Recent content by Minnesota_Nationalist

The Republic of Komi has historically always been an isolated country, sitting on the frozen periphery of Europe and Asia. This isolation only escalated in the previous century as they willfully withdrew from the world, becoming a hermit republic in the north. However, in the last couple years...

Hokkaido just was never colonized in this world, and instead exists as an independent Ainu state

Yes, sorry I had already forgotten to write the names of the cities by the third

Yeah, this. Imperial symbol in Kyoto is for the Emperor, the Tokugawa Mon in Edo/Tokyo is for the Shogun, the Black-and-white Toyotomi symbol in Nagoya is for the House of Peers, the Blue-and Gold Toyotomi seal in Toyohashi for the Privy Council, and the Hinomaru in Osaka for the House of...

In a world in which Japan just can't quit the Shogun, or the Privy Council, or the House of Peers, as well as still having the Emperor, meaning that they have four ceremonial governing institutions. Quick explainer Emperor at top, more religious than anything. De jure head of state. Hereditary...

What's up with the random Hellenism in eastern India? Greeco-Bactrian kingdom that went even further into the subcontinent and retained Hellenism?

I think if China invaded Vietnam to "liberate" them, there's a 50% chance Vietnam sides with the French just out of spite for the Chinese.

Ask the Eastern Roman Emperors

It always feels weird to me to separate the United States (and other post-colonial states made up of mostly white people) from the other European powers. Yes, they weren't technically in Europe, but for all intents and purposes they might as well have been.

It might be that the birds fled from either the lights in the sky or the zombies, or the government is specifically culling them because they're a transmitter of the zombie virus

While I'm not going to say that it's impossible for a guy to gain power by claiming relation to a family that's been out of power (and possibly entirely extinct?) for 450+ years, that's basically how the Fatimids gained power after all, it's extremely unlikely, with pretender claims more or less...

I had someone else suggest the name to me. I was originally going to go with "the Submissives," but for... Certain reasons, that might be a bit insensitive to call a real world religion. Instead I'm going to pocket that name for some weird American Puritanical Christian group

The Obsequorians (Arabic: ۘالِإسْلَام, al-ʾIslām, lit. “Submission” [to the will of God], also known as the Muhammadans) are a religious group originating in Arabia in the 600s. Although commonly believed by Evandrians to be a branch of non-Trinitarian Christianity, they’re insistent that...

A world in which the Caliph Umar failed to break out of the Arabian Peninsula, leaving Islam stuck in Arabia (although it would later travel via merchants to East Africa and South/South East Asia, and perhaps beyond). Centuries later, the Turks would still arrive in the eastern Mediterranean...