Enjoy! More Saner Madness! Pre-Great War
Europe before the Great War:
The history of Europe went pretty much the same as the mainline Madnessverse, with some changes. As mentioned before, Russia is more modernized than its mainline counterpart and is on good terms of non-Protestant Europe. The country is rather disliked by the Nordreich and Sweden, as Russia welcomes lots of Polish emigrants and their love for protecting Slavic people, and Russian goods compete directly with them, causing certain disruption on the market. Russia’s power also indirectly backs up a small but vocal rebellious Polish minority in Nordic territories.
Africa before the Great War:
The Race for Africa was the same as WMIT mainline, but with some differences. Portugal was dragged into war with the Qing, and unable to finish its African dream. The Cokies, with a more powerful base than mainline, launched an earlier colonization effort in 1865 and eventually reached the Indian Ocean. Their expansion almost triggered a war with Europa and Portugal in 1870, but bullying from the Nordics and the idea that Cokies would pay Portugal a handsome amount of money eventually mellowed things out.
The Nordics focused a lot more on exploiting the colonies of Kongo. They built many plantations, research stations and military settlements to tighten control, and punished the natives who refused to listen with startling brutality, and even hired mercenaries from RU and CoCaro to police unruly tribesmen. Nordic Africa is an image of brutal and ruthless colonialism, but it was shy of the brutality in Cokie Africa. Jacksonland, Corridor and Yonderland contain horrific stories of how the Cokies conduct systematic genocide against Afro-Cokies and native Africans, and how the whites essentially established an Antebellum South down there. The Cokies would establish the railway to connect the Atlantic and Indian side, boosting the colony’s worth. The Dutch and Cokie would frequently work together to bolster their wealth and secure the white population interests. It is in the colonies that the Cokie came up with dropping poison gases and using aeroforce gunners to suppress rebels, and they were admired across the Protestant colonial government for the ruthless efficiency.
Asia before the Great War:
The Sino-Europan war, Russo-Sino war and the utter collapse of Southern China into warlordism by 1890s had turned Asia into a new cake for Western powers. In the South, the Dutch intervened to prop up the Chinese Republicans, while the coastal China came under occupation by Korea and Japan. Russia, seeing an opportunity to dominate China, supported the Imperial family and saved the Qing. Russian Imperial Police also extended their tentacles into North China and now they hunt anyone who dares to stand against the Qing or Russia. However, living in Northern China is still preferable to the mess of South China or Korean/Japanese China.
The Korean came under the influence of the Cokies in the late 1870s. The Cokie troops also helped Korea to conquer Shandong during the Chinese crisis of 1895-1900, creating a new living space for the Korean race. Thanks to this, Carolina is hugely popular in Korea by 1900 and the conversion of Koreans to Presbyterianism became considerably easier. Korean Shandong, however, is a typical story of colonial exploitation. The Cokie instructed the Koreans to use a “Colonial Starter Kit” with antipersonnel rounds, grinders, and work camp with terrible living conditions, while the settlers will implement their own version of serfdom as an emulation to Cokie indenture servitude. Shandong’s abundance in grains and natural resources would fuel Korea’s industrialization and wealth, and turns the nation into a formidable power by the Great War.
The RU involved itself into Japan through AFC missionaries and modernization of Japan, and the promise of getting rid of Russia from Pacific forever. The lack of a Hawaiian base made the military intervention rather difficult, and instead the Union tried to help Japan to expand into China during the Chinese Crisis, eventually conquered Taiwan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian. Russian Ezo - the result of Russia’s Orthodox missionaries in Japan - remained a really sore spot in the Japanese and American eyes, and the Japanese declared that the Ainus and Orthodox Japanese to be Inferiors, much to the satisfaction of Philadelphia. Japanese holdings in China also follow the exploitation model like Korea, and the labour conditions in these colonies will turn your hair white.
Asia is considered the most tense region in the world by 1910s, as the fascist forces of RU, Australia, Japan and the Protestant powers are at odds with the Russian and Europans. The frequent territorial disputes between the Great Powers and the ideological conflicts between Constitutional Monrachies versus the authoritarian Republicanism/Protestant Monarchies will eventually fuel the Great War.
Europe before the Great War:
The history of Europe went pretty much the same as the mainline Madnessverse, with some changes. As mentioned before, Russia is more modernized than its mainline counterpart and is on good terms of non-Protestant Europe. The country is rather disliked by the Nordreich and Sweden, as Russia welcomes lots of Polish emigrants and their love for protecting Slavic people, and Russian goods compete directly with them, causing certain disruption on the market. Russia’s power also indirectly backs up a small but vocal rebellious Polish minority in Nordic territories.
Africa before the Great War:
The Race for Africa was the same as WMIT mainline, but with some differences. Portugal was dragged into war with the Qing, and unable to finish its African dream. The Cokies, with a more powerful base than mainline, launched an earlier colonization effort in 1865 and eventually reached the Indian Ocean. Their expansion almost triggered a war with Europa and Portugal in 1870, but bullying from the Nordics and the idea that Cokies would pay Portugal a handsome amount of money eventually mellowed things out.
The Nordics focused a lot more on exploiting the colonies of Kongo. They built many plantations, research stations and military settlements to tighten control, and punished the natives who refused to listen with startling brutality, and even hired mercenaries from RU and CoCaro to police unruly tribesmen. Nordic Africa is an image of brutal and ruthless colonialism, but it was shy of the brutality in Cokie Africa. Jacksonland, Corridor and Yonderland contain horrific stories of how the Cokies conduct systematic genocide against Afro-Cokies and native Africans, and how the whites essentially established an Antebellum South down there. The Cokies would establish the railway to connect the Atlantic and Indian side, boosting the colony’s worth. The Dutch and Cokie would frequently work together to bolster their wealth and secure the white population interests. It is in the colonies that the Cokie came up with dropping poison gases and using aeroforce gunners to suppress rebels, and they were admired across the Protestant colonial government for the ruthless efficiency.
Asia before the Great War:
The Sino-Europan war, Russo-Sino war and the utter collapse of Southern China into warlordism by 1890s had turned Asia into a new cake for Western powers. In the South, the Dutch intervened to prop up the Chinese Republicans, while the coastal China came under occupation by Korea and Japan. Russia, seeing an opportunity to dominate China, supported the Imperial family and saved the Qing. Russian Imperial Police also extended their tentacles into North China and now they hunt anyone who dares to stand against the Qing or Russia. However, living in Northern China is still preferable to the mess of South China or Korean/Japanese China.
The Korean came under the influence of the Cokies in the late 1870s. The Cokie troops also helped Korea to conquer Shandong during the Chinese crisis of 1895-1900, creating a new living space for the Korean race. Thanks to this, Carolina is hugely popular in Korea by 1900 and the conversion of Koreans to Presbyterianism became considerably easier. Korean Shandong, however, is a typical story of colonial exploitation. The Cokie instructed the Koreans to use a “Colonial Starter Kit” with antipersonnel rounds, grinders, and work camp with terrible living conditions, while the settlers will implement their own version of serfdom as an emulation to Cokie indenture servitude. Shandong’s abundance in grains and natural resources would fuel Korea’s industrialization and wealth, and turns the nation into a formidable power by the Great War.
The RU involved itself into Japan through AFC missionaries and modernization of Japan, and the promise of getting rid of Russia from Pacific forever. The lack of a Hawaiian base made the military intervention rather difficult, and instead the Union tried to help Japan to expand into China during the Chinese Crisis, eventually conquered Taiwan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian. Russian Ezo - the result of Russia’s Orthodox missionaries in Japan - remained a really sore spot in the Japanese and American eyes, and the Japanese declared that the Ainus and Orthodox Japanese to be Inferiors, much to the satisfaction of Philadelphia. Japanese holdings in China also follow the exploitation model like Korea, and the labour conditions in these colonies will turn your hair white.
Asia is considered the most tense region in the world by 1910s, as the fascist forces of RU, Australia, Japan and the Protestant powers are at odds with the Russian and Europans. The frequent territorial disputes between the Great Powers and the ideological conflicts between Constitutional Monrachies versus the authoritarian Republicanism/Protestant Monarchies will eventually fuel the Great War.
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