Better Europe, anyone?
I saw @ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 's post and wound up making a larger version of it (with my own changes)
Update- wound up making a expanded version
and a notion of how it would look amidst a better world (not overly serious, borders subject to change)
Creating a DMZ between Scotland and England is based. However, we are still not far enough away from the Angloids
Sadly, history has shown nowhere is far enough from the Angloids. But ideally, perhaps in this map's universe England can lose its... particularly English characteristics.
We need someone to change that bugs bunny meme where he's sawing off Florida, but separate england from scotland.
Not nearly enough "People's Republic of ___" for my liking. Also, why isn't Switzerland destroyed!?
FWIW, the country labels don't include anything other than the main name- eg. China/Russia/Vietnam/Korea/etc. East Germany and Transnistria-Odessa in particular were made with blatant communism in mind (the rest were less about it- not that it wasn't possible- and more about doing a Euro-screw)
Hoi4 gamer understanding of geopolitics lookin ass map
If the geopolitics for most of these states seem terrible- that's the point lmao
The goal among various things, is to make western Europe never rise again as an imperialist bloc, with it being an eyesore on a map and its borders having some plausible logic (to keeping states from either imploding or reunifying... well, there are a lot of UN mandates)
Yes, ha ha ha… YES!!!
No more Germany. I'm sick and tired of this country. You don't salvage nuclear waste, you throw it in an abandoned mineshaft and close it off with concrete. Modern day amalekites.
Weird Yugoslavia not including most of actual Yugoslavia.
Based to remember Sorbia
Galicia-Volhynia is not the best term to refer to the most of eastern Europe.
What about Switzerland?
Thx for fixing up Spain, that first one weirded me out.
Don't we shit on libs for doing stuff like this?
Alt history and speculative near future stuff can be fun and illuminating, if done well.
But this is giving "libs making balkanized China maps" cringe energy.
I thought this was riffing off of that phenomenon
We're in a state of post-sarcasm here tbh. Far be it from me to ever back away from a good thing (balkanized Europe, imperialist countries being turned into puny statelets)
We do shit on libs for doing stuff like this- I shit on them specifically, myself.
Difference between libs' maps and this though IMO is- for one, I think mine is hilarious, and had fun making it. But also, I'm not going about trying to fund or instigate separatists like this (though I won't lie- if I had the means to both do so, and have no repercussions- I meet neither requirement- I totally would), and certainly not/never terrorists and extremists the likes of which the west always does.
Dunno to what extent it's cringe in that context. Probably some, but I don't have much or any personal investment in these maps. I'd love to see half of it IRL, but there's no expectation unlike libs thinking they're going to carve up China, Russia, or (insert country here) "when they collapse, any day now..."
...also- while the borders tend to have some minor ethnic or historical context (not always) more than anything else, it's intended as a Euro-screw. And I'll never back down from such Euro-screws; at least I'm honest in that regard. The borders are less about "promoting democracy and equality by having a shit-ton of ethno-statelets and separatists" and more "let's screw England/France/Italy/west Germany to such an extent they will never wield the same influence again that they presently do." Which if you ask me, for shitposting borders on a map- or even IRL to a considerable extent- can only be a good thing.
Wanting to disempower nazis = based
Wanting to disempower socialists = cringe
Imo
why did you make austria bigger? what kind of unhinged shit is this... austria must be balkanized. the west should be annexed by liechtenstein, vienna should become its own country, etc.
Can I ask why Lisbon is it’s own thing?
Because it's funny. And Portugal being left alone (other than the loss of the Algarves and various islands) didn't seem fair
That’s fair lol. The Açores are finally free!
Creating a DMZ between England and Wales isn't enough, Offa's Dyke needs to be re-dug and extended.
All borders are bourgeoisie, death to all states
Socialism must be secure before communism can be realized. Which will mean not only ensuring the entire world is developed, everyone has superabundance, all major deadly conflicts are largely resolved and interracial, interethic, and international grievances are healed, and the lingering ideologies spawned from America's international brainwashing operations have been excised, but then we will have to deal with our first major related challenge as a unified species: climate change.
I mean, nothing will suddenly switch overnight, as the world becomes more socialist or even more internationally interested in peace and cooperation, borders will become more porous. Death of US empire alone will see to this beginning.
Calling borders "bourgeoisie" comes off to me a little weird.
I mean I wasn't being entirely serious. But of course, the end state of communism is the absence of nation-states.
Oh god, you hate to see libertarian (fascist) Free Cities in there.
Simply return continental Europe to the Vicky 3 map with all countries released.
Who says they have to be libertarian? It would be better yet to have them as UN mandates, but specifically "international cities" that can get flooded with immigrants from the global south.
Why doesn't the UAR include all Arab countries?
The map was made with "drawing borders on the present (2023) world" in mind, admittedly. So I simply didn't think to include them for similar reasons to why I didn't include all of former Yugoslavia, or remade the Soviet Union... Egypt and the Gulf presumably would need a lot of time to settle into the idea (Jordan, Lebanon, and Kuwait would too, but it "works")
The US and Japan look interesting. Is that a split Philipines I see? Did the prison colony become more or less cringe? India also seems different.
edit: You cheeky bastard! You split Germany up even more, but Swabia still has to suffer Western Germany.
Prison colony definitely became less cringe. As for Swabia, my bad lol, I'll deal with it when I eventually get to another iteration
Why on earth does Holland gain territory? Colonial bastards should be balkanized themselves.
I figure they're small enough as-is... but more than that, specifically it's the logic of passing little bits of Germany (or Croatia, as another example on the map) to get as many nations invested in stomping out German revanchism wherever it pops up.
Giving the region to the Netherlands also isn't without cultural or historical precedent, which makes it better yet still.
So many UN Mandates....
Reeducation isn't going to come easily 😊
Also, if it helps diversify regions more, having hundreds of thousands if not millions of UN peacekeepers and other staff around... all the better
Valencianos would like to have a word with the person who put Catalunya all the way down to Alicante....
Imperialist Catalonia strikes again smh
Good point, I changed it in a later version of the map. What's important (well, not all that important) is that Spain proper stays landlocked, lol...
Virtually every large nation should be cracked up as well if you want to follow through with the logic. The amazonian basin would be a series of micro states. China has what like 50 recognized minority ethnic groups within its borders
But that's not what I want, nor what I'd find funny- it would be wholly counterproductive, as it would just leave Europe on equal footing with the rest of the world.
If anything, the next step I'd take would be creating more large federations and supranational unions, though sadly these wouldn't be very realistic. A United Arab Republic stretching from Mauritania to Oman, the return of the Soviet Union, or Mexico's historical borders, the East African Federation or some unions of the Congo/DRC, Burkina Faso/Mali/Niger, or Maphilindo... maybe even the dreams of pan-Africanism manifest as some "superstate Africa" or hell, some holy trinity of the Soviet Union reborn, China, and India all holding hands, singing "kumbayah," and delivering a spanking for the Anglosphere.
If it made any sense whatsoever (sadly it doesn't), I'd make a "Celtic union" featuring Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Manx, Cornwall, Brittany, and Galicia as well- or I'd make a true Yugoslavia stretching from Slovenia to Bulgaria, or better yet a Balkan union like was historically proposed, with all the south Slavs, Romania, Hungary, Greece, and Albania- hell, bonus points for Cyprus and Turkey as well. Or I'd revive al-Andalus, but this time with all the other Maghreb states in a union. Or of course, the most ideal borders would simply be an entirely Soviet Europe.
The whole point is an (entirely and completely deserved, but also hypothetical shitpost of a) western Europe screw.
I'm sorry but this is just complete nonsense. Sami people getting their own state would be cool I guess but otherwise this is just an arbitrary clusterfuck, especially the balkans.
FWIW it was totally meant to be a clusterfuck and a (partial) shitpost in the Balkans. Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and even Moldova and Transnistria all took big happy bites out of Ukraine for instance. And Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Yugoslavia all took bites out of Croatia as well- and then there's Hungary and Yugoslavia biting bits off of Romania...
The intent was always to create a EU/NATO screw, and to play different member states off each other, making a scenario where there could be nothing to be done for certain states, but stewing in bitter impotence.
Tsh. Nearly the whole continent needs "undergoing denazification" subtitles. 😅Otherwise amazing!!
I figured it was best to leave the Croats (too much hassle, best left a rump state) and Bosnians be, tbh. In my heart I want big Yugoslavia, but Croats in particular are suspect
I'd include both completely, but would have to think real hard about Bulgaria
Don't leave Istra out of Yugoslavia. They were really big on antifascism. It's not right to let them continue suffering for it. At that point you might as well include the Dalmatian coastline and islands. Amazing for the economy, and very low nationalistic tendencies, especially on the islands. And let's not forget regions of Krajina that weren't completely ethnically cleansed.
Think about Republika Srpska. Literally today Stuart Peach came out to say that it can't be independent. Shit's really heating up