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| - After the Anti-Seljuk War and the defeat and dismemberment of Socialist France in 1890, people hoped for a more peaceful time after the turbulent 19th century. However, tensions between the powers still existed, and they didn't become better:
* The Russias had never forgotten their defeat in the anti-Russian War. South Russia had become a friend and ally of New Rome, thanks to the winning personality of the great emperor Ludovico, and even Novorossiya had come closer, but OTOH, both Russias wished for revenge against the Germans and Canadians.
* New Rome wasn't very fond when Germany invaded Hungary in 1882, since it had belonged to New Rome's sphere of influence since it was liberated in the anti-Russian War.
* OTOH, the Germans had decided that they definitely got the shorter end of the stick when France was divided - the protectorate of Lothringen they won paled compared to the new kingdom of Gaul, which had rounded out the New Roman empire.
* The Germans also envied Novorossiya and New Rome for their rich conquests of North China and India respectively. Which didn't stop those two powers from becoming suspicious when the Germans claimed all of sub-Saharan Africa for themselves.
* After slavery was abolished in Braseal, the anti-slavery groups in German Atlantis and Canada criticized New Rome louder and louder for keeping slavery.
* Re-united China wasn't willing to tolerate Russian presence in Beijing and the rest of North China. And though it sounds unbelievable, the radical Catholic Nipponese even surpassed them in their hate for Russia.
* The events of Kalifornien and Alyeska. Population statistics: North Atlantis (Canada and both Northern and Southern US) is more populated than OTL North America, for being settled earlier, as are the Russian lands, where the population is 50% higher (in Siberia even more). Sub-saharan Africa (for the new crops being introduced centuries later) and South Atlantis have a lower population, however. Everything else is similar to OTL. Development of science: Compared to OTL, the Chaos TL is ahead especially in astronomy (they already discovered Pluto and many other celestial bodies earlier than OTL, and only the lack of a relativity theory prevents them from advancing further), electricity, communication, and codebreaking. The last world-changing invention so far was the car - with a twist: While New Rome already prefers gasoline as a fuel, the Germans prefer coal and experiment with grain alcohol, and the Russians have built cars running on electricity.
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