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...aaand requiring significantly less Inkscape-fu (none, in fact), I thought I'd take this opportunity to divest myself of this alternate history map, which I started around this time last year and about which I remember very little.

I think it started as an attempt to envision the strongest possible plausible Russia from a roughly 1890s-esque POD, and then what effect this might have on the rest of the world.

This was supposed to be around 1950 or so; there's been no World War as such, although most of its geopolitical conflicts were recreated separately (noteably the Spanish-American war was the Spanish-American-French-Japanese war).

The European imperial powers are still going strong; the Doctrine of Lapse is really starting to bite the princely states in India.* Austria-Hungary found a workable (if somewhat reduced) configuration as the Danubian Federation, and China is rapidly becoming the workshop of the world, albeit not under quite such happy circumstances as OTL (but hey, Germany got to keep Qingdao as one of the last remnants of its empire).

Japan, frustrated at being kept out of China by the White Man, is happily building its own terrifying slave empire in the Philippines. Belgium confiscated the Congo from Leopold II, but the British do keep renewing that lease with the Belgian crown in Lado. The Republic of Acre decided rule from Rio was as bad as Santa Cruz. Clipperton Island got a less murderous (but no megalomaniacal) lighthousekeeper and the Kingdom survives to the day as an unrecognised microstate that does a roaring trade in bootlegging American liquor to Prohibitionist Mexico.

Also, Britain is now (grudgingly) recognised as the Caliphate. Coronations are weird.

* I have since been informed this wouldn't work with an 1890s POD as the princely states were already being recognised as quasi-Westphalian entities. Whilst British control over India might well grow in the absence of the World Wars, it would probably move towards federation rather than East India Company-style annexation.

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...aaand requiring significantly less Inkscape-fu (none, in fact), I thought I'd take this opportunity to divest myself of this alternate history map, which I started around this time last year and about which I remember very little.

I think it started as an attempt to envision the strongest possible plausible Russia from a roughly 1890s-esque POD, and then what effect this might have on the rest of the world.

This was supposed to be around 1950 or so; there's been no World War as such, although most of its geopolitical conflicts were recreated separately (noteably the Spanish-American war was the Spanish-American-French-Japanese war).

The European imperial powers are still going strong; the Doctrine of Lapse is really starting to bite the princely states in India.* Austria-Hungary found a workable (if somewhat reduced) configuration as the Danubian Federation, and China is rapidly becoming the workshop of the world, albeit not under quite such happy circumstances as OTL (but hey, Germany got to keep Qingdao as one of the last remnants of its empire).

Japan, frustrated at being kept out of China by the White Man, is happily building its own terrifying slave empire in the Philippines. Belgium confiscated the Congo from Leopold II, but the British do keep renewing that lease with the Belgian crown in Lado. The Republic of Acre decided rule from Rio was as bad as Santa Cruz. Clipperton Island got a less murderous (but no megalomaniacal) lighthousekeeper and the Kingdom survives to the day as an unrecognised microstate that does a roaring trade in bootlegging American liquor to Prohibitionist Mexico.

Also, Britain is now (grudgingly) recognised as the Caliphate. Coronations are weird.

* I have since been informed this wouldn't work with an 1890s POD as the princely states were already being recognised as quasi-Westphalian entities. Whilst British control over India might well grow in the absence of the World Wars, it would probably move towards federation rather than East India Company-style annexation.