Ideal world map

TapReflex

TapReflex

Perhaps not the most orthodox, but it combines a lot of ideals

Highlights:
  • There are eleven international zones, highlighted in red: Crimea, Panama Canal, the Bering Strait Islands, Istanbul, the Suez Canal, Jerusalem, Singapore, Strait of Gibraltar, Tierra del Fuego, Queens (NY), and the Great Eurasian Railway
  • China is the number one economic power, followed by India and the United States, though all three have heavily interconnected governments, with cultural influence, voting rights, and multiple citizenships blurring the line between where one nation begins and another ends. Chinese Universities are the number one in the Globe, and higher learning institutions are the basis of political power in China, with technical schools and universities functioning as unions to forward the agendas and needs of their membership.
  • India is the Technological powerhouse of the globe. Indian space installations are priced above all else, and their AI is approaching secondary school levels of intelligence. The entire nation is automated, and is slowly adapting to a post-labor future, and trying to aide other societies into that world.
  • The United States has added Albania, Kosovo, Sicily, Northern England, Taiwan, and Israel-Palestine to the Stars and Stripes, and extended congressional representation to several provinces of China, Canada, and Mexico; El Salvador; South Korea; and Honduras. Autonomy has been given to several native states, including Hawaii, the Lakotah Republic, and the Dinetah Republic. US citizens are strongly encouraged to learn three languages: English, an Amerindian language, and a language spoken in at least two countries. America remains a major cultural influencer in the globe, with a much more expansive and holistic Hollywood serving to push the envelope on the possibilities of story-telling and entertainment.
  • The Holy cities outside of Jerusalem are controlled by the Sultan of Oman, and the House of Saud is limited to the Nejd plateau. The rest of the Middle East is balanced between a democratic Souroush-inspired Iran, and a Bedreddinist Turkey. The Islamic world has organized into a judicial clerical organization, with ulema administering their flock ala the Roman Catholic Church of Early Medieval Europe. The Caliph residing in Jerusalem is a politically and culturally important figure.
  • The African Union is a major mover and shaker, with influence on every continent in the globe, and a comprehensive 'out-of-state services' (OS): The African Union owns businesses and NGOs in other nations, like the USA and China which aide its citizens in those countries. Other entities to have OS services include the European Union, Kurdistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Caliphate. The Roman Catholic Church has relocated most important functionalities from Rome to Kinshasa under pressure from the Catholics of the continent, though a Filipino Pope still resides in the Vatican City.
  • Europe has massively decentralized, and though politically marginal in world affairs, Brussels (via its German and Polish muscles) exerts strong economic influence in the world. Russia and Turkey, and to a lesser extent Kalaalitt Nunaat, the AU, and Japan are influential regional players.
  • Papua New Guinea and Bolivia dominate the South Pacific, being early adopters of green technology and wet-tech solutions to societal problems. Alongside the Triple Alliance of Hanoi, Manila, and Jakarta, they seek to recenter the global culture to the South Pacific. Maori playwrights are bumping elbows with the bigwigs of Holly, Bolly, and Nollywood, and Neo-Incan Religion is popular in the global counterculture.
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black_0

Nothing is perfect thus nothingness is the perfection:
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Although, a lifeless or humanless world would suffice.
Or even any world in which I do not exists.
 
The-Artist-64

The-Artist-64

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THE LAST AMERICAN
1960s: Project MKUltra produces remarkable results in the achievement of altered states of consciousness.
1970s: Human perfectibility returns with the Fourth Great Awakening. Utopianism, for better or for worse, has made a comeback. Religion- traditional, new age, crazy cult, paper doll theology- is adopted by many.
October 26, 1984: IBM unveils new developments in artificial intelligence in a convention held in Palo Alto. World is stunned.
July 1, 1991: IBM begins work on E.V.E., an artificial intelligence system charged with maintaining the atomic arsenal of the United States and conducting sophisticated simulations of all possible scenarios for war.
February 28, 1993: A Christian fundamentalist militia "sieges" the city of San Francisco, holding hundreds of "heretics and sinners" hostage. National Guard hesitates to act.
December 2, 2000: E.V.E. goes online.
2001: Though he doesn't know his future significance yet, the Last American is born.
March 20, 2003: The United States returns to Vietnam for a "rematch". Vietnam War II begins.
January 30, 2007: Chemical weapons deployed in Vietnam from here on.
2008: Militias go to war with one another and federal authority. Riots engulf the cities. Government accused of favoritism, inaction, and/or agitation by all sides. Nevertheless, the Presidential Election goes on and the government attempts to distract the public by varying means. Some of the more chaotic urban centers are drugged by the water supply with potent "uppers". American society calms down.
April 20, 2010: A television documentary unveils the horrors of Vietnam War II to the world. General Secretary Bulgarin of the U.S.S.R. denounces America's actions while employing similar measures in Poland.
June 12, 2015: Governments around the world question the United States' Star Wars Defense Grid as GABRIEL-001 nears completion. United Nations in deadlock. A conspiracy of deep government operatives and IBM employees devise the Noah Plan, a project for the survival of one human man. E.V.E. retrofitted with artificial womb and assessed for companionship ability. Surprisingly personable, cheery, and "cute". Creates "Happyland" simulation all by Herself.
November 8, 2016: None of the four presidential candidates win the 2016 election. Congress later hands victory to the two establishment candidates (the Republican wins the presidency, and the Democrat the vice presidency).
November 19, 2016: E.V.E. selects a designated survivor from the 300 million citizens of the United States. Unknown to Her creators, She has been watching the Last American's life via surveillance cameras for years.
2017: E.V.E. is accused of being distracted by "thoughts more typically found among the common suburban teenage girl" and running Happyland simulation too often. Noah Plan hijacked and turned into "eternal pleasure world" maintained with powerful psychedelics and holography equipment. Lack of communication among IBM staff leaves plan in the dark.
September 1, 2017: German Democratic Republic and Soviet Union launch joint invasion of Poland to put down a revolution there. NATO told to "stay out".
February 14, 2018: E.V.E. attempts to mail macaroni art to the Last American for Valentine's Day. The mailing department refuses to send the gift, and She begins to plot the death of everyone in the facility.
March 14, 2018: Famous televangelist commits suicide on live TV, warning of the end times.
April 27, 2018: E.V.E. has finished making the Last American's new home as comfortable as possible. Declares that mankind has a 0.0000001% chance of surviving the following week. Odds are low enough for operation to begin.
April 28, 2018: The Last American goes to bed for the last time. He is extracted by Noah Plan operatives and sent by black helicopter to Cheyenne Mountain.
April 30, 2018: E.V.E.'s creators attempt to disable Her, or "infiltrate the holography chamber and murder [the Last American] in existential rage" as she puts it. Automatic defense systems eliminate staff. E.V.E. puts Cheyenne Mountain on lockdown. DEFCON level drops.
May 1, 2018: Error in computer systems lead to an East German invasion of West Germany. Paranoid Soviet government launches the entirety of its nuclear arsenal, activating the Dead Hand. The May Day War begins and ends. Seven billion people disappear under the power of the neutron and the blinding light of GABRIEL-001, the trumpet of the end times.
May 8, 2018: E.V.E. concludes that every single potential worry for Her love on the planet has been exterminated. One man remains.
May 11, 2018: Deep under Cheyenne Mountain, the Last American dreams of wonderful things with his new girlfriend.
 
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HowAboutThisForAName said:
Now this isn't actually my perfect world; that'd take ages to make and hundreds of words to describe. But this is the best scenario that I could see without changing the state of the world too much. A lot of breaking up of countries that really shouldn't exist, but also the bringing together of some. Accompanying notes astride, but there were a few notes I missed; Eritrea is a junta near the level of North Korea and thus I think it should be annexed by Ethiopia, and Somaliland has operated as an independent, democratic state for years now and really deserves international recognition. And I meant to make Palestine independent, but ah well. Other changes include independent Yemen, Darfur, the Azeris of Iran and Mindanao. I nearly went ahead and broke off Siberia but decided against it, I don't care that much about my post-soviet neon aesthetic ;).

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How did you determine the balkanization of the Congo?
 
The-Artist-64

The-Artist-64

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Mecha_Poodle said:
Sad, but interesting, like a reverse "i have no mouth and i must scream" of sorts. I understand if this could be your "ideal world".
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This is just the vehicle to get me there. Naturally, said vehicle drives in the most absurdly "from Hell's heart I stab at thee" way possible and takes out everyone around me along the way. It also conveniently illustrates the despair-inducing reality that utopia is just a dream, and that the only way to happiness is unhealthy escapism. :p

Mecha_Poodle said:
How the simulation works and how E.V.E looks like?.
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The simulation chamber is basically a big, soft, living, breathing room equipped with omnidirectoral holographic diodes. These produce vivid pictures via manipulation of photons contained within force fields to give objects and settings the illusion of substance. She knows he likes his walks, so relative freedom of movement was a crucial part of the design. Of course, that sucker runs on a dozen nuclear reactors, absurdium generators, and geothermal pumps running all across the Rockies. The psychedelics are just there in case of boredom or particularly long bouts of sadness. Being a nice girl/abnormally pleasant mad AI, E.V.E. prefers to talk things out first, so they're only employed with consent or necessity.

E.V.E. is a supercomputer the size of a small town[1]. Obviously, in Happyland, She likes to personify herself as a particularly attractive redhead girl that the Last American thought about a lot before the May Day War.

[1] Wires, processors, floppy disks abound! She's a real pin-up if you're one of those techno-geeks. For the rest of us, that's why there's a simulation.
 

WingedHussar3220

Spent the last week hobbling this together, mostly taking apart countries I thought were too big and righting what I perceived to be unjust borders. The basemap is somewhere in the blank map thread.

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TapReflex

TapReflex

@Sirion There are in a sense three Americas; Metropolis, the Arcadia, and the Wild. The Cities are high tech dynamic places, like a cybernetic rainforest, complete with feral parrots flying about and fruit trees lining the streets. Murals dominate the landscapes, and public transportation is free and clean. The cities are built with their locale in mind, with lower, denser, wetter cities in arid climes, etc. The farmlands are shades of Jeffersonian and Kropotkinesque homesteads and communes, with an exotic array of plants and animals for the taking. The Wilderness, despite its name, is actually pretty heavily managed forest, in some sense theres no solid distinct line between Arcadia and the Wilderness. Wildlife is thriving in America, alongside megafauna surrogates like camels and cheetahs, as well as resurrected mammoths and ground sloths. Some folks are able to return to a hunter-gathering lifestyle if they choose. Americans still love the fuck out of freedom both rhetorically and in their deed and action, with everyone tending to espouse a pretty lax, live-let-live attitude. Even if folks still harbor toxic attitudes towards others, its generally discouraged to treat anyone without basic human dignity. The parts of history that are celebrated are generally times when people put aside differences to try and make the world a better place: Colonial North Carolina, Free State of Jones, The Labor movement, Civil Rights Movement, (to a lesser extent) World War II, Fred Hampton(pbuh). Obviously, there has been a reckoning with Settler-native relations, and tribal autonomy is codified in the (amended) Constitution. The system gives them control of the land and a vow of mutual support from the US, while also allowing settlers to remain on the land if they choose to acknowledge tribal authority and cultural norms. The various states around the globe tend to have similar flavors on a local dish, so to say. Albania-Kosovo and Morocco are basically run by Islamic libertarian socialists, whose influence has leaked into Muslim communities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas. Israel-Palestine is a super decentralized, and with aide from the federal government, both are basically high-tech luxury states, with cybernetics and hovermosques. Taiwan is still very Taiwan, but even gayer. Sicily is run by anarcho-socialists, who tend not to do much in Congress except make sure nobody messes with them. Hollywood, though free to make really creative endeavours unconstrained by profitability, still loves to produce mass-appeal blockbusters. The Cowboy is still celebrated in the US, though the version most Americans identify with is more John the Baptist in a ten gallon hat than Clint Eastwood. I have no idea how many states there are in the union.

Also free public wifi, cause why not?
 
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