Map Thread VIII

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Chairwoman Roxelana

NikoZnate said:
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That's rather epic...
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Going on from that:

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Glen

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From the Dominion of Southern America timeline (link in sig):

Glen said:
By 1860, the Manchu were in full flight to the Manchu homeland. Many of the Manchu and Qing officials were taken by surpise at the pent-up ferocity that was unleashed upon them in northern China, including Chinese Turkestan and Mongolia. At the root of it was the dual reasons of the humiliations that Manchus had placed over the centuries on non-Manchus, and the corruption that had become rampant in the Qing civil service. Some Western observers may have been tempted to believe that with so many of the career civil servants driven out of their posts, that the new regime would collapse into chaos - however, they would be forgetting the great number of talented Han, Hui, Mongolian, and others who had been candidates for civil service but denied due to being unable to find patronage or a big enough bribe. Therefore when the new dynasty (called Chuen, meaning Pure in Chinese) announced that the Middle Kingdom would return to a more fundamental Confucianism free from bribery and corruption (and with the number of executed or fled bureacrats, few disputed their ardor in reform), there were more than enough bright and well educationed non-Manchus free of the taint of the old regime to take their place.

Again, a naive observer from the West may have expected the northern rebellion and southern revolution to embrace and form a new China. However, the north was now dominated by fiercely traditional Confucians, whereas the south had already started a government which had more in common with the liberal nations of the Western World than their Confucian roots. The anti-Manchu reaction in the south had been milder, more gradual, but had been going on longer, and while there was no official discrimination against Manchus, the former administrators of China were by and large ignorant and disdainful of the new teachings of the West, and chose to return to the north, and thence Manchuria.

Both the north and the south claimed each others' territory initially, but the south was weary of war, and the north far from secure with Qing Manchuria at it's doorstep. The United States, France, and Britain were able to act as mediators to arrange an armistice between the two powers, with only a tepid agreement to begin talks in future on possible reunification of the two disparate parts of China.

Manchuria itself stayed loyal to the scions of the Qing dynasty, and refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Chuen dynasty. But essentially, Qing ruled over nothing more than Manchuria, and that at the sufferance of the Russians.
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Chairwoman Roxelana

NikoZnate said:
So... What languages are used at an official level? Did all the ethnicities retain their languages, or has there been some linguistic assimilation?
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The Language of the Entire nation is Arabic, but the Northern Provinces also have Secondary Offical Languages. Then the Counties also have there own offical languages. The Eastern Provinces use Arabic and Aquitanian because they were the first Provinces of the Republic and Aquitanie, Al-Andalus and Fez were the colonizers, other then the New Friesland Protectorate, which is Christian and Frisian. The West has Irish, German, Norwiegen, Russian and Chinese as languages because of how immigration worked and what the Republic conquered from other powers.
 

rvbomally

B_Munro said:
Awesome cool. So what are those little stripey patches near Sol? And why all the systems named after existing states? Earth got chewed up somehow?

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Thanks! :) The stripey patches are "sovereign territory," whereby trespassing is only enforced ex post facto via checking ship databanks. Not all of the systems are named after existing states, but those that are were named so by astronomers wanting to glorify their home. As for what happened to Earth, it went up in nuclear flame about five hundred years before the time this map is set and is now an Afghanistan-esque warzone.
 

Highlander

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@B_Munro - this may be really presumptuous, but could you do your take on one of my maps, as you did with The Irish Empire and others?
 

Konrad13

From my kinda-sorta TL I'm still working on, however, I decided to really push it up from where I am at the moment, so here is a map of the Byzantine Empire of 2011 under Emperor Constantine XXIII (and General Sotiros Pachis)

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