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Martin Luther never started the Protestant Reformation in 1517. As a result, Henry VIII ended up marrying his daughter Mary I off into the Hapsburg line of royalty. England came to be ruled by a branch of the Hapsburgs. In 1549, a French priest began his own reformation. After a bloody war, a shaky France was restored under a Catholic ruler. Scotland, meanwhile, had its own Reformation (it became something like a Ultra-conservative Calvinism, that sought to eliminate all Pagan elements from the Church) and was quietly left alone.

For a brief time (for two King's reigns), England, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and Portugal were all united as a unified empire, that also ruled almost all of the Americas. When the European nations went their separate ways, Spain retained Portugal and all of the colonies, and the Holy Roman Empire was a lot more centralized and less shaky.

Spain was able to get Japan to come out of its shell when a Pro-Spanish Catholic Shogun was able to conquer the whole islands, overthrow the Emperor, and name himself Emperor in 1741. Japan was able to embark on conquests and steal much of Russia's territory in the east fairly rapidly, with Spanish support.

History continued, and Spain remained, along with France, one of the two principal world powers. Spain was able to hold its empire together by giving to more developed colonies more autonomy (under their own local Kings of the Hapsburg branch). From 1848 to 1860, the Hapsburgs and the French fought a major war, to a everyone's surprise, the French won. This spurred the still powerful Spanish on to colonize much of Africa. Spain was happy to rule through protectorates, so long as those protectorates were A)Catholic, and B)Monarchies. The world continued in an uneasy equilibrium until the French revolution of 1919. Over the next decade, the rest of Europe was plunged into war, and most of the continent was under the control of the Revolutionaries by the signing of the peace of London in 1929.

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THE REVOLUTION

In addition to the French, the Swedes also overthrew their King. In Portugal, in Poland, and in Greece oppressed minorities rose against their foreign governments under the banner of the revolution. The rest of mainland Europe and North Africa was conquered by French guns.

The Republican Bloc, is devoutly Anti-Monarchy. It also opposes religion of all kinds, and it burned the Vatican to the ground (it has since relocated in OTL Paraguay). It is highly Nationalist, and believes that different peoples are different and should not mix their "breeds". It is of a highly racialist variety. The North African peoples under it control, as well as Lapps, Fins, and Turks, have not been treated very kindly. It is highly supportive of what if calls "Rationalistic Sciences" though this in turn leads mostly to pseudo-science. It has a creepy we-are-all-marching-in-unison Fascist feel about it. The Press is a propaganda machine of the state. Urban planning and mass transport have become the rage of late in Europe. Though they stress the need for elections, honest and fair elections don't actually happen, and inner elites are usually born into their place in society. A new caste system is being developed by some of the elites right now...

Qing China (which hates the Japs), and North India (which clawed its way from Spain half a century ago) would both be supportive of the Republicans, if they weren't so Racist. Some of the Republicans (admiring North India's Caste System and fake elections, and needing an ally) have actually tried to work some sort of alliance into existence, but one has yet to occur.

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THE KINGDOM

These days, Florida leads the Catholic Bloc. The Bloc is made up entirely of absolute monarchies. It is quite adamant that any sort of government in which 'the people' are in change cannot exist in reality. The entire bloc is staunchly Anti-Nationalist, and Anti-Racist ("All are equal in God's Eyes*"). Plenty of Native African and Asian Kings will be welcome to visit the Spanish crown. Nowadays, religious minorities have clear rights (though they must register with the still-kind-of-creepy-Inquisition). For Monarchies, the Catholic Bloc is surprisingly Socialistic. The Poor have better safety nets than in OTL 21st Century America. These days, the press is mostly free, especially when reporting on Europe's concentration camps.

The Catholic Church in Guarani, and the Spanish King in Pernambuco still both have massive theoretical powers, but it is just that. Local Kings, especially in Florida, New Spain, and Peru have greater powers, and the King of Florida is the unofficial leader of the Catholic Bloc these days.

Though they hate to do it, the Catholic Bloc has had to make an alliance of convenience with the Russian Tsardom (which never westernized, and whose rulers look more like Mongol Khans than modern leaders). Catholic Nuclear Weapons line the periphery of Europe, in Russia, the Sahara, and the British isles.

*Except for Potential Revolutionaries and Homosexuals.

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Though theoretical technology is roughly where we are, practically implemented technology lags behind a bit. Transportation is more environmentally friendly, though. The inhabitants of most of the world, live as though they were in the roaring 20s, though cars are faster (and much cleaner), telephones can call farther, and televisions are more widespread (though only in now, are they coming into color in wealthy people's homes). In most of the world (Europe being the big exception) more people live in rural areas than in urban areas. Agricultural technology lags behind, and many more peoples are farmers. There are only six and a half billion people, though it seems (partially due to the almost complete lack of available contraceptives, and the complete lack of contraceptives that work often) that the world will continue to grow dramatically in population in the near future. Though trains and airplanes are cleaner and just as fast they're used less often. Europe, with its mass transit, is again the big exception. Computers are just as advanced, but again less widespread. In popular culture, there are fewer things that might offend the Pope (who is a black man, and son of an African King). Spy fiction (usually taking place in the British Isles, which crawl with Spies) are big, and Science Dreams (Science Fiction) is a big new genre (in the Catholic Bloc, SD stories have angels and demons instead of extraterrestrials). In the Catholic Bloc, there is no separation of Church and State.
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RoyalPsycho's avatar
Very nice I always like a scenario that swaps the Good Republic Evil Empire trope.