i finished up that artsy-schmartsy
1984+ alliances map i was working on. during development, i got a few more ideas as to what this world looks like, namely:
- the full-on Oceania stand-in is officially called the Oceanic Treaty for International Security (OTIS), intended as an analogue to NATO if not in its real function, reputation, and geopolitical composition then for its opposition to the Soviet Union
- Brazil is nominally allied to the North American Union as a member of OTIS but pretty much does its own thing otherwise; i've also worked out that the real basis for its totalitarian nature is the strictest, most abusive and obstructive bureaucracy in the world where even tiny mistakes on official documents could get you arrested and you'll be sitting in a "holding cell" for literal years before you even get to plead your case, let alone go to court and resolve it
- Argentina isn't part of OTIS like i'd originally planned because they nominally control Uruguay, which is actually one of the freer non-superstates in the world and has some more positive communistic elements which the violently anti-communist NAU wouldn't stand for out of principle but they don't want to wreck their "friendship" with Argentina
- Nepal and Bhutan are actually allied to China despite being closer to the Equatorial Federation politically
- Taiwan is all by itself similar to England mainly because they don't ideologically align to any of the surrounding powers; they're freer than England but nearly as isolationist with a basic foreign policy of "fuck you, not our problem" and everyone pretty much just leaves them alone out of disinterest (though the PRC does want to take them over, stopped only by the Equatorials threatening war--the Equatorials would prefer if Taiwan joined them as well so that they can help improve their situation but are content to leave them be in the meantime)
- Cuba is a formal ally of the Soviet Union and that's the main reason they're still around
- Japan and Peru are oddball allies, though Peru is mainly a junior partner to Japan (the idea was inspired by Alberto Fujimori, one of Peru's OTL dictators who also happened to be ethnically Japanese; he's probably still in power in TTL's present-day)
keep in mind that the map is showing only
de jure alliances--as the other
1984+ maps will indicate, the situation on the ground is more complicated than what's shown here. the Soviet Union and Western Bloc + Cuba are shown in orange, China and its allies/puppets in red, OTIS in green, the Equatorials and their
de jure allies in pale yellow, Argentina and Uruguay in pale red, Japan and Peru in dark yellow, Taiwan in gray, and England in dark red. it's less obvious, but the Pacific disputed zone is shown in neutral white without any outlines. i've also omitted Antarctic claims