Kingdom of Sparta

Sparta was also an prosperous nation before and after the divergence but this page strictly refers to post-divergence Sparta.

The Divergence
After the Divergence nothing really much happened with Sparta, it just carried along with it's business like casual and suit, yet however a few years later the king of Sparta began ordering for more spending on the already spoiled military, so it was commenced and the king of Sparta Phaidon I (Arguably the most famous post-divergence Spartan king) also ordered for more spending on the navy, and due to this although the Spartan army and navy were stronger than ever before, even rivaling Athens on both sides, it bankrupt the country, so due to this Phaidon I increased and heightened the taxes on the civilian and noble population, they thought that the population would rebel and protest against these new, much higher taxes, which the move was extremely risky and even the king realized that, but it was necessary to keep on keeping on, and surprisingly to everybody, they didn't rebel, protest, or even speak out against it, this shocked the king and he got away lucky, and due to the new military and navy spending Sparta surpassed Athens as being the number one power in all of Greece and Anatolia, this enraged Athens and made their already horrible relationship even worse.