map based off the conclusion of a Victoria 2 CWE game i played last week, i played an aggressively expansionist US focused on reclaiming Eastern Europe from the Soviets. i started out by successfully intervening in the Chinese civil war and intervened in basically everything the Soviets tried to do. this ended up in a united Germany by 1970, thicc Poland and democratic, NATO member Yugoslavia.
other peculiarities of the game:
-i ended up with a population around 550 mil in 1995, obviously the US then is still nowhere near that
-LA was the largest city in the world at around 28 mil inhabitants
-Newfoundland and Labrador never united with Canada for some reason, possibly bc they were in my SoI
-one day in around 1953 Korea just spontaneously decided to unite itself as a democratic republic, no input from me or the Soviets
-during the Chinese civil war i decided to create international settlements in Shanghai, Qingdao and Weihaiwei and ended up annexing them bc of a bugged independence event so my total population is around 3% chinese. kmt never did shit about it lol
-i still own the Phillippines, they never rebelled against me or anything
-mauritania got INSANE immigration from around 1970 onward for some reason, it had a population of like 10mil by 2000 and about 1/3rd was Indonesian. no clue why
-despite america being like 2x larger in population than it was OTL, the total population is only around 6 billion (i assume bc game engine restraints)
-last thing i did in-game was get in a war with Indonesia in 1998 bc of an "Embassy Attacked" event, i'd probably assume that was this universe's 9/11. the war is still going as of my last save
the largest war in the game and the closest thing to WW3 was probably the Polish conflict about from 1979 to 1985. it was around 3 wars combined, first the Polish had a civil war resulting in a nationalist coup, then i invaded them to install democracy, then the Soviets invaded them to reclaim their territory. the savegame analyzer says the casualties are around 3.6 million on both sides, and it resulted in the soviets getting stomped by NATO + Republican China + Japan. the soviet union collapsed around 1999 or so and that's when i stopped playing.
other stuff i've gleaned from the savegame analyzer:
my america is a pretty damn good place to live. poor strata basic needs are like 90% fulfilled, the middle class's luxury needs are largely being met and this is all being funded by high taxes on the rich strata. the unemployment rate is at an astonishingly low 0.63% too. using irl GDP values from 1995, i'll say 1 Vic2 euro = 355.128205128 USD. this puts the american GDP in 2000 at 20.31 trillion.
average prices of some basic goods:
-a computer is $3178.39 (Computers)
-a pack of cigarettes is $20.73 (Cigarettes)
-a can of Coke is $4.73 (Beverages)
-an average beer is $1.91 (Liquor)
-a pair of nice shoes is $277.96 and a nice shirt is $171.11 (Clothing, Clothing and Footwear)
-international calling rate to Europe is $0.09/min (Communications)
-the price of a barrel of oil is $48.28 (Petroleum)
-average tuition per year is $17,040 a year (Education)
-your average utilities bill is around $190.80 a month (Heating & Electricity)
-gold is $1277.99 an ounce (Gold)
-1.00 SDR = 1.26 USD (Credit Money)
i calculated these values w/ the value of goods in Vic2's in-game economy and the conversion rate between the in-game currency and the irl US dollar. the goods i used are in parentheses next to the value