Thanks for the feedback!
I'm curious how the Northwest Territory (population 44,000), Nunavut (population 38,000), and the Yukon (population 32,000) would function as independent states when they all together have less people living in them than the state of Wyoming. Same goes for those bits of Siberia and the Australian outback.
Also, I recommend you split up Japan a little more, even if it's just separating Hokkaido. Same goes for Africa and Europe, which both have many independence movements at play in them (Catalonia, Bavaria, Darfur, etc).
I was only balkanizing a few select countries - specifically, ones that were relatively big and had subvisions in the 2017 worlda from
this thread so I'd have something to go on. If I was going for balkanization in general I
would have balkanized a lot more countries as well. That is a good point about the low populations densities that I didn't consider, though. Admittedly, I wasn't trying to be realistic with this map, but I'll keep it in mind for a few more reasonable map ideas I have, so thanks.
Oh dear. Seems the Najavo swallowed up the Hopi. Plus they either got back or never lost the Chekerboard area, which is almost impossible to put on maps anyways. I feel Lakotah is too big, as given IOTL when some people claimed independence for it, not that many cared, a fair amount of other tribes pointed out they were claiming the land of other groups. I also wonder if Southern Brazil should be th part that is more split in that country. Depends on if you plan on having any story or map key connected to it. I always find it fun when timelines or maps had Italian majority countries down there. Reminds me I should read up Male Rising again. Hopefully my mentioning that doesn't do the equivalent of asking people how often they breathe.
I was thinking that the Hopi and the Navajo united peacefully. As for Lakotah, I didn't know one of the objections was that they were claiming other groups' land. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll keep it in mind when I do more plausible maps. And I didn't have anything that interesting in mind for Southern Brazil, but if there are TLs with that premise I might check them out
I also finished making new Space-Filling Empires out of that map and came out with this:
Technically there's a Polwank here as well but I'd say its more of a generally Central and Eastern European Intermarium.. Also, I changed the colour of one of the country in the Middle East make it clear that its a resurgent Persian Empire
not a Randomid Caliphate, although to be honest this many large empires would probably be unstable and implausible anyway.
And yeah, like I said, this isn't really a serious project so much as 'I had this idea a while ago and I have to put it
somewhere other than my head so I can do something with the rest of the ideas my brain comes up with.'