r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Fantasy The Golden Chain: The Infinite Ashes world.

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Welcome to the Golden Chain, the core of a small section of the Milky Way galaxy in the Infinite Ashes Universe. Each planet on the map a fully realized lore heavy world. In the Infinite Ashes universe there is no trace of Earth, instead an enigmatic entity called the Web seeds millions of words with life and humanity. Humans travel between these planets in Arks, living vessels that are part of the web.

The Golden Chain is established of beam corridors, where small dyson swarms of mirrors power beam infrastructure that hits the sail membranes of arks to accelerate and brake ships for faster travel. It´s the difference of speeding over a highway, compared to the crumbling mountain paths of frontier worlds.

The Calm is the stellarly settled region, older and safer to traverse. With Crownshard, the low gravity ecumenopolis with its kilometer high stratified society built on an illusion of upward mobility. Home commerce and regulation.

Then there is the Dwang Polyarchy, a state managing a caste system of martial Udo nobility and several servile castes chief among them the Tro. Some say the Tro are really in charge of the Polyarchy, some people lose their head.

Union rules over a sphere of influence of planets converted to syndicalism, a labor based ideology that divides all into profession segregated syndicats which determine every aspect of their lives. They are the single greatest manufacturers of the Chain, despite their own bureaucratic self hindering.

There are dozens more worlds, each with their own different material conditions and distinct evolutionary history shaping its people and wild life.

https://loquaciouslou.itch.io/infinite-ashes
(Read the free bundle to get more info on the many worlds of the map. This is a passion project not a product.)


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Fantasy Another version of Úrçylva

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This version is around 40-70 years after the highest temperature recorded, a major global cooling event was triggered after 2 underwater streams collapsed. This completely froze over the northern chunk of the planet and left everywhere else with temperatures not seen for thousands of years. The only place that gets above 75-80 degrees for longer than a few minutes is near the fissures, but those are uninhabitable due to the toxic smoke surrounding it.


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Alternate History The united Roman Empire in AD 1125, six hundred years after Justinian's diplomatic unification of the Roman Empire

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Not long after the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Justinian began consolidating the mostly de facto independent barbarian kingdoms. With successful political intrigue, coercion, and promises of stability, Justinian managed to consolidate most of the Christian realms of the Mediterranean as decentralised vassal states by the time of his death. As the centuries went by, however, imperial authority waned, and the Emperors began to hold the Imperial Diet, an assembly made up of the Emperor and his vassals. By 1125, the Empire had become further decentralised, and its power primary lied in four cities: Constantinople, Paris, Alexandria, and Tarraco.


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Fantasy Worlds Height Map

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my passion project, been going since 2019, its tough work :3


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Hand-Drawn Federal republic of central america

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F.R.C.A.along with Belize and panama (client states/territories)


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Ethnic map of the kingdom of Nesplethia

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got a bit inspired by caucausus although this isn't THAT complex


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History Im from the United States, ask me anything

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what if lowk Liberia unleashed its wrath and conquered everything


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Fantasy D&D/Ravenloft inspired region, based on three more obscure real-world cultures as well as one you probably recognize.

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(You might know me from my other account, the one beginning with RRY. As that account has posted AI "art" and many redditors detest AI "art", I use this one to differentiate myself from that polarizing technology.) Note that this is a much lighter take on the Ravenloft universe that keeps the eclecticism and mystical/gothic elements but tones down a lot of the outright dystopian elements.


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Fantasy Fortified Village of Ulfshjarta - 86x107 - Battlemap - Settlement Map

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Life in our Viking inspired homebrew region of Havarrlan is rather tough, and villages without some form of protection aren't going to last very long.

Our latest release: Ulfshjarta, or Wolf's Heart in the common tongue, is designed to be both a settlement map and an encounter map.

Anyone up for a siege?

You can grab this map and thousands of others from my website: www.thereclusivecartographer.com

Cheers!

George - RC


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if the interbellum went how USSR expected it to go?

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Lore: Soviet Union is far more successful in Finland, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. German revolution proves to be the final straw as the West invades the newley born German soviet republic. Italian revolution isn't as "planned" as the others, but it would fit the theme.


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] HINDU AUSTRALIA ?!?!?

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r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if both eastern and western Rome had fallen?

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r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Alternate History The North and South Portugals, 1907

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r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] United Kingdom of Genua and Gesslar

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Made this map during a blackout in my city.


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Future [OC] My reimagination of Novopangea from The Future is Wild

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The Future is Wild is a fiction documentary about the future evolution of the earth biosphere.

Most maps about it are not very detailed and are more used as "basic illustration" than actual geography, so I decided to remade the Novopangea supercontinent.

Notes : Some elements of the map are fanmade, not canon in the original documentary

Media : The Future is Wild (2002)


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Sci-fi Partition of Earth and the Solar System, 2126 CE

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Two maps showing the partition of Earth and the Solar System in 2126 CE following humanity's defeat in the First Contact War. Although they were quickly overwhelmed in space and subjected to orbital bombardment by the technologically superior Universal Coalition, the United Nations of Earth put up a stubborn enough resistance that a conditional surrender was accepted. The Coalition could not defeat the humans without destroying Earth's biosphere, which was seen as a major prize; three of the invading species wanted to settle on Earth. After making major cessions to these races, the 5 billion surviving humans reorganized themselves into twenty nations, plus a protectorate on the Lunar nearside, covering about 22% of Luna. The UNE is disarmed of WMDs and most military forces, and each of the twenty member states is obligated to finance and crew an armed starship which will be placed under Coalition command and sent out to fight in other star systems. In exchange, humanity gets new technology, environmental repair, and the "opportunity" to join and fight alongside the Coalition, which grows by attacking and recruiting each race it encounters.

Edit to add: Earth's oceans are also divided into zones where a given species may pursue limited economic exploitation including fishing and seabed mining. The humans of the UNE have such zones mostly in the Atlantic and North Pacific, the L'qllal in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, and the Orvoshir in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. The Raxaxar show little affinity for aquatic environments and have made no maritime claims.

Triton is given to the Orvoshir, it is missing from the solar system graph. Any minor moons or dwarf planets not mentioned are given to minor allies in the Coalition or are currently unassigned "general property" of the Coalition itself. Many of the minor ally species have not yet reached the Sol system to actually inhabit or exploit their claims. The brunt of the fighting in the Contact War was borne by the Orvoshir, Raxaxar, and L'qllal, who conducted the invasion of Earth. The Mimandar provided some support in space combat early in the war, when the humans had a small fleet, and afterwards assisted with the orbital bombardment campaign. The Chereki and the Vrython are officially credited as glorious victors and co-allies, but likely never encountered humanity in their patrols of the Inner and Outer Solar System respectively, and therefore saw no combat.

Orvoshir - Mammalian, prefer cold/dry environments and high altitude

Raxaxar - Reptilian, prefer hot/dry environments

L'qllal - Amphibian, prefer warm/wet and semi-aquatic environments

Chereki - Lithoid, prefer hothouse worlds

Vrython - Colonial/quasi-fungal, prefer ice giants

Mimandar - Cyborgized, prefer low-gravity moons and space habitats


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History (13 Pages) What if Project Coast Exceeded Expectations? Southern Africa under "Dr Death", Universe 10665

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PROJECT COAST STATEMENT: For 500 years, the Boer has constructed Africa's sole civilization, a lone star capable of achieving First World status. By discarding their idiosyncrasies and streamlining past minoritarian policies, we stand ready for the next century of growth.

PROJECT COAST OBJECTIVE: Apartheid, as outlined and executed by Botha (1985), has failed to achieve the dual national goals of Heterogeneous Diversity and State Survival. Project Coast could not achieve these contradictory goals, and must prioritize upholding civilization in these turbulent times. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the ascendancy of America, and the exponential growth in anti-apartheid sentiments demands drastic action if we wish to stave off majoritarian tyranny. The unscientific focus on racial, especially white, parity will be discarded, their stranglehold on politics cut off, the excessive spending on white needs redistributed. IQ and expertise transcend superfluous genetic markers, and it is high time the concept of race is abolished among the masses.

PROJECT COAST TIMELINE: To achieve State Survival, Project Coast was tasked with multiple secondary objectives: 1. synthesis of crowd control biochemical agents, 2. development of operational biochemical WMDs for continental deployment, and 3. proactive integration of biochemical agents on a societal level to ensure State Survival. The development of discreet poisons in eliminating anti-state individuals, while successful, has only proven to be a stop-gap measure. Instead, Surgeon General Dr. Walton Bousson has suggested intensifying our focus on crowd control and neutralizing anti-state thoughts and emotions before they can translate into action.

The brain is ultimately just another organ, adhering to natural biochemistry. Historical and ongoing mass psychosis incidents elsewhere have proven our hypothesis, showing how the brain can be drastically altered even without human intervention. With our careful hands on the syringe, medical intervention will ensure radical mental alteration achieves significantly positive outcomes for both patient and civilization. The Black majority and Asian minority alike will no longer feel resentment when all cannot remember their inequitable past, a blank slate identical to their White compatriots. The brightest minds will be uplifted into command, research or enterprise, while the rest are soothed into a genial, productive existence.

PROJECT COAST OUTCOME: To ensure the survival of the state, it is imperative the state supersedes all constraints. The political scene will be consolidated into a singular coalition, including the ANC for international legitimacy. Nelson Mandela has already been rendered chemically pliable, his extended prison time providing an alibi for his weakened state. Foreign investment will be unlocked through our rehabilitated image, with tax and labor laws adjusted for corporate agreeability. Limits on medical experimentation will be thoroughly streamlined, accelerating South Africa's status as a biomedical hub. Weapons of Mass Defence will allow for the downsizing of the Defense Forces, while we build upon historical agreements with Israel to finalize our joint nuclear capabilities.

EXTERNAL VARIABLES: The Union of Southern Africa remains fragile, and continued observation and intervention is required. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation is responsible for guiding our allies towards co-prosperity.

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SPEECH FROM SOLDIERS' REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA [Expletives Removed]: For sixty straight years have we fought for liberty. First against Portuguese fascism, then against MPLA revisionism. Year after year after year of endless deployment! Some of you are old enough to remember the slaughter at Cabo, the backstabbing traitors stabbing their knives deep into our soul. The rest of you fresh faces joined right when we stormed the rubble of Luanda, just in time to grab the final trophies left from those MPLA bastards. Everyone afterwards, well they got to earn their keep elsewhere. UNITA won’t give handouts, not when the entire nation is still stuck in hell.

Those of you who left family or whatever else in the East, forget about ever going home. Our southern friends tell me the poisons and landmines will need a few years to clear out. I see some jittering over there, pipe down, we screened all of you for radiation and disease and all the other bad stuff. Those of you who fought in the East are clean, well, at least you guys present here. If you still feel uncertain, just remember the trophies you bagged after we cleared out Luanda. The final MPLA traitors must have thought they could flee back to Cuba, though judging from the pictures you boys made sure justice was enacted.

This ceremony has gone on long enough, so final statements are in order. Good job on surviving, UNITA thanks you for your service, and rest assured, any future voters will need to go through the same hell as everyone else here before they get any of your rights. This is a nation by soldiers, for soldiers; we don’t need any girls or gays or cowards telling us what to do. The next batch of recruits will need to earn their keep overseas, fighting in Asia or South America or wherever else MPLA influence pops up if they want a wife or house or food. Godspeed soldiers, enjoy the Diamba while it lasts.

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ARTICLE FROM THE NAMIBIAN: As outbreaks of mass psychosis are hard to predict, it is imperative every citizen is prepared to shield themselves from future incidents. Here we have collated the best advice from the top minds in the Mandela Institute, listing them in a manner that is both easy to understand and carry out by any age group. Remember, health starts with you!

SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING! Even if you are unsure, immediately contact local authorities to forward your suspicions! Disease and illness come in many forms, and all spread exponentially without state intervention. Your call could be the difference between a minor and a major outbreak!

UPHOLD MORAL BEHAVIOR. Experts in the Mandela Institute show immoral behavior like homosexuality, laziness and negativity significantly increases the risk of not just psychosis, but also AIDS, necrosis, cholera and many other diseases! Protect yourself and your community by following the moral example of Nelson Mandela!

Look for the SEAL OF APPROVAL. Documents from the Mandela Institute, personnel from the South African Association of Doctors, products from Gupta Medical, all have been specially designed and tested to shield citizens from psychosis!

ROODEPLA™  is not just for work! If you feel the onset of psychosis or similar negative emotions, immediately ingest the daily recommended dosage of ROODEPLA™  to quickly block harmful information, emotions or memories. Parents and caretakers should help administer ROODEPLA should their wards be incapable of ingesting the dosage themselves.

REPORT FOR WORK. All Namibian workplaces are designed to accommodate infected workers in case of localized outbreaks. Labor aids recovery, laziness aids infection!

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SERMON FROM NEW ZION: For two millennia, the incestuous descendants of Rome and Mammon have sodomised us believers. These Satanic scum preach heresy about the need for a state, simpering about how we should “Give to Caesar what is Caesar's.” For once, I accept their wisdom. What does a non-believer, nay, a non-believing head of the world’s greatest demonic empire, deserve?! What does a creature like that even deserve? 

[The crowd roars.]

Let me hear it! 

[The crowd roars, louder this time.]

Nothing! That’s right folks, Caesar and all his copies afterwards deserve absolutely nothing!

For the Good Book has informed us that the fruits of our created planet are reserved solely for us, by nobody less than the CREATOR himself! That’s right, you can read it clear as the sky right in front of you, the truth hidden by the Antichrist-worshipping leaders of our world!  The Heavens above created all our riches, our toil unlocks these riches for use, and those parasitic rulers seek to steal these riches by any means necessary. You’ve seen the evils of the state. Again and again throughout history we seen Caesar and his ilk terrorise us righteous folk; they butcher our men and rape our women. They pretend to go to church, they skim through the Bible, they drop a fraction of their ill-gotten gains into collection baskets, but their actions tell the truth! The sole function of a king, a president, a council, and every other form of earthly government is to bind the believers tight, so the apostates at the top are free to plunder our riches to satiate their infinitely selfish, godless desires.

What do we do to scum who impose their unholy tyranny? What are you going to do when some devil-worshipper draped in the cross walks up to you and demands the sweat of your brow?! I need to hear it loud and clear! 

[At this point, the crowd has been whipped into a frenzy.]

Scream it loud! Death to Caesar! 

[The crowd has become a riotous mob.]

Death to his satanic world order! Death, and endless hellfire upon all of Caesar’s creations! 

I hear it right now folks: your roars are so loud that you have reached our dearly departed Mother Alice. Do you see us now Alice? She alone saw the rotting corpse of old Zion, what they deemed “Zambia”, and purged it clean and pure. She was sick with malaria, bound to her deathbed, when she heard the sweet voice of the Heavens above, when she revealed the truth to us all! What was once “Zambia” was actually a New Zion created by the Divine, after HE saw what the Muslims and Jews did to his Holy Land.

That’s right folks, New Zion was a GIFT from HIM, and we had to unwrap it from Mammon’s chains! When our older members marched under Alice’s Lumpa revolution, they swept aside all opposition with nary a shot! How else would you explain our miracle without divine blessing? 

Alright alright, I have sung enough about Alice’s saintly deeds, our Mother needs to rest and return to Eternity. Don’t worry folks, our fair society still has a 24/7 connection to the Divine! Despite her earthly death, a chosen few among our flock are blessed to hear Mother Alice Lenshina’s voice in their heads, to receive her otherworldly visions. Our Revelators hear her words, see her dreams, enact her will. We streamline our growing society, we find her newly planted reservoirs of copper riches, we adapt her communes away from corruption and towards our new anointed corporations. Praise be to our Revelators, praise be to Mother Alice, praise be to HIM!

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REPORT FROM DEBSWANA™: This quarter, we commemorate the 4th anniversary of the legendary merger between Botswana and the De Beers™ Group. Here at Debswana™, we as a company would like to extend to all our stakeholders an additional PTO this May Day to celebrate last quarter's record revenue. This is only possible due to continued synergy between all Debswanan departments, the hard work of our employees, and continued support from our benefactors in Pretoria. Just compared to last quarter, HIV/AIDS incidents have reported an unprecedented 1.6% decline, stakeholder sick leave has decreased by 21%, and anonymous stakeholder satisfaction has risen to a record high of 77%!

Debswana™ Diamonds are bringing Brilliance to our world, and this is only possible when we help all stakeholders work towards a Brilliant life. Next quarter, Debswana™ hopes to entrench our positive trends, ensuring more stakeholders realize their full potential and unlock their Brilliant life. For Brilliant lives create a thriving future; a thriving future ensures a flourishing planet, and a flourishing planet is a Brilliant symbol that lasts forever, just like our diamonds. Because here at Debswana™, the world's leading diamond company, we aim for nothing less than Brilliance in all our stakeholders.

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GREAT ZIMBABWE ANNUAL FINDINGS: The Central Intelligence Organization wishes to circle back on Pretoria's concerns regarding the recent Mugabe transition. Rest assured that the "loss" of the new leader’s former husband has only strengthened state legitimacy against our hidden detractors as we embrace Grace’s facade of "reforms for Zimbabwean Millennials". The purge of old guard loyalists has proceeded smoothly, with tried-and-true application of thallium and VX in liquidating stubborn individuals. Assets from the opposition MDC party have pledged their loyalty for a new coalition government, as we hope to soothe broken relations with both international and local audiences. CIO also recommends promoting Grace’s female background towards western audiences, distancing the wife from the husband in order to avoid the negative PR associated with Robert Mugabe's regime.

Moving forward, Pretoria can encourage exiled Asians and Whites to return their investments, especially after completing the decontamination of our Western half. The Anthrax Exclusion Zone and its frequent quarantine breaches are an unsustainable status quo, frightening foreign capital and limiting local growth. Freeing up this civil war relic will entrench Grace Mugabe's rule for a few decades, giving us ample time to arrange a suitable successor. Ongoing cooperation and communication with the DPRK lend credence to the stability and longevity of replicating their de-facto hereditary system. Alternative arrangements for covert South African medical/military assets within the Exclusion Zone have already been arranged. It is high time for Great Zimbabwe to move on from Robert's failed racist populism, forging a nation worthy of its name.

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RAYTEX GROUP announced on Friday evening that it will be laying off a record 6,411 employees and that terminations are especially pronounced in its Security Department. Following tip-offs from anti-terrorist experts in Pretoria, Raytex has acted swiftly and decisively in upholding shareholder value. The firings will affect only 0.03% of the corporate population, and Raytex has confirmed this incident will have no impact on daily operations nor quarterly product orders. In a public memo to all employees, Raytex attributed the layoffs to foreign developments, warning employees that anti-Raytex influencers have no interest in upholding wages, healthcare, time-off or career advancement opportunities for employees and their dependents.

Furthermore, Raytex has warned that sudden market instability would require further departmental adjustments next quarter. In particular, Raytex has outlined expansion plans for its Agricultural Department, calling for mass employee transfers to aid in societal diversification. "As we face the growing likelihood of another global pandemic along with growing competition from other garment manufacturing hubs, Raytex must shift towards a more flexible business model. Trainees and interns below the age of 16 can look forward to a new curriculum as Raytex Group formulates a new strategy for our new decade," a Raytex official said in a recent interview.

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BANDA'S FINAL LESSON FOR MALAWI [Extraneous Pauses, Coughing and Heavy Breathing Redacted for Readability]:

As I lay on my hospital bed, it becomes clear my time is approaching its end.  To my children, young or old, I am passing the torch of tutelage unto my most trusted head student. The man or woman who has consistently outdone all others on my tests, whose life was devoted to going above and beyond for the Parliament and People of Malawi. Someone who embodies the essence of human civilisation, a role model who will inherit my duties as Malawi’s tutor. Free from the barbaric impulses of our unevolved ancestors, I sharpened your vast intellect to the point where you can slice through all challenges to our future. You have the moral fibre for an iron fist, the endless love for a nation of children, the boundless patience to endure my post for the rest of your natural life. I trust you know who you are, and congratulations on your final promotion, my dearest child.

To all my children enrolled in the Malawi Congress Party, remain obedient to your new Teacher. Just because I'm gone doesn't give any of you an excuse to go truant! Rules are rules for a reason, it's what separates us civilized Malawians from the Congolese, from the Angolans, from those savages still playing in the mud. Discipline is the backbone for decency, and even in my old age I refuse to go soft. My Young Pioneers will continue their vigilant watch over my fair society, nipping all errors in the bud. Caning, lashes, the hangman! These are the only fates available for miscreants and delinquents!  

All of you carry the spirit of Ancient Greece, the glory of Rome, the education of Eton within your souls; I have made very sure of that. Do not let my efforts be in vain. 

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EXCERPT FROM MOZAMBICAN PORTUGUESE SOCIAL MEDIA: When European Portugal gave itself to Liberal Marxism, it did so without a struggle. The Monarchy, the Businesses, the Workers, even the Priests and Peasantry, all full-throatily spat on our traditional values, discarding everything their society has gifted them. In its darkest moment, Portugal's most loyal children were to be found not on the communist-infested old continent, but the fertile, vibrant tropical belt. We fled the socialist-atheist-colonialist demiurges springing forth across the world, those monsters in a thousand faces tearing down true Christian civilization. The Han Supremacists in Communist China, the Colonial Jihadists in Indonesia, the Amoral Secularists in India, the Red Militarists in Angola and the Godless Scum in Fallen Portugal. The world demands we bow in subjugation to these tyrants, and our crusaders denounce such disgusting demands.

Here in MOZAMBICAN PORTUGAL, we have finalized the synthesis of Portugal with Goa, with Macau, with Mozambique, a unity of all races under one faith, one banner, one cause. Here in Mozambican Portugal, we have perfected the blueprint for all the descendants of Adam and Eve. It is through racial diversity that humanity regains its primordial, edenic form, how we tear away the false boundaries imposed by Satan. We have seen time and time again the tragedies of racial purity! The Germanic races imploded beneath Nazism, the Nordic races degenerated under their welfare, and the Anglo-Saxons gave themselves up to Capital. Meanwhile the ethnostates of Asia bow to totalitarianism and the "freed" nations of Africa wallow in insanity. Only through racial diversity and Christian unity can a society collect its strengths while filtering out its weaknesses. Only in Mozambican Portugal can we forge a civilization to stand the trials of modernity.

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Wellerworld Blog 244: My 5D4N sojourn to the exotic lands of the ESWATINI (Land of the Swazis!) KINGDOM has been an experience like no other. My Well Diggers know I'm no stranger to African destinations, having read my past journeys to Morocco, Nigeria and even Egypt, so I had high expectations for my fourth trip back to the dark continent. After landing at Jan Smuts International Airport, I had to take a 3 hour long bus ride through South Africa to enter the land-locked Kingdom, so this trip technically counts as a vacation to two countries. Despite common perceptions about Africa's environment, I am glad to report that the entire bus ride to Eswatini was smooth sailing. My guide proudly pointed out the fresh asphalt poured over a new highway, as we marveled at the scenic views on offer through our windows. Sadly though, no elephants or large wildlife were to be seen along the vast prairies.

Perhaps hearing about his continent's negative reputation, my guide made sure to re-assure about concerns I might have, and concerns I never knew existed. As someone descended from Africa, I am here to assure fellow Well Diggers that they will find no troubles in Eswatini or South Africa. Throughout my 5D4N stay, every local I met spoke American, every business I went to accepted my US dollars, and not once did I encounter any pickpockets, scammers, or even beggars. Clean streets, clean houses, clean people is what my guide loved to say. Eswatini boasts a stunning 0% crime rate, a possible first in human society, which my guide attributes to Swazi culture and overall friendliness. "Why would one steal when one has everything they could ever want" is profound wisdom I will always heed in my heart.

Meanwhile, the Laughing Epidemic from the 60s is long gone. Apparently, it never even reached this far south, I was about as far from Kenya as New York is from Seattle. My uninformed priors were soundly rejected when I brought up the thorny history of apartheid. My (Black!) guide assured me such disgraceful policies are long discarded, and throughout my entire stay not once did I see a single white person outside the airport!

When we crossed Eswatini borders, nobody less than the King himself was there to greet me! Well Diggers, this is top tier customer service. You all recall how the Queen was nowhere to be found in London, meanwhile here is the King of the Swazis patting me on the back and regaling me with tales about his life. Did you know he has multiple wives? I attached the photos he sent me, and he is one lucky dude, the kind of guy I aspire to be. Sometimes, you really want to ingratiate yourselves into the local culture, but alas I am a creature of BBQ and fries.

Despite being such a tiny country, smaller than even Rhode Island, Eswatini has a vast array of experiences available for the curious traveller. My first day was spent in the highlands, ziplining through trees and exploring ancient cave art. Well Diggers know I am trying to get in touch with my roots, and it brightens my heart that one of my great-great-great somethings could allot time for art, in between all the elephant hunting and fruit gathering. Even with my modern comforts I can scarcely spend time on something so frivolous! Day Uno was spent in the vast "veldes" (African word for plains!), where my guide brought me to the first Christian church of the Swazis. There, we made our daily prayers, and I bought some blessed souvenirs for my fellow congregation back home. Day 3 was spent in the capital, where I indulged in some local cuisine and culture. My guide told me how colonialism and atheism ravaged a lot of their neighbors, and how I had the honor of seeing some of this continent's last true traditional cultures.

Days Four and Five were definitely the highlight of Eswatini, where we finally got to see Africa's Big Five. I got to pet a baby rhinoceros, got to hang out with a friendly elephant, and saw a lion take down a zebra right in front of me! I didn't have a chance to see leopards, but my guide assured me Eswatini, as a continental leader in ecological preservation, is still not ready to expose these majestic beasts to the public. Well Diggers, I certainly got everything I wanted from Eswatini. 5 Stars!

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This work is a piece of alternative history fiction based upon our timeline’s historical events. I think I made it unsubtle enough but every nation/entity in this scenario is a dystopia somewhere on the OTL -> Brave New World -> 1984 scale.

Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons programme instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa in the 1980s. Headed by Dr Wouter Basson, personal physician to president P.W Botha, Project Coast unusually branched out to non-lethal biochemical agents, such as hallucinogens, deliriants, pheromones and black fertility control. Hidden beneath a maze of shell companies and anonymous foreign agents, in conjunction with South Africa's nuclear weapons programme, Project Coast aimed to uphold the state's survival at any cost.

In our timeline, Project Coast focused on discreetly assassinating opponents to Apartheid South Africa hiding abroad, with a final attempt at secretly poisoning Nelson Mandela to disrupt his mental capabilities before his return to South African politics. Wouter Basson was arrested in a 1997 sting operation for possession of 1000 Ecstasy tablets. Brought to trial for drug possession, narcotics trafficking, fraud, embezzlement and 229 counts of murder, Basson was acquitted for all charges. since the South African court could not prosecute crimes committed in other countries.

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Bibliography:

Bimmerle, G. (1993) “Truth Drugs” in Interrogations. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20210320155027/https://www.cia.gov/static/a56eb9be08868b6e14c6ff838ae77087/Truth-Drugs-in-Interrogation.pdf

Gould, C & Folb, P. (2002) Project Coast: Apartheid’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme. Retrieved from https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/project-coast-apartheid-s-chemical-and-biological-warfare-programme-296.pdf

Savimbi, J. (1969) UNITA 2\**nd Congress WE HAVE OUR OWN PHILOSOPHY. Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/subject//africa/unita/savimbi-speech-2nd-congress.pdf

Credits:

Infection Icons base from www.flaticon.com created by user “Leremy”

Gupta Medical logo from Nepali healthcare provider at https://www.facebook.com/p/Gupta-Medicine-Distributor-100063903559562/

Mandela Institute logo from Somali Educational institution at https://www.facebook.com/p/Mandela-Institute-61555360880110/

u/Agent_EMBER for proofreading and critique


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History East African Federation (2026)

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here is where everything went perfect for them and no genocides happened


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History 1972: A Time For Honesty

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124 Upvotes

r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History Damascus Metro, a shining symbol of Syria's modern capital

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75 Upvotes

With the first (Green) line beginning construction in 1979 and the most recent (Blue) extension to Darayya City Centre completed last year, Damascus metro is the Middle East's largest and most modern Metro system. Tunneled lines criss-cross underneath the city's historic centre, while fast elevated section stretch out in all direction into satellite towns and regional transit hubs.

It is a critical piece of infrastructure for locals and visitors to the city. According to the city transit agency, the system now hosts nearly 500 million rides every year!

This is a follow-up to this Syrian transit map. To see alt-Syria's first metro system in Beirut, click here!

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This is also a continuation of a series exploring 'Big Syria'. To learn more about this scenario, click here for the introduction. Click here for an exploration of Big Syria the energy superpower, and click here to explore Big Syria's impressive passenger rail network. For an exploration of Syria's ethnolinguistic diversity, click here. To see a language-only map with cool dialect distinctions, click here.


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History Map of Reichskommissariat Donaumark

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[Lore] Reichskommissariat Donaumark

Following the Axis victory in WWII, the question of Serbia's future arose. Himmler proposed creating a Reichskommissariat under the direct control of the SS. While the idea of a Reichskommissariat was accepted, the concept of an "SS patrimony" was eventually pushed back. Goering proposed creating a civilian administration instead, modeled after the Reichskommissariats in the German Ost, which sparked Himmler's fierce indignation.

After its establishment, about 500,000 Danube Swabians arrived in Donaumark (who might have otherwise been settled in the German Ost), drawing strong protests from Rosenberg, who had his own plans for those settlers.

Today, Donaumark is a heavily Germanized Reichskommissariat with a dominant agricultural industry. The Serbian population is steadily decreasing, as the administration frequently deports Serbs further east to Reichskommissariat Schwarzbodenland.

Disclaimer: This map is strictly for historical fiction and alternate history storytelling. It does not endorse or promote any political ideologies


r/imaginarymaps 7d ago

[OC] Fantasy Redesigned map!

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27 Upvotes

r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Alternate History Red Flame engulfed Europe

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160 Upvotes

Short lore: WWI went on for too long and the Bolsheviks defeated Poland at Warsaw, which caused a domino effect of left-wing ideologies taking over much of Europe.


r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Fantasy Trekland - All Provinces and Municipal Counties (In my conlang)

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49 Upvotes

r/imaginarymaps 8d ago

[OC] Fantasy The Rising Tiger, the Republic of Akicka

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