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Goddammit, this Map Contest just got real! :eek::mad::D

To quote another poster here, those super-states' ethnopolitics would "make Yugoslavia look like Japan". I don't think those states would hold together very long without a very heavy-handed government.

I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight now. Thanks, George. :eek:

Ah. Is this some sort of John Carter-esque "every planet and moon is habitable to humans" sort of universe, then?

Interesting. Is this Europa the "moon of Jupiter" Europa we know, or a totally different planet with a similar name?

I agree. What in the fuck?... :confused:

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I dunno how good of an idea it turned out to be. On the one hand, North Korea is obviously awful. On the other hand, it's pretty useful to American foreign policy in that it's a terminally embarrassing money hole Fake China's geopolitically forced to...

I also like how North Korea's symbol is a heart monitor getting ready to flatline (we should be so lucky...:()

Maybe just "contemporary Sweden "? Like it or not, you guys have a reputation as fluffy-wuffy social democrats instead of Vigorous Capitalists (TM). ;)

It's "UH", not "the UH". Incidentally, this gives me a great idea for a plot point: everyone at Archipelago insists on calling it "the UH," and it drives Our Valiant Tax Collectors crazy. :D

But wouldn't that be just a map of OTL? :p:D

That is such a brilliant idea I wish I'd thought of it first. Damn! I can't wait to see how it looks finished.

Okay, I can kind of see that. I mean, UH (and it's "UH", not "the UH") does do a bang-up job at environmental protection. Not that there's much left to protect after the Rotten 21st is behind us.:eek: The idea was to make UH into a more subtle type of dictatorship than the Soviet...

Well fuck, now I'm really confused.

I dunno if I'd call it a full-on parody. More of a loving homage where I gently poke fun at the "plucky space freedom-fighters" genre and show that we don't have to fight each other, just respect each other's boundaries. A lot of the subtlety got lost in the utter torrent of idea-vomit that came...

What do the colors (apart from the dark green) actually symbolize?

If you'll look down at the right-hand corner, you'll see that the map was made by a cartographer from Mizar-Alcor. So I wouldn't necessarily take his word on everything shown in that map. ;):p

Cool. I'll probably post some of what I've got done over at the Writer's Forum eventually, if you're interested.

Well, the actual book's more condemnatory of the state than anything else. I just chose a left-wing state because that's the most common type, so it would make more sense than, say, The Inevitable Future Caliphate or American Jesusland taking over the world. If there's any part of it that's...

Not really a parody, more of an homage. One of my goals was not to fall into the Rand Trap and keep a nuanced portrait of things. For instance, one of the things I'm trying to get across in the actual book is that given the horrific environmental crises that Earth went through in the late 21st...