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?
Today, the map is finally finished, and it's one of the biggest maps I think I've ever made, and definitely one of my favorites. It pictures a world in the wake of a surviving Ottoman Empire and a near-total Central Powers victory in WWI. It also features a rebounded Russia in the form of the USSR, and the map shows its bloc in Asia, along with the Ottoman monarchy in the southwest. I'm not amazingly sure about the scenario itself, but I'll try to answer any questions about the map. Enjoy!
