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What if Spain had a golden age?

Spain survived, holding 0.4% of the world, about where it started.

The year is 2026, and Spain 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, Spain did better than 92 of them.

Its share of the world

1. 2026: 0.4%
2. 2036: 0.4%
3. 2051: 0.4%
4. 2076: 0.4%
5. 2126: 0.5%
6. 2176: 0.4%
7. 2226: 0.4%
8. 2326: 0.4%

Year by year

• 2026: a golden age began.
• 2035: went to war with Portugal.
• 2035: Morocco attacked.
• 2044: made peace with Portugal.
• 2045: Portugal attacked.
• 2064: took Portugal.

What happened

• At its height, in 2109, it held 0.5% of the world.
• Its first war of its own came in 2035, against Portugal.
• Along the way it swallowed Portugal.
• 10 wars in 300 years.

The world in 2326

In 2326, Canada ruled 14.4% of the Earth, ahead of Russia and People's Republic of China. 120 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.

Other what-ifs for Spain

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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.

Every page is a real run of the Play God on Earth engine (deterministic: same seed, same result). Historical facts are not implied; this is a game.