Talk:No United States (Map Game)/@comment-26389738-20170201141823/@comment-25105676-20170201212241

@Aen: Although there weren't any world wars, the regional wars haven't stopped. For example:
 * In Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War substituted for World War I. China is a large country with a large population even at the start of the 20th century. As the Qing Dynasty never fell and from the looks of it didn't have any big problems with other great powers with the exception of Japan, it was more united. Japan had to be ahead of them in technology to compete with the larger army. Though Japan had naval superiority, it was a bigger fight on land. There was still a chance that after it expires, China will strike back with an even more superior army both technologically, both number wise.
 * In Europe, Germany took much longer to unify by Prussia, leaving the smaller nations to team up against him. Though I don't know when did France ally Austria, but I assume they teamed up against the formation of Prussian Germany (which is also the reason that Bavaria is in that state). The Napoleonic Wars never happened, so Italy mostly have unified itself by themselves, which needed superior military tech, so they must've achieved a miracle in some field. Although the Balkans are still a mess, its not that big as its today, but Austria was paying attention to Germany, leaving the Balkan nations mostly by themselves or needing the help of Russia. The biggest problem, Russia, needed to massively improve itself to keep up with the tons of civil wars, and had to improve itself each bigger civil war / independence war, such as the Polish War of Independence or the 1942 one.
 * In America, In our timeline, where after the US' independence, succeeding independence from the colonial powers got easier. In this timeline, the independence of the USA was delayed to the recent years, and there is still some territory as colonies in America. Because of the crushed American War of Independence, it also crushed the hopes of the Americans (the Americas, the two continents, not the United States), thus there was a need to improve to defend against European powers, as there was always a possibility that they will come back.
 * The only exception is Africa, which should be on that level, as they were occupied much slower and got independence quite quickly. I still doubt Africa would have those borders that look like almost the same as OTL.