User:Lolcatistan/Theresan World History

Africa and the Middle East
Africa and the Middle East have FAR more developed countries.

Egypt
Egypt retains its ancient culture, and is never fully Christianized, Arabized, or Islamized, though Coptic Christianity and Masry Islam still exist alongside the native religions. Egypt has benefited from a close relationship with the United Kingdom throughout its history, and was where the Tsar's family and several Russian Orthodox Christians fled after the USSR was established during the Russian Revolution, therefore also making Egypt a hub for the Russian Orthodox Church.

Egypt is still ruled by a Pharaoh, and is also slightly larger. Due to Egyptian influence, this means the Israel-Palestine conflict never happens (with OTL Israel and Palestine, as well as Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia, being instead a secular state of Israel-Palestine), Somaliland's independence has more recognition, and the East African Federation forms MUCH earlier.

French Sahara
France holds on to some colonies (mostly uninhabitable bits of the Sahara Desert) in Africa, which become French Sahara; basically a larger mirror image in Africa of South America's French Guyana.

Sumer
The Sumerian civilization manages to survive until the present day. Saddam's Iraq tries to invade Sumer ITTL instead of invading Kuwait, and laughably fails.

East African Federation
This proposed state forms MUCH earlier. This means that South Sudan (which also includes Darfur ITTL) gets independent MUCH earlier as well. The EAF is basically the closest thing in reality to Marvel's fictional Wakanda.

Morocco
Morocco is a Berber empire ITTL, and successfully invaded Spanish Sahara from Spain, and much of Algeria from France, during decolonization.

Israel and Palestine
The Israel-Palestine conflict never happens. Instead, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and the Mecca/Hajj bits of Saudi Arabia are one secular state, known as Israel-Palestine or simply Isratin.

United Kingdom
The UK institutes devolution for its constituent countries MUCH earlier, which means Southern Ireland stays part of the UK. They also held on to Hong Kong ITTL.

Royalty
In 1983 ITTL, Queen Elizabeth II died of early-onset Alzheimer's. (As a result, like in Onochverse, the UK started funding scientific studies to find a cure for Alzheimer's.)

King Charles III dies ITTL at the same time QEII did in 2022 IOTL, meaning that William V became monarch. Unlike IOTL, there were FAR less peaceful protesters being arrested at the coronation, due to "lese majeste" laws being considered outdated.

ITTL, Prince Philip (the "King Father") was in the Paris tunnel instead of Princess Diana (who would be Queen Diana ITTL, and later Diana the Queen Mother).

United States
The two-party system still exists, but is slightly more like the Commonwealth countries, with the Democrats being a centrist to centre-left big tent party like Canada's NDP or UK's LibDems, and the Republicans being a centre-right traditional conservative party like Canada's CPC and UK's Tories.

Also, (like in Johnsonverse) Japan becomes an US protectorate after a failed coup, though the Emperor of Japan still exists.

Due to El Kadsre existing ITTL, and Donald Trump residing there, Jeb Bush becomes the 45th President instead; Mike Pence is still Jeb's VP, and Jeb is still followed by Biden. This means that a certain form of neoconservatism, focused on a culture war against LGBT people, never takes hold anywhere in the English-speaking world (as the UK also doesn't have its "TERF Island" reputation ITTL).

Soviet Union and Russia
The Soviet Union became MUCH bigger, also controlling East Turkestan, Manchuria, and Mongolia. Also, there were several more SSRs that IOTL were just autonomous regions of the RSFSR.

The USSR broke up in 1989 (2 years earlier than IOTL), and did so MUCH differently, with only the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia-proper gaining full independence, and the rest of the remaining SSRs forming a rump USSR, the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. However, the Russian Federation had collapsed in on itself in a massive civil war by 1992, allowing the rump USSR to take much of the southern oblasts, and dividing the remnants into two countries: the Putinist Federative State of Russia (West Russia or Muscovy; later merged with Lukashenko's Belarus in 2002 to form the Union State of Russia and Belarus) and the Tsarist Restored Romanov Empire of Russia (East Russia or Siberia).

West Russia/the Union State still tries to invade Ukraine for so-called "denazification", though they also invade the rump-USSR for so-called "desovietization". Since the USSR and East Russia had a military pact, West Russia was swiftly beaten back. Combined with North China attacking South China and Taiwan, this sets the stage for a Third World War.

China and Taiwan
Mainland China is divided into two by the Yangtze River (in a Korea-like situation): North China (or the People's Republic of China) and South China (or the Federal Republic of China). North China never becomes a communist/capitalist hybrid like the OTL PRC, instead being more like a mirror image of North Korea. South China is home to companies like Tencent (which is FAR less controversial ITTL).

Tibet remains independent ITTL under the Dalai Lama. Hong Kong remains British, and Macau remains Portuguese.

There is no "one-China policy"; Taiwan agreed to change its legal name to the "Republic of Taiwan", and has UN membership.