From the Draka timeline, sometime after the Final War:
"Yankees Triumphant" - War of American Independence ends without introduction of Ferguson rifle; Loyalists emigrate to Canada rather than Drakia (referred to as 'Cape Colony' in this TL). United States goes on to dominate first North America and then the planet after intervention in two world-wide conflicts. Oddly, Canada and Mexico remain independent with Canada becoming a major power in its own right--proving the Will to Power of our ancestors to create a wealthy and influential nation even in a frozen wasteland hemmed in by treacherous Yankees outnumbering them 10 to 1. This despite the Americans' so-called 'Manifest Destiny'. Even in a timeline in which they win the Yankees are still spineless and weak-Willed. They claim an objective but are unable to stomach the means by which to reach it.
Technologically, this world seems to have taken a different path. Steam power is never fully developed as a mature technology, being supplanted by the petroleum-powered internal combustion engine for most purposes in the first half of the 20th century. And space exploration, while important, is not nearly as advanced as in our world--as of 2008 humans still haven't explored Mars, much less the outer solar system, and have only barely explored the Moon. The only major area in which this TL exceeds ours is in electronics and computing technology, boosted by (of all things) a peaceful Japan devoted to commerce and science rather than empire-building.
As in OTL, the North American nation abolishes slavery and serfdom after the Civil War and the collapse of the Confederate Cause that brought our nation so many distinguished Citizens. The slaves are (conveniently) replaced by a massive influx of poor Eastern European, Mexican, and Chinese immigrants. These immigrants practically leap at the opportunity to serve as an unskilled labor force under conditions which no responsible plantation or combine owner would ever expose any serf to. The former slaves live not unlike the serfs of our world although some gifted few do reach prominence in government and military circles. The lack of slaves or serfs, it seems, must be made up for somehow in this timeline for it to be completely credible. As it is, it's almost too far into the realm of the ASB's.
The Americans (and their free British and French allies) are able to destroy Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in their analogue of the Eurasian War without the aid of the Janissary legions that have proven so instrumental in our conquests. The Soviet Union isn't so much conquered as eventually driven into bankruptcy during a period in which an actor (of all things!) becomes the American President. China somehow has become a superpower through all of this, having not properly been put in its place--yet another example of how the Yankees lack the guts to do what needs to be done in any timeline. The rest of the world is broken up into hundreds of squabbling little factions with the Americans and other so-called 'great powers' stepping in as suits their needs. The average serf in the Domination enjoys a carefree life of ease compared to the inhabitants of any of the African nations in this timeline.
It is on the whole a miserable place. It's a world at conflict with itself, with its leading power lacking the Will to do the obvious things that would bring it on a par with the brave world our glorious Race is now building in the aftermath of the Final War. Even the Americans of OTL who at least had the courage to journey to Alpha Centauri and start anew after our final victory would find these alternate Yankees gutless and ultimately distasteful.
