User blog:Smallpox/First Blog Post, First TL, Help Wanted!

Okay, hello, I guess here I'll outline some things for the new TL I'm starting, the aptly named "smallpox TL" (I'm of course open to suggestions for a different name here). After reading a bit about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on wikipedia I thought about how the world may be like if they had stuck around, and that's pretty much my basis. Other factors included my love of the Ottoman Empire, Yugoslavia and Spain. At first I thought this could only be done as a solo project, but I thought this may make a nice opportunity for a new community project that would appeal to my interests and maybe others' (I'm not a fan of Doomsday, the stories and stuff are good, I just don't like post-apocalyptic scenarios). Now I'd like to somewhat dictatorially (kind of counter-intuitively) set out the gist of what I would like to see happen, you, the user reading this and I could then have full reign to write in the remaining fluff. Please feel free to show your support for this idea, shoot it down or negotiate some details, thank you.
 * Instead of being swallowed up by the nations surrounding it, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survives into our current century, becoming a great power, or even, a superpower. One thing that could happen for this to be plausible is the union of Poland and Sweden by King Sigismund or the realisation of a Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Union.
 * Instead of being torn apart by ethnic struggles, a grand Kingdom of Yugoslavia arises to become a dominant player on the world stage. Not sure how this is going to happen, but we can figure that out later.
 * Spain manages to shake off its decline and become a major power on par with OTL Britain and France into the 20th century. Perhaps they could even take part in one of the great wars.
 * An Australian-led Confederation of Pacific island territories comes to Dominate the southern hemisphere, perhaps due to a mutual threat coming from Japan.
 * Japan has created a somewhat vast empire, rivaling mostly the Australian league.
 * Russia continues as an expansionist Tsardom.
 * A coupe in Mexico results in two sovereign states existing inside the borders of OTL Mexico, one being a republic, one being a monarchy. A divided Mexico.
 * Perhaps somehow the Austrians manage to hold onto their vast territory.
 * The Ottomans survive the onslaught of foreign invaders and revolts to build a fairly large empire based on both Anatolia, Armenia, Georgia and the southern coast of the Mediterranean.