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Map of Aralstan

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In this timeline, I imagine that the once-vast Aral Sea were dried up due of Tsarists Russia irrigation policy (rather than Soviet) in 19th- early 20th century, leaving the area to be depopulated. However, small group of people still left- which is known as Aralstani people, named after the name of the sea.

The Aralstan area start to be repopulated again due of discovery of oils as well other minerals during Soviet times, which showed a lot of city and buildings are build. However following the fall of Soviet Union, these area were claimed by the newly-independent of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as theirs. Feared that ethnic Aralstani would be discriminated, Rustamni Alashuly, an Aralstani Soviet army officer, with his army under his command- with the help of Russian/Ukrainian minorities, stormed the capital and declared the independence of Aralstan as "free, independent, sovereign countries".
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Oh, I see now. So the major event that brings people back into this area following the dry up of the Aral Sea is the discovery of oil in the region during the Soviet Era, hence the construction of settlements there. Essentially, they'd be oil-boom towns. 

Okay, so in this one we get a bit more story and background, which I like. In fact its necessary in order to explain why anyone would want to settle in a dried-up sea. 

This is a good start! Again, a very intriguing idea that I quite like. Not only do we have the borders of a country but also people with ties to the land. We also have a rough idea of when the drying of the Aral Sea occurs, roughly around the time of the Imperial Russian conquest of the area. I'd say you can go a step further and imply the Aral Sea was beginning to dry before the Russians got there due to weather, climate, or geological conditions. However, due to Imperial Russian irrigation practices, likely to water cash crops like cotton, the Aral Sea began to dry.

If you ever come back to this idea, it would be cool if you could add more detail to it, perhaps create a soldier with a uniform representing the area in Pre-Russian time and Post-Soviet times.