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My entry for MotF 133 over at AH.Com. Text:

This entry is a sequel of sorts to a previous MotF entry of mine , which you should really check out for full context, but the gist of the setting is this: The zombie apocalypse arrives in late 1898, and most of the surviving nations of the world exist on islands. That's pretty much all there is to the setting, so I'll go through the surviving nations:

Great Powers

United Kingdoms of Britain: The world's premier power. Based out of Iceland and run largely by the Royal Navy with colonies and co-Kingdoms all over the world, the U.K. is a somewhat decentralized affair, and each Kingdom effectively runs their own business, with the exception of military and foreign affairs. Despite this, the Kingdoms are growing a little overstretched, having to defend against the dead and the living in so many places around the globe. Crown Provinces, however, are usually run by either whatever authority Victoria sends, or whatever authority the local Kingdom sends. Crown Colonies are resettlement areas, where the undead still exist in fair numbers, but not enough to dissuade settlement on a medium scale. Military Zones are just that, zones where only military are allowed. Outside of the bases, your life cannot be answered for.
Kingdom of Iceland: During the Collapse, the British made a deal with the Icelanders: Iceland would recognize Queen Victoria as their rightful sovereign and allow British settlement, and in return the British would crush the budding infection in Reykjavik. Most of Scotland and northern England was evacuated here, at least at first before being sent elsewhere for resettlement.
Kingdom of Canada: Parts of western Canada managed to escape overrunning by the Horde by abandoning cities like Winnipeg and leaving large amounts of space between themselves and the Horde.
Kingdom of Australia: Western Australia survived solely thanks to its isolation from the rest of the continent, and remains today the prime source of coal for the Royal Navy, which is mostly why they made an effort to secure it during the Collapse.
Kingdom of Aotearoa: New Zealand (the only places it is called Aotearoa are on state documents and in Maori villages) is one of the highest-populated areas in the Kingdoms, and is usually referred to as the lynchpin of Asian Britain, mostly because it is.

United States of America: The United States was split in two with the coming of the Collapse, with huge travel times between the two halves making unified administration essentially impossible. Thus, two governments were set up, one in San Francisco and one in Havana, and while on paper and in the national consciousness the United States is one country, practically it is two.
Pacific: The Pacific half of the United States is by far the larger half, and the only half that still holds parts of the former continental United States. Run from San Francisco, the deserts and Rocky Mountains protect the West Coast from attack by the Horde, not to mention that those pesky Mormons stand in between them. The Pacific U.S. is currently occupied in East Asia, staring down Japan (some things never change) and the Dutch (some things do).
Atlantic: The Atlantic half of the United States spends most of its time trying desperately not to fall into brutal ethnic civil war between the "settler" American populations and the "native" Caribbean populations that were living in the Caribbean before the U.S. Navy conquered all of it in a last-ditch attempt at survival. This avoidance is mostly done by brutally oppressing the natives -- there is definitively an upper class and a lower here.

Empire of Japan: Japan is currently trying to keep those pesky hordes of undead away from their last foothold in the Home Islands while they quietly ethnically cleanse the other islands in their possession so that they can start moving their main administration to them. However, this process has hit a snag: the U.S. was overwhelmed with so many refugees the last time that the Japanese tried it (I bet you were wondering why Taiwan was a Prefecture) that they have threatened war if the Japanese even think about it again.

Kingdom of the Netherlands: The Dutch spent most of the Collapse doing two things: 1) sitting in a corner and thanking God a lot, and 2) killing anyone who so much as looked at any of the East Indies funny. They didn't attempt to expand during the Collapse, but they also didn't take in many refugees, so they've got a fair amount of empty land that the U.S., among others, is looking at pretty hungrily. The Dutch themselves are getting very nervous thanks to this.

Franco-Malagasy Union: After what happened in Corsica, the French were desperate to keep Madagascar, as the last place that they were able to evacuate to. They got desperate enough to do a lot of things, including full citizenship for the Malagasy, and even an official name change. Some French transplants were...unhappy with this state of affairs, enough so that there is now a simmering insurgency, involving both French radicals and Malagasy ones. The Union's foreign policy is essentially nonexistent, and its government spends most of its time just trying to remain in existence.

Republic of Hokkaido: Grabbed its independence from Japan during the Collapse, and followed up that feat by grabbing all of the surrounding islands. The Republic is mostly Japanese, with a fair amount of Ainu and Russians tossed in. Really the only reason that it is perceived as a Great Power is that it intimidated the overstretched Americans into staying out of Far Eastern Russia.

Other Nations

Republic of Brazil: Managed to survive by running as fast as it could to the deep Amazon and staying there. The only reason it isn't a Great Power is because, well, it has no ports at all and the rest of the world is only vaguely aware of its existence. Someday, it will burst out of the jungle and subjugate huge swathes of land -- that is, if it can ever get the European population to stop fighting with the indigenous.

Republic of Corsica: Long story short: The Corsicans really don't like the French. Which explains all of the (French) refugee bodies drifting in the water between Calvi and Marseilles.

Kingdom of Italy: With a population swelled somewhat by a fair amount of refugees, and the entirety of the Italian government, Sardinia had the potential to be a powerhouse in the Mediterranean immediately post-Collapse, if not for those pesky secessionist Sicilians and their shipyards. Then came the Italian Brothers' War, ended by British intervention. Now, Italy is glad to be a junior partner to the U.K., repeatedly casting nervous glances at the "Crown Colony of Sicily" (did somebody say ethnic cleansing?).

Kingdom of Spain: About as close as you can get to a bog-standard state here in the Apocalypse. The Spanish king and government fled to the Balearics after Madrid fell, and have been here ever since, turning away refugees and oppressing peasants as per usual. The Canary Islands are also under Spanish rule, and are pretty much the only reason the British haven't annexed the Balearics yet.

Kingdom of Portugal: See Kingdom of Spain.

Republic of Venice: Venice, after pushing refugees and zombies alike away from its canals at gunpoint in order to survive during the Collapse, began to go its old route of a Merchant Republic, trading for money and food to survive. Then, they realized that a) nobody could trade them enough food because b) everyone close enough was dead. Thus, they took over most of the small islands in the Adriatic and began to practice some pretty intense agriculture on them.

Kingdom of Greece: Grabbed Cyprus after a Greek Cypriot rebellion against Ottoman rule there, and never looked back. Started expanding as fast as they could, becoming the ascendant power in the eastern Mediterranean as Russia and Venice look on angrily and enviously.

Empire of Russia: Suffering from acute lack-of-expansion syndrome. Unfortunately, there isn't really anywhere that they can expand, so Russia is stuck with being just Russia-in-Crimea. For now. And probably going forwards.

Republic of Ecuador: Literally the least relevant state in the world.

State of Deseret: The Americans hate them. So. Much. The Americans feel that the Mormons betrayed them by breaking off, and the Mormons feel that they were never really that integral a part of the U.S. anyway. They keep the U.S. occupied in North America, keeping them somewhat overstretched all of the time, which means that they can never quite launch a full-on campaign to take Utah back.

Description
My entry for MotF 133 over at AH.Com. Text:

This entry is a sequel of sorts to a previous MotF entry of mine , which you should really check out for full context, but the gist of the setting is this: The zombie apocalypse arrives in late 1898, and most of the surviving nations of the world exist on islands. That's pretty much all there is to the setting, so I'll go through the surviving nations:

Great Powers

United Kingdoms of Britain: The world's premier power. Based out of Iceland and run largely by the Royal Navy with colonies and co-Kingdoms all over the world, the U.K. is a somewhat decentralized affair, and each Kingdom effectively runs their own business, with the exception of military and foreign affairs. Despite this, the Kingdoms are growing a little overstretched, having to defend against the dead and the living in so many places around the globe. Crown Provinces, however, are usually run by either whatever authority Victoria sends, or whatever authority the local Kingdom sends. Crown Colonies are resettlement areas, where the undead still exist in fair numbers, but not enough to dissuade settlement on a medium scale. Military Zones are just that, zones where only military are allowed. Outside of the bases, your life cannot be answered for.
Kingdom of Iceland: During the Collapse, the British made a deal with the Icelanders: Iceland would recognize Queen Victoria as their rightful sovereign and allow British settlement, and in return the British would crush the budding infection in Reykjavik. Most of Scotland and northern England was evacuated here, at least at first before being sent elsewhere for resettlement.
Kingdom of Canada: Parts of western Canada managed to escape overrunning by the Horde by abandoning cities like Winnipeg and leaving large amounts of space between themselves and the Horde.
Kingdom of Australia: Western Australia survived solely thanks to its isolation from the rest of the continent, and remains today the prime source of coal for the Royal Navy, which is mostly why they made an effort to secure it during the Collapse.
Kingdom of Aotearoa: New Zealand (the only places it is called Aotearoa are on state documents and in Maori villages) is one of the highest-populated areas in the Kingdoms, and is usually referred to as the lynchpin of Asian Britain, mostly because it is.

United States of America: The United States was split in two with the coming of the Collapse, with huge travel times between the two halves making unified administration essentially impossible. Thus, two governments were set up, one in San Francisco and one in Havana, and while on paper and in the national consciousness the United States is one country, practically it is two.
Pacific: The Pacific half of the United States is by far the larger half, and the only half that still holds parts of the former continental United States. Run from San Francisco, the deserts and Rocky Mountains protect the West Coast from attack by the Horde, not to mention that those pesky Mormons stand in between them. The Pacific U.S. is currently occupied in East Asia, staring down Japan (some things never change) and the Dutch (some things do).
Atlantic: The Atlantic half of the United States spends most of its time trying desperately not to fall into brutal ethnic civil war between the "settler" American populations and the "native" Caribbean populations that were living in the Caribbean before the U.S. Navy conquered all of it in a last-ditch attempt at survival. This avoidance is mostly done by brutally oppressing the natives -- there is definitively an upper class and a lower here.

Empire of Japan: Japan is currently trying to keep those pesky hordes of undead away from their last foothold in the Home Islands while they quietly ethnically cleanse the other islands in their possession so that they can start moving their main administration to them. However, this process has hit a snag: the U.S. was overwhelmed with so many refugees the last time that the Japanese tried it (I bet you were wondering why Taiwan was a Prefecture) that they have threatened war if the Japanese even think about it again.

Kingdom of the Netherlands: The Dutch spent most of the Collapse doing two things: 1) sitting in a corner and thanking God a lot, and 2) killing anyone who so much as looked at any of the East Indies funny. They didn't attempt to expand during the Collapse, but they also didn't take in many refugees, so they've got a fair amount of empty land that the U.S., among others, is looking at pretty hungrily. The Dutch themselves are getting very nervous thanks to this.

Franco-Malagasy Union: After what happened in Corsica, the French were desperate to keep Madagascar, as the last place that they were able to evacuate to. They got desperate enough to do a lot of things, including full citizenship for the Malagasy, and even an official name change. Some French transplants were...unhappy with this state of affairs, enough so that there is now a simmering insurgency, involving both French radicals and Malagasy ones. The Union's foreign policy is essentially nonexistent, and its government spends most of its time just trying to remain in existence.

Republic of Hokkaido: Grabbed its independence from Japan during the Collapse, and followed up that feat by grabbing all of the surrounding islands. The Republic is mostly Japanese, with a fair amount of Ainu and Russians tossed in. Really the only reason that it is perceived as a Great Power is that it intimidated the overstretched Americans into staying out of Far Eastern Russia.

Other Nations

Republic of Brazil: Managed to survive by running as fast as it could to the deep Amazon and staying there. The only reason it isn't a Great Power is because, well, it has no ports at all and the rest of the world is only vaguely aware of its existence. Someday, it will burst out of the jungle and subjugate huge swathes of land -- that is, if it can ever get the European population to stop fighting with the indigenous.

Republic of Corsica: Long story short: The Corsicans really don't like the French. Which explains all of the (French) refugee bodies drifting in the water between Calvi and Marseilles.

Kingdom of Italy: With a population swelled somewhat by a fair amount of refugees, and the entirety of the Italian government, Sardinia had the potential to be a powerhouse in the Mediterranean immediately post-Collapse, if not for those pesky secessionist Sicilians and their shipyards. Then came the Italian Brothers' War, ended by British intervention. Now, Italy is glad to be a junior partner to the U.K., repeatedly casting nervous glances at the "Crown Colony of Sicily" (did somebody say ethnic cleansing?).

Kingdom of Spain: About as close as you can get to a bog-standard state here in the Apocalypse. The Spanish king and government fled to the Balearics after Madrid fell, and have been here ever since, turning away refugees and oppressing peasants as per usual. The Canary Islands are also under Spanish rule, and are pretty much the only reason the British haven't annexed the Balearics yet.

Kingdom of Portugal: See Kingdom of Spain.

Republic of Venice: Venice, after pushing refugees and zombies alike away from its canals at gunpoint in order to survive during the Collapse, began to go its old route of a Merchant Republic, trading for money and food to survive. Then, they realized that a) nobody could trade them enough food because b) everyone close enough was dead. Thus, they took over most of the small islands in the Adriatic and began to practice some pretty intense agriculture on them.

Kingdom of Greece: Grabbed Cyprus after a Greek Cypriot rebellion against Ottoman rule there, and never looked back. Started expanding as fast as they could, becoming the ascendant power in the eastern Mediterranean as Russia and Venice look on angrily and enviously.

Empire of Russia: Suffering from acute lack-of-expansion syndrome. Unfortunately, there isn't really anywhere that they can expand, so Russia is stuck with being just Russia-in-Crimea. For now. And probably going forwards.

Republic of Ecuador: Literally the least relevant state in the world.

State of Deseret: The Americans hate them. So. Much. The Americans feel that the Mormons betrayed them by breaking off, and the Mormons feel that they were never really that integral a part of the U.S. anyway. They keep the U.S. occupied in North America, keeping them somewhat overstretched all of the time, which means that they can never quite launch a full-on campaign to take Utah back.