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I start to get nervous when the thread is inactive for a couple hours. Have a map
No backstory, really. All the backstory I have you see on image itself.
Why this became one of my most popular maps, I will never know.
No backstory, really. All the backstory I have you see on image itself.
Why this became one of my most popular maps, I will never know.
I start to get nervous when the thread is inactive for a couple hours. Have a map
No backstory, really. All the backstory I have you see on image itself.
Why this became one of my most popular maps, I will never know.
Russian East African Crusader State.
The continent of Alteria is located at the southwestern edge of the known world and consists of two major landmasses with a few dozen islands. Though it is the smallest continent on the world it has a very diverse community. The aegas kingdom in the north which comprises of the entire northern island and a few outstretches controls the economic traffic of the continent and can be compared to what the northern US is from Maine to Wyoming. Its dominance currently is being competed by the old power of the kingdom of Alteria in the very east of the continent.
The continents climate gets colder the more south you go and thus the northern main island is comprising of mostly plains while the south together with the mountains of Alteria have a boreal to northern climate. The South Bay has a very harsh, tundra-leaning vegetation similar to the northern continents of Midgard. It also tends to freeze during winter.
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...Is that Denmark?
EDIT: Guys, this post should not have more likes than Valdore's. He spent time making this map, I just made a pithy comment.
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What are those straight lines cutting through Germany? A general rule of thumb is to never use straight lines in relatively densely populated regions (East Asia, Europe, US coasts).
VBAM Jutland (Major landmass of Denmark)
I wanted to see how long it would take people to recognize that it is Denmark. Last time they were people mistaking kiautschou for a fantasy continent, so at least I tried
Imagining the vehicles. Space age plutonium propelled ufos?
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The Guyanas joined during the climate crisis of the 2040s, initially as a means to obtain investment and aid during this difficult time (and also because Guyana got its right half ripped apart in the last few years of Venezuela's existence) when European Opinion was very much in favor of flexing its muscles worldwide and expanding. Eventually in the past decade, the EU managed to integrate these areas into Direct EU administration as their low population and strategic location were seen to
Greenland got its wish to become independent, only to fall into debt and chaos during the climate crisis. The EU stepped in, and never left.
I found it funny to have the UK be eventually forced to come crawling back to the EU after decades of decline.
Damn right!Holy Neo-Carolingian Empire, Batman.
A gradual shift to more polarized relationships in the increased tension of the past few decades. And now they're in too deep to ignore what Beijing and Delhi say, respectively.
Its finishing up digesting the former Venezuelan states and is being graciously aided by American and Indian support as a counterbalance to Brazil. Life for the citizens there pretty good, and the military is steadily being rebuilt for power projection.
Just, an FYI (in case this is a POD 2017 or later) that implies a rather extreme reversal in Himalayan politics. Bhutan has been India's closest ally since they concluded a treaty with the Raj in the 1860s. And Nepal has followed Beijing's orders since... the 1970s, pretty much.
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Oh yeah, I was aware of the current geopolitics. I thought it'd be pretty ironic to see a rapid reversal of trends by the 2070s
Oh yeah, I was aware of the current geopolitics. I thought it'd be pretty ironic to see a rapid reversal of trends by the 2070s
Ok. As long as you're aware. It's... weirdly possible that Bhutan might drift a bit too far into the Sinosphere (almost accidentally, they've floated the idea around in the past as a counter to being called an Indian satellite state). But an Indian-dominated Nepal is a bit harder to see right now. It might get a bit... bloody in Nepal.
Note: I am so sorry for butchering the Korean and Japanese languages
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The Japanese Empire—or alternatively the Dai Nippon Teikoku stood secure in the post war world. The German-Japanese world order dominated their personal lakes of the Pacific and Atlantic and the Western allies had been completely defeated from the shores of Britain to America’s industrial heartland. Yet despite the seemingly friendly celebrations of victory in both Germany and Japan, there was no illusion within the two nations as to what would follow the defeat of the allies. With the destruction of Chicago during the final stages of the war and the prompt surrender of Communist Russia in the face of a German-Japanese joint invasion, there were simply no threats to the rule of this duo. And thus, the two giants began maneuvering for their inevitable clash.
In the crackling flames of the American Pacific Republic’s Mojave Desert, it began. Japan had the bomb.
The Cold War, as it came to be known as, was a conflict that did not see war erupt between the two powers—all had seen the raw carnage nuclear weapons were capable of in the form of unsuspecting Chicagoans. Instead, the Cold War was fought in the form of proxy wars, such as the Australian Revolution and Bangkok Crisis, both hurdles Germany had placed in Japan’s way.
Yet Germany’s strongest blow came much closer to home. Always having been dissatisfied for his subordinate position to Japan, KMT Chairman Wang Jingwei rallied Chinese warlords loyal to him and declared the Republic of the 18 Provinces (十八行省)—a state based primarily on the Han Nationalist ideals of the pro-German HPP (Han People’s National Socialist Party汉人民族-社会主义党). Following its formation and secession from the Greater Pan-Pacific Co-prosperity Sphere, The 18 Provinces initially made great gains, approaching the outskirts of Changchun at one point, but was ultimately defeated after 3 years of grueling warfare. It was a war that cost millions of lives, be they Chinese, Manchurian or Japanese, and was at best a pyrrhic victory.
But this war also allowed the Japanese military government to realize just how vulnerable the empire they had carved out for themselves was. To secure this empire, the Japanese imposed a much tighter grip on China. To the North, the long scrapped plan of a North Chinese state in the Northern Ji Anti-Communist State (冀東防共自治政府) was put into action. In China’s periphery, the warlords of Yunnan, Guangdong and Shaanxi were given their own states to rule over. Shanghai and Guangzhou, previously under joint Sino-Japanese control would now be consolidated and expanded to encompass their economic reach and declared the Japanese protectorate of the Legation Cities, more commonly known as Hu-Yue (沪粤). Finally, the remnants of Wang’s Republic were dismembered and crippled.
Japan would also begin the integration of South-east Asia into the Japanese Empire proper, in an effort to maintain a cheap, steady flow of resources to feed Japan’s rapidly growing economy in the post-war era, most successful of which was Vietnam, who’s Red River Delta would be directly incorporated as a province by 1963.
As for internal matters, Japan’s ruling clique began to loosen their grip on the Japanese populace, with Japan’s brand of “Imperial Democracy” being instituted across the Co-Prosperity Sphere. This “Imperial Democracy” saw provincial-level elections beginning throughout Japan, but would be often criticized as undemocratic and fundamentally flawed, as elections were frequently rigged and provided only military pro-government canidates that passed “ideological examination” by the central government.
In retaliation to German efforts at destabilizing the Empire, Japan would also make her own moves in the form of the Russo-Japanese alliance and the constant effort of the Japanese foreign office to portray Japan as not just a bulwark of Pan-Asianism, but also an avid supporter of Pan-Africanism, the latter of which would soon bear fruit.
In 1965, a massive wave of unrest swept through the African continent. Initially, the Lagos uprising in British Nigeria seemed like yet another doomed rebellion, but a combination of weather, incompetence of the local garrison and experienced independence fighters saw a minor rebellion spreading all over Nigeria. Soon, copycat rebellions sprung up in the German Congo, then throughout French Africa. By 1967, things had spiraled out of control with Algeria’s Pied Noir forming a new French Republic very close to Festung Europa.
With chaos in Africa, the bureaucrats in Berlin initially faced this problem as they always had—by throwing men and Reichsmarks at it. This proved able to retake Algeria for them, but an invasion of Mittleafrika cost countless men and lives. Despite all the technology the Reich had, she was very quickly being bled dry. Japan saw this as a chance to recreate their experience in China against the Wang Jingwei government for the Germans by covertly arming numerous rebel groups throughout Africa.
In 1968, Reichskommissariat Nord Amerika experienced a communist revolution and saw the extremely unpopular government toppled in but a few weeks. This was followed with France declaring her loyalty to the Italian sphere and twin revolutions in Reichskommissariats Ukraine and Ostland.
Germany was eventually able to suppress all unrest in Eastern Europe during Goebbels’s administration some 3 years later, but with horrendous losses on all fronts it had soon become apparent that it was impossible to cross the vast Atlantic or the Sahara without simply costing the Reich more than it was worth.
Germany would soon see herself besieged on all sides by a vengeful Soviet Union, growing Italy and rebuilding America. However, she would fell into greater chaos with the death of Adolf Hitler, aged 79 in his Bavarian resort. While Hitler had long passed administrative duties to Himmler, Himmler would be deposed by Goebbels in 1969 in a military coup. Goebbels’s reign as Fuher saw the beginning of what would he termed the “Great Germanic Cultural Revolution”, a particularly gruesome chapter of history that shall be detailed later in this book.
As the ‘70s dawned, winds of change too began to blow in the Empire. While the Imperial government proclaimed nearly daily that the goals of Pan-Asianism (Pan-Pacificism if you happened to live in the American Pacific Republic) were being realized, the truth remained that very little had changed since the Great East Asian War. That was something particularly obvious in inland China and Japanese Southeast Asia, both of which had seen their pre-war situations—namely warlordism and colonialism having barely changed at all.
The recent war in China, while justified to many of the predominant, pro-government Pan-Asian school of thought had also brought doubts as to how Japanese rule was carried out, one of them being “Unit 731” of Manchukuo. Unit 731 had been a subject often discussed in non-governmental news sources, and had even seen Manchurian Emperor Aisin-Gioro Puyi break with official Imperial policy by neither denying nor admitting of its existence, commenting, “I can’t say.” on a television interview.
A new wave of Pan-Asianist thought that placed the equality of all Asians as first and foremost in its creed was readily embraced by much of the urban citizenry in the Japan’s satellites and colonies alike. While the urban citizenry reaped the profits of Japanese economic growth and overlordship, they still remained a second class to the Japanese. This combined with one of Japan’s few threats, Germany now actively tearing itself apart, the people expected liberalization.
Despite all this, Pax Japaonica grew ever more secure. Japan was mighty and the world’s undisputed hyperpower. There were little in the way of threats to Japanese rule.
For the moment.
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The Japanese Empire—or alternatively the Dai Nippon Teikoku stood secure in the post war world. The German-Japanese world order dominated their personal lakes of the Pacific and Atlantic and the Western allies had been completely defeated from the shores of Britain to America’s industrial heartland. Yet despite the seemingly friendly celebrations of victory in both Germany and Japan, there was no illusion within the two nations as to what would follow the defeat of the allies. With the destruction of Chicago during the final stages of the war and the prompt surrender of Communist Russia in the face of a German-Japanese joint invasion, there were simply no threats to the rule of this duo. And thus, the two giants began maneuvering for their inevitable clash.
In the crackling flames of the American Pacific Republic’s Mojave Desert, it began. Japan had the bomb.
The Cold War, as it came to be known as, was a conflict that did not see war erupt between the two powers—all had seen the raw carnage nuclear weapons were capable of in the form of unsuspecting Chicagoans. Instead, the Cold War was fought in the form of proxy wars, such as the Australian Revolution and Bangkok Crisis, both hurdles Germany had placed in Japan’s way.
Yet Germany’s strongest blow came much closer to home. Always having been dissatisfied for his subordinate position to Japan, KMT Chairman Wang Jingwei rallied Chinese warlords loyal to him and declared the Republic of the 18 Provinces (十八行省)—a state based primarily on the Han Nationalist ideals of the pro-German HPP (Han People’s National Socialist Party汉人民族-社会主义党). Following its formation and secession from the Greater Pan-Pacific Co-prosperity Sphere, The 18 Provinces initially made great gains, approaching the outskirts of Changchun at one point, but was ultimately defeated after 3 years of grueling warfare. It was a war that cost millions of lives, be they Chinese, Manchurian or Japanese, and was at best a pyrrhic victory.
But this war also allowed the Japanese military government to realize just how vulnerable the empire they had carved out for themselves was. To secure this empire, the Japanese imposed a much tighter grip on China. To the North, the long scrapped plan of a North Chinese state in the Northern Ji Anti-Communist State (冀東防共自治政府) was put into action. In China’s periphery, the warlords of Yunnan, Guangdong and Shaanxi were given their own states to rule over. Shanghai and Guangzhou, previously under joint Sino-Japanese control would now be consolidated and expanded to encompass their economic reach and declared the Japanese protectorate of the Legation Cities, more commonly known as Hu-Yue (沪粤). Finally, the remnants of Wang’s Republic were dismembered and crippled.
Japan would also begin the integration of South-east Asia into the Japanese Empire proper, in an effort to maintain a cheap, steady flow of resources to feed Japan’s rapidly growing economy in the post-war era, most successful of which was Vietnam, who’s Red River Delta would be directly incorporated as a province by 1963.
As for internal matters, Japan’s ruling clique began to loosen their grip on the Japanese populace, with Japan’s brand of “Imperial Democracy” being instituted across the Co-Prosperity Sphere. This “Imperial Democracy” saw provincial-level elections beginning throughout Japan, but would be often criticized as undemocratic and fundamentally flawed, as elections were frequently rigged and provided only military pro-government canidates that passed “ideological examination” by the central government.
In retaliation to German efforts at destabilizing the Empire, Japan would also make her own moves in the form of the Russo-Japanese alliance and the constant effort of the Japanese foreign office to portray Japan as not just a bulwark of Pan-Asianism, but also an avid supporter of Pan-Africanism, the latter of which would soon bear fruit.
In 1965, a massive wave of unrest swept through the African continent. Initially, the Lagos uprising in British Nigeria seemed like yet another doomed rebellion, but a combination of weather, incompetence of the local garrison and experienced independence fighters saw a minor rebellion spreading all over Nigeria. Soon, copycat rebellions sprung up in the German Congo, then throughout French Africa. By 1967, things had spiraled out of control with Algeria’s Pied Noir forming a new French Republic very close to Festung Europa.
With chaos in Africa, the bureaucrats in Berlin initially faced this problem as they always had—by throwing men and Reichsmarks at it. This proved able to retake Algeria for them, but an invasion of Mittleafrika cost countless men and lives. Despite all the technology the Reich had, she was very quickly being bled dry. Japan saw this as a chance to recreate their experience in China against the Wang Jingwei government for the Germans by covertly arming numerous rebel groups throughout Africa.
In 1968, Reichskommissariat Nord Amerika experienced a communist revolution and saw the extremely unpopular government toppled in but a few weeks. This was followed with France declaring her loyalty to the Italian sphere and twin revolutions in Reichskommissariats Ukraine and Ostland.
Germany was eventually able to suppress all unrest in Eastern Europe during Goebbels’s administration some 3 years later, but with horrendous losses on all fronts it had soon become apparent that it was impossible to cross the vast Atlantic or the Sahara without simply costing the Reich more than it was worth.
Germany would soon see herself besieged on all sides by a vengeful Soviet Union, growing Italy and rebuilding America. However, she would fell into greater chaos with the death of Adolf Hitler, aged 79 in his Bavarian resort. While Hitler had long passed administrative duties to Himmler, Himmler would be deposed by Goebbels in 1969 in a military coup. Goebbels’s reign as Fuher saw the beginning of what would he termed the “Great Germanic Cultural Revolution”, a particularly gruesome chapter of history that shall be detailed later in this book.
As the ‘70s dawned, winds of change too began to blow in the Empire. While the Imperial government proclaimed nearly daily that the goals of Pan-Asianism (Pan-Pacificism if you happened to live in the American Pacific Republic) were being realized, the truth remained that very little had changed since the Great East Asian War. That was something particularly obvious in inland China and Japanese Southeast Asia, both of which had seen their pre-war situations—namely warlordism and colonialism having barely changed at all.
A new wave of Pan-Asianist thought that placed the equality of all Asians as first and foremost in its creed was readily embraced by much of the urban citizenry in the Japan’s satellites and colonies alike. While the urban citizenry reaped the profits of Japanese economic growth and overlordship, they still remained a second class to the Japanese. This combined with one of Japan’s few threats, Germany now actively tearing itself apart, the people expected liberalization.
Despite all this, Pax Japaonica grew ever more secure. Japan was mighty and the world’s undisputed hyperpower. There were little in the way of threats to Japanese rule.
For the moment.
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WIP. So many little black and green spots yet to add...
Man, Britain lucked out TTL.
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Do you have still shots of the last frames in both GIFs?I wanted to test the gif/animation system in GIMP, so I threw together a BeNeLux ISOT and a Scottish ISOT. I don't really have a big backstory for either, but I can answer any questions on the two maps!
The Hittites clung to their way of life in middle Anatolia for millennia. Though they adapted with the times, they managed to hold onto their language and cultural heritage. During the spread of Christianity, they became adherents to the Nestorian sect. At the time of the collapse of the byzantine Empire, the Hittites had been reduced to several thousand living around Hattusa. However they staunchly refused the Ottoman rule for the centuries of its reign. At the end of the Great War, the Great Powers of the world had limited the Turks to a small region in eastern Anatolia while granting Middle Anatolia to the Hittite populations, creating the new Kingdom of Anatolia. The Hittites claim some border regions of Turkey, while Turkey claims all of Anatolia and most of Kurdistan and Western Armenia.
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