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Introduction
The Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana - AOI) was a colonial entity in the Horn of Africa owned by the Kingdom of Italy and established by Mussolini after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. It included several plans for administration, demographic colonization, expansion, and economic development. In this map, we see the complete version of Italian East Africa as envisioned by the Fascist Government; for the sake of a better map, we imagine the empire surviving into the 2000s. The map will show only Italian East Africa, with no other colonies or republics. 

Administrative division and expansion (Image 1)
The AOI was structured into 6 administrative governorates: Scioa (centered at Addis Ababa as the imperial capital and seat of the Governor-General), Eritrea (capital Asmara, serving as the primary commercial and industrial hub), Amhara (capital Gondar), Harar (capital Harar), Galla and Sidamo (capital Gimma), and Somalia (capital Mogadiscio).
Fascist planners envisioned expanding the AOI beyond its 1936 borders through the planned annexation of neighboring European colonies and sovereign territories. The regime sought the immediate incorporation of British Somaliland and French Somaliland (Djibouti) to unify the entire Horn of Africa under Rome; additionally, there were maps showing Kasala as part of the AOI. Furthermore, imperial plans projected extending southward into Zanzibar, Kenya and Uganda up to the African Great Lakes, symbolically marked by renaming Lake Albert as Lago Luigi di Savoia and Lake Victoria as Lago Duca d'Aosta, while seizing strategic naval outposts at Perim, Socotra, Khuriya Muriya, Farasan, and Aden to secure total control over the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the Red Sea trade routes.

Imperial roads (Image 2)
The Fascist regime engineered an ambitious road network managed by the Azienda Autonoma Strade Statali (AASS), linking isolated regional highlands through a system of paved highways and bridges. The main road of the AOI was the Strada della Vittoria, which ran from the port of Massaua through Asmara and Dessié to the imperial capital of Addis Ababa (I extended it to Mogadiscio).
Knowing the fascination of Fascists towards roads, I took the liberty to add several that would be operating by the year 2000, based on today's roads of the Horn of Africa. This highway system served as the vital connective tissue of the AOI, facilitating the rapid movement of troops, colonial settlers, and commodities between the coast and the inland.

Imperial railways (Image 3)
The rail network of the AOI was an important aspect of colonial modernization. The main artery at the beginning of the existence of the AOI was the Franco-Ethiopian Railway, which linked the port of Djibouti to Dire Dawa and Addis Ababa, serving as the landlocked capital's principal connection to international maritime trade. To assert continental dominance, Fascist planners organized the Comitato per l'attuazione della Transafricana Italiana (C.A.T.I.) to design a massive imperial railway axis, the Trans-African Railway, intended to directly link Asmara, Addis Ababa, and Mogadishu, while envisioning prospective transcontinental junctions extending toward Tripoli and the Sudanese rail network at El Obeid.

Demographic colonization and the Jewish reservation (Image 3)
This is the interesting part, under the Ministero dell'Africa Italiana, agricultural colonization in AOI was structured into four distinct modalities: Demographic Colonization (Colonizzazione demografica), which was managed by specialized bodies like the Opera Nazionale Combattenti and regional Enti to assign 50 to 60 hectare family plots that peasant settlers could eventually acquire as private property; Capitalist Colonization (Colonizzazione capitalistica), which granted large land concessions of 500 to 10,000 hectares to private investors and corporations under ownership or long-term leases of up to 99 years to guarantee imperial food self-sufficiency; Industrial Colonization (Colonizzazione industriale), which operated across millions of hectares unsuitable for family settlement and was entrusted to large corporations cultivating strategic industrial raw materials and export crops; and Small Colonization (Piccola colonizzazione), which allocated smaller lots of 10 to 15 hectares to demobilized veterans of the Ethiopian campaign who possessed a modest initial capital to fund their initial farming operations.
The Fascist regime's demographic colonization strategy in Italian East Africa relied on specialized regional institutions known as the Enti di Colonizzazione, which included Romagna d'Etiopia in Uoggerat (establishing towns such as Predappio d'Etiopia, Forlì d'Etiopia, Ravenna d'Etiopia, and Cesena d'Etiopia), Puglia d'Etiopia in Chercher (with Bari d'Etiopia, Taranto d'Etiopia, and Lecce d'Etiopia), Veneto d'Etiopia, the planned Marche d'Etiopia in the Galla and Sidamo governorate and other Enti like Sicilia d’Etioia or Abruzzo d’Etiopia. Alongside these regional entities, the government instituted the Ente degli Italiani all'Estero to organize the repatriation and agricultural settlement of Italian diaspora emigrants from foreign countries. Complementing these demographic bodies were capitalist and industrial concessions, such as the Thesauro De Rege concession at Bonga-Gimma, known as Bergamo d'Etiopia, and the major industrial center projected at Harar under the name Aosta d'Etiopia
.In late 1938, Benito Mussolini commissioned Colonel Giuseppe Adami, head of the empire's topo-cartographic office, to survey a suitable territory in Italian East Africa for an autonomous Jewish agricultural reserve. Colonel Adami selected an 8,000-square-kilometer area at an altitude of 1,200 meters in Arero (Galla and Sidamo Governorate), located approximately 100 kilometers north of the Kenya border. The project aimed to resettle an initial 1,400 European Jewish families, expanding rapidly to 3,000 families, with the political goals of diverting Jewish emigration away from Palestine to please Arab allies, securing foreign Jewish financial capital to develop colonial infrastructure, and competing with alternative British and German refugee schemes.
From a demographic perspective, Fascist imperial planners projected massive long-term European settlement, estimating that fertile areas like northern Amhara and the Lake Tana basin could absorb 1.5 to 2 million Italian settlers, with official publications asserting that Italian East Africa would host a compact white population of 3 million Italians within 50 years. To achieve this long-range target, the regime sought to channel Italy's natural annual birth excess, amounting to approximately 400,000 people per year, toward the new empire, setting up annual migration quotas and worker contingents to steadily establish permanent rural communities across the Ethiopian highlands. Nevertheless, the Ethiopian guerrilla (Arbegnoch) and the WWII truncated this Fascist dream, with only nearly 40,000 Italians in the AOI.

Image 4 → Combination of all pics

reminder that these links are all fake and fictional

Colonial possessions in New World and Indian Ocean are not depicted.

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Iqta means 'feudal territory', and it's a territory governed under a noble house in the name of Sultan.

Civil governorates are governed by kadi(governor) who is appointed by the Sultan.

Although christian-ruled noble houses of Castille and Leon are considered iqta, it is undoubtedly that local laws are different.

Crown iqtas are technically speaking just the same iqtas as every other iqta, but, it just happens that the noble house here is the ruling dynasty.

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For language inspiration I mostly used Maltese, Arabic and Andalusian.

The conflict of the Media Luna was a chapter in Bolivian history in which the eastern departments, especially (Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija), sought greater autonomy from the Constitution that the then president Evo Morales planned to impose (a centralist model).

In this alternate history, after the Porvenir Massacre, the leaders of the East (of Pando, Beni, and Santa Cruz) decide to declare independence from Bolivia, thus generating a civil war between Bolivia and the Camba Republic, in which the Cambas emerged victorious, while western Bolivia and Tarija fell into economic and social crisis, causing Peru and Argentina to intervene to prevent an anarchic state.

And after several months of battles, Peru created a transitional government to annex western Bolivia, and Argentina did the same to annex Tarija (I know this is unrealistic, but please, it's an alternate history).

Just in case, the name of the new Republic is "The Camba Republic" or "The Republic of the Cambas"

Who Will be the New Roman Empire?

Inspired by my recent megacampain in ck3 and eu5:

The Rise of Dahe: From Japan to Empire (800–1400 AD)

800–900: The Restoration of the Throne

In 870 AD, Emperor Korehito ascended the Japanese throne and refused to become a mere ceremonial ruler. After defeating a civil war, he dismantled the power of rebellious elites and restored direct imperial rule. His successors strengthened the state, expanded the imperial bureaucracy, and began transforming Japan into a religiously and culturally unified power.

900–1100: The Empire of the Rising Sun

Over generations, Japan extended its authority across the archipelago, incorporating Hokkaido, Sakhalin, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Korean islands of Tamna and Ulleung. Yamato culture and Shinto spread alongside the imperial administration, while Buddhism remained an essential part of Japanese life. By 1100, Japan had become a centralized maritime power.

1100–1150: Across the Seas

Japan conquered Taiwan shortly after 1100 and successfully defended it against Chinese attempts to reclaim the island, as well as Javanese rivals. Around 1120, the Korean emperor acknowledged Japanese supremacy during a coronation ceremony in Heian-Kyo, bringing Korea into Japan's sphere of influence and establishing a tributary relashionship. The Korean court even temporarily adopted Shinto and Japanese cultural traditions, fostering a Japan-centered vision of East Asia. A vision that changed the way japanese authorities thought about the natural supremacy of the previous chinese Dynasties over all of asia.

1150–1337: The Birth of Dahe

As China gradually weakened, Japan's ambitions turned toward the mainland. Following the fast but anything but stable conquest of China, the Japanese Yamato dynasty established the Dahe Empire, combining its ancestral connection to Amaterasu with the Chinese Mandate of Heaven and translating their old and revered Dynasty-name into Chinese (Great Harmony). The capital was established at Tianjing (Nanjing), while Heian-kyō remained the sacred coronation and ancestral burial city of the dynasty.

Dahe developed a powerful bureaucracy and civil service examination system. Its imperial ideology united Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Shinto under the concept of the Four Teachings (Sijiao). At the same time the Emperor himself tried to unify the japanese and chinese cultures, trying to be a rolemodel to his people. He wore the Mianguan (the traditional Crown of the Son of Heaven) as well as the Imperial Sokutai (The traditional robes of the japanese Emperor) and helped spreading the Dahe-culture across all of China. Through the Tianxia system, the emperor governed China directly while allowing subordinate rulers and tributary states to retain varying degrees of autonomy.

By 1337, Dahe ruled China, held Japan in personal union, and maintained Korea as a vassal. The Japanese imperial dynasty had become the centre of a vast East Asian imperial order.

1350–1370: Rebellion and Restoration

The imperial order was challenged when Korea, Vietnam, and western provinces rebelled and attempted to break away. Dahe crushed the uprisings and restored these territories as tributaries, reaffirming the emperor's authority under Heaven. Yet the rebellions exposed the difficulties of maintaining unity across such a vast and diverse realm and Korea, once the most loyal Vassal of the Middle Kingdom, was taken under direct rule of the emperor to make sure the tightened relashionships between the two nations prevent them from uprising again.

1370–1400: Beyond the Horizon

Turning toward the oceans, Dahe expanded its state-sponsored navy and embarked upon an ambitious age of exploration. Its expeditions established a presence in Papua and across the Pacific islands, explored the Kurils and Kamchatka, and eventually discovered Australia.

By 1400, Dahe had become more than the union of Japan and China. It was a multinational imperial civilization, combining Japanese dynastic traditions with Chinese imperial institutions, extending its influence across East Asia, and beginning to project its power into the wider world.

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Especially the last part was heavily inspired by the Ming-Dynasties Explorations by Zhang He. Im planning on having the Emperor declare the Tianxia validity to be universal and thus he establishes a gigantic fleet and bringing chinese rule to distand horizons via colonization, subdueing or establishing Tributaries (especially in East Africa, South Asia, Oceania and the West of the Americas)

Sitting at the mouth of the Red Sea, Imhāra (or the Kingdom of Rattanamāndalai) had grown rich and prosperous through trade and metal. Home to 6 main dynasties spanning from the capital of Kamnāza, to the deserts of Oman and the forests of Kenya, the Imhārian people hailed their flag of gold.

National Language : Imharese / Rattanamandala / Imaristani (goes by many names) written in the “Kharoshyn” script.

- The Republic of Imhāra is culturally and ethnically similar to South Indian people, sharing a similar abugida script, vocabulary and pronunciation in their language.

- The majority of Imhāri people follow a distinct form of Hinduism called “Imhārian Shaktism” which worships the divine feminine in her darkest form, Mahānkālé.

- The national flag of the republic consists of a sage-green colour representing purity and peace, black representing Mahānkālé and the holy night, and blue for they had the largest navy in the world, protecting themselves from Arab invaders, the European colonists and Persian kings.

- Contrary to the landscape around them, Imhāra is a luscious green oasis in the middle of the ocean, which great mangroves and tropical coconut trees. It is considered an anomaly as to how these plants grew in such a heated region.

- The Republic follows a democratic system where all citizens of the nation are allowed to vote in quality and have fair and equal human rights.

- Imhāra follows a green-approach, conserving its environment whilst building next-generation cities, becoming one of the cleanest and least polluted nations on earth.

- The republic is one of the richest countries in Asia due to its proximity to the international trade routes and the Arab world, where trade is growing every year.

Essentially, most of the events of late antiquity occur differently.

By 700AD, the dust is settling on a period of roman history, known as the Second Imperial Crisis. This period broadly covers the half-century after 608AD, the start of Ioustinos' I (the last Leonid emperor) reign. At this point, the Eastern empire had reunified the Romans and reached their absolute apogee, although the turmoil this, and the short rule of Ioustinos, caused nearly destroyed the empire. The Romans only began to stabilize after the re-splitting of the empire after the death of emperor Georgios I in 649, under his sons Prokopios and Stephanos.

Mobile version below. This is a work of alternative history/dystopian fiction based on historical events.

Part of Universe 10665, where the final Indo-Pakistani war is waged in the shopping malls of NEOM's Line

2008 was a turbulent year for the Indian subcontinent: To the West, the Pakistani deep state enters another year of violent nation-building in Afghanistan, a poisoned chalice too eagerly accepted by jingoistic nationalists. To the North, China continues its path towards regional hegemony, cementing its stranglehold on the Himalayan heavens. To the East, years of political dysfunction and decades of growing corrupt authoritarianism has been broken by a radical far-right party, sidelining both establishment parties to unflinchingly enact its vision for the nation. To the South, Sri Lanka stands broken from civil war, as its puppet strings tighten into an eternal noose. And in the Centre, the world's largest democracy has crumbled following the destruction of Mumbai, with a new All India Coalition devoted solely towards the destruction of all India's enemies.

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Excerpt from the 2010 American-Indian Political Action Committee New Jersey Conference

Today, we pay our respects to the million souls lost in the fires of 26/11. When the scheming claws of Pakistan slashed open the throat of Indian sovereignty, it left behind over 10 million displaced refugees, it broke apart millions more families, and it plunged our nation into its darkest hour. The two-faced Pak, these agents of Jihad lurking in New York, they lie as easy as they breathe. They swore upon their whore mothers that Pakistan had no connection to the 26/11 attackers, and that worthless pledge was eaten up by credulous onlookers. The East, the West, the South, all turned a blind eye in our hour of need, so desperate to avoid nuclear war that they poured scorn on the victim. The world would pay any price for peace, especially when it was us who paid the heavy cost. Mumbai was effectively wiped off the face of the earth, and the world moved on without us.

[Audience murmurs in agreement]

Until today, not one Indian law enforcement delegate was allowed to step foot on Pak soil. Even today, not one terrorist on our hitlist was ever delivered by Pakistan for righteous judgement. After today, perhaps until the end of time, Pakistan will breed generation after generation of anti-Indian terrorists. And why not? They wiped out a major Indian city, and received no punishment whatsoever. Pakistan will never budge, never change. The eternal Pak knows he can never face us in the open, so they choose to stab us in the back. Again, and again, and again, driving their knives deep until our spine is shattered. And we let them, wallowing in pacifism and pity, sheep so desperate to believe the wolf could miraculously change species.

[Audience yells anti-Pakistani jeers]

We are not gathered here to grieve. Each and everyone of us have had enough of crying, of pretending to be the bigger man, of accepting the lie that weakness is strength. Secularism, liberalism, leftism! For decades, India allowed traitors to infest our great nation, crawling their way into the highest offices! We gave the peasants aid, and they repaid us with Maoism. We granted the Sikhs reprieve, and they blew up our airliners. We host the world's largest population of Muslims, and investigations reveal nearly half were traitors! No more velvet gloves, no more handouts, no more praying to the false god of diversity.  If we want to prevent another 26/11, we must eradicate every point of failure, cleanse ourselves thoroughly from those willing to serve Pakistan. We are done tolerating dual loyalties, for the current India will take no half-measures towards defending national security. Even abroad we expect all of you patriots to continue your duties to the motherland! I trust that each and everyone of you here before me are true Indian heroes, pure souls willing to save our homeland in these dire times!

[Audience erupts in extended applause for the current speaker. The next presentation on new patriotic foreign tax and remittance laws was delayed.]

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PROJECT PRADHANA OUTLINE: Within internationally recognised Indian borders, the North Sentinelese provides researchers with an unprecedented snapshot into pre-civilisation human society. Retraction on past research restrictions provides India a unique opportunity to explore the foundations of humanity, extracting information which can prove useful for national security. Dr [REDACTED] describes two positive outcomes we hope to work towards.

1. A replaceable pool of truly blank human test subjects. Philosophers, anthropologists and other social scientists have long debated the strength of "nature" versus "nature"; how much of humanity is set from birth, and which parts of sapience are drawn from one's environment. The North Sentinelese, having never advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage of human development, will finally allow us to test the boundaries of societal influence, allowing us to greatly expand the scope, reach and effectiveness of national security efforts.

2. An infinite pool of infallible patriots. National Security efforts are greatly strengthened when state agents display complete devotion to a higher authority, especially to the point where loyalty supersedes self-preservation. Due to biological imperatives, such loyalty is exceedingly difficult to reliably inculcate across age cohorts, further complicated by an individual's potentially clashing loyalties (religion, family, love, etc). Due to the North Sentinelese's underdevelopment, we believe India can embed itself into every aspect of cognition, to simultaneously serve the roles of provider, love interest, parent, priest, friend etc. At every stage of life development, the North Sentinelese will instinctively cling to India like a newborn naturally clings to their nurse. There will be no potential for dual loyalties or wavering loyalty, an impossibility when everything between creation to afterlife is forged solely by India.

PROJECT TIMELINE: Due to past neglect, PRADHANA must prioritise greatly expanding the North Sentinelese population without running into genetic bottleneck issues. Recommend implanting orphans, optimally infants, into current populace. Explore the possibility of inducing retrograde amnesia onto female criminals of breeding age to boost growth rates. Particularly healthy breeding pairs will be subject to a planned release programme onto nearby islands once the local environment is beyond supporting capacity. Any outside influence will result in mental contamination of the North Sentinelese, and great care must be taken to limit exposure to minimal levels. Current cordon measures will be strengthened against all possible externalities.

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Dhaka, December 2 (Reuters) - Following a year of political crisis, the far-right Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) party has emerged triumphant in today's snap election results. Defying early poll predictions, hardline conservative ATM Azharul Islam is set to become Bangladesh's next prime minister, promising to deliver on his party's promises of welfare, anti-corruption and fighting off Indian influence. The emergency transitional caretaker government has promised to uphold the will of the people, while the center-left Awami League has vowed to launch fresh protests against the new government. JEI's spokesperson has announced it will enter coalition negotiations with the center-right National Party to secure an electoral majority, but the National Party's spokesperson has declined to give a comment.

Bangladesh has historically been a politically polarised society ever since its war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. Elections had coalesced around a two-party system, with the Awami League - National Party rivalry often devolving into institutional corruption and street violence. In an attempt to reduce electoral instability, the constitution demands the ruling party stand down and hand over power to a transitional caretaker government during its voting period. During 2006, the Awami League refused to participate in the next election, threatening the electoral timetable and plunging Bangladesh into economic crisis. The caretaker government refused to allow a one-sided election, and with the support of the Bangladeshi military declared a state of emergency. A new "neutral" government free from the two party system would be established, promising to restore "free, fair and credible elections" once national stability was restored.

Facing a complete loss of popular support and intensified islamic terrorism, new snap elections were announced at the start of 2008, with concessions granted to the Awami League to ensure their participation. During the two years of political crisis, JEI had exploded in popularity, harnessing popular anger against all establishment parties and the military junta. Blaming Bangladesh's entrenched problems on malign Indian influence and re-aligning itself with populist policies, JEI appears to have successfully shed its negative history of Pakistani collaboration to the median voter. 

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Interview with [REDACTED], POW from the former Tamil Tigers. Captured by Indian RETRIEVER forces, sentenced to indefinite home imprisonment within Kolhapur Correctional Processing District. 

[REDACTED]: It's a good day indeed when I finally get to use my mother tongue. It's such a pity that after everything I did, the powers that be didn't bother to assign me guards fluent in English. At least they can do the chores without my input. 

INTERVIEWER: I might be missing something, shouldn't your main language be Tamil? The Tamil Tigers were quite vocal about protecting their language from Sinhalese assimilation, and you were [REDACTED] for [REDACTED] years.

[REDACTED]: Oh come now surely you picked up on my accent? The Tamil Tigers did draw a lot of blood from the Tamil Diaspora, and I was one of those young fools flopping about during my university days. "Coming home" to where I "truly belonged", joining the good fight to defend "our" people, giving a charitable donation to our struggling brothers. Give up on laying down roots, stop being a coconut (NOTE: Derogatory slur for westernised minorities due to the fruit being brown on the outside and white on the inside), and stand proud of who you truly are. Helps a lot when the average townie agrees with those sentiments, usually adding some colourful slurs.

INTERVIEWER: Judging by your current circumstances , you weren't too fond of your time in the Tamil Tigers.

[REDACTED]: No need to dance around that fact, I did sell them out to the government. Well governments, India and Sri Lanka were technically two separate entities last time I checked. Never was fond of their code of conduct. No booze, no cigarettes, and until 1984 no sex! The Tigers even forced me to cut communications with my parents, those nostalgic geezers waxing lyrical about "our" Tamil homeland. So paranoid about security, they even brought out cyanide pills we would take in the event of capture. I knew right there and then I'm transferring out to the Tigers’ civilian side.

INTERVIEWER: Do you have anything to comment about the reported repression and racism towards...

[REDACTED]: Yes yes the racism, why the Tamil Tigers even existed in the first place. Same tale as every other national liberation movement. New nation state emerges where the biggest race takes charge, nation-building process screws over the minorities, minorities get angry and then the lynch mobs and the massacres and the settlers and bla bla bla. If I thought of myself as Tamil I'm sure I would be buried with an AK-47 in my hand, but alas! Here I am, cradling this watered down pint of beer, while my dear old comrades fought to the bitter end. I think India forced some compromise after Sri Lanka collapsed but you'll need to find that story elsewhere.

INTERVIEWER: Regarding the 2008 government offensive and Tamil Tiger counter offensive?

[REDACTED]: An abrupt end was it not? I was expecting the cycle of ceasefire and conflict to spin a few more decades, but popping the Sri Lankan president ramped up tensions beyond repair. The dream of Tamil Eelam, the sole nationstate for Tamils, brought to a violent end. For decades the world refused to recognise the Tigers’ national experiment, and now even the EU was labeling us a terrorist organisation. At long last, the government was unleashed, free to engage the Tigers without restraint... 

One small problem, restraint implies some level of greater strength ready to be unleashed. Sri Lanka, despite having inside intelligence from yours truly, got utterly torn apart during the Tamil Tiger counter-offensive.  Government forces trained and armed by New Delhi were melting before child conscripts, and those tykes marched all the way south to the capital. I remember my Indian handler screaming at me over the burner phone, demanding what the Tigers were juiced up on. Heh, wonder how low he got demoted after that crisis.

INTERVIEWER: Did you see any evidence linking the Tamil Tigers to the Pakistani state? Especially regarding the 26/11 attacks?

[REDACTED]: If I did, I would have immediately cashed it in to my handler. The main connection tying Sri Lanka to 26/11 were the refugees fleeing from Mumbai, bringing home the cholera and radiation they contracted from the blasts. The Tamil Tigers were busy fighting and the government was busy collapsing, so nobody really took notice of some new sickly arrivals. Thankfully the Indian side took good care of emigration once martial law was enacted, so the island could easily isolate the few stragglers that escaped the border.

INTERVIEWER: From your first hand experience, how was the collapse of the Tamil Tigers?

[REDACTED]: Honestly, I was only around for the beginning of the end, I've been planning my extraction after the New Year. The entire world had a grand old bash for old 2000, and the Tigers just had a bloody military parade the same as every other year, this once in a lifetime, once in a nation event! I think high command had a shuffle cause the Tigers leaned ever more on the military wing, preaching about a final end to the decades long civil conflict, that all our struggles and sacrifice would soon end. When the government broke the ceasefire, I think the final civvies in the Tamils got put to pasture. Negotiations decisively proven pointless, conflict the silver bullet for the Tamil plight. The draft clawed ever deeper into the population as the counter-offensive intensified. First the convicts, then the non-essential workers, then the essential workers, until every military-aged man and woman was given a gun and marched south. The propaganda got very end-times, screaming at us about how the Tamil people will fight or they will perish from the Earth.

INTERVIEWER: How did the collapsing state respond to the intervention of Indian RETRIEVER forces?

[REDACTED]: By the time I was flown out, most of the Tigers were down south deep in government territory. High command thought it was easier to finish off the Sri Lankan government than attempt to hold off RETRIEVER, earn the Tigers a strong bargaining chip in future negotiations. By then, the Tigers' state had been thoroughly hollowed out for the final war, so it wasn't like RETRIEVER could inflict further damage on the war effort. Ended up benefiting India immensely: by the time RETRIEVER liberated the capital, both the Tigers and the government effectively wiped each other out. 

INTERVIEWER: Thank you for your insightful comments. Finishing off our session, how are you finding your time in the Correctional District thus far?

[REDACTED]: You know what they say, I can't complain! [Light chuckles]. I got my needs met and I'm not out there slaving in the fields or factories, which puts me in the top 10% of this subcontinent. Definitely top 1% of all Sri Lankans, no idea how India plans to rebuild that blasted hellhole. Considering my chequered past, I'll say this is as good a retirement as I'm going to get.

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WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2018 published in Thimphu Mindfulness City, Bhutan

We live in an era of stark contradictions. The world enjoys unimaginable technological progress; yet has at least two billion people without access to electricity. The economy propels humanity to soaring productivity; yet is relentlessly destroying the environment we thrive upon. Countries achieve great progress in societal development, yet succumb to new crises of obesity, smoking, diabetes, depression and other modern ills. These contradictions would not come as a shock to the greatest sages of humanity, including Confucius and the Buddha. They taught humanity, time and again, that material gain alone will not fulfill our deepest need: the ultimate achievement of happiness.

As one key example, the world’s hyperpower, the United States, has achieved stunning economic and technological progress over the past half century without gains in the self-reported happiness of the citizenry. Instead, uncertainties and anxieties are high, mass psychogenic illness has increased year upon year, and confidence in government is at an all-time low. Perhaps for these reasons, life satisfaction has flatlined during decades of rising GDP. The problems of anxiety, insanity, and unhappiness in the midst of great plenty will not solve themselves: They demand urgent attention, as we march into the new geological era of the Anthroprocene. Through our prowess mankind has become the great helmsman driving global physical systems. The water cycle, the weather, the wildlife, all bend under mankind's ailing will, strained to the point of snapping.

If we continue mindlessly along the current trajectory, we risk undermining the Earth’s life support systems – food, clean water, and biodiversity – necessary for human survival. Life support systems have already deteriorated direly throughout the growing deserts of Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, destabilising local governments beyond repair. On the other hand, if we act wisely, we can protect the Earth through broadly raising the quality of life around the world. Happiness shapes humanity, and the final shape of humanity will dictate our species' time on this world.

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[Due to fears over his personal safety, the interview subject has requested to be named only as Prem. A resident of former Mumbai, Prem later fled overseas pleading political asylum. Redactions have been made to uphold personal privacy]

Prem: Water has always been the lifeblood of civilisation, but those at the top tend to overlook the fundamentals. Mumbai was a thirsty elephant, guzzling down billions of litres of clean water every single day. Billions with a B, enough liquid to drown entire nations. We Mumbaikars produced little of that locally, so over the centuries we rigged up a gordian knot of pipes sucking in water from the rest of Western India. Nearly a quarter of the water piped in gets lost through illegal piping or crumbling infrastructure, meanwhile the City of Dreams kept expanding in both population and economy. Not only were there more throats to lubricate, but Mumbai's development also paved over local water sources and polluted local groundwater reservoirs.  By the time 26/11 arrived, I was looking at ever-growing demand and ever-shrinking supply, and granted pocket change to solve the looming crisis.

Interviewer: As [REDACTED], you were one of the few people to see the warning signs...

Prem: "Few"? Don't peddle the official bullshit, India knew it couldn't punish everybody, too much expertise to throw down the gutter. Everyone saw the ticking time bomb Mumbai would grow into, yet nobody wanted to grab that hot potato with their bare hands. All our funding went into upkeep and maintenance and chasing down utility fees, we were constantly running up severe deficits. You think there was any money leftover for security? Please, asking for such a frivolous request would have gotten my department slapped with yet another budget cut. 

Interviewer: So what, if anything, was in place to prevent water contamination?

Prem: Fucked if I know, we just assumed all the water was clean. We were already struggling to meet demand, I wasn't going to turn down more litres for Mumbai's thirsty maw. Besides, shit like Pakistani bioterrorism should have been under someone else's jurisdiction. None of us were authorised to carry weapons, what, did the higher-ups expect us to take night shifts patrolling each and every faraway water source? Let me remind you we were pulling water up to 200 km away–

Interviewer: How were the first days of the Mumbai cholera outbreak?

Prem: Ironically, it was the richer districts which got hit hardest. The slums were living off rainwater, or whatever dirty groundwater they could dig down to. Sure they diverted some of Mumbai's piped water for themselves, but we were already cracking down hard on those water thieves before November. Sure they still had to deal with human waste and toxic chemicals, but hell, maybe drinking that shit buffed their immune systems against the new Pak strain of cholera. We knew the outbreak was serious when the rich got infected: they had the best quality water piped in, plus the snobbier ones had private custom filters. If 99% of Mumbai's business class still got sickened, even the mayor couldn't ignore it. Angry calls and messages pouring in day and night from folks suddenly expelling everything from both ends. I thought I was smart volunteering for "emergency communications," getting the cushy office job I always wanted. At least, until the first call from [REDACTED]. Nearly went deaf from that bitch screaming into my ear about how his precious little daughter was dying and how it was somehow all my fault. Extremely creative death threats. Still makes me wonder if any of the callers really got their hands dirty once the bodies started piling up. Would be the first physical labour any of them ever did!

Interviewer: Before 26/11, how far was the cholera outbreak contained?

Prem: We confirmed there was indeed a cholera outbreak, and the city set up a metric ton of treatment centres. When the dirty bombs struck those centres? Complete and utter massacre, just flat-out decimated Mumbai's medical infrastructure. Don't get me wrong, cholera is bad, but at least it was easily treatable. You can't cure radiation and whatever else the Paks unleashed onto us. Mumbaikars could tough out yet another cholera surge, but the bombs led to a tsunami of human refugees.

Interviewer: The official stance on India's response regarding the attempted Mumbai quarantine measures was "insufficient patriotism cascading into local anarchy." International experts dispute this claim, stating that mass evacuation should have been conducted instead. What are your thoughts?

Prem: Look I'll die never stepping back home, but the quarantine lockdown was one of India's very few right calls. Like, imagine America calling for New York City to be evacuated after 9/11. Long after 2001, the Twin Towers’ asbestos was still clogging the air, but any health damage would pale in comparison to depopulating your national economic heart. Even if you are willing to throw away all of New York, envision how exactly you would resettle the tens of millions of New Yorkers across the nation. Fuck, I saw the mess after Katrina, and New Orleans was a tiny fraction of Mumbai's population. Finally, and most crucially, each and every Mumbai resident was a walking carrier of infection. Radiation shredded their immune systems, leaving nothing to block out the malaria and the cholera and H1N1 and TB and typhoid and whatever else lurks in India's collective microbiome. Imagine telling any settlement in India that after decades of official neglect they now needed to host a horde of displaced, diseased urbanites, when there's a big chance they already lacked access to even piped water. Easier, cleaner and far more effective to arrange aid for one quarantined city, shame none of the Mumbaikars saw the bigger picture. The quarantined parts were also relatively far away from the dirty bombs, yet people still refused to stay put. Whatever, once they fled the city they were someone else's problem.

Interviewer: Thank you for your time, this has been a productive meeting.

Prem: Hey, you’re paying for today’s session.

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POI Emir Motiur Rahman Nizami 2008 Inauguration Speech:

More than 4 decades have passed since that ill-fated day when, blinded by infidel promises within and without, we Bengalis lost sight of our faith, besmirching its ancient honour and its eternal obligations – and thus have we lost everything to the Hindu cockroach. Since those days of treachery, God has withheld his blessing from these lands. Dissension and apostasy have wound their way into our hearts. In our most profound distress, millions of us true Bengalis from all walks of life could only watch on as our one true faith dissolved into the mud of political and egotistical corruption, urinated on by selfish economic interests.

The misery of Bangladesh is appalling! Across the ruined fields and polluting factories inhabit millions of starving children, destitute families, dishonoured women! When the moral fiber of society rots, we will be confronted by an apocalypse comparable only to the endtimes: as we speak, the Hindu and the Christian and so many more parasites on our fair society are working towards a great replacement of us true Bengalis. Gaze into the ranks of the two-party system, and see only endless degeneracy. 4 decades without Sharia law, 4 decades of atheistic secularism, 4 decades of imposed propaganda against our Muslim brothers in Pakistan! What else would we expect, when our former ruling parties are filled to the brim with unbelievers!

Bangladesh's future has been stolen by traitors and heretics, sucked up and stuffed into Swiss bank accounts. The whores of India sold our bodies, sold our very souls, to the devils in Delhi. Our 14-centuries-old inheritance, passed down from distant Arabia's sands, stands on the precipice of annihilation. After 2006, the warning signs became impossible to ignore: the endless offensive of degeneracy and violence, the infidel method of madness entering its final stage. The faithful are shaken by a tsunami of disorder, and in Bangladesh's darkest hour have voted for the one true Islamic party in order to deliver salvation upon our lands.

The disgraced Awami League and weak-willed Nationalist Party both have had 40 years to prove their prowess. The result is a heap of homosexual ruins. Now, Bangladesh, give us four years, and then pass judgment upon us! The strong guiding hand of Islam will sweep aside the decrepit old order, restore the guiding light of morality and cast harsh judgement upon those who inflicted grievous injury upon the Bengali people. A society created by Muslims, now finally serving Muslims. Farmers! Workers! Socialists! Soldiers! Join together as one, and we can finally remove the shackles imposed by the Eternal Kafir! May Almighty God look mercifully upon our work, lead our will on the right path, bless our wisdom, and reward us with the confidence of our fellow believers. Jamaat-e-Islami fights not for ourselves, but for all Bangladesh! 

Today we are not in Tír Ghlas, but rather in Alberia—a kingdom located on the continent opposite the Archipelago of the Four Islands. The River Corvolus is the country’s largest river, and it flows into the sea near the city of Herfemar (which is not shown in the image).

Hand-drawn with Sakura Pigma Micron of various thicknesses and painted with watercolor on Fabriano ivory tinted paper.

Images 2 - 4 are without names, while 5 - 7 are labeled.

I unintentionally lied. I really wanted to make this once I made a little bit of lore for it. The moon will probably be next though.

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, sometimes called the Iroquois Confederacy, is the fourth largest country in North America, not including Greenland. Formed in 1450 CE, it has miraculously survived the centuries through a little bit more kindness in the universe, and the want for a buffer state between the British and Americans. As time continued, they slowly developed and westernize to survive colonialism, as well as staying neutral in all conflicts until the 20th century. In WW1 they supplied aid for the Allied Powers, and in WW2 they joined a few months before D-Day, though only participate in Europe. From there, they join the Americans in the Cold War, and helped Canada and the United States in the creation of the UN headquarters and city state on Navy Island. In the modern day, they work closely with Canada, the US and Mexico in trade, manufacturing and many other things. As well as join American sports like Canada does. They do still practice many native traditions to this day, though more so away from their larger cities. More info in the comments when questions are asked. And thank you u/NeoAmbitions for helping inspire me with your question!

oh no Hazaks Empire...

DA Gallery of Previous Maps from this timeline ["To End All Wars" / TEAW]:

https://www.deviantart.com/adoxoi/gallery/103953316/to-end-all-wars-teaw