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World Map 1885, I recommend opening in full screen to zoom in on the uniforms: https://i.redd.it/nsgkuldg1mh51.jpg
A quick interesting read as for why "Dominion of canada" is translated as "Puissance du canada" (lit. Canadian Power) in this map
World Map 1885, I recommend opening in full screen to zoom in on the uniforms: https://i.redd.it/nsgkuldg1mh51.jpg
Europe and her Surroundings
I just finished europe and ive decided to continue the lore of the rus' as well as in Northern africa.
Novogorod specifically, has taken advantage of the absence of the teutons as well as the major power of the hanseatic league to subjugate multiple Baltic coastal cities and effectively become a Northern Venice.
The kievan rus' has continued to largely decentralize itself, however, the Kievan administration has largely consolidated more power in the Ukrainian and Belarusian regions.
W/O Genghis and the surge of Industrialization through the middle east, the Mamluks would eventually fall under a much more pro-industrialist and 'revolutionary' administration. The abbasids have effectively became a traditional monarchy within Iraq, particularly in Baghdad.
I just finished europe and ive decided to continue the lore of the rus' as well as in Northern africa.
Novogorod specifically, has taken advantage of the absence of the teutons as well as the major power of the hanseatic league to subjugate multiple Baltic coastal cities and effectively become a Northern Venice.
The kievan rus' has continued to largely decentralize itself, however, the Kievan administration has largely consolidated more power in the Ukrainian and Belarusian regions.
W/O Genghis and the surge of Industrialization through the middle east, the Mamluks would eventually fall under a much more pro-industrialist and 'revolutionary' administration. The abbasids have effectively became a traditional monarchy within Iraq, particularly in Baghdad.
I think you've got it reversed - Thande's is a reversal of the Canadian national anthem.
The "true North, strong and free" is one the verses.
For a moment it looked like you'd randomly given California to Canada, and to be honest I didn't even question it.
I just realized that I forgot to post this here.
Hello all, this is the first map/graphic that has come out of the Machinae Ex Deis project (MED). It is a mishmash of several ideas that I have had, but the important part for this post is that it is alt-geo, with a large US. These are the three states of the Tennessee region, which while culturally distinct, is more of a sub-region (at least when compared to the regions you think of in real life). If you have any specific questions, do ask.
The Reddit post: if you look in the comments, there is a little bit of fluff commented by u/The-Hill-Billy, who has greatly helped me in making this project.
Hello all, this is the first map/graphic that has come out of the Machinae Ex Deis project (MED). It is a mishmash of several ideas that I have had, but the important part for this post is that it is alt-geo, with a large US. These are the three states of the Tennessee region, which while culturally distinct, is more of a sub-region (at least when compared to the regions you think of in real life). If you have any specific questions, do ask.
The Reddit post: if you look in the comments, there is a little bit of fluff commented by u/The-Hill-Billy, who has greatly helped me in making this project.
I just realized that I forgot to post this here.
Hello all, this is the first map/graphic that has come out of the Machinae Ex Deis project (MED). It is a mishmash of several ideas that I have had, but the important part for this post is that it is alt-geo, with a large US. These are the three states of the Tennessee region, which while culturally distinct, is more of a sub-region (at least when compared to the regions you think of in real life). If you have any specific questions, do ask.
The Reddit post: if you look in the comments, there is a little bit of fluff commented by u/The-Hill-Billy, who has greatly helped me in making this project.
Are those native states I see? No Trail of Tears? Nice.
Wait a minute, you have the nuclear detonations happen over Algiers and Oran. For what reason would Paris obliterate the greatest concentrations of European settlement as well as Algeria's most important economic areas?
I always interpreted that nuclear weapons were used inland.
Started doing a "international and internal borders follow rivers (on the base map) as much as possible" concept. Internal (and later probably international as well) borders where there are no rivers on map will be added as well if deemed necessary (for example, the internal border on Greenland and between Sweden and Norway).
Actually first started with this part. The general idea for names of subdivisions being, starting from Northwest:
1. Westmarch
2. Mesopotamian March
3. Centremarch
4. Eastmarch
5. Northwest Province
6. New March (Province)
7. Native Reserve/Protectorate/Autonomy (Bechuanaland/Tswanaland/Botswana?)
8. Old March (Province)
9. Interior Province
10. Cape/Coastal/Littoral Province
(probably won't be in English in universe but haven't really decided on which language it would be.)
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The Map is Done! Welcome to a world where the 1950s never ended, in all arenas from the cultural to the geopolitical!
We begin with America, the undisputed leader of the Free World. It is on the whole a conservative, orderly place. The two political parties are not too dissimilar, which allows more stuff to get done. The Civil Rights movement achieved several (mainly legal) successes, but Black inclusion in the public mainstream is still fairly limited, and there is a lingering suspicion of the supposed socialist links of more militant activists. The Counterculture and Sexual Revolution never happened, which has a number of sequelae. Yoga never became a thing, ATL Americans dress nicer like OTL Europeans do, PCs are much more limited and primitive compared to what they are in OTL, and so on. There is an expectation that American men will marry young, have a few kids, and balance being salarymen with being husbands and fathers, and there is much less tolerance for alternative lifestyles for men or women.
The rest of the Free World differs to varying degrees. Paris and Bonn in particular are havens for daring young bohemians and drug-fueled parties, but on the whole most Europeans are a fairly conservative and nationalist bunch. France is onto its 7th Republic, but Britain and Germany have experienced remarkably little political upheaval.
Then we go to the Socialist Bloc. The USSR is still its champion, though China is gaining on it, and the African powerhouses are drifting in their own directions (including in part towards the West.) The USSR underwent destalinization, and then the creatures of the nomenklatura took over (akin to OTL Brezhnev.) This was good because it meant an end to large-scale terrors and killings, but it also led to the wholesale sclerosis and ossification of the USSR's economy and polity. Growth fell and fell, and by 2016 there had been negligible economic growth for a quarter of a century. Rural poverty and goods shortages are facts of life, but the powers that be have managed to tamp down on the worst of it. Soviet people live fairly stagnant and boring lives, and only a few even have automobiles or televisions. There is no popular participation in political or cultural movements, just behind-the-scenes power games between increasingly decadent elites.
The PRC is fairly similar. Maoism continued, including more harebrained grand plans and horrific famines. Eventually things came to a head and China made some perfunctory liberalizations, though growth is slow and it still continues to be politically closed and quite impoverished outside the major cities.
The "3rd World" is more fun, being an eclectic mix of ideologies, political movements, and geopolitical paths. Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism really took off, and their exponents are charting more and more independent paths. India is not too dissimilar to OTL, though poorer because limited advances in computing means it never became a powerhouse in the arena. Still, it remains stable and resolutely non-aligned.
It is unclear which direction the world will go. The socialist powers' best days are behind them, and the capitalist economies have run circles around their enemies. While the former can keep their regimes stable and their people in ignorance for now, that might not be the case in the future.
We begin with America, the undisputed leader of the Free World. It is on the whole a conservative, orderly place. The two political parties are not too dissimilar, which allows more stuff to get done. The Civil Rights movement achieved several (mainly legal) successes, but Black inclusion in the public mainstream is still fairly limited, and there is a lingering suspicion of the supposed socialist links of more militant activists. The Counterculture and Sexual Revolution never happened, which has a number of sequelae. Yoga never became a thing, ATL Americans dress nicer like OTL Europeans do, PCs are much more limited and primitive compared to what they are in OTL, and so on. There is an expectation that American men will marry young, have a few kids, and balance being salarymen with being husbands and fathers, and there is much less tolerance for alternative lifestyles for men or women.
The rest of the Free World differs to varying degrees. Paris and Bonn in particular are havens for daring young bohemians and drug-fueled parties, but on the whole most Europeans are a fairly conservative and nationalist bunch. France is onto its 7th Republic, but Britain and Germany have experienced remarkably little political upheaval.
Then we go to the Socialist Bloc. The USSR is still its champion, though China is gaining on it, and the African powerhouses are drifting in their own directions (including in part towards the West.) The USSR underwent destalinization, and then the creatures of the nomenklatura took over (akin to OTL Brezhnev.) This was good because it meant an end to large-scale terrors and killings, but it also led to the wholesale sclerosis and ossification of the USSR's economy and polity. Growth fell and fell, and by 2016 there had been negligible economic growth for a quarter of a century. Rural poverty and goods shortages are facts of life, but the powers that be have managed to tamp down on the worst of it. Soviet people live fairly stagnant and boring lives, and only a few even have automobiles or televisions. There is no popular participation in political or cultural movements, just behind-the-scenes power games between increasingly decadent elites.
The PRC is fairly similar. Maoism continued, including more harebrained grand plans and horrific famines. Eventually things came to a head and China made some perfunctory liberalizations, though growth is slow and it still continues to be politically closed and quite impoverished outside the major cities.
The "3rd World" is more fun, being an eclectic mix of ideologies, political movements, and geopolitical paths. Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism really took off, and their exponents are charting more and more independent paths. India is not too dissimilar to OTL, though poorer because limited advances in computing means it never became a powerhouse in the arena. Still, it remains stable and resolutely non-aligned.
It is unclear which direction the world will go. The socialist powers' best days are behind them, and the capitalist economies have run circles around their enemies. While the former can keep their regimes stable and their people in ignorance for now, that might not be the case in the future.
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Sort of, in terms of 1950s aesthetics. Of course there's no nuclear war or anything close to it.
Since it's been the 1950s for roughly 60 years, meaning everywhere would look retrofuturistic like The Jetsons?
A more close up of the New England from the last map. Tis very New English ol' chap, but I'm afraid these fellas speak French, not English as thou may think. The Republican and Democratic parties are both conservative and reactionary. The United Socialist been in charge since like the 1850s.
