An Egyptian Meijiby ~QuantumBranching

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A not-too-fancy one for a map contest.

Hokay: in this world the Egyptian Khedives managed to hold onto the Sudan and keep grubby European hands off their economy, and made some further gains by being on the other side of their World War I - equivalent than the Ottomans (that is to say, they were on the winning side).

With a bigger economic base and some sensible development economics - they kept an eye on what the Japanese were up to, for one thing - they managed to grow their economy to the extent they developed a real middle class, and when the last Khedive was given his walking papers, the Republic that was declared managed (after a few false starts) to develop into a real one by the 70s. (Libyan oil helped, too - not enough to bring about Dutch disease, but enough to provide some solid investment money when it was needed). By the 2000s, Egypt is, like the UK or Italy or India, a solid second-rank economic and military power - but prosperity is not without its problems...

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~Laputa-Scorefinger Oct 29, 2012

I'm a bit late to the party, but yeah, I agree that you should definitely expand on this. There aren't enough timelines/maps where things are actually better than OTL.