Thread:Liquid Ink/@comment-4894054-20150115221442/@comment-4894054-20151025012351

(First, I first saw a post just one minute after it was made.)

First, the nations: One of my computers had a few additional prototype maps featuring alternate nations corresponding to Brazil and Argentinia, one featuring Brazil having laid out conquest well into the Caribbean, but fortunately, your latest version of the map added a few territories to Hispania's colonial empire, so it would now be at a more normal size. Anyway, the story is that the colonies in Brazil and possibly also in Argentinia would have been dissatisfied with the union between Spain and Portugal that would form Hispania, so they'd have declared independence, but it's also possible that Argentinia form as a confederation from multiple Spanish (Or Anglo-Germanic, but it's just a possibility) colonial divisions, in a way similar to real-life Canada, so as to parallel the America-like Brazil.

Another idea would be what remains of Africa that isn't yet claimed, which would once have been an Anglo-Germanic colony that became independent due to a revolution not unlike both Gandhi's and Nelson Mandela's, and their mirror parallels might even be belligerents. I'm also considering a Japanese nation with what remains of the pacific's territories as imperial holdings, likely minus Australia, and controlling Thailand due to the results of the WWI parallel, also responsible for their ownership of Papua-New Guinea. As for Australia, I'm stuck between dividing it between England-Germany, Hispania, Russia, India and Japan, give or take war movements, or simply making it a neutral territory that'll end up in the hands of the Hegemony. There's also the question of who'll get the as-of-yet unclaimed Kerguelen, but I'm also considering an Antarctican state controlling Antarctica and it's nearby islands, paralleling it's neutral status in the real world, but I'll let you or someone else answer the question.

The alternate First World War will be known as the Indochinese War, and will likely involve a collaborative invasion of China between India and Japan, for as-of-yet undetermined reasons if so. Due to alliances with China, England-Germany, Hispania and the Yaitskan Empire will declare war on the attackers, leading to a conflict erupting across eastern Asia and the Pacific, perhaps including Australia as a major battleground. In the later stages of war, Anglo-German South Africa will begin to revolt due to the war's impact and racial issues, and another revolt will occur in China a bit later, resulting in their present People's Republic and their withdrawal from the war. After a primarily Russian naval assault on Japan, they'll surrender, followed a few years later by India after an as-of-yet undetermined event, maybe the arrival of the Gigaquadrantic Hegemony. As part of the peace deal with India, the Tibet area will have been given to Anglo-Germany as a buffer state between India and China.

If there are any flaws with my ideas or relevant decisions you'd like to make, go ahead. Nothing's set in stone yet, and you or anyone else who sees this and is reasonably active can assume ownership of any of the potential new nations I mentioned in this post.