What its creator Matthew White calls a "surreal history". The site proposes what the United State of America would look like if it was a Middle Ages version of itself. No fantastical elements. No radioactive mutants or wizards. It's strictly what North America would look like, with its current ancestry, religious values and culture would look like given only a medieval level of technology to work with. Because it's
1000 years into the future, it doesn't quite count as
Alternate History, but it largely appeals to that crowd. The
site is here,
, but it has not been updated in
over half a decade.
Trope Examples:
- After the End: America is in its present state due to an unspecified disaster.
- Alien Space Bats
- Big Applesauce: King of averted, New York is not nearly the major player it is the modern day.
- Culture Chop Suey: Often the point. It likes to splice American cultures and institutions with historical ones. So we have cowboy barbarians, a federal government that plays the role the Roman Catholic Church did in the Medieval era...
- Divided Statesof America: Naturally.
- Deep South: Somewhat different from most portrayals, in that African ethnicity and culture made a much more visible mark on the region. However, there are a few flags with the Stars and Bars motif.
- Flyover Country: Definitely inverted. White considers the Great Plains to be the most fascinating subject to talk about.
- God Emperor: What rulers in the desert appear to be like.
- Hollywood California: One of the "Hydraulic Empires", autocratic regimes that thrive in the desert.
- Hollywood Voodoo: No information has been written enough to get it wrong, but it does seems to have largely taken up space in the Gulf Coast.
- Lady Land: In the Caribbean, women occupy civil service jobs as the men are away.
- Orphaned Series: A very strong and frustrating example.
- Proud Merchant Race: How the former U.S.A. gets by.
- Saintly Church: Relatively speaking, the Non-Denominational Church provides social services in the new Dark Ages, sue for peace, and have a republican structure.
- The Big Easy: May be the most important trading port on the continent, as it funnels South American goods to the inland fiefdoms.
- The Horde: What the cowboys of the great plains are to everyone else.
- The Other Rainforest: The site of many merchant cities, which largely practice Buddhism.
- What Could Have Been: There's a stash of images and planned pages that don't go anywhere, so it's evident what the creator was planning at the time.
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