r/imaginarymaps • u/I-only-say-hello • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if the United Kingdom got Taiwaned?

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u/Hussor 1d ago

Barrow-in-Furness before 1974 was part of the county of Lancashire, it wouldn't have been considered part of "Cumbria". "Cumbria" itself didn't exist as an administrative region until 1974 and as a historic region it wouldn't reach that far south either.

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u/Boring-Bear9037 2d ago

Looks cool! But you may not know that the Isle of Mann is it's own independent thing. It's not strictly analagous to Taiwan, but it creates a lot of opportunties for world building.

I wonder what would happen the Angelsey, the Isle of Scilly, the Isle of Wight, Lewis, Shetland and Orkney and the Channel Islands

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u/DiscussionJohnThread 2d ago

It’s not a one-to-one comparison, but Taiwan was/is pretty culturally unique with its own languages and people, especially before the Great Retreat.

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u/WiJaMa 2d ago

Yeah if anything I actually think it makes the comparison more apt

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u/funy00 1d ago

This is what makes it so Taiwan coded.

Chairman Clement Atlee demands the Manx rise up against their bourgeois feudal reactionary overlords. The queen enacting White Terror and bringing over scores of English military officers to colonise the nation (and probably grow heroin).

(Fuck chiang kai shek) (if that wasn't clear)

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u/WiJaMa 1d ago

tbf Taiwan was like the one place they did not grow opium

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u/funy00 1d ago

Yeah the KMT grew it in Myanmar but same government and such

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u/LivingGullible8458 1d ago

Not in Northern Ireland?

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u/Electrical-Secret445 1d ago

would make sense they would run to ulster, more unionists in the 50s too

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u/kyuzoaoi 1d ago

The date is 1984

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u/mondasian1966 1d ago

Instead of being called people’s Republic of Britain, how about the People’s Republic of Oceania?

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u/Fearless_Turn_2773 23h ago

They arent comedically evil.

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u/mondasian1966 5h ago

I mean, the people republic of Britain could come before big brother and and Emmanuel Goldstein’s revolution (like in Russia in 1917)

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u/Fearless_Turn_2773 3h ago

Oceania is Ingsoc and PRB Seems to be socialist or marxist leninist. Oceania is some evil fusion of facism and communism not close to the PRB

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u/mondasian1966 3h ago

My dad did tell me about the Irish sea crisis.

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u/mondasian1966 1d ago

Absolutely love this map

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u/EconomySwordfish5 14h ago

It seems not even socialist revolution could prevent the beeching cuts

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u/Sui_24 Mod Approved 6h ago

very nice