====== Balkanize... NOW !!! ======


An often very annoying [[alternate history:Alternate History Cliches|alternate history cliché]].

When an author or map-maker pushes the Balkanize Now button on any nation because it looks good on a map, they have a grudge against that country or can't be bothered to come up with anything else to do with that nation.

Especially wrong with culturally and ethnically homogeneous nations in which secessionist urges did not exist, such as England, Spain (post-unification, borderline case to be fair), Japan, etc. The two Koreas and two Germanies are real historical examples of more random-looking balkanization.

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==== See Also ====

**[[alternate history:Pendulum Fallacy]]**

**[[alternate history:Bland, united India]]**

**[[alternate history:Disunited Germany]]**

**[[alternate history:Disunited Italy]]**

**[[alternate history:FH Cliches|Future History Clichés]]**

**[[alternate history:Space filling empire]]**

**[[alternate history:That damned Kazakh border]]**

**[[alternate history:United State]]**

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