Prim's Legacy 4

A continuation for my Prim's Legacy world map.

The 2010's are usually seen as a pivotal decade in history, for they saw the fall of three long-standing and consolidated powers.

The corrupt and paranoid Ukrainian regime had followed a long ethnic cleans... ahem, I mean "Ukrainization" program, but decades of economic mismanagement and genocide started to backfire the nasty way. While they effectively lost control over the Turkic settlement areas, the government imploded and was replaced by a mosaic of mercenary armies under rogue generals. The vassalized Pact of Titanium nations shortly followed.

Soon, the European alliances, sharing an increased collaboration level in the former years, took control of the subsequent Balkanic mayhem, forcing a new European profile. Wile Bulgaria received some historical territories back (After all, Bulgaria was the Titanium Pact's punching ball since the beginning), Serbia lost Bosnia-Croatia and Greece lost Albania (it was a rump Albania, though. The efectiveness of the Albanian Genocide made the old borders irrelevant. Albanian irredentism would become a source of problems in the future). Russia, taking an advantage of the Ukranian disintegration, seized what would be called the Odessa and Astrakan Stripes.

Looking back, one could be amazed at the long streak of luck that kept the Mexican regime running, even in a world with no UN equivalent. But ultimately, Mexico's ambiguous alliance fell apart because of nothing but an excess of efficiency, that made the massive Mexican middle class to divorce itself from the theocratic morals and restrictions imposed by the government. If we add universal conscription to the list, it's not a mystery why the 2014 Eagle Uprising was successful and almost bloodless.

Sadly, the Uruguayan one didn't work out so well, and the Argentinean intervention sparkled an all-out war in the Southern Cone. After the 2016 armistice, Chile was the last remnant of catholic nationalism, and all the reformist members of the ruling junta had misteriously disappeared from the lists and articles. If you want to picture Santiago de Chile, imagine Pyongyang with compulsory mass attendance.

Finally, the Arab Republic fell after a young and charismatic, yet terribly incompetent general, started to get very unpopular. Rashidi Arabia seized Oman and set a Muslim Holy See in Hedjaz. The rest broke into Yemen (which had been a focus of Renaissance Doctrine for decades), the Kingdom of Filistinia (a focus of... well, Filistinian Nationalism, not feeling themselves as true Arabs) and the Republic of Mesopotamia, the Arab Republic sucessor state (Now, with 50% more democracy!).

2020 comes and, on behalf of the role of the Transoceanic Conference and the International Block in this noisy decade, the idea of forgetting the old offenses and merging both alliances starts to be something more than an atheneum topic...