart, but it's honestly always been like this. Perpetual guerilla warfare, perpetual occupations of Russia and China and Brazil and the Middle East. What we saw in the movie was Dayton (Ohio), which was one of the administrative zones in North America, and a sort of peaceful place.

I'm willing to answer questions, but to be honest, I just wanted to wash myself of this map. Not my best work, I know.

EDIT: In general, outside of China, Indochina, and Oceania, everything is finished. Orange and brown and dark purple (Argentina) is on the Conglomerate's side, blue, green, and light purple (India) are on the other side.

 

[Jcw3]

This is my last ISOT map before I go to college, and I'm afraid there's not going to be a write-up for this one. Premise is: 1942 Soviet Union, Germans are occupying most of European Russia, and then, poof, the territory the USSR is occupying gets zapped back to 1700. This is the world, 100 years later. The USSR began to fall apart when Stalin's successor died, and there are currently four states that consider themselves to be the legitimate successor to the USSR. The Western Socialist Republic (founded by military occupiers in the revolutionary Spanish/French governments), the Socialist Union of Europe (the most legitimate successor, colored in Soviet red), the Central Asian Soviet Republics (getting overshadowed by an industrializing *India), and the Pacific Soviet Socialist States (already overshadowed by China, debatably the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth).

I'm just not feeling a write-up here, this map was surprisingly difficult to make, all things considered. This was the first ISOT back in time that I've ever done, so yeah, any questions you guys might have, I'll be happy to answer. The current year is 1800, rough worldwide tech level of 1910s.

The year is 1850, and it's been pretty crazy in the fifty years since the last map. The world saw its first nuclear war, between the Chinese State and Central Asia/Hindustan, in which the Chinese State came out on top simply out of virtue of striking first against a state with fewer weapons. Remarkably, China hasn't even lost its superpower status from the loss of twelve cities in such a short time, instead rushing out colonists and expanding their breeding policies, overwhelming the locals in Madagascar, Indonesia, Australia, and North America with sheer weight of numbers. Chinese policy is firmly based around integration of the world under their flag, and they aren't terribly shy about it.

The Eurasian Socialist Union has a similar policy, but isn't nearly as diehard about it as China is. They spend most of their time gnashing their teeth at New France, America, and the Western Socialist Republic. Other powers include Axuminia (Ethiopia), which is pursuing a join-or-die policy in Africa, with Soviet support, and Juu Ran (Somalia) with Chinese support, engaging in classic imperialist actions, where they simply subsume countries as they see fit. Axuminia is currently winning.

Brasil is increasingly an African country. Their personal union with the Kongolese royalty was mocked by the other European remnants, but it's only given them more and more riches. Their tributary system, where they make a deal with the reigning leaders of tribal states to eventually unify with their nation as a whole is proving surprisingly effective, given the massive timescale (40 years or more) it operates on. It's given them a lot of friends in Africa, especially when you look at how Axuminia, Morocco, Juu Ran, and the WSR are acting in comparison.

The Spanish Empire fell apart rather nastily, with Eurasia and China both greedily jamming the knife into its neck, finding Colombia, Gran Peru, California, and the various other petty states that emerged from the collapse to be very pliable to their whims. As of the moment, China has more invested in the Americas, what with their ongoing uplift experiment with the natives of the Great Plains, and their existing totally-not-colonies on the Pacific. Both powers have canals, naturally.

Morocco and Sokt (Mali/Sokoto) are looking to eventually become great powers. Morocco's been under Soviet influence longer than they care to have been, and is looking to expand, but they're already struggling to keep a grip on their existing territories, the interior natives not being friendly to Rabat's whims. So in the early 1810s, a Moroccan plane began shipments of weapons to Sokt, a sultanate under siege from the Onitsha Nativist People's State, and soon turned the tide. From there, a mighty empire blossomed. As of now, they're (ironically) joined with the Soviets in gnashing their teeth at the Western Socialist Republic.

Worldwide tech level is roughly 1980s in most of the world, with a primitive equivalent to the Internet starting to come to fruition. Weapons and nuclear tech are much more commonplace than in our world, however, and nuclear fusion is a common source of power.

Questions, comments, thoughts? All welcome.

The year is 1875. One hundred and seventy-five years ago, the Soviet Union, a nation that had lost most of its territory to an evil fascist dictatorship found itself ripped from its home timeline and dropped in the year 1700, supplanting the local corresponding territories. Here's what the world looked like on August 15, 1875, before the nuclear war between the Eurasian Socialist Union and the Western Socialist Republic.

North America
*China's done well with settling its Pacific portion of North America, the original Russian settlers in Alaska (from the ISOTed Pacific Soviet Union, not the downtime Russians) and the native tribes now kowtowing to the Han. There's minor conflict with the Crow and Blackfoot tribes, and the Caujoga (Kiowa) are brutal as usual, but there's largely peace. The only remnant of native American independence is the Interior Tribal Autonomous Province, which barely has an ethnic Chinese plurality thanks to Xian's breeding policies.
*Now that China has a firm grip on North America, they're beginning to get comfortable. California, a would-be regional power that declared independence after the collapse of the Spanish Empire, is rapidly falling under Chinese influence, most of the nation directly under Xian's grip despite the best efforts of the American Community (Details later).
*Nabiho (a collection of Southwest tribes the Spanish didn't feel like putting forth the effort to directly conquer) is preparing to be annexed into the United Human State, as China increasing insists on being called nowadays. The local tribes never really cared for the outsiders, the Spanish only interested in occasionally giving guns, and the AC nations only started to care when the Chinese were knocking down their door.
*Rosaria (Sonora) was a province of the Spanish Empire, and left when Mexica officially declared that it was no longer calling itself part of the Spanish Empire. Chinese interests got their grips in the nascent state almost immediately, which convinced Mexica that it needed to be a part of the American Community.
*Mexica's a state that was bloodied by the collapse of the Spanish Empire. Endless conflicts against the socialists in Morelia, the natives in the Yucatan, and even renegade military declaring themselves warlords, they finally recognized Rosaria and Morelia (Guerrero) as independent states, and viciously denounced the United Human State, coming to the side of New France and America with open and gleeful arms.
*Terra Esquina (Texas) officially joined New France as an autonomous nation two years ago. Nabiho, Rosaria, and Morelia were a wakeup call, and the Esquinian people were already friendly with New Orleans and Philadelphia, so it seemed an easy choice. The same was true for La Florida (Florida and the Bahamas), a quiet princedom and successor to the Spanish Empire, only they were a bit more reluctant. Seeing video of a Chinese carrier docked in Morelia's capital helped change their minds.
*Yoocateca (Yucatan), a Maya supremacist nation born out of the repressive nature of the Spanish state (formerly a rather peaceful protectorate), found itself being forced to choose between two perceived threats. The Chinese, who would supplant their culture in the name of paternalistic human unity, and the American Community, who would be make them stop killing Spaniards. The choice was made very reluctantly.
*Ocampano (Guatemala+Chiapas+that general area) is just going to keep its head buried in the sand and pretend the Chinese don't exist, while removing themselves from the influence of the outside world. That isn't going to go well for them.
*Francisca (Mosquito Coast, sort of), a warlord state facing the threat of Colombia invading to restore peace and decency, sought out the Eurasians for support. Moscow, happy to finally have a reliable ally in the Americas beyond their occupied portion of Central America (fucking Espanola, selling out), sent in a few thousand troops to support the local despot. He's since died, and Francisca is essentially run as a distant SSR, with fewer cultural eradications.
*Nicaragua was propositioned by Colombia with some sweet, sweet economic deals, and the latter quickly assumed control over the weaker nation, with Nicaragua being treated as an overseas Colombian state, much like Francisca and Eurasia.
*Panama and South Nicaragua are both states under Chinese and Eurasian occupation, respectively. The native populations have long since learned to shut up and listen to the nice men with guns. Both are run by a compliant strongman, and there's quite a bit of paranoia on both sides of the border between Earth's two most powerful nations.
*Cuba is looking to New France, and by extension, the American Community, as a closer partner as Chinese influence looms closer and closer.
*Espanola was a giant plantation colony for the Spanish Empire, and there was a massive slave revolt followed by an ethnic cleansing when the Empire fell. After receiving initial Soviet support, a brief civil war ousted them from power, and a New French team arrived just in time to support the new regime. After a tense standoff, Eurasia decided that it wouldn't be worth it, and made a backroom deal with New Orleans to acknowledge their annexation of Hudsonia and the rest of the Arctic North America as legitimate, in exchange for their recognition of Espanolan dependence on France. They accepted, and Espanola joined New France ten years ago.
*New France itself is powerful. Easily the fifth strongest nation on Earth, and an honest regional contender against both China and Eurasia. Initially a clusterfuck of refugees clashing against local natives, disease, and chaotic/uncertain leadership, it's since grown into a powerful industrial state, where natives and Frenchmen have a loose cooperation to survive as a nation. This reluctant multiculturalism blossomed into a legitimate sort of acceptance, and Spanish is increasingly a second language for many New Frenchman, as refugees from the former Empire flow in. This has made integrating La Florida and Terra Esquina much simpler. Unfortunately, there's still a strong trend of resistance among the Caujoga and many tribes allied to them, and New French troops have grown skilled in anti-guerilla tactics.
*There's a territorial dispute between New France and the United Human State over a section of the Arctic. New France is terribly conflicted over this crisis. If they back down, they prove to the American Community that they can't handle standing against China. If they don't, however, do they really want a war with the strongest power on Earth, especially with what happened to Hindustan, over a bunch of frelling ice?
*There's also internal disputes between America and New France. New France has always been a bit more liberal than America, a much more Christian nation, and its cultural pressure is intense. New England is increasingly moderating, however, as the rest of Internet-equivalents expose people to new ideas, concepts, and other religions. When the Governor of Massachusetts commented that perhaps sodomy should be legalized, the Parliament of the Whole immediately voted for his impeachment. Now people in the region are calling for independence, rioting in some cases, as they feel that Philadelphia's restrictive practices are holding them and their people back. Governor Jaque Tomson of Rhode Island has even remarked that perhaps New France would be a better nation for the people of New England.
*The American Community is an alliance against outside aggression and to promote internal peace and economic cooperation between the nations of the Americas. At least that's what the business cards say. In reality, it's New France and America's system to organize their allies. New France, America, Espanola, Cuba, Yoocateca, and Mexica form a tight alliance that they believe is strong enough to ward off a Chinese invasion.
*Eurasia's had luck with the Arctic natives, opting to simply leave them alone as long as they pay a moderate fee to Moscow. The natives are reluctantly accepting, both out of fear, and interest in modern technology. They have made it clear to Moscow that they don't want overt Eurasian colonization of their Arctic, which Moscow is fine with. That's what Newfoundland, Hudsonia, and Greenland are for, if they want to send dissidents to cold places. The Arctic makes a convenient place to gather resources and to store nukes to hit New France or China.

*South America
*Brasil eventually decided that the territorial dispute with Peru was largely pointless when they had the untapped resources of Africa at their disposal, and accepted a minor fee in order to recognize it as Peruvian territory. They're almost entirely an African country now, and a bill to make Sao Salvador the capital has gone into law.
*Colombia is a rising power. A Spanish governorship that broke away peacefully during the collapse of the Spanish Empire, they're doing their best at industrializing, and have kept up a friendly relationship with Brasil, Peru and New Spain (Chile). They dream of supplanting New French and Chinese influence in Central America.
*Westerner Guyana has been occupied by Colombia. The Westerners are tied up in their war against the Eurasians, Moroccans, and Wolufese, and are losing. Colombia found it an easy thing to occupy, and have therefore declared war against the WSR.
*Peru and Montana (Bolivia/Paraguay, sort of) are largely unimportant princedoms, descended from individuals who broke away (violently in Montana's case). They spend their spare time trying to avoid the tender grasp of China, and keep up a very loose mutual defense pact with the rest of South America. Peru's beginning to consider that it has a lot of untapped potential, however, and some radicals are suggesting that an alliance with the United Human State could be a useful way to achieve that goal.
*New Spain is the last remnant of the Spanish Empire, a military dictatorship that seeks to reunite the local governorship under its rule, but it's moderating as it sees that conflict with its neighbors could draw China's interests to the continent. That didn't stop it from subsuming two breakaway states, mind you, and it isn't keeping it from not recognizing Cisplatina and Platana.
*Cisplatina (Uruguay) and Platana (Buenos Aires region) don't especially want to join New Spain again, and have sought out Brasilian protection. Sao Salvador's essentially looked to New Spain, shrugged, and moved on with its day.

Europe
*In order to understand the war between the Eurasians and the Westerners, you have to understand Hitlerism. Germans were the ethnic group most poorly treated by the Russian occupiers in the early days, and throughout the generations, that practice continued. A myth emerged in the increasingly dilapidated towns Germans lived in of the mighty Adolf Hitler, who led an empire that brought the Soviets to their knees, and the only thing that saved them was their arrival to this world. A charismatic man who took up plastic surgery and struck on Transplant Day (November 6), leading a rebellion of Germans throughout Eurasian territory.
*The Hitlerite Uprising was put down within three months, but in taking down the rebellion, the Eurasians accidentally struck towns within the Westerner Rhineland. The situation escalated. And now, the first war between modern nations since the Hindustani Obliteration is occurring. The Eurasians, as well as their West African allies, are pushing hard against the Westerners, and winning. No nukes have been used yet, but that's only because the memory of the dozens of nukes and their effects on Hindustan is constantly on the minds of both sides' military and leadership.
*However, Moscow is growing impatient with Westerner tenacity. The Irish rebellion isn't slowing them down, the Moroccan support in Andalusia is doing little, and several hundred thousand Eurasian soldiers have already died on the Alps alone. Premier Kasantseva hesitates before giving the order, as she knows that the Westerners will only strike back in greater force. But her generals have assured her that a mere launch against soldiers will only cause tit for tat, and the Western intelligence is decidedly inferior to theirs. So, she does so, and twelve mushroom clouds appear near the front lines in Central Europe.

Africa
*Morocco is gleefully enjoying the opportunity to strike against the Westerner colonies on the southern coat of West Africa, and has already barreled through their border states with the help of their li'l buddy, Woluf (Senegal). Both follow the practices of their respective People's Sultan, as everyone knows that Islam is a religion that follows the will of the worker, and the Sultan is the figure whom Allah works through to promote the worker's liberation. The Westerners are doing their best to defend, and in their defense, they weren't too terrible to their conquered peoples, not as bad as Axuminia, anyway, not that that's a huge accomplishment.
*Sokt (Sokoto/Mali) used to be in Woluf's position, but has since grown a bit too proud of itself to accept submission to Rabat. They're busy mowing down tribals in the Sahara, and are looking cautiously towards Axuminia (Ethiopia) as an ally. It's not like they're committing wanton genocide anymore, right? Communication through the tribal border states both empires set up ages ago is going smoothly, and the leaders of both nations are slowly moving towards an official alliance.
*Onitsha (Nigeria) is going through the national equivalent of a midlife crisis. Humiliated by Sokt in their war decades ago, they're now little more than Brasil's economic client state, and Portuguese is almost more common than native languages in the educated world. Hell, people are openly talking about just joining up with the foreigners. It's causing quite a bit of debate in the power that once had regional aims, and a lot of soul searching to boot.
*Brasil's economic center is now easily recognizable as being Africa. It's rather amazing how the love between the Emperor of Brasil and the Queen of the Kongo resulted in such a partnership, but in a dark horse approach to geopolitics, Brasil is the fourth most powerful state on Earth. Their tributary system promotes a gradual annexation of tribal states on its border, and a general pushback against 'decadent savagery', as Sao Salvador puts it.
*Amasoolo (Zulu) is a close ally of Brasil. They were impressively powerful, and (admittedly with Hindustani support) repelled Brasilian colonization efforts. Nowadays, they have sort of a 'vitriolic best buds' relationship, as Amasooli soldiers fight for Brasil, and Brasilian economic support uplifts Amasoolo to heights they doubt they would have reached on their own anytime soon. The King is very pleased with the current arrangement, as are the people. Brasil just thinks their Portuguese accent sounds a bit ridiculous.
*Axuminia, once a genocidal state that only received Eurasian support because they didn't feel like finding a replacement, has moderated after a recent shift in power from the Regional-Kings to a more central authority that totally isn't a Eurasian-sponsored coup. Nope. Their expansion into the rest of Central Africa has virtually come to a screeching halt, as Axuminia more focuses on industrializing further and modernizing its army. Eurasia is wary of Chinese influence in Juu Ran, and knowing that Axuminia has warped into a house of cards held up by Moscow's guns, they're trying to improve it as a nation.
*Juu Ran (Somalia) is a more peaceful, paternalistic empire that long ago switched sponsors from Eurasia to the United Human State. They're currently growing closer to Brasil, however, so there might be yet another flip flop. Of the socialist powers, Juu Ran is probably the nicest place to live. It's modernized, not too oppressive unless you're outright speaking against the Juuranite Socialist Council, and racially progressive, having happily accepted Hindustani refugees. Mostly as manual labor in the endless industrialization of the interior jungle, but, eh.
*Zanzibar has been occupied by Chinese soldiers. Now that Laurentia (Madagascar) has been firmly integrated into the United Human State, they're looking for another outpost in the region. Zanzibar, a neutral state with loose ties to Juu Ran and otherwise staying out of international affairs, was a perfect choice. This is rather terrifying to Brasil, who is beginning to look northwards to the American Community as an ally. New Orleans is absolutely ecstatic at that possibility. The Zanzibaran occupation is also worrying Juu Ran, who is beginning to realize they might be just a pawn to China, a way for them to consolidate Africa before they swoop in and take over their country. Juu Ran is beginning to send out feelers to Eurasia, to try and get a new sponsor.

Asia/Oceania
*The Middle East is firmly Eurasian. The Soviet programs to fuse Islam and socialism (not originally sponsored by Moscow, but by a quick-thinking and desperate local governor) have spread throughout the Islamic world, and suggesting that Islam and socialism are one and the same would draw a reaction of 'well, duh' in most of the Islamic world. This idea has led to the spread of Islam in leftist circles, and you'll find that a tenth of ethnic Russians have some amount of faith in Islam. The Hejaz bears a Eurasian flag over it, and no one sees a problem with Mecca having statues of famous leftist thinkers right next to the Kaaba.
*Persia's still independent, for some reason, a leftover from the days when the Central Asian Socialist Republic was in existence. It's a quaint little socialist dictatorship that doesn't make too many waves. Ever since nuclear power became the energy of choice, it's become even quieter.
*India, on the other hand, holy fuck. The nuclear war in the 1840s is still showing its effects, and China/Eurasia have divvied up the subcontinent. Chinese generals rule over six puppet states formed from old Hindustan, and Rajasthan/Punjab are now both Eurasian SSRs. There's still radiation in quite a bit of the subcontinent, and a great deal of it is underpopulated, refugees having fled to greener locales, like New France, Peru, Colombia, Chinese Australia, Juu Ran, or Brasil.
*Gurjarata (Gujarat) has kept independence, but Swat (Kashmir), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Magadha (Bihar+rest of region), Marata (Maharashtra), Tamizarka (Tamil Nadu+Ceylon), and Madrana (south India) have not been so lucky, all being ruled by Chinese-approved leaders, and all having some degree of rebellious activity. Millions flow out of India every year, and the world is facing a sort-of refugee crisis from it.
*China has officially declared the Russian nationalist rebels in former CASR (Central Asian Socialist Republic) Siberia defeated, as there has not been an attack in four years.
*The last of the Indonesian people's kingdoms have been subsumed into China proper, as have the tribes of New Guinea. Kampuch (Cambodia) was annexed as a full province in 1865.
*The leftover radiation from the war with Hindustan is mostly gone, but there are still parts that remain in destitution from it, so Xian continues work to rebuild elsewhere.
*Australia, or Shamdao, as its referred to by the United Human State, is increasingly an economic center of the United Human State, with cities along the eastern coast becoming prosperous, supplanting the former positions of mainland cities.

World
*Technology level worldwide has reached rough parity with OTL. The Eurasians and Chinese have both landed on the Moon, and have agreed to split it into threes, one for Moscow, one for Xian, and one to decide upon later, probably as an arrangement between their vassals and them. Colonization should start in the next few decades, by their reckoning.

 

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This scenario involves the United States from 1940 being ISOTed to the year 1700. The map takes place in 1800, as does this write-up. I’ll follow up with the reverse scenario in a week or so.

Initial Reactions/Formation of American Policy
*The United States is obviously the dominant hyperpower of Earth. But I’m going to start out by explaining It arrived on a new world, confused and caught unaware, and until mid-1701, the federal government was mostly focused on keeping order and getting food to people. Cut off from international trade, there was a fair bit of panic for quite a bit of time.
*During these panicked times, it was sort of common knowledge that the United States had been sent back in time. Reports from Texas and upstate New York of meeting colonial militias from the French and Spanish Empires was common, but it just wasn’t America’s priority until around mid-1701.
*The first contacts were generally made between downtimer colonial militias and American police forces, and they usually went south pretty fast. There are a few stories of colonial militias depopulating entire border towns, and while these are usually believed to be gross exaggerations in the modern day, the federal government, needing an excuse to rally the American people around itself and restore order, announced an expedition to take control of North America and restore order.
*It was shockingly easy. The entire operation started in August 1701, and ended October of that same year, with small pockets finishing off by January 1702. President Roosevelt announced tentatively that the United States would maintain control over the colonial territories it had taken over, from the Hudson Bay to Quito.
*Exploitation of the resources local to the area started almost immediately. The United States was already running rationing of scarce resources, and once they discovered that downtime resources were untapped, well, it was a dream come true. Coincidentally, this was around the time that Washington announced that the United States would be holding the former colonial territories indefinitely.
*In the wintry months of 1702, American naval expeditions (initially postponed out of a lack of urgency and/or because they were being reorganized for a world without Japan and Germany) landed in Spain, France, and Britain. Their purposes were punitive and exploitative. All three nations surrendered to American expeditions several hours after the carriers found comfortable places to dock.
*And so the American government’s treatment of the rest of the world formed. They would punish actions taken against American citizens/allies, and would take whatever they pleased, while generally leaving nations alone if they had nothing to offer.
*So. Let’s look at the modern day world of 1800.

American Culture/Politics
*American culture has gone through some pretty radical shifts. Without a great external enemy to focus on, American culture and governance has become much more relaxed, at least its internal focus has. Prejudice between races and genders has largely vanished, transgender rights have become accepted almost unceremoniously, and there’s even idle chatter over LGBT/polygamous rights.
*The great enemy for America, however, is what is called by many American nationalists ‘primitive degeneracy’. Essentially, primitive degeneracy is just being not American and not technologically advanced. Am-nats and leftists both agree that the United States should be taking a greater role in civilizing the outside world, and they point to the chaos of the wars in Africa and India as examples of what the world gets up to without American guidance.
*The American mainstream, however, is decidedly isolationist, and interventionism is seen as a mark of extremism. As of present, the United States has sole territorial control over two continents, influence on four others, and Antarctica doesn’t matter anyway.
*Politics is exceptionally boring in the main United States, and it’s really not wrong to say that the Reps and Dems are largely indistinguishable nowadays. Both support the continued expansion of American-originating corporations in foreign lands, both support more of the same ‘toe-dipping’ method of American expansion, both support the education and uplifting of downtimers in American-held territory, whether they like it or not, and they only really differ on minor social issues. This has led to some impressive voter apathy within America, and only around forty percent of Americans even vote in Presidential elections nowadays.
*It’s difficult to boil an entire culture down in a few paragraphs, but I’ll try. This America is much more paternalistic and smug than ours, and assumes that it knows best. A common trope in movies (color movies are a new invention as of 1800) is that of the downtimer sidekick who learns best from the American mentor, or the downtimer primitives being saved by the intelligent and quick-thinking American hero.
*It’s also a lot more laid-back, and to an extent, procrastinatory. Having no real rivals hasn’t been great for American culture, and has fostered a culture of isolationism. Issues hang on for decades, and to avoid rocking the boat and losing the election, controversial issues in foreign affairs are often passed on down to the next guy.
*There’s also a sort of glorification of civilization, modern civilization to be specific. It’s a common trope in movies to see the downtimer from backwards Central Asia or Vietnam entering New York or San Francisco, and being wowed by the extensiveness and splendor of it all. One of the 18th century’s most famous films, ‘Sarawi Skies’, had a famous opening sequence showing a set of slums in rural Morocco, before transitioning to a bustling, clean, organized train station in the middle of Washington.
*The settler effect isn’t as common as you might think. While people have been moving to Mexico or Australia in fairly significant numbers (large enough so that there are plenty of new states), there isn’t a huge push to settle those lands, as most people are satisfied with merely owning and controlling the resources from the area, and they don’t want to have to deal with potentially-hostile natives or the corporations who rule the lands with an iron fist.

North America
*Finally, on to actual geopolitics. We’ve elaborated enough on America, I think. I’ll just go over how their holdings here are going, before moving on.
*Canada was initially taking a backseat in Washington’s focus, with only the French and British settlements by the St. Lawrence and Hudson coming under American rule, but over the years, American control of the frozen north solidified. The First Nations have been treated...alright. The oppression has been more in the way of getting cheated out of good land and having their culture disrespected, as well as incompetent handling of disease epidemics, rather than purposeful genocide.
*The Inuits and other natives of the far north are living much more independently than their southern cousins, mostly due to lack of American interest. Of course, American corporations are beginning to flex their muscles in the autonomous territories, and this is creating a bit of an issue, one that President Michaels is happy to kick down the road.
*The downtimer Anglo-Canadians have long since assimilated, or at least have become a bit quieter, but the downtimer French-Canadians are still a pretty prominent force in Laurentia, the state that’s composed of most of their former holdings.
*Mexico’s a bit more pleasant, in that there were fewer epidemics than in Canada. The former natives/First Nations have mostly just been pushed into poverty or irrelevance, and the downtimer Spaniards have tried to adjust to American rule, but they’ve pushed into irrelevance by a steady tide of American migrants looking to exploit and settle this new land.
*There’s a single independent nation in North America besides the United States, and that’s New Spain. It’s a small republic in Central Mexico ruled by people Washington finds agreeable, and anyone who wants to live a live mostly free of American influence lives here. Of course, there’s really not that much more freedom, but you don’t have to live under the Stars and Stripe, so a lot of discontented Spaniards take the deal.
*The Mayans have their own little autonomous republic, which America finds just precocious.
*Settlement of Central America is slower than you’d expect. Washington is trying to fix that by building a second and third canal, but that idea is being rejected by some Americans as a waste of time and money. It’s one of the more topical issues in America right now.
*Hispaniola seems to be constantly facing strife between the freed slaves, the Spaniards, and the uptimers, so it’s been a territory since its annexation in 1701, and the situation doesn’t seem to be improving. It’s one of the more annoying places for a National Guardsman to be stationed.
*Puerto Rico’s also a state, in case you were wondering. They’re largely held up by Americans as an example for downtime Hispanics (called Spaniards in this timeline) to model.

South America
*American South America is seeing a fair bit more investment nowadays. Originally seen as (outside of oily Venezuela) a faraway waste of money, it’s getting a lot more intention now that Central America is mostly ‘civilized’. Venezuela gained statehood recently, and people are talking about New Grenadan and Guyanese statehood.
*Equatoria is an autonomous kingdom, formed by a rather clever and quick-thinking Spanish colonial officer who managed to convince the Americans to give him autonomy. Its days are numbered, though, as after his death, Equatoria became much, much closer to Washington.
*South of the American holdings, there are the nations liberated by America during its war against the colonial powers. Peru, Nova Andalucia, Tarija, Chile, and Platana are the five nations, formerly American clients, that have now mostly become independent nations in control of their own politics. This is more due to America forgetting about them than them becoming more powerful on their own. They really aren’t relevant. They’re a bit more advanced than European nations in terms of living standards, and much closer to America, but they’ve followed a pretty firm policy of isolationism.
*Brazil, formerly of the Portuguese Empire, was very lucky. Portugal never wronged the United States, and so it was never invaded during the early days post-ISOT. Brazil is among the more powerful states in the world, and while they’ve really only just transferred from slavery to indentured servitude, they’re happy to tell Washington about their human rights improvements. They’re hoping America will let them have some territories in Africa.

Europe
*Britain and most of France are still under American occupation. Ireland, Wales, and England are American autonomous territories, preparing for full annexation in the near future (hopefully by 1850, President Michaels says). Scotland’s a friendly client state. Britain isn’t a terribly interesting place, the monarchy lived out a quiet retirement, and the Hanover family are still fairly wealthy, even after being removed from official power by a more ardently republican (anti-monarchy, not the political party) Presidency.
*Iceland’s an independent client state of the United States. It’s mostly a place for the U.S. Navy to park their ships. Greenland is a fairly autonomous area still, while Jan Mayen is kept as a US territory, being occasionally visited by researchers.
*France has, at least partially, stopped being occupied by American soldiers. Brittany, Aquitaine, and Occitania are all still American client states, but most of France is an independent and sort-of loyal subservient ally to Washington. They sort of wish they could have their former territory back, but they don’t want to risk America getting mad at them again, and besides, those guys are probably all Americanized now anyway, right?
*The Netherlands became a client state of its own volition, and has been rewarded with modernization efforts.
*Spain, on the other hand, is a bit shakier. Castile (what the Americans call the rump Spain) is very grumpy, and prefers to keep to itself. Washington is fine with that, as they’ve kept up influence in Euskania, Aragon, and Galicia, and they’ve outright annexed the Balearics, Sardinia, and Sicily.
*Portugal’s doing very well. They were allowed to keep Brazil and the Rif for their good behavior, and now, the Rif is still part of Portugal today, with a surprisingly low level of oppression.
*Piedmont took advantage of the chaos of the French collapse, snuggled up to Washington, and has become richer for its efforts. Very unfriendly with France, the Papacy, and Austria, not that they care as long as the American bases remain in its territory. Not much else to say there.
*The Papal State is the result of an alliance formed by the Americans and the variety of Italian states, that eventually grew into a sort-of Catholic nationalist state. Called the Papacy for short, the Papal State has mostly kept its head down, sneering at those degenerate Piedmontese, smiling politely at Austria, and eagerly having back and forths with important American Catholics.
*Austria...well, that’s a complicated subject. It’s a subject of historical confusion how the Habsburgs managed to become so friendly with America, and how they came to dominate Central and Eastern Europe. The short answer is a lot of brown nosing and submissiveness, and the lack of American interest in the area the Habsburgs sought to dominate.
*Those conditions led to Austria setting itself up as a proxy for the American government to operate through, since the occupation of most of Europe wasn’t really popular with the American public. American ‘advisors’ helped Austria whip through the German states and drive out the Turks, and after they left, the Austrians continued to receive help modernizing. They’re around the late 19th century level in terms of tech right now, and eagerly growing. They’re currently having a bit of trouble keeping a lid on their acquisitions, and they’re trying to do so without drawing Washington’s ire.
*Greece is the only state liberated from the Ottomans that is not under Austrian influence, and is very proud of that fact. They’ve got a proud independent streak, to the point that some of their politicians are brave enough to ask for Crete and the Dardanelles back.
*Poland lost most of its eastern territories to an internal rebellion and Russian advantage-pressing, but they’ve cuddled up with Austria and are doing rather well nowadays.
*Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Livonia aren’t relevant. They’re doing alright, and are occasionally visited by anthropologists from America. Most of them are aligned with or have friendly relations with Vienna, mostly to keep out the Russian bear. None are relevant or interesting in anyway, so we're moving on.
*Russia’s nicer than you’re probably thinking. The Tsar isn’t America’s favorite person to trade with, but the Americans gave him a bunch of outdated guns in exchange for the Far East, and suddenly they’ve never had a more eager sidekick. If it weren’t for its size and power, Russia would be an American client for all the influence that America holds within it. But Russia’s been acting on its own, using its military might to quash Central Asia from the Kazakhs to the Balochis beneath its boot, and now, like Austria, they’re realizing they bit off a bit more than they could chew. They’re trying to put down Uyghur rebellions, while also installing more democratic reforms to make Washington happy.

Middle East/Maghreb
*Iran’s a peaceful place. The Shah has cordial relations with the Americans, improving as the Russian bear more and more looms over them. Isfahan is more and more looking towards the American Gulf for help and military aid. They remember dearly the loss of their far-flung territories to Russian conquests, and they really don’t want that to happen to their core.
*The Ottomans were humbled by the Americans in a short three month war, and since then have largely retreated into themselves. They’re polite when pressed, but otherwise just try to keep quiet and stay out of Austria and America’s hair. Russia, however, is beginning to grow belligerent.
*Assyria’s an independent state formed after the rather sudden Ottoman decline, and initially with Iranian guidance, became a rather stable sultanate.
*The Americans keep a small colony in the Persian Gulf for the oil, but closer reserves in Mexico and Venezuela have rendered the American Gulf Settlement a lot less useful than Washington thought it would be.
*America keeps influence in the Hejaz and other Arab states, mostly to better keep a friendly relation with the local Muslims. It’s working. There’s a growing stream of thought in Christian-American culture that Islam is really just a weird extension of Christianity, and that Islam really reveres a second coming of Jesus, but of course, that was a fake second coming of Christ. It’s all a bit strange.
*Egypt, Morocco, and Tunis are all American client states, while Algeria and Libya are more independent minded. Austria’s been making polite overtures about maybe-possibly having a bit more influence in Libya, mostly for that delicious black gold.
*To elaborate a bit, Morocco is considering joining the United States as a full-fledged territory, and eventually state. Their new constitution is already essentially the US constitution with some changes to clarify that they’re a congressional monarchy. But with the past two sultans being very unpopular and attempting to roll back democratic reforms, Moroccans are looking towards the west for help stabilizing their nation.
*Egypt’s puppetization was largely an afterthought, as the US took the Suez area, and then realized that they could own Egypt, so they kept Egypt. Egypt’s leadership has taken a few tumbles, so the United States set up a fairly coherent congressional democracy that started with the Egyptian nobility, and then spread to the middle classes. Washington is pushing forward reforms to educate the lower classes, but it’s slow going.
*Soqotra’s an American colony. Very underrated vacation spot.

Africa
*Africa as a whole has been ignored by Washington. The resources can be gained elsewhere, the jungles are filled with malaria and hostile natives, there’s no cultural connection, and it all seemed like a giant quagmire with few benefits.
*That’s not to say that Africa is unchanged, however. American politicians might not be interested in Africa, but American corporations definitely are, and that creates quite a few disturbances.
*Selling guns in exchange for resources is very popular. Wars in west Africa in particular, as well as Abisinia’s wars of expansion, seem to be in the news constantly, as does some new megacorp essentially purchasing an African kingdom.
*Americans learned their lesson about trying to state-build in Africa in the 1760s. A group of around five thousand black nationalists (with a wealthy supporter) working with an alliance of Hausa kingdoms built a fairly impressive empire (Empire of Fredonia), and Fredonia still stands today, but it’s shaky. None of the black-nats were very knowledgeable in what to do after they founded their empire, and tribal warfare began to tear the nation apart.
*Fredonia more and more fell under Washington’s influence, but eventually, after most of the original founders died off or retired, tribal tensions exploded into outright civil war. American soldiers seem to occupy the country every other decade now. It looks like President Michaels might have to authorize another invasion, as tribal disputes in the far north are flaring up again.
*On the bright side, Fredonia is a great place to get free oil and a convenient place to push the notion of the educated tribal. Its founders were very diligent about education, and after Fredonia was founded, around twenty thousand Americans moved there to help build it up. It hasn’t gone very well, but there are still quite a few success stories, enough to that there’s a good chance Fredonia will still exist in a few decades. Or Washington might just give up, split off the successful south and middle as an American client, and let the north rot.
*The other major American military investment in Africa is the Congo Expeditionary Agreement. Originally an agreement with the Kongo nation, it grew into an extension of the United States Marine Corps and a collection of eager corporations looking for new resources. The CEA is more and more an independent nations, and its aggressive and often brutal tendencies are starting to worry Washington. The Congo and Fredonia make Africa one of the bigger headaches for Washington.
*Thankfully, the Cape Settlement Effort is going well. It’s a quiet colony, with tribes being contacted well in advance of initial American settlement, and land being purchased amicably. Talks with the Zulu to become an American client are progressing smoothly as well.

Asia
*The Russian Far East was purchased for a stupidly low price, and is one of the least favored of America’s colonies to settle. It’s more of a halfway point between America and the more profitable investment of East Asia. There’s still a sizable influence of Russians and natives in the Far Eastern territorial politics.
*Japan was annexed unceremoniously in the 1750s by an expansionist President who wanted to ‘open up Asia’, and his policies have continued to this day. The Edo area, Shikoku, and Hokkaido (although that’s considered more the domain of the Ainu nowadays) are all under direct American rule, while the Americans picked out a man favorable to their policies to rule over the country. Japanese youths are more and more Westernized, and pundits hope that Japan can be annexed any time now.
*Joseon was a bit more of a hard case, but nowadays it’s a grumpy if loyal client state of the United States. It’s not very prosperous, and it’s more of a parking lot for American interests than a real country, but the Joseonese quality of life is better than China or Dai Viet, so the locals don’t complain much.
*China...it’s mostly a piggy bank that American and Filipino (we’ll get to that in a minute) interests can regularly pull from. The entire coast of the kingdom is essentially occupied by American corporations, and there are navy bases dotting the seashore. The bureaucracy is reluctantly accepting of the whole situation, seeing it as a necessary evil. It helps that plenty of them are getting richer thanks to Washington.
*The Philippines. The second most powerful nation on Earth. The Philippines came along for the ride with the rest of the US, and de-facto independence during the chaotic initial years morphed into de-jure independence by 1705. Over the years, the Philippines became a democratic republic with a much more mercantile bent than the United States, coming to dominate Southeast Asia.
*This brought them into disagreement with Washington fairly often, but at the end of the day, as long as America controlled the Malaccas and Singapore, the Philippines could have Indochina and Indonesia, for all they cared.
*And so the Philippines did own them. There are still problems with Bornean tribals, rebels in Mindanao, and Manila is trying to talk the United States into selling northern Australia, but overall, the Filipino economy is prospering, from Indonesian resources to Chinese markets, and of course having friendly relations with America. Pundits like to debate whether or not Austria’s economy will surpass the Philippines anytime soon, but with the Philippines looking to expand into India (we’ll get to that later), that doesn’t seem likely.
*Siam and Bengal are fairly prosperous subordinates to the Philippines, and Manila likes to use them as convenient proxies for its own expansion.
*India’s in rather bad shape. The Mughals had a rather nasty collapse, exploited by American arms dealers, and the following states could be charitably described as cruel warlords. Russian and Filipino interests are beginning to spread their tendrils through the subcontinent, as Washington’s attention is elsewhere.

Oceania
*The US navy thinks it’s finished tracking down every single Pacific island, and has taken over most of them, with a few being sold to the Philippines for a modest amount.
*Australia and New Zealand are the big prizes of Oceania, and an increasing focus of American settlement and development. New Zealand is a bit of an odd duck, as American diplomats have, rather than directly annexing the Maori tribes, instead created client states out of the stronger and more pliable tribes.
*With regards to Australia, however, they’re largely just ignoring the aboriginals and moving further inland. There’s no purposeful genocide, but there have been forced removals.
*New Guinea is almost entirely an afterthought in American settlement, with former Dutch holdings repurposed and somewhat modernized, and Washington hasn’t gone much further.


Please, tell me what you think.

This map is the (I think, might have missed some islands) finished version of the 1700 US ISOTed to 1940, twenty years on. I'm not going to do a long write-up, but here's a hot take on the state of this world.

*A lot shittier.
*Canada/Mexico are divvying up the old COTUS. Mexico gets the Spanish bits, Canada gets the Anglo-French-Alaskan bits, and they'll figure out the rest later. Later's rapidly approaching however, and Ottawa/Mexico City are beginning to argue about the Mississippi River.
*The USSR was beaten down by Germany, collapsing when the Germans captured Moscow, and only later regrouping. Russian resistance was a big part of Germany's downfall, though.
*Britain won Europe against Germany on its own, and anthrax/nukes were used. Large swathes of Germany will not be habitable for decades. Now, the British Empire has essentially collapsed. Canada and Australia are relatively loyal, and Nigeria/New Zealand/East Africa still return calls, but Britain's a shell of its former self.
*Japan 'won' the Pacific, but lost an entire generation in the quagmire that is China, fighting a thirteen year war that was ultimately unsuccessful. It's managed to hold on to most of its gains, including Hawaii and the Philippines, as well as parts of the Aleutian Islands, but is now facing guerilla activity in its gains from the Soviets. Korea, Malaya, and the Chinese cities are mostly loyal, though, so there's that. Indonesia and Thailand are still fairly loyal allies, to boot.
*Mexico is a quickly rising power, getting rich off of the oil and minerals they're finding in America. While the Canadians and Mexicans were initially reluctant to press further into tribal land (not because of morality, but because they already controlled a fairly significant amount of territory originally belonging to the downtime European empires), they're beginning to press in. The bombing of the Caddo tribe by Mexican troops is international news nowadays, not that it's that uncommon.
*China's doing terribly. Their alliance against the Japanese fell apart after the war ended, as did their grip on their nation. Japan begrudgingly left, and now the Nationalists, Communists, and the plucky Warlords are ripping each other to bits.
*The USSR is a brutal warlord state built up around bitterness and industry constructed in Central Asia. They're facing heavy resistance from Russians in Europe, as the often-former-Nazi-collaborator leaders of the European-Russian states don't like the idea of being executed for treason, and have built up the Soviet Union as a great evil. To boot, they're starting to see increased tensions with the Japanese.

Five Most Important Nations on This World.
1. Britain, but by default. Dying, getting tired of being the world policeman, lost almost all of its territory. They're just trying to keep France from falling apart, and even that's going poorly. In a generation, will be surpassed by Japan or Mexico, possibly Canada.
2. Japan. Regaining their manpower losses (totally no rape camps), wishing they could grab the American West Coast, but that would be a great way to pick a fight with Canada and Mexico, two of the most powerful states on Earth, on their home turf. Largely content with their current gains.
3. Canada. Inherited most of the overseas America and their fleet, and is currently exploiting the hell out of the former COTUS. Taking in European refugees, committing ethnic cleansing on border tribes and downtime Europeans.
4. Mexico. Likewise, but busy playing catchup from being a former third world country. Could easily surpass Canada soon.
5. Australia. Friendlier with Japan than you would think. Has a nice naval empire, and is mostly looking to steadily grow. Having a problem with integrating European refugees, as more and more horror stories of Germans relocated to some desolate Pacific island emerge.

Overall
*World is a lot poorer, and a lot more violent. Asia and North America are going to be the wealthiest parts of this world for quite a few decades.

Questions? Comments? Thoughts?

This is the sequel to a previous map of mine, in which the 1940 US was replaced with the equivalent territories from 1700, and showed the world in 1960. This is the sequel to that map, and shows the world in 1980. Link to original.

Americas

*The last of the North American tribal civilizations have been subjugated by Canada and Mexico. The Ute and five other tribes have been kept as ‘independent’ nations under Ottawa’s influence, a place for tribals to go if they don’t like their new overlords.
*Canada has been keeping a tight lid on the region, and has a vise grip on anything valuable, but if you’re a native who wants to keep up your old life without the weird germy white man bothering you, you can always go to one of the Special Six.
*Canada’s consolidated its territories mostly to the American West, having long since subsumed (to put in polite terms) former British North America and French Louisiana. Haudenosaunee and New York have been recently added as full Canadian provinces, as have Cascadia, Louisiana, Potawatomi, Erie, and Chippewa.
*If you’re a native in Canada, your life is probably alright. Conservative and nationalist Canadians are likely calling for you to abandon your primitive superstitions and degenerate manner of dress, but most Canadians are willing to live and let live as long as the natives accept them as their new rulers.
*Canadians are far more strict to the downtime *Americans. There was quite a bit of interior conflict between the four client governments of former British North America, and these tensions came to a head when Carolinian militias, armed with contemporary weapons, tried to stage a takeover of native land claimed by Canada, but not technically controlled. This resulted in a fairly nasty diplomatic crisis in which Canadian paratroopers landed in Charlestown and solved the problem by arresting the leadership.
*Said crisis actually sped up negotiations to integrate Virginia and Pennsylvania into Canada, but Carolina is still a more bitter member of Canadian society, and only the majority of sympathetic Carolinians and Canadian colonists keep it as a Canadian territory.
*Mexico pursues a similar live and let live policy, but is much more willing to evict tribals to acquire resources. This policy, like it or not, is a contributing factor to Mexico being the second most powerful nation on Earth.
*Mexico’s taken full control of the governments of Central America, has close relations with Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, and is looking into an intervention in Venezuela to topple the unpopular fascist dictator.
*They’ve largely taken over the role that America used to fulfill in Latin America, which has caused Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, and Chile to be highly reluctant and distrusting of Mexico City.
*Canada and Mexico have seen a chill in relations, after a dispute over the Mississippi ended with Canada taking it for themselves, admittedly while ceding most of the Pacific and Great Plains. It’s a deal that was handled poorly, and it’s had lasting repercussions, as Mexico feels ripped off, as if they weren’t given a choice in the partition of North America.
*The Caribbean Commonwealth, a very loose coalition set up in haste after the British Empire fell apart at the seams, recently voted to join Canada 58% to 37% (the rest voted to separate their particular regions into new commonwealths, or voted no opinion). The Bahamas, Belize, Jamaica and West Indies are full-fledged Canadian provinces now.
*Curacao, a Dutch colony occupied by Canada during World War 2, also has the same privilege, as does Labrador, a nation that suffered a fairly bad interior economic crisis and found rescue in the arms of Ottawa.
*Brazil and Argentina are both rising economic powers, and Argentina has the undeniable advantage in South America, having what is essentially full control over Uruguay and Paraguay, while Brazil is still propping up an incompetent, oafish yes-man in Bolivia. Argentina also has support from one of the largest economies on the planet, but with the recent Canadian-Mexican chill, Brazil is looking into getting Ottawa’s support.
*The nation of Guyana, which was left dry after Britain’s collapse, saw most of its territory nabbed by Venezuela decades ago, and the rest morphed into a Canadian protectorate, and now, a territory.
*The remnants of French Guiana, most having jumped ship to Brazil, have now declared full independence as they see West France as a propped-up sinking ship, and East France as an absolutely insane bunch of revolutionaries. They’re currently tied up over whether or not to fall under Brazilian or Canadian influence, and it looks like the former is winning, which worries Guianese nationalists (a new trend these days).

Europe
*Ireland is united, when terrorists started showing up in Ulster, the British people had zero interest in keeping a hold of it after the disaster in France. Now it’s Dublin’s problem, but thus far, all that’s happened is minor vandalism and some rather outspoken morons causing a bit of a fuss.
*Iceland is divided on whether to tie themselves to Canada or Scandinavia, but is leaning towards Canada, as they fear that Scandinavia’s increasing opposition of the Soviet Union would put them at risk of being damaged in a nuclear war.
*Britain’s gone full isolationist. After losing most of their adult male population putting down the Nazis, losing even more to a half-hearted attempt at keeping their empire, and losing even more a decade or so later trying (and mostly failing) to stop a communist revolution in France, the British people have decided that the world can go shag itself. They still talk with Canada, whose economy skyrocketed past them a long time ago, Austria-Hannover, and Scandinavia, but the increasing radicalization of Europe has sort of soiled their attitudes towards the continent.
*Sweden, a power largely untouched by World War 2, has recently emerged out onto the regional stage, forming the Scandinavian Union with a still-battered Denmark and Norway. No Marshall Plan means that most of Nazi-occupied Europe is still almost entirely ruined, even forty years after the war, and given that the British had to spray most of the continent with radiation and anthrax to bring Germany down, there’s even more damage than you would think.
*So Sweden, a state that was neutral during the war, had already quite a bit of influence with their neighbors. This arrangement was finalized with the Scandinavian Union between them and Denmark, which later included Norway. Stockholm’s eager investments into the countries are doing quite a bit of good, and Scandinavia has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
*They’re close allies with Finland, one of the ‘turncoat states’. When it looked like the Nazis were going down, and going down to anthrax and nukes, to boot, most of their allies saw fit to make a separate peace with the Brits. Finland was one of them, and went so far as to forcibly evict German troops from their country. These days, they’ve held onto a fair bit of Russian territory that originally belonged to a warlord state, and are not wanting to give it back, no matter what Omsk has to say about it.
*Scandinavia knows that if Finland loses out to the Soviets, they’re next, so Stockholm is keeping quite a few troops and nukes in Finland. They’re also supporting the Baltic Union, which is a little controversial, as many Baltic leaders were once Nazi collaborators, and this makes local politics a bit tense.
*To a lesser extent than Baltia and Finland, Scandinavia and Britain, the two most prominent democratic states in European affairs, are also friendly with Austria-Hannover, a more recent union of two German states carved out of the Nazi corpse. Vienna, largely untouched by the fighting, was supported by the British as a moderate alternative for Germans to look for. Obviously, the British aren’t around much anymore, but Austria used this head start to become one of the more prosperous post-German states, and recently, Hannover and Austria voted in mostly legitimate referendums to unify.
*Prussia is a German state under Scandinavian influence, and very friendly with Stockholm, but fully integrating it into the union proper doesn’t sit well with Scandinavians, who are by and large pretty Germanophobic after all the news about the ‘extinction of the European Jew’ and all that came out. They don’t much like the British either, but Germans are the worst of the worse.
*Prussia and Saxony are a lot poorer than their neighbors, Berlin will be uninhabitable for a while, and the soil is still virtually unusable. There are only around six million people in either country, most having fled elsewhere, mostly to African countries like Rhodesia, Belgium, or South Africa who were looking for white people to boost their numbers.
*The Netherlands has been following Britain’s lead into neutrality, but rightist elements are becoming more and more of an issue, as German refugees become more public, and Germanophobic tendencies take root in the Dutch population. The loss of Indonesia, and the refusal of the Dutch Caribbean to come home, and the destruction of their country during World War 2 has not been great for Dutch patriotism.
*France is fucked. World War 2 lasted until 1949 in Europe, and during that time, the French rebellion became mostly composed of leftist agitators. The British government sort of bungled relations with them, which were already largely poisoned by the rebellion’s horror at the use of low-grade nukes on French soil, and the British wound up waging a war in France for almost a decade, until London finally gave up and split up into two governments.
*West France is essentially an unpopular military dictatorship that used to follow London’s every word, but now that London has stopped giving a shit, their own men are defecting to East France en masse, as East France is getting fairly regular shipments of food and supplies from the Soviets, and there’s not as much risk of starvation there.
*East France is doing well, seeing investments from the Soviet Union and Greece. For a pariah state, and one that regularly executes ‘fascist collaborationists’ and ‘plutocratic elements’, they’re remarkably popular with the French people for their flagrant nationalism and ability to provide food.
*The Republic of Provence was something the Italians (will be elaborated upon later) set up during the Anglo-French Intervention. Rome retook the territory it lost and then some, while also occupying a significant amount of the country. Britain didn’t have the ability to complain, and when the armistice was declared, Provence was kept around, and is one of Italy’s increasing number of puppets.
*Corsica’s a grumpily neutral state that gives the Italians, East French, and Soviets alike the finger whenever they come by for more than basic trade. They’re accepted an impressive amount of French and Belgian refugees, having not been too terribly damaged during the war, and are making a fair amount off of Mediterranean trade.
*Italy, a fascist power, surrendered when the first nukes started hitting Cologne, Berlin, and Hamburg, but was already suffering from the anthrax-induced famine. The post-war democratic government was remarkably successful at helping the country recover, but was later subverted by rightist elements fear-mongering about a German swarm of refugees and communist hordes. They’re keeping Slovenia, Provence, and Catalonia under their thumb.
*Switzerland’s glad it kept itself neutral. Struggling under the weight of French and German refugees.
*Catalonia is an independent democratic republic that broke away during one of Spain’s hard times, when it almost lost the Sahrawi and the Rif, and entirely lost Equatorial Guinea. Catalonian nationalist sentiment was already high, as were tensions between Barcelona and Madrid. When Catalonia voted to become an independent nation under Madrid’s influence, the Spanish government reluctantly accepted. The ‘under Madrid’s influence’ thing didn’t last long.
*Portugal’s doing well. Outside of a bungled Angolan war of independence, they’ve kept quite a bit of their empire. They’re closer and closer to Brazil by the day.
*Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary still have governments descended from when they were members of the Axis, and a coalition of the three, plus Poland, were the ones who put down a Ukrainian attempt to take lands in Romania with a Ukrainian population.
*Poland has long since driven out the louder Germans, and their economy is steadily growing. They’ve become a fascist (they don’t use the word, but it’s basically what they are) regime, and are closely aligned with Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Hungary, the other fascist powers in eastern Europe.
*Ukraine, a nationalistic state that grew at the expense of the Russian warlords, got a bit too greedy in the 1970s, and a coalition put down its attempts to invade Romania. The Crimea is still under Turkish-Romanian occupation. Worse yet, the Soviets are inspiring revolts among the Russian population, and Omsk is preparing for a full takeover now that they’ve finished with the Russian states.
*Greece broke off the Italo-German yoke on their own power, and are still very mistrustful of the fascist remnants, which pushed them to the opposite side of the spectrum. Omsk is happy to have them.
*I don’t care enough about the other countries in Europe to write extensively on them. Ask questions if you have them, I’ll answer to the best of my knowledge and ability.

Africa
*Sudan had a rather nasty collapse that Egypt and East Africa have exploited. Darfur and the White Nile Republic (WNR) both have fairly shaky governments, but the respective troops of both nations keep them in check.
*East Africa’s been doing spectacularly on the diplomatic front. Somalia, Djibouti, Malawi, maintenance of a client relationship with Uganda, they’re doing quite well for themselves, and might look to be on the top ten powers someday. They’re certainly the best in Africa.
*Brazil’s intervened in Africa quite a bit more. Belgium, Namibia, and Angola are all under their influence, and Mozambique is steadily going down that route. South Africa’s shaky white supremacist government is being propped up by the Brazilians, which is giving the Brazilians a mostly reliable ally in the region, albeit an unpopular one. It’s likely that Dar es Salaam and Brasilia will come into conflict soon over the treatment of blacks in Belgium and South Africa.
*The Congo has mostly stabilized after a long warlord period, and East African troops are thankful for an opportunity to return home, while the Belgians are just relieved that they don’t have to worry about warlord rebels overthrowing them.
*Socotra is Australian territory now, after the people decided that they liked the idea of Canberra’s autonomous role over East Africa’s more intrusive rule.
*For the rest of Africa, assume pseudodemocracies, petty military dictatorships, or radical theocracies, and you probably won’t be too far off the mark. Madagascar and Ghana are doing okay, though, as fairly legitimate democracies.

Asia
*India’s mostly completed the process of unification. Assam still tends a bit more towards independence, a relic of when Japan was occupying the region, and Burma is still far too friendly to Tokyo for India’s liking.
*Sikkim, Gujarat, Madras, Bengal, and Hyderabad, however, have all come to Bombay’s open arms. This was largely inspired by the crisis in Punjab, in which mistreatment of the Sikh population, general disagreement with Indian rule, and Soviet support of radical leftists in the region, led to the creation of the Punjabi People’s Community, a state derogatorily called a ‘Red Stain’ in the middle of an Indian Association by Indian nationalists.
*Punjab is content to keep to itself, but is still hurriedly industrializing and militarizing to avoid Indian takeover. Omsk is all too happy to give them supplies in exchange for alliance.
*Sindh, Balochistan (the northerners really don’t like being ruled by the southerners, and this creates a fair bit of tension), Kashmir, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, and Sichuan are all Indian clients and allies. Yunnan is more independent minded, but they generally follow Delhi’s lead.
*Afghanistan was partitioned by the Iranians, Indians, and Soviets after the country suffered a fairly disastrous anarchic period that was beginning to spill into the three countries. Delhi and Omsk are happy to let Iran deal with most of the problems of occupying Afghanistan.
*China is not having a good century. After the Japanese destroyed most of the country in World War 2, left after they lost most of their men, the Nationalists and Communists attempted to cooperate to rebuild the country. This didn’t go well. It wasn’t in the interests of Japan, the Soviets, or the Indians for a strong China to exist, so they all inspired various warlords, or in Omsk’s case, supported the Communists, and split China between them.
*Japan likely came off the best, and they were the only party to use nuclear weapons in the conflict, mostly on Chinese troop concentrations, or so they claim.
*The Chinese People’s Republic is facing serious resistance from nationalist rebels, sponsored by Japan, as another front in Japan and Russia’s chilling relations.
*After 80 years of Japanese rule, Korea is mostly assimilated. These days, Korea is essentially considered a region of Japan that’s a bit weird, rather than as a colony. Even the Philippines, Taiwan, Sakhalin, and Hawaii are largely considered part of the Home Islands.
*Japan itself is more of a militaristic pseudo-democracy these days. The navy largely had full control over the country until the 1970s, when the army started to have a larger role in Japanese affairs. The Emperor is mostly a figurehead used by the ruling party to support their vision, and the Japanese people have gradually cared less and less about the reigning figure of their country.
*Japan-Soviet relations are melting down. After the Russians took over a Japanese client state, and after the Japanese evicted the Russians from Kamchatka, a province in constant leftist rebellion, tensions between the two have been sky high, and fears of nuclear war are rampant across the world. The strongest nation on Earth against the third strongest nation is not a fight Earth wants to see, and India is trying to act as a peacemaker between the two, but is seemingly failing.

Nuclear Club
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, East Africa, Finland, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand (shares with Australia), Poland, Portugal, Punjab, Romania, Spain, Scandinavia, South Africa, Soviet Union, Turkey

States Trying To Get Nukes
Chinese People's Republic, East France, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Sumatra, Thailand

World Powers By Ranking
1. Japan.
2. Mexico
3. Soviet Union
4. Canada
5. India
6. Australia
7. Brazil
8. Scandinavia
9. East Africa
10. Iran

Questions, comments, criticism, thoughts? All welcome.

 

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France, Greece, Turkey, Nicaragua, Haiti, Angola, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Sao Tome and Principe, and Equatorial Guinea, all ISOTed to a virgin Earth. 200 years later...

World Powers
1/2. Turkey/France tied, locked in a state of cold war and rivalry.
3. Angola, exerting influence over Africa, considering settling South America now that Africa's getting crowded, which is offending Haiti and France
4. Greece, firmly attached to France's teat.
5. Haiti, doing rather well for itself, despite what you might think. Had a rough patch, but with some bootstrapping and French support, here they are.

A'ight. This was World 2. China, Tajikistan, East Timor, Australia, Ethiopia, Botswana, Lesotho, Malta, San Marino, and Cyprus, ISOTed to a Virgin Earth, 200 years on.

Tajikistan got eaten a long time ago, that's why it's not on the map. I decided to not include Chinese interior borders out of laziness and to make the point of Chinese omnipresence on World 2.

Notes on the various nations and their successors, by order of prominence in the modern day.

1. China: Duh. No longer really a state capitalist state, but an AI-run technocratic state, increasingly built off of Ethiopian labor in Siberia so they can give the nicer manual labor to the acceptable minorities and lower class. Has full territorial claims over Asia and North America, with no other nation allowed to settle on either continent. Sold most of South America to Australia in exchange for more influence in their government and looking the other way with regards to the rest of the world. Unquestionably the most dominant nation on Earth. Looking into asteroid mining, but thus far, there are still plenty of minerals on Luna and Mars to be mined.
2. Australia. Essentially a mini-China. A mixed-race East Asian and white heritage is the ethnicity shared by eighty percent of Australians, and Australian-English has quite a few hints of Mandarin and Cantonese. Australia has the same government as China. Australia took parts of Indonesia, Madagascar, and now, most of South America is under their domain. Canberra's perfectly happy with their position as China's little buddy.
3. Ethiopia. Exploded rather spectacularly. Orom and Somalia are the two strongest states to emerge from the fuckup, and both are naturally very friendly with Beijing. Her people haven't settled most of Africa by now, as analysts projected, as China and Australia see them as convenient tools of labor, ones that their people don't complain about mistreating.
5. Botswana. A fairly stable and united democracy before the event, this tradition continued. They were pretty quickly subverted by Beijing, though, and by the 2060s, shared all of her aspirations. China has given them quite a bit of leeway in South Africa, but everyone important has at least some East Asian heritage. The nation is surprisingly close with Australia, and the two have a fairly strong kinship.
6. Lesotho. Eh. Doing alright. They still have an authoritarian pseudo-monarchy these days, but the AIs run most everything. Not important enough for Beijing to bother with, and Canberra doesn't care.
7. East Timor. Got the rest of their island, now are pretty much an overseas Chinese autonomous territory. Some are wondering whether they should just end the charade.
8. Malta. The only state not under complete Chinese influence, and that's just because Europe isn't terribly interesting to Chinese resource extractors. A fairly impressive Mediterranean empire, keeps tabs on San Marino. A pretty big population of Ethiopian workers long-since assimilated. Slowly and steadily expanding, growing quite terrified of China now that they're plowing through the Ukraine.
8. Cyprus. After a long few periods of conflict, they kicked out the assholes and got to work settling along the Levant. Friendly with China, but they're largely a representative democracy run by AIs. They're the closest thing to a modern day democracy that exists on the planet.
9. San Marino. Eh. They keep to themselves. There was a nasty time at the beginning, but with food shipments from Malta, they got past it. A small state with farms run by Ethiopian migrants, they live a fairly comfortable existence.
10. Tajikistan. No more different than the Uyghurs and the Tibetans these days.

The nations ISOTed to a Virgin Earth this time: Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway, Czechia, Latvia, Serbia, Russia, Madagascar, Qatar, and South Korea, 200 years on. I'll list the nations by importance in modern day affairs.

1. Russia. Obviously the hyperpower. Faced some massive issues with food and power in the initial years, but got over it, its manpower and military advantages helping it move past an initial bad period. Swallowed Latvia without so much as a yelp from Norway and Czechia, NATO having obviously fallen apart in the event. Currently placing its attentions on modernizing its new European territories, as well as placing boots on the ground in its Western European and Middle Eastern colonies. Russia's mostly a military dictatorship ruled by a council of men with various responsibilities, and AI is increasingly controlling the bureaucracy of the Russian state.
2. Mexico. Happily ignoring Russia, now that their vanity project in Alaska slowed down. Aside from issues with native separatists that were solved ages ago, Mexico is having a pretty good time. Their initial years were disastrous, but the military junta that rose from the ashes of a collapsing Mexico and put down the cartels and corruption (not really, but history is written by the winners) is remembered well as the saviors of Mexico during a dark time. If you're a Mexican, life is alright. Your country has claim to most of two continents, and no one's really contesting it. A rising power that threatens to upset Russian dominance.
3. South Korea. After a period of mass starvation, the military moved in, and conscripted the population on fishing fleets. They likely suffered the least of the three nations, but it's still known that around two million died in the post-event times. Nowadays, South Korea, or Hanguk as they're known now, is mostly focusing on settling their portion of Asia, happily exploiting the plentiful rare earth metals in China. A pretty technocratic state, AIs run most everything.
4. Madagascar. An agrarian state of around a hundred and sixty million, they stay out of everyone's way. Malagasy farms are snaking across the African coast, and many in Antananarivo think they should just claim most of the continent for themselves. The settlers in India and Australia, areas Russia and Hanguk intended to claim, are worrying Seoul and Moscow just a tad. Worse comes to worse, it's not like evicting the Malagasy will be too hard. There have been a few states spawned by disgruntled Malagasy, but they never last terribly long. The central government is fairly forgiving as long as you mine, farm, fish, what have you. If they industrialized, they might be a threat to the Big Three, but that's not likely to happen any time soon.
5. Serbia. Experiencing a chill in its relations with Russia as tensions rise over the splitting of Greek territory, and the Russian sponsorship of Bosniak and Magyar states to Serbia's northwest. A nationalist pseudo-democracy big on using minorities as disposable labor, Serbia is a lot less pleasant than Russia, where you can at least expect to get away from Moscow's attention.
6. Norway. Very submissive to NATO, but still has a fairly reasonable democracy, albeit one strongly influenced by Russian interests. Trying to work out a deal with Russia for Western Europe.
7. Czechia. Increasingly under Russian domination as their new Eastern European territories become modernized, and the Czechs don't seem to mind very much. They consider themselves the last remnant of the European Union, and there's a fair bit of European culture melded in there, but they're by no means a liberal democracy, more of a pseudo-democratic nationalist state.
8. Trinidad and Tobago. A peaceful island state under Mexican influence, and the only English speaking state in the world. Port of Spain is Mexico's little buddy, and they've already made arrangements for splitting the rest of South America, with Trinidad to receive the Guyanas, eastern Venezuela, and northwestern Brazil, and Mexico to receive the rest. The most democratic state on Earth.
9. Qatar. The foreign workers ran out of food, the petroshiekhs ran out of bullets. Exploded into anarchy. Russia's placed most of the Qatari successors under its protection, but none of them have anything to offer. They'll likely see full annexation into Russia within fifty years or so. Almost all are poor, destitute, violent, and chaotic.
10. Latvia. Russia: We must protect the ancestral Russians within Latvian territory! *looks at Norway and Czechia* You gonna do anything about that? Norway and Czechia: *Frantically shakes heads*

 

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A while ago, I did a map of the 1940 United States ISOTed to the year 1700, and then the reverse, which was a two part series, and you’ll see the third part someday. This is a sort-of sequel to that series. It shows April 1940’s Germany being replaced by its equivalent from 1700, and the world in April 1960, twenty years on.

Europe
*The disappearance of Nazi Germany shocked the world. France, which was in a state of war against the German state, found itself facing a few confused, primitive villages on the other side of the Maginot Line. After a few probing actions and an unfortunate incident that resulted in the deaths of four downtimer villagers, the French state began to move into the Holy Roman Empire at a steady pace. In a few weeks, French paratroopers were landing in relevant cities and palaces, issuing demands to the local regimes.
*The Soviet Union, smelling blood in the water, did the same, marching the Red Army through the remnants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prussia, and Austria. There was a fair bit of confusion between Paris and Moscow over who would have suzerainty over which bits of former-Germany, but the situation concluded with the Soviet Union recognizing France’s client state Bavaria, while the French and British, by extension, would turn a blind eye to Soviet activities in Eastern Europe.
*The two also compromised by agreeing to let Denmark secure its downtime lands, rather than let the other take control. As tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union increase, Denmark finds itself in a precarious position.
*Things stabilized from there, but there wasn’t complete peace in Europe. Italy, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia had a fascist bloc of their own, formed by fears of the rapidly growing Soviet state and of course, their desire for expansion.
*In 1944, the Soviet Union, seeing this as an opportunity to expand itself, as their downtime territories were being exploited and integrated at a reasonable rate, and their Baltic territories were quiet if a bit grumbly, staged a series of border incidents with Romania. This conflict was allowed to escalate, and Romanian troops burned several Ukrainian villages to the ground, having been allowed to think they held Soviet troops.
*And so Moscow had a casus belli. Waving around the names of the villages, Moscow marched its troops against the fascist bloc, overwhelming Slovakia and Hungary within a month, using similar tactics as Germany did to Poland. Romania and Bulgaria were tougher fishes, but fell soon enough.
*Italy proved the most challenging of the Union’s neighbors. Pushing through the Alps was challenging, especially with the nonexistent infrastructure of their Austrian territories. It’s believed by modern-day (2010s) military historians that the Union only won with the Allied declaration of war on the fascist bloc.
*France had no interest in bordering a socialist Italy, and fascist Spain had become an increasingly belligerent neighbor. It took a bit of prodding, and an agreement to recognize full British control over Italy’s colonies, but soon the Allies were happily marching against Italy and Spain, to finish what Germany started in 1939, as the propaganda went.
*Italy crumbled soon afterwards. There were quite a few tense moments, but Stalin and Western leaders came to a conclusion over the division of Italy. The People’s Republic of Italy, the Republic of Piedmont, Republic of Sardinia, and the South Italian Association still stand today, as does the Tyrolese Soviet Socialist Republic, a rather awkward merge of downtimers and uptimers that Moscow largely only keeps that way out of inertia.
*Those are the two most relevant events in Europe until the day the map takes place, April 1, 1960.
*Now, onto the nations.
*The United Kingdom is gradually turning out the lights on its empire. Rebellions were beginning to mount, independentists were beginning to agitate louder and louder, and consensus in London was that it was time to create a union of equals. That hasn’t really kept, as most former colonies are happy to leave London behind, but it’s gone a fair bit better than in our world.
*The UK is the third most powerful nation on the European continent, and is largely a peaceful kind of place. However, British troops have still seen action in the Pacific War (1942-1946), the War of Fascist Aggression (1944-1947), and in a variety of colonial uprisings.
*The French are quite a bit more expansionistic, having been the first ones to begin the takeover of downtime Germany, and the first to strike against the fascists in the Western Allies. They’ve reluctantly thrown aside most of their empire, but are keeping a few choice bits. For the most part, French Africa and Indochina are aligned with the Metropole in a very tight-knit economic and military alliance, but that’s increasingly only a fact on paper, as some states choose to find their own way with what they see as more powerful patrons.
*France is steadily colonizing their German territories, even their supposedly independent client states, with French citizens, particularly former colonists. This is causing a bit of discomfort between the Germans and French, but the latter has the bigger guns, so it usually goes unmentioned.
*There are four French clients, outside of the land that’s been directly added to the Metropole. Bremen, Hesse, Bavaria, and Saxony are largely ruled by compliant downtimer monarchies, and usually do whatever Paris says. Modern improvements are coming in gradually, but Germany is still the poorest part of Europe in spite of that.
*The Benelux nations haven’t really seen any conflict since the Great War. Losing Indonesia and the Congo was unfortunate, but they both realize that holding on to them would have been even more costly in the long run. They’re pretty firmly in the pocket of the Western Allies, with their greatest fear being, of course, the Soviet Union. The Netherlands was allowed to take a few villages nearing their territory, as was Belgium.
*Spain is the fascist power that wound out leaving the war with the least lost. While France made Italy a priority, the Spanish military was still no match for even an attention-divided Anglo-French coalition. A more compliant military regime was established, which eventually gave way into a democracy. The wartime occupied client republics of Euskara and Catalonia still stand, although Madrid and Barcelona are making moves towards reunification. Euskara, on the other hand, is happy being poor and free.
*Soviet Germany is treated better than you would think, in that there’s only been colonization, exploitation, and a small amount of forced movement in the nicer bits of land with the more rebellious populace. The ruling classes were largely slaughtered en masse, but if you’re an average peasant, life is properly a lot better than it was twenty years ago. It’s better on the French side, of course, and you’ll see quite a bit of attempts at immigration, although that’s slowing as the Bavarian and Saxon governments begin to militarize their borders more and more.
*Yugoslavia collapsed with a bit of Soviet prodding a while ago, and a Serbian nationalist regime friendly to Moscow emerged from the fire. They’re currently fighting a Macedonian rebellion, covertly sponsored by Greece and the Western Allies.
*Slovenia was directly annexed into the Union, and the city of Koper has exploded in size as the Union’s most important Mediterranean port.
*Croatia and Bosnia are largely just hoping no one notices them, and thus far, no one really has.
*Finland got Finlandized.

Africa/Middle East
*Morocco is one of the Western Allies’ bigger mistakes. When Spain was defeated, their North African territories were transferred to the then-French client Morocco, as was the northern section of French Mauritania. Several years after the WoFA ended, however, Morocco began embracing a sort of Arab nationalism, which brought them into a friendly relationship with Egypt, another Arab nationalist state that was also drifting apart from their colonial master.
*By the modern day of 1960, the Arab Union contains Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Its increasingly Islamist, anti-European rhetoric is increasingly worrying Britain and France, and the Soviet Union is, for now, getting a kick out of the Arab Union’s rise to power and its threat to the Western Allies. The Egyptian attempts at getting a nuclear bomb, however, will prove to be a concern to all in years to come.
*France’s attempt at compromise with the Algerians, i.e., they get the good land and the Algerians get shit, didn’t really make the latter happy, and Algeria is likely the most eager member of the Arab Union’s belligerent wing. The rest are just in it for Arab unity and the economic benefits.
*On the bright side, Sudan is rapidly turning into a clusterfuck for Cairo. Maintaining control is proving almost impossible, and Egypt is considering asking the rest of the Arab Union for help in subduing their south.
*Nigeria is still very closely tied to Britain, but is essentially an independent nation at this point. Even when they get independence, they’re planning to keep up military and economic ties.
*The Equatorial Union was an attempt by France to set up a centralized government in Equatorial Africa that would be loyal to Paris. It’s rapidly become an apartheid dictatorship, and reports of ethnic cleansing, happily propagated by Moscow, are a black stain on France’s relations with its former African colonies, and Paris is considering throwing the Equatorians under the bus.
*The Congolese Republic isn’t the most stable state, but it’s a pretty coherent military dictatorship. The Belgians and French tried to set up a democratic state, it didn’t last a year. Neither Paris or Brussels really cares nowadays.
*Kenya is still technically part of the United Kingdom. They have their own Prime Minister, but they also vote in UK elections, and have seats in Parliament. They’re both independent and not. It’s complicated.
*Italian East Africa was split into two states, Ethiopia and Somalia. They’re largely both fairly decent pseudo-democracies, but increasing Soviet influence in Ethiopia might change that.
*Angola and Mozambique worked out a deal with Lisbon for self-rule, where Lisbon would receive favorable trade deals and the right to operate in their nations, but they would largely govern themselves. It helped to avoid the beginning of a fairly massive war, one in which Portugal would have to have fought alone.
*South Africa is a shaky apartheid state that’s rapidly seeing an increasingly radicalized populace on both sides, and the Soviet Union is cheerfully preparing to send guns to rebels across the nation.

Asia/Oceania
*Hindustan might be a rising star in the future. The Western Allies, United States, and Soviet Union are all courting it, and investments from the three are helping to push Hindustan’s economy forward. In the future, India could be one of the larger economies of Earth.
*Assam, Bengal, Pakistan, Ceylon, Sikkim, Burma, Kerala, and Hyderabad are all other states of the former British Raj, and to an extent, they’re all dominated by Hindustan’s economy.
*In this universe, India is more of a catch-all term for the former states of the British Raj, rather than a slang term for Hindustan.
*Indochina is still subservient to Paris to an extent, but they’re largely independent, if with a French stranglehold on their economy. It’s enough to satisfy most nationalists, although there always some communist guerrillas setting up camp in the jungles.
*The Pacific War was the most important conflict in Asia over the past two decades. It evolved out of the Sino-Japanese War, and the general expansionist attitudes of the Japanese state at the time.
*The Japanese launched attacks concurrently on Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii, attempting to knock the Americans out with a quick uppercut, viewing the Americans as a threat to their hegemony over the Pacific Ocean. This rather backfired on them.
*As the Japanese were embroiled in a quagmire in China, and their navy was already battling with the Allied Powers, the entrance of the Americans brought them down. The American takeover of the Home Islands was costly, but effective, and the American general shook hands with the Soviet general at Akita.
*Jeju is direct American territory, as are the Ryukyus and almost all of Japan’s Pacific territories. On the mainland, the Soviets have set up a Chinese People’s Republic, and a Korean People’s Republic, in direct conflict with the West-sponsored Republic of China.
*The ROC is a corrupt warlord state in all but name, and barely has control over its territory. Ordinary warlords and communist agitators gain ground every day, and the American-Allied troops in the country can barely stem the tide. Projections show that the ROC will collapse within twenty years. Some experts in Paris, London, and Washington are suggesting that an amputation will be necessary, planning an attack on the ROC leadership to install someone more competent.
*Formosa declared independence a while ago, and while Nanjing would like to do more than protest this, they have bigger problems.
*Indonesia’s an impressively stable, prosperous democracy, that’s making steady and strong gains in economic terms. Very close with Hindustan and Australia.

Americas
*The United States is the unthought of third bloc. There’s the Western Allies, there’s the Soviet Union, and then there’s the United States, which on its own is tied with both blocs in term of power. It’s about the same as it was twenty years ago, with civil rights legislation trudging along at a slower and more violent pace than OTL. Race riots in the South are sadly common, and there’s a lack of a King-like figure to unite the black population. The situation could easily go south (pun intended).
*In equally depressing news, America and its allies are embroiled in a violent guerrilla war in Peru. Most of the country is occupied by America, Brazil, and Ecuador, but the Peruvians, with Soviet arms, are fighting back viciously. Thirty thousand Americans, and one hundred thousand of their allies’ troops, have died thus far, and the casualty rate looks to mount.
*President Kennedy (Sr.) is rather dismayed by this, despite the war remaining popular, and the fact that he looks likely to be reelected. What was supposed to be a simple coup has been warped into a clusterfuck of a quagmire, and it doesn’t look to abate. On the bright side, the military-industrial complex is happy, and relations with Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela have never been higher as they are now, with the Peruvian menace uniting them.
*Overall, the United States is content to let Europe play its games, they just want to keep their hemisphere, East Asia, Liberia, their burgeoning influences in India...okay, maybe they want quite a bit. There’s a large debate in American society over how much they should be playing the game of international diplomacy. Isolationism died with the Pacific War and the American occupation of Japan, which still stands today, but how much should Washington intervene in world affairs?

World's Greatest Powers: April 1960, Germany 1700 to 1940, Post 1

1. Soviet Union
2. United States
3. United Kingdom/France tied
4. Hindustan
5. Arab Union
6. Brazil
7. Republic of China
8. Turkey
9. Australia
10. Indonesia

Nuclear Powers
Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Hindustan, Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom

This is a sequel to my previous map, in which Germany in 1940 was replaced with its equivalent territories from 1700. That map took place twenty years later, and this one takes place thirty-seven years later, in 1977. Here’s a link to that map, so you can read its write-up first.

Americas
*The United States of America still isn’t the top power of the world, but it’s aiming to unseat the Soviet Union...any day now, says Washington.
*Canada is increasingly torn between their American neighbors and the Anglo-French, as the two blocs grow further and farther apart, as they begin to clash more and more on the world stage.
*Peru has been pacified, after a very costly fourteen year in which a hundred thousand Americans died. The Peruvian War, started as President Kennedy’s attempt at uniting the nation behind him in a time of recession, became the conflict that united the Americas under Amero-Brazilian leadership.
*Hispanics are essentially considered on the same level as whites in contemporary American racial theory, although blacks, Jews, most Asians, Roma, and natives are still down there. The Japanese are considered a subjugated people (Defeat Means Friendship) and are thus excluded from this calculus.
*America, while still a democracy, is much more authoritarian, and there are parts of the South and some urban centers that have been under martial law for decades. Segregation still exists in quite a few states, as there’s a prevailing belief that some blacks and some whites just can’t get along.
*Panama was directly annexed into the United States after the local banana republic fell apart, and the United States intervened to prevent a communist takeover. There’s a fair bit of dissent, and it’s a hot topic in Congress over why it was even annexed.
*Guyana was another geopolitical hot point, and one that arguably caused the final separation between the United States and the Anglo-French. After declaring independence, Guyana had the misfortune to be a rival of Venezuela (a close American ally) at a time when the Anglo-French were distracted by a brutal war in North Africa. Venezuela was able to occupy most of the country, and there wasn’t a damn thing London or France could do about it.
*Both issued demands to Venezuela and Brazil to retreat from Guyana, a state that, while not officially allied with either power, was still closely related to them. They refused. This shattered relations between the blocs, and cemented this world’s status as a tripolar world.
*Argentina is grumpily neutral. Ecuador is trying to keep its food down, having perhaps bitten off a bit more of Peru than it can chew. Brazil is enjoying the fact that there are still Peruvian guerrillas, and thus more ways to bleed its new recruits.
*Puerto Rico is a state now.

Europe
*The Anglo-French have been working on solidifying their alliance into a more concrete European Union. There was a massive conflict with the Arab Union known as the Arab Wars (1962-1968) that started when Egypt and Morocco announced that they had possession of a nuclear bomb. This was a bluff, they only had the capability to develop it, although Egypt was close at the time. Their leadership had assumed this would give them leverage in negotiations with the Anglo-French and Soviets, and would let them punch above their weight, perhaps finally making those inroads into Arabia and North Africa they had been wanting.
*This backfired. After making a backroom deal with the Soviets for a free hand in the collapsing Nationalist China (it’s since gotten better), the Anglo-French used nuclear weapons for the first time in anger, as the first shots in the war against the Arabs. Eight AU military bases went up in nuclear flames in the span of thirty minutes, and Spanish troops began invading the Rif.
*The Anglo-French broke the backs of the inferior AU militaries within the first year of warfare, but it didn’t stop with the collapse of Egypt and Morocco’s militaries. No, they spent five more years embroiled in a violent, horrific conflict in the deserts of North Africa. Even today, Franco-Spanish troops stationed in Algeria still have to respond to frequent terrorist attacks.
*On the bright side, Mauretania, Tunisia, Jordan, and Libya are all fairly enthusiastic supporters of the Anglo-French bloc nowadays. Too bad it cost three hundred thousand Western Allied lives to do so. Turkey’s also on board, as is Greece, both having seen the writing on the wall in terms of Soviet expansionism, and deciding that the Americans were too far away to be able to truly help them.
*Speaking of the Soviets, they’ve subsumed Hungary into their union, and have also taken in Croatia, Bosnia, and Albania as full-fledged client states. They claim that the people of those nations chose to join them democratically, but literally no one believes that.
*The dissolution of San Marino into the Italian People’s Republic was also a thing that happened. The IPR, looking for a new boogeyman to disguise the fact that their citizens were living in poverty, decided to invade and remove the Sammarinese government, as a degenerate threat to Italian social unity. This has drawn fairly massive criticism from the international community, and even Moscow admits that it was perhaps a bit of an overreaction. It certainly killed any interest the Piedmontese, Sicilian, or Sardinian people might have had in rejoining their mother nation any time soon.
*Tensions between the Soviet bloc and the Western bloc have been increasing for some time, and they’re beginning to come to a head. Seeing that the Anglo-French are gaining more and more power, the Soviet leadership thinks it might be time to kneecap them before they begin to overwhelm them. As Soviet tanks begin to cross over into Bavaria and Saxony, they have no idea that their overconfidence and expansionistic urges will lead to the downfall of their civilization.
*This Second Great War will be regarded as even more foolish and pointless than the first one, and as the most destructive war of the twentieth century. It will prove to the world that nuclear weapons are not mere weapons, to be treated as casual tools of the battlefield, as they were in the Arab Wars.

Africa/Middle East
*I already covered what happened to the Arab Union above. Morocco is a Spanish client, Mauretania and Libya are happily independent, Algeria is under Franco-Spanish joint occupation, Tunisia’s a French client. Egypt is mostly independent and actually has a pretty similar government to what they had before the war, except with Anglo-Turkish troops occupying the north. Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon are all under Turkish occupation, while Jordan, which was neutral during the Arab War, is just clutching Turkey’s teat for the economic benefits.
*The Equatorian Union has long-since parted ways with their former French masters, morphing into a brutal apartheid state responsible for genocide in Darfur and the Congo, where their attempts at sponsoring white supremacist regimes have backfired on them. Their nation is built off of inviting Europeans to live there to help keep a significant white minority in the nation, as most were smart enough to leave when the black natives started committing hate crimes. If you’re a desperate Romanian or Italian fleeing communist tyranny, and you go to Equatoria hoping for a new start, you’re likely going to be disappointed. And murdered.
*Ethiopia’s the Soviet investment in Africa, and it’s paying dividends, with revolts in the Congo and Rhodesia leading to loyal, if unproductive movements across the continent. Addis Ababa is scaring the shit out of Somalia, especially as violence flares up over their border.

Asia
*Hindustan’s fully hitched itself to America, choosing them as the nation most likely to leave them alone, which is improving the average American’s opinion of South Asians. Hindustan herself is now clearly a first world economy, if not first world living conditions, and has full domination over almost all of its neighbors (Delhi: Fucking Bengal).
*Very Hindu supremacist, but they follow a segregationist system rather than a blatant lynch mob system, which is...debatably better?
*Nationalist China fell apart a while ago, and the American bloc and the Western bloc cooperated to support a man named You Mai, a brutal, military man, a charismatic autocrat with the right mindset for the job. The issue was that You had made quite a few enemies, and by appointing him, many of the regional governors in capitalist China decided enough was enough, and splintered off.
*This warlord period didn’t last long. You Mai, with international support, access to China’s industrial centers, and air support from the United States and Hindustan, won back most of Nationalist China’s territory within a few years. In 1972, Formosa was reannexed into the main Chinese state. You Mai is on track to being remembered as one of China’s great leaders, and is being praised by leaders across the capitalist world.
*The Soviets made off like bandits in the Chinese warlord era, too, or so they think, anyway. The Chinese People’s Republic ran off with quite a bit of formerly Nationalist land, and the Soviets even transferred Gansu (the international name for the territory formerly controlled by the Ma clique) to the CPR. This has done a good job at reducing Soviet influence in East Asia, as they’ve introduced an ally with enough power to challenge Moscow’s complete domination there.
*Korea is now under joint Sino-Soviet rule, which is another worry for Moscow in the region.
*America’s working on fully annexing Japan. It’s been a long time coming, but the country’s been under Washington’s occupation for over thirty years, two generations have grown up knowing nothing but American rule, and as such, the news that Japan will finally begin to be treated as an equal to the Americans, rather than a giant aircraft carrier and watchdog nest for both the Japanese and the Soviets, comes as surprisingly good news for the people of Japan, who, whether they like it or not, have been increasingly Americanized.
*Indonesia, a rogue state tenuously associated with Hindustan (not so much anymore) has occupied and invaded Sarawak, and threatens the same for Brunei, Timor, and New Guinea. Just in case, Washington is stationing nukes in the Philippines, in case Jakarta decides to come for Sabah.

Nuclear Powers
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chinese People's Republic, France, Hindustan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Republic of China, Spain, Soviet Union, Turkey, United States, United Kingdom. Argentina, Greece, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa, Sweden, and Thailand are all trying for nukes.

Members of the Western Bloc
Australia, Bavaria, Belgium, Bremen, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Euskara, France, Greece, Guyana, Hesse, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Libya, Luxembourg, Kuwait, Mauretania, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Piedmont, Sardinia, Saxony, Sicily, Soqotra, Somalia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom. Friendliest of the three blocs with Burma and Iran. Currently at war with the Soviet Bloc.

Members of the Soviet Bloc
Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Chinese People's Republic, Croatia, Central Africa, Ethiopia, Finland, Italy, Korea, Romania, Serbia, Soviet Union. Friendliest of the three blocs with Argentina (really not saying much there). Currently at war with the Western bloc.

Members of the Indian-American Bloc
Assam, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Hindustan, Laos, Malaya, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Sikkim, Tibet, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam. Friendliest of the three blocs with Equatoria, Indonesia, Nationalist China (but the two are experiencing colder relations as You Mai gets bolder), and Thailand



Any questions, comments, concerns?

A Florida ISOTed to a Virgin Earth map I will definitely finish one day.

 

[Jcw3]

New series I'm planning. Europe in 1930 ISOTed to a virgin Earth. I mostly did a circular pattern around the more eastern bits, so Turkey and the Soviets, as well as Iceland, were sort of screwed over.

In the modern day of 1940, there are three blocs. The Anglo-French, the fascists, and the Soviets. The Soviet-fascist agreement is falling apart, and as Scandinavia and Benelux increasingly turn towards Paris for protection, the balance of power is shifting away from the seemingly unstoppable Germans. All the while, the colonization of the virgin world begins to extend beyond mere reclamations and resource grabs.

The Europe 1930 ISOT series continues, this time in 1950. Germany, Italy, et al, all bit off more than they could chew. Now the Soviet Union is the predominant world power, and claims most of Asia as its own territory, even if it doesn't technically control it. Relations with the Anglo-French are growing tense, and Spain, Scandinavia, and Turkey are increasingly drifting towards Paris as Soviet expansion grows more and more prominent.

There's also an independent Jewish state, originally a German dumping ground for their Jews/oil reserve, which declared independence after the destruction of Nazi Germany.

Keeping it short this time. Questions?

1, 2, 3

The Europe 1930 ISOT series, continued to 1962. The last vestiges of capitalist power in Europe have been wiped out, or so says Moscow. Truth be told, Moscow is fine letting Switzerland and a variety of microstates continue to exist, even after the Third World War. Occupying all of Europe is a drain on even their seemingly endless manpower, and it doesn't help that the British (now a catch-all term for the UK and Ireland) are sponsoring uprisings in their territories.

The British are doing their damnedest to support new nations across the world, giving independence to the previously occupied Italian Libya, supporting formerly Portuguese Panama and Danish Iceland, helping ferry Dutch refugees to Argentina (all four now major refugee epicenters), and even coming to an agreement with Ireland over the splitting of North America. As of right now, the British are caught off guard, but they're seeing the Soviet giant falter in its occupation of Europe. They're just hoping they can exploit this opportunity. And if not...well, they're working on this new thing called a nuclear bomb. If you use enough of them, well, even the Soviets can't hope to stop it.

 

[Jcw3]

1, 2, 3, 4

The year is 1990. After two decades of constant guerilla warfare, deportations, ethnic cleansing, and assorted hardships, the Soviets finally threw their hands up and made a general retreat from Europe, the populace and leadership increasingly tired of throwing children away to the capitalist hordes when they could be taming the wild east. 'Let them wallow in their filth,' Premier Ivanov proclaimed in 1984. 'We shall carve an empire from the untapped paradise beyond our borders, and we shall achieve true prosperity while Europe rests in the destitution and anarchy that is their degenerate capitalist ideology. Our nations, our people, our continent, our world.' Slovakia, Hungary, and Finland, three bordering nations who had largely been cleared of dissidents ages ago, were subsumed into the Union, and troops that were formerly hunting in the Pyrenees moved to Central Asia and Persia, beating their swords into plowshares as it were.

While the Soviet claim on Asia and the western portion of North America is not widely recognized, it's hard to deny that, even in its self-imposed sleeping giant status, the Soviet Union is still the most powerful state on Earth. And with the Soviet withdrawal, there have emerged powers on the continent to fill the vacuum. Much to the disappointment of Britain and the various governments in exile, the Europeans formerly under Soviet rule weren't thrilled at the idea of reuniting with people a generation separate through them who were perceived as smug cowards and instigators of their suffering (thanks to Soviet propaganda).

Rather than Free France, Spain, Holland, and Portugal getting to reclaim their homelands, the European Popular Union arose out of a hasty alliance between the Soviet collaborationists and the partisans that opposed them. Throughout the wars, most of the fighting had been against Soviet troops stationed in the countries, and the collaborators were rarely fully loyal to Moscow, meaning that there were often already existing partnerships between both groups. Desperate to avoid a full collapse when the Soviets suddenly pulled back entirely from their European territories, French Premier Franchet came to an agreement with various partisans that led to the formation of the French Popular Republic, and then the nation grew as they moved into the Netherlands and Iberia, ostensibly to prevent chaos. This brought them into contact with Free Spain, who had maintained control over the bulk of the country. As both were nuclear powers, this grew tense, and there was one instance where a nuclear attack on Free Spanish troops was only avoided by the bomber being shot down by local anti-aircraft.

London managed to negotiate a peace agreement, one that hasn't gone over well, and skirmishes occur weekly. The EPU isn't slowing down, either, having enacted a coup on Britain-friendly Sardinia, and even installed a compliant government in Monaco of all places. Most 'free' pundits agree that the EPU is presently the greatest threat to world peace. Comparatively, the Germans are downright friendly. Despite Soviet efforts, German nationalism remained across Europe. When the Soviets withdrew so carelessly, Austria reunited with Prussia, and it took them only a year to batter down the Czechs and the Dutch to reclaim 'German-majority territories. Denmark was lucky, and saw the writing on the wall, contacting London for help. There's currently a nuclear air base in Schleswig, in case Munich gets any bright ideas.

Free France is facing economic pains, as the EPU's popularity and stability decreases the steady stream of refugees from the mother country. The oil money is nice, but the Iranian territories are jockeying for more influence in a nation dominated by the whims of Corsica and Algeria. Free Spain, on the other hand, is facing a very tense situation in Iberia, and is absolutely furious with Britain for refusing to provide more support. London's annoyed that Puerto Flor (moving back to Madrid is a slow process) expects them to join in a fight against a nuclear power it's not sure it can beat.

The British Empire is recognized as the second most powerful state on Earth for a reason, after all, but it still doesn't like its odds against the EPU. Oh, it can probably win conventionally, but it'll draw the ire of the various nationalist groups of Europe, and relations with Italy, Germany, and Yugoslavia are poor as is. The British Empire, a state-capitalist militarist state with democratic leanings, is increasingly dominated by its colonies (Rio Grande, New England, Egypt, Arabia, and soon to be South Africa). Of all the nations, they're receiving the most refugees, which concerns leftist politicians, as refugees from Europe tend to be stridently anti-communist, and thus, anti-liberal, thanks to Tory efforts. Labour is trying to work that into anti-Soviet, but no dice thus far.

Soviet Republics: Russo-Asian, Persian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, Finnish, Polish, Memellander, Hungarian, Slovakian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Rhodian, Bornholmer, Gotlander

Nuclear Powers: European Popular Union, Free France, Free Spain, Germany, Soviet Union, United Kingdom

Questions and comments welcome.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The year is 2010, and this is the fifth map in the 1930 Europe ISOTed to a Virgin Earth series. In 2004, National Alliance candidate Albrecht Fleischer was elected Chancellor of Germany. This is relevant because it means that, for the first time in this world's history, none of the leaders of any of the world's nations were born before the ISOT. The world is getting more peaceful by the year, with the defeat of the European Popular Union in a conventional war by an Anglo-Spanish alliance (1992-1994), forcing the former to mostly withdraw from Iberia, being the last major conflict the world has seen.

The Soviet Union is still the largest economy on Earth, and is growing spectacularly now that they have a railroad connection to their newest crown jewel, the colonies in India. Their claims on mainland Asia are begrudgingly recognized by the rest of the world, and Soviet settlements beyond their contiguous zones grow more and more significant, 'mapworthy' as British pundits put it. These days, they're a lot more moderate, with not nearly as many ethnic cleansings or deportation, but when Moscow gives an order to the colonies, they follow it. It's also a more homogeneous nation, with a heavy Russian backdrop, while Finns, Baltics, Poles, Germans, Hungarians, Ukrainians, and Slovakians make up significant portions of the nation.

Then there's the British Empire. It's the same old, same old, but London is worried about Rio Grande, Arabia, Egypt, and New England increasingly lobbying for autonomy and more influence. Folks in Wallington, New Cairo, New York, and Gulf Landing are starting to blow the dust off of old documents regarding a pre-transition form of government called a 'dominion'.

Europe is continuing to associate itself closer, with Scandinavia unifying, to British applause, and Albania folding itself into Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece all have a cooperative free travel zone, and Moscow barely meddles in their elections anymore! (They don't need to.) Italy is talking to the European Popular Union about a merger, which is worrying French nationalists who fear that their vise grip over a supposedly multicultural union will be lessened. That's holding negotiations back, as is panicked British meddling.

The EPU is increasingly friendly with the Soviet Union, as the British and Spanish prove to be a more direct threat. Moscow and Paris are trying to talk Germany into forming a more permanent association with them, but no dice thus far. Neither the National Alliance, the Social Democrats United, or the Collectivist Association have any interest in any subservience or association with either Union, and are instead focusing on closer relations with Britain. A fact that was immensely helped by Chancellor Scheitz (predecessor to Fleischer) purchasing large swathes of the Caribbean.

In 1986, the British government sold the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Free French in exchange for a stupid amount of money, which very much so offended Anglo-Irish settlers there, who have declared their homesteads to be independent of both nations. The so-called 'Free Homestead Association' proves to be a pain in the backside of the Western powers, especially as a British town at the base of the Orange River (population five thousand) declares itself independent in what London begrudgingly acknowledges to be an honest and informed decision of the locals. There are common fears amongst politicians in the Home Island over whether or not they can even keep control of the larger and more prominent overseas colonies, and some are suggesting that the capital be moved to a more neutral settlement, like Bermuda or an entirely new settlement in Africa. It's an issue they'll need to settle, especially as the overseas colonies agitate for independence.

Folks in governments around the world are beginning to notice that in less than a hundred years, the world will be fully settled by the powers of Europe and beyond. There are worries among futurists about running out of resources someday in the far future, and fights over living space, as the world population grows at exponential rates. Space travel, while merely a hobby of sorts promoted by the British government, is beginning to become more of a common subject worldwide.

This will probably be the last of these that I do. I might do one for 1930 Asia in the future, but don't count on it.

Questions, comments, and criticism welcome.

This was another series I had in mind. It would have been a Weird West fantasy world taking place in 1878. The Confederacy lasted until 1869, and both Union and the South were using magic against each other. Right now, the United States, entirely fed up with the South's bullshit, took it upon itself to dismantle and permanently erase the Southern identity. It hasn't been going well for them, and when you add the supernatural bullshit in the West, Washington is not having fun.

I would describe the setting as a mix of Manifest Destiny, Clockwork Century and The Sixth Gun.

 

[Jcw3]

I don't even remember what this nuclear war map was for. You guys can have it, I guess. This is the finished part, I chopped out the rest.

I took one look at Africa, realized the effort it would take, and I decided to take the easy road out. Fuck it, sorry for my laziness, but I'm not finishing it. Pretend it's most untouched by colonists, but with Chinese settlement in East Africa and Madagascar, and European Nigeria. I want to move on to bigger and more interesting things. Mediterranean Africa and South Africa are finished. That's it.

It's been one hundred years since the nation of Poland was copied and pasted from our modern day of 2016 to the year 1814 on this world. The nation of Poland found itself at odds with both sides of the Napoleonic Wars, and after smacking down the European powers, created its own economic union, similar to our European Union, but more submissive to Warsaw's wishes, and more centralized. Over the decades, this union centralized, and while Polish is a common language across Europe, German, Dutch, and Russian are still important in the modern day European Economic Association.

China is also a significant nation, having used leaked Polish technology to modernize after a forward thinking young emperor used it to his advantage. Nowadays, Europe and China are locked in a cold war, both fighting for influence in the New World. The United States and Brazil are firmly on Vilnius's side, but Peking has influence in most of the Spanish-speaking world.

I decided to start my participation in this thread off with a simple 'x to a Virgin Earth' post. Vermont ISOTed to a Virgin Earth. Simple enough.

Two hundred years on, the United States of America, descended from the Vermonter state government, has almost ten million people living there, and is the most powerful state on the continent, easily. Its only rival is a regional power on the Great Lakes, Libertia, a series of homesteads on Lake Erie, which is much more conservative and militaristic than the USA, although not in an expansionistic way. Libertia is more 'every citizen in the army' than 'burn everyone else to the ground'.

Chesapeake, Ontario, Ohio, Bermuda, Mariana, and Freedonia are other nations with more than twenty-five thousand people. There are twenty-nine settlement-states (more than 1,000) and sixty homesteads (more than 100) that Washington (rebuilt, but in Boston, thanks to a series of budget disputes and dickwaving) has relationships with, one of which is even on one of the Azores. Most eventually end up joining the United States when they share a border, but Washington is a live and let live sort of country, most of the time. A few ruined homesteads on the Great Lakes might disagree with that assumption.

Conflicts in this world are somewhat rare, and usually internal (Ohioan independence ruffled a few feathers in Brocks, the capital of Libertia). The Great Lakes are the subject of most modern territorial disputes, with Libertia and America regularly feuding over territories. The annexation of the Chicago Republic has infuriated Libertia, and some of their more radical leaders are suggesting cutting off Chicago from the contiguous United States. This is not going over well, especially since the people of Mariana, a small border state on Lake Erie (131,000 people) has recently voted to join the United States as the sixteenth (sixty-fifth if you want to be a prick about it) state.

But Libertia will likely bend the knee. The United States is rich, the only suppliers of oil in the world, and despite Libertian attempts to find the rumored oil reserves in Michigan, they've found bupkiss thus far. Brocks won't like it, but they'll eventually acknowledge Chicago as a part of the United States, and soon, Mariana.

The most populous state of the Union is Moncton, the state in OTL Massachusetts/Rhode Island. Technology is roughly 1970s for the average person. Washington hasn't lost their technology, that's kept carefully preserved, but most people just don't have access, and there haven't been enough raw material extraction to recreate the Internet yet. The government uses a primitive form of it, but most communication is done via telephone. Discrimination nowadays is mostly against the one hundred thousand or so predominantly French speaking humans, most of whom live in Ontario or America.

A peaceful world, all things considered. It weathered the transition with only a minor downgrade, has largely maintained democratic and peaceful traditions (although the independently minded American navy had an explosive reaction to independently minded homesteaders), and will settle the world at a slow and steady pace. By the time they 'run out' of land, they'll likely already be settling extraterrestrial territories.

World Population: 12,080,000.

 

[Jcw3]

Please note: This is the current map, and it is a work in progress as of Jan. 24, 2017. The Americas are probably finished, and Europe, the Maghreb, and the Middle East are close to completion.

I'm going to put the Elysium map on indefinite hiatus for now. But in the meantime, here is the finalized NAU map. Not finalized, because I haven't changed the sea levels yet, but in terms of borders and all.

-The United States fell apart in the mid-2050s and hasn't really gotten any better. By 2154, the modern day, most of North America is unified in terms of sharing an economy, currency, and extra-American relations, but in terms of domestic policies, completely separate.
-Canada is the most powerful state on the continent. Ottawa's a lot less liberal than you'd think, the corporations and the plutocrats having significant influence, and mainland Denendeh is essentially an independent state owned by a megacorp. Yukon is heading down a similar route.
-Canada is the reason the NAU exists, as when Mexico and America fell apart, it was Canadian intervention and sponsorship of various independence movements that allowed most the countries to move past the war. (The South hasn't really gotten over it yet.)
-The American government, quite a bit smaller than it once was, has a new capital in Chillicothe. It's very submissive to Ottawa, and is currently dealing with a secessionist movement in Wisconsin, which wants to join Canada, as have Washington, Minnesota, the Superior Peninsula, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and Upstate New York.
-The two parties in America are the Progressives and the Steadfasters. Progressives value promoting increased access to medi-beds, increased government spending, against allowing in further refugees beyond the best educated, and are heavy promoters of the American space program. The Steadfasters are the more conservative party, and are more focused on promoting Earth-based infrastructure, are against allowing in further refugees at all, are trying to break free of Ottawa's influence, and would prefer to see the finalization of automation, i.e., the end of human labor. Progressives tend to value humans working together with the sweat of their brow, embracing the future, but they tend to mistrust genetic modification and automation, seeing it as a way that humans are minimized. Steadfasters are much more willing to rely on such technology, and believe that humanity can still forge a future for themselves on Earth. They also tend to be more isolationist.
-Chillicothe is currently dealing with more violent and radical separatist movements in North Dixie, a state cobbled together from the northern sections of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, after their contiguity to the states themselves were severed by the establishment of the Black Belt Republic (BBR), a black nationalist state formed after the Second Republic of Dixie (an attempt by Southern governors to retain unity) fell apart.
-North Dixians dislike the name they've been given by Chillicothe, they dislike Yankees telling them what to do, they dislike not having their own nation, they dislike the fact that the blacks 'stole' their nation from them, they dislike the fact that they're stuck in poverty while government tax dollars go to resettling climate refugees, they dislike that North American regulations mean that medi-beds are reserved for the upper echelons of society, and they're just mad in general, for reasons good and bad. This makes them dangerous, and given that most of them are poor and desperate, many of them are taking up arms.
-The BBR is a reluctant Canadian ally. They've increasingly become a theocratic, exclusionary state that's increasingly bucking Ottawa and Austin's wishes. Folks in Des Moines (the NAU capital) are already talking about cutting them loose, as the BBR has never been especially valuable.
-The Second Republic of Dixie still exists, but as a bitter rump state. They're doing...okay. Democracy still exists, although they've figured out ways to keep the poor, blacks, and latinos from voting in numbers too large.
-Florida still exists somehow. Ottawa is steadily evacuating everyone and moving them elsewhere, and the Kissimmee government only really exists as a placeholder. Canada is preparing to annex the region, like they did with Bermuda, the Bahamas, and several other island states near their sphere of influence.
-Texas is the second most powerful state in the NAU. Austin's suffered from climate change, but not too much. Their clients of Arizona and New Mexico, now annexed into Texas for all the good that it's done for them, have been much worse off.
-Texas tries to keep out of Canada's way, and vice versa. Dominating the NAU is good for both of them, and Texas is content to maintain its small share of the pie.
-That said, Texans make up most of the North American military, Vancouver and Houston are both epicenters of the entertainment scene, and Texan President Jack Corman (2148-present) and Canadian Prime Minister Alicia Courtier (2151-present) tend to stand side by side whenever discussing NAU affairs in Des Moines. Texan and Canadian lunar, venerean, martian, and asteroidal bases are usually marked separately (albeit under the NAU franchise).
-Texas is actually one of the states freer from megacorp influence, and unlike most American successor states, they've done away with party systems entirely. This doesn't stop unofficial arrangements from existing, of course.
-Centralia was originally an American military remnant based out of Cheyenne Mountain, but shifted to civilian control soon after the dark years ended. They prefer Texas' more hands off approach than Canada's, but they're very friendly with the NAU in general.
-Utah's more secular than you would think. The Mormons control society, but they only make up sixty-five percent of the state's population. They were once the dream-spot for North American refugees fleeing war, oppression, and the encroaching tides, but the Utahn state began to grow concerned with how few of their new immigrants were converting, and that, combined with populist leadership, has begun to drain the flow of refugees coming to Utah.
-A more liberal leadership has come into Salt Lake City, however, and refugees from California and the South are becoming a common sight once more.
-The Navajo once had their own state. Desertification ended that. They still have offices in Des Moines, but most live in Centralia and the Plains Republics nowadays.
-The Plains Republics were state governments that weathered the collapse of the American state rather well, but when the refugees started trickling in, things got bad. Canada stopped occupying Wyoming in 2125, after seventy years of stationing troops there, and nowadays, the Plains Republics are loose, libertarian, and with fewer human rights abuses than before.
-Dakota was in a similar spot, but they've become a lot better in the days since, and there's a significant movement in Aberdeen to join Canada, mostly championed by aboriginal activists, but is a popular idea with whites as well.
-Iowa is unremarkable. Bland democracy that had to get used to living with a bunch of browner refugees. One of the more liberal places about medi-bed use. Next.
-California's a rather extreme corporatist state. North Carolina and Mexico have similar treatment of their poor, but California often manages to surpass even the worst on the continent. Horrific stories of worker treatment are common fodder for slow news days in more liberal countries, and California exemplifies the worrying classist attitudes of North America. The fact that Californian President Carlyle referred to the poor as 'waste' is concerning even to their most prominent advocates in Des Moines. Its allegiance to the satellite-state of Elysium, and the fact that the Elysian wealthy are beginning to be more prominent in Californian discourse than Texan or Canadian wealthy, is especially worrying.
-Mexico blew up rather spectacularly, and while the Mexico City government is attempting to reform the old state, that ship has stated. It's got a smaller economy than Veracruz, its worker protections are nonexistent, and its nepotism is infamous even in California.
-Finally, the biggest thorn in Des Moines' backside. The Metropole. The Metropole was originally an association of police officers (by the 2050s, more overseers of drones and AI systems than beat cops and the likes) that banded together to preserve order during the dark times, but it grew into an AI-run coalition of city states, as the people discovered that it was easier to let Friend Computer do all that hard work of overseeing them.
-The Metropole is not friendly with the Chillicothe government. New York (protected by a very efficient system of levees) thinks of the Chillicothe government as a bunch of cowards who would have let the cities drown, and Chillicothe thinks of them as a massive drain filled with minorities and the poor, and is very concerned that their AI will come to a conclusion that's not beneficial to them. They also claim most of the Metropole as American territory, which New York finds just precocious.
-If you live in the Metropole, you're probably better off than most on the continent. You're sterilized by government order (all children born in the Metropole are clones, generally the Metropole takes in skilled immigrants rather than resort to that, however), but you're guaranteed to never go hungry, you'll likely live to two hundred thanks to liberal use of medi-beds, and crime is nonexistent. On the other hand, no privacy or ability to have birth naturally.
-Des Moines is very concerned about the Metropole's independent attitudes, its increasing reliance on the AI, how creepily well-organized the society is, how submissive and antlike the people raised there are, and the Metropole is a common excuse for anti-AI laws in North American (and worldwide) countries.
-Argentina, the largest economy in the Americas, is beginning to encroach on the Caribbean, and has been making subtle moves to Yucatan, Chiapas, and the independent Caribbean states. This is an external worry of Texas and Canada, who saw what happened to Brazil when it tried to resist Argentina. Des Moines is considering making deals with Elysium, Sagan, and Warburton (this satellite state is the one running Denendeh) to ensure a closer relationship, to act as a counterbalance to Latin America's wealth and power.
-In the rest of the world, there's the European Union. The EU united, but it cost a lot, especially if you're Muslim, Roma, aboriginal, Russian, or if you were the wrong type of European in the wrong part of Europe. It's very much an isolationist white supremacist state, but with exceptions. The Tunisians don't count, Munich will tell you. Neither do their friends in Nigeria, India and Turkey.
-The most productive sectors of the EU are Poland, Germany, France, and Ukraine. The Mediterranean has become a bit of a drain on Europe's economy, and is their main source of climate refugees.
-China's an AI run technocracy, and the largest economy on the planet. They own a third of the moon and Venus. Very friendly with Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Argentina, Japan, South Africa, and Congo.
-India's a direct democracy, which has caused quite a few hurdles for them to overcome, but with an improved education system, it's not...too terrible. They're the second most powerful state on the planet. Very friendly with the EU, the EAU (East African Union), Vietnam, Nigeria, and the NAU.
-The Middle East is still glowing in the dark. India's still wasting time and effort on propping up a few Arab states, as well as sponsoring the remnant Iranian regime's attempts to retake its homeland.
-The Amazon jungle makes a convenient testing ground for Argentinean experiments, and the Republic of Amazonia makes a convenient excuse for Argentina to pretend that what they're doing there is legitimate.
-No alien life yet, except for a few microbes on a comet. Europa wound up being a dead end.
-There are twenty-nine million people living in space, most on the forty-three satellite states, but there are 1.5 million people on Mars, 600,000 on Luna, and 200,000 on Venus. The asteroids have a couple thousand as well, but they're mostly used for monthly resource deliveries rather than actual settlements.
-Twelve million of those people are Chinese, seven million are Indian.

World Economies.
1. China
2. India
2.5. Latin American Union
3. Europe
3.5. North American Union
4. Indonesia
5. Argentina
6. Nigeria
7. Canada
8. Thailand
9. Japan
10. Vietnam
11. Texas (honorary mention)

 

[Cool-Eh]

Yay! It's great and convenient to see these maps all in one place. Especially for the siries.

 

[PachPachis]

This reminds me of that SMBC where aliens kill everyone on Earth except for lower-class New Jerseyans. 1000 years later, volume is measured in "Metric Fucktons."

 

[Rosella]

Hi!

Two things:

In the Camden in the Sea of Time map, what happens to the U.S.S. New Jersey?

Also, can I use the landmasses from that new world-y map?

 

[Jcw3]

Hi!

Two things:

In the Camden in the Sea of Time map, what happens to the U.S.S. New Jersey?

Also, can I use the landmasses from that new world-y map?

Probably rotting in harbor. Someone might use it as a model, but it was around a hundred years before people started getting oil again, IIRC.

Sure. Wouldn't recommend using the one on the far-left, but go nuts. Just credit me, please, because those took a while to depixelize.