Ammat The Ankh posted:

Have you noticed the GOP is all but dead at the state level in California? Well, political entrepreneur and Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone has and plan to do something about that! No, it's not "treat Hispanics with dignity." It's a secessionist movement! Behold, the glorious state of South California:




This thread has been fascinating, I've been learning so much.

GreenCard78 posted:

Meet Kaliningrad, Russia. It's not really in Russia but to the west and an exclave of Russia.



Russia gets a warm water port to not have to pass through Finnish or Estonian waters but it's still not attached to Russia proper.

lekki posted:

I don't get why Romania or Greece are more dangerous than Hungary, Serbia or Macedonia ?

Ammat The Ankh posted:

Haiti's on there, though. I figure if Haiti would qualify, Jamaica would as well.

YF-23 posted:

I'd posted a larger version of that back in page 5. It really owns, from Russia being wilderness with a few "enlightened" cities, to Ethiopia's "corrupt christianity".

prefect posted:

I just thought it was amusing.

The Narrator posted:

Hypothetical map for "regions" in a united Europe. Regions are constructed to each hold roughly 10 million people, and are drawn based on nationality and "neatness".

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Well, that's what happens when you have a cultural exclave, but don't want to force the people between the two regions to join up. I guess you might be able to make some kind of snakey strip that connected the two without getting too many Romanians, but I'm not sure how well Romania would take it.



Not exactly the easiest thing to solve in a way that won't piss anyone off. The real life solution was obviously just to make sure Hungary was the only one that was pissed off, so everyone else could make sure they didn't get any good ideas.

duodenum posted:

I grew up in California, and we laugh at you flyover people who fear earthquakes.

Soviet Commubot posted:

Someone mentioned the Scots and Welsh as being red-haired which reminded me of this. Does anyone know who that is out in Russia? I thought maybe it was the Tatars but my girlfriend (who is from Yekaterinburg) doesn't think so.

Spirit Tree posted:

As usual Australia gets the poo poo end of it.

wdarkk posted:

So France's colonies are region 1 but France is region 2.

SurgicalOntologist posted:

Ireland is with most of Africa?

DrBouvenstein posted:

Worst states in America for women:



The answer is Louisiana.

kustomkarkommando posted:

Someone over at the New York Times cracked out the marker pens and had a go at drawing some new borders for the Middle East. HRE fans rejoice, looks like Free Cities are going to make a comeback!



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/imagining-a-remapped-middle-east.html?pagewanted=1

Also looks like Damascus gets destroyed in the Syrian War or something...

DrBouvenstein posted:

Scandinavia loving loves metal.

Peanut President posted:

Vojvodina does but not Kosovo.

Soviet Commubot posted:

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I wanted to illustrate the silliness of that 'Europe of nations' map, specifically the idea that a Sami state would be viable as a Sami state within those borders, but I may have gone a bit overboard. I basically took the states with the highest proportion of Native Americans, added most of Canada, then cut out the bits that had far too many non-Native Americans until Native Americans made up as big a proportion of the total population as the Sami do in that Sami state. (5) Following that, I carved out a few smaller Native American states, (2,10,15,18,19,25,26), as well as of course Hawaii, using the same principles.

Then I figured I might as well add some African-American homelands, so I took all the African-American majority counties, plus a few with just a significant majority to make the states more viable, creating a few small African-American states. (9,17,21,23). Québec got a similar treatment, and then I split the current US up a bit since otherwise those other new states looked really out of place.



I have a sneaking suspicion that you would have a really hard time getting this to work, even if a few of the states might be perfectly happy with the situation.

Paradoxish posted:

This is a super interesting map, and for some reason it's really surprising to me that naming trends actually follow patterns like this. I particularly like how Jessica and Ashley fought a desperate struggle for dominance after Jennifer's 1970s reign of terror, only to be stabbed in the back by Emily once the late 90s rolled around.

ProfessorProf posted:

By some quick googling, Russia is about 10,000km across, and Australia is about 4,000km across. What's going on with this map?

reignonyourparade posted:

For NOT having split off because they didn't want to listen to the Vatican the Catholics are quite fond of not listening to the Vatican.

Radio Prune posted:

Maps are easily the best thing about irredentism. Just Google image search "greater [country]" and you always get something interesting or come up.

Bloodnose posted:

And why did the Walloons not get absorbed into France, considering they're all Catholic and (kinda)Francophones.

PittTheElder posted:

It remains disputed in a few places. Same story with Saudi Arabia and Oman I think. There's a few more examples out there, but the best one is probably Bir Tawil, which I'm sure long time followers of the thread are familiar with. It's a little strip of land between Egypt and Sudan, but claimed by neither. The actually disputed land is the nearby and much more valuable Hala'ib Triangle, but due to details in how the border was delimited (line of latitude vs. actual administration), the claims to the Hala'ib triangle means neither actually claims Bir Tawil.

withak posted:

He is a professor at Russia. It says right there on the picture.

made of bees posted:

Florida is an obvious one, but what the hell is going on with Montana?

PrinceRandom posted:

I think the last guy was probably joking.

PittTheElder posted:

Belarus is clearly the highlight of this one.