Alternative Earth

[Syt]

I guess I can wrap up a map I originally started for a Steampunkish/Noir type of story that was going around my head (same setting as the colonies on Venus kind of map that is still WIP).

The map is aimed at being functional that's easy on the eyes, so there's not many bells and whistles.

Basically the idea is that World War 1 hasn't occred, or at least not as we know it. The European political landscape is largely intact, at least in the west. In the East Russia was forced into liberalization by an ever stronger middle class. These oligarchs forced Russia to become a republic; these days it's largely run by enterpreneurs and a handful of corporations.

The Habsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary also reformed and became a lose federation that now encompasses all the Balkans after other nations joined the union voluntarily.

In South America the people rose up against foreign domination of the economy (esp. in Argentina and Central America). The spread of revolutions led to the founding of the United Socialist states of South America. This Union fought a bloody war against The Americans and British in Mexico, and against the Brazilians in the south American coastal regions. Despite naval superiority the Union was self reliant enough to force the enemies into a draw. Mexico became partitioned into a democratic north and communist south. Brazil declared its neutrality.

In Africa, Belgium squeezed the Congo so much it broke and kicked out the oppressors in a bloody guerilla campaign. Angola joined their northern brothers and together proclaimed the Free African Republic. There's uneasy tension between the new nation and its colonial neighbours.

The young Turks have taken over the Ottoman Empire, reforming it from within and bringing it closer to the west. In the Far East China has collapsed into warring factions. The colonial powers seized the opportunity to claim all the coastal regions.

Australia refused to fight against the South Americans in the Anglo-British war against them and declared themselves the (left leaning) Commonwealth of Australia that maintains close ties to the USSSA. An Australian invasion of New Zealand, however, failed.