Anyhow, the challenge was:

The Promised Land: Make a map showing a voluntary mass settlement.

Josef Kalfus, gave the order and three consecutive armored trains left Prague, crossed the border with Romania and their contents of the national gold reserves, along with several tons of important documents, were loaded onto the CS ship Republika and headed out for Patagonia. The news soon leaked to the public and the trickle of of people leaving for the colony turned into a large stream, ever increasing as the political relations between Czechoslovakia and Germany degraded. By the time

the Munich Agreement was signed, and





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As a side note, since everybody I show seems bewildered by them -_- , those arms were created in the style of the Czech regional arms, incorporating the "arms" of the Santa Cruz region of Argentina. And yes, I know they break the rule of tincture.



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the stream was a flood. The political scene was a wild battlefield where the two sides were still opposing each other. In the end, Emil Hácha was voted into office of President by a close majority and immediately took the reins of the powerful office firmly into his hands to begin a punitive campaign against the opposition. Some were imprisoned citing the infamous Law for the Protection of the Republic but most managed to escape to Patagonia where the opposition was strong. As the Germans began to occupy the border areas, the tide of immigrants ebbed as few found a way to leave with enemies along all but a narrow border in the east. Surprisingly, once the Sudetenland was seceded, the borders were reopened and the German authorities encouraged the exodus. It resumed in full force, this time through the German and Dutch ports and not even the establishment of the Protectorate would halt it. By that time, the opposition took firm control in Patagonia and established an anti-government to the Czechoslovak one, shepherding all the new refugees further inland and assigning land and aid. As the war begins, Patagonia has a population of just over two million.-----As a side note, since everybody I show seems bewildered by them -_- , those arms were created in the style of the Czech regional arms, incorporating the "arms" of the Santa Cruz region of Argentina. And yes, I know they break the rule of tincture.----------

My submission for the latest Map of the Fortnight contest on alternatehistory.comThe next time I decide to do a REALLY complex map for a contest with a deadline, please kill me -_-When the poll is up, I'll post a link hereAnd so:On the 1st of January 1925, the Argentinian president Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear has just symbolically handed over the key to the city of Río Gallegos to the leaders of the Czechoslovak delegation, the brothers Tomáš and Jan Baťa. This symbolic gesture, accompanied by the Argentinian Law on Relinquishing All Claims to the Governate Territory of Santa Cruz and Attached Lands in Favor of the Czechoslovak Republic which came into force at midnight, transferred the Argentinian Patagonian territories to Czechoslovakia for a vast sum paid to Argentina and an even vaster sum handed out in inconspicuous white envelopes and transferred through off-shore bank accounts to certain high-ranking Argentinian officials. Over the next year, the Czechoslovak government slowly took control of the land. The first governor to be appointed for this new land was naturally Jan Baťa himself and he soon set out to implement his, as some called them in the beginning, megalomaniac ideas. A vast map and resource survey was soon underway and the modernization of the port system and his innovative idea for a highway system with Patagonia acting as a testing ground of what he intended to build in Czechoslovakia proper.. A government-subsidized program of colonization and resettlement was initiated providing land and a starting loan to all people willing to settle this vastly arable land. Meanwhile, Baťa enterprise gold and coal mines started springing up along the southern border, along with new settlements and towns built in the Baťa worker housing style. As the years passed, the situation started to turn and soon profits from the industrious settlers started returning to Czechoslovakia proper, supplementing the vast defense spending in the European country. Soon the population of the Czechoslovak colonists, thirsting for land and a new start away from the over-settled lands in Europe, equaled that of the native Spanish-speakers and the aboriginals of the land with a total population of about half a million.However, this joyous atmosphere wouldn't last. In 1934, Adolph Hitler gained the chancellor position of Germany. As his policies and views began to penetrate German politics, the situation in Europe began to strain. The troops which crossed the German-Austrian border on the 12th March 1938 sparked a mass panic in the political circles of Prague as the appeasement side of autocratic president Beneš clashed with the more pro-action side, led mainly by the ex-Siberian legionary soldiers. Two days later, the republic's minister of finance,Beneš resigned under pressure of the Great Powers,Beneš quickly flying into exile in London,