Valdemar II
Banned
In coastal North Europe a culture I'm going to call the Fisherman culture for short will grow to dominance. They're descendant of people to stubborn to flee and hardy and isolated enough to survive, these is often fishermens because they got access to a alternative source of food even in the early year after the fall. These people mostly lived along the easten North Sea, along the Baltic sea.and on Iceland.
Religeous they're mostly Lutheran, but they are even more harsh and dark than usual, they forbids dancing, music, singing and jewellery, they value hard work and is all in all a very serious people, their humour is dark, and their priests preach hellfire, and see the Fall as a second flood, to destroy the Gomorrah and Dodoma which were pre-Fall life. They have little tolerance for dissent (especially religeous) and individualism. While the Fishermens original was fishermens most of them have become farmers quite early on, and they both live along coasts and away from the coast
Political they have direct democracy (only men can vote), through with the local priests serving as arbiter and judge. Polits is usual Cantons with a few thousands inhabitans, but they usual member or subjects to bigger confederations. City exist and its inhabitants is more liberal than their rural cousins, but it's a rare city with more than 10000 inhabitants, likely only Copenhagen, Lübeck and Hamburg is bigger with around 20-30 thousand inhabitants.
Linguistic they speak several language, but the most common is German and Scandinavian dialects, with a few of them speaking Finno-Ugriric and Baltic, a quite small minority also speak English and Slavic deride languages. Interesting the Finno-Ugriric Cours have had something of a renaisance and dominates the West Latvian and Lithuanian coast, while the Estonians and Finns has lost both their Westen Coasts to Swedish speakers. Frisian will also make a amazing comeback and will likely become the common language from Ribe to Antwerden with the exception of the German enclave between Hamburg and Bremen. But language is given little importence in identification, people are first members of their canton, Lutherans second, part of a confederation third and their language is only given distant fourth importence.
By the early 20th century Fishermen settlement have begun to spread to the Easten English coast, through because of the English neo-barbarians, they have had little succes in settling inland. These colonies was mostly subjugated by the Raj when they recolonised the Homeland, through a few is independent in the north.
Technological they have late 19th century agriculture, ships still use sails, the common weapon is the rifle, but they lack large armies and usual based their military forces on militias. Cannons is rare and is usual bought from English, French and German* traders. While a little threat to the Raj, they're a unpleasant enemy to deal with, mostly due to their fatalism, intolerance and pure stubborness, which the Raj learned when they tried to subjugate them in the late 20th century.
*Germans has by the late 20th century come to mean German Catholics, no matter what languages they speak.
Religeous they're mostly Lutheran, but they are even more harsh and dark than usual, they forbids dancing, music, singing and jewellery, they value hard work and is all in all a very serious people, their humour is dark, and their priests preach hellfire, and see the Fall as a second flood, to destroy the Gomorrah and Dodoma which were pre-Fall life. They have little tolerance for dissent (especially religeous) and individualism. While the Fishermens original was fishermens most of them have become farmers quite early on, and they both live along coasts and away from the coast
Political they have direct democracy (only men can vote), through with the local priests serving as arbiter and judge. Polits is usual Cantons with a few thousands inhabitans, but they usual member or subjects to bigger confederations. City exist and its inhabitants is more liberal than their rural cousins, but it's a rare city with more than 10000 inhabitants, likely only Copenhagen, Lübeck and Hamburg is bigger with around 20-30 thousand inhabitants.
Linguistic they speak several language, but the most common is German and Scandinavian dialects, with a few of them speaking Finno-Ugriric and Baltic, a quite small minority also speak English and Slavic deride languages. Interesting the Finno-Ugriric Cours have had something of a renaisance and dominates the West Latvian and Lithuanian coast, while the Estonians and Finns has lost both their Westen Coasts to Swedish speakers. Frisian will also make a amazing comeback and will likely become the common language from Ribe to Antwerden with the exception of the German enclave between Hamburg and Bremen. But language is given little importence in identification, people are first members of their canton, Lutherans second, part of a confederation third and their language is only given distant fourth importence.
By the early 20th century Fishermen settlement have begun to spread to the Easten English coast, through because of the English neo-barbarians, they have had little succes in settling inland. These colonies was mostly subjugated by the Raj when they recolonised the Homeland, through a few is independent in the north.
Technological they have late 19th century agriculture, ships still use sails, the common weapon is the rifle, but they lack large armies and usual based their military forces on militias. Cannons is rare and is usual bought from English, French and German* traders. While a little threat to the Raj, they're a unpleasant enemy to deal with, mostly due to their fatalism, intolerance and pure stubborness, which the Raj learned when they tried to subjugate them in the late 20th century.
*Germans has by the late 20th century come to mean German Catholics, no matter what languages they speak.
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, but taking into account Shadow Knight's take (Cuba will be too damaged for a resettlement, but it might serve as an outpost), it might be better to keep Spain based in Morocco, but with holdings in Spain and Portugal, or alternatively, a travel to the Philippines, but that would be more difficult given the distance.