Countries

## Europe

**France** ascends to global dominance, defeating Prussia in 1870 and the The British Empire in 1909. Napoleon III and the House of Bonaparte remain France's head of state as it aggressively expands its overseas empire. Success leaves the French forces overextended, and large numbers of its workforce are conscripted to police its new possessions. France's bloated military bureaucracy is guided by old-guard officers with old-guard ideals; they struggle to innovate technologically or to adapt their doctrines in an age of accelerating change.

**Prussia**, unable to unify Germany, has changed drastically as well. The vanguard Totalists' government has revived the dream of German Unification, breathing new life into a long-dead movement with their radical vision of German unity. Germany remains fractured into several states. France, Austria, and Russia are also attempting to annex German lands for themselves. Prussia faces a daunting challange, but a new generation of Prussian generals, technological advances, and new allies could shift the balance.

**Britain**, once the world's mightiest power, has been humiliated by France. The British public longs to restore their Empire to its former glory, fueling a rise in revanchism and jingoism. The ruling democratic coalition struggles to manage omnipotent trade unions, growing radical movements, and a colonial empire battered by war and restive subjects. Can Britain reclaim its place under the sun, or will it drift into the shadows as a forgotten power?

**Russia** has been ruled by the Tsar for far too long. Russian isolation has given the monarchy some breathing room, but the government remains ineffective and unpopular. The Bolsheviks have been biding their time, but the time to strike approaches, as the world grows increasingly distracted with war. How will the Russian colonial states react? Which will take sides and which will try to forge their own path?

**Italy** has nearly achieved the dream of unification that Germany was denied. The struggle has stalled as the Papal States remain independent and many Italians have not forgotten their allegiances to other nations and causes. A morass of social-democratic, liberal, and conservative parties have formed and disbanded nearly two-dozen coalition governments in the last decade. None have been able to compete with the Papacy's influence over Italian Catholics and their nationalist supporters have started defecting to the right as they grow impatient for a united Italy. If things fall apart, the Bourbons, Bonapartes and the growing National Unification Movement will be ready to seize the moment.

**Austria** has also changed a great deal since the Austrian Empire was peacefully dissolved and partitioned at the end of the 19th century. Austria and Hungary became independent nations, both managed to retain a large share of the empire's territories. While Austria lost substantial territory to Italy, peace and goodwill brought them together with Bohemia; the two states integrated their governments following the formation of the Second Iron Ring.

**Hungary**, meanwhile, became a Totalist dictatorship, whom are currently facing the election of a new leader, but internal pressures and centuries-old ethnic divisions are threatening the fragile young state, while enemies to the east and South eye it's territories.

**Spain** is at it again, with an unstable democracy and all that.

**Scandinavia**

**Poland**

**Romania**

**Ireland**

**Bulgaria**

**The Balkans**

**Portugal**

**Greece**

**The Baltics**

## Asia, and the Pacific

**The Ottoman Empire**, ever the sick man of Europe, is in mortal peril. Collapse is imminent and all but inevitable. How will the Middle East look when the camel's back breaks? Can the Ottomans re-establish their hollowed out empire before ambitious neighbors and resurgent colonial powers fill the power vacuum? If the dust ever settles, the fate of the Ottoman Empire may decide the fate of the world. Can the Empire get its foot out of the grave, or will the tides of history erode the Sultans' legacy?

**Japan** has seen little success under the emperor, and the winds are shifting in East Asia. The peasantry, military class, and ruling elites agree that things have to change before Japan can improve its fortunes. Nevertheless, they continue pulling Japanese society in different directions, undermining the possibility of consensus reform. Imperialism or Isolation? Technocracy or Tradition? Dictatorship or Revolution? Who will decide Japan's destiny?

**China** is divided. Traditional Qing loyalists and Warlords in the North. Totalist and Kuomintang rebels in the South. Warlords and factions jostling for power, new ideological movements, looming civil wars, and border conflicts all fuel the chaotic situation and are fueled by it, in turn. China is a free-for-all that will decide who commands the vast nation, rich in resources, people, and rapidly innovating industrial sectors. Whoever comes out on top will find themself in a commanding position at the forefront of world politics. First, however, that winner must deal with many internal enemies and the omnipresent threat of foreign intervention or colonial conquest.

**The British East India** consists of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ceylon. The British East India company has traded in, administered, and ruled over these regions for centuries. Attempts to reform the administration and expand civil liberties for its subjects have proven futile. The company's sclerotic government is run by colonial plutocrats relying on brutal policies and nepotism to keep things running. The people are fed up, but the rival Jingoist and Macaulayist factions have made compromise impossible. It will take swift and decisive action to keep things from falling apart.

**French Indochina and the French Pacific**

**Persia**

**Australia**

**The Kingdom of Siam**

**The Philippines**

**The Arabian Peninsula**

**Mongolia**

**The Uzbek Empire**

**Afghanistan**

## The Americas

**The United States of America** has been dominated by machine politics and progressive politicians for the past 30 years. The US even managed to stay out of the Fashoda War and escaped The Kansas Flu pandemic relatively unscathed despite being the deadly virus's country of origin. But, hard times are on the horizon. Popular sentiment is swinging right; it seems unlikely Teddy Roosevelt's legacy can survive a trade war, a dust-bowl-drought, and the looming threat of another pandemic. The election of 1936 is shaping up to be a battle royale, and DC will soon be crowded with new faces and new ideas. The United States is mighty and should not be underestimated, but no one can be certain where America's might will be directed next.

**Canada** has changed rapidly since it was driven to America's side by the loss of Quebec.

**Quebec,** meanwhile

**Mexico's** revolution kicked off in 1911 and entered its second phase after Huerta overthrew the Porfiriato and replaced it with his own presidential dictatorship. Fearing a prolonged conflict could destroy US-Mexico ties and undermine US business interests, the Roosevelt administration flexed its muscles and backed a bloodless but turbulent coup in 1914. 1916 saw the writing of a new constitution and the beginning of an extended power-play by President Carranza and the social conservative movement. With the 1936 election on the horizon, Mexico will have to choose between handing the flailing conservatives a 6th consecutive term, empowering Pancho Villa's liberal-socialist coalition, or empowering the rising right-wing catholic movement.

**Cuba** and **The island of Hispaniola** have been brought into the French fold as well. After defeating the Prussians, Napoleon III spent much of his waning years mulling over one of his earliest failures: the intervention in Mexico. When a group of french creoles and emigres living in eastern Cuba appealed to Napoleon for assistance, he leapt at the chance to reassert France's prestige in the western hemisphere and organized coordinated coups in Cuba, Haiti, and Santo Domingo. Can Viceroy Gerard Fouche keep the Republic of the Caribbean within the French dominion? Or will long-simmering anti-colonial and anti-french sentiment undue the capstone of Napoleon III's legacy?

**The Rest of the Caribbean** suffered greatly between the Spanish-American War and the Fashoda War. While the Isle's Federation, Jamaica, Great Bahama, and Gran Trinidad are nominally independent, money, guns, and influence from around the world have divided and hollowed out the island republics. Whether they unite or die is sure to depend on the whims of the great powers.

**Brazil**

**Argentina**

**Chile**

**Central America** is convulsing with misery and unrest; strained ties with the US and a nascent outbreak of Mayan Fever are threatening to undo the progress these fledgling states have made since the breakup of the UCSA.

**Colombia and Venezuela** are the only nations that start at war with one another.

**Peru and its Puppet Ecuador** were decimated by the Kansas flu and their economy has fragmented into a patchwork of criminal syndicates, indigenous mutual aid networks, and foreign-backed plantador estates.

## Africa

**The greater continent of Africa** is simmering with dissent and conflict from Cape Town to Tangiers. French forces are fully mobilized across their colonial territories and protectorates but the number of terrorist attacks and guerilla conflicts increases every month.

**Algeria**'s many nationalist movements are plagued by internal divisions, even though anti-french sentiment is becoming more and more popular as each day passes. Guerrillas who call themselves "Fellaghas" --some loyal to a group, some independent-- launch occasional attacks against French military encampments and colonial settlements in the Atlas mountains.

**Morocco** is slipping from France's grasp as well. The kingdom has started plotting to reconquer territories held by the young and unstable Spanish Republic.

**Tunisia** is ruled by a Bey whose failing health mirrors his regime's flailing grip on power. Make no mistake, a storm is coming. Will it end in with a coup, an assassination, or a full-blown revolution?

**Egypt** and **French-Occupied Sudan** are home to the Mahdist movement. Their once-exceptional, but increasingly widespread extremist tactics are bolstering their ranks and ambitions.

**Sub-Saharan Africa** is growing restive too, as the region's sparse and uneducated populace is quickly organized by self proclaimed "revolutionaries" espousing radical and anti-colonial ideologies. Can they deliver on their promises to jump-start African industrialization and modernization, or will the forces of tradition reassert their control and chart a new path for

**South Africa**

**Ethiopia**

**Somalia**

**Liberia**