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The World of the (Southern) Netherlands - 1950

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The world diverged in 1815, with the diplomats at Vienna deciding that France should be weakened a bit more, resulting in the return of Roussillon to Spain and more gains for the Netherlands in today's Nord. Then everything starts to divert, to some extent at least, so I'll proceed continent-wise instead of following a linear approach.

In Europe France still became a prominent power, however interestingly the Bourbons remained in power until the early 1840s, were they were replaced in a (mostly) Bonapartist revolution under the rule of first Napoleon's brother Joseph and following Joseph's death in 1845 by Louis Napoleon (our Napoleon III, which he adopts as his title ITTL as well). Napoleon III is ousted in 1866 by a republican revolution, with the second French Republic enduring until the present day. Spain became much stronger ITTL, adopting a liberal constitution in the late 1840s as a response to the fear of pro-French sentiment. This eventually lead to Spain conquering Algeria in the 1850s (with Portuguese and British assistence) and Morocco in the 1890s. Italy mostly developed along the same lines comparable to OTL, being a bit more luckily in their rivalry with Austria. Speaking of which Austria developed roughly the same way up until WW1. In the Netherlands the larger south lead to the North feeling abandoned and to revolt as the (Second) Batavian Republic (blame Blomma for this idea). The south remained a trade powerhouse, integrating Luxembourg and pursueing a neutrality policy. In the Germanies Prussia still became dominant in the north, while Bavaria and Austria competed over control in the south.In Scandinavia Norway (which avoided it's fate of being forced into a PU with Sweden) and Sweden are relativly prosperous and peaceful, Denmark... well, they had a republican revolution in the year 1901. Britain and Russia developed similiarly to OTL. The First World War took place in the 1920s, with North Germany and Austria-Hungary fighting against France, Italy and Russia (and Serbia). Russia collapsed after the war and suffered a republican revolution which tried to appease the national minorities (though they failed with the Poles, Lithuanians and Finns; same with the Caucasus). Austria-Hungary barely survived but changed it's structure drastically to allow for greater autonomy for it's non-German people. North Germany (except East Prussia) succumbed to *Communism, with it uniting with Denmark and Batavia to form the Federation of Worker's Republics. Denmark became *Communist in the late 1910s, Batavia was the first *Communist country and has this form of government since 1905. Also Austria-Hungary and North Germany both lost territories to Italy, the Serbians, the French (resulting in a border similiar to the original border of 1814), the Romanians and the newly indepedent Poles.

In Africa the continent suffered greatly with TTL's New Imperialism-equivalent emerging firmly in the early 1860s, with the North Germans, the British, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Greece (yes Greece) taking territory there. Liberia was still established but failed, resulting in it being taken over by the British. Only Egypt and Ethiopia survived without being annexed, though they are in the British and Italian orbit respectivly. The Kongo is internationalised, with the former North German Kongo being added as well after WW1.

Asia saw the decline of the Qing and the rise of Japan and Siam. The Qing collapsed and were replaced by an ethnic Chinese dynasty, while the south became a corrupt republic backed by the British, Spanish and Portuguese. The Siamese Empire emerged in the 1880s and neighbouring Viet Nam narrowly avoided integration by aligning itself with the Brits. Australia is one of the British mega-Dominions, covering Australia, New Zealand and large parts of Polynesia and Melanesia. The Pacific itself was divded between the French, Italians, British, Dutch, Peruvians and Hawaiians.

In the Americas there still was the rise of the US, which now persues neutrality and anti-imperialism policies. Mexico is far better of than OTL, same with Colombia even though it is more Central American due to loosing the south and gaining Costa Rica. Brazil became indepedent but was at first unstable, loosing the north-east and the south to republicans while the Portuguese kept the Amazon until the 1880s, when the French Republic sponsored the local independence movement and established it's most important ally and puppet state: The Amazon Republic. Peru is a relative power-house, same with La Plata.
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bruiser128's avatar
Really fascinating, i'm sorry the Vietnamese never rise to prominence.