Writing the story line right now. Basically it's where Germany wins WW1 and that changes things quite a bit, when BOOM, one of their scientists publishes the trans-newtonian theory, the military becomes interested, and they start mining for the minerals. But, he did kind of release it publicly, so all the other nations kind of know about it too. . .
I will try to simulate the stresses between nations as everyone kinda got steamrolled by Germany.