Recent content by robbiej

Up to F in my Alphabetic countrywanks - nice and quick for this one.

Took a while to finish, but up to E in my Alphabetic Nationwanks.

Up to D in my alphabetical countrywanks series, and came up with a good idea for Comoros while I was at it.

And we are now up to C in my alphabetical country-wank series. Image is behind a spoiler due to size - 'sbig. Couldn't think of something for Comoros, but that one I think I want to go back to.

All countries starting with B as part of my Alphabetical nation-wank series (sans Barbados). Plausibility, wankness not guaranteed.

I did consider this, but then I wondered how the map would be different from the Morocco wank I was going to do other than a different capital and recognisable Berber dynasty. In the end I went with a Barbary pirate themed wanking, but I take your point. I'm still exploring these and thinking...

My own take on the Alphabetical Nationwanks series, having a start from A with Afghanistan. Nationwanks is a bit of a flexible term here - just countries that are significantly larger, more prosperous, more influential and more successful than they are OTL. I won't be doing every country as some...

The World of Democracy's Last Legs in 1962, a very old HOI2 AAR in which two human players got rolled by an AI that achieved sentience but learned only spite. A (somewhat interpreted) summary of events is below, but really its a crazy read - just remember, the humans are playing the Allies here...

High levels of Worker democracy with a ceremonial figurehead monarch. Norway is more like a traditional social democratic parliament with seats proportioned by geography and population but worker owned cooperatives have pushed put traditional capital. In Norway socialists were elected before the...

Map from my old DH Kaiserreich game as the Commune of France. The map takes place in 1966. Fairly certain that making this map has done something to the cone cells in my eyes. The Netherlands underwent a socialist revolution and joined the Syndintern early on. When the SGW started it fell to...

From my Vic3 France Game - makes it much easier to create some real impressive wanks. Over the last 100 years, France has spread its hegemony the world. First under the Bourbons and then under the radical Second Republic, France has reduced its neighbors to subjugated clients, wrested the most...

Not quite rogue in the OTL sense of the word, in that they're not extreme violators of human rights and the sovereign international order (though they tend towards being pretty corrupt left-dictatorships) - more unwilling to participate in the neo-colonialist and imperial world order in the same...

Shanghai International Settlement From the minute I land in Shanghai, it is difficult for me to follow the conversations that go on around me. While I have a fairly proficient command in several languages, many of which are spoken here, the constant barrage of dozens of tongues overlayed on top...

It won't be so bad; China is very wealthy, deeply interconnected with the world economy and has what is unquestionably the most powerful military force on the planet alongside the ability to project it. That said, it is unquestionably declining and the next big blow will come from within. I...

Posted with permission from Ephraim Ben Raphael Dominion of the Later Song As I sit by the window of the tea house where I am meeting my contact, I am struck by the crowds and the sheer number and diversity of people who walk by. Hangzhou is the largest city of this world, boasting nearly forty...