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Map based on Mumby's Dutch's America bobmumby.deviantart.com/art/Du… with a few changes of my own.

In this world, Dutch Van Der Linde, from the "Red Dead Redemption" game, led an anarchist/anti-urban western revolt in the aftermath of a more drawn-out and messy civil war and chaotic conditions in the western US. In the end, the US was divided into an "Orangeist" west, a neo-Confederacy in the south, and a workers and soldiers republic in the north. The West and North joined to crush the south, and the West then turned on a North weakened by divisions between hard-line socialists and the more moderate types.

A WWI of sorts broke out in Europe, with the anti-German block weakened from the start by the lack of US exports and financial backing. Van Der Linde joined the German side in hopes of gaining German help against the northeasterners, and also in hope of spreading his revolution to Canada. In the end the help the Germans were able to give was limited, but the invasion of Canada did lead to the UK throwing in the towel. The pressures of war led to the rise of the more radical Northeastern elements to power, and given the heavy concentration of industry and population in the area Van Der Linde was unable to crush what became the United Socialist Councils, although driving them into their core areas.

The necessities of war also made it certain the Van Der Linde's "savage utopia" became a dictatorship: when a new post-armistice "Constitutional Convention" created the American Popular Union, president-for-life Van Der Linde was essentially military dictator, [1] although his role as President was supposedly ceremonial. A process of breaking up and rearranging old state boundaries to create new "republics" was extended to the east, with new states created to punish enemies and reward allies. The power of urban centers and older eastern elites was broken, many cities destroyed outright or their populations dispersed.

Overseas, Japan as OTL was drawn into struggles with China. Germany had won the war but had been unable to entirely break France and Russia, which rose again post-war under new "Vanguardist" ultra-national regimes, as did rump Italy. In the end a second Great War broke out, with Austria and Germany against France, Italy, and Russia, with the British occupied in Asia vs the Japanese, which took advantage of European distraction to grab as much as it could in Asia. Van Der Linde's America, now under John Marston, became a British co-belligerent in hopes of expanding APU influence in Asia.

It is now 1950, and an odd multi-sided cold war is under way. Germany lost after a long struggle, and was utterly smashed, along with Austria. The world is divided into the Orangeists led by the American Popular Union, the Vanguardists led by Russia, the Communists (leadership divided between China and the American Socialist councils, although the oceans between them have helped prevent a falling out so far), the Social Democracies (essentially a British Empire struggling to federalize and it's Little Buddies) and an odd collection of conservative and predominantly "third world" monarchies led by an Ottoman Empire rising on a tide of oil. Rebellion in Africa is only just getting started, and sees Communism competing with Orangeism, the localism and agrarianism of which gives it cachet among peasant groups and urban intellectuals who idealize peasants rather than factory workers.

America remains divided, and an eventual rematch between Red and Orange Americas seems likely. After a long struggle to rebuild while fighting to purge "reactionary" elements, the United Socialist Councils is, in the view of the Supreme Council, finally running smoothly, and if many citizens present 20 years ago have fled or perished, at least those who remain are Better Americans. Meanwhile, the American Popular Union is drifting further from the ideals of its founder, perhaps inevitably in the face of external menaces and a dictatorial presidency-for-life. Cities are growing again, and if they are politically powerless, at least they don't have their finances dependent on the votes of country hicks. Industry is also expanding, although quite a bit of it is exported to puppets and allied states so it doesn't sully the American landscape. Blacks and native Americans, which gained land and political equality under the racially egalitarian Van Der Linde, are seeing their relative standing decline: the current Big Cheese, West Dickens, is not a racist per se, but he's a practical man who is fine with a little pandering to white racism if it strengthens his position and keeps the Olde Confederacy quiet, and those Indians are sitting on a load of resources they need to be more sharing with.

The atomic bomb has not yet been developed, but several nations are racing towards its creation. Nobody thinks a third Great War is unlikely in the long run...

[1] Everyone in the American Popular Union has guns, but it's the Presidentially controlled military that has the big guns.

Description
Map based on Mumby's Dutch's America bobmumby.deviantart.com/art/Du… with a few changes of my own.

In this world, Dutch Van Der Linde, from the "Red Dead Redemption" game, led an anarchist/anti-urban western revolt in the aftermath of a more drawn-out and messy civil war and chaotic conditions in the western US. In the end, the US was divided into an "Orangeist" west, a neo-Confederacy in the south, and a workers and soldiers republic in the north. The West and North joined to crush the south, and the West then turned on a North weakened by divisions between hard-line socialists and the more moderate types.

A WWI of sorts broke out in Europe, with the anti-German block weakened from the start by the lack of US exports and financial backing. Van Der Linde joined the German side in hopes of gaining German help against the northeasterners, and also in hope of spreading his revolution to Canada. In the end the help the Germans were able to give was limited, but the invasion of Canada did lead to the UK throwing in the towel. The pressures of war led to the rise of the more radical Northeastern elements to power, and given the heavy concentration of industry and population in the area Van Der Linde was unable to crush what became the United Socialist Councils, although driving them into their core areas.

The necessities of war also made it certain the Van Der Linde's "savage utopia" became a dictatorship: when a new post-armistice "Constitutional Convention" created the American Popular Union, president-for-life Van Der Linde was essentially military dictator, [1] although his role as President was supposedly ceremonial. A process of breaking up and rearranging old state boundaries to create new "republics" was extended to the east, with new states created to punish enemies and reward allies. The power of urban centers and older eastern elites was broken, many cities destroyed outright or their populations dispersed.

Overseas, Japan as OTL was drawn into struggles with China. Germany had won the war but had been unable to entirely break France and Russia, which rose again post-war under new "Vanguardist" ultra-national regimes, as did rump Italy. In the end a second Great War broke out, with Austria and Germany against France, Italy, and Russia, with the British occupied in Asia vs the Japanese, which took advantage of European distraction to grab as much as it could in Asia. Van Der Linde's America, now under John Marston, became a British co-belligerent in hopes of expanding APU influence in Asia.

It is now 1950, and an odd multi-sided cold war is under way. Germany lost after a long struggle, and was utterly smashed, along with Austria. The world is divided into the Orangeists led by the American Popular Union, the Vanguardists led by Russia, the Communists (leadership divided between China and the American Socialist councils, although the oceans between them have helped prevent a falling out so far), the Social Democracies (essentially a British Empire struggling to federalize and it's Little Buddies) and an odd collection of conservative and predominantly "third world" monarchies led by an Ottoman Empire rising on a tide of oil. Rebellion in Africa is only just getting started, and sees Communism competing with Orangeism, the localism and agrarianism of which gives it cachet among peasant groups and urban intellectuals who idealize peasants rather than factory workers.

America remains divided, and an eventual rematch between Red and Orange Americas seems likely. After a long struggle to rebuild while fighting to purge "reactionary" elements, the United Socialist Councils is, in the view of the Supreme Council, finally running smoothly, and if many citizens present 20 years ago have fled or perished, at least those who remain are Better Americans. Meanwhile, the American Popular Union is drifting further from the ideals of its founder, perhaps inevitably in the face of external menaces and a dictatorial presidency-for-life. Cities are growing again, and if they are politically powerless, at least they don't have their finances dependent on the votes of country hicks. Industry is also expanding, although quite a bit of it is exported to puppets and allied states so it doesn't sully the American landscape. Blacks and native Americans, which gained land and political equality under the racially egalitarian Van Der Linde, are seeing their relative standing decline: the current Big Cheese, West Dickens, is not a racist per se, but he's a practical man who is fine with a little pandering to white racism if it strengthens his position and keeps the Olde Confederacy quiet, and those Indians are sitting on a load of resources they need to be more sharing with.

The atomic bomb has not yet been developed, but several nations are racing towards its creation. Nobody thinks a third Great War is unlikely in the long run...

[1] Everyone in the American Popular Union has guns, but it's the Presidentially controlled military that has the big guns.