I saw @ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 's post and wound up making a larger version of it (with my own changes)

Update- wound up making a expanded version

and a notion of how it would look amidst a better world (not overly serious, borders subject to change)

  • drndramrndra@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    I can’t open the later one, the image fails to load.

    UN supervision, now that’s a horrific idea.

    I like this one, Yugoslavia strong! Any non-aligned type of alliances?

    • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      11 months ago

      I can’t open the later one, the image fails to load.

      The imgur link or the uploaded file? Just in case, here: https://imgur.com/a/A6D7fkj

      Any non-aligned type of alliances?

      Admittedly didn’t think of non-aligned movements too much in this case. Heavily aligned movements (a communist, anti-imperialist bloc or two, pan-Africanism, pan-Indigenism, pan-Arabism, pan-Celticism)? Sure. Internationalist countries and a global effort to prevent imperialism from reemerging, or western revanchism to cause trouble? Also definitely, sure. But in these scenarios where the west is decidedly out of the game for the foreseeable future- I’d like to imagine, perhaps in real life as well, that a large and common focus would be keeping them there.

      UN supervision, now that’s a horrific idea.

      Thanks! I had a lot of fun adding it to places, TBH. I figured in borders that would no doubt leave a lot of people angry (not to mention the indigenism and de-Nazification programs underway) such a world would certainly need it. In the “pessimistic” version of the map there are 90 UN mandate regions labeled in total (and 1 African Union mandate), though these labels range from areas as large as Australia, Poland, and the southern half of Quebec, to as tiny as… the Aland islands, London, or a containment zone around Washington DC (most of the areas are approximately Netherlands-sized).

      There are also 8 “international cities” (in other circumstances, I likely would have placed a whole lot more), all of which are UN mandates- in my imagining of it, those cities would be under permanent UN governance, with open borders to literally anyone from across the globe- London, Manchester, Birmingham, Paris, the Vatican, NYC (renamed for indigeneity), Washington DC (the aforementioned containment zone), and… Lisbon, because I felt I wasn’t balkanizing Portugal near enough, with just cutting off the Algarves. I had a lot of fun imagining the tantrums that would ensue from that as well. One can assume these to be sanctuary cities, on speed and steroids, but with the humanistic element of no longer being run by neoliberal ghouls which probably comes out as far more than a win.