A Wonderful Copy of Eden

This map was made for the Map of the Fortnight contest over on AltHistoria, which you can find here: althistoria.proboards.com/thre…

I don't have a full, detailed explanation of this world - I put this together quite quickly and need to get it submitted now in order to meet the deadline - but the short version is that the British are not successful in the French and Indian War, though they win the Seven Years War overall, so France keeps its North American holdings and the threat of French invasion averts the American Revolution. Revolutions break out in Europe even without the American one as inspiration and soon these revolutions spread to the Americas, resulting in the independence of most of Spain's colonies. Chile, notably, is able to defeat the less organised countries around it to resolve border disputes in its favour, quickly becoming a regional power. With no United States to settle, democratic and stable Chile becomes an immigration magnet (of a sort), leading to rapid growth and development in the country. Its naval prowess is unmatched in the Americas, and it uses this to expand its national interests in the South Pacific, first siezing uninhabited islands with sizable guano deposits, and later asserting suzerainty over various Polynesian states. As the description in the image says, Chile's empire reaches its height after it and Mexico beat Spain in a large war and Chile gains most of Spain's holdings in the East Indies. Unfortunately for Chile, this is the "height" of its empire, as in the 20th century it is increasingly eclipsed by its friend and brother, Mexico, and soon there will be war in the family again.