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What if Guinea had a golden age?

Guinea survived, holding 0.1% of the world, about where it started.

The year is 2026, and Guinea enters fifty years of plenty. Nobody touches anything after that: 300 years of history, left to play out.

Of 133 countries put through the same fate, Guinea did better than 60 of them.

Its share of the world

1. 2026: 0.1%
2. 2036: 0.1%
3. 2051: 0.1%
4. 2076: 0.2%
5. 2126: 0.2%
6. 2176: 0.2%
7. 2226: 0.2%
8. 2326: 0.1%

Year by year

• 2026: a golden age began.
• 2026: went to war with Mali.
• 2034: Liberia attacked.
• 2040: went to war with Guinea-Bissau.
• 2056: made peace with Guinea-Bissau.
• 2065: took Guinea-Bissau.
• 2160: took Sierra Leone.

What happened

• At its height, in 2056, it held 0.2% of the world.
• Its first war of its own came in 2026, against Mali.
• Along the way it swallowed Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone.
• 13 wars in 300 years.

The world in 2326

In 2326, Russia ruled 13.7% of the Earth, ahead of Canada and United States of America. 103 nations were left standing.

"Nobody saw that coming. I did, but I was not asked." Max, for the record

Run it yourself

Same seed, same history: it unfolds exactly like this, until you touch it. Then it is your world.

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Is this what would really happen?

No one can know. This is one run of a game engine that simulates every country on the real map: wars by temperament, armies from land and people, civil wars, golden ages. Same seed, same result, every time.

Can I try it myself?

Yes. Press Play this world: the same seed opens in your browser, free, and unfolds the same way until you change something.

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