Series 2 – Another Reich

Map 2.1 – Worldmap

Vacuity Institute RAV219MEL / Sub-Department of the “Vacuity Galactic and Universal Ministry” of the “United Multiverse Assembly” and the “Supreme Multiuniversal Templar Multiverse-Imperium Assembly”.

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To Supervisor Martin,

Sigh … Seems like I have to sort out some Capsule Universes that a bored teenage daughter of trillionaire has illegally created. It’s a good thing that the “mother”/”normal” universes of these Capsule Universes haven’t developed past the initial phase of the nuclear-space age yet since she could be in a lot more trouble. Anyway the “mother” universes have been catalogued away but now I will have to deal with these Capsule Universes. They will be stored at first but some will be destroyed and some sold to rich individuals or corporations.

I have supplied you with a dossier of an interesting Capsule Universe and a short summary since the Point of divergence.

Synth-1234

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Kaiser Wilhelm II birth was more prolonged than OTL, which curiously doesn’t result in a crippled arm, but fundamentally changed his personality to a more gluttonous, needy and eccentric one. When Kaiser Wilhelm died in 1891 (three years later than OTL) Wilhelm succeeded his grandfather as Wilhelm II. He married very late (to Cecile of Mecklenburg-Schwerin who in OTL married his son) and has only two children – Princess Charlotte and Crown Prince Wilhelm.

The First World War happened at the same date but with no British involvement due to no German invasion of Belgium. The War lasted for nine years and with more casualties for all sides. The resulting peace was more a “Peace of Exhaustion” with no territorial exchanges besides the Central Powers keeping Poland, Romania, Greece, the Balkans and the Caucasus.

As a result of the Peace treaty revolution and civil war in France and Russia overthrew their governments, establishing communist states. Russia fell under the guise of Stalin while French empire reformed into the Federation of Worker Republics.

The Second World War started in 1941 and lasted until 1945. The war pitched the Central Powers (without the Ottoman Empire) against the France and the Soviet Union. Unlike OTL there was no Blitzkrieg but a rematch with deadlier trench warfare. The war ended with a stalemate and tens of millions dead.

The Treaty of Stockholm resulted in over seventy years of peace on the European continent. The treaty divided Europe and Africa into spheres of influences – Germany: Central Europe and the Balkans; France: North Africa and West Africa; Soviet Union: Eastern Europe; Italy: Libya; Neutrals: Iberian Peninsula, Benelux countries and Scandinavia (with lots of socialist influences). Britain again didn’t joined the war, quietly developed their colonies and dominions which resulted in the most prosperous international organization – the Commonwealth of Nations.

The Nationalist won the Chinese Civil War and repulsed the Japanese Invasion. Today the republic is a corrupt oligarchy.

The Ottoman Empire is a very rich nation, oil wealth as well as economic investment by the Germans, British and recently Chinese and Indians have cured the sick man of Europe. But the average Ottoman citizens have begun to clamor their government more forcefully to atone for the annihilation of the Christian population in Anatolia, Armenia, the Levant and Mesopotamia. Egypt is the sole Middle-Eastern nation with any significant Christian population.

With no foreign entanglements, early deaths of US progressives and no “New Deals” the serious social, racial and economic problems of the USA went mostly unanswered or were only passed decades later than OTL - Women right to vote were only granted in the 1930s, civil rights for African American in 1980s etc. No checks and balance on Wall Street and other big corporations resulted in many Stock market crashes and major bailouts. The Republican Party and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party fell more under the influence of big money than OTL. In short Americas Gilded Age never ended.

The resulting divisions in American politics exploded into the 2nd American Civil War when thugs of a Republican-aligned militia killed unarmed students and schoolchildren protesters at a rally for gun-control in Atlanta.

The American Civil War has generated the largest refugee crisis on the planet. Millions of Americans have crossed into Canada and Mexico. British, Indian and other Commonwealth troops have been massing at Canada’s southern border to control the flow of refugees streaming in from the US, while Mexico has recently closed their border. German, French and Soviet aid agencies in Mexico have decried this move.

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Authors note: Welcome to the start of the second map/infobox series of Timelines of the Capsule Universes or TLCU.