[quote=@Jotunn Draugr]
I'll be getting a post up tomorrow.

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I say go for India. I'm not necessarily against aliens, but let's sit on that for a bit, and see if it fits in down the road.
[/quote]Well, Martians caused a bit of a fight back during the beginning which is why I asked if they are fine now.
Basically if I were to do Martians they'd occupy Congo or other African territories. They'd be few in numbers and would rely on human slaves instead. Story-wise imagine them if the invasion from War of the Worlds happen earlier but they botch up their math and they land stright within Africa. Most of their tech are either gone or cannibalized for more important equipment. Instead they rely on the same equipment everyone else has to build stuff. There are two differences. 
1.) They can use the energy from blue coal to shoot heat rays. They aren't as great against armor and limited by line of sight but Martians are kinda adamant on these.
2.) They use "implants" that can be activated by the weak telepathy Martians have. It's either used to punish slaves by the device sending painful jolts when activated or there's a rarer type Martians use to allow a human to interpret their language and talk in their stead.

Otherwise things are mostly the same. You cqn just think of them as a weird nation not many people know about.

As for India I plan to make them much more advanced they used to be with chief developments in metallurgy (wootz steel and such never forgotten) and pioneer at the development of aircraft (by using duraluminum alloys). I am not that far ahead in their concept to tell you exactly how I plan to make them, though. Duck said post-WW1. Does it mean I can even build jet engines? Certainly they are much easuer than many other developments here (for example with blue coal the turboshaft engines makes the most sense rather than piston-driven propellers).