Cool map with an interesting concept, however, I think the legibility of the map would be improved if you denoted the different ethno-linguistic regions by some sort of colour-code and coloured the passages with less intense colours (maybe make them black and number them instead? Right now I find they clash with the map they are imposed on). That's just my opinion on improving an already appealing map.
Map Thread XXII
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Pretty good, however there can be following improvements-
- Have both images be displaced image format, here assembly is shown in another site
- Background lore for the Country, especially since it is much richer than OTL south asia
Why is so much of Bengal part of this Ghangaraaj province? Why not make it a separate state and add North Bengal to it?
Honestly a WWI where the USA enter earlier than OTL and without Wilson at Versailles you are almost certain to obtain a really different outcome, probably butterfly away Benny takeover and the October Revolution
Map from my nuclear war timeline, the Nucliad.
10 years and 3 months after the war, the former Western United States remains shattered and divided.
In the the dryer areas and deserts in the south, authority collapsed in most places under pressure from refugees, famine and infighting. Warlords and new cults emerged from the mess in most places with a few major exceptions. The north had a higher survival rate in the aftermath, yet poor leadership led to autocrats and radicals seizing control of many regions. The few democracies that remain are sparsely populated.
The region is slowly recovering however. It seems unlikely that America might ever fully reunify, but the more stable factions are consolidating and expanding as others collapse.
10 years and 3 months after the war, the former Western United States remains shattered and divided.
In the the dryer areas and deserts in the south, authority collapsed in most places under pressure from refugees, famine and infighting. Warlords and new cults emerged from the mess in most places with a few major exceptions. The north had a higher survival rate in the aftermath, yet poor leadership led to autocrats and radicals seizing control of many regions. The few democracies that remain are sparsely populated.
The region is slowly recovering however. It seems unlikely that America might ever fully reunify, but the more stable factions are consolidating and expanding as others collapse.
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I didn't say that the US entered WWI earlier. He did have an impact in that he didn't attempt to deny the Entente from issuing war bonds to American investors and never made an attempt at mediation after 1916. But much of the American public, congress, and his Progressive party were firmly anti-war and that wouldn't change until after the Zimmerman telegram. The main difference from OTL was that the US did enter this TL's equivalent of the League of Nations but I really don't see what impact Roosevelt would have had besides also not stating Wilson's 14 points.
They represent the nuclear exclusion zones, the blast radius of nuclear attacks. On a globe they'd be circles. Of course the blast radius of nuclear weapons aren't all equally sized circles, it's a simplified way of showing the nukes.
A few people live the outer parts of exclusion zones, but its a lot of ruined buildings and most of the survivors fled.
So what’s the difference between red and white? Is white habitable-but-ungoverned?
Some are places where just no one lives, others have factions but that are too small to show on the map, others are communities that don't really have any government even in the loosest sense. Sometimes they sporadically pay taxes/tribute to larger factions if they're close to one, most factions don't have defined borders and their influence is more of a gradient.
A lot, the entire US armed forces where wholly unprepared for the great war and needed a lot of time to must, train and equip their men (initially where forced to use french equipment), the US navy were hardly in a good position due to lack of training as IRC the US Sec of Navy was a pacifist basically, at least at the beginning WW worked hard to make the USA not ready.
Basically this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Movement will become immediately official policy instead of OTL being opposed by Wilson till 15/16. All this mean that the AFE will arrive in Europe earlier and with more men.
A more pro entente financial policy will ease the general economic situation of the British and the French and anything that even help a little mean a lot less tension in the postwar.
Not stating the 14 points will have enormous consequences, basically affecting the negotiation of all the eastern europe border and also the italo-jugoslavian negotiation regarding the Adriatic question and the postwar border, without WW and his crusade it's more probable that the entire situation is resolved earlier, without much drama and italy humiliation in leaving the conference and later return (missing important decision like coal and colony distribution) and this can seriously butteflying away the March on Rome.
Finally i doubt that Roosevelt will need much prodding in sending more troops in Russia against the bolshevick
Ok for the second point, India gets dominion status in 1937 and became a republic in after world war 2.After world war 2 , Nepal, Bhutan,Ceylon and sikkim joined India .Like our timeline Indian National Congress dominated the first few years, however as Subhash Chandra Bose didnt die , his party forward bloc gained a lot of traction and then he couped the government led by in 1962 because of what he considered too soft leaders because they let China take over Tibet who was an Indian ally. Bose was a left wing nationalists and heavily industrialised the Indian economy and crushed any soft separatism that existed. Any protest was met with an iron fist. Religion and caste was heavily regulated. Anyone practicing casteism was thrown in jail and religion was not allowed outsied homes or designated worship areas(apart from holy cities)
In the 70s, Bose liberalised the economy and instead of China, India became a manufacturing hub and also a war with Iran over Balochistan which ends in a stalemate and they acquire nukes, in the 80s Bose helped the Soviet Afgan invasion and annexed lower Afghanistan , though there was an insurgency that would las 20 years, in 1984 Bose dies and forward bloc is dissolved and democracy is restored. Congress which was working underground now comes back, as caste and religion are not as important parties like Janata dal and BJP dont get power and Samajwadi party is the succesor of forward bloc.
As manufacturing grows India is somewhat of a China in manufacuring in our TL though a democracy.In the year 2000, the 2nd states reorganisation act happens and new states pop up. This India also doesnt have o deal with insurgencies being a federal democracy and no Pakistan. We also have an anti corruption movement in the 2010's and economy has grown signifcantly since then.
Hope thats a good enough lore
So I realized that it's been 10-11 years since I last did OTL Religious Demography maps, so figured I'd do some updated ones.
The below is a map showing what religions are the majority (or what collectively make-up the majority) of each sovereign and autonomous polity.
I tried to use the most up to date numbers, however a good many places (mostly in the developing world) have either not done a census or any other form of statistical surveys in a decade or more, and private groups don't tend to poll these places more than once or twice a decade and even some of the developed places have not kept up, resultingly there are a lot of places where I can figure out the general numbers (IE what's the majority), but can't provide for exact numbers; additionally there are a handful of cases where there are sources providing substantially different numbers (ex. one says Christians are 57% while another says they are only 34%), in those cases I tried to go with the source that was both most up to date and most trustworthy.
The below is a map showing what religions are the majority (or what collectively make-up the majority) of each sovereign and autonomous polity.
I tried to use the most up to date numbers, however a good many places (mostly in the developing world) have either not done a census or any other form of statistical surveys in a decade or more, and private groups don't tend to poll these places more than once or twice a decade and even some of the developed places have not kept up, resultingly there are a lot of places where I can figure out the general numbers (IE what's the majority), but can't provide for exact numbers; additionally there are a handful of cases where there are sources providing substantially different numbers (ex. one says Christians are 57% while another says they are only 34%), in those cases I tried to go with the source that was both most up to date and most trustworthy.
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I always think the trouble with these, especially in the western world, is that a lot of people mix religion with culture. Culturally Christian but not actually a practicing Christian for example (which opens the can of worms: what is a Christian? Someone who practices Christianity or someone who says they're a Christian but doesn't actually believe any of it or follow any of its doctrines?).
Honestly I was surprised to see NZ get the stripes. I personally know only two people who are openly Christian. One is an old friend-turned-acquaintance (went down the anti-LGBT rabbit hole which naturally led to the anti-abortion, anti-contraception rabbitholes, so I avoid him these days), and the other is someone I work with (who also has questionable opinions about women). Nobody here really discusses religion, though, so I guess it's hard to know on a street-level.
There were actually a few I had to use half a dozen sources, like for example France and Sweden have this issue where people will on the one hand identify with a religion, but then when asked say they don't believe in a god; France is even worse as there have been times where people were asked 'Do You Believe in God?' and then as a follow-up question how sure they were (Absolutely, Likely, Unsure and Don't Believe) and the last one I looked at a full 18% of people who had just stated that they believed in god then proceeded to say they did not believe in god.
Overall atheism still remains a minority in most of Europe, even the places with high Irreligion rates, what seems to be the case is that around 30-40% of the population don't actively believe in an organized religion and when asked will say that but then when asked about religious identity will go back and forth between answering 'Spiritual, But Not Religious' and answering with whatever the main religion is where they live.
It basically only is just barely, the most up to date numbers I could find have Irreligion/No Religion at 48%, with Christianity at 37%; by 2030 Irreligion will definitively be the majority, probably standing around 56% by then.
I was actually recording the numbers for further maps so I can answer that; the most recent external NGO put the Muslim population at 96% (86% Shi'a specifically), with the remainder made-up of other religions.
In terms of actual religiosity, most studies have placed the Irreligious population at less than 3%; there were some new ones based on online polling that put it around 10%, however I don't really put any trust in them.
Iran is a case where, while it's a theocracy, this doesn't seem to have caused a large amount of people to become irreligious (even in secret), rather the vast majority of Iranians do seem to actually be adherents to Islam, but with many who oppose the state and want a more liberal society and religion.