[FORUM] A la recherche des pays perdus
Jul. 19th, 2008 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAlternate history has been a long-standing interest of mine. It's something abuot the possibility of things having developed differently, at a micro- and macro-levels that interests me. It interests a lot of other people, too: I know quite a few of the readers of this blog, on and off Livejournal, through Usenet's soc.history.what-if, to say nothing of the people I know through this fans of uchronia at one or two or more removes.
One of the major features of alternate histories, apart from the dominance of airships, is the creation of novel states with radically different frontiers from the ones we know. What if Canada had been conquered by the United States, in 1776 or in 1783? What if Napoleon had managed to conquer the Untied Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Franco-Spanish victory at Trafalgar? What if Finland's borders stretched to the White Sea? Et cetera.
This leads to the purpose of this post: What countries do you wish existed, or didn't exist, or existed in radically different form? Would you be interested in a history where the 1980 referendum produced an independent Québec, or another where Geralia broke away during Brazil's debt crisis, or a Greater Singapore encompassing most of western Malaysia, or ... ?
As always, politeness is most appreciated. People who'd like to post anonymously are free to do so.
One of the major features of alternate histories, apart from the dominance of airships, is the creation of novel states with radically different frontiers from the ones we know. What if Canada had been conquered by the United States, in 1776 or in 1783? What if Napoleon had managed to conquer the Untied Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Franco-Spanish victory at Trafalgar? What if Finland's borders stretched to the White Sea? Et cetera.
This leads to the purpose of this post: What countries do you wish existed, or didn't exist, or existed in radically different form? Would you be interested in a history where the 1980 referendum produced an independent Québec, or another where Geralia broke away during Brazil's debt crisis, or a Greater Singapore encompassing most of western Malaysia, or ... ?
As always, politeness is most appreciated. People who'd like to post anonymously are free to do so.
