[quote=@Hael]
[u][i][b]I claim the spot up in the lower-right corner, between da purple, tanish-brown and blue[/b][/i][/u]
[/quote]

Just FYI, you're surrounded mostly by colonies over there. That place is essentially the Africa of this world.

Granted, your nation could still be industrialized and powerful by this time a la the United States, but you'd be pretty detached from a lot of history and interaction from the nations on the other side of the world.