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This map is a basic German wank, with a POD in the late 1850s. Its based a lot, but not entirely on a couple Victoria 2 games, with some of my own liberties added into it. Basically, Prussia has a more successful diplomatic and military handling of its situation at the time, resulting in it curb stomping the Danish quicker. Bismark ends up accepting the king's offer to join the German Confederation. Russia is unable to intervene, as it is involved in a more intense great game along with a constitutional crisis in Finland. The Netherlands undergoes economic problems after losing Guyana to France, and so gives Luxembourg over to Prussia in exchange for unchallenged hegemony in Indonesia. Austria goes to war shortly afterwards, seeing Prussia as too strong, fighting in 1865, similar in time to a longer dragging American Civil War, and with a Hungarian uprising, along with Croatia and other minorities, are smashed into the ground by Prussia and her allies including the Two Sicilies, becoming virtually a vassal of Berlin. Almost the entire coastal territory of Austria is given to the newly founded Italy in exchange for a Berlin-Rome concord. France intervenes alongside Sardinia, but is thoroughly crushed, forced to give Alsace Lorraine to Germany, along with Corsica and Tunisia to Italy, with its ally annexed by the latter.

After an even worse defeat than OTL, France has a major economic crisis and almost civil war, won by hardliners. Anarchists, bourbonists and even communists try to rise against the government before a different monarchy is established in charge. As a result, Prussia amalgamates with its allies to form the German-Hungarian Empire, a massive juggernaut in Central Europe. Thanks to Denmark, its navy is significantly more powerful and it establishes a bigger and better colonial Empire in Central Africa. It establishes alliances with Italy, the Ottoman Empire and even Japan, with the Netherlands and the newly independent Finland neutral but increasingly pro-German. Serbia, being cut off from other countries, becomes a virtual Turkish-German vassal in all but name, though it desperately cries out to Russia to someday intervene. The rest of Europe (save Sweden and Switzerland for obvious reasons) form into a Great Entente in response. In the meantime, a weaker America purchases Cuba and Puerto Rico from the Spanish instead of Alaska. The year is now 1908, and peace is not to last here...

Description
This map is a basic German wank, with a POD in the late 1850s. Its based a lot, but not entirely on a couple Victoria 2 games, with some of my own liberties added into it. Basically, Prussia has a more successful diplomatic and military handling of its situation at the time, resulting in it curb stomping the Danish quicker. Bismark ends up accepting the king's offer to join the German Confederation. Russia is unable to intervene, as it is involved in a more intense great game along with a constitutional crisis in Finland. The Netherlands undergoes economic problems after losing Guyana to France, and so gives Luxembourg over to Prussia in exchange for unchallenged hegemony in Indonesia. Austria goes to war shortly afterwards, seeing Prussia as too strong, fighting in 1865, similar in time to a longer dragging American Civil War, and with a Hungarian uprising, along with Croatia and other minorities, are smashed into the ground by Prussia and her allies including the Two Sicilies, becoming virtually a vassal of Berlin. Almost the entire coastal territory of Austria is given to the newly founded Italy in exchange for a Berlin-Rome concord. France intervenes alongside Sardinia, but is thoroughly crushed, forced to give Alsace Lorraine to Germany, along with Corsica and Tunisia to Italy, with its ally annexed by the latter.

After an even worse defeat than OTL, France has a major economic crisis and almost civil war, won by hardliners. Anarchists, bourbonists and even communists try to rise against the government before a different monarchy is established in charge. As a result, Prussia amalgamates with its allies to form the German-Hungarian Empire, a massive juggernaut in Central Europe. Thanks to Denmark, its navy is significantly more powerful and it establishes a bigger and better colonial Empire in Central Africa. It establishes alliances with Italy, the Ottoman Empire and even Japan, with the Netherlands and the newly independent Finland neutral but increasingly pro-German. Serbia, being cut off from other countries, becomes a virtual Turkish-German vassal in all but name, though it desperately cries out to Russia to someday intervene. The rest of Europe (save Sweden and Switzerland for obvious reasons) form into a Great Entente in response. In the meantime, a weaker America purchases Cuba and Puerto Rico from the Spanish instead of Alaska. The year is now 1908, and peace is not to last here...