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Also counts as a "wank idea list" of sorts.
"Pulling a Meiji", as is oftenly said here, can be defined by "rapid, lucky industrialization that brings a peripheral, backwater country into regional (or sometimes even great) power status".
My favourites are:
Thailand
Burma
Ethiopia
Paraguay (sort of briefly did it IOTL, before Lopez fucked it all up)
Peru (Peru-Bolivian Confederation?)
19th century Spain
Maori NZ
Hawaii
Kanem-Bornu
Morocco
Madagascar/Merina

What are your favorites?
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