Here's a complimentary infographic map series to go with our recently updated States and Faiths map for Atlas Altera. The choropleth approach helps show sizable minorities that are hidden by the mapping/analytical approach used in the main feature map. NOTE: I left out the dedicated export/map view for Jews, so see the comments for that one.
With this timeline having over 1,000 countries, how do so many countries like those in New Guinea or the Caucasus do international relations or survive while being very clustered together? Do they have a shared currency with neighboring countries or have unions like the EU?
Is there a list of notable active separatist movements in modern day Altera? I imagine that maybe the Society of Nations would try and not have more countries created or maybe they do encourage sovereignty for all people groups?
by that i mean, throughout history. what empires have flourished and eventually fallen?