Spectreverse World History

Here is a list of events that have happened in the world, and how they're different in the Spectreverse to OTL.
==Geography==
===United States===
The United States, for the most part, is the same, sans a few key differences in geography:
*Alaska, while it is still owned by the United States, is not counted as a state, and is instead counted as a territory, similar to Guam or American Samoa. Instead, the 49th state is Puerto Rico, which was admitted into the union on March 21, 1959.
*North Carolina and South Carolina are not separate states, and are instead one united state: the same goes for North and South Dakota. The capital of Carolina is Charlotte, while the capital of Dakota is Sioux Falls.
*The upper peninsula of Michigan is it's own state, named Superior after Lake Superior. The capital of Superior is Marquette.
*Similarly to how the upper peninsula of Michigan is it's own state, northern California is a separate state from southern California, and is named Marshall after James W. Marshall, the carpenter that found gold at Coloma and indirectly kicked off the California Gold Rush. The capital of Marshall is Sacramento, while the capital of California is Los Angeles.
===China===
China mostly remained the same until the Chinese War broke out in 2006. After China lost the war, their government ended up being replaced with Taiwan's government, putting an end to the People's Republic of China. Tibet and East Turkestan are also independent from China, having declared independence in 2008 and 2009, respectively.
==Theme parks==
Hoo boy, where to begin...
Due to the reduced impact of the September 11th tourism recession, as well as the Great Recession, the theme park industry as a whole is larger in the Spectreverse. Several parks that went defunct IOTL, such as Geauga Lake, Six Flags AstroWorld, and Opryland USA are still operating in the Spectreverse, although some of them are owned by different chains, and the Coaster Wars rage on to this very day.
===Six Flags===
ITTL, Six Flags never gained a reputation as the budget chain, and continues to make large investments to this very day.
====Six Flags Ohio/Geauga Lake====
Out of all of the parks that exist both IOTL and in the Spectreverse, the one that is the most different in the Spectreverse is arguably Geauga Lake, or, as it is still known as in the Spectreverse, Six Flags Ohio (IOTL, the park went by Six Flags Ohio for the 2000 season only before rebranding to Six Flags Worlds of Adventure for the 2001-2003 seasons, before rebranding again back to Geauga Lake for the 2004 season). 
* The POD for Six Flags Ohio comes in the form of Six Flags simply declining SeaWorld's offer to buy Six Flags Ohio, instead of proposing a counter-bid to buy SeaWorld Ohio. Because of this change, the park stays on the smaller side and is more financially successful than it was IOTL.
* In 2005, Six Flags shut down Mr. Hyde's Nasty Fall due to the ride reaching the end of it's service life. The ride's plot of land would later be used by Superman: Tower of Power, an Intamin drop tower similar to Acrophobia at Six Flags Over Georgia.
* Following the conclusion of the 2008 season, Six Flags announced that Serial Thriller would not open for the 2009 season due to low ridership and complaints of roughness. The ride was dismantled and sent to the Great Escape, now going by the name Swooping Terror and standing on Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon's former plot of land. The plot of land which the ride sat on remained unused until 2013, when it was replaced by a Premier Rides Sky Rocket II named Blitzen.
* In 2015, Six Flags Ohio would receive it's largest investment ever when Kronos, a B&M hypercoaster named after the Greek titan, was constructed. The ride would open to rave reviews, and quickly gained a reputation as one of Six Flags Ohio's best coasters.
* During the 2018-19 offseason, the park would receive another new coaster when The Villain, one of the park's wooden coasters, was remodeled into Supervillain, a Rocky Mountain Construction wood/steel hybrid coaster. The ride would open to phenomenal reviews, with many people touting it as the best coaster in the entire park.
====Six Flags Toronto/Canada's Wonderland====
===Paramount Parks===
Paramount Parks is still in business to this day due to Viacom and CBS never splitting in the Spectreverse. In 2007, the "Paramount's" moniker was dropped from all parks owned by Paramount (excluding Paramount's Great America, which retains it's name w/ the Paramount moniker). A few years later, in 2012, Paramount would sell Canada's Wonderland to Six Flags, due to Six Flags not having a presence in Canada up to that point (La Ronde is owned by a small Quebec City-based real estate company in this timeline), and Paramount Parks not wanting to invest into the park any further than they already had.
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