Filimons wrote:A Greek-speaking state bordering Algeria and Tunisia. This is Ike’s idea, so I will refrain from further comment.
That's not my idea, that's two of my ideas mixed together. The first is for a Greek speaking nation somewhere between Egypt and Cyprus in the Mediterranean, with Turks, refugees and economic issues.
The second is a post-colonial holdout above Algeria/Tunisia that managed to retain its independence because of a large volume of whites (pied-noirs in this particular instance) flocking there and creating a new state with the largest ratio of whites to blacks in Africa. Alternatively it could be an Italian colony near Libya/Somalia, or Portuguese, etc. I don't know how realistic it would be to have serious European efforts at whitening portions of Africa, but it can be assumed that whatever happened to make it so, there was a lot of genocide. Belgium, anyone?
I'd like to push the Baltics even though no one will bite- there's yuge potential for geopolitical tension and fun. Russian minorities, creating Balto-Slavic conlangs (<3 TLT), maybe a Catholic/Orthodox divide, EU/NATO-related issues, Russian intervention looming over our heads to protect said minorities, etc, etc. I wasn't around for much of Baltonia, but whatever killed it, I'm sure it wasn't the mere fact of being a Baltic state.
Lastly, I'd also like to suggest a few other, on-a-whim ideas: Island off eastern South Africa with a lotta white Dutch people, similar to Filimons #3 but different. 1920s-set independent Crimea with Tatars galore and Russians and very motivated, clashing political ideologies between cossacks, communists, monarchists, etc. Rich Persian gulf island/peninsula akin to the UAE/Bahrain/Qatar that just got out of the Arab Spring, a little delayed. Or we could turn back time to 2011 to make it a tiny bit more fitting. Now that would be interesting.