SkunkyArt | RvBOMally — Marching for Georgia

The PoD is the South staying loyal during the American Revolution, while Canada joins the rebels. The Southern states later fight for independence (the British tried to ban slavery; how dare they!) and win, and while Carolina would avoid full integration with the Deep South (which would remain part of Georgia out to the Mississippi) disliking Terminus' [1] centralizing tendencies, it ultimately would remain within Georgia's orbit.

The United States eventually crumbles, but reforms as a more centralized unit centralized around New England. Still has a French-speaking minority that's rather loyal to the country and considers themselves instrumental to American independence; the Anglos disagree.

The French Revolution happened under different circumstances (for one, King Louis XVI is killed earlier), and is crushed more quickly. Napoleon never becomes anyone of note (only obscure historians know about his exploits in Italy, before he was shot in the leg and died from gangrene). France becomes the center of revanchism and becomes the local European troublemaker, before finally being crushed by the Allies in the Great War.

The Great War was between France, Russia and the Ottoman Empire against Britain, Germany, Austria and Italy. Georgia later joined in.

The Tsar was thrown out by a 1905-style revolution after the Great War. The Grand Duke ran off to Alaska and is still claiming the throne belongs to the proper Romanov heir. Said Romanov heir is too busy partying in Berlin to care.

After the fall of the First Republic and the restoration of semi-democracy, it was seen as necessary to weaken and decentralize the Russian state, lest things again return to the authoritarian norm. The Second Republic has managed to avoid tyranny, but the space vacated by the government has been colonized by corporate magnates and the bosses of criminal organizations, which often in fact are a bit hard to distinguish from each other. The corrupt and largely interchangeable political parties are largely bought off, and while there is a lot of money in Russia, and the lights are bright and the music hot in the big cities, social inequality has reached positively Brazilian levels. There are those who wonder if Russia is headed for its third violent change of government in less than a century...

The Chinese emperor was overthrown in a Taiping-style peasant rebellion. It was Taiping-like in its southern peasant origin and ferociously anti-Manchu attitudes, but led by an entirely orthodox Chinese Christian. Modern China is hungrily adopting British and German practices.

Italy is not a military joke ITTL, and had an impressive history of successes during the Italian Unification Wars, particularly against the French and the Austrians. They're the big winner of the Great War in Europe, joining a year late, and the rest of the Allies promised them French Central Africa if they joined. Desiring to link up their Kongolese and Libyan colonies, the Italians joined and placed the French (already at a stalemate in the Pyrenees and the Ardennes) in a precarious situation.

Iberia is some hyper-Catholic nasty mess that rose up in reaction to a French-backed republics in Spain and Portugal. Nasty dudes, just like their Imperial Japanese allies.

The Ottoman Empire collapsed in the 1920s after the Great War, and the European powers rush to pick up the pieces.

British rule in India never gelled as much as it did IOTL, and they were let go in the 1920s after it was clear that the British keeping their various "rajahs" in power would require troop commitments comparable to the Great War.

Persia modernized a bit more in the 19th century, and is now raking in cash thanks to oil.

Minnesota is the local North Korea, although far less belligerent and despotic. It was founded by an Aaron Burr type (not Burr himself) fleeing the United States, and has been isolated due to its liberal view on Native Americans. Nowadays, it's a 19th century relic and has shades of cult of personality around its founding fathers.