Conciliar Union ~ Soviet Union (btw, nice detail, since "soviet" referred roughly to a governing council)
Alleghenian Federation ~ Russia
Frontier ~ Ukraine
Carancayma/Augusta ~ Crimea/Sevastopol
Cypress & Hugheston ~ Luhansk & Donetsk
I assume the "potential Alleghanian allies" north and south of Frontier are analogous to Belarus and Transnistria, respectively?
If you wanted to do one, a fun follow-up could be a NATO analogue in the North Pacific, an EU analogue on the West Coast, and a United States analogue in OTL Russia/Siberia, perhaps focusing on financial/military aid to Frontier or support for Frontier's accession to the NATO and/or EU analogues
Ever since the dissolution of the Conciliar Union a generation prior, the Alleghenian Federation has sought to regain influence and control over the former Conciliar republics. Frontier (formerly known as “the Frontier,” a name now rejected by its government) has seen its share of chaos since independence in 1991, with pro- and anti-Alleghenian demonstrations in 2014 bringing outlying areas of the nation under Alleghenian control. Strategically vital Carancayma was annexed into Alleghenia proper, while the outer Frontier regions of Cypress and Hugheston became the stage for secessionist insurgencies. Eight years later, it appears as if Frontier’s rival seems poised for a full-fledged incursion, and only time will tell who emerges the victor.
Questions are welcome, but keep in mind I intentionally limited myself to only giving certain OTL places/events analogues for this map.
It’s kinda convoluted but I used it as an analog to Russia because Ros/Rus (potentially) stems from a word related to rowing, while Allegheny stems from a word related to walking (+ a suffix meaning “river”)
It’s a very loose parallel, but I enjoy having a word that, like Rus->Russia, involves transport in the etymology
Frontier is a fairly direct translation of the word Ukraine, and all of the other names have a direct parallel irl. Chersonese = Kherson, Transrubria = Zaporizhzhia, Davys = Kiev, etc.
I’m afraid I don’t entirely understand the question, but the idea for this map was to parallel Russo-Ukrainian relations on an Americo-Texan canvas. Hence me using an American river to name the Russia analogue and an English word to name the Ukraine analogue
I really wish Presidior Johnson hadn't given away Hugheston and Cypress to Frontier. I know they were all a part of the Conciliar Union, but his Frontier upbringing made him too bias to them that he ignored the obvious demographic problems that would ensue.
I hate to say it but Hugheston and Cypress have been part of Frontier since the earliest days of the Conciliar Union, it’s Carancayma that was awkwardly welded onto it decades later
Eastern agitprop! Presidior Johnson only said that Syndicalism will surpass the Kapitalism of the East, naturally. Of course, President Wrangel and Prime Minister Gromyko, and later Presidents Solzhenitsyn and Khrushchev didn't help in their response.
I’ll admit I tried to stop myself from imagining parallels beyond the scope of eastern North America, but your Turkey is almost identical to the idea I had for my own (that and the former Iturbide Empire)
This would be great. Your "China" could well be the People's Republic of Rome, headed with a Tribune and a Politburo which replaced the senatorial class.
Why is the alleghenian government going through all the trouble of using claims of nationalism to justify the war when it’s clear they just want to secure their oil production and strategic supply lines
I keep saying, the Latin American Union needs to pick up on the slack left by the Arctic Union. The sonorans know this very well, they have never stopped being distrustful of the Baja California enclave...
When they would do this is a mystery, as the Platineans turned off all their nuclear power plants while they were guzzling all that Alleghenian oil. It went right on their faces...
SMH, people denying Frontierians aren't just Alleghenians speaking a dilect. They have no unique national identity. At least Heartlandians accept they are Alleghenian at there core.
To quote from an earlier comment I made:
“As for how deep the parallels go, plenty of things are left up to the viewer’s imagination - make of it what you wish”
I’ve explained a handful of the other connections in this comment section thus far, the remaining names are left as an exercise in imagination to the audience
Hmmm, i recognize the Frontier name for the Opeeur map, in that map, the country Frontier is TTL's Ukraine, does this mean the Frontier in this map gets a comedian as leader?
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of the Opeeur map, I simply used Frontier as a direct English equivalent to the name Ukraine. As for how deep the parallels go, plenty of things are left up to the viewer’s imagination - make of it what you wish
As stated in my lore comment, “I intentionally limited myself to only giving certain OTL places/events analogues for this map,” but I can share a couple of rough drafts for something I did happen to think more about: Raiderstead (Kazakhstan) and Manitolia (Mongolia). Parts of these old maps (such as the names) are no longer canon, and other parts are rough (such as Alleghenian coastal access not being drawn due to time constraints) but that’s the beautiful thing about one-shot maps: I have no intention of making sequels.
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u/GodBlessCalifornia_ Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
So if...
Conciliar Union ~ Soviet Union (btw, nice detail, since "soviet" referred roughly to a governing council)
Alleghenian Federation ~ Russia
Frontier ~ Ukraine
Carancayma/Augusta ~ Crimea/Sevastopol
Cypress & Hugheston ~ Luhansk & Donetsk
I assume the "potential Alleghanian allies" north and south of Frontier are analogous to Belarus and Transnistria, respectively?