Dark Earth Maps

Nice maps, that show the Dark Earth universe you have created.

The small states of Eastern Europe are: East Prussia/German Democratic Republic, People’s Republic of Galicia, the Democratic Republic of Ruthenia, the People's Republic of Bukovina and the People's Republic of Moldavia. Their populations are largely human.

Not shown on the map: Gibraltar, Malta, Heligoland Minorca and Cyprus are British possessions. Bornholm and the Aland Islands are Swedish.

The United States of the Ionian Islands are a nominal British protectorate, but talks with Greece regarding a union are almost complete.

The small state between Germany and Austria-Hungary is the Kingdom of Ruritania.

The southern and eastern borders of Ottoman Turkey are not shown in this image.

Iceland is an independent state, but is very, very close to Britain and Canada, with the United States also keen on a special relationship.

The Yucatan is an independent state and Spanish West Africa also encompasses Mauritania. Patagonia is Prydain, a Commonwealth Dominion that develops from largely Welsh settlement of the area from the 1830s onwards.

North of Uruguay is Aranguay, a small insular South American state. Amapa, or formerly Portuguese Guiana, is Swedish Guiana, one of the vestiges of the Congress of Vienna. There is also a 6th Central American state, Los Altos.

Cuba is a British colony, having been taken in the Seven Years' War and been largely anglicised over the intervening 200 years. Hawaii is a US state, whereas Russian North America was taken in the Crimean War.

The Baja California peninsula is an independent Commonwealth realm, New Avalon. English influence, pirate settlement and traders stretch back to the time of Drake. grew up out of trading/privateer settlements in the 1600s coming from Drake's exploration of the area in the previous century. After regularly being attacked and burnt out by the Spanish, the main port of Saint George was recaptured in the War of the Spanish Succession and ceded in the Treaty of Utrecht. The border between California and the British territories was unclear for much of the 18th Century before being settled in the 1763 Treaty of Paris. It was the scene of some fighting during the American War of Independence as the Spanish tried to swoop, but their territorial gains were reversed in the Napoleonic Wars. It remained as something of a backwater until the discovery of gold and the US annexation of California; after this time, it developed in something of the manner of a much smaller Southern Canada. It was granted Dominion status in 1892, following on from Canada in 1867 and Australia in 1889. It is seen as the most American of all the Dominions, but at the same time is very English in its identity. The cultural impacts upon California are quite profound - it will have far less Mexican influence after 1848, migration patterns would be different, cuisine will develop differently and quite a lot more.

China is an empire and is one of the great powers of the world; Imperial Chancellor Fu Manchu is quite the diabolical genius.

Atlantis sunk beneath the waves in a great catastrophe around 12,000 BC. The additional Japanese home island of Kai is very heavily urbanised and densely populated, but is still comparatively small.

They are:

- Sylvania (proposed state of Superior)
- Franklin (the proposed Tennessee area)
- Jefferson (North West/Pacific coast or Northern California/Shasta)
- Lincoln (Western/Mountain state)
- Sequoyah (Indian Territory)

Master List of Countries/Territories under different ownership

- Canadian Alaska
- New Avalon (British Dominion in Baja California)
- Dominion of Newfoundland (Labrador part of Canada)
- British Cuba
- Swedish West Indies (Danish Virgin Islands and Saint Barthelemy)
- Polish Togoland (Polish colony after WW1; nominal territory of Free Poland after WW2 under British protection)
- Crown Colony of Ivory Coast (British)
- Swedish Guiana (Amapa State of Brazil)
- Bolivia retains access to the Pacific Ocean
- Prydain (British Dominion in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego)
- Spanish Mauretania and Madagascar
- French Hainan
- Enlarged borders of Hong Kong
- Israel extends to the Suez Canal
- Greek Constantinople and complex Anatolian borders between Greece and Turkey
- Ruritania
- American Liberia
- Netherlands East Indies (Molucca and Western New Guinea)
- Australian Timor
- British Minorca
- Swedish Bornholm and Aland Islands
- Finland still holds most of Karelia, having 'won' the Winter War
- Jerusalem is something of a 'dual-hatted' city, with security provided by the Jerusalem Regiment and the Sikh Division
- British Crown Colony of Kuwait
- Indian Burma
- India extending up to the Strait of Hormuz
- Unified Korea
- Sinkiang/Tartary being a Soviet puppet state
- Independent Tibet
- Independent Yucatan
- Central American Republic of Los Altos
- Two additional islands in the British West Indies
- British Galapagos and Easter Island
- New Caledonia as a British territory, potentially to be transferred to Australia
- Additional Japanese Home Island (Kai)
- Malaya extending up the Isthmus of Kra, encompassing a large part of Southern Thailand
- Rhodesia including Katanga and Tete Province of Mozambique
- Swedish Congo = Cabinda
- British Azores and Faroes
- German Democratic Republic = Kaliningrad Oblast
- Smaller Albania
- Guinea being incorporated with Sierra Leone in a British colony
- Independent Rio Grande do Sul (Aranguay)

It is the small island off the south central coast of Honshu; it is heavily urbanised and densely populated.

Looking at it it looks like a mint version of OTL Switzerland.