History VideoGame / PaxBritannica

''Pax Britannica'' is a ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV'' GameMod, set in a [[AlternateHistory dystopian]] TeslaTechTimeline where the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution failed. Along with this change in geopolitical history Automechs, pseudo-sentient barbed wire, bio-engineered living weapons, and military cybernetics have all been invented by the early 1930s and Nikola Tesla's inventions form the backbone of modern industry via the Tesla Towers and other electric implements.

** Some Generals have the custom trait '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Augmented]],' such as Lesley J. McNair whose portrait has some extra bits and pieces sticking out to him.
%%** [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553726649414320129/1191731252483600434/SCP-186_but_Spanish.png?ex=65afbbb7&is=659d46b7&hm=7c7207063d2107fc1671348952fbe55cff61e37b8ea1679c2754f42ee0f32930& As seen in this teaser]], %%Francisco Franco will also be augmented.

** The construction of the Nicaragua Canal is similar to the Panama Canal.

** Operation Overlord is the name of the joint Anglo-American Amphibious invasion of Spain rather than France like it is in our timeline and it happens around this timeline's version of World War 1 instead of World War 2.
* AmazonBrigade: The Razormaidens, groups of cybernetically and biologically modified women who act as everything from supersoldiers to spies.

** Mexico has had various stated split off into various independent nations following a civil war, including all of California and Tejas (Texas).

** The United Commonwealth doesn't control much beyond the original Thirteen Colonies and much of Louisiana and Florida. Even parts of what was French and Spanish Louisiana is controlled by separate British colony run by the Acadians.
** Prussia is independent from the United Kingdoms of Germany. This being said, Germany still starts out the mod ''[[InvertedTrope larger]]'' than it was in 1914 -- most of the Kingdom of Prussia is in Germany (independent Prussia only includes areas that didn't use to be part of the HRE), and Austria, Czechia and Slovenia are all part of the United Kingdoms.

** In the tech tree, tanks are called landships.

** Old North vs South tensions heat up again if the Liberal Party under John Curtin gets in-charge, with "The Free States" rising up against the North.

** The music used for the "The Second Great War" super event is a cover of ''Everybody Wants To Rule The World'' by Music/TearsForFears used in VideoGame/BioShockInfinite.

** Livewire is could be said to be inspired by Biowire from ComicBook/RogueTrooper or the living barbed wire from Film/Deathwatch2002.

** The American [=SocReds=] can create the Virgin Lands campaign - and, sure enough, it's roughly the same thing as the OTL Policies promoted by Nikita Khrushchev.

** Prussia is independent from the United Kingdoms of Germany, being a vassal of the Russian Empire. This being said, Germany still starts out the mod ''[[InvertedTrope larger]]'' than it was in 1914 -- most of the Kingdom of Prussia is in Germany (independent Prussia only includes areas that didn't use to be part of the HRE), and Austria, Czechia and Slovenia are all part of the United Kingdoms.

** [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553726649414320129/1191731252483600434/SCP-186_but_Spanish.png?ex=65afbbb7&is=659d46b7&hm=7c7207063d2107fc1671348952fbe55cff61e37b8ea1679c2754f42ee0f32930& As seen in this teaser]], Francisco Franco will also be augmented.

** A city in the East Coast is called [[Literature/WorldWarZ Yonkers]].

* OffWithHisHead: A woman is discovered to having her head detached from her body nearby a church, courtesy of the Melbourne Torso Killer [[spoiler: as retribution for massacring an entire church filled with civilians. The woman herself was part of the 85th Shocktrooper Corps as a Razormaiden]].

%%* PrisonColony: The Russian Empire uses Alaska as this, mostly for political dissidents and radicals. Unfortunately for them, they made it too easy for the prisoners to buy their freedom and become proper settlers, meaning Alaska is now one of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the largest gatherings of political dissidents, radicals, and other rebellious types]] in the Russian Empire, living far from the eyes of the Tsar.

* OffWithHisHead: A woman is discovered to having her head detached from her body by a church, courtesy of the Melbourne Torso Killer [[spoiler: as retribution for massacring an entire church filled with civilians. The woman herself was part of the 85th Shocktrooper Corps as a Razormaiden.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:An Imperial Timeline]]

* AlternateHistory: In this timeline, the American Revolution fails. Tesla and Edison’s crazy ideas also come to fruition.

** The American SocReds can create the Virgin Lands campaign - and, sure enough, it's roughly the same thing as the OTL Policies promoted by Nikita Khrushchev.

** T.E. Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia, was extremely traumatized by his experiences in the Great War, including seeing the indiscriminate bombardment of a city by his own side. He has fled to the desert, vowing to never fight for the British Empire again and spending his time studying Arabic literature. The British have a series of events involving tracking him down and dealing with him, with results ranging from him rejoining the Empire, the intelligence agents deciding to leave him alone, or them killing after he drew his pistol on them.