Alternate Future of Europe: Article 13

Alternate Future of Europe: Article 13 is a mapping series by Star Islandian Mapping. As its name suggests, it focuses on the infamous Article 13, a law proposed by the EU that would ban a great part of online content. So far, two parts have been released.

The series starts in January 2019 (the uploading time of the first episode) and at the moment, the latest events in the series take place in October 2019.

Timeline
Note: This section contains major spoilers.

Part 1

 * January 2019: The EU votes in favor of Article 13. Sweden opposes the change, while France is the most in favor of it, and demands that all EU countries start using Article 13 by the end of February. 14 of the 28 EU members have Article 13 by the end of the month.
 * February 2019: All remaining EU countries except Sweden start following Article 13.
 * March 2019: Due to Sweden's refusal to have Article 13, the EU declares war on Sweden. The EU is notably stronger. Due to the war, all EU members cancel their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
 * April 2019: The EU continues invading Sweden.
 * May 2019: The EU's attack on Sweden continues. Sweden almost surrenders, but is stopped by Norway, who has been buying billboards in EU countries in order to convince inhabitants of the countries to fight against Article 13. Sweden and Norway form the Anti-Article 13 alliance and start to reclaim land in Sweden. Australia wins the Eurovision Song Contest and is given permission to host it in 2020.
 * June 2019: Rebels in Finland and Denmark take over the countries and make them part of the Anti-Article 13 alliance. Iceland joins the alliance as well. The war continues.
 * July 2019: Iceland and Denmark get taken over by the EU. Norway convinces Estonia to become a secret ally of the Anti-Article 13 alliance by promising an official membership in the Nordic Council. Estonia slows down troops going to Finland for a while, but this effect starts to weaken.
 * August 2019: The EU takes over Finland. Sweden and Norway lose hope of winning the war.

Part 2

 * August 21, 2019: Sweden and Norway are about to surrender, and 24 hours remain until the surrender becomes official. At that moment, the United Kingdom finally leaves the EU and joins the Anti-Article 13 alliance, meaning the War of Article 13 continues.
 * August 2019: The United Kingdom takes over Ireland. Ireland becomes a member of the Anti-Article 13 alliance. Sweden reclaims most land.
 * September 2019: The EU becomes more effective against the Anti-Article 13 alliance again. Norway asks the United States for help by promising half of his oil. USA joins the Anti-Article 13 alliance and takes over Malta. Malta becomes a member of the Anti-Article 13 alliance and Estonia, previously a secret ally, becomes an official member. Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom reclaim all of their land. Finland and Denmark become members of Anti-A13 again after they get taken over by the alliance.
 * October 2019: Iceland becomes a member of the Anti-Article 13 alliance again. Australia joins the EU and declares war on New Zealand. New Zealand joins the Anti-Article 13 alliance. France talks to the USA, claiming that Norway lied about giving oil, and is planning to weaken the USA.

Style
For most of the series, the videos have one map (usually Europe, although a map of Oceania appears at the very end of part 2), with a white table on the side, which has information such as the current month, ongoing wars, current alliances and other color codes (however, water is not mentioned in color codes). The map templates are this for Europe and this for Oceania, although the latter was entirely traced from the picture to make changing the color of landmasses easier, as well as to remove the country names. Meanings of certain fields have also been edited.

The countries are represented by countryballs, who refer to themselves in first person and to other countries by gendered pronouns based on Polandball Wiki. Certain countryballs have been given specific looks based on Polandball, such as the UK having a top hat and monocle, Israel being a cube, the USA wearing sunglasses and Australia wearing a hat.

Areas in this series are color coded. Countries that are not involved in the War of Article 13 are gray, the EU is red and the Anti-Article 13 alliance is blue. Light yellow is used for the currently talking country, and any other colors are used for countries that are not currently in either major alliance but have relevance to something mentioned in the series. Water is light blue.

The series also has background music, and the artist is credited when their music is playing. When the map of Oceania is shown, the music plays backwards.

There are parts where maps aren't used, and instead, countryballs appear with a black background. This style has so far only appeared at the beginning and end of part 2. Music so far has been by Kevin McLeod, TheDancingFishstick and grande1899.

Trivia

 * In part 1, Sweden breaks the fourth wall by saying "It will ban the types of mapping videos we're in right now!"
 * In the first two parts, no country has actually changes borders.
 * References to certain stereotypes or traits commonly associated with countries are made.
 * France always surrenders: France hates this stereotype, and wanting to stop the internet spreading it is a major reason why France is pro-Article 13.
 * Estonia wants to be Nordic: Norway gets Estonia to join the Anti-Article 13 alliance by promising Estonia a place on the Nordic Council.
 * USA loves oil: Norway convinces the United States to join the Anti-Article 13 alliance by promising oil, and later France figures out oil is the reason why the United States joined the alliance.
 * Music by grande1899 (Grandayy) starts playing right as Malta is mentioned for the first time in part 2. Malta is the home country of Grandayy.