WIP Map Thread

And I have now finished the map! It's still here because I haven't added the numbers or notes in yet.
Here's an updated version.
  • Improved the subdivisions of some countries (Colombia, Brasil, British Nigeria, British East Africa, Egypt, India, the central asian SSRs, China, Australlia, probably a few others I forgot about)
  • Expanded Darfur at the expense of British Ethiopia and the Azande Protectorate
  • Split Badakhstan
  • Changed Japan's colour to better differentiate it from the USSR
  • Showed UN mandates in the Micronesian islands
  • Showed Palawan as a British puppet
  • Showed areas held by anti-colonial rebel movements in southern Africa

Once again, the borders in Portuguese Central Africa are inspired by Malê Rising's, and the borders in the Ottoman Empire are inspired by Moerby08's Federalised Ottoman Empire : https://www.deviantart.com/moerby08/art/Ottoman-Empire-federalised-825806481
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Fleshed out more of America, including a Comanche empire, a native SoCal-Baja-Sonora state, and a former Andalusian colony in OTL Texas and Mexico.
 
My WIP map of Earth in 2100, in the same TL as my WIP Mars colonies map. Many things were heavily inspired from futuretimeline.net. Outlines around the Siberian subdivisions signify zones designated to climate refugees of a specific country, and black dots in Italy signify areas that have descended into chaos.

I don't intend fleshing out Earth and Mars too much, as I intend for these maps to be the ancient history of a worldbuilding project.
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An almost finished map of a fairly developed colonial-star-system turned independent following the collapse of generic United Earth government set c. 29th/30th century, only really waiting on naming inspiration to come to me. Based on this incredibly cool thing and began more as an excuse to practice with layering concepts in paint.net.
 

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The world in 1957, in Under Albion's Watchful Eyes, an alternate-universe version of Nineteen Eighty-Four written from the fresh perspective of post-World War 1 Europe.
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The backstory below is revealed through some snippets in the novel, yet it is ultimately up to the viewer to decide which events are real, and which ones are fake.
After WW1, the world faces a shocking increase in radical ideologies. France invades and balkanizes Germany under its irredentist goals. Communism becomes mainstream in Europe, while the Ku Klux Klan grows in popularity in the US South. Eventually, they start a revolution and overthrow the southern governments, starting a Second American Civil War.

The far-left Albionic Party takes dominance in Britain by the end of the 1920s, further compounded by the Great Depression. The United States government is seen as incompetent and the Patriotist Party is put into power, turning the US into a nightmarish land for minorities and "undesirables", who are either rounded up and executed or lynched by the people.

It doesn't get much better in Europe, either. The Depression causes a collapse for the French economy, sending the people over the tipping point. By 1938, many independent European nations are communist, but in a different brand to the Soviet Union (which has also swayed Arabia, Persia, and Afghanistan to their side). The only buffer state between them is the Polish Intermarium, which has grown weak in recent years.

The Second Great War starts in 1941 after a border dispute in Romania. Coming to a brutal stalemate in 1946 after the death of an estimated 50 million people, a border is drawn from Pomerania to Montenegro. The Inter-Communist Wars begin.

India and China become a playground of broken and warring states with different ideologies, some democratic, some extremist.

I have no idea what to do with South America so far, but Africa is under European rule (sometimes getting invaded by the Soviet Union), and Australia is largely depopulated, having partially collapsed after the Great Depression.

The world of 1957 is a dark and depressing place. Nowhere is safe from persecution, or crime, or abuse of power.

The North American Union has developed a hierarchy of races and genders, with white men at the absolute top, and blacks and other minorities at the absolute bottom. News always goes in favor of the state, and any dissenting information is omitted or modified to fit the standards of the ruling class. As mentioned above, lynchings are common, and plantations have been constructed across North America.

In Panama is the Republic of Darien, which is much tamer compared to the larger nations. Still gotta develop lore for them, as well as South America.

The Albionic League is colored in different shades of far-left ideologies. It is an industrial wasteland, with high death rates in the factories, yet you will also starve if you work in the fields. The choice is yours, but it is a failed attempt at utopia. The states also regularly round up any dissenters to be executed. Religion is banned, and any signs of belief will result in punishment and/or execution. Despite this, the nation is also flavored with an irredentist belief that one day, Britain shall see might from the Scottish Highlands to Istanbul to Petrograd.

The Socialist Union of Asia is like the Stalin-ruled USSR of our timeline... on steroids.

China is stuck in an OTL-like warlord phase. Thousands die everyday from famine and the everlasting conflicts in the area. India is comparatively more stable, but faces extreme poverty, made worse by a growing population. An idea I might add is routine death squads sent to cull communities to avoid overpopulation and societal collapse.

Africa is a cruel mix of the North American Union's racism, and the horrifying nature of the Albionic League.

Oceania (no, not the 1984 version!) is the safest place out of all of them. Although anarchic at times, there has been some effort to restore democracy in the area.

The main novel is set either in the Commune of Britannia or the Democratic Union of France, both under the Albionic League's influence. In fact, Britannia and France are the main members.

I've been thinking that maybe, like in our 1984, the protagonists don't get to know the optimistic nature of Asia and Oceania? Perhaps a throwaway line from one of the higher-ups, stating that it's pure chaos and anarchy, and that they wouldn't want to go there?
 
Still presented without context, for now. Feel free to guess, though! Basemap is the Q-BAM borderpool. Somewhat inspired by BMunro's Vanished Kingdoms.
This version with some islands' ownership marked, some free cities in the HRE, and some colours (Hoya, Osnabruck, Cumania, rump Moldavia, Mordovia, Kazan, Cuba, Hayastan, Baghdad, Perm, Kipchakstan, Samarkand) corrected to better fit with DCS.
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Idk if ive posted this here before, but here my wip fallout pre-war headcanon (idk if I'll add the wartime borders in alaska or china, maybe if I can find a decent canonish map of it)
 
a successful spartacist uprising
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in union with the bavarian soviet. (in this timeline the communists and anarchists of bavaria presented a united front and influenced each other for the better)
also shown are ssr analogues in the form of schleswig and german-poland, alongside assr analogues lusatia and silesia
outside of communist germany there is friekorp controlled prussia, entente occupied memel and upper silesia as well as the polish republic and free danzig.

the council communist republic is engaged in an cautious alliance with the soviet union that will only get more strained with time. germany going red has however somewhat altered the course the ussr took iotl. it industrialized at a more relaxed pace (something like those 5 year plans becoming 10 year plans) also the german and russia revolutions were in dialogue with each other, writing criticisms, advice and words of encouragement to each other. germany has been under alot more pressure from the western allied powers than our timelines fascist germany or either timelines ussr, being so much closer to home. As such, it has had to tread very carefully which is why the revolution hasnt spread into poland yet, having germany as an ally has however made russia's advance into poland more successful, but not unopposed. when the imperialists have recovered from ww1 they will make war against the communists, the CCR will not be given the freehand in central europe nazi germany was given.

in the interwar period, spain has been a testing ground for the war to come. as iotl, liberal/social democracy has been giving reaction alot of leeway, especially with germany and russia both having gone red.

here is a map of just the CCR cleaned up from the rest of former imperial germany;
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and finally, here is a teaser of what is to come;
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The Albion Scenario, part 2.

The "Intermarium" states will either be puppet states or allies of the Soviet Union. Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Hellas are definitely allies. The battlefround in the Aegean Sea and the Isthmus of Corinth is a perpetual war, as is the one between the German states and the "Intermarium" states, just like in 1984.

It is worth mentioning that yes, Albion would be an Oceania analogue, with Eurasia being, well, Eurasia, and as for Eastasia, there is a warlord state in Asia which follows what they call Death-Worship.

I'll probably move on to either Africa or the Middle East.
 
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A Thatcherite world I'm working on. It's something I've been considering to map for a while now but certain world building choices are just hard to make.
 
A Thatcherite world I'm working on. It's something I've been considering to map for a while now but certain world building choices are just hard to make.
I'll be honest, AH world maps become scarce in possible new details the closer the chosen PoD gets to the present. After 1960 where almost all state borders have been set in stone it's more interesting to do limited maps focused on one area IMO, like that balkanized South Africa area over there
 
Here's another WIP of my AD 2100 map, with a set of growing Arctic superpowers, anarchic and depopulated equatorial areas, and severe climate change.
Things that I have done since the last WIP:
- Switched the colour scheme from NextGen to TACOS.
- Added nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
- Made a start on warlords in Central and South America.
- Devised a method of showing unrest/rebellion/chaos and applied it to the map.

Heavily inspired from futuretimeline.net.
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I would heavily recommend one of the sea-level-rise maps. It doesn't have to be one of those who has like 50+ metres though, but for consistency's sake, the rise in sea level would come probably much earlier than the depopulation of the Equatorial regions.
 
As far as I can tell from a few google searches, the sea would only rise by about 1 metre. Maybe a few pixels here and there?
And anyway, as I said in my earlier post, I don't intend going into too much detail about Earth.
But could you link the sea level rise maps you mentioned?
 
As far as I can tell from a few google searches, the sea would only rise by about 1 metre. Maybe a few pixels here and there?
And anyway, as I said in my earlier post, I don't intend going into too much detail about Earth.
But could you link the sea level rise maps you mentioned?
I could try to find one, it would be hard and I'm not in the best mental state right now, but, on the other hand, I also want to start with my maps library too.
 
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