u/Miniclift239

This can have one or multiple points of divergence, and the goal is to have one nation/government be ruler of the world. There can be autonomy within it but people must identify as part of this nation, even if they have sub identities within it. (For example like how a person living in California could call themselves American and Californian). Also

To get the ball rolling , for me I think the country that gained the biggest advantage over other nations was Britain after the Napelonic wars, but of course Britain doesn’t have the population to conquer the whole world.

So my idea is to fuse the elements that made Britain strong (industrialisation, strong navy, relatively democratic institutions for the time, colonisation of North America) with a country with a higher population and landmass like China. So altering China’s history to have stronger and more effective institution, less isolationism, less civil wars and one that starts colonisation of the America’s before Europe would be a start, but I have no idea how to do that.

But what ideas do you have?

(And to be clear, I don’t think this would be a better timeline, since it’ll be imperialism and exploitation on steroids.)

In essence my question assumes that there's no war with Germany, but tensions between Japan and Britain build up in a similar way to the attack on Pearl Harbour. Only in this case there's no Germany or Italy in Europe and Britain can focus its full attention onto Japan but the USA is not it's military ally.

Since this is more a question of if Britain could have fulfilled the same role as the USA if it wasn't also fighting the Axis in Europe, we'd still assume that Japan is at war with China, so the war still starts of similar to our own timeline.