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La Lasta Espero Por Homaro

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My cover of the world from the Sovereign Association of the Great Bitter Lake, rounding out my covers of EBR's EEUSG entries (for now). As always, many thanks to EBR for helping me with this and for providing most of the text in the description.

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  • The POD is the establishment of a couple of small Israeli communities close to the Suez Canal, followed by some anti-Sadat officers fleeing to the Yellow Fleet. The big divergence was when the USA failed to provide Israel with military supplies during the Yom Kippuer War.
  • WWIII happened as a result of a 1983-style nuclear false alarm incident, where the officer on duty was someone other than Colonel Stanislav Petrov. The Soviets began launching, realized when the American missiles that their computers were reporting failed to materialize that they had made mistake, contacted the Americans who were also starting to launch, fortunately both countries put things on hold and after a week of negations agreed to meet in the Great Bitter Lake to make peace.
  • Most of the initial strikes targeted major military bases in the US, USSR, and their allies (clearing the way for the bombers and other missiles), but they also hit some major cities. The negotiations conducted before the conference at the SAGB were between Soviet military leadership in bunkers beneath radioactive Moscow and the Airborne Emergency Action Officer on board Looking Glass Squadron.
  • The USA and the USSR are at peace but hate each other with a fury born of 20 million martyrs. Both have become more authoritarian, the more moderate Soviet leaders who negotiated the peace have been replaced by hardliners who insist that the computer glitch was some kind of American plot. 
  • In addition to the military bases, the following cities were hit: New York City, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Honolulu, London, Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Minsk, Vladivostok, Omsk and Volgograd.
  • A lot of Soviet and Americans allies have deserted them- no one wants to get caught in a WWIV and WWIII left both superpowers much weaker and thus unable to fund and maintain their big overseas spheres of influence the way they once were. So the rest of the world is mostly trying to move on, even as the superpowers remain locked in their own little Cold War. The USA and the USSR are somewhat akin to rogue states, and their handful of remaining allies tend to go even further into rogue state territory.
  • The Non-Aligned League is very powerful and led by India which has the world's largest economy (followed closely by China which is not an NAL member).
  • The UN is based in Berlin, which is an international free city. Berlin remains legally not part of any country (as it was considered OTL by the West) pending the reunion of Germany and now includes East Berlin as well.
  • The eastern part of East Germany is under a die-hard communist military regime, and is still part of the Warsaw Pact.
  • The European Community is a group of European countries pissed at the old superpowers who blame them for catching Europe in the middle of WWIII. France leads them.
  • The Israelis still have the Sinai, the Suez Canal is administered by a join Israeli-Egyptian commission. The Arab-Israeli conflict is gradually cooling off, there is currently an autonomous Palestinian government in control of parts of Gaza and the West Bank in the process of transitioning into real independence.
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grisador
How's USSR ?
Stalin esque horor or more like OTL China ?