History Roleplay / AWorldWithoutAmerica

* {{The Holocaust}}: Nazi Ruthenia undertakes a campaign of genocide against Crimean Tatars, Muslims, and any other groups perceived to be below the Slavic race.

* {{Imperial China}}: The Qing Dynasty, which lasts most of the RP before being dissolved after World War I, in 1919.

* {{The Holocaust}}: Nazi Ruthenia undertakes a campaign of genocide against Crimean Tatars, Muslims, and any other races perceived to be below the Slavic race.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Sunbombs are nuclear bombs.

A World Without America (or "AWWA") is an alternate history roleplay on NationStates. The main POD is about what you would expect: America is defeated in the Revolutionary War. There have been three different AWWA timelines:

First, there was the first series ("AWWA 0"), which is generally not counted with the later two. It didn't last very long due to disputes over Japanese and Chinese power. Notable divergences include Irish independence the 1770s and the murder of the last surviving member of the House of Osmanli by Maria Theresa. Of the RP'ers in the pilot, only Shrillland, Unicario, and Ruridova were in the later variants.

Second came AWWA 1. The story primarily focuses around the British Empire beating the Americans in their revolution, but has had several other effects as nations rewrite the history of their nations; including a Japanese Empire being a juggernaut and being best frenemies with China, to a Confederate naval and air attack on Pearl Harbor in 1891 as part of a twisted version of Manifest Destiny, to the Inca Empire surviving Spanish conquest, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA 1's RP'ers form the main body of AWWA'ers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA 1. It ended due to a long and confusing series of plots and arguments that should probably just be left as a Noodle Incident.

The most recent is AWWA 2, OP'ed by Unicario instead of Shrillland. AWWA 2 is only in 1775 right now. The core RP'ers of AWWA 1 kept on to AWWA 2, joined by United Marxist Nations, but Shrilland has left, unfortunately. He was sort-of replaced by Estainia, who would serve the role of unbiased-historical-context-provider but not the moderator role.

* {{Pen Name}}: Queen Catherine of Prussia is referred to as "Ludwig von Licht" in her political writings.
** {{Whole Plot Reference}}: "Ludwig von Licht" is infact a reference to AWWA 1, and the (in)famous "von Licht" writing dynasty. And not, as was briefly though, an ancestor of Ruridova's whose name was Ludwig von Licht who had been the inspiration for Georg von Licht.
* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: Baron von Steuben in Kyiv when the assassins try to murder Queen Catherine.
* {{Badass Princess}}: Queen Catherine, only 14 years old, leads a regiment of 7,000 Cossacks into Prussia and defeats her usurpers.
* {{KidHero}}: The King of Greece is 18, the Queen of Prussia is 16, and the King of the Two Sicilies is 12. This does not make them any less capable. The first two have definitively beaten far more experienced individuals in the game of politics.
* {{Regent for Life}}: Herr Krenz and his cadre of regents in 1773 when they attempt to assassinate Queen Catherine and usurp her power.
* {{Jerkass Gods}}: Unicario, as OP, has practically unlimited powers to do as she pleases.
** {{Disproportionate Retribution}}: Unicario as OP may do this to someone.
*** Ottoman Empire does this when they publicly execute the Ecumenical Patriarch because Greece.
* {{The Empire}}: The ''Holy Roman Empire'', of course! Also, France, Britain, and China.
** {{Vestigial Empire}}: The above plus Spain.
* {{Rising Empire}}: Egypt, Prussia (now Germany), Japan
* {{Martial Pacifist}}: Kathrinite Prussia. She will not lead her country into a war, but she will defend her fatherland to her dying day.
* {{Inadequate Inheritor}}: Catherine is the only child of Friedrich the Great. Unfortunately, when he died in 1760, she was an infant. Austria doesn't recognize her accession to the throne, and she had to put down a noble rebellion at 14. Fortunately, her cousin, OTL's Friedrich Wilhelm II, has no interest in being King.
* {{You Are in Command Now}}: Catherine of Prussia becoming Feldmarschall of the ''Kosakregiment'' during her march through Poland.
* {{I Shall Taunt You}}: Cossack declaration of war against the Ottoman Empire in both 1683 and in 1773.
* {{Defiant to the End}}: Cossacks and Prussia in regards to Russia and Austria.
** Could also be said for Korea and China; and Japan and China.
** Certainly Greece.
* {{The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized}}: America's revolution... well...
** Averted largely by Greece.
** {{Failure Is the Only Option}}: It's called '''A World Without America'''. What do you think is going to happen?
* {{My Death Is Just the Beginning}}: Frederick II of Prussia.
** Also Baron von Steuben.
** And the Chunliming Emperor.
* {{Cower Power}}: During the war between Spain and Egypt over Morocco, in order to avoid confrontation with Egypt, Spain withdraws all the way across Morocco to Rabat and Casablanca and cowers behind their defenses.
* {{Continuity Lock Out}}: This happens far too often with the backstories and histories of some nations, in AWWA 0, AWWA 1 and AWWA 2.
* {{An Offer You Cant Refuse}}: Ali Bey's peace offer to Ferdinand Capello of Spain.
** Nobody knows if he'll actually accept it or not.
* {{Running Gag}}: What United Marxist Nations hopes that Malta will become.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: Estania, the resident historian.
* {{Flashback}}: Ali Bey has one after the Turks hang the Ecumenical Patriarch.
* {{Imperial China}}: The Ming dynasty remains a world power and survived well into 1903.
* {{God Emperor}}: The Chunliming Emperor, unintentionally is revered by his people.

Second came AWWA 1. The story primarily focuses around the British Empire beating the Americans in their revolution, but has had several other effects as nations rewrite the history of their nations; including a Japanese Empire being a juggernaut and being best frenemies with China, to a Confederate naval and air attack on Pearl Harbor in 1891 as part of a twisted version of Manifest Destiny, to the Inca Empire surviving Spanish conquest, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA 1's RP'ers form the main body of AWWA'ers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA 1. It ended after everyone was too butthurt to proceed.

The most recent is AWWA 2, OP'ed by Unicario instead of Shrillland. AWWA 2 is only in 1775 right now. The core RP'ers of AWWA 1 kept on to AWWA 2, joined by United Marxist Nations, but Shrilland has left, unfortunately.

** {{Whole Plot Reference}}: "Ludwig von Licht" is infact a reference to AWWA 1, and the (in)famous "von Licht" writing dynasty.

A World Without America(or "AWWA") is an alternate history roleplay on NationStates. The main POD is about what you would expect: America is defeated in the Revolutionary War. There have been three different AWWA timelines:

First, there was the first series (AWWA 0), which is generally not counted with the later two. It didn't last very long due to disputes over Japanese and Chinese power. Notable divergences include Irish independence the 1770s and the murder of the last surviving member of the House of Osmanli by Maria Theresa. Of the RP'ers in the pilot, only Shrillland, Unicario, and Ruridova were in the later variants.

Second came AWWA 1. 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, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to the Russian Empire quashing Kerensky and the Bolsheviks, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA 1's RP'ers form the main body of AWWA'ers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA 1. It ended after disputes between players escalated to the point where fighting became constant.

* {{Nicolas Cage is Evil}}: Unicario, as OP, has practically unlimited powers to unleash hellfire and damnation upon the world.
* {{Disproportionate Retribution}}: Unicario as OP may do this to someone.
** Ottoman Empire does this when they publicly execute the Ecumenical Patriarch because Greece.

* {{Vestigial Empire}}: See above, also Spain.
* {{Rising Empire}}: Egypt, Prussia, Japan

* {{Nicolas Cage Emperor}}: The Chunliming Emperor, unintentionally is revered by his people as a nicolas cage.

* {{God Emperor}}: The Chunliming Emperor, unintentionally is revered by his people as a god.

* {{God is Evil}}: Unicario, as OP, has practically unlimited powers to unleash hellfire and damnation upon the world.

* {{The Empire}}: The ''Holy Roman Empire'', of course! Also, France and Britain.
* {{Vestigial Empire}}: See above, also Spain and China.

* {{Flashback}}: Ali Bey has one after the Turks hang the Ecumenical Patriarch.

* {{Continuity Lock-Out}}: This happens far too often with the backstories and histories of some nations, in AWWA 0, AWWA 1 and AWWA 2.

* {{An Offer You Can't Refuse}}: Ali Bey's peace offer to Ferdinand Capello of Spain.

Second came AWWA 1. 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, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to the Russian Empire quashing Kerensky and the Bolsheviks, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA 1's RP'ers form the main body of AWWAers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA 1. It ended after disputes between players escalated to the point where fighting became constant.

First, there was the first series, which is generally not counted with the later two. It didn't last very long due to disputes over Japanese and Chinese power. Notable divergences include Irish independence the 1770s and the murder of the last surviving member of the House of Osmanli by Maria Theresa. Of the RPers in the pilot, only Shrillland, Unicario, and Ruridova were in the later variants.

Second came AWWA 1. 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, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to the Russian Empire quashing Kerensky and the Bolsheviks, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA1's RPers form the main body of AWWAers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA 1. It ended after some revelations about plotting arose.

The most recent is AWWA 2, OP'ed by Unicario instead of Shrillland. AWWA 2 is only in 1773 right now. The core RP'ers of AWWA 1 kept on to AWWA 2, joined by United Marxist Nations and of the Quendi.

** Also Baron von Steuben.

* {{Why Couldn't You Be Different}}: Friedrich the Great's first thoughts when the doctor informed him he had a daughter.

* {{Why Couldnt You Be Different?}}: Friedrich the Great's first thoughts when the doctor informed him he had a daughter.

* {{Why Couldn't You Be Different?}}: Friedrich the Great's first thoughts when the doctor informed him he had a daughter.

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Second came AWWA1. 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, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to the Russian Empire quashing Kerensky and the Bolsheviks, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA1's RPers form the main body of AWWAers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA1. It ended after some revelations about plotting arose.

The most recent is AWWA2, OPed by Unicario instead of Shrillland. AWWA2 is only in 1773 right now. The core RPers of AWWA1 kept on to AWWA2, joined by United Marxist Nations and of the Quendi.

* {{Royals Who Actually Do Something}}: '''Empress Meiji''' of the Japanese Empire.
** Germany was this. Then Wilhelm II came along.
** Emperor Alexander II who leads a Japanese marine battalion in Indonesia in the early 1960s.
** Emperor Horatius of Roma Italia led 15,000 soldiers into Chad to put down an insurrection. He was later killed in battle.
* {{Putting on the Reich}}: The Caucasian Free State.
** Indonesia from 1951 to 1967
** the Imperial State of Ruthenia (1914-1918) adopted National Socialism (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.
** Hideki Tojo's Korean military government, and what the Society of the Shogun wanted to achieve in 1936.
** The Kenpaitei in 1979.
** The rather liberal fascists in France under Foch and Glaisyer.
* {{Yellow Peril}}: Confederate States of America's view of Japan until the mid-1900s.
** Funnily enough, the Confederates had by this point adopted a variety of Japanese military tactics, including the banzai charge and fighting to the death.
** Everyone's view of China after 1950.
* {{A Nazi by Any Other Name}}: The Svandizes, the dictatorial family ruling the Caucasian Free State.
** The Chinese author who pens "The Final Solution" calling on all Chinese to kill all Japanese.
** Sultan Wahyu of Indonesia.
** Emperor Puyi when it comes to the 1979 Coup.
* {{God Emperor}}: How Japan feels about Empress Meiji and her descendants.
* {{War Is Hell}}: The Indonesian War
** The Great War.
* {{Crapsack World}}: Averted, as many third world nations are actually much better off than they were OTL. Ethiopia, and many others.
** Does not apply to the Indonesian War.
** Most of Germany's former colonies remain as shitty as they are in real life, though.
* {{Korean War}}: Not Averted, the vassal King of Korea launches a revolution against Japan in 1776 and is defeated easily.
** China tries to launch a second one in 1891, but is stopped cold as they try to climb Mt. Paekdu and are beaten back in a bloody campaign.
* {{Pyrrhic Victory}}: The Indonesian War again -- victory is achieved over the maniacs in Batavia, and the Netherlands re-establishes a colony, but in the process, at least 200,000 people die, and Mecca is blown to smithereens.
** the Korean Front of the Great War.
** The Ukrainian defensive against the Russians in the Great War
* {{Forever War}}: Czechoslovakia declares independence from Germany and Hungary in 1891. Peace is established in 2014.
* {{From Bad to Worse}}: Starting out with blowing down Japanese jetliners, slaughtering Christians and assassinating world leaders, Indonesia decides that it wants to blow up Mecca... and they succeed.
* {{The High Queen}}: Empress Meiji and Empress Akane of Japan.
** Empress Xiunkun of China.
* {{All Germans Are Nazis}}: Averted, the Germans do not adopt Nazism.
* {{Alternate History Wank}}: All of the nations in the timeline.
* {{Royal Inbreeding}}: The inbred royalty that is already dominating Europe before the point of divergence gets a new opportunity to inbreed with Asia's great dynasties.
* {{Awakening the Sleeping Giant}}: Reversed in context -- Confederate States does this to Japan when they attack Pearl Harbor in 1891.
* {{You Are Not Alone}}: China to Japan after Japan is attacked at Pearl Harbor -- China agrees to peace with Japan.
** Confederate States of America does this to Netherlands and Japan in 1963, by joining the fight against Indonesia.
* {{Epic Fail}}: China leaves their southern border undefended, and Japan strolls right in and occupies most of South China.
** The Indochinese front between Japan and the CSA during the Great War: Japan accidentally sends two armies to fight one Confederate army, leaving a second Confederate army to march across the Mekong into Thailand.
* {{Divided States of America}}: American Revolution is smothered by the British and Japanese, Confederacy rises in 1830s to protest British emancipation.
* {{Romanovs And Revolutions}}: Romanovs survive a theocratic revolution in 1918 and high-tail it to Alaska.
* {{Reds With Rockets}}: Soviet Union, Italy, and to an extent, Japan and Rum.
* {{Red China}}: Averted, the Qing Empire survives and thrives.
* {{Peoples Republic of Tyranny}}: '''Christmas Island''' of all places, especially from 1976 to 1985. Since the death of its founder, Mao Chengyang, it has become less tyrannical.
** Also, the Caucasian "free state".
* {{Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman}}: Applies to many historical figures.
** Anne Frank becomes Anne van Pels and becomes an actress, performing in film and theatre from 1951 to her death in 2012.
** Adolf Hitler becomes a German propagandist and landscape artist during the 1930s.
** Joseph Stalin is involved in Caucasian government work under his native, Georgian name.
** Mao Zedong becomes a conservative prime minister of China in the 1950s.
** Kim Jong-il spends his life as one of the leading directors of Japan's largest movie studio, Polyphonic Films.
** Shiro Ishii is a popular family physician in Chiba.
** David ben Guiron and Golda Meir remain important figures in Jewish history- except they're rivals, with Ben Guiron leading the ZWC and Meir the Rumite Empire.
** Leon Trotsky writes Animal Farm.
** Osama bin Laden ends up being a railroad and oil magnate, controlling >30% of the world's oil supply.
** While Barack Obama still becomes President, he lived through internment in an Indonesian concentration camp in this timeline.
** Yoko Ono becomes a political activist in Japan and dies in the 1963 Tokyo bombing, never meeting John Lennon.
** December 7 is inverted; America bombs a Japanese Pearl Harbor, not vice-versa.
** 9/11 is also still an infamous date, except it was an attack against the ZWC's headquarters, not the Twin Towers.
* {{Different World Different Movies}}: 1984 is written by a German and becomes "A.D. 1951"
** Star Wars is written 140 years before it was originally made, and is written by a guy from Japan.
** Also worth noting is the early release of Battlestar Galactica.
** Most of Ayn Rand's writings gets written by Chodren Dawa, and Orwell is replaced by the von Licht's and Leon Trotsky.
** The first major literary adaptation of "Hua Mulan" is actually done by Japan in the 1830s with the publication of the "Story of Haruka Kamakura", a Japanese version of the story.
* {{The Exile}}: Georg von Licht flees Germany and continues to write badass novels until he dies. His son Gavriil flees Russia after spending time in the gulag. Asbjørn af Lys is disinherited by Robert Lee Light, and flees to Denmark as a a result. And, in something of an inversion, Avksenti Martali is kidnapped by the Caucasian government.
** Following the publication of a more than slightly racist book on Crimean Tatars, Emmanuel Carasso flees Rum for Ethiopia, adopting a new name in the process.
** After assassinating Tsar Viktor, Antoni Belinsky flees Ukraine-Romania.
** Emmanuel Carasso becomes this and moves to Ethiopia, adopting a new name -- Ferdinand Eichemann.
* {{Walking the Earth}}: Emperor Alexander of Japan does this in the 1830s, living with no possessions, he traverses the globe for no reason other than spiritual enlightenment.
* {{The Empire}}: In the 1830s, Germany, Russia, Italy and the Ottoman Empire all declare themselves Roman Emperors.
* {{Vestigial Empire}}: Ottoman Empire reverses this, and revitalizes itself in the 1830s and ends up retaking much of it's losses from the intervening centuries.
** China also subverts this, reversing the stagnation of generations of failed Empires by rapidly industrializing in the 1830s.
** The Russian Empire plays it straight; after 1918, it only controls Alaska.
* {{Badass Israeli}}: ''Golda Meir'' as Rumite/Ottoman Prime Minister.
* {{Persona Non Grata}}: Georg von Licht in Germany and Gavriil fon Likht in Russia
** Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek in China.
** Antoni Belinsky in Russia and Ukraine-Romania, and briefly the CSA.
** (militant) Zionists in Rum.
* {{Rousing Speech}}: Emperor Alexander gives this in 1891 in the Japanese Diet to raise morale.
* {{Irony}}: The speech Emperor Alexander gives is the Day of Infamy speech, given by Franklin Roosevelt OTL after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
* {{Disproportionate Retribution}}: After the Caliph Abdulhamid issues a fatwa against Indonesia in 1963, the Indonesians decide to detonate a dirty bomb in Mecca during Hajj, killing several million.
** Catholic Church does this to Indonesians.
* {{Allohistorical Allusion}}: '''November 22, 1963''' is an auspicious and deadly date.
** This marks the start of Indonesia's terrorist attacks on the major combatants of the Indonesian War. At 8:00AM JST on November 22, Indonesian terrorists detonate a series of bombs in Japan's subway system, killing at least 5,500 people.
** A Malaysian Airlines flight is shot down over Indonesia, and most of them die on impact, with the rest being sold into slavery by Indonesia's army.
** JFK still gets shot in the head on that day.
* {{General Ripper}}: Hideki Tojo, who unleashes terror on Korea from 1927 to February 26, 1936.
** Musashi Kamakura, if you are a Ainu. Leader of Japanese military forces in Northern Japan, he slaughters numerous Ainu personally.
** Priest Brady O'Bran and Bishop Marcelos Lopes, the leaders of the Catholic Crusade against Indonesia.
* {{Final Solution}}: Chinese ultra-nationalist policy against Japanese people during the Great War.
** Ukraine unleashes their own Final Solution on the Crimeans, killing over 4 million of them.
** Goal of the "Indonesian Crusaders" against the Muslim people in Indonesia.
** The Caucasian Free State's total slaughter of all non-Georgians and non-Christians in the country over the 1800s, creating an ethnically homogeneous country at the cost of thousands dead.
* {{Death Is Dramatic}}: The death of Empress Meiji was an overdrawn dramatic theatrical situation.
* {{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.
** Nobody in South America believes that.
* {{Kill Em All}}: Ukraine's policy on Tatars
** Crimea's policy on Ukrainians.
** Caucasia's policy towards non-Georgians. Caucasia's policy is particularly scary because it succeeded- the only non-Georgian cultural group in Caucasia to survive was the Russians, and that's because Russia liberated the territories that are presently Russian OTL in the Great War. The Azeris, Chechnyans, Armenians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Dagestanis, Adygheans, etc.? Not so lucky.
** Pope Patrick's "crusade" against Indonesia in retaliation for the bombing of Mecca and genocide against non-Muslims.
* {{In Spite of a Nail}}: Edward VIII still abdicates to his brother despite the United States not existing in this timeline.
** John F. Kennedy still dies on November 22, 1963 from a bullet wound to the head sustained in Dallas, Texas. In this universe, it's an Indonesian agent who kills him instead of Lee Harvey Oswald(who dies attempting to stop said Indonesian agent).
** The Carnation Revolution still occurs on April 25, 1974 that ends the Estado Novo.
** Malcolm X still gets killed, albeit a year earlier in the Mecca Bombing.
** Islamic radicalism still rises- but in Africa instead of the Middle East, a side effect of Germans making very large colonies that placed Muslims, Christians, and animists together with no regard for religion, tradition, or culture. This also leads to a lot of Christian radicalism in the area.
* {{Nuclear Weapons Taboo}}: Somehow remains in effect despite most of the "empires" of the world having nuclear weapons.
** Confederacy and Japan affirm themselves to the taboo by signing the SALT treaties in Sangoshima, Japan on three occasions.
* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: Subverted, there is still some Cold War feelings in ATL.
** Rivalries between nations such as Japan and the CSA
** EAU and AU have overlapping interests in some places
** Germany and Czechoslovakia spend the entire 20th century staring at each other from across a massive "Iron Curtain".
* {{For Want of a Nail}}: Emperor Go-Daigo's 1331 rebellion succeeds and the Shogunate is abolished, and it creates a super wank Japan, who ends up colonizing much of East Asia and becoming a world power almost 300 years before it did OTL.
** 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-existent in the Middle East(Africa is a different story), 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.
** Saddam Hussein is not deposed in 2003 by American forces, and is still alive in 2014, and serving as Rum's Prime Minister.
** George Washington's luck runs out, and he dies in battle. The Confederates adore the shit out of him.
** Also worth mentioning is Benedict Arnold, who never defects to Great Britain and is revered alongside Washington as a martyr.
** Japan's involvement in the war leads to the Confederates some 60 years later, adopting Japanese military technique to fight the British.
* {{Friendly Enemy}}: Canada and Britain's relations with the CSA.
** Applies to Rum and it's relations with Iran and Yugoslavia for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
** Strangely, Rum and the Zionists get along surprisingly well, largely due to the friendship that existed between Hayim ben Tzion and Emmanuel Carasso.
* {{Friendly Rival}}: Relations between Japan and the Confederacy after 1947 closely resemble this, due to the mutual effort to prevent MAD.
* {{Enemy Mine}}: China does this with Japan when the CSA attacks.
** All of Western and Central Europe does this and beats the living shit out of France.
* {{Mighty Whitey}}: Subverted because the power of countries in South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. European and North America influence reduced significantly as a result.
** Somehow, despite the horrible instability of North America and Europe, they still manage to invent everything, while Asia, who is richer, more stable, and less militaristic, still invents nothing during the 19th century.
* {{Heel-Face Turn}}: The Confederacy winds up being a close friend to Japan, Canada, and Britain.
** After France begins yearning for land it lost to Italy, Germany decides to put aside the age-old rivalry to see if they can get in on the taking-land-from-Italy.
** This doesn't work, and France goes fascist.
* {{Going Native}}: What many Spanish settlers and administrators did in the 16th century when the Inca Empire struck back.
** Princess Hanako, a Chinese daughter of an imperial concubine, does this and becomes Japanese.
** Rong Kai-er basically Polonizes himself and leads a rebellion against Germany in the 1830s in Poznan.
** Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek integrate themselves into Japanese culture, realizing that China was no longer in their grasp.
** Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin do this when they are exiled to Japan after the end of the American Rebellion. Franklin becomes the "Father of Modern Korea", Thomas Jefferson writes the 1789 Japanese Constitution, and John Adams becomes a politician.
** John Q. Adams follows his dad and becomes a Japanese Chancellor in the 1830s.
** The von Lichts almost always adopt local names when they show up in a new country. Fon Likht, Light, Fengliguoda, de Lict, af Lys, Martali...
* {{Military Coup}}: February 26, 1936 involves an attempted coup by the Shogunate Society and Kwangtung Army, based out of Korea. They are stopped by the Korean People's Army after assassinating Empress Elizabeth.
** Sultan Wahyu takes over Indonesia with one of these in 1952.
** China nearly falls to one of these in 1959 before the government manages to restore order over the issue of secret negotiations with rebels in what was Chinese East Africa regarding independence.
** The Kenpaitei, the Japanese intelligence group, attempts to seize power from Empress Akane and destroy Juche in May 1979. They fail miserably and are all killed by angry civilians, military and Empresses.
** January 2000 has one of these in store for the Maldives, which collapses due to the Y2K bug and government arrogance.
* {{Insane Admiral}}: Sultan Wahyu of Indonesia. He is super crazy.
* {{You Have No Chance to Survive}}: Those in the Japanese subway system in Tokyo and Fukushima during the Japanese morning rush-hour on November 22, 1963.
** The several thousand people in Mecca during the day on April 22, 1964.
** The people on-board the Malaysian Airlines flight that gets shot down over Indonesia in 1961.
** John F. Kennedy.
** Asbjørn af Lys and Mordechai Anilvitz on September 11, 2001.
* {{Suicide Attack}}: All of Indonesia's actions from 1963 to 1967.
** Massive bombing of Japanese subway system, killing 5,500 people.
** Biological weapon attack on Mecca, killing at least 10,000,000 pilgrims, including the Rumite Caliph, the Sultan of Arabia, and Malcolm X.
** Car bomb attack on Dutch embassies in Tokyo, Beijing, and London.
** Car bomb attack against The Hague
** Car bomb attack against Buckingham Palace, Westminster, and Parliament in London.
** Car bomb attack against the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
** The detonation of a bomb inside the Reichstag, causing the central dome to collapse on those inside.
** Attempt to pilot a plane full of explosives into the Forbidden City with the intent of assassinating the Chinese Emperor.
** Attempt to assassinate Emperor Alexander II while visiting Fukuoka
** Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas
* {{Character Development}}: Alexander I of Japan demonstrates this, spending his early days as Emperor screwing the Turkish Calipha's brains out and being generally irresponsible and reckless. By 1891, he is a wizened old man, who spends his days contemplating strategy and doing day-to-day administration.
* {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}: President Thomas Hendricks of the CSA is asked to speak before the Supreme Court in the case ''Department of Justice v. CS Congress'', on behalf of the DoJ. He lists the reason why Belinsky sucks, but then says that Congress's attempt to ban Belinsky's book is even worse, throwing in lots of references to the Founding Fathers for good measure. SCOTCS- which had been expected to rule in favor of Congress- ultimately goes 8-1 in favor of the Department of Justice.
* {{Born Unlucky}}: Emperor Puyi of Ethiopia, who isn't well liked by his Japanese or Chinese royal kin.
** Emperor George I and II of Japan. George I is assassinated on Christmas 1837 while burying his mother, and George II dies prematurely due to pneumonia.
** John F. Kennedy, who still gets shot in Dallas.
** Malcolm X, who still gets murdered (and gets murdered a year earlier, to boot).
** The von Lichts aren't exactly all that lucky. Two of them are forced to flee their homes, one of them is disinherited and killed in a terrorist attack, and one is kidnapped by the Svanidzes to write propaganda.
* NGOSuperpower: though it isn't nearly at the superpower level, the Zionist World Congress has more clout than some small countries.
* UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution: Guyane builds a nation around this.
* {{Cultural Revolution}}: Guyane basically undertakes this using the Cult of Reason.
** Japan undertakes this during the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s as part of the Juche ideology, which is nothing like it's OTL counterpart.
** Emphasis Japan post-1979, massive cultural revolution against anti-Juche thought.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Mostly subverted, France in 1891 gets the shit beat out of it in the Great War, but they don't surrender without said fight.
** Not so subverted after the Fourth Republic comes into power and gives away a bunch of land to satiate the Allies. Fascist France hates that.
** Canada, which is not only nearly overrun by the Confederacy, but loses several major battles to the ''Québécois''.
* {{Kaiserreich}}: Alive and well, with a Roman flair, and elected monarchs.
* {{Would Not Shoot a Civilian}}: Subverted by almost everyone. Japan kills Ainu civilians, Indonesia kills Dutch and Indonesian civilians, Crusaders kill Indonesian civilians, etc. etc.
* {{Heel Face Turn}}: China after Japan occupies South China in 1891.
* {{What a Senseless Waste of Human Life}}: The Great War
** The Ruthenian Civil War
** The Balkan War
** The Central European Crises
* {{Worthy Opponent}}: Most of the wars waged are not pushovers, so everyone is a worthy opponent of everyone.
* {{We ARE Struggling Together}}: Often the case on the out-of-character thread.
* {{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.
** Empress Meiji and Kim Il-sung have these without really trying to form them.
** The Svanidze dynasty has one built up over decades.
* {{Sex Slave}}: What the Crusaders did some female Muslims.
* {{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.
* {{She Is the King}}: Emperor Apaec III / Maritza I of Tawantinsuyu.
** Caliph Adile and Caliph Aysun of the Ottoman Empire.
* {{Iron Lady}}: ...'''Bloody''' Margaret Thatcher...
** Angela Merkel is the Iron Frau.
* {{Lady of War}}: Empress Akane is this during the 1979 Rose Revolution. She kills her two guards and leads a massive civilian march on the Japanese Senate to bring down the Kenpaitei rebellion.

A World Without America(or "AWWA") is an alternate history roleplay on NationStates. There have been three different AWWA timelines:

Firstly, there was the first series, which is generally not counted with the later two. It didn't last very long due to disputes over Japanese and Chinese power. Notable divergences include Irish independence the 1770s and the murder of the last surviving member of the House of Osmanli by Maria Theresa. Of the RPers in the pilot, only Shrillland, Unicario, and Ruridova were in the later variants.

Secondly, was AWWA1. 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, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to the Russian Empire quashing Kerensky and the Bolsheviks, to.... well, you get the point. It was by far the longest running, getting into the 1900s within the RP and with the rest of the RP mapped out to the present. AWWA1's RPers form the main body of AWWAers- Shrillland, Ruridova, Vaktovia, Luziyca, Unicario, and Bojikami- were part of AWWA1. It ended after some revelations about plotting arose.

A World Without America(or "AWWA") 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, to the German principalities uniting in the 1820s to form a Greater Germany, to the Russian Empire quashing Kerensky and the Bolsheviks, to.... well, you get the point.

* {{The French Revolution}}: Guyane builds a nation around this.

* {{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.

** Indonesia from 1961 to 1967

* {{Alternate History Wank}}: Most of the nations in the timeline.
** Most?

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

** The Indochinese front between Japan and the CSA during the Great War: Japan accidentially sends two armies to fight one Confederate army, leaving a second Confederate army to march across the Mekong into Thailand.

* {{Romanovs And Revolutions}}: Doesn't occur until the late nineties, when the Romanovs are ousted in favor of a republic.
** They flee to Alaska, though.
* {{Reds With Rockets}}: Soviet Union, Italy, and to some extent, Japan.

** Kim Jong-il spends most of his life as one of the leading directors of Japan's largest movie studio, Polyphonic Films.

** Leon Trotsky writes Animal Farm and becomes President of the Zionist World Congress.
** Vladimir Lenin is a Tsarist ATL, due to different circumstances surrounding the death of his brother.
** Osama bin Laden ends up being a railroad and oil magnate.

** Zionists in Rum.

* {{Disproportionate Retribution}}: After the Caliph Abdulhamid issues a fatwa against Indonesia in 1963, the Indonesians decide to detonate a dirty bomb in Mecca during Hajj.

** Also, JFK still gets shot in the head on that day.

** Japan does this to the Ainu in revenge for their rebellion in the 1890s.

** The Caucasian Free State's total slaughter of all non-Georgians and non-Christians in the country over the 1800s, creating an ethnically homogenous country at the cost of thousands dead.
* {{Death Is Dramatic}}: The deaths of Empress Meiji and Alexander are both overdrawn dramatic theatrical situations.

** Due to Rum revitalizing itself, Islamic radicalism is practically non-existant in the Middle East(Africa is a different story), 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.

** Strangely, Rum and the Zionists get along surprisingly well, largely due to the friendship that existed between Hayim ben Tziyon and Emmanuel Carasso.

* {{Enemy Mine}}: Tawantinsuyu, Venezuela and the Netherlands, despite all absolutely loathing Guyana, team up with them against Brazil.
** China does this with Japan when the CSA attacks.

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

** Empress Elizabeth of Japan, whose reign is plagued with various maladies, culminating in her getting killed by rebels in 1936.

** Malcolm X, who still gets murdered(and gets murdered a year earlier, to boot).

* {{Butt Monkey}}: (OOC) The Vaktovian Empire.
** IC, likely Crimea. Under constant threat from Ukrainian-Romanian invasion, Crimea is instead invaded and conquered by its two closest "allies"- Rum and Russia.

** Not so subverted after the Fourth Republic comes into power and gives away a bunch of land to satiate the Allies.

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

** The Russian Empire plays it straight; after 1991, it only controls Alaska.

** Antoni Belinsky in Russia and Ukraine-Romania

** The von Licht's aren't exactly all that lucky. Two of them are forced to flee their homes, one of them is disinherited and killed in a terrorist attack, and one is kidnapped by the Svanidzes to write propaganda.

* {{The French Revolution}}: Guyana builds a nation around this.
* {{Cultural Revolution}}: Guyana basically undertakes this using the Cult of Reason.

* {{Cold War}}: Subverted, there is still some Cold War feelings in ATL.

* N.G.O. Superpower: though it isn't nearly at the superpower level, the Zionist World Congress has more clout than some small countries.

* {{N.G.O. Superpower}}: though it isn't nearly at the superpower level, the Zionist World Congress has more clout than some small countries.

** ICly, likely Crimea. Under constant threat from Ukrainian-Romanian invasion, Crimea is instead invaded and conquered by its two closest "allies"- Rum and Russia.

** Leon Trotsky will be remembered as writing this universe's version of Animal Farm, not being a violent revolutionary.

** Star Wars is written 140 years before it was originally made, and is written by a guy from Japan

* {{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

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

** Benjamin Netanyahu becomes a feared assassin for the Rumite government.

** Most of Ayn Rand's writings gets written by Chodren Dawa.

* {{The Exile}}: Georg von Licht flees Germany and continues to write badass novels until he dies.

** Benjamin Netanyahu as the commander of Rum's Special Forces, and the most feared assassin in all of Rum.
* {{Persona Non Grata}}: Georg von Licht in Germany.

** The Caucasian Free State's total slaughter of all non-Georgians in the country over the 1800s, creating an ethnically homogenous country at the cost of thousands dead.