While it's very nice looking a few patches look rather convergent. (Just with different colour schemes in a few places.)
As an example, how is there a Maoist faction in Peru with identical holdings to OTL 1990 without a Maoist China to inspire them?
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While it's very nice looking a few patches look rather convergent. (Just with different colour schemes in a few places.)
As an example, how is there a Maoist faction in Peru with identical holdings to OTL 1990 without a Maoist China to inspire them?
If there are pro-Nazi states/rebels in Latin America, I think Argentina/Chile/Uruguay would be a lot more likely than heavily indigenous Nicragua and fairly diverse Colombia.
Good stuff!
What's up with Kerguelen? French government in exile?
Al Qaluza
Reposting my Map of the Month entry:
In the early 1600s, the Kingdom of Morocco does a good job consolidating its authority. Due to butterflies, the 30 years war is delayed until 1675 (and is 26 years long). Morocco joins with France, and is able to take Granada and Andalucia (France takes Catalonia, and sends a Bourbon to sit on the throne of the rest of Spain). The Hapsburg Spanish flee to the Americas. The Moroccans follow, in an attempt to create their own colonial empire. They only just manage get a lost colony of their own established, before it is taken from them (Morocco sides with Bourbon France in the equivalent of the 7 years war, and France still loses).
Al Qaluza, as it comes to be called (the name comes from this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calusa#Name) , is turned into a sort of British protectorate. The British don't really want to absorb those Arabs, and so the local sultan rules. As the 'Columbian' Revolution breaks out in 1799, the Sultanate is overrun by the rebels. It becomes part of the Union of Columbian Republics (even more decentralized than the OTL U.S.). But Al Qaluza is home still to many Muslims, British Sympathizers, and Hostile Native Tribes (who've mostly converted to some form of Islam).
So in 1849, after much debate, Al Qaluza is allowed to peacefully leave the Union. But, per its independence agreement, it can never have a Sultan again, and must be a republic. Today, Al Qaluza (or simply 'Qaluza', as many Non-Arabs call it) is a vibrant two-party democracy, with over 80% of its population in Muslim. Immigration was slow at first, so Natives make up slightly more of the population than OTL Florida. Many people from the Middle-East (escaping modern violent dictatorships) have moved to the peaceful, rich, and neutral nation of Al Qaluza. There are also large numbers of blacks (more so than in OTL Florida) given that Al Qaluza was the last modern nation to abolish slavery (in 1890!!!). Its economy is closely intertwined with both New Spain and the UCR. These days, it is a bastion of Liberal Islam.
Reposting my Map of the Month entry:
In the early 1600s, the Kingdom of Morocco does a good job consolidating its authority. Due to butterflies, the 30 years war is delayed until 1675 (and is 26 years long). Morocco joins with France, and is able to take Granada and Andalucia (France takes Catalonia, and sends a Bourbon to sit on the throne of the rest of Spain). The Hapsburg Spanish flee to the Americas. The Moroccans follow, in an attempt to create their own colonial empire. They only just manage get a lost colony of their own established, before it is taken from them (Morocco sides with Bourbon France in the equivalent of the 7 years war, and France still loses).
Al Qaluza, as it comes to be called (the name comes from this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calusa#Name) , is turned into a sort of British protectorate. The British don't really want to absorb those Arabs, and so the local sultan rules. As the 'Columbian' Revolution breaks out in 1799, the Sultanate is overrun by the rebels. It becomes part of the Union of Columbian Republics (even more decentralized than the OTL U.S.). But Al Qaluza is home still to many Muslims, British Sympathizers, and Hostile Native Tribes (who've mostly converted to some form of Islam).
So in 1849, after much debate, Al Qaluza is allowed to peacefully leave the Union. But, per its independence agreement, it can never have a Sultan again, and must be a republic. Today, Al Qaluza (or simply 'Qaluza', as many Non-Arabs call it) is a vibrant two-party democracy, with over 80% of its population in Muslim. Immigration was slow at first, so Natives make up slightly more of the population than OTL Florida. Many people from the Middle-East (escaping modern violent dictatorships) have moved to the peaceful, rich, and neutral nation of Al Qaluza. There are also large numbers of blacks (more so than in OTL Florida) given that Al Qaluza was the last modern nation to abolish slavery (in 1890!!!). Its economy is closely intertwined with both New Spain and the UCR. These days, it is a bastion of Liberal Islam.
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Not really a finished map. You still have British pink everywhere, lots of national borders (like in MittelAfrica), etm.
I have Canada still manage to hold on to a fair part of the empire though not all obviously, and the mittelafrika borders are more administrative divisions rather than seperate colonies. I'm starting work on the second part which will be more in the latter 30s. I've got an independent white Siberia, expanding Socialist influence, a somewhat different china and other stuff so far. How do you think the Ottomans will survive if they do, and how alternatively could China be split, if Japan buys the Frenxh pacific possessions in particular. I'm also working on a more implausible, ASB scenario for kicks as well so expect that up afterwards.
Why are they coloured as Maoist and why do they hold the exact same part of Peru that Shining Path held in OTL 1990? Mozambique's civil war is also on identical borders, as are the rebellions in South Sudan, the pro-Indian holdings in Afghanistan match Soviet ones, etc.
So the Orkney Islands, Channel Islands, Isle of Mann, etm. are all intentionally left pink?
You also have some grey sub-national borders between the light blue of Socialist UK's West Africa and France.
Does it matter? I don't get the point you're trying to make. It's a 1990 analogue, so I use events from the 1990 on the map.
It's just butterfly murder. I like butterflies. They have many endangered species.
Really? I didnt know that! What diud theyt do to the native muslims tough? Forced to move away and settled with various Catholics?
No, that's the Federation of the Horn, but the color is similar to the US', now that I think of it.
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