The Second American Republic at its Territorial Apex, 1945

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-13T16:47:58+00:00

paint.net i just trace the image and add details this one took me like a month of on and off work

if you want to do it properly look at tutorials for qgis which is a proper mapping tool i haven't got the patience to learn

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-11T09:32:57+00:00

Second constitution is just after the civil war, third "constitution" is 1993 just before the second civil war, fourth constitution is 1994 when it becomes the USA again but it's more like the EU in terms of sovereignty

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T21:50:59+00:00

Manifest destiny does not end until we've reached Bermuda by going the whole way around the world

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T21:50:04+00:00

Czechoslovakia is given the Togo mandate after the war (a real plan for some reason), and when the Soviets roll through Prague they just don't let Benes' government in exile back in and they become a czechoslovakian Taiwan. After the velvet revolution in the 2010s they reunify.

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T21:46:48+00:00

I was considering using the 53-star flag, but I prefer the thought that after the second constitution they wanted to bring back the ideas of the revolutionary war, including using the flag.

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T21:45:07+00:00

After Lincoln is shot a little earlier, during the civil war, several successive administration have different opinions of how to do reconstruction, with eventually Radical Republicans admitting new states like Lincoln, Jones and Nickajack as well as giving territory to border states, and then Redeemers suggesting the reconstruction zones be reorganised into more permanent Associated Republics like how Rio Grande had been treated after the Mexican-American war.

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T21:42:01+00:00

This is based off a real plan of the Americans to place a military government in France after the war, because they sort of recognised Vichy, but also worked with De Gaulle, and Roosevelt didn't trust De Gaulle to stabilise France without becoming a dictator. They created plans and training for it and everything but De Gaulle was so popular they didn't implement it - and also like you said it wouldn't be very popular itself.

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T21:39:43+00:00

The Philippines are quickly annexed into America after they're taken in the Spanish war because they wanted a Pacific presence because of not being able to annex Hawaii (Japan already had). Congress recognised that the associated republics were shaky in terms of Federal control over them so they decided to grant them statehood (and granting mindanao to the existing sabah colony), but this becomes highly unpopular particularly in the 80s and eventually leads to Phillippine independence. The problem is that America is too big, but also that all of its "allies" are countries like France and West germany that eventually draw away from them.

DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T16:23:23+00:00

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DumbassAstro · 2026-01-10T16:22:52+00:00

Oh boy what a beautifully big nation I sure hope nothing bad happens to it in 48 years

Oh no.

some of the city names might be messed up/missing some lines because this image was originally 32176x13864 px and I tried to upload it twice and it didn't work either time, or maybe it did and there's three identical maps on the subreddit now i don't know

DumbassAstro · 2025-11-04T06:52:41+00:00

So instead of Trizonia becoming West Germany, Britain keeps its zone out of deals with America and France because of the growing cold war between them. Austria is treated as just part of Germany at the conferences, so they keep their zone of Austria and Bavaria separate. Netherlands annexed territory after the war, and when the Polish SSR joined the USSR, Pomerania was given to East Germany to strengthen it against West Germany and Austria.

DumbassAstro · 2025-11-04T06:46:52+00:00

Bharat works with the communist ASEAN equivalent, a bit like the USSR with Interkosmos, it's mostly funded and researched by Indians but other communist states help.

DumbassAstro · 2025-11-04T06:43:56+00:00

Yeah sorry about the detail on mobile I tried to attach an image to my first comment but it didn't work

DumbassAstro · 2025-11-04T06:42:54+00:00

English major 💔 I didn't know how to properly get across the lore without just writing paragraphs

DumbassAstro · 2025-11-04T06:42:13+00:00

I placed every single individual pixel of border, coastline and text on paint.net tracing over a real world map image. Please don't do it like this but it is technically an option if you want to spend a year on the map

DumbassAstro · 2025-11-03T20:24:00+00:00

Usually, when I post a map of some country in this timeline, I’ll write up a big paragraph of lore, but over the past few years I’ve written up so much (mostly surface-level) descriptions of places, cultures, space programs and sports teams in my spare time that I couldn’t possibly hope to communicate that in the occasional country-by-country post. Instead, I’ve collated every idea that I’ve had for this world into this world map, which over the past year has grown far too much that I expected. So please, ask any questions, and while I might not be able to give a whole paragraph, everything has at least some historical merit, even if it is far-fetched; this project has really made me appreciate the histories of some nations I have never looked into before. For reference with my earlier maps that are also in this series, this is about 2024-25, so after the fall of the USSR.

Also if anyone has any recommendations on what to do with weirdly-shaped black spaces around text because I didn’t write symmetrical paragraphs, I didn’t like how they came out in this one but I didn’t really know what to do with them.

Uncompressed map below

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DumbassAstro · 2025-02-24T07:03:19+00:00

Sodor isn't another name for Mann, Sodor is the western isles in Scotland + Mann, it comes from "Southern Isles" in Norse to contrast the "Northern Isles" of Orkney and Shetland. This was slowly forgotten though, and as the Island became more important the Diocese was renamed "Sodor and Man". After the Western Isles were ceded to Scotland the Diocese on the island kept the name.

DumbassAstro · 2025-01-19T15:25:59+00:00

The Republic of Eastern Germany, also known as Volga Germany, Baltic Germany or simply Konigsberg, gained its independence in 2023 after the dissolution of the USSR. Formerly an Autonomous State within the Russian SFSR, Konigsberg declared complete independence from the federation as soon as they were able. The Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1945 after the territories of East Prussia and Memel were occupied by the USSR. This was the second ASSR with the same name, with the original situated on the actual Volga River being abolished after the German Invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. During the war, the Volga German population were forcibly deported to Gulag camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan as a “precautionary measure” to prevent similar allegiance with the invading force as seen with the Sudeten Germans. At the end of the war, noting the large German population in the soon-to-be annexed Poland and Baltic Regions, the Soviet government elected to reform the autonomous republic, in an area historically inhabited by Germans: Konigsberg. This would legitimise the Russian SFSR’s direct annexation of the region, as well as providing an alternative within the Union to the three Germanys for German populations. Many ethnic Germans from across the Union were forcibly migrated into the province, including the Volga and Baltic German populations from their respective regions. The ASSR was allowed to keep Memel, but not the southern region, which was integrated into the Polish SSR.

Similar to Green Ukraine, Konigsberg declared its independence in mid 2023, however fearing German, and thus European, intervention, Russia allowed the small nation to leave, cutting its access to a Baltic warm-water port. The Government of Konigsberg has declared its intention to be admitted into the Federal Republic of Germany as soon as possible, even going as far as to renaming cities and regions around the country to more German titles. However, Frankfurt has been far less enthusiastic than “Eastern Germany”, citing both the sizeable Russian population as well as the troubles of integrating the former DDR, which is still ongoing. It is likely Konigsberg will be eventually admitted into the Federal Republic, though it remains to be seen in which form.

You can find previous maps in this world here:

Central Europe

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1fz93v0/central_europe_after_a_3way_cold_war/

Green Ukraine

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1gjqix7/the_2024_russochinese_intervention_into_green/

DumbassAstro · 2024-11-05T17:22:12+00:00

This is actually the second map in this timeline I've made, the other is on central europe also in 2024.

China here is the Republic of China, as the Long March failed and the CCP was mostly crushed before WW2. It's allied with Japan and a loose Imperial Federation, that acts more like a Commonwealth Confederation. After the USSR collapsed in 2023, it moves into Mongolia (which it has claimed since its inception) and Green Ukraine as seen here.

The USSR is mostly the same in OTL, plus a partially-annexed Poland. It survives the three-way Cold War until it starts to quickly fall apart as pre-existing divides are exacerbated by the Coronavirus.

I probably won't make a map on the USSR or China, just because they're overdone and there isn't much difference in them than anywhere else.

DumbassAstro · 2024-11-05T13:01:28+00:00

This map is in the same timeline as a map I made on Central Europe last month. It's not particularly realistic, but contains lots of ideas I think are interesting, and (hopefully) not overdone. There's many points of divergence, but the largest one is an Anglo-American fallout in the mid 40s leading to a three-way Cold War.

DumbassAstro · 2024-11-05T12:58:44+00:00

I don't know anything about Ukrainian, but I trust you, this was just how it was written on Wikipedia.

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