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I swear, all of these relatively weak Britains are going to get me arrested by MI6. :p The idea behind this scenario is that Cromwell's Protectorate and the Ancien Regime both live on. There's a little Code Geass sneaking in here, too. 

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The English Civil War ended in victory for Parliamentary forces, with remaining Royalists fleeing to other portions of the world: France, the Netherlands, and American colonies that remained loyal to the Crown. The Protectorate faced a minor crisis after the death of Oliver Cromwell, but his son Richard proved a capable Lord Protector who continued to command the loyalty of Parliament. While the title of Lord Protector would slip away from the Cromwells two generations later, by that point the Protectorate was firmly established and could not be toppled without a full invasion from a foreign power. While Britain's fleets remained small and focused on competing with the far larger Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese navies, the isolation of the British Isles prevented their myriad enemies from mounting a successful invasion. 

Meanwhile, on the continent, France continued its rise. After the victories in the War of Spanish Succession and the Ten Years' War, France became a juggernaut that all of Europe feared. The decline of the Spanish Empire allowed France to take its place in the New World, famously supporting the Mexican Revolution and driving the reactionary Spanish government to its South American empire. France's status would be put in jeopardy in the early 19th century, when a republican revolution almost destroyed the Old Regime, but in the end the Loyalists won out (even if they did have to make major concessions, such as giving enough power to the French Estates-General to transform France into a constitutional monarchy). France would enter its new "Belle Époque" for the rest of the 19th and 20th centuries, which will see France triumph over an expansionist Russian Empire and create an economic free trade zone around itself: the Eurasian Community. 

The modern world is not dominated by any one power, although it's acknowledged that the Kingdom of France is the most powerful among them all. Through the Eurasian Community, France has united some of the world's most powerful economies under a single free trade zone. However, the Eurasian Community's growing power, disputes over the course of Eurasia, and the very obvious dominance of France in the alliance, causes consternation among the various members. The highly, republican nationalistic Germans do not approve of Russian or French monarchy and the lack of self-autonomy of various ethnic groups within their empires, while the Russians increasingly believe that their contributions of cheap petroleum to the rest of Europe are not compensated well enough in the political sphere. The admission of pro-Russian autocracies in eastern Europe is another matter of contention: some believe that Eurasia should be composed of democracies and constitutional monarchies, as Germany, Sweden-Norway, France and Russia are, while others believe that democracy will follow from the introduction of Western culture. In North America, the Kingdom of Virginia is another constitutional monarchy that has been one of France's oldest allies. They are rather proud of their English culture and the monarchy, so never call them French puppets like the English are wont to do. 

The British bloc, once the great rival to France, has become a begrudging ally of the French in the face of new threats. The Protectorate, for centuries a Protestant theocracy, mellowed out over the 19th century as the Protectorate's leaders realized that they could not keep out all of the ideas that were rapidly changing the world. The modern Protectorate is still dominated by the Protestant churches, with most politicians at the local level elected through churches. However, on the national level, Parliamentarians are elected by just about every English citizen at the age of majority. The English evangelist culture does remain powerful, and the English have a habit of supporting Christian factions in various conflicts around the world. The Dutch Republic, England's oldest ally, was infamous for supporting the various republican factions during the Republican Wars of the 19th century, and remains at the forefront of radical politics. 

In the east, the Chinese are on the rise. Long isolated and neglected, a series of reforms in the late 18th and early 19th centuries focused on copying every aspect of Western advancement, naturally with Chinese characteristics. This led to the slow creation of a uniquely Chinese industrial complex which has dominated Asia for much of the 20th century and will do so into the 21st. China tends to make internationally frowned upon friends, corrupt democracies such as Persia and Brazil, or military dictatorships like Mexico. The Chinese use this diplomacy because they still don't have much influence outside of Asia, and so are looking for states that Western Europe won't support. 

The "Arab Bloc" is named after its dominant member, the Arab National Republic, and the states within it are not all are Arab states. The Arab National Republic was founded during the Republican Wars, when Arab nationalists took over the French, Spanish and Italian colonies in North Africa. Over the past two centuries, the Arabs have expanded their influence over much of North Africa. The Arabs have taken advantage of the tremendous oil wealth in parts of their territory to become a great power. their allies, the Ottomans, seek to do the same, but the conservative government there stifles external investment, is hopelessly corrupt, and what oil industry they do have is all but monopolized by the Arabian Petroleum Company. 

Then there is the global pariah, the Holy Spanish Empire. A Catholic theocracy that has largely isolated itself from the world, the Holy Spanish Empire is surprisingly long-lived and stable. The Spanish have their own Pope, claiming that the Pope in Rome is a heretic and the Antichrist. They have modernized to an extent, but given the strict controls on communication and trade the government imposes, they are always a few decades behind. They do boast the second largest military in the world, second only to China, so they are considered somewhat of a threat.
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grisador's avatar
A new one; That is Great ! :D

How Arabs managed to hold on at Africa? By Religion?

Same question goes by Otttomans at Europe and China At Japan :O