What an interesting scenario. How did the borders of East and West end up like that? The French border seems a little arbitrary...
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What an interesting scenario. How did the borders of East and West end up like that? The French border seems a little arbitrary...
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The borders in France is something I could not really predict, so that was my attempt at a general guess of where the soviets and allied forces would have met up, in France.
What happened in that one where New York is part of Canada, and which is the flag for that one? I like that one, as thats where I live.
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This is an extremely minor note, but I've been shouting it across the prairies for a long time anyway: I have no idea how YNot's "Tlicho" state ever stood up to more than one Wikipedia search. There are only 3,000 Tlicho people in the entire observable universe and they don't even form a majority among indigenous people within the boundaries he drew (much less when you throw in Yellowknife's large majority white population).
That dealt with, here are the actual legal boundaries defined by the 2003 Tlicho Final Agreement:
Part 6, HOORAH!! (also I'm starting a policy of giving a color to any colorless nations that get involved in some way, shape, or form)
5 more years have come and gone.
Colombia and Brazil have both been pushed back from Venezuela and Ecuador. Cuban forces have landed on the Colombian coast, and Venezuelan forces have entered Guyana.
Ambazonian forces in Cameroon have re-risen in full force, putting the country and its neighbors on edge.
Iran has managed to push back the majority of its Iraqi rebels, and has also brought Syria into its sphere. Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar have joined the Saudi lead coalition in opposition.
Pakistan meanwhile, has been receiving much greater support from China and the U.S. India looks on with a feeling of concern.
Western Saharan rebels have been pushed back from the coast, though have taken land more inland.
The U.K. has so far managed to push back its far-right rebels to central England. The same cannot be said for Russia, where the rebels have taken most of Karelia, and have even spilled into Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, and Belorussian territories, causing talks of intervention from the west to begin.
Dagestan and Belarus have joined the E.U. Nothing else to note about that.
Russian rebels in Ukraine have been pushed back by the Visegrad nations, who are becoming increasingly angered at Brussels for doing little to help them.
Brussels meanwhile, has reaffirmed its stance of neutrality, and has threatened sanctions against both sides involved in the Catalonia-France conflict.
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I have two map making related questions.
1. Is there any available templates for color keys?
2. What font(s) should I use?
1. Is there any available templates for color keys?
2. What font(s) should I use?
That is actually inspired from a post-Weltkreig Kaiserreich 'Kingdom of Canada'. In the mod, you have the option to occupy New England, Alaska and the Panama Canal on the onset of the Second American Civil War to protect Canadian interests. Most of the time, New England is liberated as a puppet state, but you do have the option to annex it. That's the scenario shown here
There are quite a few colour schemes available on the forum that you can use, some of the ones I have saved include: Drex's Colour Scheme (DCS), RCS and aRCS, SUCK, X2 and Toast3r. Also, hadaril's NextGen maps have their own standard colour scheme, NCS. Now, obviously, there are a lot, but most tend to stick to a few similar trends - England is Pink, USA is greeny-blue-turquoisey, Germany is gray etc etc. At the end of the day you I'd also advise you to not diehard stick to the schemes, as some maps look better if nations within a similar sphere are generally the same colour i.e. an Allied Democratic faction might look good if the nations were all shades of blue, so a Pink Britain would look out of place. So really you can always just colour what you like! The schemes are just there to help.
For fonts, I usually use 04b03 at font size 8. This is the font you see in RvBOMally's maps (I think), for example. However, if you want bigger text, I also use just normal Calibri on font size 12, which is pixelated enough to fit in with the theme of WorldA maps, but also bigger than 04b03. The only problem with that is that when you type 'tt' or 'ti' or 'ff' or variations of I, T or F together usually there is a graphical error. You will just have to fix that as you go along. I'm sure there's a proper name for it, but it's something to do with the linking of letters.
Hopefully that helps!
I have been using a mix NCS and DCS on my map, and I appreciate you introducing those other color schemes for my map.
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The Republic of Arctica is a socialist state controlling the eponymous landmass within the Acidalian Ocean of the planet Mars. The initial settlers came from numerous backgrounds, especially Chile and Mexico, the two states that set up research stations in the area before terraforming. But the largest groups came to be Russians, Americans and Japanese who came following terraforming to escape hard conditions on Earth. Few at first came to cold and forbidding Arctica, and those who did were generally small independent farmers, sealers, and miners. Mining and fishing became major industries in the region, however, following the discovery of massive Uranium deposits, and the cities of Chelomei, Hyoshoseki, and Almaz became major ports almost instantly due to their position as commerce and transport hubs, and all of this attracted an eclectic group of migrant workers and retired spacers that formed unorganized communities. Followers of radical Buddhist, Babist, and Barbeloite sects attempted to set up religious communes which engaged in guerrilla conflict for decades; Unregulated commerce created poverty while the ruling class of white American businesspeople brought their racism, and agricultural feudalism developed in isolated mining communities in which workers were chained to company food supplies and forced to grow their own food on site in underground bunkers. Workers of color were treated poorly and economically excluded, and oppression of women was rampant, though the GSM community flourished underground.
The captains of the shipping industry in Acidalia, all based in Arctica, blocked attempts by the UN Arctica Territory to institute labor laws and regulate commerce, as unregulated prostitution was a major industry and was lining their pockets. When UN inspectors stopped coming, racism began to worsen, and the locals began to view the Earth government as having forgotten them, the rapidly popularizing Martian Communist Project and its local affiliates instigated a successful series of strikes which led to the exposure of human trafficking rings and the arrest of most of the UN Territorial Administration of Arctica, who by this point were almost entirely made up of shipping and prostitution kingpins, and a major news story. What was remarkable in the long term, however, was the subsequent violent seizure of power on the floor of the Deputies' Chamber by armed striking dock workers acting in the name of the MCP, who were leading protests throughout Chelomei on the night of the arrests. This was not what was supposed to happen and the UN was infuriated that Arctica had chosen not to accept a new government based on a UN mandated constitution, but war did not in the end break out and the new government was met with broad approval from the populace. The revolution that was established brought the first primary stage socialism to Mars, and paved the way for an Arctican state that would nationalize shipping and mining and institute the Shèntòu system of agricultural resource collectivization, which allowed the construction of the fission reactors which would make local agriculture more practicable. The revolutionary government put an end to the religious conflicts and instituted human rights and secular development as state policy, invested heavily in education and offered some of the most free social policy in the whole solar system with the introduction of the Sotsialbezopasnost Program, a vast campaign against hate speech aimed to make the whole of society emulate the colloquial concept of a "safe space".
In the decades since the revolution, Arctica has become a bulwark of cultural liberation, revolutionary thought and anticolonialism. Its seas produce fish for all the people, its mines produce materials for all the people, rather than for masters or to increase another's power; guided according to conscientious humanitarian goals. Due to the geographical advantage of its position on Mars' north pole, able to command trade routes across the whole northern ocean and guarded by stormy, icy seas, the island has not experienced invasion and perhaps because of its economic importance it enjoys good relations with most of the other states of post colonial Mars, though it maintains no diplomatic recognition of the governments of the nine remaining states of the United Nations of Mars, and has had several naval incidents with the Dominion of Cassinia over fishing rights and disputed islands in the Sea of Utopia.
The captains of the shipping industry in Acidalia, all based in Arctica, blocked attempts by the UN Arctica Territory to institute labor laws and regulate commerce, as unregulated prostitution was a major industry and was lining their pockets. When UN inspectors stopped coming, racism began to worsen, and the locals began to view the Earth government as having forgotten them, the rapidly popularizing Martian Communist Project and its local affiliates instigated a successful series of strikes which led to the exposure of human trafficking rings and the arrest of most of the UN Territorial Administration of Arctica, who by this point were almost entirely made up of shipping and prostitution kingpins, and a major news story. What was remarkable in the long term, however, was the subsequent violent seizure of power on the floor of the Deputies' Chamber by armed striking dock workers acting in the name of the MCP, who were leading protests throughout Chelomei on the night of the arrests. This was not what was supposed to happen and the UN was infuriated that Arctica had chosen not to accept a new government based on a UN mandated constitution, but war did not in the end break out and the new government was met with broad approval from the populace. The revolution that was established brought the first primary stage socialism to Mars, and paved the way for an Arctican state that would nationalize shipping and mining and institute the Shèntòu system of agricultural resource collectivization, which allowed the construction of the fission reactors which would make local agriculture more practicable. The revolutionary government put an end to the religious conflicts and instituted human rights and secular development as state policy, invested heavily in education and offered some of the most free social policy in the whole solar system with the introduction of the Sotsialbezopasnost Program, a vast campaign against hate speech aimed to make the whole of society emulate the colloquial concept of a "safe space".
In the decades since the revolution, Arctica has become a bulwark of cultural liberation, revolutionary thought and anticolonialism. Its seas produce fish for all the people, its mines produce materials for all the people, rather than for masters or to increase another's power; guided according to conscientious humanitarian goals. Due to the geographical advantage of its position on Mars' north pole, able to command trade routes across the whole northern ocean and guarded by stormy, icy seas, the island has not experienced invasion and perhaps because of its economic importance it enjoys good relations with most of the other states of post colonial Mars, though it maintains no diplomatic recognition of the governments of the nine remaining states of the United Nations of Mars, and has had several naval incidents with the Dominion of Cassinia over fishing rights and disputed islands in the Sea of Utopia.
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Thank you my friend, I had got the ownership of the Hala'ib Triangle totally reversed.
Didn't spot the unchanged area you referred to, thanks again.
I'm working on Somaliland, Puntland et al.
I made the Topography first then a layer for borders, masked off unwanted states then adjusted the topographical colours for each state.
Thank you, I have taken this on board.
I had not considered this as a basemap but if someone would like it, feel free.
This is the unadulterated version;
Map of "The Galaxy Far, Far Away" during the Clone Wars as depicted in Star Wars: The Essential Atlas.
Kaiserreich- 1936.
Kaiserreich- 1945, after the end of the Second Weltkrieg
After the end of the Second Weltkrieg, Europe was split between the Entente and Reichspakt, as seen on this map.
Kaiserreich- 1945, after the end of the Second Weltkrieg
After the end of the Second Weltkrieg, Europe was split between the Entente and Reichspakt, as seen on this map.
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