MotF #134: Napoleonic Kingdom of Illyria

My entry for the Map of the Fortnight competition at AlternateHistory.com, challenge #134 (What has the Emperor Ever Done for Us?), which was to create a map of a state that claims to be the remnant or successor of a once-mighty empire.

I decided to take inspiration from a couple flags I already have in this gallery, and so here we have it: the Kingdom of Illyria, formerly the Illyrian Provinces, which as the last Bonaparte-ruled state in Europe considers itself the last remnant of Napoleon's French Empire. The PoD here is that Napoleon dies at the height of his power, leaving his empire intact but shaky; eventually the Empire in France is overthrown, as are all of the Bomaparte client monarchies elsewhere, leaving Illyria under a Vader branch as the last remnant. In reality it's a fractured and fractious realm constantly on the brink of collapse, divided into four federal provinces that each roughly correspond with one of the four main ethnic groups (Carniola for the Slovenes, Croatia for the Croats, Istria for the Italians, and Carinthia for the Germans) and having to juggle five official languages (the four previous plus French, which is still used as the main language of administration to keep up Napoleonic airs and avoid privileging one of the ethnic groups and therefore offending the other three). So far the Kingdom has just managed to hold itself together due to loyalty to the monarchy and the Napoleonic legacy and ideal of uniting all the peoples of Europe in brotherhood (or at least that's what the government keeps frantically repeating that the Napoleonic ideal is), and perhaps more pertinently due to fear of being torn apart by greater powers, who have already peeled off the southern half of the former Illyrian Provinces. However, a tide of nationalism is rising across Europe, and with the weak and ineffectual King Napoleon V on the throne, Illyria looks set to be torn apart between pan-Slavists, Slovenian and Croatian irredentists, and German and Italian separatists.