This is one heck of a wonderful & original map. I only regret to say that I am disappointed with both a Canadian kingdom AND a Russian Alaska.
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This is one heck of a wonderful & original map. I only regret to say that I am disappointed with both a Canadian kingdom AND a Russian Alaska.
Up to your usual standard of pure awesome, old chap.
I think so too. He oughta make this into a full story, IMO.
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Made a few visual changes to the map I posted yesterday. (The Bohemian Partition one)
Here's the updated version.
I see North America, South America, Africa and Antarctica. You didn't alter them that much, it seems.. did you post an uneditted version of the map by accident?
Vexacus
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I see South America and Africa. I thought I'd changed North America enough but I guess I was wrong. I don't see Antarctica
Highlander
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Actually from my estimates it is Louisiana (83,000,000), the US (49,000,000), Mexico (22,000,000) and Canada (7,000,000).
Highlander
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Louisiana has that many people?
Take note of the two Canadian "Districts" and a province of Louisiana; also, the place is a huge draw for people from the Francophone world.
83 Million for Louisiana? Wow!
I wonder, which side will each faction pick in this TLs WW1? I would guess Louisiana would pick France's side, but how would the US side? or UK, for that matter?
That might be a bloody interesting WW1, with emphasis on Bloody! Would the US side with Prussia/Germany again (assuming the last time they picked Prussia in the Franco-Prussian war).
I must encourage you to do one for Europe also!
Korea? Korea is going to be _colder_ than southern Japan. Once they steal everything that isn't nailed down, and pry up what's nailed down, there's no point in hanging out there for a few years until the weather returns to normal. Of course they'll occupy it once they get their crap together, but it's not going to be a resettlement area (although the greatly reduced number of Koreans means that they will probably try to Japanicize it in the longer run.)
I felt that Britain would probably be a bit too busy with its own problems to intervene, and in any event how do any Dutch refugees get there when they're under German occupation and likely all their shipping is being comandeered by said Germans? In any event I'd expect more of a presence in the Philippines - if the Germans can overrun Italy, the Japanese can overrun the Philiippines.
From an old soc.history.what-if discussion in which S. Stirling participated: IIRC, the number bandied about was about 120 million Chinese to about a third as many Japanese. (Yes, his numbers often don't make much sense: the number of Indonesians, for instance, is ridiculously low, perhaps due to his dislike of Muslims).
Hm - Florida's highest point is only 346 feet, you know? And I think the interior of the deep south would be more acceptable as a destination than a mass of salty mud, wooden splinters, and bloated corpses, but perhaps the deep south in 1878 is even more unpleasant than I thought.
Annexed 1898, right. Don't post when you're sleepy...
Bruce
In some ways a world war (not the exact thing, but in general) I think is somewhat inevitable after a certain point, I mean most people don't probably think about it, but WWI and WWII both fundamentially changed the structures of militaries, societies and, perhaps most importanly, completely replaced the old geopolitical system with a completely different one.
Even if I throw in 2/3 of Texas and Ouregon and all of Minnesota, I only get 63 million for OTL 2010: and the French have never been in that great a rush to leave France OTL.
Awesome map, whatever the quibbles.
Bruce
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