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Map of the World in 1940, 40 years after the defeat of Napoleonic France.
Napoleon wins the Napoleonic Wars (no invasion of Russia, no Iberian campaign) and France becomes the Hegemonic power in Europe. The USA does much worse in the war of 1812 too. After a full century of French Domination, things finally escalate and a coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia and other minor powers declares war on France and invades them. The war ends in 1900 with the defeat of France and the restoration of the Kingdom. 40 years later, things have started to heat between Britain and Russia, the two Superpowers of the post-French era.
I suspect that there are still substantial French nationalist sentiments outside the borders of France ?
For instance in Lorraine, Alsace, Piedmont-Savoy, and on the West Bank of the Rhine ?
 
A continuation of Harry Turtledove's Atlantis Timeline into the 20th Century. https://www.deviantart.com/ynot1989/art/The-Atlantean-Century-1910-817375612

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I suspect that there are still substantial French nationalist sentiments outside the borders of France ?
For instance in Lorraine, Alsace, Piedmont-Savoy, and on the West Bank of the Rhine ?
There are quite a lot of Frenchmen in those regions, mostly Alsace, Lorraine, and Wallonia. In the rest, Germans and Italians are still the majority, and while the French people living there are indeed nationalist, they are a minority.
 
There are quite a lot of Frenchmen in those regions, mostly Alsace, Lorraine, and Wallonia. In the rest, Germans and Italians are still the majority, and while the French people living there are indeed nationalist, they are a minority.
Thing is, French nationalism isn't an ethnonationalism, and is more comparable to American or Austro-Hungarian nationalism in its development.
 
Map of the World in 1940, 40 years after the defeat of Napoleonic France.
Napoleon wins the Napoleonic Wars (no invasion of Russia, no Iberian campaign) and France becomes the Hegemonic power in Europe. The USA does much worse in the war of 1812 too. After a full century of French Domination, things finally escalate and a coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia and other minor powers declares war on France and invades them. The war ends in 1900 with the defeat of France and the restoration of the Kingdom. 40 years later, things have started to heat between Britain and Russia, the two Superpowers of the post-French era.
There are some interesting details, like Sierra Leone appears to be divided between a coastal colony and a protectorate, TTL Portuguese Guinea is based in the northern part and in Casamance (which historically makes sense), the Bosphorus and Darnadelles appear to be Russian.
 
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Felix Anholt


First visited in 2123 by the Ibn Battuta (Mahex corporation) 31 light years from Earth, the system was lifeless, home to a single planet in the habitable zone, one Jovian giant and one Superjovian. The system was already uninteresting, but it was made worse by the planet only had a few percent water. There was no interesting alien biochemistry to explorer and exploit, the planet was too marginal for terraforming, and the Superjovian had been captured two billion years ago, cleaning up much of the asteroid of the system. Mahex still set up a claim to the system, in hope that someone would buy it, the Superjovian at least had industrial potential, and while poor in asteroids, it still had enough to feed any local industry for a billion years. Several moons of the Jovian were interesting, but ironic as two was captured planets, they was simply too big to use for extraction and to cold for surface terraforming, through the Earth sized moon had large seas under a relative thin layer of ice, no more than tens of meter thick at equator. The habitable planet also had a small but extremely metal rich moon, believed to be a captured inner planet.


To the luck of Mahex the Ymir Terraforming Cooperative was looking for a desert planet for experiment in terraforming, and the system was only seven light years from Hydra Idun the center of the cooperative in the spinward sector. They bought the system cheaply in 2130 and named it Felix Anholt. The “Felix” (happy) was used by cooperative from system with only an arid world in the habitable zone and “Anholt” was an old Scandinavian island known for its desert-like landscape. The habitable planet was named Balar after the Celtic God of drought.


The Ymir Cooperation believed that while early in colonization only first-rate worlds was colonized or terraformed, as they were taken second-rate worlds would increase in value this close to Earth itself and wished to develop useful terraforming technics. As such they were not interested in increasing the planet hydrosphere but develop a stable and functioning ecosystem with the limited water resources.


The Ymir Cooperation were known for its technic of seeding worlds in waves with more and more complex life and simply leaving them fallow between seedings, could see that a more active terraforming was needed, and permanent orbital industry and settlement was placed above the planet early on. Only after half a century of terraforming, a significant part of the population settles on the colony. Until 2297 it stayed a sleepy backward of Ymir’s possession in the region with less than a hundred million living in the system. Most resources came from the continued development of Balar, and the local industry was limited in size. But in 2297 the pirate warlord Jim Chun conquered Hydra Idun and the Ymir Cooperation was thrown into chaos with the spinward part of the cooperation cut of from support from elsewhere. This forced Felix Anholt to fend for itself, this lasted until one of Chun’s navies arrived in 2301, and Felix Anholt was given the choice between paying tribute or face orbital bombardment.


The next 78 years Felix Anholt was a vassal of Chun Dynasty, early on the poor system was forced to pay the tribute in corvée, delivering workers and soldiers to the Chun Dynasty. This was widely hated, and the space industries was expanded so that the tribute could be paid in good and money. The small moon of Balar with its vast richness and low gravity was very helpful in this. The pride of Felix Anholt was the shipyards, while the system lacked the infrastructure to produce their own Alcubierre drive, they were able to import those and build interstellar freights and warships. Of course, Chun and his descendants kept an eye on Felix Anholt to ensure, they didn’t build their own navy. But even with its shipyards it was still a backwater.


But an empire kept together with force often run into problems, in 2379 a succession crisis threw the Dynasty into a decade long civil war. For Felix Anholt this meant they was left alone for the first time in almost a century. From the moment the local naval garrison left for the civil war, the shipyards shifted to mass producing gunships, warship meant for in system use and unable to go FTL, while large orbital fortification was built. This was an opportunity, which maybe would not come in lifetime again. As such when the civil war ended in three successor states and large chumps of the Chun Dynasty eaten by its rivals. There were several attempts by the different successor states to vassalize Felix Anholt again. The result was several beaten fleets.


As such Felix Anholt entered the 25th century as free but fortified world. They reestablished contact with the Ymir Cooperation which by this time had ended up centered around the Jotuns a trinary star system almost 350 lightyears from Earth coreward. A reunification was impractical, but friendly relationship was established, and information flowed freely. Several other former Ymirian worlds in the region, who had also regained their freedom, also established contact with Felix Anholt, but no one wished a union, instead they organized themselves in a loose alliance (SYTA) with a small unified alliance navy, and strong local interplanetary gunship navies.


SYTA would keep the local peace for centuries, strong enough to deal with pirates and help the members defending against invasions. But too weak to conquer its neighbors, its only aggressive wars it entered was the liberation of Hydra Idun and the rest of the local occupied Ymirian Worlds in the region in 2435-39. So, the local region returned to sleep and Felix Anholt could focused on the continued terraforming of Balar, while having been habitable for centuries, the ecosystem was still not fully stable, and the process continued. The system returned to be a sleepy backwater even with a population in the hundreds of millions.


Terraforming of the Earth-size Jovian moon (Trymheim) was begun, it was never expected it would be fit for major human settlement, but a breathable atmosphere would enable a better use of the planet, even if it would never become hospitable than the Antarctic Peninsula on Earth at least not above water.


By the early 27th Century a new empire was rising, and it was clear that it couldn’t be stopped. The Terran Commonwealth wished to unite mankind under one state. It offered equality under the banner of Terra. The SYTA discussed whether, they should fight Terra, but in the end, they saw Terran hegemony as inevitable, and they negotiated a peace with Terra.


The next part includes a spoiler to Castle Federation by Glynn Stewart, whose universe I borrowed to write this idea into.

This was the end of being a backwater, Felix Anholt turned out soldier for the Terran navies and armies, its shipyards rose to prominence again. The Superjovian became a major industrial hub. This lasted for more than a century until the Terran Q-net was destroyed in the war with the Alliance of Free Star and chaos reign again. But the spinward Ymirians knew that Terran Hegemony was still inevitable, and they stayed loyal to the new military Junta.


At this point Felix Anholt are still a lightly populated system, home to only a little above 1,5 billion people with 2/3 living on Balar, 5 million on Trymheim and the rest in orbit and on non-terraformed worlds, but it’s far more industrialized than its relative low population indicates.


I would like to thank slimysomething for having used his planet building template to make this map.

https://www.deviantart.com/slimysomething/art/Build-a-Solar-System-Kit-784312541k
 
What happened to the Dutch settlements in Northern Terranova? The books mention that they a large colony on the mainland.

Really, the existence of Atlantis should entirely butterfly the OTL pattern of colonization - after all, it lies right across the routes the Spanish took to Latin America. (If you don't want the Iberians all over Atlantis shortly after the British inform people of it's existence, it should be further north and west - rather closer to North America than it's usually portrayed.. )
 
I lately found an interest with Japan in the Historiae Mutetur map game. So here are some maps I made exploring the interesting history.
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The old Toukaidou Kingdom would be the roots of the Japanese Empire when Emperor Kameyama came to power. During his time he would open the Japanese markets to European traders and go to war the Taiwanese Empire to unite Honshu. Under his reign he would declare the Empire of Japan and leave the new nation to his daughter igniting...

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the Japanese Civil War. Fought between conservatives under Kameyama's brother vs moderates and liberals under Empress Toshiko. Over the course of the war the conservatives would take over large portions of the island and force Toshiko into temporary exile in Scandinavian and Castilian colonies. During this time thousands would follow their Empress across the sea and set up Nihongo towns. These towns would become the backbone Japanese supremacy on the west coast. After the war Japan would have a taste of imperialism and would conquer or colonize large sections of Siberia and Indonesia. At its height in 1907 the Japanese Empire would be a truly global force until a combination of incompetent Emperors, nationalism, and three Soviet-Japanese Wars would take them down.
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I lately found an interest with Japan in the Historiae Mutetur map game. So here are some maps I made exploring the interesting history.
93T0XIr.jpg


The old Toukaidou Kingdom would be the roots of the Japanese Empire when Emperor Kameyama came to power. During his time he would open the Japanese markets to European traders and go to war the Taiwanese Empire to unite Honshu. Under his reign he would declare the Empire of Japan and leave the new nation to his daughter igniting...

jYzVZai.png

the Japanese Civil War. Fought between conservatives under Kameyama's brother vs moderates and liberals under Empress Toshiko. Over the course of the war the conservatives would take over large portions of the island and force Toshiko into temporary exile in Scandinavian and Castilian colonies. During this time thousands would follow their Empress across the sea and set up Nihongo towns. These towns would become the backbone Japanese supremacy on the west coast. After the war Japan would have a taste of imperialism and would conquer or colonize large sections of Siberia and Indonesia. At its height in 1907 the Japanese Empire would be a truly global force until a combination of incompetent Emperors, nationalism, and three Soviet-Japanese Wars would take them down.
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I'm amazed at how you can tackle three styles in one setting! Very very awesome.
 
Sure, but why would Germans or Italians support French nationalism over their own?
Because they feel they're French ? Like the Alsatians did ?
As @B_Munro said, the Swiss do present a similarity... And in addition to that, there will be the fact that France was top dog in the world for a full century that will play into their perception, because they were part of it.
 
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