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I need your help. I have an idea for a story (or actually 2 stories) in an alternate world, but I have no idea how to get that world. Therefore I ask for your help how to get it.

The basic idea is for an world war 1 like conflict in the early 20th century (possibly including airships, what is an alternate history without airships) in which the Netherlands is involved.
This Netherlands consist basicly out of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It has basicly the borders of OTL Benelux, but also East-Frisia. (The borders don't have to be exact borders). This could still be accomplished around the treaty of Vienna and a failed Belgium revolution, but there is more.
I would like this country to be a republic and it must have made the various political improvements the Batavian republic made (like religious freedom, a centralised gouvernment etc). It should be a (limited) democracy around 1900. Limited as only the upper class and middle class is allowed to vote (like otl).

But I also want them to still control various Dutch colonies. Guyana, Malaysia and the cape colony should still be Dutch. Preferably also Ceylon. This I find hard to accomplish and have no good idea for it.

Germany consists out of Prussia, which has conquered most of it, Bavaria in the south and Austria. Austria includes Slovenia, Bohemia and Moravia. Hungary is independent and has as ruler a Hapsburg relative of the ruler of Austria.
The premise of the war is this: Austria and Prussia decide they want to devide Bavaria and attack it. France who is allied to Bavaria declares war to Prussia and Austria. Prussia decide to attack France through the Netherlands, which also gives them the oppertunity to annex Luxembourg and East Frisia.

Does anyone know a good POD around the end of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th century for this scenario?
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