Poland can into Space:

[Petike]

The Communists are different than those of OTL. They are less into state controll of everything and more into a mixed incentive system, it is a lot more like (early) China than what we think of as the USSR. Soviet is only a term used within Russia. Otherwise use other names in other countries.

Still doesn't explain the excessive parallelisms in some of the developments and many of the names.

 

[Allan Nonymous]

Still doesn't explain the excessive parallelisms in some of the developments and many of the names.

Chzechoslovakia was created (mostly thanks to Yugoslav lobbying) to reduce the power of the Slovaks (as a way of curbing the influence of Poles) during the carve up of A-H. There was much fear at the time that Poland would use the EU to rebuild the old PLC. Belarus was created to prevent Russia from getting too powerful.

 

[Allan Nonymous]

Criticque time:

Even moreso... The "Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" is a very OTL term, as used by the Imperial Japan of OTL in their plans for conquering and dominating Asia. How a world that diverged in the 1770s has the exact same type of mindset in Japan, with the exact same type of terminology, and somehow even better outcomes (despite how difficult it was for Japan to occupy parts of China in OTL 20th century), baffles me completely. It shatters suspsension of disbelief quickly. You can't just say "things are very different since the 1770s, but the same totalitarian bad guys as in OTL still happen anyway and are even better at being bad guys" and be done with it. The butterflies spreading from the non-existence of the ARW and the United States would cause a world where even totalitarianism wouldn't be familiar to our OTL selves, with conveniently so-similar-it's-the-exact-same terms and whatnot. It doesn't work that way.

You are right here. I changed the name to EATA (East Asian Technocratic Alliance)

 

[Allan Nonymous]

Compared to the technocratic republics and the NHRE, the western European dictatorships and their overseas allies sound like almost out of another timeline. The former two blocks sound nuanced, neither decidedly good or evil, with believable flaws, at least... And then we get the Axis states, which sound cartoonishly evil and neglectful, just for the sake of it. Um, really ? A super-racist South Africa I can buy, a hyper-nationalist France that starts slipping into nazi-like revanchism I can understand, but England being a totalitarian hellhole on every square meter ? The entirety of Navarre being turned into some slum megalopolis for political prisoners ? Really now ?! That just went from "plausibly evil bad guys" to Stirling levels of bad writing. (I find it amusing you even try to hype South Africa as "worse than the Draka". I doubt that. Stirling made the Draka into such over-the-top Mary Sues of Evil, they might as well have sprouted horns and have forked tongues. The Draka were a cartoon, not a credible ATL evil regime, with credible flaws and limitations and errors in decision-making.)

Here too you have some valid points. I guess "totalitarian hellhole" is too strong a word. I was hyping the evilness of the fascist regimes too much, although South africa is pretty bad. Navarra is more of a giant slum than a gulag, a lot of political prisoners are sent there though. The facist states actually have decent living standard if you're of the right race. They are excelent at fighting countries many times their size. The problem is that they're highly unpopular and even though they're strong, they can't beat everone at once.

 

[Allan Nonymous]

The world from 1948 to 1965
According to the UN political entity jurisdiction atlas.

 

[Allan Nonymous]

Singapore assembly by partisan composition as of 1965:

Progressive Action Party: 10 seats (P-O)
- Progressive TSI Party: 3 seats (.T)
National Centrist Action Party: 16 seats (N-G)
- TSI Action Party: 4 seats (P.T)
Conservative Party: 4 seats (A-O)

Singapore assembly by composition as of 1965:
View attachment 457380
Popular General: 14 seats (6P+ 6N + 2A)
Tax Base Corporate: 3 seats (2N + 1A)
Tax Base Individual: 2 seats (1N + 1A)
Trade Scientists: 3 seats (1P + 2N)
Trade Legal: 1 seat (1N)
Trade GCW: 1 seat (1P)
Trades General: 1 seat (1N)
Interest Humanists: 1 seat (1P)
Interest Scientific: 2 seats (1P + 1N)
Interests General: 2 seats (2N)

Districts of Singapore by district leader party as of 1965:
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Maltese assembly by partisan composition as of 1965:

Social Party: 9 seats (S-G, EP Malta)
Progressive Party: 24 seats (P-G, EP Malta)
Nations Party: 24 seats (N-C, EP Malta)
New Center Party: 3 seats (R-O, EP Italia)
Maltese Independents Color Party: 7 seats (C-O)
- Maltese Christian Technocratic Party: 4 seats (.C)

Maltese assembly by composition as of 1965:
View attachment 460309
Popular General: 25 seats (6S + 9P + 7N + 1R+ 2C)
Popular Senate: 2 seats (1P + 1N)
Tax Base Corporate: 4 seats (1P + 3N)
Tax Base Individual: 6 seats (1S + 3N + 2C)
Trade GCW: 1 seat (1S)
Trades General: 19 seats (2S + 10P + 6N +1R)
Interest UOC: 5 seats (2N + 3C)
Interest Scientific: 2 seats (1R + 1N)
Interests General: 3 seats (2P +1N)

Islands of Malta by minister party as of 1965:
View attachment 460312

Notes:
Malta is the swing state of the EU, success in Malta begets success everywhere else. However, the Progressives generally do much better in Malta than anywhere else and the Social party tends to underperform. Malta holds the first elections in the EU election cycle making it an important barometer of the mood of the EU. Although this graphic only looks at the assembly elections, the results here also determine the apportionment of EU MTAs.

Progressive Party: 12 seats (P-G, EC Hispania)
- TSI Party: 3 seats (.T)
- National Party: 1 seat
United Centrist Party: 7 seats (N-G, EP Hispania)
Renewed Center Party: 2 seats (R-O, EP Hispania)
Together for Progress Party: 2 seats (A-O, EC Hispania)
Catalan Color Party: 4 seats (C-O)

Andorran assembly by composition as of 1965:
Popular General: 12 seats (5P + 3N + 1R + 1A + 2C)
Popular Senate: 2 seats (1P + 1N)
Tax Base Corporate: 1 seats (1P)
Tax Base Individual: 2 seats (1P + 1N)
Trade Farming: 2 seats (1R + 1C)
Trades General: 1 seat (1P)
Interest UOC: 3 seats (1N + 2C)
Interest Electoral French: 2 seats (1P + 1A)
Interest Scientific: 1 seat (1N)
Interests General: 1 seat (1P)

Parishes of Andorra by mayor party as of 1965:

 

[Allan Nonymous]

Note: I added Andorra to the partisan composition map.

 

[Allan Nonymous]

Updated a few things in the partisan composition map today.

 

[xmoose]

I am not sure why, but I have some Iron Harvest feeling from it