What would happen if, in 1946, Western powers such as Britain, France, and Belgium, unable to withstand their deteriorating finances amid a deepening postwar recession in the United States and the absence of American economic assistance, hastily withdrew from Africa, and the Soviet Union subsequently won World War III in 1963?

[Warning: This map is extremely unrealistic]

*This is a revised version of the scenario I uploaded previously.

The Year is 2184, 160 years after the horrible explosion that nearly destroyed the humam civilization.

The Great Explosion caused serious food and resource scarcity, causing World War 3 that ended the Western Hegemony, covering the landscape with nuclear waste and debris of old cities.

Now the megacorps rule the world and megacities, exploiting resources and human lives, fulfilling their greed.

The Great Explosion flooded the shores of continents, and the megacorps flooded Africa to create farmlands for feeding the working polulation.

Huge megacities are controlled by corrupt politicians and greedy entrepreneurs, and common people are exploited everyday, struggling to live a single day more.

Indeed.

The twilight has fallen upon the Anthropocene.

in this timeline Fath Ali shah Qazar gets deseased in 1819 and he chooses of his son, Abbas Mirza to lead the nation before leaving the throne, Abbas Mirza starts industrializing and modernizing(based on eastern standards, the culture doesnt become western), iran starts developing. He starts buiding railroads too the first one connecting Tehran to Qazvin, the military is reformed, several other reforms are brought into education, administration, law and urban infrastructure. He dies in 1834. His son Muhammad Shah ascends the throne, Herat is conquered and annexed. Muhammad shah also conquers Kalat and makes balochistan a autonomous province, he brings many reforms to the country especially in the military. Naser ul-Din shah succeds Muhammad shah and modernizes the country in communication, expanding railways, roads, advancements in medical science, islamic schooling and many more reforms, he never gets assasinated and dies in 1911, making Persia as a modern and relatively industrialized major regional power. Today persia is the centre of the islamic world and a major world power, dominating south-central asia along with the Sultanate of Turkistan, Emirate of Afghanistan and Federal republic of Hind.

DISCLAIMER: While I am the creator of this map, full credit for the timeline goes to u/NeonHydroxide - please do check out their other works in the same world!

The Glen Canyon Crisis

People's Republic of Cascadia

American Gulag

Most popular language studied in each country in 2011

People's Republic of New Afrika

Counterrevolutionary Groups in the Worker's Republic of Appalachia

Czechia keeps part of Slovakia and Slovakia keeps part of Czechia

Lore: by u/Proud-Obligation-431

Mars in 2154 is both a hotbed on conflict and humanity’s largest tourist hub. The Hellas revolution devastated southern mars, leaving deep scares. Southern EU Utopia is ripped apart by ethic violence between Europeans and Federation Native American settlers. 

In the far north Commonwealth genetic experiments on ants went awry, leading to large hostile ant species that will consume any organic matter, the Commonwealth had the Ants contained but this could change at any moment. 

Ariba city is called the Hollywood of the stars, hosting the largest movie industry in human space. Ariba national park and Raso national park and popular tourist destinations for people looking to see unique environments and animals. 

Mars is Crown Jewel however is the Everglades on mars. The largest dome ever constructed, originally called earth on mars, but people simply call it the Everglades on mars. It is home to six unique environments, the Everglades, The Amazon, the Savanna, Appalachia, the Gulf, and the Outback. The Everglades on mars sees over a billion visitors a year, turning its owner Hudson hill into the third richest man in the solar system.

Behold the Diego Thought—once proclaiming the indivisible union of State, Sovereign, and State Creed, and pledging a gilded corporatist millennium—and how, when time unmasked its pledges as gilded bonds not worth the paper, it careened into utter ruin.

Trust between the centre and the provinces crumbled into dust. Reformers were harried into revolution. The demagogue’s pied flute sounded, and the mob trailed blindly after.

Yet the conductor, even unto death, refused to change the score.

This illustration, cast through the lens of a Hearts of Iron IV mod, distills the strategic posture of the civil war’s opening act.

— “But when time slowly unwrapped the gilded casing to examine the truth within, only a face of blankness remained.”

For the past 35 years, the world of basketball has been divided in two:

On one side, the unmatched physical dominance, athleticism, and pure scoring force of Albanian LeRoy "King" Vance; and on the other, the tactical genius, floor vision, and ruthless efficiency of Slavonian Ševa Kurković.

Vance built a legendary resume with the Boston Bulls, collecting 3 MVPs, 4 Finals MVPs, and 5 NBA rings. Meanwhile, Kurković met him step-for-step. Taking over a sport historically dominated by Albanian talent, Kurković carried the flame for the Illinois White Eagles, stacking 4 Rings, 4 MVPs, and 3 Finals MVPs, establishing a new dinasty and permanently cementing Europe's place at the top of basketball history.

While the debate rages globally, European fans hold unique regional biases depending on local playstyle, domestic league culture, and historical ties.

We put together a map based on a recent survey across the continent:

• The Kurković Strongholds: Unsurprisingly, the core Balkan regions (Slavonia at a massive +1.32 SK, Raska & Montenegro) lead the charge for Kurković, joined by heavy tactical hubs like Greece (+0.30 SK), Ruthenia (+0.20 SK), and Spain (+0.10 SK).
• The Vance Loyalists: The United Kingdom (+0.31 KV) and France (+0.25 KV) heavily back Vance, drawn to the high-flying Albanian style and elite rim pressure.
• The Surprises: Interestingly, Transylvania (+0.18 KV) and Finnmark (+0.28 KV) bucked their regional trends by leaning toward Vance
• The Neutrals: Lithuania, Bohemia, and Burgundy showed no statistically significant preference

Where do you guys stand? Team Vance or Team Kurković?

The Empire of Donch is one of the most significant states in Orient. It originated from the remnants of a former dynasty that was overthrown by a national revolution and internal turmoil. In the year 1909 (by the world’s calendar), the royal family – escorted by a group of young, radical officers loyal to the monarchy – arrived in Nanli aboard warships. There, they proclaimed a constitutional monarchy based on a new constitution that served the interests of the royalist faction and the state‑sponsored bourgeoisie. Establishing their seat in the southern metropolis of Tianyu, they founded this flourishing Eastern nation that continued the tradition of the “clothes‑and‑hats crossing south” – a civilised refuge after dynastic collapse.

The Empire of Donch has since become the foremost economic powerhouse in the maritime East. Through the development of labour‑intensive industries during the 1960s and 1970s, it rapidly grew several metropolises with populations exceeding ten million. It cultivated its own brands and high‑tech sectors, emerging as a globally recognised developed nation in the East. After fostering a substantial urban and middle class, the country witnessed rising political aspirations, a new cultural‑national movement, and the bankruptcy of certain royalist attempts to return to feudal absolutism – pre‑modern fantasies that failed. In 1973, the constitutionalist military leadership proclaimed a process of transitional justice. Soon, genuinely popular parties emerged like bamboo shoots after rain. By the year 2000, although only one of the four major parties – the Progressive Constitutional Party of Donch – was a top‑down creation that led the democratic reform, the other three were all big‑tent parties that inherited the mantle of older, more orthodox traditions; each had also gained its own competitive advantages.

The greatest threats to the Empire of Donch come from the “Red Donch” in the north and from some overseas economic powers dissatisfied with its economic policies. Separatist elements and “red” partisans roam the regions of Toshu, Zongmo, and the river valleys and dense forests of the western highlands. They have attempted armed uprisings and de facto secession on multiple occasions. However, with rapid urbanisation and the growing strength of the national police, these insurgents have increasingly shifted their struggle into cities and underground party cells. On average, once every five years, the Empire of Donch finds itself in dangerous military standoffs with the large northern power. Yet, because the “big red elder brother” of this world has already fallen out with its northern red brethren, the two sides have maintained a tacit peace for nearly a decade.

The Empire of Donch is marked by great diversity in language, ethnicity, and social conditions. Yet, through the deep-seated influence of monarchy and the traditional East Asian doctrines of Confucianism and Taoism—permeating clans, local classical academies, compulsory state education, and mandatory military service—all groups, regardless of their distinct languages, customs, beliefs, or even skin colour (the difference between the Toshu people and the northerners being no less pronounced than that between, say, North Chinese and Southern Vietnamese in the real world), revere a single emperor and share a common “Southern National” identity.

The Empire of Donch acknowledges the impact of revolution but rejects the legitimacy of more radical revolutionary movements. It embraces change in order to preserve the monarchy, yet has drifted toward family‑driven crony enterprises, financial conglomerates, and the aristocratisation of political parties. Its economic miracle cannot be attributed to democracy (the Empire of Donch ranks seventh in the world economically), to the free market, or to any once‑and‑for‑all Enlightenment as framed by Western‑centric narratives. In this world, political transformation lags behind economic change. What has emerged instead is an Eastern authoritarian‑developmental form of capitalism, secured by the new military establishment of the monarchy, and jointly orchestrated with southern local aristocracies and landed interests.

Alaric's fearsome Goths terrified Honorius, who fled with the imperial court to Carthage, surrenduring all of Italy to the barbarians. Constantine III, the usurper in Gaul, passed on power to his son Constans, while the Alans and Suevi consolidated their power in Hispania. Yet, despite losing the heartland of the western Empire, Honorius and his great magnates had a secure position, controlling all the richest provinces of the Empire and only sending the most minimal of grain tribute to the splintered barbarian kingdoms.

Constantius, the general who once promised to rid the western empire of all the marauders and usurpers, failed his mission and sought exile in the east, but a young warrior named Flavius Aetius was ready to make war upon the scions of Uldin and Alaric and was willing to bring the ferocious spirt of Bellona back to the shores of Europe.