MotF 121: The Promised Land

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The POD is that the Germans, seeing Austria-Hungary at the verge of colapse, promise to deal with ethnic revolts in Austria-Hungary if the nation sends more troops to the Western Front. The new Austrian troops arrive just in time for the spring offensive, driving France to propose to leave the war if French land is left unmolested. The Germans agree, annexing Belgium as it's reward. The German Army crushes any Czech resistance in Austria Hungary with extreme prejudice.

Meanwhile, in the east, the enraged Czechoslovak legions in Russia demand that the Entente liberate their homeland. However, the Entente replies that it will not consider any sort of settlement on the matter until the Bolshiveks are defeated, which they are in 1920, after far more successful Allied intervention. Independence is granted to all of the parties that fought for independence. Seeing this, the Americans and British, who had occupied Kamchatka among other areas in Russia, offered the peninsula to the Czechoslovakians, seeing that the liberation of their homeland was nigh-impossible and most other somewhat profitable regions in Russia were too populated to be used by another power.

The Czechoslovakian Republic in Siberia was an American-bloc democracy whom's economy is mostly built on natural resource exportation. It was around 65% Czech or Slovak, either from those fighting in Russia or refugees from Austria Hungary. The nation lasted until 1952, when a civil war in Germany between pro-kaiser and pro-republican brought back most of the troops that were stabilizing Austria-Hungary, allowing for the Czechoslovak to retake their homeland; however, some stayed behind, creating the Kamchatka Republic and it's odd clashed Czechoslovak-Russian culture.

The Bewraecen



“And so the English groaned aloud for their lost liberty and plotted ceaselessly to find some way of shaking off a yoke that was so intolerable and unaccustomed. Some sent to Sveinn, king of Denmark, and urged him to lay claim to the kingdom of England. Others went into voluntary exile so that they might either find in banishment freedom from the power of the Normans or secure foreign help and come back and fight a war of vengeance. Some of them who were still in the flower of their youth travelled into remote lands and bravely offered their arms to Garcia, King of Galiza, a man of great wisdom and nobility.”
- Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis


William the Conqueror's victory over Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings might have sounded the death knell for a free Angelcynn Kingdom, were it not for a good amount of luck and a the actions of Edgar the Aethling. Crowned king by the Witengamot in 1066, he led an Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Danish resistance, including the failed rebellion of the two earls, until his capture in 1069, when it became clear that Sven of Denmark would not help against the Normans.

He approached William, offering him peace in his lands forever more from the Angelcynn, if only he might take those who wished to Miklegarth, where strong men always found service in the court of the Emperor. The New King, wishing to be rid of the troublesome elements agreed, and Edgar gathered a great host, with three earls and eight barons in three hundred and fifty ships. This became known to poets and singers alike as the Bewreacen.

It is said that Edgar truly meant to sail with his host to Miklegarth, though likely to beseech the Emperor for support to reclaim the throne meant for him. However, his fleet stopped in Crunia, in the Kingdom of Galiza, where Garcia Jimenez, who was struggling against the hated mores saw an opportunity. He promised to Edgar and his men the lands they took from the heathen, and Edgar, finally given the opportunity to hold the crown he believed himself destined for, took the offer.

After a series of battles, the Angelcynn Host had taken much land from the Moors, and their kings sought to bend the knee and payed much weregild and promised to never again take up arms against good Christians. These lands formed the core of the domain that was promised to Edgar, and from the city of Londonburgh, he ruled wisely. The Angelcynn went forth, naming the cities of their new lands after those in lost England as they were won't, and forged a brave new kingdom in the light of God. King William and his descendants, seeing an opportunity to get rid of a troublesome population, seized the lands of many rebellious nobles and sent them in exile to the Kingdom of Anglecynn, where they mixed with the locals, taking many of their women for wives and teaching them the languages of good God-Fearing Anglo-Saxons.

When Edgar "the Conquerer” Aethling died in 1129, the Witengamot appointed his son Edmund king after him, and after that, his Grandson Aelfwine.

HELSING, NEW SAVO - It is a historic day for the Republic of New Savo. The colony, once founded by old-time Finnish soldiers in the Swedish army, has yesterday, March 11th 1960, inaugurated its first Danish president, Sten Clausen. Clausen promised that the rights of all were to improve during his tenure. As a sign of cooperation, Lari Rinne of the Conservatives will be made the first Prime Minister of the Clausen government.
- Excerpt from the Mosquitan Courier, 12th March 1960

The Republic of New Savo was officially colonized in 1600 by Finnish soldiers in the army of Gustavus Adolphus. Its current territory was once divided into the colonies of New Savo and Yukatek. Both declared independence around 1800, with Yukatek joining the Republic of New Savo in 1830.

Despite the official language being Finnish, there are several minorities in the country. Not just the Yucatec, but also Danish, Estonian and Swedish minorities persist in the country. Due to Clausen's presidency from 1960 to 1972, most minority languages were made official languages in their specific regions. The exception are the few English-speakers in Stanwixmaa, who make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.

Borealia: a multicultural state at the edge of the world

Founded as a semi-permanent trade post around 320 BC by the Massilian explorer Pytheas, Borealia grew quickly in size during the "Amber rush" of the second century BC that attracts hundreds of Greek colonists and adventurers despite the long and dangerous journey. Amber prospectors are joined by refugees when successive wars between Rome, Syracuse, Epirus and Carthage leaves southern Italy scorched. Various groups of Greek, Latin and Punic will set sails for the far North, including the disgraced general Hannibal Barca in 199 BC, who will be essential in the defence of the colony against Germanic raids. After the fall of Carthage in 146 BC, several thousands of Punic exiles will follow his steps; this influx of migrants allows Borealia to reach it peak, controlling a territory covering Jutland and southern Gotland, in 100 BC. It will start to decline during the first century AD, and disappear in 345, absorbed by the Marcomanian Empire.

Ladies and gentleman, I present, the new and improved Republic of Korea! A Captain Obvious award to whomever guesses the situation. The improved part is sarcasm. But it is new.

What if the Libertarian craze was much larger? In this TL, it resulted in a mass migration to the small island of Sri Lanka, by a multitude of cultures. Much like Zionism, Libertarianism grew into it's own nation. Ceylon became a dominion of the UK, but was freed in 1946. It began as very libertarian, but grew more and more dystopian as time went on. What will become of this nation?

Free State of Chernarus

Originally established as a Penal-Colony by the Russian Empire for undesirables and anarchists; Chernarus flourished as a haven of ideology and liberty. After the war of independence in 1855-1860 the young nation became a site of mass migration due to the deteriorating conditions in the old Russian Empire. A Promised Land to all east-slavs. In the late 1800's mass migration to this safe haven began due to a combination of gold rushes and Russian persecution of land-tied serfs.

The next time I decide to do a REALLY complex map for a contest with a deadline, please kill me


On the 1st of January 1925, the Argentinian president Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear has just symbolically handed over the key to the city of Río Gallegos to the leaders of the Czechoslovak delegation, the brothers Tomáš and Jan Baťa. This symbolic gesture, accompanied by the Argentinian Law on Relinquishing All Claims to the Governate Territory of Santa Cruz and Attached Lands in Favor of the Czechoslovak Republic which came into force at midnight, transferred the Argentinian Patagonian territories to Czechoslovakia for a vast sum paid to Argentina and an even vaster sum handed out in inconspicuous white envelopes and transferred through off-shore bank accounts to certain high-ranking Argentinian officials. Over the next year, the Czechoslovak government slowly took control of the land. The first governor to be appointed for this new land was naturally Jan Baťa himself and he soon set out to implement his, as some called them in the beginning, megalomaniac ideas. A vast map and resource survey was soon underway and the modernization of the port system and his innovative idea for a highway system with Patagonia acting as a testing ground of what he intended to build in Czechoslovakia proper. (Editor's note: Read his brother's book Building a State for 40.000.000 people) . A government-subsidized program of colonization and resettlement was initiated providing land and a starting loan to all people willing to settle this vastly arable land. Meanwhile, Baťa enterprise gold and coal mines started springing up along the southern border, along with new settlements and towns built in the Baťa worker housing style. As the years passed, the situation started to turn and soon profits from the industrious settlers started returning to Czechoslovakia proper, supplementing the vast defense spending in the European country. Soon the population of the Czechoslovak colonists, thirsting for land and a new start away from the over-settled lands in Europe, equaled that of the native Spanish-speakers and the aboriginals of the land with a total population of about half a million.

However, this joyous atmosphere wouldn't last. In 1934, Adolph Hitler gained the chancellor position of Germany. As his policies and views began to penetrate German politics, the situation in Europe began to strain. The troops which crossed the German-Austrian border on the 12th March 1938 sparked a mass panic in the political circles of Prague as the appeasement side of autocratic president Beneš clashed with the more pro-action side, led mainly by the ex-Siberian legionary soldiers. Two days later, the republic's minister of finance, Josef Kalfus, gave the order and three consecutive armored trains left Prague, crossed the border with Romania and their contents of the national gold reserves, along with several tons of important documents, were loaded onto the CS ship Republika and headed out for Patagonia. The news soon leaked to the public and the trickle of of people leaving for the colony turned into a large stream, ever increasing as the political relations between Czechoslovakia and Germany degraded. By the time Beneš resigned under pressure of the Great Powers, the Munich Agreement was signed, and Beneš quickly flying into exile in London, the stream was a flood. The political scene was a wild battlefield where the two sides were still opposing each other. In the end, Emil Hácha was voted into office of President by a close majority and immediately took the reins of the powerful office firmly into his hands to begin a punitive campaign against the opposition. Some were imprisoned citing the infamous Law for the Protection of the Republic but most managed to escape to Patagonia where the opposition was strong. As the Germans began to occupy the border areas, the tide of immigrants ebbed as few found a way to leave with enemies along all but a narrow border in the east. Surprisingly, once the Sudetenland was seceded, the borders were reopened and the German authorities encouraged the exodus. It resumed in full force, this time through the German and Dutch ports and not even the establishment of the Protectorate would halt it. By that time, the opposition took firm control in Patagonia and established an anti-government to the Czechoslovak one, shepherding all the new refugees further inland and assigning land and aid. As the war begins, Patagonia has a population of just over two million.

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As a side note, since everybody I show seems bewildered by them , those arms were created in the style of the Czech regional arms, incorporating the "arms" of the Santa Cruz region of Argentina.

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August 1919- German goverment forces had failed to control the Spartacist uprising in the former empire, as the quick unexpected attacks along with the mass support from the citizens led to victory. The Freikorps was disbanded after the Battle for Munich in May. And any remaning forces in the Rurh stood no chance against the Ruhr Red Army. Now, a new face had dawned onto the German people, and they were not ready for it.


1920's- As the decade rolled in the German people were in shock due to the communist victory. The Freikorps, seen as the only hope for conservative Germans operated in increasingly small numbers. This is, due to many incedents of the deaths of Freikorps members, they escaped to South America. In particular, Chile. As during the Great War, the German community pressured the Chilean goverment to let a German warship be stationed in port for 2 weeks, they seemed like they would be open to their kin moving to the same nation.

At first, it was mostly Freikorps members from Upper Selisia, Bavaria, and the Ruhr due to sharing the same religon (Catholism). They settled in the capital, the surrounding region, along with setteling in the already German influenced regions of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue. But very quickly Freikorps members of any relgion started to escape to Chile, along with many citizens. In Valpariso and Santiago German neighboorhoods starting to pop up such as "Pequeño Alemania" and "Pequeño Baviera". German businessman moved up north to Iquique where the saltpeter mines of Chile resided.

During this time period the Chilean Army and the Carabineros de Chile (Chilean Police Force) saw a boost in numbers, as enitre Freikorps units (or what remained of them) integrated into the previously mentioned organizations. Such as the Ehrhardt Brigade (which fought in Munich) and remnants of the Upper Silesian Free Corps. Groups such as these kept their uniforms and insignia from Germany.

2010's- In the Chilean Presidential Election of 2013 a German by the name of Mortz Bauer won and took office. The 2015 Chilean Census shows how 20% of all Chileans have German ancestry or are German. That is around 3.6 million people. (In the map below the labeled cities have a major German population)

This my first entry. Enjoy. POD is that WW1 is averted and Russia and France go Communist and attack a slightly Fascist Imperial Germany in 1936, while the USA and Britain fight Japan, and by the time they finish, they realise Communism is the next big threat. They can't prop up Germany, it is effectively a lost cause, but Italy which is Democratic, which got involved in the war to get back Tirol (Austria-Hungary broke apart in the 1920's, some bits went to Germany.) They set up a south German Republic in Austria and some of Bavaria and Czeckia. The Washington agreement is an NATO type organisation.