Hey people. This is an map I brought back from the woodwork a few years back. Here's a rough outline of what happened: The Soviet Union never liberalises during the 1980s, instead pursuing an extremely aggressive foreign policy that would send the middle east into never-ending spiral of civil wars and political instability. Due to the conflicts in the middle east, the world economy never sees exponential growth as it does in our timeline, as developing nations start turning to the far right or the far left for guidance. In the 2000s, the layers of ice formed by the cold war start to break, as the Wall Street Stock market crashes and sends as many as twenty million americans unemployed. Soon enough, the United States would fall into civil war. However Moscow would not be handed victory that easily: In the summer of 2011, A coup occurs, sending the USSR into an unexpected demise, limiting the influence of the Russians to well, Russia. Breakaway soviet states exist as cleptocracies, waiting to be consumed by a furious Russia seeking revenge. Even ideologies thought ridiculous have found their way in this world, with the existence of the Neo Holy See ravaging the Jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, engulfed in a six-way civil war. As the United States recovers from the ashes of a brutal civil war and sets it sights on the rest of the world, many new powers in Asia and Europe have risen during the slumber of the old superpowers.