Timeline 1901-2012 (Easternized World)

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries of the world would be times of great technological advancement. The first several decades would be filled with conflict as empires and dictators fell, and in the latter part of this era there would be many conflicts over the resources located in the rest of the solar system, yet for the most part, humanity benefitted from this century.

Instability and Radicalization in the Bytzantine Republic
The PERDR, or the Peoples' Eastern Roman Democratic Republic, entered this century as the most feared nation in the world. Many small nations like Hungary and Czechoslovakia had fallen to the Bytzantines, and their thirst for expansion continued. They were driven by their feared leader, Baltazar Georgopoulos, who celebrated a huge propaganda victory with the Byztantines being the fourth nation to land a man on the moon in 1904 (after Meixikou, Japan, and India). However, after his death in 1905, great political instability and strife gripped the Bytzantine Republic, with the next several leaders barely lasting for a single year. The eventual successor, Hector Laskaris, would come to power in 1909, desperate for some external force to keep his nation from collapsing. He began building up the military to even greater extents, using even more propaganda and being even harsher than Georgopoulos. Tensions between the Bytzantine Greeks and the rest of Europe were high...