Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-24894325-20151215214102/@comment-24894325-20151219110420

Germany is mentioned in passing only once. So far I put it in references with a link.

Austria did exist as an entity, so it is not incorrect to refer to Austria in both DWU and our universe. After all, Elisabeth was Empress of Austria and Quenn of Hungary in our universe too. Also all the events happen in Vienna, Austria (except perhaps the Cybermen ship crash, which is probably in unspecified location).

Thus, my proposal is, essentially, to hush the differences up. I guess the only important thing is to avoid calling Austria a country, which might be a bit controversial for the real world. Otherwise, it is fine to say that the events happen in Austria. I guess we shouldn't say that Austria is the origin of any character anyways because that is not stated in the story.