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Published: 2022-06-22 11:40:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 25253; Favourites: 190; Downloads: 48
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Description It's been a long time since I uploaded anything map-related, so this one is doomed to "underperform", but it's technically worldbuilding, so why not post it here.

A polandball-style future of Europe in the style of this old history of Europe comic that I don't know the author of: sta.sh/0y1hba0drd7

Here's a combined version: sta.sh/01gsb2agak


In case I failed at the "show don't tell" thing, here's an explanation:

2022 - Today. Covid, Russo-Ukrainian war, etc. Pretty bad.

2040 - Everything's even worse. The new Great Depression killed the EU and caused various extremists to clash with and overthrow governments all across the West and beyond. Meanwhile ever more totalitarian Russia swallowed Belarus and parts of Kazakhstan and tried to invade Poland and Baltics, rallying the entire Eastern Europe against itself. Also Balkans are at it again.

2064 - The chaos subsided. Most of Europe is past its extremist stage, except Germany, which is a rogue state governed by SJW-type turbo-leftists (ever more radicalized by the fact all their neighbours went to the right). The rise of nationalism during the 2040s made many separatist and irredentist movements succeed, erasing some countries and creating some new ones. Putin died around 2045 after losing the war with Poland, and now Russia is under a new, nationalist dictatorship, waging a revanchist war against everyone around them. Iran, Russia's only ally at this point, is about to nuke Israel and itself. Poland and former Czechoslovakia merged into Zapadoslavia to counterbalance Russian pan-Slavism with their own. Also renewable energy gave place to nuclear, hence the nuclear reactors.

2082 - Overaging. As birthrates continue to scrap the bottom, the developed world's population is rapidly aging. The threat of the coming healthcare collapse and depopulation causes countries, primarily Germany (whose extremist stage eventually passed) to invest in biotech in order to fix the low fertility. Russia has lost the 2064 war and was divided. Turkey and Israel greatly expanded, the former becoming a new great power, stretching to the Caspian sea in the East and projecting its power in Balkans (particularly buffing Albania). Meanwhile the UK lost Northern Ireland, becoming just the United Kingdom of England and Wales, but managed to deflect Spanish invasion of Gibraltar using advanced AI drones.

2110 - The invention of working artificial wombs allowed countries to fix the birthrate problem by switching to wholly artificial and scalable vat reproduction. Not everyone accepted this technology though, which was a mistake. Turkey bullies Balkans, all the while climate change slowly starts to really kick in.

2187 - Climate catastrophy is ongoing. As always, the third world is the one suffering, but this time Europe isn't keen on letting refugees in (has plenty of vat-grown working age population itself). Romania and Hungary have a petty automated war, Russia happens to be in the way of a huge climatic migration from Central Asia, Serbia and Croatia forget their hatred and unite against the slow islamisation of their peninsula, and Germany, having tasted the "gateway drug" of artificial reproduction, starts to really get into transhumanism.

2299 - The peak of the Transhumanist-Bioconservative cold war. Turkey with its islamised Balkan and Caucasus puppets, giga-Israel, united Maghreb, Ukraine and Russia are in the team Nature, while most of Western Europe (with European Federation as its leader) are in the team Progress. Other parts of the world are also taking part, but they aren't relevant here. Romania and Nordic countries are neutral.

2400 - Oops, something went wrong. Nuclear holocaust destroyed both sides, sending their metropoles into the Stone Age and collapsing their puppets into a patchwork of disconnected warlord provinces. Neutral states fared better though. Romania had a religious awakening and is working on spreading itself and its faith across the wasteland. Nordic neurocracies have united into a single state with a sort of techno-hivemind form of government and work on spreading their system to the lands that more or less retained their tech level.

2522 - Something went wrong again. A giant CME fried all electronics on Earth, cooking all Nordic Network's augmented brains with it. The world that barely started to restore itself is about to be sent back into the Middle Ages. At least we can admire Romania's and Switzerland's success in collecting all that clay.

2760 - The start of degradation. The Flare and the memory of Transhumanist-Biocon war made people very superstitious of technology. Progress is now seen as bad and only bringing catastrophies, reinventing stuff is met with tales of death and destruction that nobody wants to repeat. As this sentiment seeps into major religions, progress effectively becomes taboo. Scandinavia, completely empty and "cursed" after the Flare, is populated by Nenets migrating from Siberia. Other news: Romania has called itself the new Rome, Switzerland reunited Germany, and a brutal Tatar horde made Slavs flee former Russia into Baltics and Balkans.

3200 - Civilization is in decline. Climate shifts combined with the retained aversion to invention causes society to lose more and more technology. Europe is effectively back in Iron Age.

5000 - A few more climate catastrophies, and the cycle is over. Civilization is back where it started - at spear and shield wielding little empires, tribes, and city states. After this, there's just a long plateau of Bronze Age-level stagnation, with maybe, just maybe, a hint of hope for revival. But that's the deal of a much further future.
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