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I would like some help please!
I'm very slowly starting on a new project, but for it to actually work I need to do a lot of preparing stuff because the story plays in an alternate universe. The main question being, how do you come up with an entirely new world without being cliche. It needs to be based a lot on our current earth, but with some things totaly different. The political system and stuff being the main issue. Does anyone have ideas or maybe websites that help in creating entirely new worlds for stories?
Thanks a lot  .
Havoc |
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is a great example of this 'alternate Earth'. It is completely different in some ways, but completely the same in others. Try reading the first one, and you'll see some of the connections.
Make an Earth in which the past was different. Maybe WW I or WW II never happened. Maybe the Reds won at the battle of Tippycanoe.
Change something so vital to the world's history that it ceases being our version of the world.
In other words, make a world that could have been.