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Here's an old one I decided to pull out of storage and finish - it's a rather multinational North America, in a world where England never got into American colonization the way it did OTL. After the fall of England to the French Autocracy and the division the bulk of the Old World between three great authoritarian powers, most of the states of North America formed a defensive federation to keep them from meddling in North American affairs. Things have become less tense since the Pan-Eurasian war and the Russian Revolution (as a result of which Aleyaska joined the Confederation), but the Confederation had become a going concern by that time.

The Confederation has fifteen members. It is roughly as united as OTL NATO+the EC, although with greater labor mobility. An extensive railway system links the states, and highways are being constructed. Its central government of sorts is located in the city of Herning in Skovland (former Danish America), which is 1. one of the richer states and therefore able to provide all the mod cons and 2. one of the smaller states and therefore considered less able to manipulate the agenda by playing host. Due to hostility to the Hegemony, Spanish rather than the more wide-spread French is used as a common language for government business.

Tejas and California are breakaway states from Mexico. Tejas is a bit like our old Texas in being a state of oilmen and ranchers and corny populists, although, being Catholic, there isn't an equivalent to the Evangelical crowd. While Tejas has a large French minority, California has people from all over who came in with the Gold Rush, has three official languages, and although fairly prosperous is one of the most politically turbulent of the Confederation's members, with governments changing as often as OTLs French Third Republic.

The Confederation has four native American members. Apacheria, with its mix of Amerindians, Mexican exiles, and smugglers of all races, is somewhat uncertainly so, and is with Piquetie one of the "bad boys" of the Confederation, notorious for illegal over-the-border dealings with Mexico and government corruption: it remains a member mainly due to an attitude on the part of the Confederation government of "Better inside the tent, pissing out, than..." The Mandan-Lakota Confederation and the Great Waters Union are to some extent satellites of Lousiana, although the Union is becoming increasingly independent as it grows as a center of industry. The Iroqouis Confederation is as modern as any state in the Federation, but is suffering from a bit of turmoil as a younger generation, (never mind that the country is running about 70% white or ethnically mixed nowadays) call for a return to their cultural roots.

Virginia did well in cotton and slaves the same as OTL, but with no real chance of westwards expansion and soil exhuastion, found itself with an oversupply of slaves. Freed blacks were energetically encouraged to emigrate, and many found themselves in more tolerant Louisiana. As their numbers grew, Lousiana grew less tolerant, and Prime Minister Piquet came up with the "brilliant" notion of settling the blacks among the still uncivilized Indians of the north, as a sort of border guard. Although the first few decades were ... difficult, in the end, bolstered by fresh flows of African-Americans as Virginia ended slavery and replaced it with share-cropping and new "race laws", the free blacks carved out their own states on the frontier and over the last few decades have managed to gain independence from the "tutelage" of Lousiana. Beulah is a fairly successful mostly agricultural republic, but Piquetie has bad corruption problems and is an essentially one-party state.

The French of Lousiana and the Kingdom of Canada, if they joined forces, would dominate the Confederation, but fortunately for the stability of the same, agricultural, anti-clerical, republican Lousiana does not get along at all well with conservative, religious, heavily industrialized Canada, home of the house of Valois in exile since the revolution of 1823. Lousiana has a large anglophone minority, and resents greatly Canadian claims to superior Frenchness.

Virginia is mostly Anglican by religion, and about 1/4 black in spite of the westward migrations. The most populous of the Confederation's states, it one of the more conservative of the states when it comes to economics, and grumbles a great deal about any new all-Confederation economic plans coming out of Herning. Still, it sticks with the Confederation, perhaps due to its hot anger over the French overruning of its home country and the later crushing of the Rising of '47: the Confederation as a whole might be able to break the French hold on most of Europe one day - Virginia alone, most unlikely.

New Holland speaks Dutch as a first language, French and British as second languages, and has per capita the largest Jewish population in the Confederation. It is also per capita the richest state in the Confederation, and poorer states such as Beulah or Texas grumble about the Hollander-Jewish alliance buying up all of North America. Still, New Holland is the essential financial center of the Confederation, and is rivalled only by Louisiana as a center of Confederation culture and art.

Skovland is Lutheran, prosperous and rather clean and neat, and increasingly a bit uneasy about all these Hispanics and French and Indians and blacks and who knows what else which are starting to show up in increasing numbers of late in their little corner of the continent. Jamaica, on the other hand, is the second-poorest member of the Confederation, politically turbulent, colorful, and a vigorous exporter of emmigrants to the rest of the Confederation. It is also a late joiner, having been liberated from Spanish rule during the brief but bloody Greenland War.

Another late joiner was Alaska, which houses the last of the Romanovs as Canada houses the last of the French kings. It suffers from severe right-left political divisions, although at least since the disastrous Fifth International the far Left are no longer actively working to see Alaska rejoined (by force if need be) with the Holy Eurasian People's Union. It is also noted among other Confederation members as a major exporter of Orthodox Evangelicals, which are in a great hurry to get everyone converted before Jesus arrives.

Quite surrounded by the Confederation, but largely isolated from it, is the Great Spirit Kingdom, a mountainous theocracy founded by a native American prophet. It's almost entirely native American population follows a largely traditional lifestyle, and it is the poorest state in North America. Unsurprisingly, smuggling is rife. It survives mainly because of political pressure from the Confederation's native American members, nostalgic thinking re traditional native American culture, and because the Beulahans, the Californians, and the Alaskans never could agree how to split it up. Currently, there is a fierce debate re rumors of human rights abuses on the part of the Hereditary Prophet's government form a prima facie reason for intervention.

The Confederation does not get along at all well with Mexico, which is a French ally and frequently makes loud grumbly noises about its lost territories. Several groups in the Confederation are secretly funding revolutionary groups in Mexico, of which the Liberty Brigades of the "Mosquitia free state" are currently the most successful.

It is a somewhat more backwards world, with roughly 1920s and 1930s technology. (And airships, of course. ) Currently a complex balance of power exists between the Confederation, the Empire of Japan, the French Hegemony, and the Russian Holy Socialists and their ilk, with various lesser powers (such as Brazil, the North Indian Union and the Shi'a league) trying to find space for maneuver...

Description
Here's an old one I decided to pull out of storage and finish - it's a rather multinational North America, in a world where England never got into American colonization the way it did OTL. After the fall of England to the French Autocracy and the division the bulk of the Old World between three great authoritarian powers, most of the states of North America formed a defensive federation to keep them from meddling in North American affairs. Things have become less tense since the Pan-Eurasian war and the Russian Revolution (as a result of which Aleyaska joined the Confederation), but the Confederation had become a going concern by that time.

The Confederation has fifteen members. It is roughly as united as OTL NATO+the EC, although with greater labor mobility. An extensive railway system links the states, and highways are being constructed. Its central government of sorts is located in the city of Herning in Skovland (former Danish America), which is 1. one of the richer states and therefore able to provide all the mod cons and 2. one of the smaller states and therefore considered less able to manipulate the agenda by playing host. Due to hostility to the Hegemony, Spanish rather than the more wide-spread French is used as a common language for government business.

Tejas and California are breakaway states from Mexico. Tejas is a bit like our old Texas in being a state of oilmen and ranchers and corny populists, although, being Catholic, there isn't an equivalent to the Evangelical crowd. While Tejas has a large French minority, California has people from all over who came in with the Gold Rush, has three official languages, and although fairly prosperous is one of the most politically turbulent of the Confederation's members, with governments changing as often as OTLs French Third Republic.

The Confederation has four native American members. Apacheria, with its mix of Amerindians, Mexican exiles, and smugglers of all races, is somewhat uncertainly so, and is with Piquetie one of the "bad boys" of the Confederation, notorious for illegal over-the-border dealings with Mexico and government corruption: it remains a member mainly due to an attitude on the part of the Confederation government of "Better inside the tent, pissing out, than..." The Mandan-Lakota Confederation and the Great Waters Union are to some extent satellites of Lousiana, although the Union is becoming increasingly independent as it grows as a center of industry. The Iroqouis Confederation is as modern as any state in the Federation, but is suffering from a bit of turmoil as a younger generation, (never mind that the country is running about 70% white or ethnically mixed nowadays) call for a return to their cultural roots.

Virginia did well in cotton and slaves the same as OTL, but with no real chance of westwards expansion and soil exhuastion, found itself with an oversupply of slaves. Freed blacks were energetically encouraged to emigrate, and many found themselves in more tolerant Louisiana. As their numbers grew, Lousiana grew less tolerant, and Prime Minister Piquet came up with the "brilliant" notion of settling the blacks among the still uncivilized Indians of the north, as a sort of border guard. Although the first few decades were ... difficult, in the end, bolstered by fresh flows of African-Americans as Virginia ended slavery and replaced it with share-cropping and new "race laws", the free blacks carved out their own states on the frontier and over the last few decades have managed to gain independence from the "tutelage" of Lousiana. Beulah is a fairly successful mostly agricultural republic, but Piquetie has bad corruption problems and is an essentially one-party state.

The French of Lousiana and the Kingdom of Canada, if they joined forces, would dominate the Confederation, but fortunately for the stability of the same, agricultural, anti-clerical, republican Lousiana does not get along at all well with conservative, religious, heavily industrialized Canada, home of the house of Valois in exile since the revolution of 1823. Lousiana has a large anglophone minority, and resents greatly Canadian claims to superior Frenchness.

Virginia is mostly Anglican by religion, and about 1/4 black in spite of the westward migrations. The most populous of the Confederation's states, it one of the more conservative of the states when it comes to economics, and grumbles a great deal about any new all-Confederation economic plans coming out of Herning. Still, it sticks with the Confederation, perhaps due to its hot anger over the French overruning of its home country and the later crushing of the Rising of '47: the Confederation as a whole might be able to break the French hold on most of Europe one day - Virginia alone, most unlikely.

New Holland speaks Dutch as a first language, French and British as second languages, and has per capita the largest Jewish population in the Confederation. It is also per capita the richest state in the Confederation, and poorer states such as Beulah or Texas grumble about the Hollander-Jewish alliance buying up all of North America. Still, New Holland is the essential financial center of the Confederation, and is rivalled only by Louisiana as a center of Confederation culture and art.

Skovland is Lutheran, prosperous and rather clean and neat, and increasingly a bit uneasy about all these Hispanics and French and Indians and blacks and who knows what else which are starting to show up in increasing numbers of late in their little corner of the continent. Jamaica, on the other hand, is the second-poorest member of the Confederation, politically turbulent, colorful, and a vigorous exporter of emmigrants to the rest of the Confederation. It is also a late joiner, having been liberated from Spanish rule during the brief but bloody Greenland War.

Another late joiner was Alaska, which houses the last of the Romanovs as Canada houses the last of the French kings. It suffers from severe right-left political divisions, although at least since the disastrous Fifth International the far Left are no longer actively working to see Alaska rejoined (by force if need be) with the Holy Eurasian People's Union. It is also noted among other Confederation members as a major exporter of Orthodox Evangelicals, which are in a great hurry to get everyone converted before Jesus arrives.

Quite surrounded by the Confederation, but largely isolated from it, is the Great Spirit Kingdom, a mountainous theocracy founded by a native American prophet. It's almost entirely native American population follows a largely traditional lifestyle, and it is the poorest state in North America. Unsurprisingly, smuggling is rife. It survives mainly because of political pressure from the Confederation's native American members, nostalgic thinking re traditional native American culture, and because the Beulahans, the Californians, and the Alaskans never could agree how to split it up. Currently, there is a fierce debate re rumors of human rights abuses on the part of the Hereditary Prophet's government form a prima facie reason for intervention.

The Confederation does not get along at all well with Mexico, which is a French ally and frequently makes loud grumbly noises about its lost territories. Several groups in the Confederation are secretly funding revolutionary groups in Mexico, of which the Liberty Brigades of the "Mosquitia free state" are currently the most successful.

It is a somewhat more backwards world, with roughly 1920s and 1930s technology. (And airships, of course. ) Currently a complex balance of power exists between the Confederation, the Empire of Japan, the French Hegemony, and the Russian Holy Socialists and their ilk, with various lesser powers (such as Brazil, the North Indian Union and the Shi'a league) trying to find space for maneuver...