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The Sarmatians had a pretty good run IOTL, but the Gothic ascendancy in the Black Sea area started a chain of events that resulted in their eventual Slavicization. Your challenge is to prevent this from happening and have them play a more dominant role as the Roman Empire declines. Bonus points...

Switzerland is generally thought of as having three ethnic groups: the French, the Italians, and the Germans. While these are the three main ones, there are other ethnicities in Switzerland as well. One of these is the Romansh. Despite being the Romansh language being one of Switzerland's four...

POD of 1778. Make Australia as big as possible by 1900 using the most justified wank. What can Australia do to expand its territory? Can you get this "Greater Australia" to include New Zeland, the entire island of New Guinea, all the islands in the middle of the pacific ocean, maybe even Timor...

There have been plenty of challenges where the objective is wanking a particular ethnicity. But these are generally ethnic groups most people have at least heard of, such as the Ainu, Samaritans or Zulu. So, with this in mind, your challenge is to wank a more obscure ethnic group.

Your challenge is to have the Zulu do substantially better than they did IOTL.

Your challenge is to have the pre-Indo-European peoples of "Old Europe" do significantly better than they did IOTL.

Your challenge is pretty much what the title says: have Malaysia be significantly more successful than it was IOTL.

As the title says, your challenge is to have Korea do significantly better than it did IOTL.

We all know how things went for the USA IOTL. Your challenge is to make it far more successful.

Your challenge is to make Madagascar considerably more successful, powerful and prominent than IOTL. You can use whatever POD you'd like.

Your challenge is simple: with any POD after the establishment of Liberia in 1847, make it considerably more successful than it was IOTL.

Pretty much exactly what the title says: make Indonesia much more powerful and prominent than it was IOTL. Bonus points for colonies.

There have been a few threads looking at the biggest possible version of one country. Here, I want to do that for a lot of countries (so that the thread can potentially keep going for longer). The way it works is we start off with one country, for no reason in particular, let's say the USA...

Challenge: Make Tibet expansionist, around the time of the Warlord Era, and taking vast amounts of land from a fractured China, and recreating a Tibetan Empire in the Tarim Basin.

Is it possible, with a PoD anywhere between 500 BCE and Roman annexation in 46 AD, for the Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace to expand to such proportions as to control Macedon, parts of Greece and Anatolia, or some other territorial configuration that would also classify this as a wank? What would the...

So aside from the classic (if done to death) Rome-wank, the idea of a United States spanning across all of the Americas is easily one of my all-time favorite AH concepts. I find it fascinating to ponder how such a state would come into being, and how it would influence the world around it...

So, for those of you who don't know, Paraguay, especially 19th-century Paraguay, is fucking crazy. No, really, it's fucking crazy. It simultaneously went to war with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay despite only being a fraction of the size of either of them (with the exception of Uruguay) in the...

I've always found the various Abrahamic religions interesting, and Christianity and Islam are no exception. Of course, they're both minor religions, with only a few million followers each. So my challenge is this: make them both more prominent. Bonus points if you can give at least one of them...

So, I actually have three questions here. So, say that due to a number of PODs of indeterminate time, Imperial Russia is able to become a superpower that dominates much of South Eastern Europe and the Middle East, in addition to what it already had in Central Asia and East Asia. At the same...

Okay, so I was inspired by a similar thread, about borders. This one isn't about borders, and has far less limitations. You can change everything(short of ASB), to wank your own country, as long as your POD is after 1900. But here's the thing; don't just focus on borders, but also try to improve...