I have been catching up on this TL and I must say, it is scarily good work!
Regarding the discussion above, knowing how this sort of theories work, I am sure Drakians will be able to come up some sort of justification why some group of black and brown people should have a status of honorary whites while other shouldn't. Their system will collapse otherwise.
Reading the work, I have been thinking how well the Drakian economic system will manage in future, especially as it needs to start to compete with other great powers, particularly the US. It has inheritent weaknesses the system based on slavery and oppression has but it has been also able to take control of large chunk of the world's natural resources and does have a large workforce pool. In cases like that the size seems to be able to compensate some of that, like what we have seen with some regimes IOTL. Draka is also somewhat uncomfortably close to many of the world's most important oil producing regions too, in addition to those it already controls.
Two small nitpicks: The way how Japanese imperial titles work somewhat differently from Western ones so I think it is unlikely that the Japanese Emperor would be given additional titles. The POD is far enough back though that the whole ideological basis of Imperial system might have developed differently ITTL and they might have adopted a more western way of addressing the emperor. IOTL he has been always just simply the tennou ("Heavenly Sovereign"). Foreign monarchs are koutei, "emperors". So the Japanese emperor isn't technically even called "emperor" in Japanese. Also, in maps Sweden/Scandinavia has a small chunk of Karelian Isthmus which it already lost during the early part of 18th century.
Regarding the discussion above, knowing how this sort of theories work, I am sure Drakians will be able to come up some sort of justification why some group of black and brown people should have a status of honorary whites while other shouldn't. Their system will collapse otherwise.
Reading the work, I have been thinking how well the Drakian economic system will manage in future, especially as it needs to start to compete with other great powers, particularly the US. It has inheritent weaknesses the system based on slavery and oppression has but it has been also able to take control of large chunk of the world's natural resources and does have a large workforce pool. In cases like that the size seems to be able to compensate some of that, like what we have seen with some regimes IOTL. Draka is also somewhat uncomfortably close to many of the world's most important oil producing regions too, in addition to those it already controls.
Two small nitpicks: The way how Japanese imperial titles work somewhat differently from Western ones so I think it is unlikely that the Japanese Emperor would be given additional titles. The POD is far enough back though that the whole ideological basis of Imperial system might have developed differently ITTL and they might have adopted a more western way of addressing the emperor. IOTL he has been always just simply the tennou ("Heavenly Sovereign"). Foreign monarchs are koutei, "emperors". So the Japanese emperor isn't technically even called "emperor" in Japanese. Also, in maps Sweden/Scandinavia has a small chunk of Karelian Isthmus which it already lost during the early part of 18th century.
