Does anyone still remember polandball?
I took this nice history of Europe...
...and continued it into the future.
Combined:
This is
amazing worldbuilding; please tell me that you'll post it to the
Polandball subreddit. And if you don't mind, I have quite a few questions.
The post-civil war Germany of 2064 added a peace symbol to the flag, so are they a pacifist/left-wing faction? What is the third German faction (black flag with three diagonal stripes), next to the anarchists and feminists? Also interesting is how the peace crest had already been removed again by 2082 - implying that the defaced peace flag represents a victorious provisional government, which then restored the Federal Republic?
Transhumanist Franco-German union against bioconservative Turkey is obvious enough (by the way, post-war technobarbarians roaming across the ruins of former transhumanist states is a lovely touch), but what I really want to know is what happened to Scandinavia between 2299 and 2522. Looks like they either became techno-hiveminds or AI-governed states, and not only survived the nuclear war but unified into a single entity by 2400, spreading their governance model across Northern Europe over the next century - only for catastrophe to strike in 2522, as the Scandinavians and their allied transhumanist polities simply dropped dead
en masse from a solar flare's electromagnetic pulse. Even more basic electronics were also crippled by the EMP, putting a nail into the coffin of civilisation in a way that not even the 2299 war managed. Did I get most of that right?
The progression from 2760 onward is a puzzle - what could have caused civilisation to continuously decline from that point on? If the warring states of 2760 had been reduced to muskets and swords, that should have been enough to establish a new civilisational equilibrium; even with resource depletion, maintaining 17th-century technology should have been possible, thanks to the vastly-lowered population. Instead, we have a slow and painful decline over two thousand years, from feudal kingdoms to iron-age empires to primitive tribes by 5000; what was the deciding factor enabling this decline?
