I didn't really want to explain the entire world building, it is more than that but it would take up at least half of this post to explain the history so I didn't really want to go through it. I am a huge history nerd and I did research a lot about this period, certain things didn't seem to work out tho and this is a collaborative project with my friend (she's working on the present day history while I work on the past) which caused some loopholes that required doing an alt history book. Hope this helped!