It's Switzerland. It exists because it's a Basic Law of the Multiverse.
Map Thread XV
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(Trust me, the borders don't look cleaner...)
To put it simply there are two reasons for independent Switzerland:
1st: there's no real use for it and since nationalism hasn't exploded yet and in Germany's minorities, will never do(explained in finished tl), neither Savoy nor Germany have done an attempt to divide them. Germany even has signed a treaty of territorial neutrality in Europe which only consists of what they control on that map so they basically said "not gonna do anything more here"
2nd: Switzerland was neutral almost the entire time during the Demonic Revolutionary Wars 1853-1878/1897(altering definition 1878=Europe, 1897 worldwide), the one that drove the entire globe into chaos which you surely can see on that map, and thus everyone sort-of accepted that it's supposed to just "be there" - partly because of its "uselessness"
To put it simply there are two reasons for independent Switzerland:
1st: there's no real use for it and since nationalism hasn't exploded yet and in Germany's minorities, will never do(explained in finished tl), neither Savoy nor Germany have done an attempt to divide them. Germany even has signed a treaty of territorial neutrality in Europe which only consists of what they control on that map so they basically said "not gonna do anything more here"
2nd: Switzerland was neutral almost the entire time during the Demonic Revolutionary Wars 1853-1878/1897(altering definition 1878=Europe, 1897 worldwide), the one that drove the entire globe into chaos which you surely can see on that map, and thus everyone sort-of accepted that it's supposed to just "be there" - partly because of its "uselessness"
This is what I have:
It looks like that on your map, you took Roanoke out of Virginia (looking at the state map, it doesn't look like Roanoke is part of Kanawha) and forgot to take some of the NoVA cities out of VA, which would be enough to tip it over.
This is what I have:
It looks like that on your map, you took Roanoke out of Virginia (looking at the state map, it doesn't look like Roanoke is part of Kanawha) and forgot to take some of the NoVA cities out of VA, which would be enough to tip it over.
Ah. You're correct, then. I'll make a revision including this and other issues. (Since I published the map in the early morning, without much editing and revision.)
A quick map I whipped up, where Rome is divided into four parts instead of two. The original intention was to make it north-south-east-west, like the Inca Empire, but it turns out that the Roman Empire is shaped really weird, so I used the four corners instead. Each "corner" is named after the wind associated with that direction (e.g. Vulturnus was the god of the southeast wind).
Korea founded Western Rome CONFIRMED!!!!! Goguryeo invented Western Culture REEEEE!!! /s
So the idea is that all the Russian subdivisions with more autonomy (the republics I think) are made into their own SSR's?Map of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
I may add a few more land. Maybe I wont.
And the one in lighter red is the Russian SFSR I presume.
But it seamed to be based on moder borders, not historical ones.
Probably so. You can see why Russia was a federation within a federation. Just imagine the end of 1991 with those borders, and lot more Russians outside Russia. ._.
When I tried uploading this map to here, it said it was to big. So here's a link instead.
http://orig06.deviantart.net/3f78/f/2016/359/3/c/a_balkanized_south_by_theplainsman-dasu7d9.jpg
http://orig06.deviantart.net/3f78/f/2016/359/3/c/a_balkanized_south_by_theplainsman-dasu7d9.jpg
1.Correct.
2.That is because I was working on a base modern map.
Not a lot as you think. In my Soviet Union, the SSRs are required to be over 60% of native ethnic group to be their own SSR. (With some ASB help) But, Dagestan is not required by this rule. Instead, Russian cant be over 10% in Dagestan.
However, Ukraine is little more complicated, I decided to split instead of dealing with it.
I am expanding Soviet Union slowly. You may see another update within a month or year.
Europe in 1960, if Stalin invaded Poland first. POD is less brutal Great Purge so the Red Army is in better shape.
Dark Grey is the Stahlpakt and Pink is the Entente Réelle.
The Soviet Union invaded Eastern Poland on September 1st 1939 as per the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, banking on Western non-intervention given Germany's successful taking of Czechoslovakia and Danzig. What followed was a joint declaration of war on the Soviet Union by both Britain and France, and soon after by Finland.
After this development, Germany immediately dropped the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and declared war on the Soviet Union as well, and began an invasion of Poland without a formal declaration of war to "protect Poland from collapse." This move angered the Entente, but they were unwilling to declare war on Germany after having already commenced hostilities with the Soviet Union. The Entente attacked from British influenced Persia and from Finland, as well as via several landings on the Arctic Sea coast in a retread of the Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War decades earlier. The Axis invaded overland into the heart of Russia.
In 1942 the Metz Conference was held between the Entente and the Axis, concerning the post war European political order. The independence of a free Poland was insisted upon, and Germany relented on the condition that it be allowed to annex Polish lands that were once part of the German Empire and West Galicia, which was once part of Austria. As a small compensation Poland would receive some Eastern lands, including Minsk. The Soviet Union was to be dismembered to once and forever remove the threat of Russian and Bolshevik aggression. The partition plan called for a rump Russian state, an enlarged Ukraine, Belarus and Finland, a Turkestan consisting of the various Central Asian SSRs, a Ural state, and a state in Southern Russia and the Caucasus. Crimea was to annexed into the German Reich directly. Population exchanges were to occur bloodlessly and in good order. The Rump Russia was to be divided into French, British, German and Italian occupation zones to oversee disarmament and debolshevikisation prior to the release of a strictly neutral Russia. Moscow, within the German sector, was to be split between the Entente and the Axis as well for administrative purposes.
The two parties also begrudgingly agreed to spheres of influence. Much of continental Europe was to fall into the Axis Sphere, something the Entente couldn't seriously oppose when the axis possessed roughly 4 times as many divisions. In particular the Entente had to recognize German influence in Poland, a country that was wholly occupied by Germany by 1942, lest they just annex it outright.
The Second Great War ended in 1943, shortly after German troops entered Moscow. The Entente and Axis troops occupied their respective zones.
The Germans consolidated control over their bloc, while falling short of Hitler's vision of a continent spanning Reich, Poland and the former Soviet territories were forced to sign treaties that allowed German economic penetration, empowered Germans living within their borders and to collaborate with the murder of their nations' Jewish population. A series of post war conferences redrew the map within the Axis Zone, to the condemnation of the Entente.
The occupations zones in Russia soon became hard borders, with South Russia becoming a German client state and North Russia becoming a constitutional Republic. North Moscow became a North Russian exclave surrounded by Axis territory. Plans for the enlargement for Finland were abandoned as the Entente focus shifted to building North Russia into a strong ally against the Axis.
Hitler died in 1953 of drug complication. What followed was a period of De-Hitlerisation by the new Fuhrer Wilhelm Keital, who introduced a series of reforms, most notably officially announcing the Final Solution complete and ending the extermination of what little Jews remained in Axis Europe.
The Cold War between the Entente and the Axis show no signs of stopping though, and by the 1950s both blocs gained access to nuclear weapons and satellite technology.
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Very nice overall but I have some doubts about the Polish names used on the map.
First of all more natural Polish name for this state would be Rzeczpospolita Polska or at least Republika Polska.
Secondly Jaworskigrod would make more sense as Jaworskigród and even that seems pretty usual.
EDIT: Also, the Rogozinskigrod is pretty hard to pronounce even for native Polish speaker so I'm not sure if it would be a a viable name. Besides not all or even most (or even many) Polish city names end in -gród.
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Very nice, though I think that Caucasus state isn't going to last very long
. How did they justify the Belarus and Ukraine expansions? And what's happening east of the Urals?Just curious, what is with the gap between Africa and Vulturnia? Is the south side of the Gulf of Sidre that useless?
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