As America, Britain didn't have rifles when I spawned, but had colonized most of the eastern seaboard and Canada. The Aztecs are relatively strong and British vassals. I go on a rampage when they decide to declare war on me over city flips. Then I sail to Europe with one of my galleons, and things get weirder. There is no France; it has been taken over by Germany and Spain. Then the Inca trade me a complete world map (how they got it I have no idea). China is dead in the east.
My first Great General was Patton. My second was Montgomery. Talk about completely ironic.