User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/You Are Here Stuff/@comment-4656717-20120521084427/@comment-4727448-20120616042903

Well, in Aussie, what happened was that Russia and France split up New South Wales after the Napoleonic Wars/World War I and the US was inspired and basically started expanding in from the West.

Your parents would meet, or at least there parallels would in Ireland, because Scotland is basically hell ATL and was even more so in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Riots every other night and protestors marching on Edinburgh and setting fire to train stations and killing royals!