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OK, I did the map for the alt-history wiki's "Toyotomi Japan" althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Toyo… , a world in which Japan does not close itself off from the world in the 17th century yet for some reason does not create a giant eternal all-east-Asia empire. A couple ideas re alt-country borders for South America and Africa have been stolen from Diamond and SRegan. If the author of the TL objects to my making a map out of their scenario, I shall of course take it down.

It's four decades after the end of the Second Eurasian War, in which the Japanese-Mexican-North American-odds and ends alliance defeated the English-German-Chinese alliance by dint of pluck, smarts, and Russia staying out of the fight until an opportune time arose to attack its German former ally. The world situation is complex and multipolar, with various often overlapping alliance systems. Nuclear weapons are common, but the "atomic arms race" has been less frantic than OTL - so far. China is a sore spot, it's republican regime having gone increasingly radical and revanchist over time. The world is largely post-colonial, with Japan and the European powers having given independence to most of their colonial possessions, and only Russia rules by force over an extensive multinational empire...[1]

A more general note on maps: my map margins and keys are too big. Too many notes, too much information. I am thinking of going back in the future to putting more info in an accompanying block of text the old-fashioned Bruce way. What do people think?

[1] Apparently Russia falls apart by "today", but the details are missing, the TL not going beyond 1946, so I decided to make the map for a period before that happens, since I like messy multinational empires.

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OK, I did the map for the alt-history wiki's "Toyotomi Japan" althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Toyo… , a world in which Japan does not close itself off from the world in the 17th century yet for some reason does not create a giant eternal all-east-Asia empire. A couple ideas re alt-country borders for South America and Africa have been stolen from Diamond and SRegan. If the author of the TL objects to my making a map out of their scenario, I shall of course take it down.

It's four decades after the end of the Second Eurasian War, in which the Japanese-Mexican-North American-odds and ends alliance defeated the English-German-Chinese alliance by dint of pluck, smarts, and Russia staying out of the fight until an opportune time arose to attack its German former ally. The world situation is complex and multipolar, with various often overlapping alliance systems. Nuclear weapons are common, but the "atomic arms race" has been less frantic than OTL - so far. China is a sore spot, it's republican regime having gone increasingly radical and revanchist over time. The world is largely post-colonial, with Japan and the European powers having given independence to most of their colonial possessions, and only Russia rules by force over an extensive multinational empire...[1]

A more general note on maps: my map margins and keys are too big. Too many notes, too much information. I am thinking of going back in the future to putting more info in an accompanying block of text the old-fashioned Bruce way. What do people think?

[1] Apparently Russia falls apart by "today", but the details are missing, the TL not going beyond 1946, so I decided to make the map for a period before that happens, since I like messy multinational empires.