Cliché

Mapping has developed many clichés throughout it's history. Using a cliché isn't necessarily bad, but they are not recommended as they are unoriginal and can make your content more boring.

List of Clichés

• Germany is reformed into a fascist, nationalist, neo-Nazi or other radical state, often referred to as the Fourth Reich.
• Germany (and sometimes France) unite the European Union into a superstate controlled mainly by German politicians.
• Russia forms a Neo-Soviet Union.
• Russia collapses and is split into smaller states, or Siberia declares independence.
• Scotland (sometimes Wales, rarely Northern Ireland) declares independence from the United Kingdom in the aftermath of Brexit.
• A former Yugoslav country, usually Serbia, reunites Yugoslavia.
• Czechoslovakia is reunited either diplomatically or forcefully.
• Turkey annexes a few of its neighbors and becomes the Ottoman Empire.
• Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and sometimes Finland and Iceland are united into Scandinavia.
• Spain collapses and many of its regions (usually Catalonia and/or Basque, often Galicia, and occasionally others) declare independence.
• Greece collapses due to an economic crisis.
• Austria and Hungary reunite.
• The Islamic State is formed in Syria and/or Iraq.
• Central Asia either unites or is re-annexed by Russia.
• Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and sometimes Cornwall and Brittany form the Celtic Union. They sometimes then annex England.
• The Baltic states unite.
• Benelux is formed, usually diplomatically or through the Netherlands conquering Belgium and Luxembourg.
• Korea is unified under either government.
• Japan becomes an empire again and annexes surrounding countries.
• Australia and New Zealand unite into Oceania.
• Nations such as Russia, France, and Britain suddenly reform back into empires.
• Iberia is formed by Spain and Portugal.
• Romania annexes Moldova.
• An exceptionally large country (which often controls most of the world) is hit by countless revolts simultaneously and is split according to all the rebels' claims.
• Tibet, Manchuria and/or East Turkestan gain independence.
• China reforms into a democracy.
• Russia annexing Belarus.
• Russia declares war and takes over Ukraine.
• A custom nation forms or gets independence. This nation is usually over-powered and is considered a "good guy".
• Belgium is split between France and The Netherlands(either after a referendum or after a conquest).
• Great Lechia exists, and rising from Poland
• Poland conquers Lviv