Tomorrow: The Workings of the World

With the return to the 1800s, the Confederate States succeeded in their bid for independence. Now that the two countries had separated, they and the United States pursued their separate goals. The Yankees provoked an incident on the Great Lakes and used it to invade Canada, bringing Britain down on their heads as well. A ruinous naval blockade was imposed by Britain, in particular semi-ironclad warships such as the infamous 16-gun HMS Huntress, which made a name for itself by almost single-handedly shutting down Boston Harbor. France jumped on the Yankee wagon, eager to attempt to separate Britain from her massive empire.

Down south, the CSA was rebuilding after the war. To obtain more land for their slave economy, they planned to seize Cuba and run canals through Panama and Nicaragua. At the moment this was not practical, but a fleet of ironclad warships was being constructed for the purpose of protecting these endeavors from the Yankees.

Britain and France duked it out on the high seas, while Prussia began to seek to gather the myriad German states under their control. On the Italian peninsula, Rome began gathering its power with dreams of becoming influential again. Japan continued their own industrial buildup, determined to get their own empire to rival the foreigners who still could largely order them around.

American forces in Canada pressed forward, capturing New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. It declared these to be territories by the same names, largely to avenge the loss of the CSA’s territory. Dakota was admitted as a state in the meantime.

On Europe, Holland applied its trading power to begin maintaining an army, wary of the growing influence of Prussia, Austria and Russia to the east. Britain seized enough African territory to begin building their Trans-African Railroad, and Spain and Portugal began to suffer from turmoil caused by agitation by nationalistic groups. South America was largely quiet short of a small war in which Paraguay obtained Uruguay and the southern tip of Brazil, about doubling its size and obtaining a coast line.