[quote=@Chairman Stein]
So I'm a tad confused. Does this RP take place on the same planet as ours, and this is simply player-created alt-history. Or is this a 'pseudo-earth' with alternate continents, etc and ALL history is left up to players? To make my question a bit more simple, if this takes place in our world, what point would the 'time divergence' happen? What events played out differently to ALLOW such major divergences?
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History is entirely up to the players, other than the fact that there was a large world war that reshuffled the balance of power and ended recently. There is no clear point of divergence, it would be long before industrialization if there was one, but we're using the real world map.  It's gotten a little closer to real world history than I thought it would thanks to the nation bios submitted so far, but I'm flexible about the direction people want to take it.