By 2024, the world population is just over seven billion people. The overall population of this world is the result of several devastating 20th Century wars, as well as lower rates of population growth compared to our world. More nations compared to our world have gone through a demographic...
By 2024, there has been decades of research and development on railguns in several nations, though no military has yet introduced them.
Drones are not as widespread among the militaries of the world compared to OTL. However, more and more nations are beginning to use them, including in all of...
I think perhaps the only minor change to the map might be Kazakhstan losing its Caspian Sea coastline to the Russian Republic in the Russo-Kazakh War.
While I didn’t specify the Central Asian borders as you showed on this map in the timeline itself, I think this map is a more accurate...
This is an excellent map. Thank you to you and Lochnessmoonster for putting these maps together.
The next set of significant changes to the world map would be for the 2030s, after the end of the wars of the Ottoman Dissolution, Persia’s loss of territory to Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and...
During the first generation after the end of the Second Great War, most German investment in the infrastructure of the Congo was related to mining.
Beginning in the 1960s, the German Empire changed its overarching policies towards its colonial territories in Africa, which involved a gradual...
The Russian Republic, along with Bharat, supported some breakaway regions of the former Ottoman Empire. For instance, the Russians directly supported the establishment of an independent Kurdistan, as well as the establishment of independent Maronite Christian and Alawite states. The Russians...
The group that became known as the Golden Wolves was founded as the Bu Kaynak Soldiers’ Circle in February 1986 by Nuray Karga, an officer in the Ottoman Army and a veteran of the Russo-Kazakh War. The Bu Kaynak Soldiers’ Circle was founded after the defeat by the Ottoman Empire at the hands of...
By 2024, diplomatic relations between the United States and the United Kingdom have been normalized, and the two nations no longer view each other as enemies. However, there is nothing equivalent to the military and diplomatic alliance between the two countries from our world. The United Kingdom...
This is what I previously wrote about Ios Sound and Ios culture.
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One musical genre that exploded in popularity around the world in the 2010s came to be known as Ios Sound. Ios Sound originated in the party music that was popular in the locales of the Mediterranean party circuit in the 1990s...
William Golding doesn’t exist in TTL, and the equivalent to John Wyndham is an analogue to his counterpart from our world, though not a writer.
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When I write that someone was born on a slightly different date compared to our world, it means that the person in question was born months or years...
By 2024, Sacramento is the capital of the state of California.
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Mendocino was founded before the POD for the TL-191 series. By 2024, it’s a small community with several popular hotels. However, unlike in our world, Mendocino never became the location for an artists’ colony. There are no...
By 2024, Ohio is one of the industrial and manufacturing centers of the United States. Ohio, along with Michigan, plays an important role in manufacturing equipment and vehicles for the US military. Ohio did not experience significant levels of deindustrialization in TTL, though the state was...
The title of The Serpent referred to the novel’s antagonist, a shadowy figure who commits horrific crimes for the purposes of world domination. The character was inspired by the character of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes stories, but unlike Moriarty, is strongly hinted to possess...
The map is well made. However, there are some things on that map for 2031 that should be different. This is not a critique of the quality of the map, but more of an updated summary of how the world should look by the end of the Long Crisis that began in the early 2010s.
The Commonwealth of Zion...