Yep, centralization in full force, both administratively and culturally.
It's only homogenous in the dominate culture. I'm Native and we live in a completely different world.
It's often forgotten that European immigrants kept their languages, living in bilingual communities for generations. Wisconsin still conducted political meetings in German well into the 1950s. It really wasn't until the World Wars and the Cold War that there was this severe cultural shift to...
Excellent updates Thande.
I enjoyed the complex military analysis of China and Siam, and where each of the nations had strengths and weaknesses. I'm really wondering how the situation is going to end there, and where the region ends up when Societist and Diversitarian divided comes about...
From the lips of the Prophet Soverihn, based be his name...Don't worry about Egypt getting conquered for many a century. In fact it's like nearly four of them.
The glimpses of TTL's 20th century sound terrifying, but the humor of reading it out of context was funny and balanced out what looks to be a dark century.
As for the map, I figured the Superior Republic would have ended up retaining Upper Michigan and more of northern Wisconsin. I'm curious...
People didn't just send boatloads of settlers to random lands they happened across and established New X state here like a video game.
Did they need new lands so badly and so far a way that there would be some financial pay off? Were there easily available resources that were also easy to...
In OTL heraldry was a big thing and held deep spiritual connotations. They would appear in shield designs and tilmas, to banners of feathers and ribbons (which could symbolize a specific deity).
Love the language diversity and its evolution in Bayouk. That, and along with the evolution of republican institutions, state-formation, and religious and Atlantean cultural influences is really getting interesting, especially now that Bayouk has went from an oversea colony to basically having...