History Roleplay / AWorldWithoutAmerica

** Fascist France.

* {{Cold War}}: Averted, due to a multi-polar world after the Great War.

* {{Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys}}: Mostly subverted, France in 1891 gets the shit beat out of it in the Great War, but they don't surrender without said fight.

** Angela Merkel is the Iron Frau.

* {{Divide and Conquer)): The Confederacy founds the OAS because it believes that a war between Brazil and the rest of South America would be the perfect opportunity for Europe's colonial powers to swoop in and 'reclaim' the continent.

** Caliph Adile and Caliph Aysun of the Ottoman Empire.

* {{Sweet Polly Oliver}}: Emperor Apaec III turns out to be a young woman, Princess Maritza. Her true gender was hidden away to keep the succession alive after her uncle, Apaec II, and her own father, both die, leaving her as the Sapa Inca.

* SexSlave: What the Crusaders did some female Muslims.

A World Without America is an alternate history roleplay on NationStates. The story primarily focuses around the British Empire beating the Americans in their revolution, but has had several other effects as nations warp the fabric of history around their nations, including a Japanese Empire being a juggernaut and being best friends with China, to the Confederate attack on Pearl Harbor in 1891 as part of a twisted version of Manifest Destiny... to the Inca Empire surviving Spanish conquest.

* {{Forever War}}: Czechoslovakia declares independence from Germany and Hungary in 1891. They're still offically at war in the present day.

** The Ukrainians to the Yugoslavs and Hungarians during the Balkan war.

** The super-wank Japan, then assists the Manchus in sacking the Ming Dynasty, and creating a super wank China as well, preventing the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion.
** Due to Rum revitalizing itself, Islamic radicalism is practically non-existant, with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein both being men of respectable cloth. bin Laden runs Arabia's 'National Oil and Railroad' Corporation after his Dad dies in the Mecca bombing.

** Biological weapon attack on Mecca, killing at least 10,000 pilgrims, including the Rumite Caliph and the Sultan of Arabia.

* {{WeAREStrugglingTogether}}: Often the case on the out-of-character thread.

** In addition, most of Germany's former colonies remain as shitty as they are in real life

* {{Royal Inbreeding}}: Japan and Britain do this.

** John F. Kennedy still dies on November 22, 1963 from a bullet wound to the head sustained in Dallas, Texas. Instead of Lee Harvey Oswald, this time, an Indonesian Prince does it.

** Brady O'Bran and Bishop Marcelos Lopes, the leaders of the Catholic Crusade against Indonesia.

** Empress Meiji and Kim Il-sung have these without really trying to form them.

** Shirō Ishii is a popular family physician in Chiba.

* {{Butt Monkey}}: OoCly, The Vaktovian Empire.

* {{Cult of Personality}}: Tsar Oleksandr of Ruthenia and Premier Stanislav Pavlenko of the Soviet Union both had extensive propaganda campaigns to make them seem like gods.

** Emperor Alexander II who leads a Japanese tank battalion in Indonesia in the early 1960s.

* {{Cult of Personality}}: Tsar Oleksandr of Ruthenia and Premier Stanislav Pavlenko of the Soviet Union.

* {{Worthy Opponent}}: Most of the wars waged are not push-overs, so everyone is a worthy opponent of everyone.

** Ukraine unleashes their own Final Solution on the Crimeans, killing over a million of them.

* {{Yellow Peril}}: Confederate States of America's view of Japan.
* {{A Nazi by Any Other Name}}: Svandze, the dictator of the Caucasian Free State.

** Adolf Hitler becomes a German propaganda artist during the 1930s.

* {{Darkest Hour}}: What Japan is in after Confederate forces storm the beach in Southern Vietnam in the late 19th century.

** George Washington's luck runs out.

** John F. Kennedy
* {{Butt Monkey}}: The Vaktovian Empire

** the Imperial State of Ruthenia (1914-1918) adopted National Socialism (Ukrainian: #1085;аціонал-соціалізм or natsional-sotsializm, the term Nazi was only written with a Z because of a translation error.) as its main ideology. However, following the fall of Ruthenia the Ideology has never truly resurfaced.

* {{Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys}}: Mostly subverted, France in 1891 gets the shit beat out of it in the Great War, but they don't surrender without said fight.

* {{Butt Monkey}}: Spain.

* {{From Bad to Worse}}: Starting out with blowing down Japanese jetliners and slaughtering Christians, Indonesia decides that it wants to blow up Mecca, and succeeds.

* {{All Germans Are Nazis}}: Mainly averted, the Germans do not adopt Nazism.

* {{Darkest Hour}}: What Japan is in after Confederate forces storm the beach in Southern Vietnam.

* {{Nuclear Weapons Taboo}}: Somehow stays together despite the fact that at least 20 nations have nuclear weapons.

* {{For Want of a Nail}}: Emperor Go-Daigo defeats the Shogunate and abolishes it, and it creates a super wank Japan.
** The super-wank Japan, then assists the Manchus in sacking the Ming Dynasty, and creating a super wank China as well.

** Applies to Rum and it's relations with Iran and Yugoslavia.

** Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas

* {{All Germans Are Nazis}}: Mainly averted, the Germans do not adopt Nazism. However, the Imperial State of Ruthenia (1914-1918) adopted National Socialism (Ukrainian: націонал-соціалізм or natsional-sotsializm, the term Nazi was only written with a Z because of a translation error.) as its main ideology. However, following the fall of Ruthenia the Ideology has never truly resurfaced.

* {{Friendly Enemy}}: Confederate States and Japanese Empire after the nuclear age begins.
** Also applies to Canada/Britain and the CSA.

** Attempt to assassinate Emperor Alexander II while visiting Fukuoka

* {{Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman}}: Applies to many historical figures. Anne Frank stays in Germany and becomes an actress before dying at an extremely old age, Adolf Hitler becomes a propaganda artist for the German government, so on and so forth. Funnily enough, Richard Nixon still ends up being President of the Confederate States.

* {{Going Native}}: What many Spanish settlers did in the 16th century when the Inca Empire struck back.