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Published: 2013-03-03 00:35:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 17781; Favourites: 98; Downloads: 109
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Following the ratification of the United Earth Constitution the various states, provinces, etc of the Earth were mandated to redraw their borders to comply with the minimum population requirements necessary for statehood, effectively dissolving most of the Earth's historic regions and eliminating what remained of national boundaries. In Europe this was a mixed bag event. A number of historic regions were able to break away, others were forced to consolidate with regions they had little in common with, and all were divided along completely artificial borders to create the European States within the United Earth. This artificial unification and division of Europe has forced the long divided continent into an era of rapid cultural mixing, made more significant by the new flow of previously foreign people into largely homogenized regions.Related content
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In the Iberia a vertical line division would be better, than an horizontal one, lusitanians are on the west, hispanics east.Β Β
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so... prussia mostly without any actual prussian territory?
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Just split it into Roman provices and all set.
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I hope with all my heart this never happens, at least not anytime soon. There will be a point when we leave earth but that should be a long time from now.
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i disagree...a unified europe would be a great tool against Russian agression and a peaceful replacement for the US
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Shouldn't Iceland be a Scandinavian territory as well? Icelanders are ethnic Norwegians, there is a separatist movement in favour of joining Norway (which Norwegians are quite fond of), the entire history, language and culture is Scandinavian. Iceland is even more Scandinavian than Denmark.
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Oh, well I thought you guys were more isolationist than that. My mistake.
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Isolationists? No no no. 
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I thought you guys had some weird, vaguely racist law about how non-Icelandic people can't live in Iceland for more than a year?
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No, that's just the policy of one political party in the parliament, the Independence party is very conservative and full of people who are so filled with pride and are fond of the US (mostly because the USA was the first in the world to recognize Iceland's independence). But that has changed now. But even during that time when that law was in use, foreigners from Norway, Faroe Islands and Greenland were still viewed as fellow Icelanders. And Iceland, being a member of the Nordic council, welcomes other Nords to Iceland as well. Today non-Norwegians or non-Icelanders are allowed to stay as long as they learn basic Icelandic (though they are allowed to speak their own language, but are expected to at least understand basic Icelandic), they can also stay if they are married to an Icelander or if they are studying or if they have some occupation.
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Ah, well thanks for clearing that up. As for the Pro-US status of Iceland, I didn't think it was mutual. About 60 years ago there were plans to annex Greenland AND Iceland by a handful of Senators. The thought was that they'd be great strategic positions against the Soviets.
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Well, it's a good thing they didn't. Still, our first president was not democratically elected and was a real bastard and a slime. He even allowed the American military to stay here only to back up his communist witch hunts. Anyone who didn't want to be in NATO or criticized the Independence party would be labelled as a communist. Although it was not illegal to be a communist in Iceland, people who were suspected by the military were kept on a list of "possible revolutionaries". There was one man arrested though, but it was later revealed that he was not a communist, he just hated having the US military here.
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Cool map and nice to see the Northern Irish border is finally gone. Just finished reading a book called "New Ireland" that our old Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitzgerald wrote during the troubles, he suggested letting the locals deal with local matters via regional assemblies and scrapping the border nice to see he was ahead of his time
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just so you know, Northern Ireland is incredibly iffy on merging with Ireland (look up The Troubles), so in your timeline, riots would most definitely be prominent in it.
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By the look at the map Im sure a lot more than just ireland would be pissed.Β
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I'm hoping that after a devistating war with an alien civilization bent on enslaving humanity, the pseudo-religious bullshit would just seem kinda silly.
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You've got South America, Africa, Asia & Australia ?
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Hehe, if they did this to Europe it would rather bring about WW3...
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In this timeline Europe, and much of the world, is recovering from something just as bad.
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Alien invasion and the near extinction of the human race.
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Interesting how Prussia and Hanover are 2 separate provinces, can you explain your reason why?
And I like the Occitainia Province~!
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Similar logic to the Roosevelt Plan.
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I can't imagine that this United Earth is very democratic.
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It actually is, the Planetary government took a somewhat authoritarian stance when the War ended, but that was for reconstruction, after things stabilized the Planetary government started shifting more power to the States.
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I don't really get the point of the straight borders, Borders like that just don't work in densely populated, complex and culturally diverse areas such as Europe.
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They're drawn that way for the same reason they're drawn that way in America: To prevent cultural isolation by making borders seem arbitrary.
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just read the back story in the commits so cool!!!!
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Turkey is a part of the European section of the United Earth? Also quick question, but what is the world capitol of the United Earth?
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A city called New Washington. During the war the capitals of each nuclear power were destroyed by the invaders, DC did the worst out of all of them because DC proper isn't as spread out as say Moscow or London, and the impact crater quickly flooded with the spill off from the Potomac. The "John Conner/Master Chief/George Washington of this universe happened to be an American and because the new Congress (at the time just the UN) couldn't agree on a world capital (most of the Great cities eligible turned it down because the new government buildings would eat up a TON of land) they handed the power to declare a capital to the President, who chose the only city on Earth that was both a large hole in the ground, and originally built from scratch to be a Capital city and nothing more. New Washington was largely modeled after the old one, thought he Capital Building is considerably larger and more modern looking, and the new Executive Mansion looks nothing like the old White House. And the Capital Mall is bordered by monuments to the "Great Leaders of Humanity." Basically leaders from the 20th Century onward (The Defense Department features a statue of Georgy Zhukov and the Department of Science and Technology features Albert Einstein) with a few exceptions (The rebuilt Washington monument and Lincoln Memorial).
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So part of the redrawing of regions and borders was to destroy regional divisions and thus reduce problems ?
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Did you deliberately put Edinburgh almost exactly between the it and Glasgow? Is the idea that the Scottish central belt has grown into one giant city collectively known as Edinburgh?
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That's where it was located on the map I used as the base.
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That's ok for me, I would preffer to see me country (Belgium in my case) merged into the already existing economical alliance of Benelux, rather than swallowed by France or Germany.
I suppose Flemish nationalists wouldn't appreciate, but whatever.
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Funny how you feel more connection with the Netherlands than with France, as a French Belgian... Probably not very common in Wallonia, is it
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The straight borders doesn't looks so nice, for some reason they doesn't fit on Europe so well...
But how are the states divided as administrative divisions way?
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Most of the internal provinces of each state are basically the same as those from when they were independent countries.
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It seems that in this world hegemonic countries will not.
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Now I just want to know what these damn population requirements are! Poor Matria!
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35 million..ish is the range they were shooting for.
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