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He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.
I have some comments regarding the names of Russian areas.
"Okrug" isn't a proper noun; it's a Russian word meaning "District." The area in real life is named Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky Raion, which translates roughly to "Taymyr (peninsula) Dolgan and Nenets (people) district, so it would most likely be called Taymyr. Or, if you're feeling daring, you might go with "North Krasnoyarsk" or "Kara" (the name of the sea north of it) or "Pyasina" (The name of the major river basin in the region)
"Yamalo" isn't grammatically correct by itself; it refers to the Yamal peninsula; the -o is added in certain grammatical constructions. "Yamal" and "Yamalia" are both adequate substitutes.
"Novaya" isn't a proper noun, either; it literally means "New." It's proper name is "Novaya Zemlya" which, incidentally, simply translates to "New Land" and the islands themselves have the similarly creative names of "Severny" and "Yuzhny" which translate to "North" and "South" respectively.
"Kola" refers specifically to the peninsula at the north of the state; the south is more usually referred to as "Karelia". It's perfectly fine to name the whole thing "Kola" but I just thought I'd mention it.
Also, I like to imagine this country has irredentist claims on Turukhansk, Labrador, Ungava, and Troms-Finnmark
EDIT: I made an ethnic analysis for the country, just for kicks.
Population: 6.56 million
Primary ethnic groups:
Russian, 63.7%
Indigenous (various)*, 17.9%
Anglo-North American**, 8.1%
Other European***, 5.3%
Other^, 4.9%
* - For purposes of this list, "Indigenous" people include peoples native to the region covered by the nation's territory, not including most Europeans but including Karelians, Komi, Sami, and Veps. The largest indigenous group are the Sakha (Yakut), followed distantly by the Komi and the Inuit peoples.
** - Includes American and Canadians of European descent whose mother tongue is English.
*** - Primarily Ukrainians and Belarusians, but also including Hispanic and Francophone North Americans, plus Danish Greenlanders.
^ - "Other" includes the following:
1.4% - European Muslim ethnicities
1.3% - Non-Indigenous Asians of any type
0.6% - Filipinos
0.5% - Central and West Asians
0.2% - Asian-North American (besides Filipino)
0.5% - Afro-North Americans
0.2% - Mestizo Americans
0.1% - Pacific Islanders
1.4% - Not specified, which may fit into any other category
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*gasp* A repost! Time to alert the mods!I posted an earlier version of the 1910 map here, but the map and the overall TL has changed a LOT, so I feel like the best way to to show them is posting the new version of the map again, hoping that the changes are enough for the mods not to kick me in the guts for reposting.
You better not pout
You better not cry
You better not shout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus has always been at war with Eastasia.
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Which TL is this? I'd like to read the lore.. Looks very interesting!
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A little Christmas Eve throw-together.
The basic idea is that the USA never adopts the Constitution, and collapses under the weight of the silly bloody Articles of Confederation. The state centred in Pennsylvania is the closest to an "American successor state". Spain is able to get its version of the border dispute against Georgia.
The Louisiana Purchase and Treaty of San Idelfonso still occur; Britain occupies New Orleans but does little else. A modus vivendi is worked out between Britain and the American countries on the East Coast.
At the end of the war, Bourbon Spain is rewarded for its resistance against Napoleon by having its control over Louisiana (less New Orleans which the British keep) and West Florida confirmed. The Napoleonic Wars go as per OTL.
Just a little throw-together.
There's a link to it in my signature. However the version written there is a tad poorly researched and written. There's also the wiki of the HoI4 Mod (still in developement) which contains useful lists showing wars up to the time of the map (and post-1910 ones) and nations.
Every single nation of the UN, except for South Korea, Japan and France, recognize North Korea as an independent state.
Also, they do have more than 50 embassies in foreign states, and they host 25 foreign embassies.
As a Frenchman I'm beginning to understand why I didn't know that.
Not sure if it technically counts, but just in time for Christmas, here's a little surprise for the RDNA-verse to end 2020 on a better note: commissioned portraits for the major female Nations-Personifications of the New World. Namely New Austria/Francesca and Gran Patagonia/Priscilla themselves, representing the Royalist and Republican powers respectively. The DeviantArt version can be found here.
Both of them have been around since the very beginnings of the timeline's creations, when they were just OCs. Remarkably, however, more than a few elements, such as their general descriptions, personalities, and identities as "Nation-Personifications" have remained relatively consistent over the years, even putting into account the retcons and changes. That being said, if you can read through the "redacted" text, you may find a few extra surprises.
While the background maps are based on my recently-posted The Long Cold War-A Paralyzed World, the art was also done by the talented Warrior Desu (who can also be found on Pixiv). So, kudos to him for an excellent job!
At any rate, hope you enjoy this present. Happy Holidays and see you in better times. 2021, here we come!
Both of them have been around since the very beginnings of the timeline's creations, when they were just OCs. Remarkably, however, more than a few elements, such as their general descriptions, personalities, and identities as "Nation-Personifications" have remained relatively consistent over the years, even putting into account the retcons and changes. That being said, if you can read through the "redacted" text, you may find a few extra surprises.
While the background maps are based on my recently-posted The Long Cold War-A Paralyzed World, the art was also done by the talented Warrior Desu (who can also be found on Pixiv). So, kudos to him for an excellent job!
At any rate, hope you enjoy this present. Happy Holidays and see you in better times. 2021, here we come!
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The Ladies of the New World (AD 2024): RDNA-verse
The Ladies of the New World (AD 2024): RDNA-verse
I don't buy the three-way division of the Delmarva peninsula. Maryland claimed the whole thing against Virginia, so if it's part of a federation that's denying Virginia a foothold on Delmarva it'll be the entity controlling the Eastern Shore.
I mean it depends on if you want the setting to be only tropes or not. It'd be cool to switch things up and have a Vietnamese megacorp for once (that'd actually be interesting, seeing how State Capitalism fuses with the presence of a Megacorp)
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