2190
By: Augustus Julius D.
Tags: Future, Fiction, Maps

The 22nd Century brought an era of neo-nationalism and neo-imperialism. America became a powder keg of ultra-nationalism in the West. While in the East, Russia began a campaign of expansion to build a new Russian Empire. The spark that would set off the Russo-American war of 2123 was the Russian invasion of Alaska. Within three years the war would become global, including China and Cuba on the side of Russia, while India and Europe(except for Italy) on the side of the United States. For 12 long years, the East and the West would wear each other out, neither side gaining much in terms of territory until a ceasefire was finally called between the nations in 2135. By that time, these once great superpowers were on the verge of collapse. However, the rise of Italy was coming on the horizon.

During the war, Italy would find a major opportunity to reaffirm itself on the world stage. The president elected at the time pushed legislation to rename Italy as “The Second Roman Republic” and would annex the Vatican and San Marino, creating a unified Italian peninsula. Near the end of the war seeing that the continental powers of the East and the West were becoming extremely weak, Italian ambassadors would strike deals with the leaders of Taiwan, Mali, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, India, Cuban anti-Communist organizations, and Norway, while preparing to conquer the now collapsing Europe, putting more than 50% of its resources into military production and. For five years on and off Italy would take over Europe and North Africa with relative ease since they were so weak.

With Germany and France as its new source of Industry and Africa as its new source of oil, Italy, now the Second Roman Empire would increase its military production tenfold and become strong enough to take over Russia, the United States, achieving their nuclear stockpiles in the process and temporarily annexing China and Mongolia for Taiwan to take it over later. After that, The Romans would become strong enough to take over most Latin America and the Pacific Islands including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Papua New Guinea.

After Rome finally gained its place in the sun on the modern-day world stage, they would spend the rest of their production on selling weapons to the countries they made agreements during the war and would send “volunteers” to aid them in their expansion. First of them being Taiwan to reestablish the Republic of China on the mainland. However, the Second Roman Empire would only follow through with this if they remained loyal to the emperor and became a monarchy itself. So the new China was formed to be an empire of its own under the Tsai dynasty, and would continue its own expansion into Mongolia, the Philippines, and Cambodia.

Cuba would be the second country to receive Rome’s treatment to its own road to imperialism, starting with the overthrowing of the Cuban Communist regime and would receive military backing from Rome to expand into what was left of Latin America to become a successor of the once great Spanish Empire.

Mali would receive the most aid from Rome and become the second most powerful country in the world, right after Rome itself and would expand into a Pan-African Empire and even conquer Argentina on its own.

Armenia would be given military aid to expand into the Middle East, however, this would be under a strict watch under the emperor of Rome as being the last major country to practice Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Rome being a Catholic empire would cause some tension between each other in the coming years.

Saudi Arabia would be given military aid to reunite the Arabian Peninsula and become a new caliphate under the Saudi family, as long as they would give some of their oil to Rome.

India would reabsorb Pakistan and annex Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. As long Rome intervened to make sure that India wouldn’t mistreat its new Muslim population as is did before in the days of the British Raj.

Norway would be given aid to conquer the Nordic countries and the eastern Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, bringing about a new Viking age. And as the Vikings did before, the new Empire of the Nords would retake Iceland, Greenland, and Canada establishing a Nordic sphere of influence in the North Atlantic.

Finally, South Korea was given military aid to reunify the Korean Peninsula and would later be given humanitarian aid to support the new country and help with the treatment and rehabilitation of former North Korean citizens while those who remained in the Kim dynasty and Kim regime of North Korea were taken to Seoul to be publicly executed as the last bastion of Authoritarian Communism was snuffed out of the world.

Any countries that didn’t become part of these new empires immediately would gradually become designated neutral zones established by what was left of the UN but mostly by the Roman emperor or become half-autonomous Roman protectorates.

Now in 2190, for better or for worse, the world became is a vastly different place and now the Second Roman Empire dominated the world with lands stretching from America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. With this empire, a plethora of other empires and kingdoms followed after.