Two Timelines

A very unique attack from the one we know: The attacks take place on Saturday, August 11th. The first plane hits the White House with President Bush in it, killing him at around 3:00 PM. More visitors would be inside the WTC during the summer and also on Saturday. both planes heading for the WTC, heads to lower floors 30 minutes or so later, trapping more people above the impact zone and causing the towers to collapse quicker. The plane heading for the Pentagon may not make it to its destination and could get taken back by the passengers like flight 93 in our timeline. Death count: ~9,000-10,000.

A more reminiscent attack: Still taking place on 9/11, Mark Wahlberg didn't change flights off flight 11 and Seth MacFarlane didn't oversleep for flight 11 as well. Michael Jackson also didn't oversleep for his meeting at the top of one of the towers. Both planes head to lower floors of the WTC in this timeline as well and flight 175 doesn't jerk to the right last second, causing all stairwells to be destroyed in both towers. Flight 77 crashes the same way and at the same time in the Pentagon, but flight 93 isn't taken over and crashes into the White House. President Bush isn't inside the building but it does leave another American Symbol to be destroyed. Death count: ~4,000-5,000.

The Kingdom of California was established in 1655 by Queen Christina of Sweden following her abdication, leading an expedition of Swedish, French, and English settlers under the Royal Swedish Patent. Anchoring the realm at its fortified capital of Drottningsholm, the founding charter codified an egalitarian constitutional monarchy where the Crown serves as the first servant of the realm, balanced by an elected Ståndsriksdagen led by a Statsminister. Rejecting European feudalism, the constitution abolished hereditary aristocratic privileges, enshrining statutory gender equality, merit-based social mobility, and public welfare under royal protection. Over two centuries, California matured into an assertive, highly organized, and state-planned power guided by its Swedish royal dynasty.

Operating on the principles of enlightened statecraft, the monarchy treats the sovereign as the ultimate guardian of the public interest. The Crown cultivates loyalty from childhood through a compulsory, state-funded educational system and a respected national press. Together with the armed forces, these institutions foster a profound sense of civic duty, intellectual vigor, and unyielding national pride.

At the heart of this social harmony stands the Californian Church, a royal institution that seamlessly fuses Lutheran and Anglican traditions into a distinct national faith. Reflecting its Swedish heritage, the Church functions as a cornerstone of community welfare, preaching that the monarchy is God’s anointed vessel on earth to maintain justice, order, and progress. By blending spiritual life with civic duty, the Church elevates political cooperation into a shared, sacred obligation for the common good.

Inwardly and outwardly, California stands as a beacon of enlightenment, balancing collective unity with societal advancement. It is sustained by a philosophy of enlightened nationalism: the belief that true liberty is found in perfect societal harmony, and that progress demands shared sacrifice. The nation honors its historical struggles as the crucible of its greatness, its overseas ventures as proof of a civilized destiny, and its Swedish royal lineage as the eternal, guiding flame of its people.

Sorry the map is a bit poorly made, but I don't really know how to use mapping softwares so I just handpainted it marking the relative boundries of each country.

Kingdom of California units depicted:

Californian Lifeguard Voltigeurs:

Quartered within the marble halls of the Royal Palace itself, the Lifeguard Voltigeurs are an elite, all-female light infantry battalion serving as the living embodiment of the Crown’s sovereignty. Fusing supreme courtly bearing with ruthless marksmanship, these skirmishers are hand-picked from across the realm for their agility, intelligence, and unwavering devotion to Her Majesty. On the battlefield, they operate ahead of the main line, deploying in open order to harass enemy officers, disrupt formations with precision rifle fire, and melt away into cover before heavy infantry can react. Though their refined uniforms and ceremonial duties project royal splendor, under fire, these women are cold, lethal professionals.

Queen Ingrid’s Life Lancer Regiment:

(Drottning Ingrids Liflansiärregemente), also officially designated as the 11th Regiment, is an elite shock cavalry formation of the Royal Californian Army. Constituted in 1660 during the early foundational era of the Kingdom of California, the regiment is one of the oldest and most prestigious military units in the realm. It serves a dual role within the state apparatus: acting as the personal field escort and ceremonial guard to Her Majesty Queen Ingrid Karoline, and serving as a premier, high-mobility vanguard for the kingdom's frontline foreign expeditions.

Alternate invasion of ukraine based off of a world war 2 german victory.

1.       The 1995 Quebec Referendum ends in Quebec gaining independence from Canada, Labrador is retained by Quebec while Quebec surrenders lands to the rest of Canada to allow them access to the Maritime provinces.

2.       Russia never sold Alaska to the United States. During the Russian Revolution, the United States, Canada, and Japan intervened in the Russian Far East assisting in the Establishment of Far Eastern Republic which would resist the Russian Empire’s attempts to reestablish control. Reformed in the 1930s as the Republic of Beringia and it became a haven for Russian dissidents fleeing the Russian Empire and a location of many exiles from the Russian Revolution.

3.       The United States does not gain Washington in the Oregon Boundary Dispute. American expansionists interpret the Monroe Doctrine to mean that the United States should only expand in the Americas. This leads to the United States annexing Much more land from Mexico after the Mexican American War in a desire to offset the loss of the Oregon territory. The United States would continue to press its expansionist policy through the direct annexation of Cuba after the Spanish American War, the annexation of Panama in 1902, and the Annexation of the Yucatan Peninsula in 1919 after the Second Mexican American War of 1917-1919.

4.       The Haitian Empire established by Dessalines survives to the modern day and invades Santo Domingo, forcing the population there into plantation slavery, making Haiti a pariah state until it ends the practice in the 1930s.

5.       The Central American Federation never dissolves, Britain retains the Miskito Coast, maintaining one of the only Native American kingdoms in the New World.

6.       Gran Colombia never breaks apart, thereby remaining a great power in the New World, one that rivals Brazil. Speaking of Brazil, they never end their monarchy and they maintain their control over Uruguay.

7.       Chile fails in the War of the Pacific to conquer the Atacama Desert, leaving Bolivia with access to the sea and the strengthening of the Bolivian economy at the cost of Chile.

8.       Paraguay successfully maintains their claimed lands under the dictatorship of President Lopez, playing off the Argentines and Brazilians against one another.

9.       The Patagonian native Americans unite, gaining international recognition and aid from the British Empire, leading to their independence being maintained as the Republic of Patagonia.

10.  The Boer States beat off the British and retain their independence, later merging to create the larger Orange Free State while Boer and British settlers colonize the lands north of OFS and create Rhodesia as another Boer styled state of White run African countries.

11.  Portugal succeeds in pursuing the Pink Map design in creating a corridor between Portuguese East and West Africa. Portugal adopts a Far Right government in response to the Spanish Far Left government, leading to Portugal investing more heavily into Africa and the Boer States to help them maintain their African colonies.

12.  Katanga is separated from the Kongo to be made into a Portuguese Client State.

13.  The Ancient Kingdom of the Kongo is maintained by the Portuguese. Belgium invests in the Kingdom and assists the kings in expanding deeper into Africa in return for a share of the wealth. However, word of the African atrocities towards fellow Africans in the search for Rubber leads to intervention with Belgian and Portuguese troops helping to maintain order in the kingdom well into the 20^th century.

14.  The Central African Empire somehow actually does imperial things by expanding north, south, east, and west, establishing a truly impressive empire.

15.  The Nigerian civil war ends in the independence of Biafra thanks to British aid.

16.  Sierra Leone and Liberia merge into a single state as both are founded as stations for liberated slaves. This becomes the African Free State and succeeds in inducing many former slaves from the United States of the British Empire in coming to the country. However, in the AFS the westernized Africans establish their own form of plantation slavery.

17.  The Abyssinian Empire rebounds against the Italian invasion of 1895 and captures Eritrea. During the decolonization that occurs during the 1980s the Abyssinian Empire quickly invades and annexes Djibouti and Somaliland.

18.  Egypt retains its monarchy and control over Sudan, continuing to receive support and aid from the British and French Empires in return for continued British and French control over the Suez Canal and the continued control of the Sinai by Israel.

19.  France maintains control over Algeria and increases its settler population and control through large and sometime forced missionary work. France organizes its former West African colonies into the West African Confederation which remains dependent on the French monetary system.

20.  Italy successfully takes Tunisia before France can and expands into Libya at the expense of the Turks. Italy maintains its colony of Somalia as the only other African colony controlled by Italy. Italy colonizes all its African territories with large quantities of settlers who significantly outnumber the natives in the coastal regions of Libya, Tunisia, and Somalia.

21.  Spain experiences a civil war in 1933, leading to the collapse of the remaining Spanish colonies around the world with France annexing Western Sahara, Portugal annexing Equatorial Guinea, and Japan annexing Guam and the Philippines. Spain adopts a communist government while Catalonia gains independence with a separate socialist government.

22.  The Second French Empire of Napoleon III is restored after the French Commune rebellion, leading to a very reactionary government forming. The French Empire struggled to maintain its colonies after the First World War and eventually lost their colonies to nations like Ethiopia or Japan. During the 1970s and 1980s the French Empire was forced to give independence to large swathes of their African territories for economic reasons, however they maintain their control over Madagascar, Gabon, Lebanon, and minor lands in the Americans and Oceania. Belgium and Luxembourg remain a single country.

23.   The British Empire never executes the rebel leaders of the Easter Rising, leading to a peaceful establishment of the Dominion of Ireland. The British Empire is reorganized in the 1930s as the Imperial Federation, keeping the British Empire relevant into the modern age. With East Africa, South Africa, Malaysia, Ceylon, Arabia, Ghana, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland all being made into dominions.

24.  Due to there being no World War Two, Iceland is never occupied by the British and Americans and remains a part of the Danish North Atlantic Colonial Empire.

25.  Norway and Sweden never separate in the early 20^th century, maintaining the Kingdom of Sweden-Norway.

26.  Finland stays with the Russian Empire as the Personal Union of the Russian Tsar does not end due to the victory of the White Russians and the survival of the Russian Tsar.

27.  Germany does not sign the Armistice, hoping instead that the Mexican Invasion of America would delay the American arrival onto the Western Front. They continue to fight on until the Allied powers invade Germany itself. This leads to Germany being dismantled, With France annexing the Saarland, Belgium annexing more lands than historically, and Southern Germany is broken off from the German Empire. Denmark annexes more lands from Germany, and Poland annexes more lands from Germany.

28.  The Austrian Empire is dismantled after the First World War; however the Southern German States of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg join with Austria to form the South German Confederation. In the 1950s Switzerland and Liechtenstein join the confederation.

29.  Hungary is treated less harshly by the treaty of Trianon, leaving them in control of much more territory.

30.  Bulgaria never declares war on Serbia after the First Balkans war and maintains their gains from the First Balkans War.

31.   The Kingdom of Greece never falls, Greece succeeds in defeating the Turks under Ataturk and annexes Thrace and Smyrna. Later in the 1960s the British Empire gives Cyprus to Greece.

32.  After the Russian Civil War ends with an Imperial victory, the Russian Empire demands that they be compensated for their efforts against the Germans. However, the Western Allies cannot return the lost Baltics or Poland or Caucasus to Russia, so they give them Constantinople instead as a territory, fulfilling the historical Russian dream of a warm water port to the Mediterranean and control over the heart of Orthodox Christianity.

33.  The Turkish War of Independence fails, Turkey is made into a rump state which continually suffers from socialist, fascist, and Islamist coups and counter coups.

34.  Yugoslavia maintains its monarchy into the modern day, helping to ensure the internal stability of Yugoslavia.

35.  Italy remains a kingdom and colonizes Albania. They still become Fascist after the First World War, but focus on the increased settlement and assimilation of North Africa into the wider Italian Empire. Slowly the country begins to become more traditional in its culture, thanks to the influence of the Papacy which maintains a significant influence in government due to French Imperial aid when the Papal States were annexed in 1870. By the modern age separate political parties are once more legal and the country remains highly religious alongside their French allies.

36.  Poland gains more of Silesia and all of Danzig after the First World War. They fight several wars with the Russians who attempt to regain the country but fail. Poland becomes the bulwark against Russian Imperial Revanchism and is widely supplied by the Western powers.

37.  The Baltic States are organized by the Germans in 1918 and into 1919 as a Grand Duchy, ruled by a German monarch. Despite the German defeat, the Grand Duchy remains due to fears of a Russian invasion and the allies believe that maintaining a single unified country would better protect the region.

38.  The Caucasus revolts against Russia during the Russian Revolution. Georgia and Azerbaijan gain independence. Armenia invades Turkey and Kurdistan also gains independence from their former Ottoman oppressors.

39.  Israel is established as an independent state in the late 1930s. The British Empire maintains control over the city of Jerusalem in return for Israel maintaining control over the Sinai Peninsula. Israel swells in population due to Jewish immigration from Poland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria.

40.  The Arabs at the end of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans are given control over a Great United Arab Kingdom ruled by the Hashemite Dynasty.

41.  Oman and Aden remain British colonies and are populated by British loyalists from India, mostly supplanting the native Arabs.

42.  The Trucial States unite as a single nation after gaining independence from the British Empire in the 1980s. They form an Alliance with the Hashemites to stave off Saudi desires to create a new Caliphate.

43.  Zoroastrianism never dies in Iran and makes a comeback in the Iranian Intermezzo from the 9^th to 11^th centuries. This dramatically slows the expansion of Islam Eastward and leads to the creation of a Zoroastrian Persian Empire in the modern day.

44.  Baluchistan gains independence from the Persian Empire and British Raj

45.  Afghanistan never becomes majority Muslim and is instead a dramatic mix of Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Manicheism, and Nestorianism religious communities united under a Zoroastrian monarchy, they are closely aligned with Persia.

46.  The Russian monarchy is not destroyed and the tsar survives the revolution, allowing for the White movement to centralize and defeat the communists. The Russian Empire lives on unto the modern day as a growing world power.

47.  Central Asia never becomes majority Muslim with large Nestorian and Manichean populations existing, helping Russia in slowly assimilating much of the remaining population to Russian Orthodoxy.

48.   Mongolia remains a kingdom and is assisted by rogue Russian white officers in conquering much of Inner Mongolia, vastly increasing the Mongol population base.

49.  India assists Tibet in maintaining their independence from the Nationalist Chinese, creating a substantial buffer state between the two rival powers.

50.  Britain and India created a buffer state between India and China in the form of the Republic of Greater Assam, made up of large quantities of Hindus, Christians, and Buddhists. Further buffer states were established between China and India in the Shan state and Sikkim Kingdom.

51.  India gained independence from Britain after a bloody revolution and overthrow of the British Raj in the 1950s, leading to the ending of British relations with the Indian government. The Indian Government went down a dark path under the Hindutva party which has similar elements to Nazism in our timeline. The many religious minorities in India are oppressed by the massive Hindu Majority.

52.  Thailand joins the Japanese and Indian Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and assists the Japanese in their invasion of French Indochina in the late 1940s with Thailand forming the third main member of the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere after India joined in the 1960s.

53.  Chiang Kai-shek is able to more easily defeat the Chinese communists due to the lack of a soviet union to aid them. However, the Japanese are able to play the warlords off against one another. China is finally unified by Chiang in the late 1940s only after losing Hainan to Japanese invasion. China is now rapidly ramping up its economy and military with a slower industrialization that China in our age, but with much less damage to the economic, political, religious, and cultural nature of China. China is encircled by enemies in the form of the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and is increasingly allied with the Russian Empire, leading to a growth of Russian Orthodoxy in China due to the increasingly strong relations between the two.

54.  Japan intervenes in the Russian Revolution and establishes the Republic of Amur. They then invade Manchuria in 1931. The Japanese government is able to reign in the Japanese military, preventing further escalation with China. Eventually the Japanese begin a mass settler movement into Manchuria and the Amur Republic. These are later merged into the Greater Japanese Empire and Japan forms the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere that includes Japan and its Empire, India, Thailand, Tibet, Burma, Sumatra, and Java. Japan maintains its traditional culture due to not being invaded and reordered by the United States.

55.  Japan annexes Hainan in the late 1930s and later French Indochina in the late 1940s with the Japanese military also invading Spanish Philippines and Guam in 1933 after a communist revolution in Spain overthrows the government.

56.  The Dutch spend twenty years trying to defeat the Indonesian Revolutionary Army. In the 1960s the Dutch finally give up but work to break up the Archipelago into eight separate nations in order to prevent the rise of a regional power that could threaten other powers in the area.

57.  The British successfully aid the Hawaiian Kingdom in resisting the advances of the United States and the island nation is able to maintain its independence with massive amounts of investment from the British Empire and the Japanese Empire. The lack of any territory in the Pacific makes the United States disinterested in the Pacific region, allowing for the expansion of the Japanese Empire at the expense of nations like China, Russia, Spain, and France.

Lucas Jackson Alexander, simply known as LuJa, from the Communist Unity Party (a merger of the former Communist Party PUA with the more Soviet-aligned Liberation Party) has won control of the People's Union of America's legislature and taken the mantle of Prime Representative (head of government), promising to end what he sees as "capitalist restoration" undertaken by the Socialists since their first victory in 2008 against the CPPUA and then continued with the chaos of the American Spring in the early 2010s.

Not only that, LuJa is highly skeptical of the market socialist system established in the 1990s by Prime Representative Trevino and seeks a greater alignment with the Soviet model and a reapproachment in politics.

Critics call him a Stalin wannabe, but his base, the inner regions of the Appalachian range and part of the Great Lakes, feels that he and his party are the only ones who care about regions left behind by competition in favour of coastal centers on the Atlantic.

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For the long time taking the map to finish the lore, you may find stuff weird in the lore not connecting to the map, any questions I answer!

* 1866 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Seven Weeks' War; Bismarck deliberately avoids an overarching Austrian alliance, shifting Prussian strategy toward strong relations with Russia and securing Prussian dominance in Northern Germany.

* 1870 - The Franco-German-Spanish War: Leopold of Hohenzollern accepts the Spanish crown. A Double Ems Dispatch manipulates France into declaring war; Prussia, the southern German states, and Spain form a joint front, decisively defeating France.

* 1871 - Proclamation of German Unification: The German Empire is proclaimed at Versailles, backed by a strong, friendly Spanish state under the Hohenzollern dynasty.

* 1880 - The Alliance of Four Crowns: Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Spain form a monumental multi-monarchy diplomatic alliance to freeze European borders, contain French revanchism, and maintain continental balance.

* 1914 - The Great Balkan Flashpoint & Russian Backstab: Following the assassination in Sarajevo, Russia breaks the Four Crowns alignment to back Serbia against Austria-Hungary, escalating the localized crisis into a European war.

* 1914–1916 - The Great War: Germany initially maintains a strategic posture, allowing Russia and Austria to exhaust each other. A multi-front war erupts involving Germany, Austria, Spain, Russia, France, Britain, and eventually the Ottoman Empire.

* 1916 - The 1916 Peace Settlement: The war concludes with a localized diplomatic resolution rather than total destruction, preventing the complete economic ruin of Central Europe and avoiding OTL's catastrophic post-war total wars.

* 1921–1923 - The Second Patriotic Civil War: Bolshevik forces in Eurasia are crushed and eliminated by democratic and republican coalition forces.

* 1923 - The Treaty of Minsk: The formal end of the Russian Civil War establishes the constitutional, democratic Federal Republic of Russia (RFF); fleeing Bolshevik remnants escape into Central Asia and China.

* 1926 - The early Anschluss question regarding German-Austrian alignment is peacefully mediated through international arbitration rather than military force.

* 1930 - The Danzig Corridor Crisis escalates between Germany and Poland, but is held in check as major powers advocate for peaceful negotiation over war.

* 1930–1931 - The Arab Resurrection (Al-Nahda Al-Kubra): The Ottoman Empire Imploded in the South, leading to organic balkanization across the Levant, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and Arabia without European Sykes-Picot mandates.

* 1931 - Facing total disintegration and civil war, Young Turk forces compel the Ottoman government to fold, transforming the rump imperial state into the centralized, secular Unitary Turkish Republic.

* 1931 - Russia and Germany intervene in East Asia to assist China in driving out the Japanese invasion, securing Chinese sovereignty while seeding Russian communist exiles into the region.

* 1932 - The Danzig Detente: Recognizing that military action would spark continental ruin, the German Bundesrepublik (DBR) retreats its demands; Poland publicly appreciates Berlin's commitment to European stability.

* 1933 - Lacking a Great Depression, a crushing WWI defeat, or societal collapse, radical fascism fails to take root in Europe; Adolf Hitler remains an obscure figure and never rises to power.

* 1935 - The Cyprus Flashpoint: Tensions between Greece and Turkey over British-held Cyprus are defused via the Geneva Accord, establishing municipal self-governance and an Aegean non-aggression pact.

* 1942 - Baltic Independence: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania achieve full, peaceful sovereignty through constitutional referendums and a Duma vote in the RFF.

* 1942 - Caucasus Referendums: Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan vote on independence referendums, but with less than 40% approval, all three freely choose to remain inside the stable, multi-ethnic RFF.

* 1950 - President Thomas E. Dewey ends long-standing US isolationism, opening American industry to the world and sparking a trade-based "Cold War" with the Eurasian Alliance (RFF, DBR, UK, France).

* 1950s - Surrounded by constitutional republics and lacking a Soviet backer, Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) execute early pragmatic market reforms, integrating China into global trade decades ahead of OTL.

* 1961 - Persian Secular Uprising: Mass popular revolts overthrow the clerical regime in Tehran, establishing the modern Republic of Persia and reopening trade with Eurasia.

* 1961–1972 - African Independence Wars: A decade of anti-colonial national uprisings escalates across Africa, centered around a bitter French war in Algeria that spills continent-wide.

* 1969 - The Algerian War of Independence escalates dramatically, spilling into neighboring French West Africa, British East Africa, and Portuguese territories into a full-scale continental liberation war.

* 1972–1983 - Afghan Uprising: Conservative tribal and religious forces end central royal authority, eventually establishing a quiet, non-aligned Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 1983.

* 1974 - The Rome Peace Conference: The League of Nations compels European colonial powers to sign the Rome Accords, granting full, unconditional sovereignty to African republics without imposed debts.

* 1979–1980 - Indian Independence & Partition: Supported by the League of Nations, South Asia achieves independence, partitioning into a Hindu-majority Republic of India and an Islamic-majority state.

* 1985 - The 1985 Oil Crisis & OOC Founding: Following a global energy shock that enriches Canada, Russia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Arabia, the League of Nations founds the Oil Organisation and Cooperation (OOC) to regulate energy markets.

* 1986 - The 100-Day Kashmir War: The League of Nations intervenes in the India-Pakistan border clash, establishing the provisional, internationally protected Free State of Kashmir.

* Late 1980s - Secession referendums held in South Slavia (Yugoslavia) and the RFF fail dramatically (receiving under 30% and 15% approval respectively), as member states freely vote to preserve their prosperous federal unions.

* 1991 - East Asian Economic Boom & ASEAN: China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia experience massive industrial growth; Southeast Asian nations form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

* 1992 - German-Austrian Unification: Following a landslide 89% referendum approval, Germany and Austria peacefully unite into a single federal republic; Hungary and Romania open their borders to reunite split families.

* Mid-1990s - European Cooperation (EC) Formed: European nations unite into a continental economic bloc (excluding neutral Switzerland and Turkey); the League of Nations defuses a Falklands tension after islanders vote 98% to remain British.

* 1998 - Confederate Cyprus: Cyprus formally adopts a Swiss-style cantonal confederacy, declaring total non-alignment and permanent neutrality.

* 1999 - The 1999 Economic Triple-Boom: Spain experiences a massive economic boom following its post-dictatorship recovery, alongside unmatched GDP and HDI surges across Scandinavia.

* 1999 - The Kosovo Settlement: An attempted Albanian annexation of Kosovo is stopped by the League of Nations; South Slavia returns the territory and constitutionally elevates it to the Autonomous State of Kosovo, later in the year, given independence assisted by League of nations.

* 2000 - Humanity enters the 21st century in a multi-polar, prosperous world governed by democratic federalism, strong international law through the League of Nations, and an emerging civilian-led digital age.

POD: Gladstone and the Peelites accept Derby's attempts to reconcile the Liberal and Protectionist wings of the Conservatives. Derby's government survives the 1859 vote of no confidence, and he stays on.

By authorial fiat (chalk it up to stress-induced) Derby's long-standing health issues crop up again, and Gladstone is made PM (Queen Victoria hated Disraeli and tolerated Gladstone). As a result, Palmerston, a major advocate for neutrality with Northern sympathies, is not PM and the British government is much more pro-Southern and hawkish than it was OTL. When some version of the Trent Affair occurs, Britain intervenes and forces mediation.

This is the Confederate States Collegiate Athletic Association (CSCAA) national championship for Confederate Football. The five conference champions compete in a round-robin to determine the national championship.

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Hello everyone. I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit for asking questions like but I give it my best. Because I got a question or more.

If this isn't the right-subreddit let me know which ones are more appropriate.

To get to the point. The question is: Does my universe alternate history have to be realistic?

For context and specification: I been making my own universe for some time now, and the general basis I got is a science fantasy setting, where there no masquerade, and supernatural life been living with humans since forever. This universe has all sorts of magic, supernatural life and such that exist in everyday life co-existing with futuristic tech which aligned with different time periods. To illustrate some examples, this verse 1920s-1940s has dieselpunk like tech, while the Victorian era has steampunk like tech.

So one of the things I wanted to do with my universe is have alternate history, my reason was I wanted to create a more idealistic world as a reaction how things are nowadays, curiosity of how things go and I was tired of the cliched "Axis win WW2".

So while I'm not sure if it was done this universe, this universe is meant to have multiple POD(S) for multiple countries at different points for multiple events. To illustrate what I'm planning in the 1800-1920 section for the US, some POD(S) focused on a successful reconstruction, while some other POD(S) focus on Ted Roosevelt becoming president in 1912.

I was never satisfied with just one change in history and done, I wanted to make a hi story where multiple events change course and the world is different from our world because of these changes.

I didn't want to use ASB(s) even with the fantastic elements with the verse because I thought it was a easy way out, lazy and simply I like the challenge of trying to dig and ask questions like what are the POD(S), the context of this event, or person, so on and so forth. As such I been focused on realism BUT it's been getting tiring since I was focused on realism even as I want specific things to happen, whenever it's to push for a better path for a country or simply for the sake of drama.

I have search posts on this subreddit for such questions and they didn't reach my satisfaction because how fantastical the world I set up to be and my specific demands?

So while its not clear to me. Does my verse alternate history need to be strictly realistic? What scale of alternate history plausibility should I aim for? I was looking at TV TROPES (Not sure if that allowed if so sorry) and if you can't access the link or don't want to for any reason. Then to summarized it:

Hard Alternate History: Adhered to very strict, even scientific standards in their plausibility, the butterflies are logic, there is attention to detail, and are often not steered to a pre-determined outcome.

Hard/Soft Alternate History: This infused hard and soft. Well-researched, incorporates historical methodology but has creative liberties in a way that is convenient, whenever it's enabling a measure of parallelism, or has the timeline be steered to a pre-determined outcome.

Soft Alternate History: Plausibility takes a backseat to the creator desires, little or moderate research, ignored butterflies, and parallelism is extreme. This is where the famous genre of AH wank falls into. 

Utterly Implausible AH: Research is poor, butterflies ignored, details overlooked, and author politics are prevalent. Operation Sealion scenarios are here 

Alien Space Bats and Fantastical AH: As the name indicates, fantastical elements introduced to the story, such as and I quote the website: "What if aliens invade Earth during World War II?" to name a example. Now take note these types of works can be "Hard" despite the fantastical POD(S) as it uses research to explore what logically happens despite the fantastic premise. So these works can be steered to a certain course or not steered at all.

What do you all think?

(Again if this isn't the right-subreddit let me know which ones are more appropriate?)

West Germany (Part 1), East Germany (Part 2)

Back in season 1, What Could Have Been looked into a timeline where after WW2, instead of the US, Great Britain & France turning their occupied German territories into the quasi-sovereign nation of West Germany, most of the land was just given over to France.

First France just claimed the Southern regions of the territory that it was controlling as its own. Spoils of war. Then the UK & the US decided that occupying fragments of a broken & devastated Germany just weren't worth it, so they handed most of the land over to France.

How will the German people of this new Eastern France fair? How will they be treated? Will they assimilate? Will they rebel? Will France change them? Will they change France? Tune into What Could Have Been to see what might have happened in a timeline where France annexed West Germany after the war.

In Season 2, we revisited this timeline to talk about how instead of the Soviet Union having it's occupied zone become the quasi-sovereign nation of East Germany, it was instead given to & annexed by Communist Poland.

Seeing the bulk of the Western half of Germany going to France & not wanting any trace of Germany to exist after the second world war, the Eastern regions of Germany were incorporated into Poland, a country that suffered heavily at the hands of Germany in both world wars.

With the Eastern German territories now the region of West Poland, how did the history of Eastern Europe play out in this timeline? How will the German people of this new Western Poland fair? Will they embrace Communism? Will they try to restore Fascism? How will they be treated? Will they assimilate? Will they rebel? Will Poland change them? Will they change Poland? Will they try to flee West? Will the Soviet Union still fall?

Tune Into What Could Have Been to find out what might have happened if West Germany had been Annexed by France & East Germany had been Annexed by Poland.

What Could Have Been is a sci-fi podcast where your host interviews alternate versions of himself from across the multiverse to find out how different decisions, actions & events might have changed the course of history. Listen to the stories of alternate timelines from a world where the Space Race never ended, to a world where France annexed West Germany after WWII, to a timeline where North America is being ripped apart by a new Faultline, to a timeline where humanity was contacted by aliens in the early 70s. Listen to what happened in these wild timelines & find out What Could Have Been.

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From my alternate history TL, Of Days Gone By.

ITTL, Sarajevo is currently slated to host the 35th Summer Olympics in 2028, while bids are still open for the Winter Olympics.

Dated October 19, 2071, the European Restoration Command (ERC) issues a formal ultimatum to the European Continuity Authority (ECA) amid Europe's collapse following the Blackout of 2071, a catastrophe of widespread technological contamination in which electronic devices and autonomous systems engage in coordinated attacks against human populations., where critical infrastructure has been compromised, and unidentified figures or manifestations designated by the Governments as the "OTHER", threatens survivors. As the phenomenon accelerates industrial collapse and mass displacement, the war between the ERC and ECA further weakens Europe's chances of survival. The letter reveals that the ERC possesses a weapon of unprecedented destructive capacity, already used against Warsaw and Berlin, cities under ECA control. The Command demands the ECA's unconditional surrender, the cessation of hostilities, and the transfer of political authority, threatening further destruction if its demands are rejected.

The letter takes as model the leaftlets thrown by the American forces in Japan in WW2 warning the Japanese about effects the Atomic Bomb.

First up the flag is not made by me and is made by Alchetbeachfan on deviantART.

Now let's do the lore:

A weaker England timeline

They will not be having a good time in the 2000s,

Leaning to the collapse of the UK in 2005. In their peak they used to control all of the British isles, borealia India(no Southern India), Western Nigeria, and Western South Africa and others.

"God save the Queen"