Republic of Texas

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It's 2034, and despite nearly a century since the Great War ended, no power has risen to challenge the great capitalistic bulwark of World Peace: Texas

The French and Indian wars were inconclusive, and France held onto its American territories for a bit longer. The continued threat from the increasingly numerous French settlers drove the English settlers to be a lot closer to the crown, and not work so hard for independence. Britain and Mexico (which still got its independence at roughly the same time due to Spain having to deal with the French at home) divided up French North America in 1829.

Unfortunately for Mexico, English-speaking firebrand Radicals and Revolutionaries leaving the British colonies had come to dominate the area known as Texas, and they revolted in 1830. This prompted the revolt of Alta California in 1842. But California was not as stable as Texas, and was soon swallowed by it. Mexico itself finally collapsed in the last two decades of the 19th century.

France strode the path from Absolute to Parliamentary Monarchy very well, and a Bourbon still rules today (though the last time any Bourbon had any authority in Politics whatsoever was King Henry VI who died in 1899).

Britain, on the other hand, had a perpetually weakening Parliament, and killed its King in 1879. Under the next few decades it came under the sway of a Social Darwinist Fascistic Police State. The British Union, and a Germany which unified big from the start, embarked on a war of total conquest around the world starting in 1923. They quickly overran France and Scandinavia, and got bogged down in fighting Iberia and Austria. Russia (which avoided a revolution mostly due to more competent and modernized Tsars who followed the French path) and Japan soon stood alone against the the British Union and the German Empire...until in 1928 when Texas and the nations of the Western Hemisphere joined the allies. There was considerable fighting in the Americas, since the British still owned most of North America, Belize, Jamaica, Guyana, and the Bahamas. Because Texas was considerably more bogged down in the Western hemisphere that the U.S. was OTL, the war lasted until 1937 with the Texan landing in Wales, and the Russian nuking of Berlin.

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Though there was some tension in the '40s, '50s, and again in the early 2000s, between the Russian Empire and the Federal Republic of Texas, there never was anything like the Cold War between them. There were however, more tense decades in the '80s and later between the Pyongyang Bloc (dominated by a Japan which had successfully dominated China and South East Asia) and Russia and Texas. More than once have nuclear missiles stationed in Texan Philippines threatened Tokyo.

Texas and Allegheny have a bit of an America-Canada complex: Texan talking heads laugh at the Semi-French Elitist Organic Vegan munchers across the Mississippi, and Alleghenan talking heads laugh about the Shotgun-wielding cattle-rustling Semi-Spanish hicks over west.

Technology is a bit ahead of ours. Most cars can drive themselves and are voice activated (in fact there is talk that in the future you will need separate licenses to own and to physically drive cars), but only now is the idea of clean energy in cars coming into Texan cities (usually from some more liberal place like Allegheny). Agriculture is somewhat ahead, and it is needed since the world will soon be at 10 billion. The Western hemisphere is more rural and less populated than the eastern, though a bit more than OTL; Texas is at 400 million people. But compared to India (which has the largest population), that's nothing; India has a billion and a half!

Because of this (and because of Texas' conservatism) Global Warming paranoia is drowned out by Overpopulation Paranoia. This has meant that governments have secretly begun to look into Britain's sterilization programs from over a century ago and see if their useful today (though obviously no longer race based).

As far as race goes, Texas has had great strides in the direction of equality. There were never that many blacks in Texas. But the differences between Hispanics and Whites in terms of treatment were noticeable. This was mitigated by the fact that almost everyone was/is mixed ; Texans have considerably more Mestizo and Native blood that Allegheny, and even more than OTL America. Texas is a bilingual nation, and has been for almost all of its history, so its been more accepting of its Hispanic immigrants than the OTL U.S.. There have been more than one hair-brained scheme to unite the English and Spanish languages into a 'Texan' language.

Most of the world is now democratic or moving to democracy. Considerably more of the world has some kind of Monarchy; though they are no longer important Russia, France, Japan, China, and Brazil all have Kings. Germany and Britain now have Kings (of the Austrian and French lines, respectively). The dictatorships of the third world, are usually not Banana Republics. Instead, they're dictatorships of the traditional sort: Absolute Monarchies (generally Native Post-Colonial Kings in power for Foreign Corporations). Most of the world's republics are in the Americas, where only Brazil and Guatelmala* are Monarchies. Its also a world where Capitalism has gone a little crazier and Corporations have too much power in many ways (though they come an go pretty fast anyway in this rather unstable economy).

In addition to Texas and Allegheny, the third biggest Republic is Ardanzia, which dominates much of South America. It's named for one of its principal freedom fighters, Jose Ardanza. The Nations of the Western hemisphere (minus Brazil) have been relatively close in the (somewhat coincidentally named) 'United States of the Americas'. This U.S.A. is much like the OTL EU, and the 'Americano' is now the currency of the USA.


I might make some maps of this world....

*Not misspelled by the way. Here, Guatemala is spelled 'Guatelmala'.