ekuNNN posted:

You're confusing Germany with the ECB and IMF

Peanut President posted:

"Blacklands"? Is there a giant volcano where some little dudes have to throw in a ring? (It's over by Ukraine)

Grand Fromage posted:

Yeah I'm curious about what qualifies as yellow too, my county is yellow and I can't recall any restrictions. We have drive thru liquor stores there, it's not exactly restrictive.

Phlegmish posted:

Moldova is determined to be the worst European country in everything.

Peruser posted:

We signed almost all of those, we just can't ratify them because some people think we need the rights

Especially the right to execute children apparently

Oh and


Good job Ireland

QuoProQuid posted:

The problem with most alternate history is that the writers are more focused on making the world as different as possible rather than writing a realistic world or making useful commentary on modern events. The easiest way to get attention is by changing borders so alternate history is often associated with maps. The alternatehistory.com community is particularly bad in this regard. The easiest way to get yourself noticed is be moderately talented in Photoshop. You could be copying literal encyclopedia entries but as long as you have regular illustrations, people will follow you.

I do have a few favorite pieces of internet alternate history, though:



Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72: Louisiana Governor John Julian McKeithen decides to stand for the Democratic nomination for the 1972 Election. McGovern becomes furious about being overlooked and decides to run as an independent under a 'Peace' platform. The result is an electoral college split and the House of Representatives is forced to choose the President. Sprio Agnew does beautiful, wonderful things.

A World of Laughter, A World of Tears

Eisenhower drops from the 1952 Republican Primary after a minor heart attack. The incident does not threaten his life but forces Eisenhower to come to terms with his health. He drops from the race and the GOP is thrown into turmoil. Hoping to throw the Democrats off-guard, the Republicans nominate Walt Disney who proceeds to win by a large margin. His term goes as well as you might expect.

Benito Hitlerstalin posted:

You've got to be working under some really hosed up definitions to end up with a map looking like this:


Or this:


Constitution as in what? Founding document? Body of law? Under what definition does the UK (uncodified constitution) end up blue, but other nations with equally good legal protections and statutes red? And then there's the second one which in addition to having all the problems of the first one is pretty much a map on specificity masquerading as a map on disabled children and their rights. A bad map.

e: This, for example, wouldn't cut it for the purposes of the second map:

Real hurthling! posted:

Hah the jets have exactly 1 loyal county.

Tony Jowns posted:

shouts out to germany, new zealand, bolivia, ireland, malta and hungary for using better systems than anybody else

Lawman 0 posted:

Anyone who has played EU4 knows that the HRE is basically thunderdome because of the 50 or so princes in it.

kustomkarkommando posted:

This is the map thread, not the graph thread



Horrible quality map on trilingualism, taken from a 2012 Eurobarometer report (http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf)

Ireland is also pretty awful when it comes to statistics relating to multilingualism, it used to be the worst country in the EU until rather recently and has only started picking up it's game within the last couple of years. But that's largely down to the fact that the majority of language education in Ireland is dedicated to trying to make Irish more widespread (learning Irish is a compulsory part of the curriculum).

Phlegmish posted:

The BNP is also there. I think El País was just trolling with their inclusion of UKIP. Nigel Farage is a boorish rear end in a top hat, but it's a bit ridiculous to put him on the same level as Golden Dawn.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Sadly I'm willing to bet a decent amount of Americans wouldn't do much better than this.

Also, I'm disappointed that nobody pointed out that Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana together looks like a fat chef wearing cowboy boots.

withak posted:

That seems unlikely. Is it really possible that more people in the UK have Welsh as a first language than have (say) Hindi or Arabic or French as a first language?

computer parts posted:

I could see a situation where despite a majority of the inhabitants of the state voting for [one guy], all of the electoral voted are instead allocated to [other guy], and how that might seem unfair.


Of course this is mitigated somewhat by the fact that the only place these laws have passed are Democratic leaning states and Democratic candidates as of late tend to always win the popular vote.

DrSunshine posted:

Politically motivated map of Antarctica!



Filthy British! Return our rightful Argentinian Antarctic clay!!

EDIT: And here is if you assigned claims by location on a longitude line.

Nice Davis posted:

This look into South Korea is fascinating. Keep it coming!

On a different topic:

Phlegmish posted:

And did you know Amnesty International is actually a front for an international pedophile ring?

Amused to Death posted:

Doesn't everyone who want an abortion just take the ferry over to Britain?

Riso posted:

Kosovo was an illegal vote, with a questionable quick recognition by third parties, while under the military "protection" of said third parties.

It's a legal mess just like the Crimea.

XMNN posted:

Yorkshire is British Texas, pretty much.

Golbez posted:

Why does France get four or five codes when the rest of the world gets one?

Peanut President posted:

"The greatest trick the Austrians ever played was convincing the world that Hitler was German."

--some guy probably

Torrannor posted:

I'm not sure I understand. I can only think of three situations:

1. All banned. (red)

2. LGB people allowed but trans people banned.

3. All allowed. (purple?)

What further divisions can there be? Don't ask/ don't tell policies? Lesbians allowed but gay/bi men not?

Mister Adequate posted:

Dates? Figs? Leather shoes?

Areiopolitical for Mars, thanks. Neptune's best though, it'd be Poseidopolitics.

ekuNNN posted:

Nah not really, although there is a Fryske Nasjonale Partij. From Wikipedia: The FNP is a left-wing nationalist party, which advocates a federalist political system in which Frisians get more autonomy. It calls for greater autonomy of the region, government use, protection and recognition of the Frisian language and Frisian control over its gas reserves.

Here's a map of active separatist movements in Europe. Red names indicate regions with movements that only claim greater autonomy within the actual state. Black names indicate regions with important secessionist movements, although both categories include moderate movements. The nations highlighted in colors are the territories claimed by the local nationalist groups, including areas out of the state's borders and cases of annexation to other states:

Hedera Helix posted:

How much remains of the swamps and alluvia shown in this map?

cheerfullydrab posted:

I honestly think you could cobble together some heroic myths, make the flag a locally recognized symbol, get the term used by the media, among many other things, and drum up genuine Mercian nationalism within two generations.

Then we'll see about the Danes.

Disclaimer: only been to the UK twice, never in that region.

3peat posted:

Average transport prices in Europe

Baloogan posted:

OddObserver posted:

What's up with Portugal?

Golbez posted:

Surprised no representation from Northern Ireland on there.

Jaramin posted:

Here's one with gradations depicting how yes/no a province went. No discreet legend though.