The Dragon and the Bear: Dividing the Spoils
By Matthew W. Quinn
In addition to dealing with Draka war criminals and transgenic entities, the Alliance began the work of dividing up post-Draka Africa.
In the north, Egypt was re-established as a separate entity largely for historical/sentimental reasons. It included our world's Egypt and a sizable chunk of Sudan, with Khartoum as its southernmost bulwark and its capital at Alexandria.
Our world's Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria were consolidated into new North African Federation with its capital in Nova Cartago (our world's Bizerte). The nascent Moroccan state consolidated its borders (roughly the same as our world) under the rule of its new king.
Further south, the Sahelian Federation extended from our world's Mauretania through OTL Mali, Niger, and Chad. Its capital was at Agadez.
The borders of the West African Federation were finalized as our world's Sengal all through Cameroon, with its capital at Dakar. Our world's northern Nigeria remained independent as the revived Sokoto Caliphate. Its southern border was finalized as the Niger River.
Central Africa was organized as a new Central African Federation with its capital at the site of our world's Kinshasa. It encompassed our history's Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Uganda, and Zambia, as well as the smaller states around it and the parts of our world's Sudan not under Egyptian control. Virunga Biocontrol remained under heavy Alliance military garrison, lest someone seek to grab hold of its dangerous secrets.
The East African Federation encompassed our world's southern Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania. The rest of Somalia, our world's Djibouti, and Eritrea were incorporated along with our world's Ethiopia into a revived Ethiopian Empire.
The Southern African Federation was the trickiest of them all, since it was the destination of the 24 million or so remaining Draka and many serf loyalists. It was kept under Alliance military occupation and would remain so for 75 years, enough for the generation of Human-Draka that had fought in the war to pass away and for a generation of Draka to grow up under Alliance rule.
The SAF ultimately included our world's South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, as well as the smaller states. After some discussion, Madagascar was not included in the new state. Instead, it would resemble something like Okinawa, only on a much larger scale and a much larger mandate for interference. The armies occupying the SAF would be headquartered here, although there would be substantial Alliance bases at Windhaven (our world's Windhoek), devastated Archona and Cape Town, and other cities.
The Alliance decided that centuries of economic interdependence would be foolish to undo, especially given the precarious state of the global economy. They decided to establish an African Free Trade Agreement, as a prelude to full integration of the post-Domination states into the global free trade agreement that already included the Alliance nations.
Now that the former Domination was divided, it was time to rebuild it. Construction was a very strong industry and would remain so for a long time, spawning a need for materials to feed the construction industry. This meant demand for the copper mines of the SAF and CAF, among other products.
Alliance capital flowed into the former Domination, funding all sorts of rebuilding projects. The assets of the former Combines outside of the SAF fell into the hands of various multinational corporations who rebuilt them to Alliance standards. Large numbers of people from the Alliance came to take over management of these facilities, since the Citizen managers and foremen were gone, as were most of the upper-level serfs.
In the SAF, the Combines did not want for management personnel-in fact, with the Draka being expelled there, they had plenty. The Combines began operating as they did before, only under close Alliance supervision and with the ex-serfs being paid and whippings forbidden.