Eh, I'm not sure the Drakaverse is really *unrealistic*. The democratic nations make stupid mistakes, yes, but they're the kind of stupid mistakes those nations made in real life — it's just that in real history there wasn't anyone powerful enough to take advantage.
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The Drakaverse is insanely unrealistic. The idea that the British Empire would allow a regime even more horrible than South Africa was in real life to just parade around Africa uncontrolled is laughable. They would have immediately crushed such a regime for daring to act that way - expanding the slave trade would have pissed off the home country.
Also, the Drakaverse completely ignores the fact that the Canadas existed. Canada would have been the target for most of the events we see early in the Drakia timeline. Africa only became a big deal in the mid-19th Century. If I were a United Empire Loyalist fleeing America, I'd haul my ass to British North America instead of somehow teleporting to an obscure South African colony without any support from the UK. Mainly because this is what happened in the real world. NOVA SCOTIA OR BUST!
And while regime make mistakes in real life, the Draka were spread too thin (no empire could expand that widely that quickly, especially a racist regime - you need to absorb other cultures to stay that robust, like the Persians and the Mongols did, and modern America does), crush indigenous rebellion with stupid ease (there's no way that a white South African regime could simultaneously hold onto Indian and China that easily, in addition to all of continental Europe and Africa), and the Draka never make mistakes that every other country does. Basically, everyone holds the Idiot Ball so the Draka can win, even though they're Obviously Evil enemies of all non-Draka people. Even the Nazis could make allies.
And really, if all that happened, there's no reason for the Nazis to ever develop. The "Scrabble for Africa" never happened. All the colonial wars would have been stopped by the mere presence of the Draka, so there's no reason for WWI to have occurred. All the European empires would be focused on this upstart murderdeathkill culture in Africa. No World War One, no German grievances, no Nazis, no Marching Through Georgia.
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- Canada in CSA Confederate States Of America. In this alternate history, that nation refused to hand over its escaped American slaves because it was the right thing to do and suffered with a walled US/Canadian border called the Cotton Wall. Furthermore, for this national choice, Canada reaps the great prize of all the artists of African that would have enriched American culture like Rock music, Motown and many others now fed Canadian culture. As a result, Canada becomes the pop culture centre of the world.
How does this count? Given the way Canada acted during the real pre-Civil War era (taking in runaway slaves), doesn't this just follow logically from the premise of a Confederate Victory? It's not like Canada becomes a superpower other than as the center of black diaspora culture. It seems like a perfectly realistic consequence of the AU's premise. Unlike most of the other examples, it doesn't really portray Canada as some sort of super-culture that's inherently better than everyone else in the world, nor does everyone else hold the Idiot Ball for Canada's sake (see the Draka, above).
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