Map Thread XVII
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American Unoin State is certainly a mouthful, but as this is based off someone else' she story, it is understandable why it is used here. They also do the thing with there being a North and South Michigan here? Seems like they could have called the northern one Superior. Ahh, and the AUS a unitary state? If so, might not be appropriate to label Pennsylvania.Finished at last! Here's the final version.
This is a feature map of a story based off of the Kaiserreich universe named The Crown Atomic, hosted in the Paradox forums. Hope you guys like it!
They got the plurality in many areas but they don't get the majority. Grouping Protestant, non-denominational, and Evangelical Free Churches together would have the map be more purple.
Another Star Wars map from me, this time a basemap of Revan's empire from KOTOR using the same map as last time for the base.
I don't think I ever posted this here, and I don't mind sacrificing to end-of-thread syndrome to get Map Thread XVIII summoned.
For Krall's Monthly Telephone Map Game over on Althistoria, from a couple months ago now. The map presented to me was of a United States divided between the USSR, Communist China (or puppets of those two), and a couple others. I assumed this was a world of a NATO-Warsaw Pact (and friends) war and the Warsaw Pact won. So I decided to show part of Europe through the perspective of Switzerland, whom is divided between Communists/Socialists and Conservatives/Pseudo-Fascists.
Also in this world, Liechtenstein is absorbed into Switzerland for protection.
France is able to keep relative independence, while the USSR and China were focused on the US o A, leaving Rump NATO in France and Britain, and maybe Spain and Portugal.
For Krall's Monthly Telephone Map Game over on Althistoria, from a couple months ago now. The map presented to me was of a United States divided between the USSR, Communist China (or puppets of those two), and a couple others. I assumed this was a world of a NATO-Warsaw Pact (and friends) war and the Warsaw Pact won. So I decided to show part of Europe through the perspective of Switzerland, whom is divided between Communists/Socialists and Conservatives/Pseudo-Fascists.
Also in this world, Liechtenstein is absorbed into Switzerland for protection.
France is able to keep relative independence, while the USSR and China were focused on the US o A, leaving Rump NATO in France and Britain, and maybe Spain and Portugal.
So how did Germany lose Silesia, most of Pomerania, Prussia in this world?
I did not create the lore, from what it seems, Germany assumed those borders because of the treaty dismantling the Nazi reich. This should give more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/AP246/comments/7ch604/the_thousandweek_reich_a_realistic_nazi_victory/
Are there really that many people who continue to follow Native American religions, especially in Mexico?
Yes. I live in Guadalajara (hardly a backwater) and while Catholicism is clearly dominant, most people know the names of the Aztec pantheon and they're present in the culture. People will blame Tlaloc when it rains a lot for instance.
That bit about Tlaloc is interesting. You said most people know the names of the Aztec gods; is this just in the same way most Americans could name the Greek or Norse gods, or is there more to it than that?
In my mind, Austria breaks from Russia and France over the ALT partition of Poland without Prussia and joins with the UK. While in the New World, Anglo-Americans flood the West and France has no way of stopping them. (Numbers don't lie. In the mid 1700s? New France only had about 70,000 vs 1.2 to 1.3 million British American Colonists. 450,000 in New England alone in 1760.)
Maybe a earlier war with the Ottomans and Russians? Or Russia pushing for more. (Which would worry Austria.)
I agree, Poland is basically the unfortunate battleground between the Austrians and Russians. Russia would also be much more aggressive without the Prussians and a weakened Britain. New France would slowly be settled and annexed at the protestations of France, but the native Indians would put up a much stiffer resistance with French funding. Louisiana might be able to hold out as a French colony though, as will Eastern Quebec.
It’s part of it, but it’s under French administration like Lorraine was, and I thought the yellow HRE border would look a bit too ugly to justify putting it.
The union state is an old joke in early Kaiserreich mod where tge south is "the union" and the syndicalist north was the "csa" (combined syndicates of America).
In the Crown Atomic, universe, much of the former US is run by a theocratic populist regime after a bloody civil war in the 30s overthrew the government and the Pacific states and new england slipped into Imperial canadas orbit. The story is well worth the read for its narrative interludes which are simply superb.
A little idea I came up with for a "better Versailles/WWI end" scenario. Germany loses Alsace-Lorraine and northern Schleswig, and a different line is drawn in Poland that takes more of Silesia, Posen, and East Prussia, but keeps most of West Prussia in Germany and Eupen-Malmedy and a different line is drawn in Memel. Austria loses Trentino, but not South Tyrol, and holds on to southern German Bohemia. Hungary loses most of its territory but its border with Yugoslavia follows the Drava more and northern Vojvodina remains Hungarian, while a couple Hungarian-majority communities on the Romanian frontier are retained. Hungarian-speaking Slovakia is split between Hungary and the newly formed Czechoslovakia, which is divided into autonomous Slovak, Moravian, Bohemian, and German regions. Romania gains Transylvania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina. Cyprus, the Dodecanese, most of Thrace, and the western coast of Anatolia were handed to Greece. Serbia, Montenegro, and the South Slavic lands of Austria-Hungary form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and Albania is made an Italian protectorate. The Sykes-Picot Agreement is not really enforced and the Syrian Arab Kingdom is allowed to thrive. No Kurdish state or "zones of influence" are created, but an enlarged Armenia is granted independence. Russia, in the middle of a bloody civil war, is not divided into concrete borders except as shown on the map. The light green country is the Republic of Ruthenia, the successor to the West Ukrainian People's Republic, was recognized by several Allied nations, much to the chagrin of Poland. The Poles feel that the Allies have done them dirty, since they wanted more of German territory and wanted the Allies to endow more eastern land to them. What happens in the former western domains of Russia is anyone's guess, as the Russian Civil War rages on and nearby countries plan their response.
I only moved here a couple months ago so I'm no expert; most of what I know comes from what colleagues and my girlfriend have told me in passing. The way the Tlaloc thing was described to me seemed a lot like how some southerners in the US will say "the devil is beating his wife" when it's raining while the sun is out: whether you believe that the devil actually exists or not is sort of irrelevant, though some people definitely believe that he exists.
I know that being indigenous is a pretty big part of Mexican identity. Where there's a tendency in the US to treat the UK as the predecessor civilization and a sort of motherland from which there was a split, there is no such mythos in Mexico's interaction with Spain; the Aztecs were conquered and then rose up in revolution. So where knowing the Greek or Norse gods might be something of a trivial curiosity for Americans, knowing the Aztec gods is much, much closer to ethnic and cultural identity in Mexico.
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