Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days

[Tani Coyote]

Spoiler :

Over the span of several decades, the United States - under Democrat, Republican, and even third party leaders - expanded through both force and diplomacy. Reforming itself into the United States of Sovereign Republics, it now engrosses the world, covering all of the Americas, the Pacific, Japan, Australia, and has colonies - called "democratic experiments" - throughout the Third World.

The Russian Federation collapsed as a result of cultural nationalism thanks to the increasing amounts of minorities in proportion to the major population. The European Union, knowing the devestation tens of millions of - or well over a hundred million - people flooding across the border would cause, set up the Volga Line, stretching from Arkangelsk to the Volga River, and then down to Astrakhan and then further west to the Crimea. Most Russians resettled in this area, while the rest of Russia - including rich Siberia - collapsed into anarchy. The Kazakhs worked with the other Turks to form a new Turkestan, while the Yakuts formed a large, wealthy state in the east of Russia. Kamchatka broke off as well, with a bastion of ethnic Russians being formed in the Amur Republic, capital Vladivostok. Russia is now effectively under EU occupation, and has applied for membership. Most of Russia's nuclear arsenal was safely relocated to the West.

The Amur Republic, being sealed in by China, nominally aligned itself with both the EU and the United States for support.

The European Union itself is now highly centralised. As part of the program of "Euroconsolidation", all member states were told to sell off their far flung territories, the last marks of colonialism. The now fiscally-solvent USSR purchased/took most of these colonies for itself. The French and British were hesitant to part with their territories however. The end result was the EU invading and subduing the French Republic, carving Britanny, Rousillon, Savoy, and Burgundy out of it's territory, with the latter becoming independent. Britain was invaded by the Unionists at the same time as the Europeans, causing a crisis that nearly caused a war. The USSR had already taken French Guiana and the French territories it had not purchased for itself via force. But it wanted part of the European pie as well.

Defusing a crisis, the Treaty of Dover was signed inside the Chunnel, the link between the Isles and Europe. It was agreed to give most of the English-speaking areas to the Americans, while the Scots, Cornish and Welsh would be given to the Irish, forming the Gaelic Administrative Province(Ireland promptly was given the province of Britanny to add to the GAP).

With France and Britain crippled and partitioned, Germany was able to assert it's dominance in the EU, with the capital being moved to the "center" of the EU in Munich. The German administrative province grew massive, taking much of Poland and Austria, more or less becoming a new Großdeutschland. While nationalism was downplayed(the massive expansion was said to increase the diversity of the central provinces), it was clear to anyone who wasn't naive that it had it's roles.

At the same time, the Islamic countries had turmoil of their own. Turkey collapsed into anarchy a la Russia, thanks to a de facto civil war between pro-Islamic and pro-Western factions. Most of the coastline was occupied by the EU, while the interior fell into anarchy. The American-imposed regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq both collapsed, with much of the population being absorbed by the growing Iranian regional power. The Kurds were the winners, crafting a new homeland out of Syria, Turkey and Iraq. Most of the rest of Iraq was split between Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The southern parts up to Basra were seized by Kuwait, where most of the pro-American populace and leaders fled.

On seeing Iran demolish several countries and rebuild much of the ancient Persian Empire, the Sunni countries of the world worked closer together, forming a powerful military alliance stretching across much of the former Caliphate. This caused issues in countries like Nigeria, where the north and south were split between Islamists and the USSR, respectively.

Most of the rest of Africa nominally aligned with the Islamic alliance, as a result of most countries forming a separate yet intertwined African alliance to counter influence by the three superpowers.

As a result of the Islamists' victory, however, the EU and the USSR launched a joint operation in Sinai, occupying it. Europe eventually took control of the area, while the USSR seized Israel and started to build their own canal across the southern Israeli border...

In the Orient, India grew stronger, rebuilding much of the Raj, and partitioning the Maldives with the USSR while establishing a puppet in Burma. The Chinese had built a massive empire, seizing Mongolia and North Korea, while pushing into the southern extremes of the former Russia. They set up friendly regimes in Laos and Vietnam, working on getting them warm to the principle of annexation.

Most of Southeast Asia joined an alliance led by the growing Indonesian power, which was surrounded by the Indian, Chinese, and Unionist powers.

With all these developments, the world is a powder keg ready to go off at any moment, but the tripolar world has brought stability if anything. The USSR may have the strongest economy, largest military, largest landmass and overall be the highest ranked in many categories, but it is strongly balanced by the European, Chinese and other powers. Increasing amounts of forced cooperation have worked to make the world embrace the idea of peaceful coexistence and cosmopolitanism... the original goal of the Founding Fathers of the USSR.

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Clearly, this is primarily meant to be nonsense based only a tad in reality. You know the drill.

 

[amadeus]

Here's a re-up of the Korean diaspora map with new color-coding so it's easier to read.

A few interesting facts: there are over 3 times more Koreans living in Uzbekistan than in Great Britain. There are ten times as many Koreans living in Paraguay than in Norway. There are more Koreans living in Libya than in Belgium and more Koreans in Cambodia than in Italy.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I'm saving this map for the next time we get one of those Stalin didn't do anything wrong types.

 

[Mad Man]

What the holy hell does Korean Diaspora have to do with Stalin?

 

[ParkCungHee]

What the holy hell does Korean Diaspora have to do with Stalin?

Do you know why Central Asia has an unusually large Korean Diaspora? During the 1930s, Stalin believed, for who knows what reason, that the Koreans living in Siberia since the Goguryeo era would make a good 5th column for Japan. So he had almost all of them forcibly shipped off to Central Asia.

 

[Tee Kay]

Do you know why Central Asia has an unusually large Korean Diaspora? During the 1930s, Stalin believed, for who knows what reason, that the Koreans living in Siberia since the Goguryeo era would make a good 5th column for Japan. So he had almost all of them forcibly shipped off to Central Asia.

Well at least he didn't kill them.

 

[Winner]

Spoiler :

Over the span of several decades, the United States - under Democrat, Republican, and even third party leaders - expanded through both force and diplomacy. Reforming itself into the United States of Sovereign Republics, it now engrosses the world, covering all of the Americas, the Pacific, Japan, Australia, and has colonies - called "democratic experiments" - throughout the Third World.

The Russian Federation collapsed as a result of cultural nationalism thanks to the increasing amounts of minorities in proportion to the major population. The European Union, knowing the devestation tens of millions of - or well over a hundred million - people flooding across the border would cause, set up the Volga Line, stretching from Arkangelsk to the Volga River, and then down to Astrakhan and then further west to the Crimea. Most Russians resettled in this area, while the rest of Russia - including rich Siberia - collapsed into anarchy. The Kazakhs worked with the other Turks to form a new Turkestan, while the Yakuts formed a large, wealthy state in the east of Russia. Kamchatka broke off as well, with a bastion of ethnic Russians being formed in the Amur Republic, capital Vladivostok. Russia is now effectively under EU occupation, and has applied for membership. Most of Russia's nuclear arsenal was safely relocated to the West.

The Amur Republic, being sealed in by China, nominally aligned itself with both the EU and the United States for support.

The European Union itself is now highly centralised. As part of the program of "Euroconsolidation", all member states were told to sell off their far flung territories, the last marks of colonialism. The now fiscally-solvent USSR purchased/took most of these colonies for itself. The French and British were hesitant to part with their territories however. The end result was the EU invading and subduing the French Republic, carving Britanny, Rousillon, Savoy, and Burgundy out of it's territory, with the latter becoming independent. Britain was invaded by the Unionists at the same time as the Europeans, causing a crisis that nearly caused a war. The USSR had already taken French Guiana and the French territories it had not purchased for itself via force. But it wanted part of the European pie as well.

Defusing a crisis, the Treaty of Dover was signed inside the Chunnel, the link between the Isles and Europe. It was agreed to give most of the English-speaking areas to the Americans, while the Scots, Cornish and Welsh would be given to the Irish, forming the Gaelic Administrative Province(Ireland promptly was given the province of Britanny to add to the GAP).

With France and Britain crippled and partitioned, Germany was able to assert it's dominance in the EU, with the capital being moved to the "center" of the EU in Munich. The German administrative province grew massive, taking much of Poland and Austria, more or less becoming a new Großdeutschland. While nationalism was downplayed(the massive expansion was said to increase the diversity of the central provinces), it was clear to anyone who wasn't naive that it had it's roles.

At the same time, the Islamic countries had turmoil of their own. Turkey collapsed into anarchy a la Russia, thanks to a de facto civil war between pro-Islamic and pro-Western factions. Most of the coastline was occupied by the EU, while the interior fell into anarchy. The American-imposed regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq both collapsed, with much of the population being absorbed by the growing Iranian regional power. The Kurds were the winners, crafting a new homeland out of Syria, Turkey and Iraq. Most of the rest of Iraq was split between Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The southern parts up to Basra were seized by Kuwait, where most of the pro-American populace and leaders fled.

On seeing Iran demolish several countries and rebuild much of the ancient Persian Empire, the Sunni countries of the world worked closer together, forming a powerful military alliance stretching across much of the former Caliphate. This caused issues in countries like Nigeria, where the north and south were split between Islamists and the USSR, respectively.

Most of the rest of Africa nominally aligned with the Islamic alliance, as a result of most countries forming a separate yet intertwined African alliance to counter influence by the three superpowers.

As a result of the Islamists' victory, however, the EU and the USSR launched a joint operation in Sinai, occupying it. Europe eventually took control of the area, while the USSR seized Israel and started to build their own canal across the southern Israeli border...

In the Orient, India grew stronger, rebuilding much of the Raj, and partitioning the Maldives with the USSR while establishing a puppet in Burma. The Chinese had built a massive empire, seizing Mongolia and North Korea, while pushing into the southern extremes of the former Russia. They set up friendly regimes in Laos and Vietnam, working on getting them warm to the principle of annexation.

Most of Southeast Asia joined an alliance led by the growing Indonesian power, which was surrounded by the Indian, Chinese, and Unionist powers.

With all these developments, the world is a powder keg ready to go off at any moment, but the tripolar world has brought stability if anything. The USSR may have the strongest economy, largest military, largest landmass and overall be the highest ranked in many categories, but it is strongly balanced by the European, Chinese and other powers. Increasing amounts of forced cooperation have worked to make the world embrace the idea of peaceful coexistence and cosmopolitanism... the original goal of the Founding Fathers of the USSR.

---

Clearly, this is primarily meant to be nonsense based only a tad in reality. You know the drill.

USA named as "USSR" cracks me up French Guyana to the US? NEVA'! This is where our space center is located.

 

[Tani Coyote]

USA named as "USSR" cracks me up

Yes, while the USA is now a relatively more socially liberal, yet still persistently fiscally conservative entity in this timeline, the people who managed to do all these amazing things overlooked the fact that they were renaming themselves with the same initials as a society that was completely against every value they have... (well, except the whole "Dominate the world" ideology) The joys of Americans not doing well in geography/history...

French Guyana to the US? NEVA'! This is where our space center is located.

Awww... but it'd be a blotch on an otherwise-completely filled in South America!

...Besides, I'm sure you can "relocate" it...

Yes, I just recommended a prohibitively expensive if not impossible relocation of a space center. The cartoons I've been watching lately have no founding in logic or reason, and thus, neither do I at the moment. Forgive me.

 

[amadeus]

Well at least he didn't kill them.

Well...

 

[Winner]

Speaking of space centers, this is a map I made as part of my future space exploration timeline. It should be mostly accurate for the contemporary world too (some space centers are still under construction). Lighter color means cooperation.

 

[Harvin87]

where's Poland's space agency? .. I don't see it.

 

[Winner]

where's Poland's space agency? .. I don't see it.

Reported...

Spoiler :

(just kidding, but seriously, stop this trolling crap. Eran made it clear that the polish threadjacking should stop)

 

[holy king]

holy king, get out of the NESing forum!!! or join

what forum? am i in there? how do i get out?

 

[warpus]

Whoa, I never realized how far north Baikonur is compared to the other space launch centres in the world.

That must be terribly inefficient!

 

[Winner]

Whoa, I never realized how far north Baikonur is compared to the other space launch centres in the world.

That must be terribly inefficient!

Well, yes. That's why ESA and Russia signed a deal to launch Soyuz rockets from Kourou - it nearly doubles the payload.

Since Russians are moving their space operations to Vostochny (it is set to become fully operational in 2018 I think), the efficiency isn't really going to improve.

Even China is moving its space operations south to Hainan.

 

[RedAlert]

Speaking of space centers, this is a map I made as part of my future space exploration timeline. It should be mostly accurate for the contemporary world too (some space centers are still under construction). Lighter color means cooperation.

Cool. I didn't know that South Korea is cooperating with Russia. Or that Burma is involved in space at all.

 

[Winner]

Cool. I didn't know that South Korea is cooperating with Russia. Or that Burma is involved in space at all.

Burma is a stretch, I don't have it backed up. But, China is willing to cooperate with its allies and friendly countries like N.K. or Iran, so why not Burma?

S. Korea is developing a launcher based on Russian Angara rocket and have recently sent a cosmonaut to space on board Soyuz spacecraft.

 

[Tee Kay]

Cool. I didn't know that South Korea is cooperating with Russia. Or that Burma is involved in space at all.

They're not. There's not much Sino-Pakistani or Sino-DPRK space cooperation either.

 

[Winner]

They're not. There's not much Sino-Pakistani or Sino-DPRK space cooperation either.

Oh, there is space/technology cooperation going on between them, it's just that these countries can't really offer very much to China.

But I expect China will prop these countries just to show the world it means all that nice talk about peaceful cooperation seriously. Iran will definitely benefit from that.(Much to their delight - better military rocket technology is what Iran wants and this is a nice way to conceal it under the cloak of space exploration.)

 

[RedAlert]

Thanks for the clarifications.

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