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A scenario based on Rex Romanum's Three Cold Wars at the Same Time.
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The peace of Kappel falls through, and Switzerland is plunged into a religious war between the Protestants and the Catholics. The Protestants gradually emerged victorious over the Catholic cantons, with the aid of Calvinism's rise, but this only brought the Catholic German states into the fray. Europe was embroiled in a twenty-year long religious war, that ended with the dominance of various Protestant states over central Europe. The French wars of religion in the 1630s sparked another series of wars, this time turning France into a Protestant nation, breaking apart Spain, and bringing down the Austrian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Many Catholics, especially from Germany, fled to Portuguese, later Dutch, Brazil, where the colonial government was tolerant of Catholics. Later, the Pope himself flees to Brazil, when the Ottoman Empire took southern Italy.
History happens. In the 1710s, when the Dutch government in Brazil became increasingly restrictive on Catholic practice, it was overthrown, to be replaced by the Holy Brazilian Empire. This sparked a wave of religiously-motivated revolution throughout the Americas, causing widespread violence across the two continents. This phenomenon was noted by philosophers in the Old World, especially Istanbul. The Ottoman Empire had absorbed too many Christians in too short a period, and was suffering from constant religious strife in their European holdings. Some Ottoman philosophers concluded that religion was behind all of the ills in the world, working directly through church institutions and indirectly through monarchies and superstitions. With the Awakening in Europe, these secular ideas fused with those of science and reason. The Ottomans tried to promote the Awakening within their borders to modernize the Empire, while separating the religious and political elements, but failed.
In the 1780s, after a series of disastrous wars, economic collapse and famine, the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The educated classes led this revolution, denouncing monarchy and religion as the source of these problems. The fact that the Ottoman government declared jihad on the revolution only seemed to prove this. Europe was more than happy to fuel this fire and bring about the fall of their old rival, and so the European provinces of the Empire were soon in full revolt. The Ottoman government fell, and the Middle East and eastern Europe were embroiled in a series of wars that lasted to the 1820s. What emerged was the Federated States of Eurasia and its client states.
The 19th century was the age of revolutions, as the Eurasians exported their radical secular, republican vision. The Europeans opposed this, but could not stop China, India and even the former English colony of Columbia from falling. These wars continued until the rise of the Syndicalist State of Italy in the 1880s, which threatened both sides with their vision of a new world order. The Italians started their war in 1913, and almost took over all of Europe before being destroyed by an alliance of France, Brazil and Eurasia. The two former allies carved up the former Italian empire between themselves, and soon were embroiled in a cold war.
The religious side is predominantly Christian, but has non-Christian allies joining the good fight for God (or gods), whoever he may be. The Catholics dominate the alliance, with the Holy Brazilian Empire at the lead. The Brazilians aren't very oppressive within their own borders, as the Catholics are such a majority that everyone else may not well exist, but the nonreligious are hunted down as Eurasian agents by the Imperial Inquisition. The Catholic Republic of Italy, on the other hand, is busy purging Syndicalist elements and replacing it with Catholic thought, so it by necessity is a police state. The Protestants are similarly mellow, with France having few problems with resistance to its Protestant government, and the Germanics likewise. Sweden's form of radical Calvinism, the result of a failed secular revolution, does rub people the wrong way, but they are reliable allies. The Russians are the only majority Orthodox member, but being the only independent Orthodox state makes them very eager to smash the Eurasians.
The Alliance for Reason prides itself for its progressive politics and having outgrown such silly superstitions, but it's a far more diverse group than Brazilian motion pictures would have you believe. The Federates States of Eurasia is a genuine democracy, but one that still has extremely strict religious practice laws. Religious practice is only legal within the home or within designated practice zones; all violators will be prosecuted. Because of its past and geography, the Eurasians target Muslims more than any other group, but they have no love for Christianity given its leading role on the other side of the Quiet War. The Italian Rational Republic is just as oppressive as its northern counterpart, and is particularly relishing in the destruction of old Catholic and Muslim sites on the peninsula. The Brazilians are not pleased.
Eurasia's other allies are devoted to the idea of secularism to various degrees. The Chinese Federation sees ancestor reverence as being a cultural, not a religious, practice, though it does target the Abrahamic religions with fervor because of missionaries often going hand-in-hand with the colonization of Asia. The United Provinces of the Indus are true believers in the Eurasians' secular republican ideology, and have gone further, being the closest thing to a Stalinist state in this world. The more mellow Republic of Columbia sees secularism as integral to true republicanism, but are content with a strict separation of church and state.
The world has been fighting the Quiet War for some time now, with the violent civil wars in Mexico, the Kongo, and Soudan serving as the primary proxy wars of the conflict. Nuclear arsenals prevent all-out war between the two sides, and with the development of ICBMs, the threat of mutually assured destruction is simply too great. Though the Eurasians say otherwise, the religious bloc has no interest in launching its nuclear arsenal as a mass sacrifice, or without a care since they believe they'd go to Heaven. Indeed, almost all religious leaders agree: nuclear war would be despoiling God's creation, and would be an unforgivable sin as every believer would be dead and cannot confess. The current war is in Afghanistan, with a joint Indus-Eurasian invasion attempting to topple the Islamist government. It's a war Istanbul is convinced it will eventually win, but Afghanistan isn't called the graveyard of empires for nothing.
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The peace of Kappel falls through, and Switzerland is plunged into a religious war between the Protestants and the Catholics. The Protestants gradually emerged victorious over the Catholic cantons, with the aid of Calvinism's rise, but this only brought the Catholic German states into the fray. Europe was embroiled in a twenty-year long religious war, that ended with the dominance of various Protestant states over central Europe. The French wars of religion in the 1630s sparked another series of wars, this time turning France into a Protestant nation, breaking apart Spain, and bringing down the Austrian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Many Catholics, especially from Germany, fled to Portuguese, later Dutch, Brazil, where the colonial government was tolerant of Catholics. Later, the Pope himself flees to Brazil, when the Ottoman Empire took southern Italy.
History happens. In the 1710s, when the Dutch government in Brazil became increasingly restrictive on Catholic practice, it was overthrown, to be replaced by the Holy Brazilian Empire. This sparked a wave of religiously-motivated revolution throughout the Americas, causing widespread violence across the two continents. This phenomenon was noted by philosophers in the Old World, especially Istanbul. The Ottoman Empire had absorbed too many Christians in too short a period, and was suffering from constant religious strife in their European holdings. Some Ottoman philosophers concluded that religion was behind all of the ills in the world, working directly through church institutions and indirectly through monarchies and superstitions. With the Awakening in Europe, these secular ideas fused with those of science and reason. The Ottomans tried to promote the Awakening within their borders to modernize the Empire, while separating the religious and political elements, but failed.
In the 1780s, after a series of disastrous wars, economic collapse and famine, the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The educated classes led this revolution, denouncing monarchy and religion as the source of these problems. The fact that the Ottoman government declared jihad on the revolution only seemed to prove this. Europe was more than happy to fuel this fire and bring about the fall of their old rival, and so the European provinces of the Empire were soon in full revolt. The Ottoman government fell, and the Middle East and eastern Europe were embroiled in a series of wars that lasted to the 1820s. What emerged was the Federated States of Eurasia and its client states.
The 19th century was the age of revolutions, as the Eurasians exported their radical secular, republican vision. The Europeans opposed this, but could not stop China, India and even the former English colony of Columbia from falling. These wars continued until the rise of the Syndicalist State of Italy in the 1880s, which threatened both sides with their vision of a new world order. The Italians started their war in 1913, and almost took over all of Europe before being destroyed by an alliance of France, Brazil and Eurasia. The two former allies carved up the former Italian empire between themselves, and soon were embroiled in a cold war.
The religious side is predominantly Christian, but has non-Christian allies joining the good fight for God (or gods), whoever he may be. The Catholics dominate the alliance, with the Holy Brazilian Empire at the lead. The Brazilians aren't very oppressive within their own borders, as the Catholics are such a majority that everyone else may not well exist, but the nonreligious are hunted down as Eurasian agents by the Imperial Inquisition. The Catholic Republic of Italy, on the other hand, is busy purging Syndicalist elements and replacing it with Catholic thought, so it by necessity is a police state. The Protestants are similarly mellow, with France having few problems with resistance to its Protestant government, and the Germanics likewise. Sweden's form of radical Calvinism, the result of a failed secular revolution, does rub people the wrong way, but they are reliable allies. The Russians are the only majority Orthodox member, but being the only independent Orthodox state makes them very eager to smash the Eurasians.
The Alliance for Reason prides itself for its progressive politics and having outgrown such silly superstitions, but it's a far more diverse group than Brazilian motion pictures would have you believe. The Federates States of Eurasia is a genuine democracy, but one that still has extremely strict religious practice laws. Religious practice is only legal within the home or within designated practice zones; all violators will be prosecuted. Because of its past and geography, the Eurasians target Muslims more than any other group, but they have no love for Christianity given its leading role on the other side of the Quiet War. The Italian Rational Republic is just as oppressive as its northern counterpart, and is particularly relishing in the destruction of old Catholic and Muslim sites on the peninsula. The Brazilians are not pleased.
Eurasia's other allies are devoted to the idea of secularism to various degrees. The Chinese Federation sees ancestor reverence as being a cultural, not a religious, practice, though it does target the Abrahamic religions with fervor because of missionaries often going hand-in-hand with the colonization of Asia. The United Provinces of the Indus are true believers in the Eurasians' secular republican ideology, and have gone further, being the closest thing to a Stalinist state in this world. The more mellow Republic of Columbia sees secularism as integral to true republicanism, but are content with a strict separation of church and state.
The world has been fighting the Quiet War for some time now, with the violent civil wars in Mexico, the Kongo, and Soudan serving as the primary proxy wars of the conflict. Nuclear arsenals prevent all-out war between the two sides, and with the development of ICBMs, the threat of mutually assured destruction is simply too great. Though the Eurasians say otherwise, the religious bloc has no interest in launching its nuclear arsenal as a mass sacrifice, or without a care since they believe they'd go to Heaven. Indeed, almost all religious leaders agree: nuclear war would be despoiling God's creation, and would be an unforgivable sin as every believer would be dead and cannot confess. The current war is in Afghanistan, with a joint Indus-Eurasian invasion attempting to topple the Islamist government. It's a war Istanbul is convinced it will eventually win, but Afghanistan isn't called the graveyard of empires for nothing.
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This is my perfect world, except that I would have to move to California