What would New Zealand look like if the Maoris held the dominant position in the country, as in most of the population is Maori and the government is majority Maori? The POD is that in the early 1800s after initial colonization by British subjects, Britain makes New Zealand a protectorate of their empire, with the colonists being restricted to few trade outposts, where they trade with the Maori and teach them Christianity, never encouraging large scale European colonization, with the Maori tribes eventually unifying into one nation.