1. Wouldn't this be very bad design? Despite them being in a union, IMO it is an awful idea to have each country control a long strip of land when it is not necessary, due to administration issues. Wouldn't it be better to have many centralized blobs?
The 1920's were a weird place.1. Wouldn't this be very bad design?
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How exactly are they determining the ethnicity of each canton? It makes no sense to me.
How exactly are they determining the ethnicity of each canton? It makes no sense to me.
The ethnicities are already there. It is not as though this is some ASSR which is made to have 98% of one group. Here everyone lives in peace and harmony as arguments are made over why Vienna is named after the patron Saint of Hungary, and why Jews are all deported (yet still a part of the union) and how Sicilians and Appulians (or the ones form the toe, rather than heel) count as Greeks. And is that Spanish Sardinia? Alright, I can see what some of the many problems you had were. The bloody buggers even took Bornholm from Denmark. And I just realized The Hebrew Reich is classified as Slavs.How exactly are they determining the ethnicity of each canton? It makes no sense to me.
I recall some images being posted five or six times, a few within days or pages of each other. I think for ones like the one above we can let it slide, as it is a good one we can get discussion out of. I would say most of the current maps from Strange Mapss have already been posted, though. Certainly would like to see some of the old ones, though. Form before they moved to Big Think.Should thread marks be created to help prevent reposts?
No I mean those colored artillery pieces. I can’t seem to make sense of them.The ethnicities are already there. It is not as though this is some ASSR which is made to have 98% of one group. Here everyone lives in peace and harmony as arguments are made over why Vienna is named after the patron Saint of Hungary, and why Jews are all deported (yet still a part of the union) and how Sicilians and Appulians (or the ones form the toe, rather than heel) count as Greeks. And is that Spanish Sardinia? Alright, I can see what some of the many problems you had were. The bloody buggers even took Bornholm from Denmark. And I just realized The Hebrew Reich is classified as Slavs.
Aren't these the supposed ethnicities of armed forces, acting in these cantons?No I mean those colored artillery pieces. I can’t seem to make sense of them.
Yep, that would fit the key. Never noticed that was the purpose before.Aren't these the supposed ethnicities of armed forces, acting in these cantons?
Also, it seems that the whole proposal is basically to get everything Deutsch ever controlled into one big conglomerate, with some military frontiers in Russia to apparently protect against them, and buffer states against Muslims everywhere. Including the oddity of the Serbian-Albanian thing that has almost no Serbs. And oddly enough, there is no key for the pink color showing the English, Scandinavians, and Balts. Almost a shame there aren't more Military Frontiers, as it seems like the map is inspired by some loony mixture of Austrian natoinalism and Revolutoinary French Ratoinalism. Of the sort which makes the pro in all map a checkerboard and makes the calendar metric.No I mean those colored artillery pieces. I can’t seem to make sense of them.
If I remember correctly, they aren't. The reason the 'kantons' are all long strips of land is because they aren't meant to be based off of ethnicity - the creators (who were pacifists, which makes the presence of what seem to be armies puzzling) thought that this would help create peace.How exactly are they determining the ethnicity of each canton? It makes no sense to me.
Well, keep in mind who their leader at the time was.View attachment 413441
Belgium had some truly insane colonial ambitions
Yep, King Leopold "gimme a hand" IIWell, keep in mind who their leader at the time was.
That would make sense, but we're talking eighteenth century empire building-minded European Monarchs, small is not typically in their vocabulary.These were actually projects under Leopold I, and likely would have been pretty small if any of them had been undertaken.
Well, 19th, and regardless these colonies would look more like Santo Tomás than the Congo Free State. These were conceived as settler colonies, not economic.That would make sense, but we're talking eighteenth century empire building-minded European Monarchs, small is not typically in their vocabulary.