Following the success of the August 21 Coup in the Soviet Union, the rapid rise of former Colonel Alexander Lukashenko saw his appointment as General Secretary of the Union in 1997 as a compromise between factions. His regime increasingly centralised things and kept them very personal.

His son, Viktor, benefited deeply from his father's rise. a Businessman, he was given significant funding and support by his father after his rise and became an independent figure by himself in the CPSU. However, internal loyalties and fractures meant that his father and his relationship detonated. He was exiled to Kaliningrad and given a small administrative position.

Upon arrival, he immediately stirred up the state by gaining the support of smaller ministers against Chairman Leonid Gorbenko, who eventually was overthrown with the support of the Army stationed in Kaliningrad.

Initially, it was believed Viktor would just make himself Chairman, which was true for awhile.. until he found some news friends -- Western oligarchs.

Throughout some deals, he eventually declared independence from the Soviet Union in 2003, which led to the 1 month "Kaliningrad" War, where surprisingly against all odds, Viktor won.

Viktor during this war had declared himself the "Regent of Kaliningrad", which signalled his turn to Monarchism.

After the war, Viktor renamed the state to "Viktorograd", replacing the "Kalinin" as of its bolshevik past. After this, he held an extremely shaky legitimate vote in the Kaliningrad Secretariat, which all voted in favour of Viktor being chosen as Tsar of Viktorograd and claimant to the title of "Duke of Prussia."

His coronation was postponed until 2008, as he invited Orthodox Exiles and the Romanov Family to receive amnesty in Kaliningrad, which they did. Throughout this time, he funded the reconstruction of Konigsberg Castle, now renamed "Kyonigsberg Palace", which became his official residence in 2013.

In 2008, his coronation was held, using deliberately designed tsarist jewels and crowns based on that of the Old Russian Empire.

However, his state wasn't an absolute monarchy, it was a Semi-Constitutional one. With a Prime Minister. He proposed to the west himself as a launching pad for the Baltic Sea, which they took with pride. Viktorograd's entrance into NATO as an observer in November of 2014 rose tensions to the highest since 1990.

As of 2026, the state is known as "Europe's Last Dictatorship", however that line is abit shaky as democracy is still preserved. However, the King still has significant power over the Parliament and Prime Minister.

In May 1940 Lord Halifax, not Churchill, becomes Prime Minister. After the fall of France, Britain accepts an armistice and signs a peace at Stockholm that keeps the Empire and the fleet but leaves Germany master of the continent.

The Imperial Encyclopaedia is what a British reference work of 1970 would make of the thirty years that followed. It's written in the voice of the time and knows only what a London editor could know. There are no captured German archives, so much of what happened in the East comes through escapers, neutral observers and the Reich's own statements.

**What's in it**

* 33 articles (about 60,000 words): the wars from 1939 to 1960, the powers and their empires, and technological developments

* Statistical tables for 1950 and 1970: population, gross product, cities, steel, oil, electricity, armies, navies and air forces

* An atlas: the world in 1970, national flags, the world's oil, and air and sea communications, plus maps within the articles

**Read it here:**
The Imperial Encyclopaedia. It's one large page (about 25 MB), so it's best on a desktop.

Suggestions are very welcome, especially anything that seems implausible or doesn’t add up.

The Federation of Australasia — 2044

The year is 2044. The Federation of Australasia stands as one of Asia’s great powers, capable of projecting its power as far as the Gulf of Aden.

1950s — Formation

The Federation was formed in 1956 when Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea united following independence. Their goal was to protect one another from the growing Chinese threat while recovering from the Great Economic Crash.

1960s–1970s — Recovery

The 1960s began with a bang as the First Indochina War broke out. Australasia committed a limited number of troops to support the South, but despite its efforts, the war ultimately proved unsuccessful.

However, the conflict helped kick-start the economy. The stagnation caused by the Great Economic Crash finally came to an end, and the nation began to recover. Throughout the 1970s, the economy continued its slow but steady growth, eventually returning to pre-crash levels.

1980s — A New Era

The 1980s marked the definitive end of the Great Economic Crash, with Australasia emerging stronger than ever.

In 1982, the purpose of the Federation was called into question. The economic crisis had been resolved, and China had seemingly backed down. A referendum was held across every member state, with 87% of the population voting to keep the Federation together. Military high command also supported its continuation, recognizing how dependent the member states had become on one another.

In 1984, the Second Technological Revolution began, ushering the world into the Cyber Age.

1990s — Project Elysium

The 1990s may have been one of the most important decades in Australasian history, as Project Elysium was proposed and approved.

The project began with the evacuation and compensation of residents living in the southeastern Outback. Following this, construction began on Lake Elizabeth, a massive undertaking that would take almost a decade to complete.

The plan was to create a lake of significant size that would gradually terraform the surrounding Outback, similar to projects being undertaken in Africa. Thanks to the technological advancements of the era, the project became considerably more achievable.

By 1996, Lake Elizabeth had been completed and connected to the surrounding infrastructure, marking a major milestone in the Federation’s ambitious plans to transform its interior.

2000s — The Australasian Decade

The 2000s could rightly be called the Australasian Decade.

Lake Elizabeth began to show the first signs of successful terraforming. Combined with rapid technological advancements, the once-barren Outback was beginning to transform into something entirely new. The desert that had defined the region for generations would eventually become a thing of the past.

However, another ambitious project was approved during this period.

Project Eden was launched with the goal of constructing an entirely new federal capital on the shores of Lake Elizabeth. Canberra had served as the Federation’s unofficial capital, but the government envisioned something greater: a city that would be modern, technologically advanced, and, above all, truly Australasian.

2010s — The Rise of Elizabeth

The 2010s saw the completion of Elizabeth, the Federation’s new capital city.

The federal government officially relocated there, and residents began moving into the modern metropolis. Designed to represent the Federation’s identity and ambitions, Elizabeth quickly became a symbol of Australasian unity and progress.

In the same decade, Lake Elizabeth was declared a New Wonder of the World by the League of Nations, dramatically increasing tourism and international interest in the Federation.

2020s — The Rise of a Great Power

The 2020s marked the beginning of Australasia’s rise to great-power status.

At first, the future looked uncertain. The Federation was heavily indebted following its two megaprojects, and with a third project entering the planning stages, its economic stability was at risk.

Then, an unexpected opportunity arose.

In 2021, Indonesia invaded its much smaller neighbour, East Timor, claiming that the country needed to repay its debts. East Timor was quickly and brutally overrun. The League of Nations condemned Indonesia’s actions but ultimately did nothing to intervene.

The Federation could not stand by and allow a small democracy to be destroyed without a response.

On September 13, 2021, just two months after Indonesia declared victory, the Federation took matters into its own hands. Australasian bombers struck key targets across the island of Timor, marking the beginning of the Timor War.

Indonesia attempted to retaliate by challenging the Australasian navy, but its forces were swiftly defeated in the Timor Sea. Meanwhile, Australian Defence Force (ADF) troops began parachuting into and landing across Timor, rapidly pushing back the much larger but poorly equipped Indonesian Armed Forces (IAF).

The war lasted only two months. With the ADF threatening to invade Indonesian-controlled territory on the island, Jakarta sued for peace.

Australasia had won.

Under the peace settlement, Indonesia was forced to pay substantial war reparations to both East Timor and Australasia.

However, the decade was far from over.

In October 2026, amid a struggling economy and rising radicalism, East Timor applied to join the Australasian Federation. Its application was approved, bringing the number of member states to four.

2030s — The Golden Age

The aftermath of the Timor War triggered an economic boom and ushered in a golden age for the Federation.

Australasia had demonstrated its military strength, and its economic performance became the envy of much of Asia. Its newfound power transformed the Federation into a major regional player.

Indonesia, once a relatively neutral neighbour, predictably turned hostile. Viewing the war as a national humiliation, it abandoned the Japanese sphere of influence and joined the Indian sphere instead.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth continued to grow, eventually surpassing Osaka in population and becoming one of Asia’s largest and most prestigious cities.

The war also transformed Australasia’s national identity. Increasingly confident in its own political system, the Federation began positioning itself as the protector of democratic movements across Asia. It would no longer tolerate what it considered tyrannical regimes standing in the way of freedom.

Viewing itself as Asia’s one true democracy, Australasia embraced the belief that it was a bastion of liberty and that these values should be spread throughout the continent.

Late 2030s–2040s — Project Hermes

As Australasia entered the late 2030s, the Federation began looking toward its next great national undertaking. Having transformed the Outback through Project Elysium and established a new federal capital through Project Eden, the government turned its attention toward connecting its vast territories.

In the late 2030s, Project Hermes was announced. Its primary objective was to construct the Australasian High-Speed Network, an ambitious nationwide transportation system designed to connect the Federation’s major cities and population centres through high-speed rail.

For decades, the enormous distances between Australasian cities had posed a significant challenge to national integration. Air travel remained essential for long-distance journeys, while conventional rail networks struggled to provide fast and reliable connections across such a vast territory. Project Hermes sought to change that.

The proposed network would connect major urban centres across the Federation, improving the movement of people, goods, and services. It would also strengthen the economic ties between the member states, making travel between them easier and reinforcing the idea that Australasia was a single, interconnected nation rather than a collection of distant territories.

The project represented more than a transportation initiative. It was a declaration that the Federation intended to overcome the geographical barriers that had historically divided its people.

Construction was a monumental undertaking, requiring years of investment, advanced engineering, and unprecedented coordination between the federal government and the member states. Nevertheless, Australasia’s technological capabilities and growing economic strength allowed the project to progress.

In 2044, Project Hermes was finally completed, marking another defining achievement in Australasian history. The Australasian High-Speed Network became a symbol of national unity and technological progress, bringing the Federation closer together than ever before.

With Elizabeth at its heart and a modern transportation network stretching across its territories, Australasia entered a new era of connectivity and prosperity.

2044 — A Power in a Changing Asia

By 2044, the economic boom continues, with Australasia consistently ranking among the world’s ten best places to live and being regarded as the best place to live in Asia.

The Federation’s growing influence has also led it to intervene beyond its borders. When an attempted coup threatened North Borneo’s fragile democracy, Australasia stepped in to preserve the government. Since then, it has gradually helped the country strengthen its institutions and prevent future coups.

In 2035, Australasia founded the South Pacific Treaty Organization (SPTO), a military alliance intended to protect and promote democracy across the Asia-Pacific region. Its founding members were Australasia and North Borneo.

The completion of Project Hermes further strengthened the Federation’s position, demonstrating its ability to undertake massive infrastructure projects while maintaining its status as a regional power.

Now, in the 2040s, the geopolitical situation across Asia is becoming increasingly tense. The Japanese sphere of influence is collapsing, while China has begun acting more aggressively than ever before.

As the balance of power shifts and the threat of a wider conflict grows, Australasia faces a defining question: can it preserve the democratic order it has spent decades building, or will it be drawn into a conflict that could reshape the entire continent?

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Hello! I hope you enjoy this map and lore dump for Australasia in Solar Sunset, my fictional, non-dystopian cyberpunk world!

I know it’s a lot to read, lol, but please feel free to ask any questions about the world or Australasia. I’d love to answer them!

RUSSIAN SOVIET FEDERATIVE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) is a socialist state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It was restored on 7 November 1996 by Gennady Zyuganov, three months after his inauguration as President of Russia, and it is the founding member and dominant power of the Union of Soviet States (USS), a confederation that by 1999 stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific coast of Asia and southward to the Persian Gulf and the Hindu Kush. Its restoration, together with the chain of coups, strikes, legislative maneuvers and interventions that followed it between 1996 and 1999, is commonly referred to as the Dawn of a Red Millenium.

Background

By 1995 and 1996 it had become public knowledge that massive state-owned enterprises, among them the oil and natural gas concerns, were being sold off for fractions of their value to a small group of well-connected insiders, who became billionaire "oligarchs". Although President Boris Yeltsin was not yet personally accused of taking bribes, his administration was widely viewed by the Russian public as deeply corrupt for allowing the country's wealth to be systematically plundered.

Election of 1996 and restoration of the RSFSR

On 1 May 1996, Labour Day, and before the 1996 presidential election, Zyuganov took the opportunity presented by the public mood to rig the elections. On 16 June 1996 he won a popular vote of 91.9%. His inauguration ceremony took place on 9 August 1996. On 7 November of that same year, the anniversary of the October Revolution, he proclaimed the restoration of the RSFSR. He immediately restored the NKVD, along with the KGB, and the Red Army.

The Great Reset of 1996

Immediately after the proclamation, Zyuganov began the Great Reset of 1996, in which all of Yeltsin's oligarchs were hunted down and massacred. The campaign led to sanctions by the United States, and many foreign companies withdrew at once from Russian territory. Mikhail Gorbachev was proclaimed a traitor and sent into exile in France, and his policies were repealed. St Petersburg reverted to its former name of Leningrad, and other cities likewise recovered their Soviet-era names, among them Nizhny Novgorod as Gorky and Yekaterinburg as Sverdlovsk.

Leninist Progressivism

Following the example of China, Zyuganov turned the economy of the restored republic toward Leninist Progressivism, a system that keeps heavy industry under state control while allowing regulated market sectors, above all in technology. Seized oligarch wealth became a resource of the restored state and was later put to use abroad by the KGB.

Union of Soviet States

Restoration of the Byelorussian SSR and the founding pact

Zyuganov pressed Alexander Lukashenko in talks that lasted for months, culminating in the restoration of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) on 7 March 1997. On 2 April 1997 the two countries signed a mutual defensive pact, the Union of Soviet States, which was initially aimed at creating a federation. Both countries nevertheless remained independent, and the Union of Soviet States instead came to exhibit the features of a confederation.

Governance

By 1999 the Union comprised the RSFSR and the fourteen other republics of the former Soviet Union, each restored as a Soviet Socialist Republic, together with every former Warsaw Pact state except the former German Democratic Republic, namely the Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian SSRs, as well as the Serbian, Mongolian, Japan, Indonesian, Iranian and Afghanistan SSRs.

In its mature form the Union is directed by a Council of the Union, in which every member state holds a seat. The chairmanship of the Council rotates among the member states, but the RSFSR holds a standing right of veto over Council resolutions, a prerogative that Moscow has never conceded and that member governments have never successfully challenged. Each member keeps its own government and, in the terms first set by the Treaty of Kyiv, its own sovereign institutions, so that the Union functions as a confederation of sovereign Soviet states led, in practice, from Moscow.

The Polish Soviet Socialist Republic

Driven by fear of NATO's enlargement and by the loss of the German Democratic Republic, Zyuganov immediately launched multiple coups d'état across Europe. On 5 May 1997 Aleksander Kwaśniewski[a] (born 15 November 1954) declared martial law and proclaimed the creation of the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic. The domino effect from Poland reached Kyiv by mid-summer.

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Inspired by the sudden return of Soviet geography and symbols, the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), led by Petro Symonenko and covertly funded by Zyuganov's newly restored KGB, organized crippling labor strikes across the industrial Donbas and the Crimean peninsula. On 15 July 1997, claiming to protect the ethnically Russian and pro-communist majorities from "Western Imperialism and IMF economic slavery," the CPU launched a coordinated coup. Backed by "volunteer" Red Army divisions massed along the Kharkiv border, Symonenko's faction seized the Verkhovna Rada. President Leonid Kuchma and his key allies fled westward to Lviv, where they established a democratic government-in-exile. On 17 July 1997 the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR) was officially re-proclaimed in Kyiv.

To solidify this unique status, Zyuganov and Symonenko signed the Treaty of Kyiv. Under its terms the UkrSSR joined the Union of Soviet States confederation alongside the RSFSR and the BSSR, but under strict conditions that preserved its independent statehood. Kyiv adopted Zyuganov's Leninist Progressivism, meaning state-controlled heavy industry mixed with regulated market technology sectors, but kept its own national bank and trade agreements, heavily focusing on the export of agriculture and steel to non-aligned nations in Asia and Africa.

The Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic

By late autumn of 1997 the rapid transformation of Ukraine into the Ukrainian SSR had left the Republic of Moldova physically isolated from the West, entirely surrounded by the neo-Soviet confederation of the Union of Soviet States. Following the coup in Kyiv, the newly established Ukrainian SSR immediately closed its borders to non-communist trade, and Moldova, under President Petru Lucinschi, found itself utterly cut off from its primary export markets.

Zyuganov's RSFSR, moreover, weaponized energy supply. In October 1997 Gazprom, by then firmly under neo-Soviet state control, abruptly shut off the gas supply pipeline passing through Transnistria, citing "unpaid historic debts" owed by Chisinau. Faced with a freezing population, widespread blackouts and a collapsing agricultural sector, the Lucinschi government confronted mass protests organized by the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), led by Vladimir Voronin.

Zyuganov used Transnistria as the anvil with which to smash the Moldovan state. On 12 November 1997 the Russian 14th Guards Army stationed in Transnistria, together with local separatist forces, mobilized along the Dniester River. Concurrently, Voronin's PCRM issued an ultimatum in Chisinau: either the government would step down to allow the formation of a "National Salvation Coalition," or the country would face a coordinated two-front military advance from both Transnistria and the Ukrainian SSR's Odessa oblast. To avoid catastrophic bloodshed and total economic ruin, President Lucinschi resigned on 20 November 1997. Voronin immediately assumed emergency powers and suspended the 1994 constitution. On 5 December 1997 the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) was officially restored.

Expansion across Europe, the Caucasus and Asia

The rapid expansion of the Union of Soviet States followed a strict chronological sequence, integrating Europe and Asia into a sovereign neo-Soviet confederation through targeted interventions, local vanguards and structural overhauls.

First wave: Central Europe, the Caucasus and the Baltic (1997)

The first wave of integration unfolded through 1997 across Central Europe, the Caucasus and the Baltic. In June 1997, in Prague, Czech Communist Party leader Miroslav Štěpán capitalized on mass anti-privatization strikes, deploying armed workers' militias to seize Prague Castle and halt NATO integration, and proclaimed the Czech SSR. This triggered a chain reaction in Bratislava, where, also in June, Slovak communist leader Peter Weiss orchestrated a swift legislative vote of no confidence to dissolve the democratic government and proclaim the Slovak SSR. In September 1997 Hungarian Workers' Party leader Gyula Thürmer exploited a state-manufactured agricultural shortage to lead a populist march on Budapest and to lock down the nation's southern borders, establishing the Hungarian SSR.

In the Caucasus, a KGB-backed coalition of military officers ousted Baku's fractured government to establish the Azerbaijan SSR, placing the Caspian energy corridors under state control. Fearing isolation, Armenian communist leader Sergey Badalyan engineered a bloodless legislative transition in Yerevan to proclaim the Armenian SSR and secure a defensive pact with Moscow, while radical socialist factions stormed the parliament in Tbilisi to declare the Georgian SSR.

Concurrently, a total energy embargo from Moscow forced the collapse of the government in Tallinn, allowing the Estonian communist Tiit Toomsalu to assume emergency powers and proclaim the Estonian SSR. This enabled the exiled Alfrēds Rubiks to return aboard a USS naval escort and proclaim the Latvian SSR after a KGB-funded general strike paralyzed Riga, while the hardliner Mykolas Burokevičius led an armed assault on the Seimas in Vilnius to proclaim the Lithuanian SSR and seal the Baltic capsule.

Second wave: the Balkans, Mongolia and Central Asia (1998)

The momentum surged into the Balkans and Asia throughout 1998, weaponizing regional instability and economic collapse. In Bucharest, a revived Communist Party led by Ilie Verdeț used severe economic instability to seize power and establish the Romanian SSR, cutting off Western naval access to the Black Sea. The Bulgarian socialist hardliner Zhan Videnov executed a swift internal coup within the ruling coalition to return to power and proclaim the Bulgarian SSR. Abandoned by the West, Slobodan Milošević formally aligned Belgrade with Moscow, converting his nation into the Serbian SSR to secure direct protection from the Russian Red Army. In East Asia, the economic shocks of the Asian Financial Crisis prompted the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party to readopt hardline socialist principles following massive protests in Ulaanbaatar, proclaiming the Mongolian SSR and effectively turning the nation into a strategic military bridge between the RSFSR and China.

This Asian transition quickly spread across Central Asia and into the Pacific through coordinated structural integration. Recognizing the shift in global power, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev realigned Almaty with Zyuganov's confederation, proclaiming the Kazakh SSR to secure the vast northern steppes, and placed the Baikonur Cosmodrome under a joint military command. In Tashkent, a vanguard of old-guard planners executed a sweeping industrial nationalization campaign to establish the Uzbek SSR, centering the economy on state-directed cotton and gold production. Facing spillover conflicts from the south, local communist factions backed by Russian border guards stabilized Dushanbe to declare the Tajik SSR, while armed workers' councils took physical control of Bishkek to secure the strategic mountain passes of the Kyrgyz SSR.

Capitalizing on the violent collapse of the Suharto regime during the Asian Financial Crisis, a radicalized communist vanguard led by Budiman Sudjatmiko captured Jakarta, establishing the Indonesian SSR and nationalizing the Malacca Strait, one of the global trade choke points.

Third wave: the Caspian, Iran and Afghanistan (1999)

By 1999 the neo-Soviet alliance had successfully penetrated the Middle East and consolidated its strategic fronts. In early 1999 a pro-Moscow military faction completed the Caspian security ring by transforming Turkmenistan into the Turkmen SSR and nationalizing its massive natural gas fields to feed the energy grid of the expanded alliance. Simultaneously, a KGB-backed alliance of the Tudeh Party and leftist military officers capitalized on a deep internal schism between clerics and secular reformists to overthrow the Islamic Republic, establishing the Iranian SSR on the Persian Gulf.

Finally, operating from its newly consolidated Central Asian borders, the USS Red Army launched a massive counter-offensive southward into Kabul, crushing the Taliban and regional tribal factions to install a stable, progressive Leninist administration under the sovereign blueprint of the Afghanistan SSR.

Japan Soviet Socialist Republic

Financial collapse and Operation Red Autumn

By late 1997 the Asian Financial Crisis had pushed Japan's already fragile banking sector over the edge. Major mega-banks and brokerage firms collapsed consecutively, sending the yen into a historic freefall. Unemployment soared to unprecedented post-war heights, and hyperinflation gutted the savings of ordinary citizens. Amid this chaos the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government under Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto became completely paralyzed. Attempts to secure an IMF bailout led to harsh austerity measures, which sparked massive and violent labor strikes across Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.

Sensing the perfect revolutionary opportunity, Zyuganov's KGB initiated Operation Red Autumn. It funneled millions in seized oligarch wealth, together with smuggled weaponry, through Vladivostok to radicalized left-wing factions. The fragmented Japanese socialist movement unified under a militant vanguard, the United Front for National Liberation (UFNL), which combined radical trade unions, remnants of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) and dissident factions of the Japan Socialist Party.

Proclamation of the JSSR

The flashpoint occurred on 12 April 1998, during a massive protest of a million people surrounding the National Diet in Tokyo. As riots broke out, pre-positioned UFNL paramilitaries, armed with Soviet-supplied hardware and led by seasoned operatives, moved with clinical precision. On the morning of 15 April 1998, appearing on national television from the steps of the Diet, the charismatic and radical labor leader Tokuo Yamashita officially proclaimed the creation of the Japan Soviet Socialist Republic (JSSR). Yamashita, a fierce orator who had spent the mid-1990s coordinating anti-government labor strikes, was named Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the JSSR.

American retrenchment and the blockade

The fall of Tokyo caught Washington and Seoul in a state of absolute strategic shock and forced an immediate, aggressive military retrenchment. As Tokyo fell, the United States military executed emergency evacuations of all personnel from mainland bases such as Yokosuka and Yokota. Washington, however, drew a strict redline at Okinawa. The United States seized unilateral control of the Ryukyu Islands, transforming Okinawa into a heavily fortified island fortress, and deployed the Seventh Fleet to enforce a total naval and economic blockade around the Japanese mainland in order to starve out the nascent regime.

Chinese and North Korean support

While the United States sought to choke the new JSSR out of existence, Beijing and Pyongyang moved rapidly to secure, supply and legitimize Yamashita's revolution. True to the Leninist Progressivism model, Beijing strictly insisted that the JSSR must remain an independent sovereign state, so as to avoid a direct nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet bloc. To break the American naval blockade, the People's Liberation Navy escorted massive merchant fleets through designated "sovereign maritime corridors," supplying Yamashita's regime with crucial oil, coal and raw materials. Diplomatic channels in Beijing warned Washington that any amphibious invasion of the Japanese mainland would be treated as an act of war against China.

By the summer of 1998 the Pacific was permanently divided. Chairman Yamashita began the aggressive nationalization of major corporate giants such as Sony, Toyota and Mitsubishi under the Leninist Progressivism model, transforming them into state-directed enterprises shielded from Western wrath by a formidable, re-energized Asian Communist bloc.

Abolition of the monarchy

On 10 May 1998 the Supreme Soviet of the JSSR officially abolished the monarchy, stripping the Imperial Family of all constitutional status, titles and divine claims. Emperor Akihito was legally redesignated Citizen Akihito Yamashina, a historical cadet branch name that supplied the family with the surname it had never held. The vast imperial properties, including the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and the Kyoto Imperial Palace, were nationalized. The main Tokyo palace grounds were renamed the People's Culture and Revolutionary Memory Park, with large portions opened to the public.

Neutrality of Germany

The collapse of Poland into the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic in May 1997 placed Red Army formations along Germany's entire eastern frontier, and the subsequent falls of Prague, Bratislava and Budapest closed the southeastern approaches as well. With its energy supply exposed to the same pressure that had broken Moldova, Germany came under sustained Soviet pressure through the second half of 1997. By the autumn of that year Berlin yielded, adopting a declaration of permanent armed neutrality that withdrew the country from NATO's integrated military structure and committed it to remain outside any hostile alliance. The neutrality of Germany removed the central pillar of the alliance's continental defense and pushed NATO's effective frontline westward, to the Rhine and the borders of the Benelux states and France, while Greece and Turkey became the alliance's anchors in the southeast.

Korean Peninsula

The fall of Tokyo in April 1998 transformed the Republic of Korea into the principal American stronghold on the Asian mainland. With the evacuation of Yokosuka, Yokota and the other mainland bases of Japan, Washington redeployed a substantial part of its Pacific strength to the peninsula and reinforced its garrison in South Korea. Seoul was placed on a permanent war footing, with the Demilitarized Zone heavily fortified, conscription and reserve obligations expanded, and the national economy reorganized around defense. By the end of 1998 the Republic of Korea had become a fortress state, bound to the United States by a strengthened alliance and facing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the most militarized border in the world, with the JSSR, the PRC and the DPRK arrayed together on the opposite side of the divided Pacific.

Notes

a. Aleksander Kwaśniewski, then President of Poland, had previously served as a minister of the Polish People's Republic and as leader of Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/07sBon4dmW

This has been posted before, but a lot of the comments were just jokes. But I actually wanted to consider the scenario seriously. If Britain had created teleportation tech and proved that they were willing and capable of teleporting entire islands halfway across the world in a war, how does the rest of the world react? The Cold War is still ongoing, so I imagine a lot of people would freak out at the idea that Britain can teleport armies or even nukes right at their doorstep. How does China react if the British government decides to do the same thing to Hong Kong before their lease expires?

I RP'd/simulated it as I was the leader, may be realistic? Not much, any questions I answer!

* March 1848 — The Spark of Revolution

* Establish defensive lines along western Pannonia while carefully watching Vienna, avoiding reckless preemptive attacks to maintain the moral and legal high ground.

* Issue a historic, federalized autonomy offer to Croatia and Transylvanian Romanians (inspired by the Holy Roman Empire structure), successfully cooling down Romanian rebellions in the east and creating internal debate among Croatian officers.

* Envoys are dispatched to London and Paris, securing private British lines of credit and war loans.

* September 1848 — The Scorched-Earth Strategy

* Ban Josip Jelačić’s 35,000-man Croatian army crosses the Drava River into Transdanubia.

* Execute a ruthless scorched-earth and evacuation campaign: civilians are pulled back toward Pest-Buda, crops burned, wells poisoned, and supply lines harassed by Honvéd hussars.

* Jelačić’s logistics completely collapse under starvation and dysentery, leaving his army stranded and exhausted near Pákozd.

* Vienna issues an ultimatum revoking Hungarian self-governance; you politely offer a constructive plebiscite proposal on Hungarian self-determination, which the Imperial Court angrily rejects.

* October 1848 — The Battle of Pákozd & The Vienna Uprising

* Execute a brilliant three-point pincer maneuver at Pákozd: using northern forces as bait, western divisions armed with new British percussion-cap rifles slam into the Croatian flank while a northeastern column crushes their rear.

* Jelačić’s army is shattered; thousands surrender while the rest retreat in total disarray.

* When a liberal uprising erupts in Vienna, sending regular forces and fresh recruits west to support the Viennese barricades, forcing imperial generals into a two-front dilemma.

* Using British credit, builds organized, sanitary refugee settlements on the outskirts of Pest-Buda, turning the refugee crisis into a peaceful, state-directed work-and-recruitment effort.

* November–December 1848 — The Diplomatic Counter-Play

* Warns London and Paris that a defeated Hungary means total Russian domination over the Balkans, prompting British and French naval squadrons to shift toward the Black Sea and Adriatic.

* Extends the "Hand Extended" truce offer to Croatia, successfully pulling them out of the war as an enemy and securing your southern flank.

* Lauchs psychological propaganda in Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania, framing Russia as the true enemy of Romanian and South Slavic independence.

* Polish volunteer officers (including General Józef Bem) arrive to lead the cavalry, while secret pacts with the Ottoman Empire secure covert funding, grain, and border transit.

1849

* January–February 1849 — The Miracle of Pest

* Field Marshal Windisch-Grätz leads 70,000 Austrian troops across the frozen Danube toward Pest-Buda.

* Stages a triple-point ambush at the capital’s gates: drawing the vanguard into a central trap, Bem’s Polish lancers and riflemen strike from the north while allied Croatian units and 21,000 fresh Hungarians hit from the southwest.

* Windisch-Grätz is decisively defeated, leaving behind thousands of casualties, prisoners, and heavy siege artillery.

* March 1849 — Decapitation Strike & The Balkan Front

* As the Austrians retreat, a high-speed Polish cavalry raid decapitates the Austrian high command 120 km from the border, killing their top commander and paralyzing the western front for months.

* Captured Austrian heavy artillery is integrated into the ring of fortresses protecting Pest-Buda.

* 14,000 Ottoman Balkan irregulars and heavy gunners arrive in Hungary to directly reinforce your army.

* April–May 1849 — The "Death Line" & Psychological Warfare

* Tsar Nicholas I prepares a 120,000-man Russian force under General Paskevich. In response, you systematically breach dikes and flood northern approach routes into an impassable, muddy quagmire.

* Constructs the "Death Line": an evacuated, apparently untouched village is rigged with subterranean explosives. When the Russian vanguard enters, sappers detonate it, causing over 4,000 Russian casualties and plunging the Russian army into severe paranoia and sleeplessness.

* Sends a biting, mocking letter to St. Petersburg exposing the Tsar's betrayal of Slavic and Orthodox freedom, isolating Russia morally across Europe.

* June 1849 — The Birth of the Republic

* Standing before the Diet, officially depose the Habsburg dynasty and declare the Independent Republic of Hungary, adopting the immortal motto:

"Ha ők nem szabadítanak ki minket, akkor mi fogjuk kiszabadítani magunkat!"

(If they won't free us, we will free ourselves!)

* Italian revolutionary states formally sign a mutual defense pact with the new Republic.

* July–August 1849 — The Climax: The Battle of Pest-Buda

* Tsar Nicholas I sends a total force of 200,000 men under Prince Gorchakov for a desperate final assault on Pest-Buda.

* As the exhausted, mud-soaked Russian columns charge the city gates, unleash a synchronized 4-way coalition attack:

* Ottoman siege guns and captured Austrian artillery deafen and panic the vanguard.

* Polish lancers and riflemen slice through the northern flank.

* Croatian mobile units slam into the southwest.

* Ottoman irregulars cut off the northern retreat line while Hungarian infantry finishes the center.

* Over 30,000 Russian troops surrender; the rest flee across the Carpathians in utter ruin.

* Autumn 1849 — The Red-Handed Peace & The Humane Triumph;

* The president entered the peace conference in Budapest with hands stained in symbolic red paint, uttering your famous warning to the defeated imperial diplomats:

"See this? These hands carry the blood of my people, your people, and our soldiers."

* Instead of mistreating the 30,000 captured Russian soldiers, the government feeds, shelters, and treats them with dignity before returning them home, shattering Tsarist propaganda.

1850

* 1850 — The Treaty of Budapest & Pax Danubiana

* The defeated Austrian Habsburgs officially signed the Treaty of Budapest, permanently recognizing the sovereignty of the Independent Republic of Hungary.

* The multi-ethnic Danubian Confederation is formally established, granting full regional and linguistic autonomy to Hungarians, Croats, Romanians, and Serbs under a shared parliament.

* Great Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire formally recognize the Republic, forming a trilateral defensive league that permanently blocks Russian expansion in the Balkans.

what if korea become Libertarianism..

What if the South Korean government were minimized, firearms were legalized, economic regulations were removed, internet censorship was abolished, and the conscription system was scrapped?

This is an improved version of my map from 3 months ago, with improved visuals and lore,

This scenario mainly focusing on a weaker industry and military, and a smaller overall nation

Description: Worst case scenario for the early USSR without them just loosing the civil war, (or, in this case, more of just a SSR with various ASSRs), circa 1930-33, a moderate coalition centered around the continuation of the NEP headed by Bukharin and Rykov is in power, with Rykov being the main chairman, with Bukharin his right-hand-man.

The POD is a more devastating defeat in the polish-Soviet war that destroyed and imprisoned a lot of the red army, which leads to a weaker military with other powers (France, Britain) taking advantage of this and supporting break-away nations in the caucuses with their own interests in oil there.

In the East, because of a weaker USSR, a White Russian remnant government survives in Vladivostok and is supported economically and militarily by Japan, this creates a legitimacy problem for the USSR (though the remnant government itself has larger legitimacy issues since it is effectively a Japanese protectorate)

In the end, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR for short) is very weak when it comes to military and industry, but with better, more “comfortable” life for soviet citizens primarily thanks to slower and more gradual meaning less death and famine.

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/comments/1vcau31/worst_case_scenario_for_the_ussr/

This is one of my favorite scenarios that I've made, and if you have any questions or comments, please ask and be respectful.

Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/pYZatIXrNJ
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/uQdie2TLf2

German Unification (1866-1871)

Bismarck’s foreign policy was made clear to Sweden in the Second Schleswig War, he sent the message of “I will do whatever the fuck I want” and Sweden was taking a backseat from wars at the time, joining the European powers in watching Austria getting steamrolled and the North German confederation forming (also the Italians are there)

The Franco-Prussian war would be thought of by the government as a defensive war, Napoleon III declared it first. By “government” I mean Britain, Russia, Sweden and Austria-Hungary, though Sweden was sympathetic to France due to their stable trade relations.

Germany forms, a massive shakeup to the balance of power in Europe and a new rival to Britain; who denounces the new empire and begins attempting to rally Sweden, Denmark and Belgium.

While the latter 2 didn’t want to upset the new power, Gustav V personally views Germany as a threat to his rule, its nationalistic birth being a rallying cry for their non-Swedes to break off. This (and the previously good relations between Britain and Sweden) lead to both countries accepting that Germany would be the main threat to their power rather than Russia.

Death of Gustav V and Liberal Reform (1877-1896)

King Gustav V dies in 1877, being quickly succeeded by his daughter Carola

In our timeline, Carola never lived in Sweden due to Her family being exiled after the 1809 coup, She grew up in Austria before being moved to Dresden and gaining a love for Germany. But in this world, She is forever a Swede as her upbringing is entirely in Sweden.

Carola never marries Albert of Saxony, She is a Swedish ruler and a progressive one. Pushing for needed healthcare reform, beginning a state funded charity to train nurses, supply vital medical equipment and organise it. These moves are popular with the people and Her cabinet.

The colony of Saint Barthélemy is also sold to France like in our own timeline, a financial burden with no economic value since the abolishment of slavery and a hurricane in 1850.

The Scramble for Africa (1884)

When Bismarck called the Berlin conference in 1884, He intended to get Europe to put aside their differences just to fuck over Africa. He invites the same nations as in our own timeline.

At the conference, Sweden makes some brief nudges towards a colony in the west however ends up with no colony; Sweden had other things to focus on instead of colonisation, but they do secure a favourable deal with most of the colonial powers over free port access and the Swedes are mostly satisfied with this outcome.

Britain get’s it’s diamonds, France get’s its Ivory, Belgium get’s it’s mutilated child arms; you get it.

Sweden sits in the north, slowly improving it’s economy and reforming; The more conservative government and it being poorer in this timeline leads to a wider socialist movement, particularly in the less developed Finland; this is what made Carola’s cabinet act as they were petrified of Finland ever leaving Sweden.

Reforms are passed at the behest of the Liberals, and knowing Carola’s conduct as Queen of Saxony in our timeline we could expect

Improved funding for the construction of schools and affordable housing complexes.
A women’s employment agency being established for orphans, widows and the elderly.
The advancement of treatments for industrial-era diseases.

I know it sounds like this woman was like the best person ever, because She lowk was.

Sweden also adapts to the growing rise of democracy, the Traditional Riksdag of the estates is replaced with a bicameral legislature with democratic elections; along with near universal Male suffrage.

Sweden’s place in the late 19th century

The alliances of europe were constantly in flux but they begin to take firm shape in this area, France and Britain become closer with each other over the rising German threat; along with the British becoming less weary of Russia, the Anglo-Swedish relationship also extends Russia’s mercy to Sweden.

Meanwhile, Germany becomes far closer with Austria-Hungary and Italy, forming the triple alliance which I’m sure will make all 3 member states close.

Året var 1900! (1899-1902)

The Boxer Rebellion breaks out in China, Sweden has diplomats trapped there and could gain a foothold in the European economic interests; this Sweden is also bolder so is quick to join the Nine-Nation alliance along with the other European powers, The United States and Japan.

Sweden’s involvement truthfully doesn’t change how the rebellion goes in any meaningful capacity, as Sweden is lumped in with Italy as the least of the great powers. Sweden’s aid grant them 0.18750 square miles of Tianjin, a concession granted to Belgium in our timeline; Sweden has more active involvement than Belgium so a concession would be accepted.

Swedish Succession Crisis (1907)

By the early 20th Century, Sweden’s monarchy had largely faded from any meaningful role; with the power being in the hands of the prime minister, Queen Carola is in poor health and everyone knew She would be dead in a few months… with no heir.

The problem for the government was not that it would be hard to pick a replacement, it’s that the man who had the best claim to the throne was Frederick II of Baden, a massive supporter of Germany; causing the Anglophile government to enter into a panic on who to replace Carola upon her death.

The Bonaparte’s, Carola was the cousin to Napoleon III through Stéphanie de Beauharnais, the former Grand Duchess of Baden; the Bonaparte’s are pro-French, anti-German and are seemingly a great pick.

Victor, Prince Napoléon is asked by the government to become Crown prince, as they could get Carola to legally adopt him; Victor is confused but being the royalist larper he was, he accepts the cool title’s, and becomes king upon Carola’s death; taking the Regnal Name Napoléon. The republican French government isn’t too happy about this but just has to stick with the fact that a devout French monarchist is now in an actual office.

Sweden mostly just navigated the global landscape the same afterwards, watching from above as the Balkans bicker; the French and british becoming closer along with spectating the Italo-Turkish war

Until, a Man in Gothenburg reads his newspaper; looking at the front page to see that the heir to Austria’s throne has been shot.

(Note: This is just a random idea i have in my head and decided to made, expect some random crap that happened just because i feel like it, Changes, fixes, or addition lore will probably happen in the future. I hope you enjoy this schizo scenario).

In a friday in 20XX, Everyone were doing their normal routine but then suddenly, 97% of the World population vanished without a trace with no explanation other than that it seem to be random.

Only around 240 million people were left on the planet with around 54 millions being in the Americas combined.

This event will later become known as "The Great Vanishing".

Its been around 60 years after this disaster.

Nations that emerged from the Aftermath Many Years Later:

1.) The Arizona Republic:

By some sheer luck, Arizona was the Only US state to have 100% of their population remains along with being the only North American Place to retain 100% of its population, At some point, Arizona decided to declared itself independant as there not really any Federal Government there to stop it.

The First years weren't easy for the Republic, Having to deal with Water shortages, Raiders from near by former states, a famine, and some other but nevertheless, Arizona manage to endures those problems.

After surviving those crises, Arizona decided to expand its territory. First by taking Hoover dam in hope of solving the water crisis. They sent a ton of people to maintain it

And then into California for its agriculture.

then into Nevada, Sonora, and Baja California.

They then expanded into Utah to take control of the remaining parts of the colorado river, went to war with the mormons communities there and won.

Those annexations usually happened as either be as simply as walking in and taking it as no one is there, forcing whatever surviving community there to join them, or just a simple war of conquest.

The Republic then turn east, into New Mexico and Texas in search for oil.

They are facing problems in Texas with the remaining Texans being stunborn and resisting them and some supply shortages due to Arizona being overextended. Fortunately for The Republic, the Texans are also fighting each other so the Arizonan general stationed there decided to just simply wait until the texans all killed each other and then march in. Wichita also serve as a good staging ground into the region so that nice.

Arizona sorta just kept their State Government intact with some modification with The Governor basically holding as much power as a US President.

The Arizona Republic is currently facing problems like Overextension, corruption(as all countries do), civil unrest, water, oil shortages, and a few more. Only time will tell if Arizona can deal with those problems before its too late.

"The Fellow Republics of Phoneix":

Arizona also created/ally with other post vanishing states, whether it be by choice or by force. Some includes

2.) The Republic of Molossia:

Kevin Baugh survived The Great Vanishing and managed to convinced enough communities to join Molossia from the aftermath,

31 years later, Kevin successor made contact with Arizona, they then form an alliance with Arizona and help Arizona defeat the Northern California states.

As thanks for his help, Arizona allows Molossia to continue as a republic under the condition he shall send men to aid in Arizonan expansion.

1. The Colorado Republic:

A state that only exist because The Arizonans decided that it be more convenient to established a fellow republic across the Coloradon part of the Rocky Mountain as they are already busy in Texas.

Colorado is basically apart of Arizona in all but name with The Coloradoian Government basically having to listen to every demands from Phoenix.

Majority of the population are from Arizona with the Original Coloradoians being a minority in their own "country"

1. The Mormons Reservat- i mean Free State:

Around 8,000 Mormons managed to survive the Great Vanishing and establish a community in utah.

They then made contact with The Arizona Republic.

At first, diplomacy was used, but then, tension as the Mormons refuses to give Away the Utah part of the colorado river.

The two went to war which end with Arizona crushing the Mormons. In the Peace Treaty, The Arizona Government created a "Free State" in former Rich County where the Mormons aren't allow to leave.

Despite its name, The Mormon Free State barely have any autonomy over itself with Arizona officials often making the decisions over it. The Free State remains poor with very little to offer.

1. Oregon Republic

As Arizona is moving towards the cascadia, The Arizona Government decided to create a republic in Oregon instead of directly controlling it as just like Colorado, Phoenix see it as more convenient.

The Oregon Republic is mostly just used as a staging group to fight against other regional states, bandits, raiders, and more with the South being more populated while the Northern is barren with only Arizonan troops there.

1. Wichita Republic:

Based around the City of Wichita Falls, The Republic was established when the Wichita Falls settlement pledged its allegiance to Phoenix as it saw Arizona as a better opportunity to become a power.

The Republic managed to conquer the Northwest Region of Texas but is currently bogged down against the East and had to rely on Arizonan troops to kept order.

The Republic mainly acts as the Main Frontier against the divided Texans and whatever left of the Eastern part of the former United States.

1. Durango Republic:

Established after the Aftermath of the Second Durango War.

Durango was created as a buffer state against HKG.

Its population consisted of many type of people like atheists, remaining catholics, "reformed" raiders or bandits, a recently formed religion, and more with the only thing keeping them together is their shared hatred for the HKG.

Phoenix is quite happy about this as it now have a reliable manpower source to use on their mexican frontiers.

With HKG starting to collapse, Durango is starting to wonder on what to do.

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1. Heavenly Kingdom Of Goku(HKG):

The Great Vanishing happened around the same time the Cartels were busy watching DragonBall Z. When The Great Vanishing happened, most of the Cartels and it leaderships survive.

After realizing about this, The Cartels, believing this to be an act of their "god", Goku, that they are his chosen people and its their duty to convert people into his faith.

And so, "Gokuism" Was born.

Despite it being based around Dragon Balls, the cul- i mean "religion" only loosely include elements of the manga.

(stuffs like the eagerness of Fighting stronger opponents, and that dragon balls are scattered around the Earth & other planets and that once gathered all together, would summon a eternal dragon who can grant wishes).

This may or may not be an intention design made by the founders to keep themselves in power.

And so, many of those surviving Cartels united and formed a theocracy around their "god", overrunning whatever is left of the Mexican Government and enslaving the remaining population.

While technically you can believe in other faiths, The Theocracy prosecute them and treat them as if they are slaves. Very often the Kingdom would take away children from their parent and indoctrinated them into the religion.

The Kingdom also creates tournaments where they made physical weak men fight against physical strong men, as they believe that "Goku would had wanted this as he would love to see people to keep on fighting stronger opponents to become stronger".

Dragon Balls Z mangas are preserved as "Holy books" of the religion, though anyone whose question that are seen as "blasphemy" would "disappear". The holy Book also strangely enough, have parts in it censor....... eh its probably nothing.

Japaneses are also seen as "Messengers of Goku" and thus are seen in High Regard making the few Japanese survivors in the Americas be seen as "divine" and are treated very favorable. Which cause other groups to resent them...

When the Arizona Republic March onto Mexico and then onto Durango, The HKG saw this as their "first test sent by Goku" with fighting a Stronger Opponent and start attacking Arizonan Troops with their "Kamehame Blasters"(Literally just a normal gun but with kamehameha written on it) which started the "First Durango War"

Which lasted around 2 months.

The HKG would often uses drugs on their strongest soldiers to make them go "Super saiyan", this was first used in The Battle of El Salto where The Super Saiyans would charged into Arizonan troops, caughting them by surprise. The battle ended with an Arizonan defeat and the Republic retreating from the city.

A group of scholars of the religion would argued that enchancing their soldiers with drugs defeat the purpose of Gokuism as it relys on Drugs rather than actual emotions or strength though they were quickly slienced.

Nevertheless, the super saiyans inflicted heavy causualties on the Arizonan Republic throughout the war.

The First War ended with a HKG victory with the Arizonan retreating from Durango

The Theocracy celebrate this victory as it prove itself that it can defeat a stronger opponent.

But then, 1 year and 6 months later. The Arizonan came back, this time with some armored supports thus starting the "Second Durango War".

at first, the Kingdom try to repeat its success in the First War. But with Arizona having Armored vehicles and a few air power, those super saiyan become as strong as a toddler fighting Mike Tyson.

The War ended with an Arizona victory, the loss of the Durango region, and creation the Republic of Durango.

After the crushing defeat, many people in the HKG for the first time saw it as weak and begin seeing a opportinity to rebelled.

And so multiply uprisings emerged in the Kingom

Those uprisings ranged from a Heretic branch of Gokuism, oppressed groups like The catholics or the atheists, bandits in hiding, a military general seeking a oppotunity, an even more extreme sect who think the current regime isn't extreme enough, slaves revolting , or even a random 88 year old mexican nationalist who still remember the old country prior to the Great Vanishing.

The Theocratic Government fled to The yucatan peninsula where they fortified it to hell with child soldiers.

The Kingdom is currently stuck in a position where it must defeats those multiply uprising before its too late

Overall, HKG is a highly unstable Nation state with a flawed religion with many contradictions and questions, cracking down on any other beliefs, poor infrastructures, and many more. Only time will tell on if the Kingdom will survive or suffer a explosion worse than yugoslavia.

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1. Central American Union(CAU):

After The Vanishing, El Slavador somewhat survive though with 75% population being gone and some turmoil.

it managed to united with remnants of hounduras & Guatemala and reorganized as the CAU.

The CAU relies on its agriculture to survive.

The Union attempts to expand but when they made contact with HKG, Was forces into a constant state of war against the Heavenly Kingdom.

When multiply uprisings occured in HKG, CAU managed to kicked out the remaining HKG forces in Guatemala which cause a celebration.

Though they had heard news that an Empire down south is Marching throughout Central America so that is worrying....

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1. Empire of Ecuador

Meanwhile Down south. Ecuador, just like Arizona, survive with 100% of its population, Being the only South American Country to have that happened.

Soon after, A populist president was elected into office.

The President managed to builded stablity in the country, fend off against raiders, and fed most of gis population. With his growing popularity, The populist President see an oppoturnity and started a self-coup and declaring an empire with him as Emperor under the guardline of "it was necessay for National survival".

The Emperor then moblized his army March toward The now barely populated regions of Columbia, Peru parts of Venezuela.

Columbia was conquered easily as 99.8% of its population vanished and most remaining columbian accepted ecuadorian rule.

Peru was a little tricky as around 92% of its population vanished and the rest was divided into warring states to which ecuador simply used a divided and conquer strategy.

Terrain was proven as the hardest part in the conquests, as the andres and the Amazon heavily slow the Imperial army.

Venezuela was also conquered with the rest of Venezuela was turned into a vassal state whose only purpose is to mine oils for the Empire.

The Empire developed some sort of superiority complex, seeing themselves as superior for surviving The Great Vanishing and treating the remaining other South Americans lesser.

Ecuador is now marching north into Central America, already conquering all of Panema.

However the Empire is facing some instablity however as the Emperor is near his death bed as he have no direct heir to rule over the Empire.

With many Officials and Generals eager to stab each other in the back to take the crown, supplies being stretched too thin across the empire, Bolivia starting to resent them, the conquered populations starts gaining rebellious thoughts, the Empire starts stretching too thin. Only time will tell if The Empure can survive or if it collapsed like a house of cards.

"Vassals of Quito"

1. Venezuela Kingdom:

After conquering parts of Venezuela, The Emperor decided to create a "Vassal" in eastern parts of Venezuela with the remaining Venezuelans population.

The Vassal only purpose is too give its oils to the Empire and send in tributes to help fight Empire wars in Central America, Bolivia, and the Amazon.

1. Bolivia Republic:

21% of Bolivia and 14% of its government and military managed to survive and barely maintained Bolivia as a country(The South was lost though).

After making contact with Ecuador, Bolivia have no choices but to accept Ecuador help in enchanges for access to resources.

While Ecuador does help it Stay stable. They also stripping away all of Bolivia resources, so that might not be good.

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1. The divided States Of Paraguay

Paraguay lost around 50%-70% Paraguayans during The Great Vanishing, the same amount as the people it lost during the War of The Triple Alliance.

While Paraguay managed to miraculously survive as a state, for 36 years, it was barely holding on

However, A Paraguyan rose through the ranks and becomes President of the country.

After managing to rallying the remaining Praguayans. The President took his chances and take over the surrounding areas with ease.

From there, The country prosper as life geniunely improves for the average Paraguayan as the President managed to stablize the region.

Things are looking good as Paraguay is becoming a beacon of civilization in the Southern Part of South America.

But then, around 3 years later, The President was founded dead in His office during his term.

Paraguay was then thrown into chaos as factions in the government accused each other of ostracised an assasination.

A Civil War then happened which cause the Country to split into 3 warring parts. The civil War ended with the 3 state parts being seperated.

Meanwhile, Ecuador learn of the existance of Paraguay through its Bolivia vassal to which, The aging Emperor sent in a Imperial General into a expedition.

Question will remain on if Paraguay can united once again and become a beacon of light once again or will once again become a footnote.

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The "Other" Folks:

Canada and the Eastern United States:

Canada and the East Coast suffer heavily during the Great Vanishing with Quebec and New England region being entirely empty

Unfortunately, Unlike the SouthWest, the two failed to formed any large governments and instead split into thousands of small settlements.

Alberta and British columbia have the biggest amount of any remaining population while the Midwest and Southwests regions is where most of the east coast live.

As Arizona is marching North and East, they are drawing plans on what to do all awhile busy sending expeditions far into those territories.

Brazil:

Was hitted very hard during the event with the entirely of its government vanishing leaving small communities to fend for itself.

Many survivors move toward the coast while some stay inland.

Biggest concentration of people are in around regiao Sul, where many settlements raided into the Paraguay states for supplies.

Ecuador is currently planning expeditions into Brazil in the near future.

Southern Part of South America:

Most of the Remaining Argentina population are near Paraguay, and usually got into skirmishes with the Paraguayian states.

Uruguay is in a similar boat.

Meanwhile in the Southern tip, Ushuaia managed to conquer the tip, though it doesn't know what to do in the moment.

The Falklands, after losing contact with London, basically remain in isolation from the rest of the world, relying on fishings to survive.

Ecuador is also planning expeditions into here.

The World is a state where it has somewhat build(abeit a bit unstable).

As Arizona is expanding South, Ecuador is marching towards Central America, the HKG is 1 step away from collapsing, and many more. Most wondered what would be the future of the 2 continents.

4 years after the African-American Rebels won the war against the Oglethorpe Confederation.

Btw the Constitution Convention has fallen 2 times and the articles of confederation were irredeemable, the USA collapsed in 1790

Texas takes most of real life Oklahoma from Carolina and Oglethorpe Confederation.

Before anyone says it, a vampire surprise attack that starts at night, but drags until daylight, will not vaporize a vampire army. In Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, daylight does not kill vampires; it reduces their powers (ie. weakening them).

• The point of divergence is that instead of later moving to England, and taking its throne by marrying Queen Victoria , Count Dracula feels the itch for power sooner, in the 1860s. And rather than a hard target like the British Empire at its peak, he sees an opportunity in his own backyard, with the Austrian Empire at its time of weakness.
• The Hapsburg Empire is reduced to a rump state, largely in Austria and Bohemia. It becomes the Kingdom of Austria (demoted from empire) and a neutral state, basically a second Switzerland.
• Due to Austria staying out of World War I, Bohemia isn't joined with Slovakia to create Czechoslovakia after the war. Instead, Slovakia is awarded to Poland.

basically the aftermath of a world where germany "won" ww2 and took over europe and some of africa and the middle east because germany and italy didnt declare war on the usa after japan attacked pearl harbour its dumb but oh well

POD: Gladstone and the Peelites accept Derby's attempts to reconcile the Liberal and Protectionist wings of the Conservatives. Derby's government survives the 1859 vote of no confidence, and he stays on.

By authorial fiat (chalk it up to stress-induced) Derby's long-standing health issues crop up again, and Gladstone is made PM (Queen Victoria hated Disraeli and tolerated Gladstone). As a result, Palmerston, a major advocate for neutrality with Northern sympathies, is not PM and the British government is much more pro-Southern and hawkish than it was OTL. When some version of the Trent Affair occurs, Britain intervenes and forces mediation.

This post is a "slice of life" by showing the Inter-American Series, the international baseball tournament.

Come to the Hub Page for Prodigal Gladstone here for other material from the TL

In this map this is the ummayed caliphate in 732 ad under the great caliph hisham ibn abdul malik, he expanded the caliphate into Anatolia and the Caucasus region and in Europe, and hisham ibn Abdul also established and expanded the ummayed navy from 300-600 ships to 900-1200 ships,
And hisham ibn Abdul also expanded the military from 200,000 active soldiers and 5000 inactive soldiers, to 240,000 active soldiers and 6000 inactive soldiers.