MarshalBraginsky

So having posted the map, Code Geass: Cloak and Dagger, now I'm thinking of posting one or two more Code Geass related maps, one of which will be titled "East and West", and/or a title labeled "King of the North and King of the South". Another potential project is the map for "To Rebuild a Shattered World", which will finally be done in a week or two.

Code Geass: East and West would reflect a scenario that is reminiscent of the modern day geopolitical tensions, and it might be a replacement for the "Rise/Peak/Fall of Resistance" series that is a crossover with Command and Conquer. Code Geass: King of the North and King of the South might explore a potential informal alliance between Britannia and the Chinese Federation against an enlarged Eurasia. 

It is so hard to find a good Naruto world map these days, and the mentions of countries outside the Elemental Continent has been done, most notably the Land of Demons/Ogres.

I was wondering if someone could make a blank Naruto world map template that not only I can use, but for other artists to use for their projects. I'd like to have two or even three (possibly up to four) kinds of continents created as well. Thanks

So the upcoming map that I am making is something that I have discussed with the deviantart author who made "Madame Supreme Leader", which is about what would Earth look like if Bernie Sanders had won the nomination to represent the Democratic Party instead of Hillary Clinton. A good PoD in this case would be a much bigger health scare on the part of Madame Clinton herself (I seem to recall that there was a bit of a health scare going on with her during the campaign), resulting in Donald Trump losing the election, causing the Republicans to have a huge makeover to ensure that someone like Trump wouldn't be allowed to join.

My main question is this: how would Bernie Sanders deal with Russia and China? Given that he's somewhat of an icon for democratic socialism, he would have a major challenge against an actual communist government in Beijing and a former superpower that had the Soviet legacy.

NOTE: This segment is just fiction and any prediction made here can be wrong.

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While Ted Cruz was busy formulating his strategy on what he will do once he takes his position as the new president of the "Reformed Government of the Continental Federation of American States", Hillary Clinton struck first. She ordered her own army to overrun the only piece of American territory that Paul Ryan controlled. Within just 12 hours, Pennsylvania was captured, cutting off the interim American government's access to the Atlantic Ocean. Humiliated by the way she struck hard at him, Paul Ryan contemplated on resigning but ultimately went against it. At the same time, the unification of Alaska and Western Canada also gave the Alaskans a chance to prod into the Paul Ryan government and see if he was willing to consent to uniting the American territories he controlled with basically Alaska and Western Canada, though he also declined. At the same time, Western Canada also struck hard, seizing much of northern and western Ontario before the rival Canadian government could respond. 

Unfortunately, the Mexican government grew increasingly fearful about the possibility of an American reprisal should they give support to the Aztlan irredentists, and their fear only increased with the incursions made by elements of the Second Confederate militia into the border with Aztlan-occupied Texas. In addition, various demonstrations arose in most of Cascadia's towns and cities, furious at the chronic incompetence displayed by its radical leftist leadership. This was true with the rural population of Cascadia, many of whom were openly collaborating with the Northwest Frontier Guards who defected to Alaska. In essence, rural Cascadians were openly collaborating with the Alaskan state to bring down the leftist government in Seattle. It was only a matter of time until September 11, 2023 when Alaska finally launched an invasion of Cascadia, sparking the first phase of what will become known as the American Reunification War.

The elections of 2024 became a mere formality as Paul Ryan was poised to win his second term, but the incursion into the rest of the unoccupied United States from Hillary's domain in New England forced him to rethink his position. Moreover, Ted Cruz's popularity made him a more popular figure as the man who can reunify the country. To make it look like the reunification of the US is peaceful, Ted Cruz would go on to declare that just as the US is affected by this internal turmoil, Canada too, has suffered. Therefore, we are opening the doors for a potential unification of various Canadian and American breakaway territories and to reunite them into the country that the Founding Fathers would have approved, and to which President Monroe would be immensely pleased with. The American Reunification War has now extended to Canada, with Ted Cruz marching in with his pitiful army (in reality, it was a combination of Alaskan and Western Canadian troops) to Omaha and formally ask for Paul Ryan to resign.

Back in Europe, the optimism for American national revival grew with the news of Alaska's unification with Western Canada and their attempts to reunite the entire continent. Moreover, the incursion into what was left of the United States had forced Paul Ryan's government to deal with the two front conflict, and many loyalist US Army soldiers had actually defected to Ted Cruz's side. The bulk of the US Navy was forced to relocate to Churchill, Manitoba while the majority of their naval bases were seized and placed under temporary control of the breakaway states. A good majority of armed militias who were supporters of the late 45th President were reluctant to pledge their loyalty to someone who narrowly lost to Trump in the race for the Republican presidential ticket, so they refused to swear allegiance to both Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz. Nevertheless, these armed pro-Trump militias assisted in keeping the public order while engaging various leftist groups in armed clashes.

The growing instability in Europe had led President Putin to increase Russia's military activities on the border with the Baltic States, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as inviting Georgia and Azerbaijan to join the Eurasian Union. Turkey's recent disengagement from the EU and NATO, along with President Erdogan's erratic behavior, has led the Turkish government to seek closer relations with Russia, although nationalist elements within Turkey's society opposed such a move, suggesting that they seek a closer relationship with the member states of the Asia-Pacific Security Pact. Both Turkish and Japanese military officers began to make contacts with each other, and Japan's transfer of military technology to Turkey's armed forces in exchange for Turkish assistance in solving the conflict in the southern region of the Philippines proved pivotal. With the instability within the United States, the government of Ukraine faced enormous pressure to solve the growing problem in the Donbass region, and the Donbass separatists themselves have started to launch new offensives against entrenched Ukrainian Army positions, often leading to huge casualties on both sides.

Hawaii also faced the growing pressure from the APSP and Russia as it struggles to decide on which alliances to pursue. Ultimately, the Hawaiian Republic voted in favor of neutrality, but many of its military officers were either agents working for the APSP, the Reformed Government of the Continental Federation of American States, or Russia. Moreover, there are standoffs between the remnants of the US Pacific Fleet, various warships belonging to APSP member states and the Russian Pacific Fleet just outside Hawaiian territorial waters. During a Duma speech in the Kremlin, President Putin offered to recognize the new Ted Cruz government of the RGCFAS in exchange for their recognition of Hawaii and disengagement from Europe. While Ted Cruz bluntly rejected such an offer, the Russian government was also willing to work with the RGCFAS in exchange for de-escalating the Ukrainian Crisis and the growing power of both China and Japan (the former because of its influence over the two Koreas and Mongolia, and the latter due to having a formal military once again).

Inside Alaska, the Alaskan government soon found itself handling a brutal insurgency against the Cascadian People's Brigade. CPB also found itself dealing with volunteers from Rojava, the Zapatista movement and various other anarcho-communist militias as they began to form a competent fighting force. After several losses, the Cascadian People's Brigade finally won their first major victory against Alaskan troops in the Battle of Bellingham on November 9th, 2023. A few more minor Cascadian military victories soon turned the Alaskan-Cascadian War into a brutal war of attrition, with both sides suffering casualties. At the same time, crack troops from the Northwest Frontier Guards made a move against CPB positions in rural Cascadia, taking one village after another, until they captured the border towns with California and the breakaway Aztlan territory. When Alaskan troops and NFG militiamen finally captured Seattle on December 10, 2023, they proceeded to massacre every left-wing activist and CPB fighter who surrendered to them. Every universities and colleges inside Cascadian territory were occupied by Alaskan soldiers as they began to purge them of left-wing professors and burned every literature that is leftist.

On the Second Confederacy side, their struggle to reunite the South proved to be difficult because of the Republic of New Afrika's soldiers, many of whom consisted of former Black Panthers Party members and US Army deserters who were radicalized by the message emitting from BLM and were also disillusioned by how America became. Despite the population exchanges, many African-Americans continued to launch insurgencies against Second Confederate militias, and New Afrika also began to increase its territory.