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NOTICE: THIS IS NOT ONE OF MY BETTER WORKS! A BETTER VERSION EXISTS HERE: www.deviantart.com/metalheadjo…

This started as a cover of Mitro's take on a TL 191 sequel, but he left enough gaps for me to fill that it sorta turned into it's own thing. Major Credit to Jaywell for the text size reccomendation. I also took influence from rvbomally's own continuations, both will be linked below.

The Video that inspired it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3z-6…

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-The German Empire ruled the European Continent as the last man standing after it's victory in the Second Great War. The Kaiser remains on the throne, and although his age is starting to show, he remains widely respected by most. The creation of both the Weltsystem and European Customs Association ensured that it would be on top, utilizing fear of the anti-colonial and anti-European US to bring Europe under it's wing, and the linked economies ensured that the prosperity of the average German was guaranteed (for the most part). The Germans would also become a world tech center, having created the Superbomb already, the Kaiser's Military would go on to remain the most powerful and advanced military on the planet, unrivaled for decades still.
However, the American refusal to withdraw from the occupied Confederacy and Canada as well as (more importantly) the American support for anti-colonial movements in the enlarged German Empire saw the beginning of Die Frost. The end of the war would see the conservative parties voted out in favor of Social Democrats, leading to a more liberal shift at home, although Germany would remain brutal in the colonies. Colonialism would be the primary issue for postwar Germany as the new post-war generation became disillusioned with the older militaristic generations, with social liberalization taking place in the 1960s, as well as a general shift to economic focus over military.
The long wars in Africa see decolonization with little gain, fueling countercultural movements back home, although some colonies remained as dominions or self-governing protectorates under German protection. The Social Democratic shift sees a reversal in the 80s when a coalition of National Liberals and hardcore prussian militarists take the Reichstag back once more, although an economic focus remained dominant over the old military mindset.
Germany's victory in Die Frost sees it on top of the world. German 19th-century-like capitalist systems have spread across the world and Europe, as has German culture, with everyone in Europe being able to speak German as a second language and German foods becoming commonplace even in places like America. However, the 9/11 Reichstag and IG Farben attacks see Germany invade Colombia and Bolivia, getting it into even more war overseas. Things got worse when a major recession occured in 2008. All of this combined with previous issues of radicalization sees the election of Aristocrat Ronald Drumpf to the Reichstag.
Drumpf's chancellorship has been rife with controversy, especially with allegations of American interference. The main point of his chancellorship was his constant parotting of a crisis on the Polish border, as Eastern Europe, Germany's traditional sphere, suffers from issues of mob violence, poverty, and extreme social backwardness, not helped by them being overrun by German companies for much of the 20th century. As a result, many Eastern Europeans, particularly from Poland, have migrated to German cities, especially in German Poland in search of opportunity, as well as to escape from criminal drug lords modelling themselves after old feudal lords, leading to a populist backlash (The Baltics are fairly prosperous, but not as well off as Germany). Things got even worse when mass protests and riots broke out in the dominions over police brutality in the middle of a major pandemic, of which the Drumpf Administration also handled poorly. Things came to a head Drumpf's his supporters stormed the Reichstag at the beginning of 2021 in response to his election loss. The current Social Democratic administration seems too moderate for many, and by now much of the German Conservative Party remains dominated by Drumpf's base.
Overall, the Pax Germanica may be coming to an end, but Germany still maintains dominance over Europe, with Britain and France in particular being very intertwined into the Weltsystem. There was some fear that Britain would overtake Germany as a major power after an economic boom in the 80s, but as of now it's going through difficult times and it's only really well known for it's animation industry. France would be known for extreme political turmoil due to innefective attempts by Germany to "De-Actionize" the country, but by now it seems to have stabilized and has become a center of production on the continent.

-The United States became a superpower after the Second Great War, with there being great jubilation over conquering the confederacy. However, things did not stay well for long. The Remembrance Democrats and the Socialists maintained a strong monopoly on power, but both had the same agenda of maintaining American Hegemony, ensuring the defense of America and it's sphere, and bolstering American nationalism. The insurgencies in the occupied lands left Canada and the South in a perpetual military occupation, and the American backing of colonial rebels led to Die Frost against Germany. President Dewey undid a lot of the wartime laws during his administration, but also engaged in a lot of unpopular failed programs domestically, while heavily promoting the idea of "Waiting out the enemy" (basically the idea that the European empires were obsolete and would collapse under their own weight eventually, leaving America to inherit the world. But there was a fear that those Krauts would go down flinging superbombs at Philadelphia).
In response to Europe coming together under Germany's Weltsystem, Dewey created the Havana pact to serve as a rival. While some achievements in science did occur, such as putting the first object and the first man in space, the US never really saw a growth in the quality of life as the Germans did. A gerontocracy formed under Richard Nixon, who was elected under a platform of decreased interventionism, but at the cost of making the authoritarian nature of the US even more obvious while also getting into conflict with Japan. America's economic issues domestically would also become more obvious. While detente did occur in the 1970s, this would be broken when the US invaded Columbia.
However, years of inefficient economics, overspending on the military, and geopolitical embarrassment, particularly after a nuclear accident saw an exclusion zone near Lake Erie get formed due to it all being irradiated(1), would lead to the election of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut ran on a platform of transparency and peace, leading to a withdrawal from occupied lands and allowing puppet states to set up their own governments. However he would come to be viewed as the man who let the US die, as the American empire collapsed soon after a failed coup by Remembrance extremists in the military.
The first president of the new American Federation, the largest remnant of the United States, focused on making America a truly free society, as well as trying to bring rapproachment with America's former allies in Germany, but tensions in Utah combined with economic woes saw President Ewing become a disconnected unhealthy man. A period of gangster ruled chaos would eventually see loose stability under former OSS officer Robert Gates, who fought corruption by giving all the power to corporate leaders and military men who were allied to him. While things have improved since the 90s, America is still far more authoritarian and bigoted than OTL, with civil rights having been crushed in the crib due to Philadelphia viewing it as a Japanese infiltration scheme combined with many African-Americans moving to Liberia.
On the other end, Gates has been flexing America's military muscles by backing the Alvarez government in Exuador, seizing Ontario Penninsula, backing pro-American seperatists in Saskatchewan, and engaging in influencing of overseas elections.
While much of America's military is surplus from Die Frost, they possess a few cutting edge devices such as new 5th gen fighters and a great submarine fleet, although they probably couldn't compare with the cutting edge tech the Germans posssess. Gates has even been getting closer to the old US enemy of Japan, although Gates' privately fears that Japan may be overtaking the US. In the meanwhile, military forces have been building up in Quebec, Michigan, and Ontario penninsula. Gates used war to get into power, and he has also used it to maintain power, going to war with the few Mormons remaining in Utah twice as well as in the Sandwich Isles in 2008, which sparked fears of a war with the weltsystem, and now conflict with Canada. Only God knows what will happen next.

-The topic of Mormonism is an interesting one in TL 191. After the Utah war in the Second Great War, the United States began another trail of tears in which they forcefull relocated all mormons out of Utah, mostly to South America. Many of these Mormon's would miraculously find extreme wealth in Oil, practically buying the government of Venezuela as well as uniting with popular socialist leaders in the region to create a new popular ideology based on a fusion of Mormon faith and Liberation Theology(2). Various terror groups would arise in South America over the 20th century, leading to the rise of the Catholic Fundamentalist Republic of Argentina partially as a reaction. This ideology would come into the spotlight when terrorists of The Front commenced the 9/11 attacks in Germany, leading to anti-mormon bigotry and a new Red Scare as a result.

-Confederate reintegration never worked out, and a perpetual occupation by the US military would start in place of integration in the 1950s alongside local puppet leaders. This Southern Occupation Authority would famously become an extensive surveillance state. The Confederacy would eventually overthrow the Southern Occupation Authority in 1989 and the South would rise again with American withdrawal, and the new country liberalized fairly quickly. The Confederacy remains deeply sorry about Featherston and bans all Freedom Party imagery, not to mention putting special protections in place for minorities. The confederacy has also taken in a lot of Hispanic refugees and, despite only just now having begun to rebuild, has become something of an economic powerhouse, utterly dominating the Atlantic Union, an organization founded to unify the economies of Atlantic nations that has become threatened by the rise of populism as a result of economic issues mixed with a migrant crisis from Latin America. It is currently attempting reconciliation with the American Federation, but the North doesn't seem so keen to return the favor. They also remain strongly pascifistic. Louisiana went off on their own as a neutral independent state, one that denies any association with the Freedomites, citing Huey Long's assassination.

-Liberia became the destination for many Population Reduction survivors, with the nation being expanded to include British and French lands in the aftermath of the SGW. Of course, this came at the cost of the native Africans, leading to large amounts of emnity between the Liberians and the West Africans, whom view the latter as colonizers. Germany has, interestingly enough, come to become the main patron of Liberia (aside from the Confederacy), largely due to Liberia backing German imperial interests on the continent. Because of the mistreatment of natives as well as due to general lumping of Liberian expansion with German Imperialism, West Africa formed a major anti-colonial bloc that, for a long time, would be backed by the US. Liberia has spent years since it's birth fighting insurgencies against it's ill-treated native population, which themselves have come under the sway of Mormon liberation ideology, creating a united struggle. West Africa has been relatively stable, but most believe this peace is only temporary, especially regarding Liberia's new populist president and Chancellor Drumpf's increased support for Liberian claims. Liberia also became famous for being highly protective of Africans outside of Africa as well as hunting down ex-freedomites to bring them to justice.

-Austria-Hungary is viewed as a museum peice, remaining in the shadow of the German Empire, but is still the Kaiser's closest ally. The old school autocracy only looked more and more obsolete next to the reforming and prospering Germany, resulting in Austria doing the same and forming a parliamentary state. Having seen a decline due to aging population in contrast to Germany's baby boom post-SGW, Austria was always stuck as number two. The aging monarch seems to be the primary thing keeping the old empire together, and the Hungarians may just leave the moment he passes away.(3) They also regularly cooperate militarily with Germany on just about everything and are basically Germany's best friend, although they like to point out that they are the older nation quite often, to which the Kaiser just laughs. The Serbs, now known as the Balkan Tiger by some, find the whole affair hilarious.

-The Ottomans were loosely aligned with the Germans and Austrians at first, but issues post war caused them to slightly drift. The brutal Arabian war, overseen by the same men who oversaw the Armenian genocide, drew global condemnation, especially after a protest in Istanbul was brutally put down. The war ended with the withdrawal from most of Arabia and the complete revamping of the government. The Ottomans developed their own superbomb arsenal, but also got into a period known as "The troubles" in Armenia, with the Armenian Republican army being a constant issue throughout the 60s and 70s. The Ottomans would prove themselves to still be strong after the Egyptians attempted to invade and take Sinai in 1982, only to be beaten back. Today, the Ottomans make big bucks off of the oil market, and while friendly with the Germans, prefer not to get entangled into their overseas affairs, instead preferring to meddle in the affairs of muslim nations, and all that oil money has given them quite the modern military to back them up.

-The Sun is truly rising over Japan. Initially, the aftermath of the SGW saw Japan take an isolationist approach to the rest of the world, although the fear of the empire did rise after the Indian War went bad when the Japanese encouraged the Azad Hind to unite the subcontinent. Japan spent the next 35 years pouring it's budget into it's military in preperation for an inevitable final war against the west, believing itself to be the true leader of Anti-Colonialism rather than the US. During this time, France would get into scuffles with all of it's neighbors, most notably the US in the pacific. Tensions of Die Frost actually brought Japan close to Germany during the 70s and 80s, but it wouldn't be until the end of the Showa Era that Japan would reform itself. The Japanese government began focusing on domestic development to enrich Japanese corporations and public education, as well as allowing limited political liberalization.
However, Japan demonstrated that this liberalization wasn't a sign it was going soft and it's empire was here to stay, unlike the US, as demonstrated by the massacre of student protesters in 1989. Japan would seize the world markets using oceans of cheap/slave labor in Southeast Asia to flood the world with cheap products. Under their current Prime Minister, the Japanese have seen a new build up in the military and general expansion, bringing the ire of many neighbors. They have grown closer to the Americans, while at the same time earning their ire, while also growing distant from Germany. The current project Japan is focusing on is the Pan-Pacific Trade Initiative, a series of investments and projects on various third world countries on the coasts of both the Indian and Pacific Oceans to center trade on Tokyo.
However, tensions are rising with China. Like the Americans, the Japanese had the problem of a technologically neglected military, with the IJA and IJN were bloated but stuck with WW2 surplus for the most part during the Showa Era, although Howas did make their way into elite units. Until recently, the military remained rather neglected, but under the current Prime Minister, they have seen a massive expansion and modernization program, making them true rivals to the German Empire. The IJN in particular has seen massive growth, although the political rivalry with the IJA still remains, albeit not nearly as heated as it was back when Hirohito sat on the throne. Not helping was the breakout of a major pandemic in the form of a virus believed to have originated in Japan's Empire that spread across the globe, sharply impacting the Empire's reputation.

-China was split into two by the SGW, with Manchukuo under effective Japanese domination. China officially remained unaligned in Die Frost, but leaned more towards the United States, who supplied them with weapons to fight against Japan. Nowadays China is aligned with Germany and is a key ally in the containment of Japan. The Chinese economy has been growing, but severe wealth inequality remains an issue. A decent sized superbomb arsenal came into being in 1974 and remains the main reason China and Japan remain at peace, although some bombs were thrown when the Chinese intervened against the genocidal Japanese puppet government in Tibet, causing Japan to declare war. Even worse is the rise of Ethnic authoritarian nationalists in the government as of late. Of course, even with those issues, it still has the Paranoid ethnonationalist autocratic sponsor of terrorism in Manchuria to contrast with and say it is better. Either way, many say that China will inherit the globe, once Berlin and Tokyo collapse at least.

-The Empire of Brazil has long been a key German Ally in South America, and a bastion of moderatism. However, the current president has been moving his own way after putting down a recent coup attempt against him. Catholic nationalism has seen a boost, and Brazil may just be going it's own way as it gets more involved in wars in South America. They also want into the Atlantic Union, but most refuse to let them in. They've also made a killing selling their new drones to Canada to fight the Americans.

-Russia saw the Tsar thrown out after the humilitaing failure to hold off the American seizure of Alaska at the end of the Second Great War as well as the humililating second Russo-Japanese War, with the new socialist government deciding to go neutral and not side with the US. While initially having a powerful passport and a leader in the non-aligned movement, Russia would collapse hard in the 1990s around the same time as the US. Border disputes between Russia and it's breakaways lead to Poverty and warfare as Russians and various minorities commit various war crimes against eachother. Fearing the military junta in charge getting their hands on Russian superbombs, the German Weltsystem intervened and ended it. The Russians have become something of a meme amongst non-moderates, but are now firmly aligned with the Americans. The Nationalist Government is still angry about the lost territory in Central Asia, and conflict in the aftermath is rife. They also refuse to acknowledge any war crimes they comitted during the 20th century.

-India was split between German and Japanese occupation after the British Empire withdrew, with the two occupation zones seeing population transfers based on religious groups. The two were dictatorships at the start and went to war in the 1950s. Azad Hind nearly won, bringing in German intervention. The Germans almost took the whole penninsula(4), bringing in Japanese intervention and devolving the war into a stalemate. Over the decades, the two Indias evolved apart. West India managed to become a flourishing and secular parliamentary democracy that has even begun to overtake Britain, while the other remains a military dictatorship that represses it's Muslim minorities whom didn't head west. It also really wants it's own superbombs. It's a nasty place to live, emphasizing autarky and anti-European sentiment, but it's not as bad as OTL North Korea. For one, they aren't starving. Japan is starting to dislike propping up the eccentric military rulers of Azad Hind, and Tokyo is now considering being the head of reconciliation efforts to bring the Subcontinent under it's full influence.

-Italy is loosely close to Germany, being a member of the weltsystem. After a terror attack on Rome in 2015, the Italians began intervening against Mormon and Radical Socialsit training camps in Africa, mainly it's former colonies.

(1)The fact that the US government tried it's damndest to cover it up showed just how lacking in transparency the US government had at that point.
(2) If this sounds extremely contrived, that's because it is.
(3) The video has AH as the EU, which I decided to change to have Austria be both Britain and Canada, with Hungary being Quebec and Scotland.
(4) Again, contrived.

Description
NOTICE: THIS IS NOT ONE OF MY BETTER WORKS! A BETTER VERSION EXISTS HERE: www.deviantart.com/metalheadjo…

This started as a cover of Mitro's take on a TL 191 sequel, but he left enough gaps for me to fill that it sorta turned into it's own thing. Major Credit to Jaywell for the text size reccomendation. I also took influence from rvbomally's own continuations, both will be linked below.

The Video that inspired it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3z-6…

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-The German Empire ruled the European Continent as the last man standing after it's victory in the Second Great War. The Kaiser remains on the throne, and although his age is starting to show, he remains widely respected by most. The creation of both the Weltsystem and European Customs Association ensured that it would be on top, utilizing fear of the anti-colonial and anti-European US to bring Europe under it's wing, and the linked economies ensured that the prosperity of the average German was guaranteed (for the most part). The Germans would also become a world tech center, having created the Superbomb already, the Kaiser's Military would go on to remain the most powerful and advanced military on the planet, unrivaled for decades still.
However, the American refusal to withdraw from the occupied Confederacy and Canada as well as (more importantly) the American support for anti-colonial movements in the enlarged German Empire saw the beginning of Die Frost. The end of the war would see the conservative parties voted out in favor of Social Democrats, leading to a more liberal shift at home, although Germany would remain brutal in the colonies. Colonialism would be the primary issue for postwar Germany as the new post-war generation became disillusioned with the older militaristic generations, with social liberalization taking place in the 1960s, as well as a general shift to economic focus over military.
The long wars in Africa see decolonization with little gain, fueling countercultural movements back home, although some colonies remained as dominions or self-governing protectorates under German protection. The Social Democratic shift sees a reversal in the 80s when a coalition of National Liberals and hardcore prussian militarists take the Reichstag back once more, although an economic focus remained dominant over the old military mindset.
Germany's victory in Die Frost sees it on top of the world. German 19th-century-like capitalist systems have spread across the world and Europe, as has German culture, with everyone in Europe being able to speak German as a second language and German foods becoming commonplace even in places like America. However, the 9/11 Reichstag and IG Farben attacks see Germany invade Colombia and Bolivia, getting it into even more war overseas. Things got worse when a major recession occured in 2008. All of this combined with previous issues of radicalization sees the election of Aristocrat Ronald Drumpf to the Reichstag.
Drumpf's chancellorship has been rife with controversy, especially with allegations of American interference. The main point of his chancellorship was his constant parotting of a crisis on the Polish border, as Eastern Europe, Germany's traditional sphere, suffers from issues of mob violence, poverty, and extreme social backwardness, not helped by them being overrun by German companies for much of the 20th century. As a result, many Eastern Europeans, particularly from Poland, have migrated to German cities, especially in German Poland in search of opportunity, as well as to escape from criminal drug lords modelling themselves after old feudal lords, leading to a populist backlash (The Baltics are fairly prosperous, but not as well off as Germany). Things got even worse when mass protests and riots broke out in the dominions over police brutality in the middle of a major pandemic, of which the Drumpf Administration also handled poorly. Things came to a head Drumpf's his supporters stormed the Reichstag at the beginning of 2021 in response to his election loss. The current Social Democratic administration seems too moderate for many, and by now much of the German Conservative Party remains dominated by Drumpf's base.
Overall, the Pax Germanica may be coming to an end, but Germany still maintains dominance over Europe, with Britain and France in particular being very intertwined into the Weltsystem. There was some fear that Britain would overtake Germany as a major power after an economic boom in the 80s, but as of now it's going through difficult times and it's only really well known for it's animation industry. France would be known for extreme political turmoil due to innefective attempts by Germany to "De-Actionize" the country, but by now it seems to have stabilized and has become a center of production on the continent.

-The United States became a superpower after the Second Great War, with there being great jubilation over conquering the confederacy. However, things did not stay well for long. The Remembrance Democrats and the Socialists maintained a strong monopoly on power, but both had the same agenda of maintaining American Hegemony, ensuring the defense of America and it's sphere, and bolstering American nationalism. The insurgencies in the occupied lands left Canada and the South in a perpetual military occupation, and the American backing of colonial rebels led to Die Frost against Germany. President Dewey undid a lot of the wartime laws during his administration, but also engaged in a lot of unpopular failed programs domestically, while heavily promoting the idea of "Waiting out the enemy" (basically the idea that the European empires were obsolete and would collapse under their own weight eventually, leaving America to inherit the world. But there was a fear that those Krauts would go down flinging superbombs at Philadelphia).
In response to Europe coming together under Germany's Weltsystem, Dewey created the Havana pact to serve as a rival. While some achievements in science did occur, such as putting the first object and the first man in space, the US never really saw a growth in the quality of life as the Germans did. A gerontocracy formed under Richard Nixon, who was elected under a platform of decreased interventionism, but at the cost of making the authoritarian nature of the US even more obvious while also getting into conflict with Japan. America's economic issues domestically would also become more obvious. While detente did occur in the 1970s, this would be broken when the US invaded Columbia.
However, years of inefficient economics, overspending on the military, and geopolitical embarrassment, particularly after a nuclear accident saw an exclusion zone near Lake Erie get formed due to it all being irradiated(1), would lead to the election of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut ran on a platform of transparency and peace, leading to a withdrawal from occupied lands and allowing puppet states to set up their own governments. However he would come to be viewed as the man who let the US die, as the American empire collapsed soon after a failed coup by Remembrance extremists in the military.
The first president of the new American Federation, the largest remnant of the United States, focused on making America a truly free society, as well as trying to bring rapproachment with America's former allies in Germany, but tensions in Utah combined with economic woes saw President Ewing become a disconnected unhealthy man. A period of gangster ruled chaos would eventually see loose stability under former OSS officer Robert Gates, who fought corruption by giving all the power to corporate leaders and military men who were allied to him. While things have improved since the 90s, America is still far more authoritarian and bigoted than OTL, with civil rights having been crushed in the crib due to Philadelphia viewing it as a Japanese infiltration scheme combined with many African-Americans moving to Liberia.
On the other end, Gates has been flexing America's military muscles by backing the Alvarez government in Exuador, seizing Ontario Penninsula, backing pro-American seperatists in Saskatchewan, and engaging in influencing of overseas elections.
While much of America's military is surplus from Die Frost, they possess a few cutting edge devices such as new 5th gen fighters and a great submarine fleet, although they probably couldn't compare with the cutting edge tech the Germans posssess. Gates has even been getting closer to the old US enemy of Japan, although Gates' privately fears that Japan may be overtaking the US. In the meanwhile, military forces have been building up in Quebec, Michigan, and Ontario penninsula. Gates used war to get into power, and he has also used it to maintain power, going to war with the few Mormons remaining in Utah twice as well as in the Sandwich Isles in 2008, which sparked fears of a war with the weltsystem, and now conflict with Canada. Only God knows what will happen next.

-The topic of Mormonism is an interesting one in TL 191. After the Utah war in the Second Great War, the United States began another trail of tears in which they forcefull relocated all mormons out of Utah, mostly to South America. Many of these Mormon's would miraculously find extreme wealth in Oil, practically buying the government of Venezuela as well as uniting with popular socialist leaders in the region to create a new popular ideology based on a fusion of Mormon faith and Liberation Theology(2). Various terror groups would arise in South America over the 20th century, leading to the rise of the Catholic Fundamentalist Republic of Argentina partially as a reaction. This ideology would come into the spotlight when terrorists of The Front commenced the 9/11 attacks in Germany, leading to anti-mormon bigotry and a new Red Scare as a result.

-Confederate reintegration never worked out, and a perpetual occupation by the US military would start in place of integration in the 1950s alongside local puppet leaders. This Southern Occupation Authority would famously become an extensive surveillance state. The Confederacy would eventually overthrow the Southern Occupation Authority in 1989 and the South would rise again with American withdrawal, and the new country liberalized fairly quickly. The Confederacy remains deeply sorry about Featherston and bans all Freedom Party imagery, not to mention putting special protections in place for minorities. The confederacy has also taken in a lot of Hispanic refugees and, despite only just now having begun to rebuild, has become something of an economic powerhouse, utterly dominating the Atlantic Union, an organization founded to unify the economies of Atlantic nations that has become threatened by the rise of populism as a result of economic issues mixed with a migrant crisis from Latin America. It is currently attempting reconciliation with the American Federation, but the North doesn't seem so keen to return the favor. They also remain strongly pascifistic. Louisiana went off on their own as a neutral independent state, one that denies any association with the Freedomites, citing Huey Long's assassination.

-Liberia became the destination for many Population Reduction survivors, with the nation being expanded to include British and French lands in the aftermath of the SGW. Of course, this came at the cost of the native Africans, leading to large amounts of emnity between the Liberians and the West Africans, whom view the latter as colonizers. Germany has, interestingly enough, come to become the main patron of Liberia (aside from the Confederacy), largely due to Liberia backing German imperial interests on the continent. Because of the mistreatment of natives as well as due to general lumping of Liberian expansion with German Imperialism, West Africa formed a major anti-colonial bloc that, for a long time, would be backed by the US. Liberia has spent years since it's birth fighting insurgencies against it's ill-treated native population, which themselves have come under the sway of Mormon liberation ideology, creating a united struggle. West Africa has been relatively stable, but most believe this peace is only temporary, especially regarding Liberia's new populist president and Chancellor Drumpf's increased support for Liberian claims. Liberia also became famous for being highly protective of Africans outside of Africa as well as hunting down ex-freedomites to bring them to justice.

-Austria-Hungary is viewed as a museum peice, remaining in the shadow of the German Empire, but is still the Kaiser's closest ally. The old school autocracy only looked more and more obsolete next to the reforming and prospering Germany, resulting in Austria doing the same and forming a parliamentary state. Having seen a decline due to aging population in contrast to Germany's baby boom post-SGW, Austria was always stuck as number two. The aging monarch seems to be the primary thing keeping the old empire together, and the Hungarians may just leave the moment he passes away.(3) They also regularly cooperate militarily with Germany on just about everything and are basically Germany's best friend, although they like to point out that they are the older nation quite often, to which the Kaiser just laughs. The Serbs, now known as the Balkan Tiger by some, find the whole affair hilarious.

-The Ottomans were loosely aligned with the Germans and Austrians at first, but issues post war caused them to slightly drift. The brutal Arabian war, overseen by the same men who oversaw the Armenian genocide, drew global condemnation, especially after a protest in Istanbul was brutally put down. The war ended with the withdrawal from most of Arabia and the complete revamping of the government. The Ottomans developed their own superbomb arsenal, but also got into a period known as "The troubles" in Armenia, with the Armenian Republican army being a constant issue throughout the 60s and 70s. The Ottomans would prove themselves to still be strong after the Egyptians attempted to invade and take Sinai in 1982, only to be beaten back. Today, the Ottomans make big bucks off of the oil market, and while friendly with the Germans, prefer not to get entangled into their overseas affairs, instead preferring to meddle in the affairs of muslim nations, and all that oil money has given them quite the modern military to back them up.

-The Sun is truly rising over Japan. Initially, the aftermath of the SGW saw Japan take an isolationist approach to the rest of the world, although the fear of the empire did rise after the Indian War went bad when the Japanese encouraged the Azad Hind to unite the subcontinent. Japan spent the next 35 years pouring it's budget into it's military in preperation for an inevitable final war against the west, believing itself to be the true leader of Anti-Colonialism rather than the US. During this time, France would get into scuffles with all of it's neighbors, most notably the US in the pacific. Tensions of Die Frost actually brought Japan close to Germany during the 70s and 80s, but it wouldn't be until the end of the Showa Era that Japan would reform itself. The Japanese government began focusing on domestic development to enrich Japanese corporations and public education, as well as allowing limited political liberalization.
However, Japan demonstrated that this liberalization wasn't a sign it was going soft and it's empire was here to stay, unlike the US, as demonstrated by the massacre of student protesters in 1989. Japan would seize the world markets using oceans of cheap/slave labor in Southeast Asia to flood the world with cheap products. Under their current Prime Minister, the Japanese have seen a new build up in the military and general expansion, bringing the ire of many neighbors. They have grown closer to the Americans, while at the same time earning their ire, while also growing distant from Germany. The current project Japan is focusing on is the Pan-Pacific Trade Initiative, a series of investments and projects on various third world countries on the coasts of both the Indian and Pacific Oceans to center trade on Tokyo.
However, tensions are rising with China. Like the Americans, the Japanese had the problem of a technologically neglected military, with the IJA and IJN were bloated but stuck with WW2 surplus for the most part during the Showa Era, although Howas did make their way into elite units. Until recently, the military remained rather neglected, but under the current Prime Minister, they have seen a massive expansion and modernization program, making them true rivals to the German Empire. The IJN in particular has seen massive growth, although the political rivalry with the IJA still remains, albeit not nearly as heated as it was back when Hirohito sat on the throne. Not helping was the breakout of a major pandemic in the form of a virus believed to have originated in Japan's Empire that spread across the globe, sharply impacting the Empire's reputation.

-China was split into two by the SGW, with Manchukuo under effective Japanese domination. China officially remained unaligned in Die Frost, but leaned more towards the United States, who supplied them with weapons to fight against Japan. Nowadays China is aligned with Germany and is a key ally in the containment of Japan. The Chinese economy has been growing, but severe wealth inequality remains an issue. A decent sized superbomb arsenal came into being in 1974 and remains the main reason China and Japan remain at peace, although some bombs were thrown when the Chinese intervened against the genocidal Japanese puppet government in Tibet, causing Japan to declare war. Even worse is the rise of Ethnic authoritarian nationalists in the government as of late. Of course, even with those issues, it still has the Paranoid ethnonationalist autocratic sponsor of terrorism in Manchuria to contrast with and say it is better. Either way, many say that China will inherit the globe, once Berlin and Tokyo collapse at least.

-The Empire of Brazil has long been a key German Ally in South America, and a bastion of moderatism. However, the current president has been moving his own way after putting down a recent coup attempt against him. Catholic nationalism has seen a boost, and Brazil may just be going it's own way as it gets more involved in wars in South America. They also want into the Atlantic Union, but most refuse to let them in. They've also made a killing selling their new drones to Canada to fight the Americans.

-Russia saw the Tsar thrown out after the humilitaing failure to hold off the American seizure of Alaska at the end of the Second Great War as well as the humililating second Russo-Japanese War, with the new socialist government deciding to go neutral and not side with the US. While initially having a powerful passport and a leader in the non-aligned movement, Russia would collapse hard in the 1990s around the same time as the US. Border disputes between Russia and it's breakaways lead to Poverty and warfare as Russians and various minorities commit various war crimes against eachother. Fearing the military junta in charge getting their hands on Russian superbombs, the German Weltsystem intervened and ended it. The Russians have become something of a meme amongst non-moderates, but are now firmly aligned with the Americans. The Nationalist Government is still angry about the lost territory in Central Asia, and conflict in the aftermath is rife. They also refuse to acknowledge any war crimes they comitted during the 20th century.

-India was split between German and Japanese occupation after the British Empire withdrew, with the two occupation zones seeing population transfers based on religious groups. The two were dictatorships at the start and went to war in the 1950s. Azad Hind nearly won, bringing in German intervention. The Germans almost took the whole penninsula(4), bringing in Japanese intervention and devolving the war into a stalemate. Over the decades, the two Indias evolved apart. West India managed to become a flourishing and secular parliamentary democracy that has even begun to overtake Britain, while the other remains a military dictatorship that represses it's Muslim minorities whom didn't head west. It also really wants it's own superbombs. It's a nasty place to live, emphasizing autarky and anti-European sentiment, but it's not as bad as OTL North Korea. For one, they aren't starving. Japan is starting to dislike propping up the eccentric military rulers of Azad Hind, and Tokyo is now considering being the head of reconciliation efforts to bring the Subcontinent under it's full influence.

-Italy is loosely close to Germany, being a member of the weltsystem. After a terror attack on Rome in 2015, the Italians began intervening against Mormon and Radical Socialsit training camps in Africa, mainly it's former colonies.

(1)The fact that the US government tried it's damndest to cover it up showed just how lacking in transparency the US government had at that point.
(2) If this sounds extremely contrived, that's because it is.
(3) The video has AH as the EU, which I decided to change to have Austria be both Britain and Canada, with Hungary being Quebec and Scotland.
(4) Again, contrived.