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This map is among one of the best made alternative historical maps about the PRC. Though simultaneously using traditional Chinese in the title and the descriptions and simplified Chinese in names on the map is a bit strange. The two articles by Party media also don’t quite have have the right tone, but that’s good enough.
 
Did someone ask for a Swedish Namibia? No? Oh, I'll post it anyways. By the way the map to the left shows Africa as of 2020 in my currently hiatused TL.

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Formed from Swedish Southwest Africa as it was agreed in the Verona Conference of 1881, as the second colony the Nordic nation obtained, the other being the Ivory Coast (Elfenbenkusten). The sparse native population and more suitable climate allowed for settlement from Sweden and neighbouring countries including Danes, Prussians and Afrikaners that did fled to the west instead of east. A remarkable aspect of the colony is the remnants of the Gutiérrez scientific expedition by the Oriental Republic (read Uruguay), which built a settlement at Paysandu in 1878, mixing with the natives and eventually being absorbed by the Swedes, forming a unique blend of cultures that stands proud among African nations, as it's stability and profitable natural resources have turned Namibland into one of the most prosperous countries in the continent.

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Did someone ask for a Swedish Namibia? No? Oh, I'll post it anyways. By the way the map to the left shows Africa as of 2020 in my currently hiatused TL.

Lore:

Formed from Swedish Southwest Africa as it was agreed in the Verona Conference of 1881, as the second colony the Nordic nation obtained, the other being the Ivory Coast (Elfenbenkusten). The sparse native population and more suitable climate allowed for settlement from Sweden and neighbouring countries including Danes, Prussians and Afrikaners that did fled to the west instead of east. A remarkable aspect of the colony is the remnants of the Gutiérrez scientific expedition by the Oriental Republic (read Uruguay), which built a settlement at Paysandu in 1878, mixing with the natives and eventually being absorbed by the Swedes, forming a unique blend of cultures that stands proud among African nations, as it's stability and profitable natural resources have turned Namibland into one of the most prosperous countries in the continent.

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In minimap Cape and Bechuanaland seem to be united.
 
Did someone ask for a Swedish Namibia? No? Oh, I'll post it anyways. By the way the map to the left shows Africa as of 2020 in my currently hiatused TL.

Lore:

Formed from Swedish Southwest Africa as it was agreed in the Verona Conference of 1881, as the second colony the Nordic nation obtained, the other being the Ivory Coast (Elfenbenkusten). The sparse native population and more suitable climate allowed for settlement from Sweden and neighbouring countries including Danes, Prussians and Afrikaners that did fled to the west instead of east. A remarkable aspect of the colony is the remnants of the Gutiérrez scientific expedition by the Oriental Republic (read Uruguay), which built a settlement at Paysandu in 1878, mixing with the natives and eventually being absorbed by the Swedes, forming a unique blend of cultures that stands proud among African nations, as it's stability and profitable natural resources have turned Namibland into one of the most prosperous countries in the continent.

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We didn't ask, but I love it all the same. Especially the resulted mixed cultures that came from it.

Plus the map of Africa/Middle and Europe offers something very interesting.
 
Did someone ask for a Swedish Namibia? No? Oh, I'll post it anyways. By the way the map to the left shows Africa as of 2020 in my currently hiatused TL.

Lore:

Formed from Swedish Southwest Africa as it was agreed in the Verona Conference of 1881, as the second colony the Nordic nation obtained, the other being the Ivory Coast (Elfenbenkusten).

A nice addition to the Rainbow of South Africas. :)

The mini-map has a lot of wriggly borders: les thorough colonization and more surviving native states?
 
Did someone ask for a Swedish Namibia? No? Oh, I'll post it anyways. By the way the map to the left shows Africa as of 2020 in my currently hiatused TL.

Lore:

Formed from Swedish Southwest Africa as it was agreed in the Verona Conference of 1881, as the second colony the Nordic nation obtained, the other being the Ivory Coast (Elfenbenkusten). The sparse native population and more suitable climate allowed for settlement from Sweden and neighbouring countries including Danes, Prussians and Afrikaners that did fled to the west instead of east. A remarkable aspect of the colony is the remnants of the Gutiérrez scientific expedition by the Oriental Republic (read Uruguay), which built a settlement at Paysandu in 1878, mixing with the natives and eventually being absorbed by the Swedes, forming a unique blend of cultures that stands proud among African nations, as it's stability and profitable natural resources have turned Namibland into one of the most prosperous countries in the continent.

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A lot less straight lines than otl, but a swedish Namibia is blursed (but take it with a grain of salt, since I did make a Belgian one before), so 9.5/10
 
This is a map of China, ine a world where France Fights on against Axis Powers during WWII. As butterflies, we have the KMT winning the Chinese Civil War...
PS: Sorry, the map is in French...

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Fascinating. Very curious to see what Europe looks like after such a different WWII.
 
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The 2020 Japanese Diet elections were held in the Empire of Japan for the country's lower legislature, the Imperial Diet, in March. Fumio Kishida, who became leader of the ruling Imperial Party and subsequently Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecesor Shinzo Abe, led his party into an electoral victory. The moderate right-winger easily retained traditional centers of Imperialite support, including the coastal cities, the rural towns, and the Japanese diaspora in Korea and Taiwan, acquiring 44 districts. However, there were some glaring issues: Yukio Edano of the Democratic Labor Party made impressive gains in areas outside the party's usual strongholds, most alarmingly in Greater Tokyo - a region increasingly dominated by the left-leaning youth - and Taiwan. Many hoped that Kishida's reputation as a political outsider and a compromising moderate would improve the Imperial Party's chances; nevertheless, the 2013 merger of the Democratic and Labor parties to consolidate the left was finally delivering fruits after years of disorganization.

In Korea, Thae Yong-ho of the Korean Rights Party was definitively the big winner of the elections, taking 17 districts, the best performance for a non-ethnic Japanese party in electoral history. Barring traditional Imperialite enclaves such as Pusan, and the northeast, the KRP captured a vast proportion of the Korean voter base, reactivating discourse about Korean independence. Kishida insists that secession is not an option, while Thae states that "the will of Korea is clear".

The longtime leader of the
Radical People's Party, Kazuo Shii, lost out on the leftist vote. Taking only three districts in the mainland, the RPP has stayed afloat only thanks to disgruntled voters in Taiwan and industrial workers in some Korean cities. Its historical platform of multiculturalism has seen waning results, mainly due to the rise of the KRP as a major force in Korea and the DLP's newfound place at the helm of the liberal left. There is talk of finally removing Shii, who has led the party since 2002, although no official statement has been issued.


Founded in 2017, the Republican Party of actor-turned-politician Tarō Yamamoto saw very impressive gains. Running on a populist, left-wing platform, Yamamoto charmed lower-class voters who felt unrepresented by the Imperialites and forgotten by the DLP's urban leadership. He did, however, roll back his old anti-monarchic stance, drawing criticism from those accusing him of shifting his policies to attract more voters. Tamaro Saito of Yamagata ran and won as an Independent.

Shortly after the election, Kishida revealed that he has been engaged in talks to form a coalition government with Edano. However, many analysts believe that a DLP-KRP-RP coalition could muster the strength to remove the Imperial Party from power, ending almost three decades of uninterrupted IP government.

Note that each district awards a number of Delegates proportionate to population. The numbers provided show the number of districts won, not the total of Delegates. There are a total of 500 Delegates in the Imperial Diet of Japan, and they may vote contrary to their official party line, although this is fairly uncommon.
 
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The 2020 Japanese Diet elections were held in the Empire of Japan for the country's lower legislature, the Imperial Diet, in March. Fumio Kishida, who became leader of the ruling Imperial Party and subsequently Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecesor Shinzo Abe, led his party into an electoral victory. The moderate right-winger easily retained traditional centers of Imperialite support, including the coastal cities, the rural towns, and the Japanese diaspora in Korea and Taiwan, acquiring 44 districts. However, there were some glaring issues: Yukio Edano of the Democratic Labor Party made impressive gains in areas outside the party's usual strongholds, most alarmingly in Greater Tokyo - a region increasingly dominated by the left-leaning youth - and Taiwan. Many hoped that Kishida's reputation as a political outsider and a compromising moderate would improve the Imperial Party's chances; nevertheless, the 2013 merger of the Democratic and Labor parties to consolidate the left was finally delivering fruits after years of disorganization.

In Korea, Thae Yong-ho of the Korean Rights Party was definitively the big winner of the elections, taking 17 districts, the best performance for a non-ethnic Japanese party in electoral history. Barring traditional Imperialite enclaves such as Pusan, and the northeast, the KRP captured a vast proportion of the Korean voter base, reactivating discourse about Korean independence. Kishida insists that secession is not an option, while Yong-ho states that "the will of Korea is clear".

Longtime leader of the
Radical People's Party, Kazuo Shii, lost out on the leftist vote. Taking only three districts in the mainland, the RPP has stayed afloat only thanks to disgruntled voters in Taiwan and industrial workers in some Korean cities. Its historical platform of multiculturalism has seen waning results, mainly due to the rise of the KRP as a major force in Korea and the DLP's newfound place at the helm of the liberal left. There is talk of finally removing Shii, who has led the party since 2002, although no official statement has been issued.


Founded in 2017, the Republican Party of actor-turned-politician Tarō Yamamoto saw very impressive gains. Running on a populist, left-wing platform, Yamamoto charmed lower-class voters who felt unrepresented by the Imperialites and forgotten by the DLP's urban leadership. He did, however, roll back his old anti-monarchic stance, drawing criticism from those accusing him of shifting his policies to attract more voters. Tamaro Saito of Yamagata ran and won as an Independent.

Shortly after the election, Kishida revealed that he has been engaged in talks to form a coalition government with Edano. However, many analysts believe that a DLP-KRP-RP coalition could muster the power to remove the Imperial Party from power, ending almost three decades of uninterrupted IP government.

Note that each district awards a number of Delegates proportionate to population. The numbers provided show the number of districts won, not the total of Delegates. There are a total of 500 Delegates in the Imperial Diet of Japan, and they may vote contrary to their official party line, although this is fairly uncommon.
What's the orange in Taiwan? Miscolored DLP?
 

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This map is among one of the best made alternative historical maps about the PRC.

Thanks. I did try my best in researching the different factions and how they'd play out in this hyper-liberal PRC

Though simultaneously using traditional Chinese in the title and the descriptions and simplified Chinese in names on the map is a bit strange. The two articles by Party media also don’t quite have have the right tone, but that’s good enough.

I acknowledge the error of the Chinese on my part. The articles were my attempt at capturing the vibe of the People's Daily and Xinhua, though this is in a world where the PRC goes full liberal and privatizes many key assets.
 
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A sequel map to my previous "Greetings from Abya Yala!" map.

There is a place that serves as the interdimensional axis linking together Earth, the Dreamlands, and the myriad realms of Deep Dream and other Astral zones that make up the superstructure of Gaia. That axis manifests itself most often as both a storm and a trench where the world drops off into oblivion and rises up in chaos embodied. It is an infinite, fractal vortex--the Hebrew word is tehom. It is the place where lost things go. It is the pirate’s haven. It is Earth’s tie to the borderworld. It was here before Slid. It is the Super-Sargasso Sea.

Beyond the Super-Sargasso Sea lay a land where the veil between Dream and Wake is tattered to the point that even wildlife use it; the mammoths, ground sloths, sasquatches and sabretooths have inhabited this place since the fall of Atlantis. The men who sought it called it Ultraindia, while the men who hid there called it Turtle Island.
Columbus erroneously thought that the Indies were closer to Europe than geographically possible. It was once said that there were three Indias, but the country between the Hindus and Ganges was already known in the waking world while the good kingdom of Prester John lay in dream; Columbus was a powerful dreamer indeed to bring forth the India of Mandeville and place it at the edge of a continent he’d never see.

The Third Indian Confederacy is a coalition of Hindu realms, monkey kingdoms, horseback nomads, and honorable wildmen pitted against the savage monsters dreamed up by adventurers from eras long gone. Even with modern military equipment, blemmyes and giant ants seem to spring up as if from the soil itself. Taprobana remains the more powerful of the two nations, but its status as a mercantile power is limited by the off-map presence of the Mandevillian Archipelago and the thousand cannibal islands that make travel by sea impossible.

To the west off the coast of India is the isle of California, whose mediterranean climate make the country a terrestrial paradise compared with the mainland. Interestingly, the matriarchal society appears to be the last remnant of a proto-Australic group that preceded modern Native Americans. California’s insular status has granted it the position to be both a great power and a neutral power.

On the mainland is the Quiviran Empire, a Zuni-ruled nation considered to be on par with the greatest Empires of the Old World. Archaeological evidence on Earth has long supported theories of a robust civilization in the American Southwest existing at some point; Quivira is the living proof. Unlike their counterparts on Earth, Quivira had access to draft animals long before Columbian contact, facilitating their spread across the continent. Nearby to Quivira is Atzlan, whose position in the mountains has protected it from conquest. Atzlan remains the homeland of Uto-Aztecan peoples.

North of Quivira is the Anianese Confederation, an Athabaskan mercantile republic whose allies in the Far East helped secure its independence from Quivira. Anian controls all travel to the Pacific via the Northwest Passage; failure to comply with Anianese regulations would force any traveller to brave the cannibal islands to the far south.
Nearby Anian is Mandan, a kingdom of Welsh peoples and the first European colony we have discussed. Like Abya Yala to the south, Turtle Island is home to many European colonies but none are as strong as the native kingdoms. There is also Terra de Bacalao at the Atlantic mouth of the Northwest Passage, a Portuguese republic. These countries all benefit from the trade that goes on along the waterways linking the two oceans.

Both Anian and Quivira are dealing with a rebellion staged by the Si-Teh-Cah, a Giant tribe exiled from the waking world by Paiutes in the 19th century. The Si-Teh-Cah are supposedly the last descendants of the Giants that built the oldest of the mounds, the civilization that taught the Mississippians the secrets of the soil. The countryside east of Anian and Quivira attests to the loss of a great civilization. One often can spot the herds of mammoth crossing by an ancient castle or atop serpentine mounds when they traverse the plains.

In addition to the mountains formed by the collision with Ultraindia, there is an older range running along the continent’s east coast. At the southern tip lay the county of Beiminy, a country whose primary export is the ichors mined in the mountains. These ichors have healing and regenerative powers rivaling only the waters at Macrobia, but recently the mines have been drying up. Fracking is a promising technique, but there is an ancient fear of awakening the land itself should it be overworked to provide for its children.

In the mountains north of Beiminy live the Moon-Eyed People, a very old tribal confederation whose culture is singled out only because it is the best example of strange forgotten peoples and secretive tribes that dot the interior landscape. They were the people who the Quivirans sought to stamp out, but they will be here long after the other Men are gone, because they were the first to learn to hide.

Further north we come to the only English-speaking kingdom on Turtle Island: that of Roanoke, formed from a colony flung into dream by a rogue Super-Sargasso hurricane. Roanoke is a prosperous kingdom whose only threat remains the Damned State of Franklin, a people whose fervent devotion to a country that rejected them fuels their fanatical efforts in spreading democracy to their neighbors. As the Roanokans claim continued loyalty to the English Crown, they will hear no such thing.
If one travels further up the coast from Roanoke one comes across Pukwudgie kingdoms and the occasional boat of Phoenician make carrying Hebrew scrolls. The latter hints towards a country in the interior aligning with scripture from the Latter-Day Saints movement, but thus far no nation of lost Hebrews has been found.
There is only one country established by Vikings in Turtle Island and it is called Norumbega. Norumbega grew out of logging expeditions that took place on the mainland; it is a wealthy land, but more wealthy is Estotiland to the north. Estotiland is not actually Viking in origin; rather, it is the result of Christianized “skraelings” forming a nation in response to increased expeditions from Europe threatening to displace local peoples.

The far north of Turtle Island is a desolate place. There are fur trappers and bigfoot tribes that might be called hospitable, but the number of ruins from all eras of history seem to increase the further north one goes. The wildlife also becomes increasingly violent when presented with humans, a trait unfounded in southern populations. Reports of an enormous reptile’s maw thawing the ice with its breath are thus far unfounded. Eventually, the landmass merges with Hyberborea in the very far north. On the west coast there are Tartarian settlements in the land of Toloman, but it is yet a colonial effort on any scale. The constant threat of Wendigo attacks makes permanent human penetration in the north near-impossible. There is only one known nation beyond the glaciers and south of Hyperborea: that of Ye-Quor, the island realm of dwarves.

It is not currently recommended that dreamers or travellers visit any nation on Turtle Island save for California.
 
The mini-map has a lot of wriggly borders: les thorough colonization and more surviving native states?
Sort of. More states such as the Gonja Kingdoms, Ashanti and Bornu survived unscathed, while the Europeans ITTL played the "protectorate" card more than IOTL, trying to properly define colonial borders and not basing themselves that much in straight lines between geographical features. However, European colonisation has actually been more intense, just look at the demographics of Namibland in the bottom left corner; and decolonisation happened much later and not yet completely, with many states still linked to the metropole in some way.
 
Nobody Expects the Spanish Empire!
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The Spanish Empire in the 16th Century under the House of Burgundy (Iverea/Ascarids). This was based on an old EUIV game where I played as Castile trying to restore the old borders of Visigothic Spain. I used the 1356 mod playing as Castile under Pedro I "El Justo" (The Just) during the War of Two Peters where he fought a civil war against the Enrique of Trastamara who was Pedro's illegitimate brother. Pedro had tried to centralize the lands of the Castilian Crown, and this had brought him into conflict with the nobility who turned to his bastard brother to safeguard their rights. In otl Enrique assassinated him a peace summit. Pedro was not really the most militarily inclined man and fled when Enrique marched with a large band of mercenaries seeking to steal his crown. In ttl thanks to RNG mechanics (I think the mod had a bug), I ended up with Pedro being a much better military leader. And in this alternate timeline Pedro crushes his brother on the field and embarks upon his planned purge of the nobility. To his supporters (mostly the peasants) he was seen as Peter the Just, but to his opponents he was seen as Peter the Cruel. Another divergence I'm thinking of is that Peter marries Joan of England (Edward III's daughter) solidifying the links and dynastic connection between England and Castile (this is what happened in game with Royal marriages). Thus Peter joins the Hundred Years War against France and its allies where Peter manages to successfully take the lands of the Kingdom of Valencia from the Aragonese Crown. From there he embarks upon a lightning campaign in France helping to aid the Black Prince in scoring large chunks of Southern France. From the war Castile received large amounts of loot which helped repair its economic situation.
Eventually Castile inherited Portugal and later conquered Aragon in a war of succession with Naples which it eventually won and upon victory, the new King revived the old Medieval title of Imperator Totius Hispaniae (Emperor of All Spain) used by Castilian Kings centuries earlier proclaiming a new Imperial state within Europe. England would eventually go on to Win the Hundred Years War creating a new dual monarchy between France and England. However wary of the growing power of this new state, the nascent Spanish Empire's relations with England cooled. However England was rocked by a succession crisis with the subsequent extinction of the main line of Plantagenets. This coupled with a French secessionist and noble revolts saw a succession war erupt between England and Spain. Spain's ruler Emperor Carlos I asserted his right to rule based on the closer female bloodline, but the English not wanting to be under the dominion of Spain engaged in war with Burgundian support. Carlos however had no real expectation of claiming the English or French throne. All he had wanted was lands in Southern France to expand his Empire's own wealth and to cut down the Dual Monarchy to size securing Spain's position as the pre-eminent power in Christendom. Spain managed to achieve its objectives in the war taking most of Southern France which threw open its gates to whom they viewed as the more legitimate monarch. In terms of the lore, Emperor Carlos promised to respect the other nobles' own rights and autonomy as opposed to the English trying to re-organize and centralize their domains. Spain with its dominance secured experienced a long golden age called the Pax Hispania where it was able to create a massive new colonial Empire. Though this golden age began to wind down as competition over colonies increased with the presence of the Burgundians, English, and Scandinavians who all sought the riches of the new world.

What do you guys think of this map and mini tl?​
Fantastic map !
 
However, European colonisation has actually been more intense, just look at the demographics of Namibland in the bottom left corner...
I suppose the Swedish government managed to convince a lot of people who would've gone to the United States IOTL to go there instead. The timeline doesn't quite match up and they'd need one hell of an ad campaign, but that's the best justification for the demographic balance I can come up with without doing research.
 
I suppose the Swedish government managed to convince a lot of people who would've gone to the United States IOTL to go there instead. The timeline doesn't quite match up and they'd need one hell of an ad campaign, but that's the best justification for the demographic balance I can come up with without doing research.
Oh, but that is exactly the point. This timeline has No United States. It collapses early on into several states that don't go past the Mississippi and do not develop to the level the overall US did. European excess population is more divided, some go to South America, others go to Australia and North Africa, and the rest move to other climate-suited areas such as Southern Africa. Also white population is that high cause Namibland's government is very mild with it's definition of white.
 
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