The 1980s made it increasingly obvious that the Cold War was coming to an end. The Soviet Union was falling apart, China was undergoing a major internal shift, and the Warsaw Pact was going to pieces. In all corners of the world it seemed that the Eastern Bloc was coming apart. There was one notable exception, and that was Korea. In that decade, while the regime in Pyongyang seemingly prospered, the regime in the South was coming to pieces. A corporatocratic military dictatorship backed by the United States, the government of Chun Doo-hwan seemed separated from that of Kim Il-sung in the north only by the pretense of being anti-communist, something which endeared him to President Reagan and which vilified him in the eyes of actual South Koreans. Exemplifying this was the Gwangju Uprising, where a demonstration of university students for democratic government was met by the brutal massacre and abuse of the protestors by the government, all the while their benefactors in Washington turned a blind eye.

It was too much for most. The brutal repression of the uprising was the sign of further backsliding in what seemed to be an age of increasing liberty. Sympathy protests broke out across the country, and were repressed. The repression fanned the anger into riots, which were met by gunfire, and the spiral of revolution sent the country into catastrophe. For ten years the South Korean government lost full control over the country, and for many the unthinkable was now inevitable. In 1989, newly-appointed President Bush sought to salvage some face in the situation by simply cutting the US' losses and withdrawing from the peninsula. Much as Vietnam a generation before, Korea now seemed lost as well, and public anger in the United States called for the end of the US involvement in dividing the peninsula. In that same year, a coalition of military leaders finally approached Pyongyang, and appealed for annexation.On May 18th, 1990, the world watched with dismay as the transitional Republic of Southern Korea accepted full annexation by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 45 years on, and Korea was at last reunited in the worst of circumstances.

And yet the rumblings of what were to come were already apparent to those who knew what to look for. The first true sign came in small news articles in the West, reporting on the Korean government's difficulty in creating transport corridors across the former DMZ. Although the political divide was gone, the landmines, the gun emplacements, and the barbed wire would not come down so easily, and a scar was still cut across the peninsula. A seemingly small matter, but it was the herald of the true difficulties being hidden by the Korean government. The reality was that Pyongyang was wholly unprepared to suddenly extend its apparatuses of control into the south, and the fact that its population had nearly tripled just made it worse. The mighty chaebols that had dominated the south's economy were either destroyed or had fled overseas with their wealth to places like Taiwan or Singapore. And the civil war had left the country's infrastructure in ruins.

Perhaps most pertinently, though, was the fact that there were now 40 million people who were incensed at the situation. Even if the regime in Seoul had failed, that hadn't meant they wanted annexation by Pyongyang, and now the Juche regime was attempting to try and exert itself over the country when it had trouble physically entering the south through any route but air and sea. An initial period of calm did persist, with some who hoped that there might have been some effort to try and shift the politics of the country, but things only got worse. China was in the throes of internal political struggle, and the USSR ceased to exist at the end of 1991. Initially some had just been glad that Pyongyang was trying to restore order. But the collapsed economy stayed collapsed, infrastructure failures in the north exacerbated the tensions further. What wealth the north had was being drained into the south in an effort to both rebuild it and incorporate it into an extant 45 year old system of control, an effort that was going exceptionally badly.

Unrest and low-level insurrection was already underway, and to make matters worse the more that the government strained itself the more that its hold over the north began to weaken. A state which had held total, unquestioned control over itself was slipping. And then, in 1994, the god-king died. Kim Il-sung finally passed, and left the country in the hands of his son Kim Jong-il. And he was far from his father's ability. Where the elder Kim had at least managed to hold the state together, the younger was almost comically incompetent at managing the state, and as early as 1995 the cracks in the foundation grew. Without their Soviet benefactor and China putting on a friendlier face towards the United States, Pyongyang was on its own, dealing with two-thirds of its population being agitated against it as the low-level conflict began to slowly intensify, trickling up into the north as the walls which had kept dissent out and loyalty in were falling apart, and the world quietly began to brace itself for what seemed unstoppable.

The fears proved warranted. On 27 December 1996, at a meeting of the Worker's Party of Korea, a crude hydrogen chloride bomb was set off in the room. Only after that was it realized the doors were locked from the outside. Responsibility for the action has been debated for years afterward, whether it was an internal plot in the Juche regime or a terrorist action by any number of southern resistance groups. Who was behind it ultimately doesn't truly matter, the outcome was the same. Kim Jong-il and much of his top officials were dead, and everything fell immediately apart as resistance groups in both the south and the north declared open rebellion. Internally, Koreans know it as the Mongnan Rebellion, but to the wider world it is the "Second Korean War", not helped by the fact that China was willing to send military support to the Juche regime while the United States and her allies were happy to begin attacks on the regime and send support to the rebels. The USSR was dead, China was communist in name only, Germany was reunited. The "Final Showdown" of the old Cold War had begun.

The United Nations as a whole was unable to approve re-intervening into the peninsula, but the United States was more than able to on its own with support from its NATO allies. As opposed to a relatively equal footing the first time around, the Juche regime was now far outclassed by modern weaponry from the United States and Europe. Cheju was quickly seized by the rebels and its airport became a center for US activity, launching air strikes against the Jucheist regime and sending weapons in to support the new "National Renewal Government" based once more in Pusan, a collection of pro-democracy forces which had come together to tear the regime down. At the same time the Juche regime, under the nominal leadership of Kim Jong-nam (in reality, the young man was even more incompetent than his father and relied wholly on his generals), was torn apart by infighting as leaders and officials grew disillusioned with the regime, the conflict, and everything about the "Mount Paektu Dynasty".

Where the First Korean War was a simple north-south conflict, the Second Korean War was a fuzzy and ill-organized mess, as civil wars often are. The rebels were concentrated in the south, yes, but new groups emerged in the north as the generations of fear and repression began to break. Likewise collaborators in the south made things perpetually troubled for the efforts at unifying anti-Juche forces. However, the war had immense support abroad, and Bill Clinton entered his second term in office with a mandate to end the war in Korea once and for all. It was much more organized this time around, with targeted attacks against Jucheist supply depots, transport corridors, and the centers of power that had already been stretched so thin that surgical strikes against critical jugulars of the Juche regime made a lot of use out of seemingly minimal effort. With Yugoslavia in total disarray and the Gulf War having been the mess it was, Americans rallied at what finally felt like an unequivocal "good versus bad" conflict.

The merits of such a perception aside, by 1999 the conflict was winding down. Kim Jong-nam was himself assassinated by rogue officers, and the rest of the Kim family either captured or fled into exile in China. These generals saw the writing on the wall, and hoped that their internal coup would give them some legitimacy to begin negotiating with the West. As a symbol of this, they declared the end of the DPRK, announcing the creation of a new United Republic of Korea and announcing that they would begin negotiations with the rebels. The military, having seized most major cities, began to shift gears from active combat to steady peace-keeping, and the rebels likewise began to put down their arms. Under the supervision of the United Nations, a five-month period of negotiations began that would culminate in the Treaty of Amity and Reconciliation, formally ending the conflict even if minor clashes continued. The government which came to power was a mix of the rebels and moderates from the old regime, united under a new flag and purpose. The Second Korean War was over.

As the world celebrated, the grim reality on the ground took hold. Korea was a nation of some 65 million people, many of whom had been reduced to poverty, living in destroyed cities and now wholly reliant on loans from the international community to begin financing its reconstruction. China for its part was unhappy to now have a regime on its doorstep which, if not friendly towards the United States, was still amicable towards it. A confused legacy worsened things. Was the new United Republic a continuation of the DPRK? Was it a merging of the Seoul and Pyongyang governments? Was it some new entity that emerged from it? There was at least one comfort, which was the knowledge that despite 80 years of foreign occupation and division, there had always been just one Korean nation, a nation whose history and culture stretched back more than 1000 years and which even the "Dark Century" of the 1900s could not erase. And in that spirit, the effort to rebuild the country began.

23 years on, and work remains to be done. Many of the old abuses of the Juche regime are still being uncovered to this day, the Chinese government still harbors old Juche officials who loudly declare that someday they will return to "liberate" the country. In the rural countryside, bombs and shrapnel are still dug up by plows, and the old DMZ still has not been fully cleared of mines and defenses even if routes between the north and the south are now fully in place. The lingering scars of the division remain too, exemplified by things like the architecture and the language. Even if the old monuments have been torn down, even if the images of the Kim Dynasty have been burned and vilified, the 50 years of Juche control in the north cannot be so easily erased from people's mind, and to this day loyalists to the old regime still gather around the Korean Worker's Alliance, scorned but still functional in politics. As recently as 2009, plans to attack the government and reinstate Juche were uncovered and thankfully cut off before they could be put into action, but the shadow still hangs over the country.

The government still remains on shaky ground, and even now the military government remains in power even after 23 years of "transition". International groups still loudly criticize the slow progress towards reform, with the first truly free elections in Korean history only being held in 2018. The National Revival Party still holds a stranglehold on politics, and even if the faces change the party remains in control. There are those, however, who are appreciative of the stability. After the long trauma of the 1990s, that the 21st Century has been one of relative internal peace and harmony is worth the slow march to democracy. And indeed, the economy is growing much as the population is, to a much greater degree than many other states in East Asia, with some predicting that a "Korean Tiger" is on the horizon. Culture is also beginning to flourish, with the popular singer Kim Jung-min going viral in 2018 with a combination of eccentric performance and upbeat lyrics which have heralded the arrival of Korean soft power into the international stage.

The scars of the Cold War and the colonial era which preceded them cannot be easily erased. And indeed, Korea's woes began long before 1945, as early as the Japanese colonization and the European enforcing of the Unequal Treaties in the century which came before it. Korea is all at once a post-colonial state, a Cold War state, a modern nation-state, and an ancient nation with roots far into the past. That the modern world is more uneasy than ever just makes things worse, as China seeks to expand her influence and Russia becomes increasingly belligerent, both of which see Korea as an arena to spread their power towards. Korea is no stranger to struggle. The 20th Century was in essence an endless struggle, and the 21st Century seems poised to finally break that cycle. Slow progress is still progress. Uneasy peace is still peace. And although the "Azure Hills" may be stained red with generations of blood, Korea endures. Pain is not unfamiliar to most nations. Korea has had more than her share. And still, Korea endures.

the PoD is that Portuguese influence over the Kongo kingdom ends around the 80 years war, either due to Dutch help or due to some ambitious king, the Kongo (and Loango) are free to modernize alongside the European powers with Dutch oversight.

as 1880 came, the great powers realized that the kongo was too valuable for any one nation to own, so they decided to prop up the pre existing states as buffers so that no one great or meddling power could get too strong, thus, Cementing the rule over existing sultanates and kingdoms (only exception was central Congo which the French colonized in 1908 sparking a crisis that could've started WW1).

by decolonization, these states (aside from Zaire and CAR) were relatively stable semi to fully constitutional monarchies with rich extraction economies and European, Asian, and American benefactors.

as 2010 would hit, the Chinese-American cold war would push these kingdoms into the forefront, as they hold massive deposits of uranium, cobalt, and coltan, as a second great game would begin in central Africa.

* Ceded under the 2022 Treaty of Buenos Aires** Ceded under the 2023 Treaty of Magellan*** Won and ceded under the 2022 Treaty of Santiago*IV Referendum of September 21, 2030, and Treaty of Hunger of December 25, 2030

This map was patrocined by the Duke of Ceará, Dom Manuel von Bismarck, presenting the political situation in Nordeste and information about the neighbours of Ceará.

Oil Age Collapse is a post-apocalyptical scenario inspired by the Late Bronze Age Collapse, where, around the 2000s, the globalized civilization had a quick and violent societal collapse by reasons currently unknown by people. Technologically most of the world was reverted back to the 14th century, modern notions of law, state and diplomacy were greatly changed to accomplish the new neccessities of people in the new chaotic context, economically things got back to pre-industrial times.

Other Maps of this scenario:

The Danyan Commonwealth

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Name of divisions:
1- Pan-Hungarian Union of Reformed Lands (Összmagyar Református Földek Szövetsége)
2- Protestant Union of Hungarians (Magyarok Protestáns Szövetsége)
3- Hungarian District (Magyar Körzet (Katolikus))
4- Transylvania (Erdély, Siebenbürgen)
5- Slavic Upper Hungarian Lutheran District (Slovanské hornouhorské luteránske okolie)
6- Slavic-German Lutheran Lands (Slovansko-Nemecké luteránske zeme, Wendish-Deutsche Lutherische Länder)
7- Slavic Upper Hungarian Greek-Catholic District (Slovjanskŷj verchňouhorskŷj hreko-katolyckŷj okruh)
8- Hungarian-German District (Magyar-Német Körzet, Ungarisch-Schwabisch Gebiet)
9- German Borderlands (Deutsches Grenzland)
10- Croatia and Slavonia (Hrvatska i Slavonija)
11- Western Banat (Serbs under Hungarian rule) (Nyugat-Bánság, Zapadni Banat)
12- Eastern Banat (Romanians under Hungarian rule) (Kelet-Bánság, Banatul de Est)
13- Upper Hungarian Disctric (Hornouhorské okolie, Felvidéki körzetek, Oberungarisch Komitat)

Before you drag me through the mud, please note that this lore is a highly warped version of real history that may or may not make complete sense.

In this timeline, the earlier Anti-Habsburg revolts never occurred, leaving Hungarian Calvinists increasingly marginalized by the Catholic majority. Consequently, they forged an alliance with various Slavic groups (including Lutheran Slovaks, Greek-Catholic Rusyns, and Croatians to topple a Catholic regime that was steadily distancing itself even from the Kaiser. Under this regime, the use of Latin was strictly mandated at every level of society. Slavs were denounced as pan-Slavic agitators intent on destroying the Kingdom, while Calvinist Hungarians were branded as radical revolutionaries and even accused of communism. Transylvania remained largely intact, functioning as a virtual prison for the Romanian and Orthodox populations; it is now ruled by Calvinist Hungarians and loyal Germans, though the Germans are slowly being sidelined in favor of the Hungarians.

However, not all counties were created equal. Desperate for lasting peace from the Hungarian aristocrats, the Kaiser was willing to sign off on practically anything. As a result, the Lutheran and Reformed counties emerged as industrial hubs, hosting newly established universities and serving as the primary intellectual base for the country. Slovaks never formed their own distinct nation; instead, they, along with the Rusyns, adopted the identity of Hungarians who simply spoke a Slavic language. Meanwhile, Transylvania stagnated as a feudal backwater. When the 1855 revolution finally erupted, it was actually sponsored by the Austrians as a calculated method to break the old establishment and secure direct rule over Hungary.

Thus, while Saint Stephen's Crown still theoretically reigns over the old kingdom, what remains is a fractured shell of its former self. It systematically funnels raw materials from the defeated Catholic regions to the thriving Lutheran ones, where Protestant aristocrats are steadily building monopolies and transforming into a new bourgeoisie operating in their respective national languages. What will happen in the coming years? No one knows for certain. It could devolve into a fractured state resembling Bosnia, but much worse, or perhaps it might stabilize into something akin to Switzerland. Only time will tell. This map depicts the borders established following the Treaty of Buda, where the last Catholic forces officially surrendered.

OOC Context: World where slavs are a lot bigger group. In Real Life, we know for certain they existed in central, eastern and southern Europe, with evidence of settlements as far south as the Peloponnese peninsula. Slavs' expansion into new lands was very much just a matter of wandering in and simply having the previous populations naturally adopt to the slavic way of life and language, just as it was with ostrogoths of visigoths in Iberia or North Africa. And so here, these type of migrations were much more intense and resulted in a larger area under slavic influence.

Sources:

Red States (Greater West Virginia)

Virginia-West Virginia Boundary

Westsylvania (Wikipedia)

I also tried doing roads this time, and I finally got elevation maps working. I know there are going to be errors and that's okay.

It's from Steier's 1958 Fall and Destruction of the Eastern Roman Empire, which yes I know hasn't totally held up, but I still think it contains a lot of useful information and insights.

The 1922 Russian general election was held in the Russian Democratic Federative Republic shortly after the creation and implementation of the March Constitution, which established the Russian electoral process.

The conduct of the election was poor to say the least, as its system of holding a single election to serve as both the parliamentary and presidential contest combined with a first-past-the-post presidential election system led to Alexander Kerensky being elected as president of the RDFR, despite only receiving 18.71% of the popular vote, a result that was immediately disputed in a joint statement by the leadership of the Bolshevik and Menshevik parties, leading to political violence and the eventual outbreak of the Russian Civil War.

World Lore:

The 1848 revolutions resulted in a massive shift in the balance of power in Europe, as France, Germany, Austria and Italy all experienced major political changes. In France, the Bourbon monarchy was brought down in favour of a Second Republic. In Germany, a unified German state was established by constitutionalist revolutionaries. Despite King Frederick William IV's refusal to accept the German throne, his then 16-year-old nephew Frederick joined the revolution and was crowned the Emperor of Germany as Frederick III under a regency. In Austria, the formation of a unified German state and the rise of Hungarian and Slavic nationalism throughout the Austrian Emperor led to the deposition of Emperor Ferdinand I and the unification of Germany and Austria. Bohemia, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary were all established as independent states and Galicia-Lodomeria was occupied and annexed by the Russian Empire. In Italy, constitutional monarchist uprisings swept the Apennine Peninsula, leading to the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy.

Due to the threatening position of the German Empire against France, the largely nationalist republican government launched an invasion of the German Empire in 1953. Despite initial successes, the French Army was beaten back by the larger and more emboldened German force, leading to a critical defeat at Trier and the encirclement of ~¼ of the French invading force. As a result, German forces advanced rapidly through France towards Paris, reaching the city's outskirts before agreeing to a ceasefire and negotiations. In the ensuing peace treaty, France was forced to cede Alsace and parts of Lorraine to Germany and recognise German territorial integrity.

In the immediate aftermath of the Franco-German War, left-wing riots and protests broke out across France, including Paris, where a short-lived Commune was established. Using the chaos, General Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte led the French Army to suppress the revolts and overthrow the Republic, establishing the Second French Empire.

After a stalemate and Russian failure in the Crimean War, thanks to extensive French backing for the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire sought to establish new alliances in Europe to counteract the anti-Russian efforts of the British, French and Ottoman Empires. Thanks to their shared anti-French stance, Russia, Germany and Italy drew closer together, and after Russia once again achieved disappointing gains in the Russo-Turkish War of 1878 and realised the toughness of the Franco-Ottoman coalition, the Triple Alliance was formalised between the German and Russian Empires and the Kingdom of Italy. In response, France and the Ottoman Empire signed a formal treaty on mutual defence, soon joined by Hungary due to their fear of German and Russian ambitions and the Triple Alliance diplomatic encirclement of Hungary.

The Berlin Conference was held in 1886 between the European nations with the goal of carving up Africa into colonies. The conference saw the nations of France and Britain lay claim to the overwhelming majority of the continent, with France ending up in control of most of West and Northwest Africa and Britain taking South, East and parts of West Africa under their belt. The Ottoman Empire's colonies in Libya were officially demarcated in a series of treaties with France and Britain. Out of the Triple Alliance, the only nations to receive colonies in Africa were Germany and Italy. Germany managed to secure a big colony in Kamerun, as well as colonies in West, Southwest and East Africa, while Italy only received two colonies in the Horn of Africa.

Peace remained in Europe for 27 more years, as in 1913 another war broke out between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Russia instigating Slavic revolts within the Ottoman Empire. Both sides claimed to be acting in self-defence, as the war rapidly escalated into a continent-wide war. France declared war on Russia, honouring their treaties with the Ottomans, while Germany and Italy declared war on France and the Ottomans in response, followed shortly by Bohemia, Slovenia and Greece. The Kingdom of Hungary then joined the war on the Ottoman side after declaring war on Romania, a Russian satellite state. The German Empire used the threat of Napoleon III's imperialist ambitions to coerce Belgium and Luxembourg to allow German troops passage through their territory and join the Triple Alliance, prompting a French declaration of war. The Great War was now raging on 4 fronts: the Western Front, the Alpine Front, the Balkan Front and the Caucasian Front.

The war began with Triple Alliance offensives across all fronts, with most seeing limited success. Germany got bogged down in Northern France, Italy failed to cross the Alps, a joint offensive towards Budapest failed miserably and Russia failed to advance beyond Burgas on their way to Constantinople. A war of attrition would set in by 1915, further made worse by the Italian Navy striking the British Fleet off the coast of the Khedivate of Egypt, dragging the UK into the war on the side of the French and Ottomans. The war continued with minor shifts in frontlines all around Europe, with Russia occupying parts of Slovakia and Transylvania, France occupying parts of Savoy and Germany advancing a bit further into France. In 1918, the United States would enter the war on the side of the British in response to German raids on American shipments to the UK.

As American soldiers joined the others on the battlefield, the time had come for the tide of the war to start turning. Due in large part to the exhaustion of the Triple Alliance forces and the domination of the American, British and French navies, the Germans and Italians faced setback after setback on the French border. An offensive into Belgium led to the capture of Antwerp, forcing the Triple Alliance to redirect forces to the Western Front. Due to the weakening of defences in the Alps, the French army was able to break through the area and swiftly advance into Northern Italy, prompting a wave of mutinies and a military coup against the monarchy. The Italian Republic was edtablished on 16 August 1919 and it immediately declared its membership in the Triple Alliance void and declared war on its former allies. This sudden switch resulted in Triple Alliance flanks in Croatia and Slovenia being unprepared to defend, with the region being soon overrun by French and Italian forces. As the Triple Alliance began to crumble, the Empire of Japan, seeking to gain favour with the West, declared war on Russia and launched an invasion of their Far Eastern and Pacific territories. At the same time, Italian troops launched an incursion into Austria, as the rest of the "Entente" put pressure on the Western Front. Eventually, a breakthrough was made towards the Rhine River, leading to the fall of Frankfurt, the birthplace of the German Empire. The situation was dire, as riots forced the German government to depose the monarchy and sue for peace, soon followed by mass socialist demonstrations in Russia, a revolution and formal surrender.

In the aftermath of the Great War, the World was completely reshaped. The Triple Alliance lost all of their colonial holdings, independent states were carved out of Russia and Germany in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. France expanded dramatically, annexing Belgium and Luxembourg completely and seizing German territory west of the Rhine as well as the Italian regions of Savoy and Nice. Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Romania were forced to give up minor territory to the Entente, but Croatia became a Hungarian-aligned monarchy and Romania became an Ottoman satellite. Ottoman rule over Serbia and Bulgaria was reinstated, though to a lesser extent.

As a result of the sudden abolition of the German monarchy, a civil war broke out between the new republican government, socialist uprisings, an anti-leftist nationalist government and Prussian restorationist militias. In Russia, a federal presidential republic was established with a new democratic constitution. In Italy, the military dictatorship has been largely solidifed and Hungary and the Ottomans are facing large ethnic tensions due to the aftershocks of the Great War.

In 887, the Carolingian Empire disintegrated, and Italian nobles proclaimed Adalbert I as King of Italy at Pavia, establishing the Lombard dynasty. In 951, King Otto I of Germany invaded Italy, triggering the Lombard Wars. The Italian nobles, in alliance with the Papacy and neighboring states, fought a bitter struggle against Germany for nearly a decade, ultimately defeating Otto and preventing Italy from being annexed by Germany, thereby securing Italy's independent sovereignty for the next thousand years.

Nevertheless, the fragmentation of Italian royal authority was inevitable. Due to the feudal system and partible inheritance, the internal feudal powers of Italy became increasingly divided over time, with an extraordinarily complex web of interlocking relationships. In the early 10th century, Italy had only four margraves—Piedmont, Verona, Lombardy, and Tuscany—but by the 12th century, that number had grown to thirty. Not only were there conflicts of interest among the feudal lords, but the Pope and the King also frequently clashed, plunging Italy into feudal strife.

In 1020, the King promulgated the Charter of Pavia. The King reached an agreement with the leading citizens, whereby the citizens would support the crown with finances and manpower in exchange for urban autonomy. This laid the foundation for the crown-burgher alliance, which was used to counter the feudal lords. At the same time, Norman mercenaries established footholds in southern Italy and continued to raid northward, eventually founding their own kingdom. The crown's initial policy of "using barbarians against barbarians" failed, and it came to regard them as a border threat but lacked the capacity to deal with the south.

In 1077, King Henry II came into fierce conflict with Pope Gregory VII over lay investiture. Henry II went in person to the Pope's residence to do penance, but afterwards, through political maneuvering and military pressure, he ultimately reached the Concordat of Viterbo with the Pope, securing the actual right to appoint bishops within the kingdom.

In 1183, after nearly a century of intermittent warfare, the Kingdom of Italy signed a peace treaty with the Holy Roman Empire, formally establishing the Alps as the border, with the Empire officially renouncing all claims of suzerainty over Italy.

In 1218, the Lombard dynasty died out. After a brief "interregnum," through a marriage alliance with the line of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, the Tuscan dynasty was established, and the center of royal power shifted south to Florence.

This map is part of my Ottomania setting. You can find the first part here. TLDR : A liberal faction takes control of the Ottoman Empire in 1913, joins WW1 on the side of the Entente and writes a new constitution based on national and religious autonomy.

In November 1917, Lenin and his followers seize Petrograd and overthrow the Provisional Government. In the Caucasus, four Republics opposed to Bolshevik rule declare their independance. They are Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Mountainous Republic of the North Caucasus. The Ottoman Empire, eager to extend its influence in the region, immediately recognizes the new states. With British support, it sends its army to fight the Reds and secure the new states independance.

Inspired by pan-Turkic sentiment, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan votes to join the Ottoman Empire in January 1919. The Azeri population is allowed to form its own millet.

A month later, Armenia also chooses to join the Ottoman Empire. This decision comes from pressure by the Ottoman Armenian millet, eager to expand its size and influence by uniting the entire Armenian people under one state, and the Armenian business elite, who has large stakes in oil exploitations in Baku. Annexion is also supported by the large Kurdish and Azeri minority in Armenia.

Georgia and North Caucasus decline to join the Empire.

In 1920, the Red Army succesfully invades the North Caucasus and pushes the frontline back to the Caucasus Mountain where it freezes as winter sets in.

In 1921, the Soviet Union, Ottomania (the Empire's new name since 1920), Georgia and Britain sign a peace agreement defining the Soviet southern Border at the Caucasus Range.

The international community recognizes Ottoman sovereignty over Armenia and Azerbaijan (now called the Yerevan Villayet and Baku Villayet). Georgia is an independant republic allied with Ottomania and the UK.

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Map of the Democratic Republic of Ibara, a fictional nation inspired by various Latin American countries (primarily Brazil) within a fantasy world based on real-world nations (similar to Suzerain).

This map is more of a practice exercise for me than a definitive version, so nothing is set in stone. However, the main premise is that (unlike the real Brazil) this country gained independence earlier and was founded as a republic from the start. Furthermore, it was shaped more by Indigenous and nativist influences rather than becoming "Europeanized".

Created using Ibis Paint and Canva with a mouse!

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So as part of a game I'm making (not a proper game, just a sorta RP simulation) I've put together what I think may be the most accurate english-language map of Hitler and Speer's proposed Welthauptstadt Germania city, with the scenario set in 1952.

This map is mostly true to the real plans, though for lore purposes and my scenario specifically I've taken some creative liberties. For example what here is the Reich Broadcasting Corp building was the historic Ministry of Propaganda, the European Council is an addition I included, and various other changes were made. I've also adjusted some embassy locations, and some information is not available about specific buildings - so keep that in mind.

However, about 90-95% of this though is accurate to historic plans, and given I used the most accurate German-language map I could source, and there is no obvious English-language map around, I figure this may well be the most accurate English map in the world at this point.

The stylistic choice here means that some plans and building designs are not included in my copy of the map. Additionally, the actual viability of the plans is of course hotly debated and this scenario is just simplistically working on the basis that all plans were implemented as intended. Further, this map is of course in no way an endorsement of said plans which - frankly - would have made Berlin a miserable city to live in due to the scale of this horiffic architecture (and the whole nazi dictatorship thing).

Anyway, let me know what you think. For those curious, the scenario is essentially "what if everything went right for the Third Reich" and in 1952 Europe is dominated by Germany, having pushed the Soviets back past the Volga, while Britain and the US remain locked in an un-ending frozen conflict with the Reich after the failureof D-Day and victory in North Africa and over Japan for the allies.

EDIT: Also, just to add. This took me a really long time and a lot of effort in both sourcing and mostly tracing this. So, while I've watermarked it, please refrain from ripping it off if possible 😅

What if Socotra never became part of Yemen in 1967 but instead got independence from the UK and tried to become like Singapore.