Which defunct countries you would like to survive in an ATL

Quite a few suggestions in the last seven pages that I would agree with (and so won't echo here), but most of you have unfortunate and unfathomable taste ;)

* A(nother) surviving Liao dynasty, or failing that, an enduring Jin dynasty. What's the appeal? Mongols and Tatars are just soooooo over. And personally the Ming dynasty lasting longer holds all the appeal of a case of malaria lasting longer. I actually have played around with such timelines (e.g., a different faction of the terminal Liao court strikes off for the northeast instead of toward the west), but more for conlang purposes than alt-history ones.

* For that matter, what about more durable para-Chinese states like the Xia ('Tangut') or Nanzhao kingdoms?

* A Far Eastern Republic that wasn't folded up after the Russian Civil War would be a fertile ground for alt-historical political weirdness, I imagine.

* The Yezo Republic! Even if you only let it survive ten or twenty years, it would be weird and fun.

* Of course, any Sumerian, Elamite, or Harappan polity should have lasted much longer. (Mostly so that we might have more philological materials to work with, I have to admit.)
 
Srivijaya for sure.
Alexander the Great's Macedon.
Gupta Empire in India.
Ottoman Empire.
Byzantine Empire.
New France.
New World Empires, pre-columbus.
 
1. Lotharingia- The name is cool and its potential impact is facinating
2. Byzantium (only controling Greece)- One of my favorite historical powers and it controling Greece has tremendous impact on history.
3. The Kalmar Union (not a real country I know but could have become one)
4. The Soviet Union- I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if the Soviet Union remained socialist but didnt control the breakaway satelites.
5. Whatever they would call the country Salah Al Din created- purely because I really admire the man
6. The Cordoba Caliphate- This one more for what a Muslim possibly colonial empire could cause.
 
A better British Commonwealth
Byzantium
A Mesoamerican Empire
Royalist China
A Roman Survivor State
Khemer State
Australian/New Zealand Federation
Native American Nation
 
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California

Texas

Rio Grande

Yucatan

Zulu

Kongo

Ndongo

Monomotapa

Yeke

Lunda-Luba

Thrace

Venice

Tuscany

Sardinia

Chola

Thanjavur

Sikh

Palmares

Nanzhou

Champa

Tannu-Tuva

Manchukuo
 
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