Board Thread:Timeline Disscussions/@comment-32656-20121219042849/@comment-352226-20150222035132

If by "something like ISIS" you mean a group of armed men who rule a region by terrorizing the people into obedience, that's a pretty big portion of the world.

The reason for rejecting ISIS as a point of comparison is that ISIS is the product of the most recent decades of history, which were totally changed in this TL. Best to avoid convergent narratives. American Spring already pushed the limit, in that department.

France has plenty of stateless zones and no-mans-lands. But the general course of recent history is that these are occupied by nearby states.