Poor China.
So how does the Americas and Austral-Pacific survive?
Why? China in that map contains its core, historic territory, with the parts it does'nt contain being the parts that were hard to control or house restive majority-minorities.
Mostly by virtue of very large spans of ocean and empty desolation separating them and the old world. Even then it was largely by virtue of luck - there were many close calls where an outbreak of infection caused by a broken quarantine in a refugee camp or a carrier that escaped detection was narrowly put down. (Australia was not nearly so lucky in this respect)
Why? China in that map contains its core, historic territory, with the parts it does'nt contain being the parts that were hard to control or house restive majority-minorities.
I think the quickness by which Rage operates is a good enough explanation. No ship or plane is going to make it across the Atlantic or Pacific if there's just one infectee, because he'll infect everyone else onboard in short order.
Of all the things that could have been named "Palmerston's Folly", I think the UK got off quite lightly if it was just Alaska(snip)
Montana Shmontana, Iserlohn. What about that five-Indian-and-a-moose state between Montana and Canada?
I read it as being that Montana was the five-Indian-and-a-moose state, while Wyoming evaded jokes by getting Billings and Bozeman (bumping themselves up to six Indians and a moose!).
Mostly by virtue of very large spans of ocean and empty desolation separating them and the old world. Even then it was largely by virtue of luck - there were many close calls where an outbreak of infection caused by a broken quarantine in a refugee camp or a carrier that escaped detection was narrowly put down. (Australia was not nearly so lucky in this respect)
Thinking of making a world map, Upvote?
Congratulations, you have now crammed an extra 100 million people into the Soviet Union, IOTL the Soviet Union had 182 million in 1950, your Soviet Union has 285 million, also in 1991 IOTL the Soviet Union had 293 million, your USSR would have 415 million. That would make it 75% the size of India in 1950, and nearly twice the size of the USA.
Why is Belgium attacking Britain??