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==== Project history ==== | ==== Project history ==== | ||
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False Dmitri added content to the ASB in a rambling, bottom-up sort of way, mostly working state by state and leaving a lot unsaid about the overall picture. In 2014, [[offtopic: | False Dmitri added content to the ASB in a rambling, bottom-up sort of way, mostly working state by state and leaving a lot unsaid about the overall picture. In 2014, [[offtopic: | ||
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False Dmitri chose to call the setting the ASB to free him from the need to explain everything in terms of plausible divergence from a single point. World history is assumed to have been essentially the same as our timeline until c. 1600 AD, but from that point it starts to diverge widely. The British Civil Wars are assumed to have been much more destructive, | False Dmitri chose to call the setting the ASB to free him from the need to explain everything in terms of plausible divergence from a single point. World history is assumed to have been essentially the same as our timeline until c. 1600 AD, but from that point it starts to diverge widely. The British Civil Wars are assumed to have been much more destructive, | ||
- | Despite these events, the space bats caused many events to be rather convergent with OTL. The French Revolution and rise of Napoleon came about in a broadly similar fashion to what happened in real life, but the power of Russia-Poland-Sweden led the Emperor to put more energy into colonial affairs than European adventures. The early twentieth century saw two major global wars centered on the balance of power between | + | Despite these events, the space bats caused many events to be rather convergent with OTL. The French Revolution and rise of Napoleon came about in a broadly similar fashion to what happened in real life, but the power of Russia-Poland-Sweden led the Emperor to put more energy into colonial affairs than European adventures. The early twentieth century saw two major global wars centered on the balance of power between |
A defining feature of this world is the preponderance of large, rambling, often overlapping confederal structures. These confederations and alliances are at least as important as nation-states in the world order. Some of the structures involved are quite complex, so that the ASB contains one internal federation, the Dominion of New England, while the Union of Antillean States consists of three smaller federations plus a few additional islands. Many territories are known to be simultaneous members of more than one major bloc; for example, Christiana (Delaware and South Jersey) is part of both the ASB and the PIC, and Russian California is a PIC member as well as a state of the Californian Union. Some territories are both parts of a confederation and connected to a more traditional nation-state, | A defining feature of this world is the preponderance of large, rambling, often overlapping confederal structures. These confederations and alliances are at least as important as nation-states in the world order. Some of the structures involved are quite complex, so that the ASB contains one internal federation, the Dominion of New England, while the Union of Antillean States consists of three smaller federations plus a few additional islands. Many territories are known to be simultaneous members of more than one major bloc; for example, Christiana (Delaware and South Jersey) is part of both the ASB and the PIC, and Russian California is a PIC member as well as a state of the Californian Union. Some territories are both parts of a confederation and connected to a more traditional nation-state, | ||
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=== Multinational confederations === | === Multinational confederations === | ||
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* Californian Union: Formed in western North America and explicitly modeled on the ASB, California has never functioned quite as well as its eastern neighbor. It is a mix of former colonies, territories of Mexico, indigenous states, and mixed or settler states. | * Californian Union: Formed in western North America and explicitly modeled on the ASB, California has never functioned quite as well as its eastern neighbor. It is a mix of former colonies, territories of Mexico, indigenous states, and mixed or settler states. | ||
* Union of Antillean States: Uniting most of the small islands of the Caribbean, the UAS in fact consists of three smaller federations: | * Union of Antillean States: Uniting most of the small islands of the Caribbean, the UAS in fact consists of three smaller federations: | ||
* Confederation of West Africa: A core federation of local nations united with half a dozen European colonies, the CWA unites most of western Africa from the Sahel to Cameroon. | * Confederation of West Africa: A core federation of local nations united with half a dozen European colonies, the CWA unites most of western Africa from the Sahel to Cameroon. | ||
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- | === Federal states === | + | * League |
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- | * Federated States of Yucatan: Revolted and split from Mexico in the 19th century | + | |
- | * Rupertsland: | + | |
- | * Kingdom | + | |
- | * Confederacy and Empire | + | |
- | * Bohemian Confederacy | + | |
- | * Likely German Confederation of some kind | + | |
- | * Likely British Commonwealth of some kind | + | |
- | * China: still under discussion | + | |
=== Nation-states and other countries === | === Nation-states and other countries === | ||
== Boreoamerica (North America) == | == Boreoamerica (North America) == | ||
+ | * Rupertsland: | ||
+ | * The Affiliated States of Boreoamerica | ||
* Lakotah | * Lakotah | ||
* Puncah: A buffer state between the major powers, its character has not been worked out yet. It is likely in some kind of free association with the ASB and/or other federations. Located in western Nebraska and Wyoming. | * Puncah: A buffer state between the major powers, its character has not been worked out yet. It is likely in some kind of free association with the ASB and/or other federations. Located in western Nebraska and Wyoming. | ||
* Omaha: Same as Puncah. Mainly consists of eastern Nebraska. | * Omaha: Same as Puncah. Mainly consists of eastern Nebraska. | ||
+ | * Californian Union | ||
== Mesoamerica (Central America and the Caribbean) == | == Mesoamerica (Central America and the Caribbean) == | ||
- | * Puerto Rico | + | * Mexico: Speaks both Spanish and Nahuatl, and Nahuatl has flourished especially in the northern Great Plains, which the country parceled out to many indigenous people as homesteads in the late 19th century. |
- | * Jamaica | + | * Federated States of Yucatan: |
+ | * Free Republic of Cuzcatlan: More or less El Salvador, but more strongly tied to indigenous culture | ||
* Chiapas | * Chiapas | ||
+ | * Valiz (Belize) | ||
* Guatemala | * Guatemala | ||
* Honduras | * Honduras | ||
- | * Valiz (Belize) | + | * Nicaragua |
+ | * Costa Rica | ||
+ | * Puerto Rico | ||
+ | * Jamaica | ||
+ | * Union of Antillean States | ||
== Austroamerica (South America) == | == Austroamerica (South America) == | ||
* Dutch Suriname | * Dutch Suriname | ||
* Republic of New Torarica: Jewish-dominated state in Suriname' | * Republic of New Torarica: Jewish-dominated state in Suriname' | ||
+ | * Kingdom of New Providence: English dominion roughly occupying the space of OTL French Guiana | ||
* New Tuscany / Nuova Toscana: Former Italian colony in the Guyanas whose precise borders are not decided yet | * New Tuscany / Nuova Toscana: Former Italian colony in the Guyanas whose precise borders are not decided yet | ||
* Klein-Venedig: | * Klein-Venedig: | ||
+ | * Amazonian Confederation: | ||
+ | * New Holland: descendant of Dutch Brazil, occupying the coast froughly from Maceió to Belém | ||
* Brazil | * Brazil | ||
+ | * Peru: Much larger than in OTL, including the territory of Bolivia and Ecuador and much of Chile | ||
+ | * Paraguay | ||
+ | * Argentina | ||
+ | * Unnamed former French penal colony in mid-latitude Chile | ||
+ | * Patagonia: conquered by France in the Napoleonic era | ||
+ | * Chiloé island | ||
+ | * New Cymru: Welsh-speaking state at the southern tip of the continent | ||
+ | * Falkland: colony of New England | ||
== Europe == | == Europe == | ||
+ | * Kingdom of England: very broad powers have devolved to Ireland and, more recently, Wales. | ||
* Scotland: independent republic since the late 17th century | * Scotland: independent republic since the late 17th century | ||
* French Republic | * French Republic | ||
* Netherlands | * Netherlands | ||
+ | * Confederacy and Empire of Italy | ||
+ | * Portugal | ||
* Spain | * Spain | ||
+ | * Denmark, which still maintains suzerainty over Norway | ||
+ | * Switzerland: | ||
+ | * Bohemian Confederacy | ||
+ | * German Confederation: | ||
+ | * PIC realms in Europe: Kingdom of Sweden, Imperial League of the German Coast, Kingdom of Poland, United Baltic Realm, Principality of Karelia, Principality of Ingria, Russian Empire, Principality of Transylvania, | ||
== Asia == | == Asia == | ||
+ | * Chinese Empire | ||
+ | * Dzungaria: The genocide is butterflied away, and today the northern half of Xinjiang is an Oirat-speaking khanate closely aligned to the PIC, with Ürümqi as its capital. | ||
+ | * Kashgaria: the Dungan Revolt is successful, and today the southern half of Xinjiang is an Uyghur-speaking emirate under a descendant of Yaqub Beg. | ||
+ | * Tibetan Empire: kind of like a wealthier version of Bhutan. Historically was a British sphere of influence but today is independent; | ||
+ | * Bhutan | ||
* Japan | * Japan | ||
+ | * PIC realms in Asia: Empire of Turkestan, Empire of Manchuria, Korean Empire, Empire of Ezo, Mongolia, Georgia, Circassia, Emirate of Mazandaran, Shahdom of Shirvan, Shahdom of Bactria, Kingdom of Armenia, Empire of Pontus | ||
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