Showed this to
@Redolegna earlier this evening. My idea for what the western part of Europe looks like in 1875 in the world of the Nordic election night:
Germany is a mess and has been a mess ever since the end of the Napoleonic War as Prussia and Austria for decades afterward vied for supremacy. In the 1860s, while British and French attention was focused elsewhere, there was finally a war between the two powers that went on for years and years, and during which, there was a revolution in Lombardy-Venetia against Habsburg rule, with the Prussians allying with them (I cannot tell if they're a republic or a monarchy down there because I haven't decided yet). By 1868, with the Nortonian Wars in North America finally done and concluded with the Treaty of Havanah, the British and French could finally turn their attention to continental affairs, and the Great Partnership now pressed for peace as they did not want the conflict to spill over into a continental one.
The French made use of their influence in Vienna and the British of theirs in Berlin, and in the summer of 1868, a peace conference was finally held at Locarno in Switzerland, in which Lombard-Venetian independence was recognized by the Austrians and the Kingdom of Bohemia was broken out as an independent, neutral buffer state. This was also Nicolas Andersen's first time to shine on the world stage as he was invited to serve as the mediator.
Beyond the Prussian and Austrian aligned German principalities there is also the League of Lyksborg (or, well,
der Glücksburger Bund if you're a German-speaker) which is a Scandinavian dominated alliance that basically exists for principalities that want to stay out of a future conflict involving Austria and Prussia. It's members as of 1875 are the Nordic Empire, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the Kingdom of Hanover, the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Free City of Lübeck, the Hessian states and one or two of the microstates in the Thüringian quagmire.