Map Thread XII
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Alex Richards
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I'm more surprised that having given China a coast on the Arabian Sea, they didn't actually add Tibet to it...
Here's an other random map for you, It's basically Switzerland on steroids.
This is the Federation of the Alps, Consisting of 14 Federated states and 4 free cities. It's a rather loose federation were all states are allowed to set out their own internal policies. Only the economical and foreign policy are handled by the Federation. To promote equality among the members, the 3 different branches of government are spread out across the three language communities.
This is the Federation of the Alps, Consisting of 14 Federated states and 4 free cities. It's a rather loose federation were all states are allowed to set out their own internal policies. Only the economical and foreign policy are handled by the Federation. To promote equality among the members, the 3 different branches of government are spread out across the three language communities.
Ephraim Ben Raphael
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Italy must be so happy to have this wall of solid neutrality between them and everyone else.
Their lack of Milan probably creates an equal level of annoyance, though.
Ephraim Ben Raphael
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Perhaps. Also it seems like Switzerland would be much more at risk of having its neutrality violated in this scenario.
I don't see how it could be neutral at all with those territories. There is something to be said about being tucked away in the mountains for preserving neutrality (that is, nobody wants to invade you).
Alex Richards
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More to the point, I think the most likely way to get that is an alternate development of Austria (gaining the Kingdom of Burgundy early on and then consolidating the area between) than any sort of Switzerland.
For starters that Tyrol is a very maximalist version of the Habsburg claims in the area (though I think the borders in the Valtellina are a bit wonky myself)
What really marks it out as 'essentially not-at-all like Switzerland' is the fact that apparently Bern is content to be dominated by the French speaking Burgundians, while the farmers of the Waldstätte have decided to give up their independence and allow themselves to be dominated by the city of Zurich.
Essentially those provinces are just too big for something like Switzerland. It looks more like some sort of weird post WWI or II plan to secure a peace by separating all the combatants.
Those non-French French Socialist Republics are oddly named.
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