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Teaser from my upcoming timeline, The Pale Horse: The Northwest Montana Insurgency and its Aftermath (1987-2002).
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Starforce
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Not everything is perfect here. There some strange errors in it, I know. What do you think of the other stuff?
Pogchamp
Banned
You clearly don't understand how Canada worked at all. Before independence, the Prairie provinces weren't even things that existed in any form. And until 1905, the districts did, and they were much smaller. Regardless of when the Midwest gets taken, they would never be just haphazardly added to other states. That's like making the Mexican Cession a part of the state of Texas.
WIP Map, though mostly done except for the key. I decided to fiddle around a bit with the map showing an adaption of my Viktor Grishin game from Crisis in the Kremlin. Grishin can be thought of as the last Brezhnevist, a creature of the nomenklatura who wanted to keep the party going (no pun intended) without major upheavals one way or another. In the game, I
China has followed its own road. It underwent much more aggressive economic liberalizations than the USSR, and has established a modus vivendi with America. It even has a semi-democracy of sorts. That said, it's now the world's largest economy by far, and a power player with its own sphere.
America is reaching its final form. Still the premier capitalist democracy, it is accelerating the creation of a global economic-military sphere (though the coalition is still fairly loose compared to what the Soviets have). Europe, Japan, India, and chunks of Latin America and Africa all are tying themselves to the Americans, and the American-led system is without a doubt the strongest power around. To varying degrees, it cooperates and competes with the Chinese and Soviets.
The so-called Fourth World includes nonaligned powers like the United Arab Republic, Tanzania, and Indonesia. They follow their own path and flit between the 3 major powerhouses.
- Politics: largely continued the status quo, though I purged some reformers, strengthened the fight against religion, continued to be a corrupt guy, and handpicked a Brezhnevist successor in 1994. I retired in 1996 at the age of 82.
- Economics: Some reforms, including partially relaxing protectionism and price controls, and introducing modest market reforms. It's not China, but it's not what it used to be either. By 2020, having dodged the 1990s horror story, Russia is about 1.5-2x as rich as it is in OTL, and has a more variegated economy. Growth isn't amazing, but the old shortages of the planned economy are a thing of the past.
- Foreign Affairs: Lost some foreign influence, but largely managed to hold onto the Warsaw Pact. Once Iraq invaded Iran, I decided to mount an invasion myself, and turn it into a socialist puppet. I continued the Cold War, and now I have the economic power to keep the twilight struggle going indefinitely!
China has followed its own road. It underwent much more aggressive economic liberalizations than the USSR, and has established a modus vivendi with America. It even has a semi-democracy of sorts. That said, it's now the world's largest economy by far, and a power player with its own sphere.
America is reaching its final form. Still the premier capitalist democracy, it is accelerating the creation of a global economic-military sphere (though the coalition is still fairly loose compared to what the Soviets have). Europe, Japan, India, and chunks of Latin America and Africa all are tying themselves to the Americans, and the American-led system is without a doubt the strongest power around. To varying degrees, it cooperates and competes with the Chinese and Soviets.
The so-called Fourth World includes nonaligned powers like the United Arab Republic, Tanzania, and Indonesia. They follow their own path and flit between the 3 major powerhouses.
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Congrats your the first post on this thread for 2021
(At least where I live)
Well then... ill become the first for the new year where i live, why not?
Would also be interesting if this had a pre white European native population, maybe a group like Cheddar Man, or even like the Phoenicians
I do not know more about Canada and would like to learn about that. My point was that Montana, or Idaho, or the Dakotas, before being made into states, were unorganized territories.. which would then be ceded to either a separate district, which was a part of the NW territories. I agree that the borders would not be just extensions of Alberta or Manitoba or Saskatchewan but they would be the part of the Prairie province(s) for sure.
As I said earlier, I would like to know more of this if you want to explain
Pictured: A Poster promoting European Unification as a defense against communism, 2032. Note: This poster was made before the idea of a European Supernation started to be popular.
Direct Rule from Brussels
From the beginning of the 2010s, the cohesion of the European Union has been tested by several issues, including a debt crisis in some of the Eurozone countries, increasing migration from Africa and Asia, and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. A referendum in the UK on its membership of the European Union was held in 2016, with 51.9% of participants voting to leave. The UK formally notified the European Council of its decision to leave on 29 March 2017, initiating the formal withdrawal procedure for leaving the EU; following extensions to the process, the UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020, though most areas of EU law continued to apply to the UK for a transition period which lasted until 23:00 GMT on the 31 December 2020.
From the 2020s, the effects of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic greatly challenged the integrity of the European Union and debates over how to respond to the epidemic and its economic fallout have opened up a rift between Northern and Southern European member states, reminiscent of debates over the 2010s European debt crisis.
The rift between the Northern countries and the Southern ones would only escalated even further. It eventually reached a breaking in the mid-2030s due to a poor response to an ever increasing new refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and, the people of Spain, Italy and Greece voted to leave the union in a referendum.
The effects of the European Winter, a series of major terrorist attacks on major European cities, in 2039 would lay the foundation of European Central Defense Forces, it would be a primarily gendarme-oriented force, providing greater internal security within the EU member states. Following advancements in defense, including the EuroCorps, would allow for the greater coordination of EU military policy, providing further internal security for members.
A growing movement to further centralize the EU would come to existence following the United States' exit from world politics and created an realization that without the help and guidance of America, Europe would be all to itself, alone, and vulnerable to the new rising powers. Further backed by the rise of increasing radical Islam, a ever more growing refugee crisis around the world due to climate change. Eventually, calls for greater unity would be made from members., especially in a time of unprecedented change.
This would be the beginning of the European Confederation, and more would see the creation of a European supernation as necessary to Europe's survival as a whole.
That would come to minds of the masses following the Annihilation of Marseilles in 2052, the first ever nuclear terrorist conducted on a major city, martial law was imposed on almost every single EU member state and it would be the ultimate wake up call for all to see. In a referendum the following year, in which an astounding 45 million signatures were signed from every single member state, 62% voted yes to the formation of a European Confederation. The following years would the greatest changes to European society since the end of the Second World War as various European and national institutions underwent massive changes to prepare for the coming unification.
In 2059, the dream of a better Europe was reached as 25 of the EU's member states committed to ceding their sovereignty to the EC. The European Confederation was officially born.
The Confederation itself is politically nightmarishly chaotic as extremist ideologies trickle in from every side of the political spectrum. Martial law is still imposed in all member states due to the ever persisting fear of something on the scale of Marseilles would happen once more, the ever deteriorating state of world as nations fall into civil war after civil war again, and the climate refugee crisis being at it's greatest.
As extremists try to subvert the liberal democracy of the state, thousands of refugees constantly being washed away by hurricanes in the Mediterranean, America engulfed in a 2nd civil war and as the coasts are being swallowed by the sea, Europe is in it's darkest hour yet it seems.
From the 2020s, the effects of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic greatly challenged the integrity of the European Union and debates over how to respond to the epidemic and its economic fallout have opened up a rift between Northern and Southern European member states, reminiscent of debates over the 2010s European debt crisis.
The rift between the Northern countries and the Southern ones would only escalated even further. It eventually reached a breaking in the mid-2030s due to a poor response to an ever increasing new refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and, the people of Spain, Italy and Greece voted to leave the union in a referendum.
The effects of the European Winter, a series of major terrorist attacks on major European cities, in 2039 would lay the foundation of European Central Defense Forces, it would be a primarily gendarme-oriented force, providing greater internal security within the EU member states. Following advancements in defense, including the EuroCorps, would allow for the greater coordination of EU military policy, providing further internal security for members.
A growing movement to further centralize the EU would come to existence following the United States' exit from world politics and created an realization that without the help and guidance of America, Europe would be all to itself, alone, and vulnerable to the new rising powers. Further backed by the rise of increasing radical Islam, a ever more growing refugee crisis around the world due to climate change. Eventually, calls for greater unity would be made from members., especially in a time of unprecedented change.
This would be the beginning of the European Confederation, and more would see the creation of a European supernation as necessary to Europe's survival as a whole.
That would come to minds of the masses following the Annihilation of Marseilles in 2052, the first ever nuclear terrorist conducted on a major city, martial law was imposed on almost every single EU member state and it would be the ultimate wake up call for all to see. In a referendum the following year, in which an astounding 45 million signatures were signed from every single member state, 62% voted yes to the formation of a European Confederation. The following years would the greatest changes to European society since the end of the Second World War as various European and national institutions underwent massive changes to prepare for the coming unification.
In 2059, the dream of a better Europe was reached as 25 of the EU's member states committed to ceding their sovereignty to the EC. The European Confederation was officially born.
The Confederation itself is politically nightmarishly chaotic as extremist ideologies trickle in from every side of the political spectrum. Martial law is still imposed in all member states due to the ever persisting fear of something on the scale of Marseilles would happen once more, the ever deteriorating state of world as nations fall into civil war after civil war again, and the climate refugee crisis being at it's greatest.
As extremists try to subvert the liberal democracy of the state, thousands of refugees constantly being washed away by hurricanes in the Mediterranean, America engulfed in a 2nd civil war and as the coasts are being swallowed by the sea, Europe is in it's darkest hour yet it seems.
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For just a bit of context i made for my worldbuilding timeline called "Sidera Longius iter" which you can find on my DA or on Reddit (r/imaginarymaps and r/worldbuilding).
Haven't made a AH thread for this timeline but i probably will do at some point.
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A generic USSA. Based on this picture of Joseph McCarthy in front of a map of purported CPUSA party organization. I could never find a source on if the map was actually based on anything or not, but I thought it looked neat.
Nürnberger
Banned
Cool poster, but it's a bit hard to see hammers and sicles, maybe you can make them bigger?
Pictured: A Poster promoting European Unification as a defense against communism, 2032. Note: This poster was made before the idea of a European Supernation started to be popular.Direct Rule from Brussels
From the beginning of the 2010s, the cohesion of the European Union has been tested by several issues, including a debt crisis in some of the Eurozone countries, increasing migration from Africa and Asia, and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. A referendum in the UK on its membership of the European Union was held in 2016, with 51.9% of participants voting to leave. The UK formally notified the European Council of its decision to leave on 29 March 2017, initiating the formal withdrawal procedure for leaving the EU; following extensions to the process, the UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020, though most areas of EU law continued to apply to the UK for a transition period which lasted until 23:00 GMT on the 31 December 2020.
From the 2020s, the effects of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic greatly challenged the integrity of the European Union and debates over how to respond to the epidemic and its economic fallout have opened up a rift between Northern and Southern European member states, reminiscent of debates over the 2010s European debt crisis.
The rift between the Northern countries and the Southern ones would only escalated even further. It eventually reached a breaking in the mid-2030s due to a poor response to an ever increasing new refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and, the people of Spain, Italy and Greece voted to leave the union in a referendum.
The effects of the European Winter, a series of major terrorist attacks on major European cities, in 2039 would lay the foundation of European Central Defense Forces, it would be a primarily gendarme-oriented force, providing greater internal security within the EU member states. Following advancements in defense, including the EuroCorps, would allow for the greater coordination of EU military policy, providing further internal security for members.
A growing movement to further centralize the EU would come to existence following the United States' exit from world politics and created an realization that without the help and guidance of America, Europe would be all to itself, alone, and vulnerable to the new rising powers. Further backed by the rise of increasing radical Islam, a ever more growing refugee crisis around the world due to climate change. Eventually, calls for greater unity would be made from members., especially in a time of unprecedented change.
This would be the beginning of the European Confederation, and more would see the creation of a European supernation as necessary to Europe's survival as a whole.
That would come to minds of the masses following the Annihilation of Marseilles in 2052, the first ever nuclear terrorist conducted on a major city, martial law was imposed on almost every single EU member state and it would be the ultimate wake up call for all to see. In a referendum the following year, in which an astounding 45 million signatures were signed from every single member state, 62% voted yes to the formation of a European Confederation. The following years would the greatest changes to European society since the end of the Second World War as various European and national institutions underwent massive changes to prepare for the coming unification.
In 2059, the dream of a better Europe was reached as 25 of the EU's member states committed to ceding their sovereignty to the EC. The European Confederation was officially born.
The Confederation itself is politically nightmarishly chaotic as extremist ideologies trickle in from every side of the political spectrum. Martial law is still imposed in all member states due to the ever persisting fear of something on the scale of Marseilles would happen once more, the ever deteriorating state of world as nations fall into civil war after civil war again, and the climate refugee crisis being at it's greatest.
As extremists try to subvert the liberal democracy of the state, thousands of refugees constantly being washed away by hurricanes in the Mediterranean, America engulfed in a 2nd civil war and as the coasts are being swallowed by the sea, Europe is in it's darkest hour yet it seems.
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For just a bit of context i made for my worldbuilding timeline called "Sidera Longius iter" which you can find on my DA or on Reddit (r/imaginarymaps and r/worldbuilding).
Haven't made a AH thread for this timeline but i probably will do at some point.
I think that's all the regional chapters of the CPUSA, but I might be wrong.
I don't know about the subcontinent but Turkey-Iran-Syria is pretty based (and also unites the Kurdish people in one nation).
Thought, it appears to use the "regions" of Turkey as administrative areas when in reality they are mostly geographic and climate things. The actual primary administrative divisions of Turkey are the provinces. Whose borders do not line up with the regions.
Dang, and it's just as compressed as a late 90s webpage too.Teaser from my upcoming timeline, The Pale Horse: The Northwest Montana Insurgency and its Aftermath (1987-2002)
On a more serious note, my TL's very broadly planned as a Chechnya-in-America expy, and if you can think of a better American Yeltsin than ol' Jim Traficant, please let me know.
Surprisingly hard to get right with today's editing software.