Post-1900 Superstates

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What are some possible Superstates that could form after 1900, a Superstate would be a nation that controls most or all of a continent, obviously Australia does not qualify.
 
The Ottoman Empire held dominion over the entire Arabian continental plate until Sykes-Picot.

Really a lot of the old traditional empires and their successors (seeing as the USSR inherited much of the Russian Empire's territory) fit this bill pretty well, so having them successfully reform and survive might be the best bet. Pretty much all of the major multinational empires in WWI were in some stage of reform that was interrupted disastrously by WWI, and even with that, a lot of them proved surprisingly tenacious.
 
The US, China, India, and Russia are all superstates. China maybe isn't since 90% of its population identifies as Han, so it can be viewed as the nation-state of a very large ethnic group, but we're still talking about a huge population and dominion over widespread areas belonging to other groups.

In addition to those, I can almost see a unified Latin (or Spanish) America, coming from midcentury communist revolutions espousing pan-Latinism, and maybe a more federal and less intergovernmental EU. But the latter is less likely in alt history than in the future. Even at the peak of pan-Europeanism, when George W. Bush provided a plausible common rival for all major political movements in the European core, France and the Netherlands voted against the EU constitution.

EDIT: the reason I interpret China and India as in control of a continent is that I mentally break down the world into more than 6 inhabited continents. To me, if Europe counts as a continent, then so must the major constituents of Asia, i.e. South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and north/Central Asia. Under these definitions, India and China both control large majorities of their respective regions in terms of both population and land area.
 
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