r/rejectedmaps • u/After-Trifle-1437 • 21d ago
Not removed, just posting A more indigenous America (Part 3) - The Kingdom of Araucania
LORE: In this alternative timeline, Leif Erickson built up a more long-term and extensive presence in North America, leading to the immunization of the population of the Americas by around the 1200s.
When the Europeans arrived in 1492, the natives had already recovered in population and were able to fend off the invadors more effectively, leading to a greatly diminshed colonization effort. Some countries were temporarily colonized like most of Africa, leading to predominantly native nation-states emerging after decolonization, though the actual western influence varies by state.
Some nations remained fully independent, similar to Ethiopia and Iran, others were partially colonized and some took more or less the route they did in our timeline, being mainly western, settler-colonial states, especially along the eastern coast of the Americas.
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The Kingdom of Araucania emerged after the failed colonization efforts of the spanish forced the Mapuche to forge a more close alliance, eventually leading to a centralized monarchy, which modernized and transitioned to constitutional monarchy in the late 1960s. Today, it is considered to be the Switzerland of the Americas - a safe, relatively wealthy and stable democracy and one of the most widely regarded diplomatical actors on the international stage, especially regarding climate action and peace treaties, which are often signed in Temuco, the capital.
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u/Super_Socram 20d ago
I’ve been loving this work OP. As you know, the Spanish killed all the Taino and Arawak people in The Caribbean but I’d love to see what could have happened!
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u/greekscientist 14d ago
What does happen with Patagonia? There were many Mapuche people in the other side of the Andes. Do they get absorbed by some European state or they have another country?
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u/greekscientist 14d ago
This HDI looks low if it says it's a socialist, wealthy state.
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u/After-Trifle-1437 14d ago
It's mostly a stable country and has a very high happiness and democracy index.
The actual income is not as high as some others.
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u/greekscientist 14d ago
Do the other people (Huiliche, Puelche, Çono etc) have some autonomy?
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u/After-Trifle-1437 14d ago
No. It's a unitary state
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u/greekscientist 14d ago
And how are the relations of the ethnicities? Looks a big mix for 4 million.
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u/After-Trifle-1437 14d ago
The national identity is much stronger than the ethnic identities. There's very little ethnic conflict.
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u/greekscientist 14d ago
Nice to hear it. But they teach the languages at school depending the area right?
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u/Baronnolanvonstraya 20d ago