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Muchly Cliche:
A bit of a hodgepodge of popular alternate-history cliches in the same world. it’s hard to say when exactly the POD is but it’s safe to say this one focuses more on ‘Modern History’ - as in roughly the 17/18th Century onwards – cliches and trends. Some cliches may be combined here and there, including.

Tsarist Russia in exile, in Alaska.
British Empire in colonial exile:
     In Canada.
     In East Africa.
     In (south/east) India.
     In Australia (specifically East Australia).
     In New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Independent Quebec & Bourbon exiled monarchy.
Independent New England.
Balkanised USA.
Surviving (and fascistic) CSA.
Neo-Aztecs.
Big, Voodoo Haiti.
Surviving Gran Colombia.
Communist Peru.
Neo-Inca Peru.
Big Brazil.
Germanised Paraguay (and, to a lesser extent, expansionist Paraguay).
Fascistic Argentina (along with secret Nazi refugees).
Celtic settler colony in the Americas.
Independent Ireland.
Orwellian Britain.
United Scandinavia.
Communist France.
Communist/syndicalist/anarcho-communist Spain.
Portugal surviving on the edge of hostility with British and/or Brazilian help.
The Dutch… kind of, being there.
Nazi Germans.
Balkanised Germans:
     Rhineland Confederation still going.
     Independent Prussia.
     Independent Bavaria.
     Independent Saxony, which is also somewhat of a footnote.
Big Austria:
     Also Hapsburg Italy.
     Also Yugoslavia still going.
Kingdom of All Of The Sicilies.
Surviving and powerful Poland-Lithuania.
New Byzantines.
Pre-revolutionary French government in exile in North Africa:
     Also West Australia.
     Also *Napoleonic France surviving.
Egypt “pulling a Meiji,” and becoming powerful.
Nasty South Nigeria.
Germanic African colonial state of especial nastiness – often a Nazi/Nazi-esque one.
Ethiopia “pulling a Meiji.”
Awful Congolese corporate state.
Super nasty super South Africa:
     Also a lot of Bantustans.
Surviving Zulu kingdom.
Surviving Ottoman Empire (though trimmed of a lot of territory).
Caliphate with lots of Arabian oil.
Random sites for Jewish homelands.
Oman also… being there.
Persia keeping its monarchy.
Soviet Union:
     Soviets adopting technocratic communism to survive.
Surviving Mughal Empire.
Surviving Maratha Confederacy.
Big, independent Tibet.
Surviving Qing Chinese Empire.
Successful Taiping Empire forming.
Big Japan.
Thailand “pulling a Meiji.”

Credit to B.Munro/Quantumbranching’s previous cliché maps for certain cliché choices and depictions (though by virtue of being cliches there was bound to be some repetition of choices), particularly for the format of enumerating the various Israels.

Description

Muchly Cliche:
A bit of a hodgepodge of popular alternate-history cliches in the same world. it’s hard to say when exactly the POD is but it’s safe to say this one focuses more on ‘Modern History’ - as in roughly the 17/18th Century onwards – cliches and trends. Some cliches may be combined here and there, including.

Tsarist Russia in exile, in Alaska.
British Empire in colonial exile:
     In Canada.
     In East Africa.
     In (south/east) India.
     In Australia (specifically East Australia).
     In New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Independent Quebec & Bourbon exiled monarchy.
Independent New England.
Balkanised USA.
Surviving (and fascistic) CSA.
Neo-Aztecs.
Big, Voodoo Haiti.
Surviving Gran Colombia.
Communist Peru.
Neo-Inca Peru.
Big Brazil.
Germanised Paraguay (and, to a lesser extent, expansionist Paraguay).
Fascistic Argentina (along with secret Nazi refugees).
Celtic settler colony in the Americas.
Independent Ireland.
Orwellian Britain.
United Scandinavia.
Communist France.
Communist/syndicalist/anarcho-communist Spain.
Portugal surviving on the edge of hostility with British and/or Brazilian help.
The Dutch… kind of, being there.
Nazi Germans.
Balkanised Germans:
     Rhineland Confederation still going.
     Independent Prussia.
     Independent Bavaria.
     Independent Saxony, which is also somewhat of a footnote.
Big Austria:
     Also Hapsburg Italy.
     Also Yugoslavia still going.
Kingdom of All Of The Sicilies.
Surviving and powerful Poland-Lithuania.
New Byzantines.
Pre-revolutionary French government in exile in North Africa:
     Also West Australia.
     Also *Napoleonic France surviving.
Egypt “pulling a Meiji,” and becoming powerful.
Nasty South Nigeria.
Germanic African colonial state of especial nastiness – often a Nazi/Nazi-esque one.
Ethiopia “pulling a Meiji.”
Awful Congolese corporate state.
Super nasty super South Africa:
     Also a lot of Bantustans.
Surviving Zulu kingdom.
Surviving Ottoman Empire (though trimmed of a lot of territory).
Caliphate with lots of Arabian oil.
Random sites for Jewish homelands.
Oman also… being there.
Persia keeping its monarchy.
Soviet Union:
     Soviets adopting technocratic communism to survive.
Surviving Mughal Empire.
Surviving Maratha Confederacy.
Big, independent Tibet.
Surviving Qing Chinese Empire.
Successful Taiping Empire forming.
Big Japan.
Thailand “pulling a Meiji.”

Credit to B.Munro/Quantumbranching’s previous cliché maps for certain cliché choices and depictions (though by virtue of being cliches there was bound to be some repetition of choices), particularly for the format of enumerating the various Israels.