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This is the original worlda version of the later Photoshop edition of Revolutionary World, now posted here . The scenario started life as a heavily modified version of a map game posted on AlternateHistory.com by user Venice shortly before I joined. I was amazed to find that, when similar colours were assumed to indicate the same power, the end result actually looked fairly plausible (leaving aside odd elements like uninhabited coastline and landlocked colonies), and in fact had less ridiculous uberpowers than OTL!

Accordingly, I decided to attempt a fully annotated map for the setting with a vaguely plausible invented P.O.D. (no War of the Spanish Succession due to a new and distinctly less inbred Charles II delivered in a warming pan). Italy is united under Venice, France holds onto western Louisiana (then splits into two metropolitan Frances in a delayed action super-Revolution), and Russian goes radical (TTL Communist) then gets a Czarist Restoration. Hopefully there's enough flavour text on the map itself to give a good idea of how things are shaping up between the monarchist and radical powers.

I was originally planning to group the nations into absolute monarchies, limited monarchies, moderate republics and radical republics, but didn't like my chances of successfully putting so many annotations on the map without going insane. Instead, I provided a key to show which powers are Christian, Islamic, Humanist (think the Cult of Reason, á la Robespierre), or polytheistic, which, along with the tried and tested 'the more 'democratic'/'people's'/'worker's' adjectives in the country's name the more crazily bleeped up it is' rule, should give a fair approximation.

I tried to go for a style somewhere between that of B_Munro (QuantumBranching over here) and Tony Jones (it was originally titled 'A Very Different World',* but I felt it needed more zing), so: lots of annotations, non-UCS colours, and lots of jagged edges. Unfortunately, I don't think I have quite the same gift for plausible borders as the former, or the patience for tiny nation-states of the latter. But anyway, hopefully someone will enjoy it!

* Which isn't even true, seeing as it has a Spanish Empire in terminal decline, a British Empire trying to keep ahead of at least one massively industrialised ex-colonial republic, and a Russia that's lost control of eastern Europe and central Asia...

Description

This is the original worlda version of the later Photoshop edition of Revolutionary World, now posted here . The scenario started life as a heavily modified version of a map game posted on AlternateHistory.com by user Venice shortly before I joined. I was amazed to find that, when similar colours were assumed to indicate the same power, the end result actually looked fairly plausible (leaving aside odd elements like uninhabited coastline and landlocked colonies), and in fact had less ridiculous uberpowers than OTL!

Accordingly, I decided to attempt a fully annotated map for the setting with a vaguely plausible invented P.O.D. (no War of the Spanish Succession due to a new and distinctly less inbred Charles II delivered in a warming pan). Italy is united under Venice, France holds onto western Louisiana (then splits into two metropolitan Frances in a delayed action super-Revolution), and Russian goes radical (TTL Communist) then gets a Czarist Restoration. Hopefully there's enough flavour text on the map itself to give a good idea of how things are shaping up between the monarchist and radical powers.

I was originally planning to group the nations into absolute monarchies, limited monarchies, moderate republics and radical republics, but didn't like my chances of successfully putting so many annotations on the map without going insane. Instead, I provided a key to show which powers are Christian, Islamic, Humanist (think the Cult of Reason, á la Robespierre), or polytheistic, which, along with the tried and tested 'the more 'democratic'/'people's'/'worker's' adjectives in the country's name the more crazily bleeped up it is' rule, should give a fair approximation.

I tried to go for a style somewhere between that of B_Munro (QuantumBranching over here) and Tony Jones (it was originally titled 'A Very Different World',* but I felt it needed more zing), so: lots of annotations, non-UCS colours, and lots of jagged edges. Unfortunately, I don't think I have quite the same gift for plausible borders as the former, or the patience for tiny nation-states of the latter. But anyway, hopefully someone will enjoy it!

* Which isn't even true, seeing as it has a Spanish Empire in terminal decline, a British Empire trying to keep ahead of at least one massively industrialised ex-colonial republic, and a Russia that's lost control of eastern Europe and central Asia...