I'm going to say civilian wise 1920s but militarily around 1915
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Jcw3
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They must be preserving him in formaldehyde for him to still be alive and kicking as a politician.
Jcw3
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I'll admit I chose Joe because he was really the only one I could think of.
Sherrod Brown, Kamala Harris, Steve Bullock. Plenty of realistic Dem politicians that aren't too obvious.
Alright, that works out. If I do decide to do a writeup for a 20 to 50 years later, Joe might get retconned into one of them.
Congrats on the commission! You're on your way up! :3
So the urban Turks and the rural Muslims from elsewhere were all gather up without trouble and either driven by bayonet point over the Fertile Crescent or crammed onto ships until they got to Oman to be dumped... And they don't even appear on the map. Frankly, it seems like the Bulgarians, Greeks, and whoever helped them get rid of all the Muslims have gone beyond ethnic cleansing.
And still, western leading nations can't get their shit together and only create small colonies while the glorious tsardom noms the entire Asian Continent
They don't even have the tech for maintaining that
GIMP and Inkscape seem to be the mainstream for everyone to use. Inkscape isn't pixel by pixel, but it's useful if you want to try and up your map game.
Isaac Beach
Banned
Forgive me lord for I have sinned; I have made an ISOT map.
Now for the record I have been beyond my home state, but I didn't feel my travels really warranted a map, being limited as they are. So I just did my home state. I decided not just to post a Worlda with naught but a few pixels coloured in right after the ISOT but to show the effects 250 years into the future.
Tasmania reacted with shock, and then anger, and then some more shock, then someone made some Bushells tea and everyone calmed down, then there was more shock when they realised that as Bushells was based in Queensland all their teabags were now exceedingly rare and finite. Then the shock wore off and everyone realised that nothing much had changed in the grand scheme of things; save those Chinese and Melbournian expats who were right pissed and left in a flurry as fast as they could. They didn't really get all that far, Tasmanian shipping isn't made for transporting people aside the Spirit of Tasmania and that was in bloody Melbourne at the time of the Up Crick[1]. The former ended up in Sumatra, good on them for trying; the latter tried Melbourne but then when Hobart started granting land leases to Tasmanians around Port Philip they moved to Adelaide because they're just oh so alternative like that[2].
So people got on, some people thought it was the sign of the end times, others thought it was paradise, the state government nationalised a few bits and pieces to ensure everyone was accounted for but local produce largely covered what would have otherwise been imported. I was upset when the price of pomegranates juice went through the roof. Jokes about inbreeding became taboo because it was a very real possibility, only stymied but the government encouraging 'cultural exchange' out the wazoo between the predominantly white population and all the refugees and immigrants Tasmania had been accruing[3].
Eventually they fanned out, slowly egged on by an increasing population. First it was the east coast, than New Zealand, than Western Australia, then they moved into Indonesia; I got some beautiful beachfront property in New Guinea. Was going to invest in Borneo before those grumpy monarchists moved in[4].
(Ohp, in actual fact there's tea; I'll finish this in a mome')
Continuing-oh and that was a good tea, proper meat pies and veg with a side of chips, really fits into this Tasmanian nationalism I'm cooking up. But I digress-, technology took a brief hit that set the state back to 1980s level of technology, especially regarding the internet. Good news is it meant that the population didn't peter out to nil because no one had anything else to do; bad news was I never got my essay on judicial controls finished[5]. But that was quickly sorted out in about a decade and the economy was spurred back into productivity for it; there wasn't anywhere to ship jobs anymore so industry and manufacturing made a comeback.
Eventually the PRS relaxed given that the whole 'state-run capitalism' thing was already thin before the Up Crick, can't say the same for the Melbournians who went a bit theologically nutty trying to recreate the Hellenic society Aristotle waffled on about so much. Those assholes who ruined my entrepreneurial ventures in Borneo collated into what they deemed 'The Kingdom of Australia'; at least that kicked a tourist industry of sorts into gear even if it was like watching budget North Korea[6].
Eventually the government ended their 'emergency regime' which wasn't really worth the name. People met, both from the 'colonies' and the state itself, to discuss the general path the state would take. And came up with the 'Commonwealth of Tasmania'; decentralised to save resources; a blanket ban was put on mass arms manufacturing, nuclear weapons, and Tasmania decreed and managed to persuade their new brothers that their fleets should not exceed two thirds the tonnage of the Tasmanian fleet (which had slowly been accumulating, for which St. Helens is still grateful). So things pottered along from there, and slowly but surely the population has grown and expanded out.
The largest city in the world is Hobart, with about 600'000 people. They're closely followed by Launceston with some 350'000. The closest thereafter is Shoudū with 90'000 and then New Melbourne with 70'000. The rest are spread across disparate, small towns, few exceeding a thousand though a few cities stand out.
Pottering along really, as Tasmania always has.
[1] - 'Up Crick' is Tasmanian slang for 'up creek'. As in to go or live up creek, or in this case go up shit creek.
[2] - Yes I'm racist, but only against Melbournians.
[3] - True fact that, Tasmania has the 'Canada effect' whereby we're really removed from immigration and refugees and so people are very willing to accommodate and accept them into the community in the small numbers that they do arise.
[4] - The way Tasmania is going I feel if they got the chance all the conservatives here would rack right off in the same way all the liberals currently bleed out because Tasmania's too 'rural' and 'racist'.
[5] - In case you haven't figured it out, I am literally writing this as though it were an autobiography.
[6] - Perhaps an exaggeration, but I don't have Ian and co. to moderate me in the event of an ISOT. It's just me, Fred the Great, Cockroach and KineticBots. Speaking of, in the event of an ISOT I dibs admin.
Now for the record I have been beyond my home state, but I didn't feel my travels really warranted a map, being limited as they are. So I just did my home state. I decided not just to post a Worlda with naught but a few pixels coloured in right after the ISOT but to show the effects 250 years into the future.
Tasmaniana
Tasmania reacted with shock, and then anger, and then some more shock, then someone made some Bushells tea and everyone calmed down, then there was more shock when they realised that as Bushells was based in Queensland all their teabags were now exceedingly rare and finite. Then the shock wore off and everyone realised that nothing much had changed in the grand scheme of things; save those Chinese and Melbournian expats who were right pissed and left in a flurry as fast as they could. They didn't really get all that far, Tasmanian shipping isn't made for transporting people aside the Spirit of Tasmania and that was in bloody Melbourne at the time of the Up Crick[1]. The former ended up in Sumatra, good on them for trying; the latter tried Melbourne but then when Hobart started granting land leases to Tasmanians around Port Philip they moved to Adelaide because they're just oh so alternative like that[2].
So people got on, some people thought it was the sign of the end times, others thought it was paradise, the state government nationalised a few bits and pieces to ensure everyone was accounted for but local produce largely covered what would have otherwise been imported. I was upset when the price of pomegranates juice went through the roof. Jokes about inbreeding became taboo because it was a very real possibility, only stymied but the government encouraging 'cultural exchange' out the wazoo between the predominantly white population and all the refugees and immigrants Tasmania had been accruing[3].
Eventually they fanned out, slowly egged on by an increasing population. First it was the east coast, than New Zealand, than Western Australia, then they moved into Indonesia; I got some beautiful beachfront property in New Guinea. Was going to invest in Borneo before those grumpy monarchists moved in[4].
(Ohp, in actual fact there's tea; I'll finish this in a mome')
Continuing-oh and that was a good tea, proper meat pies and veg with a side of chips, really fits into this Tasmanian nationalism I'm cooking up. But I digress-, technology took a brief hit that set the state back to 1980s level of technology, especially regarding the internet. Good news is it meant that the population didn't peter out to nil because no one had anything else to do; bad news was I never got my essay on judicial controls finished[5]. But that was quickly sorted out in about a decade and the economy was spurred back into productivity for it; there wasn't anywhere to ship jobs anymore so industry and manufacturing made a comeback.
Eventually the PRS relaxed given that the whole 'state-run capitalism' thing was already thin before the Up Crick, can't say the same for the Melbournians who went a bit theologically nutty trying to recreate the Hellenic society Aristotle waffled on about so much. Those assholes who ruined my entrepreneurial ventures in Borneo collated into what they deemed 'The Kingdom of Australia'; at least that kicked a tourist industry of sorts into gear even if it was like watching budget North Korea[6].
Eventually the government ended their 'emergency regime' which wasn't really worth the name. People met, both from the 'colonies' and the state itself, to discuss the general path the state would take. And came up with the 'Commonwealth of Tasmania'; decentralised to save resources; a blanket ban was put on mass arms manufacturing, nuclear weapons, and Tasmania decreed and managed to persuade their new brothers that their fleets should not exceed two thirds the tonnage of the Tasmanian fleet (which had slowly been accumulating, for which St. Helens is still grateful). So things pottered along from there, and slowly but surely the population has grown and expanded out.
The largest city in the world is Hobart, with about 600'000 people. They're closely followed by Launceston with some 350'000. The closest thereafter is Shoudū with 90'000 and then New Melbourne with 70'000. The rest are spread across disparate, small towns, few exceeding a thousand though a few cities stand out.
Pottering along really, as Tasmania always has.
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[1] - 'Up Crick' is Tasmanian slang for 'up creek'. As in to go or live up creek, or in this case go up shit creek.
[2] - Yes I'm racist, but only against Melbournians.
[3] - True fact that, Tasmania has the 'Canada effect' whereby we're really removed from immigration and refugees and so people are very willing to accommodate and accept them into the community in the small numbers that they do arise.
[4] - The way Tasmania is going I feel if they got the chance all the conservatives here would rack right off in the same way all the liberals currently bleed out because Tasmania's too 'rural' and 'racist'.
[5] - In case you haven't figured it out, I am literally writing this as though it were an autobiography.
[6] - Perhaps an exaggeration, but I don't have Ian and co. to moderate me in the event of an ISOT. It's just me, Fred the Great, Cockroach and KineticBots. Speaking of, in the event of an ISOT I dibs admin
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Jcw3
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Good man. The most realistic ISOT maps that show large territorial growth have to take place in the far future by their very nature. +1.
Yes I'm racist, but only against Melbournians.
Of course you are, you cider-chugging, cousin-shagging Tassie bastard.
Isaac Beach
Banned
Edited the rest in post supper.
Thank you very much. I do try; I figured they wouldn't really have expanded much beyond the Indian Ocean and near-Pacific and even then it's incredibly disparate, as I've edited in. Tasmanians aren't known for being the most mobile folk so to me even what I have here is a pretty massive stretch.
Oh you would say that you philosophy majoring, latte sipping, scarf toting Melbournian yuppie.
No please, my beautiful face couldn't take a determined deus vult.
Thanks though! I appreciate it greatly.
Thank you very much. I do try; I figured they wouldn't really have expanded much beyond the Indian Ocean and near-Pacific and even then it's incredibly disparate, as I've edited in. Tasmanians aren't known for being the most mobile folk so to me even what I have here is a pretty massive stretch.
Of course you are, you cider-chugging, cousin-shagging Tassie bastard.
Oh you would say that you philosophy majoring, latte sipping, scarf toting Melbournian yuppie.
No please, my beautiful face couldn't take a determined deus vult.
Thanks though!
I appreciate it greatly.Jcw3
Banned
Oh hey, one thing, though. Assuming a one percent growth rate (this is conservative, IMO), you would get 6,244,688 as your final population 250 years on. When doing ISOT maps in the far future, use an exponential growth calculator.
I entered 519000 in the top slot, 1 in the middle, and 250 in the last to get that number.
For my series I was usually halving or quartering the growth numbers given... Especially out of Africa.
If you're not opposed to online stuff, piskel is functional enough (though it is rather more geared towards spritemakers and as such has a bit of lag trouble with anything much bigger than a Worlda). It's what I used when I was stuck on a Chromebook for a bit.
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