With some help, I was able to take a previous map of mine, enlarge it and modify it on Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator, and (here's where the help came) mess with the app's code in order to turn the heightmap into a pseudo-Wikipedia one. The blank one was me fiddling with the color scheme, however, I didn't need to modify the code there.
Map Thread XXII
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With some help, I was able to take a previous map of mine, enlarge it and modify it on Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator, and (here's where the help came) mess with the app's code in order to turn the heightmap into a pseudo-Wikipedia one. The blank one was me fiddling with the color scheme, however, I didn't need to modify the code there.
Victoriapunk: if the 1800's never ended
its ~1950 and Britain is on top of the world. Their European allies of the German Confederation, the Netherlands, and the Italian Commission, maintain the same balance of power since 1812. Japan maintains the Brits Asian empire and keep the Eurasians in check. Not even the "Atlantic Axis" of France and the US can begin to compare to the Empires Majesty. In between the enemies and allies are the sattelites. These states, Persia, , the Ottomans, Scandinavia and many others, revolve around the politics of Britain.
its ~1950 and Britain is on top of the world. Their European allies of the German Confederation, the Netherlands, and the Italian Commission, maintain the same balance of power since 1812. Japan maintains the Brits Asian empire and keep the Eurasians in check. Not even the "Atlantic Axis" of France and the US can begin to compare to the Empires Majesty. In between the enemies and allies are the sattelites. These states, Persia, , the Ottomans, Scandinavia and many others, revolve around the politics of Britain.
If you enjoyed this, would you like another "chapter" of this Byzantine history?
Definitely. I would love to see how the Mongols will affect the Byzantines ITTL.
Is Britain ruled by Queen Victoria strapped to a steampunk golden throne?
English County Reform - 2026,
When Labour won their massive landslide in the 2024 General Election one of PM Keir Starmer's aims was to reform the administration of the country. This included reform to the House of Lords, changes to elections and Devolution to the English regions. This also included reform to the counties of England.
The Tories had taken a local first approach to local government. There was a wild array of local agreements, random local devolution and counties sharing services. This had lead to confusion for many voters about who actually did what, exemplified by there being 3 Mayors of Liverpool.
Although it was not their most popular move, the Labour Party redrew the map of English counties. They updated it reflecting the expanded borders of many cities and increase in population in many towns. It also formalised across England what the different levels of local government did and was organised, from parish council all the way up to the Regions of England. This reform was the first where there was a significant rebellion from the Labour Backbenches, however his massive majority ensured it passed comfortably.
When Labour won their massive landslide in the 2024 General Election one of PM Keir Starmer's aims was to reform the administration of the country. This included reform to the House of Lords, changes to elections and Devolution to the English regions. This also included reform to the counties of England.
The Tories had taken a local first approach to local government. There was a wild array of local agreements, random local devolution and counties sharing services. This had lead to confusion for many voters about who actually did what, exemplified by there being 3 Mayors of Liverpool.
Although it was not their most popular move, the Labour Party redrew the map of English counties. They updated it reflecting the expanded borders of many cities and increase in population in many towns. It also formalised across England what the different levels of local government did and was organised, from parish council all the way up to the Regions of England. This reform was the first where there was a significant rebellion from the Labour Backbenches, however his massive majority ensured it passed comfortably.
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Some say its reverse engineered from the Golden Stool, but thats heresy!
very cool! its great to see near future maps that are interesting and well made, and realistic !
Despite its small population and having not fought a war in a century, Sweden's role in the Great War in the wake of the attack on the Swedish navy at Gotland by the rogue Russian Admiral Nikolai von Essen was arguably decisive for the Central Powers. The international backlash to German violation of Belgian neutrality now had an equal and opposite on the other side of the conflict and soured Allied relations with Denmark and Norway. By the summer 1915, the Baltic Sea was a German-Swedish lake, facilitating the capture of Riga before the end of the year. Despite their vastly superior strength on paper, the internal friction between the various Allied powers from 1915 onwards spelled the doom of the alliance. By early 1917, as Finland collapsed into rebellion and the Germans marched on Narva, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and a new republican government, unconvinced of Anglo-French commitments to continued aid, exited the war. Japan was next to leave, albeit on victorious terms, gaining indefensible German holdings in the Pacific and China while turning its guns to wage war with China. The Greek and Italian fronts collapsed by the end of the year, with the latter nation collapsing into a civil war that would last until 1921, and after the final great Entente offensive was halted in the West, the British and French sued for peace. Meanwhile, neutral America was entangled in a bloody war against a united front of the various factions of a Mexican Civil War. The northern states are under occupation, the port of Veracruz is leased out for the next century, and a friendly dictator in the vein of Porfirio Díaz has been installed, but who knows how long that arrangement will last.
After four years of war and several more of turmoil, a new European order is beginning to take form. After several years of revolving door governments and a brief Second Commune, France is now under the jackboot of Marshal Petain, whose reactionary fever dreams of rescuing France from godlessness and decadence currently come second to ensuring that her war debts are paid. The boche are still hated, but the treacherous rosbif who sold them out for a white peace even moreso. Superficially similar but radically different under the hood is the Italian Endeavor, helmed by the mad poet Gabriele D'Annuzio and following a strange mixture of socialist and nationalist ideas known as "Impressism." The Russian Republic is a nascent democracy fraying at both ends from the Bolsheviks and Black Hundreds who turn the streets of Moscow, Kiev, and Petrograd into their own warzones. Britain has returned to splendid isolation, the notion of marshaling a new European alliance seemingly dead in the water, and silently prepares for what seems like the inevitable final war with Germany.
Algeria "wank" - still gets colonized, not noticeably greater other than partially unifying with two neighbors...
the Eurocentrism is strong in this one.
Evidently!
An Algeria wank would at minimum include a union with Morocco, and then some naval dominance in the Med represented by ownership of sicily, maybe it held on to Al-Andalus or was never conquered by Rome or Arabia in the first place. Also if it was powerful since the medieval period then some American colonies would be in order, not to mention colonial ties to the rest of Africa through Mali/Mauritania.
Just some food for thought.
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Was there even Algeria at that time?
(not saying that one can´t make Algeria-wank with earlier PoD, if its totaly ok to have Italowank with surviving Rome or something like that... this "genre" is, I believe, about fun more than historical or linguistical accuracy)
West Riding that contains barely any of the actual West Riding. Also, did you move the Wetherby commuter town out of Leeds? Why? It goes against your general theme of rationalising local government boundaries to reflect local use. Most people in Wetherby either work in Leeds or utilise its services and is strongly connected, hence the decision in 1972. Just seems bizarre as someone from the area.
The Beginning of the Great War
1890
Following the sinking of HS. Hamburg in the North sea, mistaken for an Iberian warship by a Brytisk naval vessel during the latest Anglisk-Iberian war over slavery in the Avalonian colonies, a rapid escalation caused the outbreak of a major land war in Europe for the first time since the Plague Wars. With battle lines drawn between the Arc Alliance of Slavia, Sweden-Denmark, Norway and Bryten, and the Concertine powers of Germany, the United Kingdom and Wendlund, and their auxiliary ally of Iberia, the war could be Europe's bloodiest. Who will emerge victorious?1890
If you're struggling to read this, it's because the articles are headlined in a con-lang called Anglisk. This is based on the amazing shared worlds succession game This Sceptred Isle, run by @Major Crimson, which has (no joke) created an astonishing lore-building project and game starting in 1066 with the victory of Harald Hardrada over William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson. You can read the timeline here.
I did consider this, but then I wondered how the map would be different from the Morocco wank I was going to do other than a different capital and recognisable Berber dynasty. In the end I went with a Barbary pirate themed wanking, but I take your point.
I'm still exploring these and thinking about how to keep them interesting for both viewers and me so appreciate the thoughts.
As someone for London I know very little about the commuting needs of Yorkshire folk! I took it out though because it is small country town in the same county as the huge cities of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield etc. Thought the voters there would likely prefer to be in a more rural small town based county of North Riding of Yorkshire just like Harrogate or Tadcaster.
Renamed the West/South Yorkshire to the Ridings as I like the old names of things and see no reason for them to be dropped, just amended!
Damn, I changed them around at the last minute because I thought I had got them wrong!
I am expecting some hate from people from Wolverhampton and Dudley