An AH Cliché. In OTL Congo became the colony of a relatively small European power, Belgium, and so in AH it is customary for the region to instead become the colony of a comparable country.

Notable examples include Aragon (in Decades of Darkness), Venice, Denmark, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

fortyseven once came up with the parodic meta-example of the 'Congolese Congo'.

Confederate Cuba

The Russians want Alaska

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