How could It happen: president Thomas Jefferson acept the offer of napoleon and Buy Louisiana for 15 Million Dollars

1803: U.S Buy Louisiana

1804: Due to the french influence in the area, the territory of Louisiana becomes the "Quebec" of the u.s

1805-1807: Expeditions are done in the territory

1812: Still Happens for the same reasons and Still ends in an strategic stalemate

1819: U.S Anexed Florida Under The Adam-Onís Treaty

1846 - 1849: The U.S sent's military help to the Texas revolution, Resulting on Mexico and the U.S going to war, and due to having an bigger military the u.s wins

1861: After the end of slavery, Florida, West Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississipi, Alabama, Georgia, Carolina, Arkansas, Tennesse and Virgínia Forms The Confederation Of America, Starting The America Civil War, But Western parts of Texas remain loyal, forming the "Western Texas Rebelion"

1865: The War ends whit the victory of the union, due to Western Texas remaining loyal, the State of "West Texas" And the State of "Llano" are created

I Guess From Here the rest stay the same, spanish american war, u.s neutral in ww1 and 2, great depression, march on washington blah blah blah

This is a riff on Miklós Horthy’s shenanigans during WW2 and Queen Elizabeth II having received the title of “Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska” (Nebraska’s highest civic honor) seriously, look it up

LORE:
(Events leading up to the start of WW2)

Amidst rising tensions in Europe, Her majesty Elizabeth II is ousted from the throne upon being exposed of supporting her uncle, Edward VIII, a Nazi sympathizer. As a result, the two are to be exiled to the Bahamas for the remainder of the coming war due to concerns of espionage, however, upon arrival they are successfully smuggled into the United States as part of a Fascist plot by members of a contingent of the US government. In an attempt to regain some semblance of her former glory, she accepts a task given to her by a coalition of state consolidationists and, uhmm.. let me see if i’m reading this right… “Nebraskan Nationalists”… huh…

(feel free to continue the lore)

What if Earth was lacustrine ? Our planet is a marine temperate world fill with large oceans and large continents. But what would the planet looks like if there were way less liquid water on the surface of the globe ?

If the sea level would drop to barely 5 kilometers bellow it's current level, our full linked oceans wouldn't exists anymore and the earth would be cover by giant deep lakes and large arid deserts the size of a continent, life would be only possible near the lakes and mostly on the equatorial range.

Most of the smaller lakes that we could find in the desert would be extremly salty and the rare amont of life that we could encounter would be around tiny oasis and would be essentially composed by vegetation that evolves to be acclimated to such arid places by searching water deep bellow the surface.

Oceans currents wouldn't exists anymore, tsunamis and hurricanes are barely a thing in this world.... anyway, because of the gravitational influence of the moon and the season cycle, even in the widely habitable areas, life would have to face intense tides and droughts, making Lacustrine Earth a way less habitable world than the one we have.

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World types in the upper right are based on SpaceEngine classification of planets

The map is made with Paint net and based on the climate calculations of the website labelled on the image

After (more or less peacefully) uniting into Scandinavia and a big population boom, the Northern Countries have a larger population than Poland, enabling them to colonize much of the world and turning the Baltic Sea into a Scandinavian lake.

🌏 UNITED ASIA — STRONGER TOGETHER

One continent. One union. One future.

From the Himalayas to the Pacific, from the deserts of the West to the islands of the East, we stand as one.

Different nations. Different cultures. Different languages. But one shared destiny.

Our strength lies in our unity. Our pride lies in our diversity. Our future belongs to all of us.

Today, we stand not as separate nations, but as one united force.

ONE CONTINENT • ONE UNION • ONE FUTURE

🟡 PEACE • PROSPERITY • PROGRESS

Data: OpenStreetMap (buildings, roads, tracks), Terrarium elevation (AWS Open Data), the city of Brno's aerial photo from March 2026 (roof colours), live vehicle positions from the regional transit operator (KORDIS), plus city open data layers (traffic accidents, roadworks, fire brigade call-outs).
Tools: a custom renderer in Node.js. The map is served as tiles and the live layers are drawn in the browser.
Interactive: https://brno2000.cz/?ref=reddit-dib

Basically in the colonial days the European powers partitioned the Indian subcontinent based on their personal desires.

A conference was held in Rome to discuss this matter.

Spain didn't get anything cuz they respect Tordesillas.

Also the text is a bit weird... That's a mistake on my behalf, call it a cool text style or smth.

Ysacyithaia is one of the oldest surviving states in my fantasy world, Elyden, founded in 2804 RM when rival Siirvani clans came together under the Accord of Aachacars. Rather than being forged through conquest, the kingdom was built around compromise, shared law and a rejection of hereditary monarchy.

Today, Ysacyithaia is a land of broad pastures, cattle ranches, ancient forests, market towns and rugged frontiers. Its wealth comes largely from ranching, forestry, cinnabar mining and trade routes connecting the Inner Sea with the Ishmmarran interior.

But the kingdom has a rather more unusual problem on its eastern frontier: the Stone Whirlpool, an enormous and mysterious phenomenon whose presence has shaped Ysacyithaian history for centuries. The frontier is guarded by the Gerasene Legion and the Order of the Steel Spear, but the greatest threats to Ysacyithaia aren't necessarily other nations.

This is the latest map of Ysacyithaia, showing its major regions, cities, roads and geographical features.

I've been building Elyden for over 2-years as a single interconnected fantasy world, with its own history, cultures, religions and geography.

I'm happy to answer questions about Ysacyithaia or anything else on the map!

"My dear Americans, I want you to think about how far this once small nation, comprised of only a few islands upon its birth, has come, and how much farther it still has to go" - President Major T. Charlie, 1988

Historical Overview

This is just a historical account*, and I do not support any imperialistic actions taken in this alternate history*

Original 11 colonies: Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Ireland, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Plymouth

French and Indian War: Acquired Western Appalachia, Spain gained control of the French Great Forests

Independence happens

The US gained independence, claiming Appalachia, Cherokee Island, and New Ireland uncontested by other European powers. It claimed the entirety of New England Island, despite Nova Scotia never having joined the Revolution, as well as claiming the 4 Laurentian islands of Indian Island, Michigan Island, Erie Island, and Ontario Island. Britain contested these claims, and actively armed native groups resisting American settlers moving westwards.

Cross-Sea Purchase: The US congress purchased the French Great Forests from Napoleon, hoping to trade the land to Britain in exchange for Britain ceding contested lands. Britain turned down this offer, not wanting to legitimize the American state. So, America instead opened up settlement. Americans were slow to move there though, as it was on the other side of the Mississippi sea

In 1816, following the end of a short war between the US and UK, the two decided to come to the table and deal with their border. The US gave up its claims to Nova Scotia, Erie, and Ontario, while the UK gave up Huron and Ontario which have Functionally been American for almost a decade at this point. A straight line from the southernmost point of Winnipeg Bay was selected as the border between the continental territories and Quebec Peninsula.  The lands north of this line that sat west of Winnipeg Bay were left undefined. 

1823 saw the abolition of Slavery in the southern parts of the Island. This was done primarily due to the highly limited space making plantation slavery increasingly costly to maintain. Combine that with the Mississippi Sea preventing it from spreading to much of the continental regions, the institution proved to be weak enough to get rid of, though it still caused many short-term issues for the southern economy.

In 1842, the US went to war with Mexico, as the US claimed the Great Forests stretched to the Rio Grande, while Mexico claimed it stretched to the Red River. The region's population, becoming increasingly composed of American settlers, revolted from Mexico. The US, being primarily an island nation, naturally possessed some form of Navy for defense. For the first time however, this navy was used on offense, being used to shell Mexican troops marching along the coast and land troops near the red river delta. Following the war, the US claimed everything north of the Rio Grande, an arbitrary geometric boundary, and the Gila River.

In 1865, the US purchased Alaska from the Russians and used it to try claiming the lands West of Winnipeg Bay. The UK didn’t contest this claim, as there was no financial incentive to claim it, it wasn’t all that prestigious to claim what many European powers considered a freezing wasteland disconnected from the rest of an already unprofitable colony, and it would put it into active conflict with the US, something Britain wasn’t all that enthusiastic about.

By this point, the population distribution of the US heavily favored regions in the Northwest of the Great Island archipelago, notably Maumee, Ohio, and Michigan. This stayed about the same up until around the 1950s, with advances in commercial aviation making it easier to move to the western states and territories, with the mountain west and continental southeast proving popular destinations, and air conditioning enabling the south to rapidly grow. The South of Appalachia eventually Surpassed the Northeast in population, as the presence of a Piedmont meant it wasn’t constrained to thin coastlines and valleys. Though the northwest remained ahead in terms of population.

Black dots represent cities with more than a half a million residents in the metro area