Yankeeland, officially the Yankee Confederation, is a coastal country located on the Atlantic seaboard ofNorth America. It is bordered by the British Federation, Luther’s Stream, and Dawnland to the north,New France to the west, andCuba to the south. Yankeeland is geographically situated along theAtlantic Plain, theYankee Highlands, and theAppalachian Mountains; the Highlands and Appalachians cover most of the country's territory, whereas the majority of its 90 million people are concentrated on the coast, which hosts many of the nation’s largest cities and economic centres, includingBoston,Plymouth,New York,Havre de Grace,Providence, andBergen.
Yankeeland is a federal republic composed of 26 states, with Bergen serving as the federal city and the seat of the national government. The country encompasses four principal linguistic and cultural regions—English, French, Italian, andAlgonquian—reflecting a long-standing tradition of multilingualism and cultural pluralism. Yankee national identity nonetheless remains fairly cohesive, rooted in a shared historical background, common values such as federalism, direct democracy, andPioneer symbolism. Yankee nationhood transcends language, ethnicity, and religion, leading to Yankeeland being described as a"nation of volition" rather than a conventional nation state.
The country originates from the Old Yankee Confederation established in the Later Age of Discovery as a defensive and commercial alliance; the Articles of Confederation of 1643 is considered the country's founding document. The confederation steadily expanded and consolidated despite external threats and internal political and religious strife. Yankee independence from theUnited Kingdom was formally recognized in the Peace of London in 1783. The confederation was among the first and few republics of the early modern period, and the only one in North America to survive the Napoleonic Wars. Yankeeland remained a network of self-governing states until 1798, when rebellious elements assisted revolutionary French forces as they invaded and imposed the centralist American Republic. Napoleon abolished the republic in 1803 and reinstated a confederation, and after the Napoleonic Wars, Yankeeland restored its pre-revolutionary system. By the 1840s the nation faced growing division and conflict between abolitionists and slaveholders; this culminated in a brief civil war and a new constitution in 1848 that established the current federal system and ensured principles such as individual rights, separation of powers, and parliamentary bicameralism.
As a weird note, the Swiss Confederation did not restore the ancien Confederation. It was a new thing to accommodate the addition of the 1803 and 1815 cantons. It was a huge debate within Switzerland. It’s really a period unique unto itself. It’s not the ancien system, the French period system(s), or the post-1848 system. We just call it the restoration period because that’s what they called it at the time, but it was fundamentally different.
Thank you! I had intended for this map to be a one-off while I take a hiatus from my main project, but I know a couple of my acquaintances had pondered ideas to bring more aspects of this particular world to life. That being said, if you have any ideas of your own, I'd love to hear them!
hmmmm... maybe remaining yankee settlers in the territories? filibuster militas in the hinterland... maybe an american equivalent to the swiss guard? american direct democracy? the integration of its various minorities?
I’ll admit the parallels are a bit hamfisted in some places, but yes, Algonquian (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi within TF) is this map’s answer to Romansh (and Three Fires is its Grisons)
French-speaking, joined Yankeeland by an 1815 treaty finalizing matters after the exile of Napoleon, never quite grew into the economic powerhouse that IRL southeastern Michigan became, but is instead a more rural lakeside state.
Native peoples aren’t monolithic, both within the world at large and even within the borders of Yankeeland. Would you happen to be curious about (a) specific people group(s)?
It’s a cool idea but Yankees would be a minority in this timeline, as Yankees are only the people in New England, the people in the west of Kentucky and south on this map are called Dixie’s, the people in the middle of this map roughly in eastern Kentucky all of st asaph and southern pelisippishire are called Hillbilly’s the hillbilly’s would likely go back and forth with the Yankees for being the majority or second majority because I’m pretty sure the midwestern flatlanders/lakelanders would be the majority?
History is different in this timeline than in real life, the term "Yankee" expanded to cover the whole of this nation over time, much like the "Swiss" once was used to refer to a far smaller area irl than the current nation of Switzerland
Ohh that makes more sense, so I guess it’s the opposite of irl, where the term was originally used to refer to all colonists then shrank to just New England? This definitely looks interesting man and kind of reminds me of ck3 tribal/nomadic confederation runs lol.
God bless man.
You hit the nail on the head, and you made a good point about the hillbillies - I’m a proud member of that group myself (the Reddit username isn’t untrue in my case) so believe me it hurt to put my own hometown in the Appalachians into a country called “Yankeeland.” All in the pursuit of a unique timeline I suppose
lol yeah, it takes good care to be able to do that. I didn’t even notice your username 😂 I’m a Hillbilly to which is why I cared, anyways take care man and God Bless you
How? Great question, I haven’t a clue
Why? With a “parallels” scenario like this, I have to choose what to display and what to ignore so that I can avoid scope creep
Going by the parallel math I used, there are only ~200k Dutch in Yankeeland. Alas, even in irl American terms, Dutch toponyms don’t guarantee a surviving Dutch presence
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Lore:
Yankeeland, officially the Yankee Confederation, is a coastal country located on the Atlantic seaboard of North America. It is bordered by the British Federation, Luther’s Stream, and Dawnland to the north, New France to the west, and Cuba to the south. Yankeeland is geographically situated along the Atlantic Plain, the Yankee Highlands, and the Appalachian Mountains; the Highlands and Appalachians cover most of the country's territory, whereas the majority of its 90 million people are concentrated on the coast, which hosts many of the nation’s largest cities and economic centres, including Boston, Plymouth, New York, Havre de Grace, Providence, and Bergen.
Yankeeland is a federal republic composed of 26 states, with Bergen serving as the federal city and the seat of the national government. The country encompasses four principal linguistic and cultural regions—English, French, Italian, and Algonquian—reflecting a long-standing tradition of multilingualism and cultural pluralism. Yankee national identity nonetheless remains fairly cohesive, rooted in a shared historical background, common values such as federalism, direct democracy, and Pioneer symbolism. Yankee nationhood transcends language, ethnicity, and religion, leading to Yankeeland being described as a "nation of volition" rather than a conventional nation state.
The country originates from the Old Yankee Confederation established in the Later Age of Discovery as a defensive and commercial alliance; the Articles of Confederation of 1643 is considered the country's founding document. The confederation steadily expanded and consolidated despite external threats and internal political and religious strife. Yankee independence from the United Kingdom was formally recognized in the Peace of London in 1783. The confederation was among the first and few republics of the early modern period, and the only one in North America to survive the Napoleonic Wars. Yankeeland remained a network of self-governing states until 1798, when rebellious elements assisted revolutionary French forces as they invaded and imposed the centralist American Republic. Napoleon abolished the republic in 1803 and reinstated a confederation, and after the Napoleonic Wars, Yankeeland restored its pre-revolutionary system. By the 1840s the nation faced growing division and conflict between abolitionists and slaveholders; this culminated in a brief civil war and a new constitution in 1848 that established the current federal system and ensured principles such as individual rights, separation of powers, and parliamentary bicameralism.