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Sequel to my previous map, the "Great Evil" the Intermarium was founded to oppose: the European Federation (or Eŭropa Federacio). Founded as the European Alliance following the Great Revolutions of the 1840s which saw Italy, the Danubian Confederation, and the Dual Monarchy fall to Radicalism (Read: French Revolution). Closer ties were pursued until finally Federalism was achieved in 1901.
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Little thing I worked on sporadically today.

Encyclopedia of Universes

Below is a compilation of common Earth nations found throughout time and space.

British Isles:

Kingdom of England/Britain/United Kingdom (Constitutional)

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Kingdom of England/Kingdom of Britain (Absolute)

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Union of Britain

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Commonwealth/Imperial Federation

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British Empire-in-Exile

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East Anglia/Republic of Britain (American Puppet)

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Sorry if this writeup seems shitty- I've had this map done for a while now, and I just wanted to get it out.

Wilson's World

The year was 1912, when some damn fool thing in the Balkans sparked a world war. By 1919, the whole rotten edifice of European society was coming down in Red revolution. The British were managing slightly better, but there empire was slipping through their fingers. Fearful of a Communist state spanning from Gascogny to Vladivostok, President Woodrow Wilson managed to whip the nation into a fervor, and lead an American intervention on the side of the Entente of France and Britain.

The sleeping giant showed its mettle, pulling in troops hardened from combat in the Phillipines and Latin America. It helped that European forces were so weakened by fighting and civil war, so when the Americans came rolling in offering bread and water, people gladly acquiesced.

Wilson has seemingly conquered the whole of Europe with ease. He was able to push through countless treaties in the peace at Versailles-- a plan to rebuild Europe (heavily favoring American interests, of course), the division of Germany so that it may never wage war again, but, most importantly, his proposal for the so-called "League of Nations"-- an organization involved in the maintenance of world peace, and the spread of democracy and freedom across the world. It would oversee disputed territories, such as the Rhineland.

The powers of Europe had no choice but to sign on to Wilson's scheme. America, economically booming and riding high after the utter success of the Intervention, gladly supported entrance of the US into the League and moreover voted Wilson into an unprecedented 3rd term of office.

The first action of the World-State was its great crusade against Communism-- the Soviet Intervention saw the blue-helmeted soldiers of the League marching into Bolshevik held Russia by their hundreds of thousands, taking the fight to the Reds and the Blacks.

Ultimately, the intervention failed in its stated goal of deposing the Bolsheviks, but it did manage to preserve a Romanov state in the Russian Baltic territory (holding Petrograd), and a White Republic in the Far East, under the tutelage of the "Mad Baron" Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.

The League would go on to help in several colonial wars for the empires to maintain their hold on power-- this worked tremendously well in French Africa, less so in India, which became divided between a Doabi communist state and a League-backed nation in the South.

A troubling trend appeared: as the League moved in to help the state that European powers released in their transition to sovereignty, it would not let them go. Eventually, a new organization was declared: the so-called "World State", the administrative organization that would "manage all troubled territories until such time as they are able to govern themselves". In truth, the ultimate goal was to united the world under a single banner.

The British, outraged by this declaration, promptly left the League along with a number of allies and non-aligned states. In its stead, the implemented the Imperial Federation, granting each of the Dominions (and Great Britain) 4 Senators within the Imperial Senate itself.

The year is 1980.

The Soviets under Trotsky, concerned that the League posed a major risk to the spread of Socialism, extend focused his efforts on Asia, creating several new Central Asian SSRs, and creating the Worker's Republic of China, a state in opposition to the Nationalist Republic of China to the south.

The French are quite happy with the help they're getting in Africa, and the land they gained off Germany. As such, it becomes America's most loyal ally, a tireless champion of the World-State.

The so-called "Russian Empire", small as it is, has become incredibly autocratic, the Okhrana watching your every move, the border being extremely fortified.

Italy is a British ally. It came under the forces of a group known as the "Fascists" with the rise of Mussolini and his blackshirts, who led the nation in the conquest of Ethiopia and generally set things in order (with significant British aid). Now, it is led by Mussonlini's disciple, an elderly Julius Evola.

The United States of Austria-Hungary was the brainchild of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and granted the different ethnicities of the nation their own autonomous states in a federal system. Wilson absolutely loved the idea, but as these things so often go, poor division and old rivalries led to much ethnic tension. It is said the nation was only saved first by a young Austrian named Adolf Hitler, whose charismatic and rousing speeches managed to bind the people of Austria-Hungary together. Though heavily inspired by Mussolini, Marshal Hitler never identified himself as a fascist, calling himself in an April 30th of 1945 interview a "Nationalistic Socialist".

The USAH nearly collapsed after Hitler's death in 1960, but another charismatic hero by the name of Tito stepped in to fill his shoes.

The Far Eastern Republic is still run by an ancient Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, who is remarkably active for his age. He is a constant embarrassment to the Japanese and the British, constantly developing superweapons in his totalitarian, mystical state.

Meanwhile, the World-State expands its influence and the territories it occupies, but can it keep it up forever? The US is on the edge of a race war (Wilson's racist legacy), and increasingly, the people of Africa are fed up with European colonial rule, whether it be from a nation state or a so-called "World-State" that denies them equal rights, and are turning to the Reds. The Soviets look on with interest...

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- POD before 1939/1944
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OOC: Honestly speaking, this is meant for an ASB timeline, since the premise includes mecha. However, I wanted to write in a way that this could pass off with a non-ASB PoD, so here goes. :3

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The Bitter Peace... that's what everyone in Europe calls it these days. The Weltkrieg that had put an end to a century of innocence remains as painful a scar for the nations of Europe as it had before. The collapse of the Russian Empire, the spread of communism across Western Europe... Much of our modern world and its problems date back to the end of the Great War. It is a bittersweet victory for the Central Powers, and a sour memory for the defeated Entente. In the end, who among us could claim ourselves the victors, and who among them can claim to have their 'honourable peace'.
1936, Europa. The legacy of our present state of affairs could be traced back to the aftermath of the Great War. The victory of the Central Powers - if it could even be counted as one - is very much a German victory alone. The unprecedented success of the Spring Offensive had vanquished her French archrivals, and drove the British out of the continent in shame. With Russia broken and shattered into civil war, and the Americans unfettered in its isolation, the British was left to sue for peace, at the risk of ceding its prime position in the world. On the negotiating table, Kaiser Wilhelm II made his demands. Mitteleuropa, Mittelafrika... essentially, a Mittelwelt. But the Germans were in no position to demand for their colonies returned, nor in the position to demand the British for anything. Perhaps it was fortunate for the negotiators that the emperor died of Spanish flu. To demand this much is to invite ruin, with the blockade still in effect and revolution so near.

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The concessions made towards the Treaty of Versailles, in occupied Paris, supposedly secured Germany's position as the primal power of Europe. No longer would the British, French or Russians contest to German dominion. No longer would Germany be brought to heel ever again. Of course, the reality was that Germany only defeated two of the three, and of the two, one came back in a far more vindictive mood than before. The terms in the Treaty of Versailles stipulated thus:

United Kingdom
  • Britain would cede control of the Suez canal to a joint Ottoman-German commission
  • Britain would recognize Ottoman suzerainty over Egypt
  • Britain would return Cyprus to the Ottoman Empire
  • South Africa would gain the German colony of Namibia
  • Australia would gain the colony of German New Guinea
France
  • France would cede all of Equatorial Africa south of Chad, and the colony of Djibouti to Germany
  • The departments of northwestern France would be subject to German occupation and economic control, to pay for reparations
  • France would relinquish all claims to Alsace-Lorraine in perpetuity.
  • France would be subjected to military restrictions, in terms of army size and military hardware
Serbia
  • Serbia would cede the regions of Kosovo and western Macedonia to Albania
  • Serbia would be subject to Austro-Hungarian occupation
  • Serbia would renounce all claims to the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Serbia would be forbidden to unify with Montenegro
  • Serbia would accept primary responsibility for the triggering of the Great War
  • Serbia would cede Vardar Macedonia to Bulgaria
Italy
  • Italy would cede Venetia to Austria-Hungary
  • Italy would return the Dodecanese and Libya to the Ottoman Empire
  • Italy would cede Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to Abyssinia
Greece
  • Greece would cede the Ionian islands to Austria-Hungary
  • Greece would cede Western Thrace to Bulgaria
  • Greece would cede the northern Aagean islands to the Ottoman Empire
Portugal
  • Portugal would cede Cabinda to Germany
  • Portugal would relinquish all claims to the Kionga Triangle
Belgium
  • Belgium would cede the Belgian Congo to Germany
  • Belgium would accept a German advisory committee on management on all domestic and foreign affairs.
Japan
  • Japan would annex the German East Indies.

All

  • The Entente would recognize all terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed by the Russian Provisional Government, and the Treaty of Craiova, signed by Romania.
  • The Entente would withdraw its forces from the German colonies of Togo, Kamerun and Tanganyika

The price was strangely disproportionate. Of the defeated Entente powers on the table, it was the British, Japanese, and Portuguese that came out with the least amount of damage. In fact, for the former two, the remaining Entente powers came out of the war larger than before. The reality was that the British were both unwilling and unable to convince its dominions to hand over the land, and the Japanese was in the position to deal to Germany the same naval humiliation it did to the Russians in 1905. Besides which, the Germans were convinced that by conceding their less important colonies to Britain's partners, they may be able pry them away. They were not wrong in Japan's case, but the Commonwealth proved too resilient for such petty hopes.

For the remainder, the price had pushed them to breaking point. Serbia was shattered, brought to heel by the Austro-Hungarians who demanded vengeance, and pressed under the boot of the Hungarian magnates. Greece's Megali idea had been extinguished, with PM Venizelos forced out of power and arrested for crimes against the state by a new, pro-royalist government. Italy was humiliated by the loss of Venice, their grand unification of Italy set back decades for the follies of the Savoy kings. And with her designs on Transylvania backfired, Romania was now forced to settle for a union with Bessarabia, a concession to a Hohenzollern relative led astray by his greedy subjects.

And France... France never recovered. The pain of a second humiliation proved too much for the French public, and anger poured over the streets of Paris. Blockading themselves, they set up the 'Second Commune of France', named for the first which formed in the aftermath of Franco-Prussian War. Spreading like wildfire, the Marxists took over the country in rapid succession, forcing out the legitimate French government into Corsica and Algeria. The French republic as a whole collapsed under the weight of revolution, with Indochina slipping from its grasp. Overthrowing the colonial administration under great risk, the revolutionaries of Dai Viet claimed inspiration from the Chinese Kuomintang. Even with the face-saving gesture of dominion status to the former colony, Dai Viet is now well out of French control, and well into the Japanese sphere. Siam herself regaining some shred of dignity, regaining territories that the French had forced out of her during the colonial period. It was only with British threats of intervention that forced Siam to back away, accepting only a quarter of the lands claimed by the kingdom.

As for the victors... I can't say things were that rosy for everyone. German enthusiasm for the victory quickly wore off when the costs of war became very apparent. Their plans for both Mittelafrika and Mitteleuropa ended up falling short of expectations. Instead of a German sphere where economic and political control laid squarely in Berlin, the German imperial government was left scrambling to hold on to Poland, with its energies sapped maintaining its vastly enlarged colonial domain. Finland, the United Baltic Duchy, Lithania, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia... all of them were beneficiaries of the anarchy that Russia had become, and while intended to be part of the German dream of a place in the sun, now hold their own against the ageing German empire. Ukraine, especially, has become a power to rival Germany and the Russian Omsk and Petrograd governments, its reach extended even into Lemberg. In the Balkans reigns the Tsar, as Bulgaria usurps the Ottomans as the prime power of the region. As the Ottoman attention squarely in Asia, Bulgaria's future had never been brighter. The enemies that once savaged her during the Second Balkan Wars now broken, Greater Bulgaria may soon set its eyes on greater ambitions.

The Ottomans emerged from the war hoping to have stopped the slow decline of their empire. In a way, they were probably right. And yet, for all their claims of 'an empire rejuvenated, Ottoman power had never been this frail. Governors of outlying regions have effectively drifted out of Istanbul's control, and the supposed jewel of its empire Egypt, is yet again a dangerous rival to its power. Control of the Suez is shared with the Germans and Egyptians, each with their own vested, often conflicting interests. And worst of all, its Christian minorities remain as restless as before, far from broken by defeat and oppression.

Austria-Hungary?... Well, it may as well have been dead. As separatist sentiment became more aggressive, the Austro-Hungarian empire drifted further and further apart. Hungarian magnates, eager for their pound of flesh, rallied under regent Admiral Miklos Hrothy, pulling Hungary away from Vienna's influence. Bosnia's new autonomous kingdom also grew outside Vienna's control, its complex demographics threatening to tear itself apart. And Galicia-Lodomeria is, for all intents and purposes, a Ukrainian domain, a personal union under Prince and Archduke Vasyl. And even within the Crownlands, friction between the Germans and their Italian and Slavic subjects have reached breaking point. I fear Austria is on the brink of civil war.

Yet, for all our talk of civil war, none could compare to the anarchy that is Russia. Formed from a hodgepodge coalition of republicans, conservatives and monarchists, Russia had ceased to exist as a coherent nation, carved up by separatists with German and Japanese assistance and beset by warlords and rival regimes. The October revolution that heralded the arrival of the communist Bolsheviks had forced its rivals into an unholy alliance to rescue Russia. Called the White movement, the White Russians had had to depend on German and Allied aid, somehow banding together, or perhaps simply fortunate enough to strike in unison, to thwart Trotsky's outnumbered yet highly-trained Red Army. Bringing the Bolsheviks to heel in Petrograd, the White movement soon fell apart on their desired future for Russia. Eventually, two rival governments formed to continue the standoff, the republican, social revolutionary government in Petrograd, and Aleksandr Kolchak's conservative, pro-monarchist coalition. Warlords and separatists of all shades had set up shop, from the Cossack Confederation in the west, to the Alash autonomy and socialist Turkestan in Central Asia. To compound Russia's misery, the Japanese threw their lot into the fray. Setting up a puppet, ostensibly pro-Omsk government in Transamur, the Japanese poured considerable energy into supporting friendly warlords throughout Russia, just as it had in China. And the most powerful of the Siberian warlords were the Ungern-Sternbergs. Regents of the Mongolian khan, their reach extends well beyond the unified Mongol-Turkic people of the steppes, its iron grip on the Transbaikal a source of great anger for the rival Russian governments.

Perhaps it would not be appropriate to call this a 'bitter peace'. Of the countries that have emerged from the Great War, the greatest victors are those outside the damaged battlefields of Europe. Japan, the rising industrial power of Asia, stands supreme on the Pacific, with the United States still caught in its splendid isolation and its former Entente allies crippled by reparation to the Central Powers. While war with a crippled, warlord-infested China seemed imminent, its control over its regional waters is unrivalled. With the distant Royal Navy set back a notch, its Far Eastern colonies are in danger of subversion. Already, whispers of an 'Indochina-style' uprising was spreading, and neither the British nor the Dutch are willing to take any chances.

Overall, these are... interesting times. Death knocks at the barracks of many nations, and blood continues to paint the soil. Germany's dreams of a place in the sun has melted away, its Mittelafrika colony and forays into Eastern Europe draining its limited resources, and as their allies break, challengers, new and old, emerge. What path would each leader take for their country. I will make my choice. What would be yours?

- HIH Princess Marie Louise Ferdinandea von Hapsburg-Lorraine

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Errata: Changed Newfoundland to 'responsible government'
 
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OOC: Honestly speaking, this is meant for an ASB timeline, since the premise includes mecha. However, I wanted to write in a way that this could pass off with a non-ASB PoD, so here goes. :3

IC:

I love this very much.

So was America for the 1920s and 30s without the Great War, and aftermath? Who is in the White House as of 1936?

Ireland still under English Rule? (FREE IRELAND.)

How is things on the homefront and in the Empire as a whole for the British Empire. (White Dominions such as Canada, Australia, and India.)

How is running the show in Italy?

Life inside Red France?

China, and Iran?
 
Sequel to my previous map, the "Great Evil" the Intermarium was founded to oppose: the European Federation (or Eŭropa Federacio). Founded as the European Alliance following the Great Revolutions of the 1840s which saw Italy, the Danubian Confederation, and the Dual Monarchy fall to Radicalism (Read: French Revolution). Closer ties were pursued until finally Federalism was achieved in 1901.
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What happen to the old Royalists governments? In exile in the Colonies?

Russia?

How is life in each of the European Federation states?

The USA?
 
I love this very much.

So was America for the 1920s and 30s without the Great War, and aftermath? Who is in the White House as of 1936?

Ireland still under English Rule? (FREE IRELAND.)

How is things on the homefront and in the Empire as a whole for the British Empire. (White Dominions such as Canada, Australia, and India.)

How is running the show in Italy?

Life inside Red France?

China, and Iran?

America is pretty much isolationist. As for presidencies, I have no idea. I'm not experienced in US politics so I can't say. All I can say is Wilson kept his promise to keep the US out of the war, so anti-German sentiment isn't as strong and there isn't as much of a backlash from the German-American community against Cox, which means a closer race. The Irish-Americans would probably feel abandoned, since the Germans were no position to prevent Britain from suppressing the Irish further.

Ireland is probably not going to see even Home Rule. The British public would likely see them as a scapegoat with the Easter Uprising and all. Ugly stuff. Other than that, I admit I overlooked that part when making the map, but I was never going to make an Irish Free State anyway (the Queen demands it) :p

As for the Empire as a whole, it's still intact. Their relations with Egypt is actually pretty good, and a very sore spot for the Ottomans and Germans since the commission is unable to block British access through the Suez thanks to Egypt. Though, there is trouble in India with increasing Japanese interference. Really, the Japanese are by far the biggest winners of the Weltkrieg.

For Italy, that's real simple:



Life inside Red France, ehh... I think it's pretty dank? I've not fleshed this out enough, but I can say it's not a nice place to live. And they're aiding the Republicans in Spain.

China is pretty much similar to OTL, though Mao's communists were driven heavily underground, if not completely routed. Persia is doing better these days with Britain and Germany competing for influence. Hell, they even have plans to annex the buffer zone in Turkmenistan. :p
 
America is pretty much isolationist. As for presidencies, I have no idea. I'm not experienced in US politics so I can't say. All I can say is Wilson kept his promise to keep the US out of the war, so anti-German sentiment isn't as strong and there isn't as much of a backlash from the German-American community against Cox, which means a closer race. The Irish-Americans would probably feel abandoned, since the Germans were no position to prevent Britain from suppressing the Irish further.

Ireland is probably not going to see even Home Rule. The British public would likely see them as a scapegoat with the Easter Uprising and all. Ugly stuff. Other than that, I admit I overlooked that part when making the map, but I was never going to make an Irish Free State anyway (the Queen demands it) :p

As for the Empire as a whole, it's still intact. Their relations with Egypt is actually pretty good, and a very sore spot for the Ottomans and Germans since the commission is unable to block British access through the Suez thanks to Egypt. Though, there is trouble in India with increasing Japanese interference. Really, the Japanese are by far the biggest winners of the Weltkrieg.

For Italy, that's real simple:



Life inside Red France, ehh... I think it's pretty dank? I've not fleshed this out enough, but I can say it's not a nice place to live. And they're aiding the Republicans in Spain.

China is pretty much similar to OTL, though Mao's communists were driven heavily underground, if not completely routed. Persia is doing better these days with Britain and Germany competing for influence. Hell, they even have plans to annex the buffer zone in Turkmenistan. :p

So America would still have a visible German culture that would keep growing.

Mussolini still took over? Is he doing any better, or is it still worst?

Please let Ireland be free. Losing WW1 would force the UK to go ahead with the Irish Free State as to bring down disorder and fighting that would only hurt it more.

Who is closest to the idea of a Atomic Bomb? (Tech should be somewhat more advanced than OTL as show here.)

What about the Russian Republic and Russian Empire? How are they, and who are leading them?

What about Austria and Hungry themselves?

German Africa?

Anything with South America?

Zionism?
 
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Here's my first map, more of a practice map than anything thought is based on 2 of my Victoria 2 campaigns recently. So just ignore 1932 and just put in 1936 instead.

1:With England turning into a three-way civil war, the Royal Family has fled to Canada with most of the British Government.

2:Many Blacks and Latinos in the Caribbean are treated much better than they are on the Mainland mostly due to the Efforts of the Populist Party to secure their electoral dominance in the Caribbean. But Blacks in the Mainland are still treated essentially like slaves with Latinos faring little better.

3:Transcaucasia has gone from a small kingdom beset on all sides, to the strongest power in the Middle East. They are aligned with Greece and have friendly relations with Russia giving them security on all fronts.

4: The United Kingdom has gone from a Strong Great Power to being split into 5 nations with the Rump United Kingdom suffering a civil war. As a result Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ulster have become working together to contain the mayhem to England only.

5: The sides in the English Civil War are as follows, Dark Grey is Mosley's Blackshirts and affiliated Labour militas, Red for the Communists, and pink for the military government.

6: Ukrainians aren't that pleased about Russians dominating them and have begun resisting. But have been Brutally squashed by the Russian's with many Generals calling for more "drastic" measures.

7: Czechoslovakia is being invaded on 3 sides and is fighting to the Death to avoid a complete Partition.

8: Japanese Indochina is slowly being culturally assimilated by the Empire of Japan though many want an independent state. But many still prefer it to French Domination.
 
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