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Published: 2010-07-20 19:16:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 16159; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 511
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CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON FOR FULL VIEWThe first map of Earth since the rebranding of my ComCom series, and the first I've uploaded since V.7
During the 2140's, tensions between the Quadruple Commune and the Columbian Commonwealth (formerly the Amazonian Kingdom) steadily increased, eventually erupting the August Invasion, which began in August 2147 with a Commune attack on southern Brazil. In response, Columbia, joined by forces from the Third Empire and the Pan-African League, invaded the Commune en-mass. The event is commonly heralded as the closest the world came to total war from the closing days of the Fusion Wars til the start of the First Solar War, but other Coalition powers avoided being dragged into the Terran form of the conflict, mainly due to increasingly strained relations between the modernising Coalition powers and the authoritarian junta that still controlled the Commune, but the Soviet Federation was accused by the Empire of secretly evacuating hundreds of thousands of Commune civilians from Earth out to Soviet asteroid colonies and Venusian complexes, via the atmospheric-towers in central Asia and NSU-controlled Arabia, against conventions drawn up in response to mass indenture-evacuations in Europe during the Fusion Wars.
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Why aren't Romania and Bulgaria part of the Union of Europe?
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If you read the note it says they all (sweden, romania, bulgaria, venetia, greece etc.) were admitted the next year.
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After WW2, Poland never got Silesia and Pomerania, which stayed (East) German. Some time after the Second Arctic War, during which Europe was conquered by Communist powers, Poland, East Germany, and Slovakia were united into the Central European People's Republic. The CEPR was a protectorate of the Soviet Union, until the Fusion Wars, when it was conquered by Progressive Union forces and had the German, Silesian, and Pomeranian provinces annexed back into Germany. By this map, it's become a nation-state of the Union of Europe, called the Central European Federation, moderately influenced and controlled by the Republic of Germany to the west
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Huh. How did you get the outlines for the US states then?
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Believe it or not, freehand 
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Nice to see the Pacific is mare nostrum for the good guys.
Remind me again, the Union are third way technocrats right?
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Yeah, of sorts. Government policy is still largely based on the teachings of Professor Douglas Everret from Glasgow, which taught that technological development and economic policy should be more focused and goal-oriented, rather than just being the sporadic "growth for the sake of growth" that had dominated former centuries. The Progressive Union members generally practice some form of democracy, seeing it as a crucial social construct to maintaining stable society, but it's usually within the remit of the ruling organisations that parties are allowed to form - only groups representing the interests and mandates of the policy-makers appear on the ballot papers.
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So villeins, but ones you might need so best not piss off unless you can conquer the world.
So what's this Solar War about?
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They aren't villains, just misunderstood 
That, I'm still trying to work out how to fully explain
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They are not of the Empire, nor allied to it. Therefore their are villeins of one kind or another.
So why do the Alliance rely on Space East Indiaman rather than new warships?
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Queen Elizabeth III thanks you
It's down to a lack of specilised production capacity + a relative excess of monetary wealth. Even by the time of the Fusion Wars, the day of the private military contractor had truly come, with the capitalistic nations of the Alliance seeing little profit in maintaining anything but defensive forces, and leaving the equipment and manpower costs to the readily avaliable PMC's. Government control and hegemony over their contracted armed forces within this system is far more subtle, with most Alliance-issue weapons being produced by state-owned businesses, especially within the Empire. Thus, loyalty is ensured in two ways; the PMC's wouldn't last long by upsetting both their major customers AND their only suppliers.
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Still shy of the Imperial title then?
Ah, sounds like it might come back to bite them in the ass eventually.
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Well the ruling monarch of the Empire is referred to officially as Emperor/Empress only in certain regions, most notably Japan and Deimos, reffered to everywhere else as King/Queen... that said, in the public vision, the terms Emperor/King or Empress/Queen are often synonymous, and both references are found in common public useage.
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Ah, so she's a Queen-Empress like Vicky?
Really engaging universe you are building by the way.
I must try harder to get some of my future stuff out. And my fantasy. And my backlog of Pax Germania battle and wars.
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Indeed, and thanks 
Go for it
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I look forward to seeing it.
And I'm almost done with my Avatar World map. Just need to add labels.
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Wow. Are all of these world nations mere empires, or did some grow by accident?
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Sorry, how do you mean? This map is developed from an alternate history which diverged from our own in the 1940's
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