Steamopera Map of the World

A very WIP map of Earth for Steamopera.

Side-note, found a great program for map-projections, much more useful than G.Projector (though it lacks stuff like ortographic projection): Flex Projector [link]

My plans for New Zealand already included feathered pseudo-dinosaurs (cousins to birds) and whatnot, so I decided to make it bigger by expanding South Island into Zealandia territory. I don't think a bit bigger South Island's going to cause any big changes in the ocean-streams around here (I tried to figure out, but there's a pretty big gap there and most streaming seems to follow the Zealandia outline a bit), etc.

About the orange areas in the East Indies etc: Because the Technocracy of Netherland is basically a satellite state of the Republic of France, the colonial possessions of the Netherlands and France in the eastern hemisphere have been united into a single sphere of influence, which I've decided to call with the pseudo-orwellian name of Probationary Territories. These include the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, most of Indonesia, eastern Australia (New Holland), South Island (New Zealand) and Kyushu.

The Japanese Commonwealth: This is a lose pseudo-federation of basically sovereign states in a constant low-profile cold war going on. Each of the states pledges loyalty to the Emperor, from the Republic of Ezo to the Shogunate in Eastern Japan (Edo), and the Daimyonate in Western Japan (Kyoto), plus something going on in Shikoku. Kyushu is French/Hollandish and Okinawa is British. Korea is a sovereign Kingdom, Manchuria is Prussian.

Republican bloc vs. Monarchist bloc in Europe:
The Conciliary Republic of France and its satellites: The Technocracy of Netherland (sic), Conciliary Republic of Swabia, Conciliary Union of Rhineland and the Swiss Republic (+ places like Republic of Lucca.

The Union Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland + Hanover (Vicky is a boy).

K. Prussia. Kingdom of Saxony. Kingdom of Denmark.

The United Kingdoms of the Danube (Danubia, Donavia? Donauia?)

Russia is split into northern and southern states: Old Russia is the rump of the old St. Petersburg Tsardom, including Livonia and the Grand Duchy of Finland. The Ruthenian Empire is... The result of a Russian Napoleon, I'd guess. There was a republican revolution, which ultimately resulted in a charismatic neo-imperialist Emperor.

Africa: I have no idea. I just cut it into random bits and pieces and gave them out willy-nilly to the big powers. I trust this is sufficiently authentic in tone. The French African territories are no part of the Probationary Territories, and not jointly ruled by the French-Dutch concorde.

The colours may be a bit hard to read so here: British Bengal, British Pakistan/Afghanistan, some sort of thing going on in central India, etc.

Of the states in America, the Emigré Kingdom of Louisiane actually has colonial possessions in India and other places.

South America is generally random. I have no idea what would be plausible, and my idea for an ironically delicious split Brazil/united Spanish South America isn't very plausible. Possibly I'll later do them along more ethnic/linguistic areas.

Ah, and the center meridian on the map is +40 degrees so's you can see New Zealand better. This cuts Alaska off North America, but that's ok; by an amazing coincidence, the eastern border of Russian Alaska goes exactly through that same parallel.

The projection used is Winkel II. Should give it a Steamopera-internal name, though.

EDIT:

This has bothered me for ages, but I never changed it, and I haven't changed it now, but I don't think "Turkmenistan" is appropriate here. I was going to write "Turkestan", but my mind must have slipped, and argh, I hope no one notices.