New Reality Seeds

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by dcarson

GURPS Planet Krishna is based of L. Sprague de Camp's stories where Brazil ends up as the major power after a nuclear war.

Brazil has most of what it takes to be a major power. Fairly small changes could have made Brazil a power player.

A brilliant Emperor in the early 19th century getting Brazil on the road to industrialization might be one way to do it. A reliable and cheap food crop that would have supported the population more effectively would have been good too. Something like a wide spectrum Quinine, which would have allowed early exploration and exploitation of their resources far earlier, would have been good too.