Alternate Timeline 2011 by @Thorvald (El Thorvaldo)

My 37th submission to DYOS XI. [link]

There was an age when DYOS politics was brutishly simple: you stuck a colour on the map, and if anyone argued you went to war. Most famously in DYOS 5, the whole globe was partitioned between the contributors simply because they could. With DYOS 10 and my (especially my) turn toward more plausible international relations, scenarios such as these virtually disappeared.

And then came the DYOS 11 alternate timeline.

I don't know why or how, but we rekindled the campy zeitgeist of the early threads most spectacularly. This, in turn, naturally clamoured for a call-back to the global-stakes power plays of olde, so I devised this "what-if" map. With CivGeneral out of the loop, Coruscant didn't fight CurtSibling, for which it was summarily crushed later. The Eastern Union still emerges in 2006, but concentrates in Eurasia over east-central Europe as a result of Curt's prior conquests. By 2011, the world is basically under the heel of a three-way alliance comprised of Curt, me, and Perfection, as well as a Greek puppet-state, with the remaining unaligned powers serving as sites for occasional scuffles between each other or with the Tripartite.

It would have been fun to expound upon the details of this new history, but @GenMarshall terminated the arc just as it was getting interesting.

The Socialist Republic of Wales is in homage to the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.

CivGeneral & the Republic of Coruscant © @GenMarshall;
CurtSibling © himself;
the Eastern Union © me;
Perfection (character) © himself;
Pontbridge © Stylesjl;
SuperBeaverInc. (SuBi) © himself;
Taillenia © taillesskangaru.

[Originally submitted to DeviantArt January 2012.]