Union of American Realms -- Not-Another-America Graphic TL

Well if I combine Virginia, it’ll be 50, but I think I may want larger realms anyway so please do share your suggestions!

 

So I've decided that East Florida will be majority Spanish-speaking, with it's brother West Florida having a three-way split between English, French and Spanish speakers.

 

If your still thinking of combining some of the realms here are a few ideas:

-Maine and New Brunswick are pretty similar culturally and economically

-I'm not sure, but, it looks like central Illinois in a native state in TTL named Tecumseh? I'm not sure what the deal with OTL Indiana is, maybe you could combine them.

-Not sure what the three states that make up OTL Ontario have going on in this timeline, maybe the two western ones can be combined? Their populations seperatly would be pretty low.

-Same with OTL Minnesota and Manitoba

Long Island was historically settled by a lot of people from New England, maybe you can give it to one of the tiny New England realms?

You could combine the Carolinas, but, that's kind of boring. Culturally they're very different so keeping them separate makes sense.

I feel like the huge blobs west of the Mississippi OTL Iowa, Nebraska, etc could be combined.

Maybe give North Jersey to New York and South Jersey to Pennsylvania?



Just my take.

Also when can we expect an update on Chicagou? As a resident I'm interested to see what the history of my city is.

 

Thank you for the reply! I’ve added my comments in red!

 

A significant overhaul of the realms is in the works! If there’s anything you’d like to see in terms of realm make up, voice it now! Nothing is off the table except for some things like the existence of Transylvania, Long Island, etc.

I have gone ahead and taken up a number of @Dante suggestions as well such as annexing southern NJ/northern NJ to PA and NY respectively, and the merging of some of the northwestern realms.

 

Okay, okay! I've scrapped the "regional groupings" idea at least as far as an actual governmental unit goes. Here are the tentative final realms:



There are now 33 Realms and four Native Confederacies.

 

Good idea to add in Native states! That will add in more social and political diversity, which I think is what makes the UAR cool.

 

Yeah! I cut them down from the original, mostly because I merged the southern native states into one! Tecumseh almost doubled in size a result of me retconning Kaskasia

 

Excellent work. I like what you did with Chicago, making it more of a state and less of a city state. I'm looking forward to hearing about the culture and diversity of the UAR.

 

Yes! Hopefully I can get some cultural info in soon - I’ll have a break between my summer employment and school this month, soooooo

I incorporated a number of your ideas! Thank you

 

Glad to be helpful.

 

Docket of things I'm currently working on:

• Juan Carlos I wikibox (incumbent Lord-Governor of East Florida)
• List of current Executive Council of the Realms
• List of Monarch-Presidents of the Union wikibox

Any requests?

 

Some stuff on religious life would be interesting!

 

I see a couple states have two capitals?

 

Actually, Twin River (Uber-Iowa) has three capitals - the legislature sits at Saint-Charles, the judicial branch sits at Saint-Joseph and the executive sits at Entrepot.