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A replacement/sequel to the previous ISOT map I did as a request for Starforce33 now that he's changed his name to Magloria17 . Previous map here: www.deviantart.com/rubberduck3…

Regions transported: Canada (Quebec), United States (Wyoming, Vermont, Massachusetts, upstate New York and Kentucky), Belarus, Russia (including occupied territories), Moldova (including Transnistria), Serbia (including North Kosovo), Bosnia & Herzegovina (Republika Srpska)

The sudden disappearance of all of Canada outside Quebec and its replacement with untouched wilderness gave Quebeckers what many of them had wanted in the 1990s: full independence. They soon discovered however that independence came with many challenges such as Quebec having to develop its own foreign policy and border policies with New York and Vermont to the south. Border issues became pressing thanks to increased Anglophone emigration as while the Cree and Inuit communities in the country's north had been granted autonomy, similar policies had not been put into place for English-speaking Quebeckers. While this had been most due to practical concerns, it was received poorly by the Anglo community.

South of the border, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York (minus its namesake city) had embraced the old United States' motto of E Pluribus Unum, quickly reforming a new United States with its capital in Boston. Resettlement of neighbouring areas and their admittance to the Union as new states soon followed. The US's expansion also brought conflict with Quebec, particularly over the Niagara peninsular which Quebec claimed as the successor to Canada, but which had been settled by Americans and some Anglophone Quebeckers. The dispute was ultimately settled with America keeping Niagara while Quebec got northern Maine in exchange. America's next major expansion was the Kentucky Secession which saw the previously independent Commonwealth of Kentucky enter the Union under a special arrangement granting Frankfort internal autonomy and continued direct control of the Kentucky Ohio Territory.

Out west in the great Rocky Mountains, another square of humanity had survived in Wyoming where the frontier spirit saw quick expansion to both the south and west. Wyoming's sparse population and lack of resources however meant the government in Cheyenne was unable to support this expansion. Being separated from the rest of Wyoming by the continental divide, the settlers of the Snake River Valley thus proclaimed their independence as the State of Lincoln. The well off residents of Teton County around Yellowstone however were not going to throw themselves into the frontier lifestyle of either Lincoln or Wyoming, so when contact with the United States was re-established, they enthusiastically applied for admission to the Union. Their request was refused though by Boston which didn't want to try administering an area over 2000 miles away, nevertheless Teton and the US formed a close relationship with many wealthy Americans investing in Yellowstone retreats.

While Boston was wary about expansion to the far west, for Moscow the worry was keeping hold of its far east. The initial vanishing of all Ukrainian troops and defensive infrastructure outside the areas of Russian control had been greeted as a great propaganda success for Moscow's "Special Military Operation" with new oblasts being quickly established east of the Dnieper and the Ukraine Republic to the west of the river. However the realities of a economy built on energy exports with no neighbours except Belarus to export to soon bit. The Putin regime responded to the hardships facing ordinary Russians with repression and when the old man died about a decade after the Event, many privately rejoiced, but also feared what a post-Putin, post-Event Russia would look like. The answer was instability. A series of short lived governments came and went, doing nothing but create a sense of chaos and hopelessness that Russia had lost its way. Old secessionist movements were reignited in the north Caucasus and Volga-Ural regions while among Russians rival regimes started appearing to challenge Moscow's authority. The most prominent of these were based in St Petersburg and Khabarovsk with the latter using its open access to the fertile plains around the Lyao (Liao) River to attract migrants with genuine prospects of establishing a new life in the far east. The lands under Khabarovsk's control thus grew in both area and population, with the regime's capital ultimately being moved to the newly built city of Vladikitaya on the western coast of the Bohai Sea. Since the move to Vladikitaya, the eastern regime's power has only continued to grow, eclipsing both St Petersburg and Moscow.

Just as the Vladikitayan regime was on its way to building a new empire (Russian? Chinese? Mongolian?) in the east, a new Serbian empire had risen in the west. Belgrade had expanded its rule across the southern and western Balkans, reminiscent of the 14th century empire of Dušan the Mighty. Sandwiched between Serbia and Russia, Moldova has successfully managed to avoid falling under either Belgrade or Moscow's influence, instead finally getting unrestricted access to the Black Sea and developing a fishing industry to accompany its wine production. Transnistria, while still claimed by Chișinău, has established itself as one of Moscow's closest allies and also nabbed itself a short coastline, while in the south the Gagauz have established a fully independent Gagauzia, with strong ties to, but no official claims to Moldova's Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia. Completing the mix of Balkan states are Moldovan-settled Romania, a Roma state, Kosovo (now in Albania), Srpska (aka West Serbia) and Vojvodinan-settled Hungary.

Western Europe is also home to a smattering of small, setter-established states, established by American and Québecois emigrants, boosted by military personnel as Boston and Québec City were keen to keep an eye on Moscow, Minsk, Belgrade and their successors in their power struggle for control of Eurasia, as the outcome has the potential to completely change the world.

Description
A replacement/sequel to the previous ISOT map I did as a request for Starforce33 now that he's changed his name to Magloria17 . Previous map here: www.deviantart.com/rubberduck3…

Regions transported: Canada (Quebec), United States (Wyoming, Vermont, Massachusetts, upstate New York and Kentucky), Belarus, Russia (including occupied territories), Moldova (including Transnistria), Serbia (including North Kosovo), Bosnia & Herzegovina (Republika Srpska)

The sudden disappearance of all of Canada outside Quebec and its replacement with untouched wilderness gave Quebeckers what many of them had wanted in the 1990s: full independence. They soon discovered however that independence came with many challenges such as Quebec having to develop its own foreign policy and border policies with New York and Vermont to the south. Border issues became pressing thanks to increased Anglophone emigration as while the Cree and Inuit communities in the country's north had been granted autonomy, similar policies had not been put into place for English-speaking Quebeckers. While this had been most due to practical concerns, it was received poorly by the Anglo community.

South of the border, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York (minus its namesake city) had embraced the old United States' motto of E Pluribus Unum, quickly reforming a new United States with its capital in Boston. Resettlement of neighbouring areas and their admittance to the Union as new states soon followed. The US's expansion also brought conflict with Quebec, particularly over the Niagara peninsular which Quebec claimed as the successor to Canada, but which had been settled by Americans and some Anglophone Quebeckers. The dispute was ultimately settled with America keeping Niagara while Quebec got northern Maine in exchange. America's next major expansion was the Kentucky Secession which saw the previously independent Commonwealth of Kentucky enter the Union under a special arrangement granting Frankfort internal autonomy and continued direct control of the Kentucky Ohio Territory.

Out west in the great Rocky Mountains, another square of humanity had survived in Wyoming where the frontier spirit saw quick expansion to both the south and west. Wyoming's sparse population and lack of resources however meant the government in Cheyenne was unable to support this expansion. Being separated from the rest of Wyoming by the continental divide, the settlers of the Snake River Valley thus proclaimed their independence as the State of Lincoln. The well off residents of Teton County around Yellowstone however were not going to throw themselves into the frontier lifestyle of either Lincoln or Wyoming, so when contact with the United States was re-established, they enthusiastically applied for admission to the Union. Their request was refused though by Boston which didn't want to try administering an area over 2000 miles away, nevertheless Teton and the US formed a close relationship with many wealthy Americans investing in Yellowstone retreats.

While Boston was wary about expansion to the far west, for Moscow the worry was keeping hold of its far east. The initial vanishing of all Ukrainian troops and defensive infrastructure outside the areas of Russian control had been greeted as a great propaganda success for Moscow's "Special Military Operation" with new oblasts being quickly established east of the Dnieper and the Ukraine Republic to the west of the river. However the realities of a economy built on energy exports with no neighbours except Belarus to export to soon bit. The Putin regime responded to the hardships facing ordinary Russians with repression and when the old man died about a decade after the Event, many privately rejoiced, but also feared what a post-Putin, post-Event Russia would look like. The answer was instability. A series of short lived governments came and went, doing nothing but create a sense of chaos and hopelessness that Russia had lost its way. Old secessionist movements were reignited in the north Caucasus and Volga-Ural regions while among Russians rival regimes started appearing to challenge Moscow's authority. The most prominent of these were based in St Petersburg and Khabarovsk with the latter using its open access to the fertile plains around the Lyao (Liao) River to attract migrants with genuine prospects of establishing a new life in the far east. The lands under Khabarovsk's control thus grew in both area and population, with the regime's capital ultimately being moved to the newly built city of Vladikitaya on the western coast of the Bohai Sea. Since the move to Vladikitaya, the eastern regime's power has only continued to grow, eclipsing both St Petersburg and Moscow.

Just as the Vladikitayan regime was on its way to building a new empire (Russian? Chinese? Mongolian?) in the east, a new Serbian empire had risen in the west. Belgrade had expanded its rule across the southern and western Balkans, reminiscent of the 14th century empire of Dušan the Mighty. Sandwiched between Serbia and Russia, Moldova has successfully managed to avoid falling under either Belgrade or Moscow's influence, instead finally getting unrestricted access to the Black Sea and developing a fishing industry to accompany its wine production. Transnistria, while still claimed by Chișinău, has established itself as one of Moscow's closest allies and also nabbed itself a short coastline, while in the south the Gagauz have established a fully independent Gagauzia, with strong ties to, but no official claims to Moldova's Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia. Completing the mix of Balkan states are Moldovan-settled Romania, a Roma state, Kosovo (now in Albania), Srpska (aka West Serbia) and Vojvodinan-settled Hungary.

Western Europe is also home to a smattering of small, setter-established states, established by American and Québecois emigrants, boosted by military personnel as Boston and Québec City were keen to keep an eye on Moscow, Minsk, Belgrade and their successors in their power struggle for control of Eurasia, as the outcome has the potential to completely change the world.