Upvoteanthology
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Haha, there are ways to get things published without having to go through them. I was planning to use Amazon's self-publishing site to publish a paperback version.You could always ask Sea Lion Press
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It seems that even in this TL we Canadians will have to rely on the greyed-out sections of US maps, sort of like a border city's ABC/NBC/CBS weather forecasts. I'd hoped for a map of the former Canada, which is now Keeyikawe, Atlantica, Canada, Quebec and Victoria. (FWIW, that's a very realistic way for Canada to fragment, although I think Ontario would have held on to its northern parts.) There's lots about Canada in the first installment, if you haven't read it in detail. There's no World War 2 (we don't know what happened with Germany yet) -- instead, the British and Canada waged war on the US.
I have a more specific question about Canada: what settlement became Airdrop City? IMO it could be the rather sleepy town of Parry Sound (one of the many hubs for cottagers in the near north), or it could be the ghost town of Depot Harbour, which was a bustling port until the 1930s. ITTL the events (the Depression, mostly) leading to Depot Harbour's decline didn't happen -- actually, the town's death knell was when it caught fire, ironically, as a result of fireworks from V-J Day celebrations.
If you check the table of contents in the series, a map of the world is included. That should hopefully suffice.
Burton K Wheeler
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Okay, here goes. Mostly focusing on Montana/Wyoming since it's the area I know the history of best.
I get wanting to include Butte in Socialist America, but if you're going to do that you should probably just use the actual Montana border. Butte is over the Continental Divide from the rest of Montana but in the same low accessible Clark Fork Valley complex as the Flathead, Bitterroot, and Missoula valleys. If you take Butte, the Bitterroot Divide (OTL Montana border) makes more sense as a defensive frontier than an arbitrary line on the valley floor, and other than the ranchers around Deer Lodge, the valley was mostly loggers and timber industry anyway.
I have no idea what you're even trying to do with the "FWS" areas in Wyoming. The Crow didn't realize OTL that their reservation didn't extend south of the 45th parallel and would probably prefer the country you have listed as "Bighorn FWS" to their OTL reservation. The Shoshone FWS doesn't really make much sense at all. The area you have delineated there was completely empty desert until the Mormon farmers irrigated it in the late 1800's. As far as tribal territory, the Mountain Crows liked to winter down in the Cody area, but the Shoshone FWS is just desert and sagebrush flats unless you dam the Shoshone River and irrigate. Speaking of Cody, I'm guessing that's "Absaroka" on the map, and outside any FWS, even though "Absaroka" means Crow. The Wind River reservation was established for the Eastern Shoshones and the northern Arapaho came along much later. It wasn't their home country at all. Basically in the country where you have five "FWS" areas, there were historically only two tribes. Even if you pushed the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho there, the only one of those areas that would interest them would be "Bighorn FWS", which is the historic heart of Crow country. The River Crows would have to be either lumped in with the Mountain Crows or given the Judith and Musselshell countries, they wouldn't want any of these useless tracts of mountain and sagebrush.
In the Dakotas, your "FWS" areas are equally nonsensical. I don't have as deep an understanding of the history of that region and I couldn't make as informed of suggestions as I can in Montana or Wyoming, but they don't correspond to any historical tribal territory or grouping. I can't even begin to guess what tribe is supposed to be where and what FWS boundaries have to do with Indian tribes, if anything.
I like your alternative city names, though "Free Bighorn" looks like it's in the Elk Basin, which is a really inaccessible and isolated area where you wouldn't build any kind of a town. "Absaroka" for Cody is pretty inspired, since it's a traditional Mountain Crow wintering area. Honestly, you'd be better off just throwing out all those FWS areas in Montana and Wyoming and just saying that everything drained by the Yellowstone is the state/region/whatever of Absaroka.
TheLoneAmigo
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Holy macaroni, Upvoteanthology. This is an incredibly impressive piece of work, and you should be incredibly proud of what you have put together.
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The People's Socialist Atlas - December 24th, 2017
Merry Christmas Eve!
Hey everyone! Here's the penultimate update to the People's Socialist Atlas. It's also my favorite update.
This one covers the rest of the world, and is the entirety of the "Allies and Enemies" section. This one took a long time to format, and the maps in this section are my best maps of all time. I know, right?
Anyway, enjoy pages 146 to 191, along with maps of Europe and the World!
Click here to read the pages.
Today's maps:
EUROPE
THE WORLD
THE WORLD
Upvoteanthology
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The People's Socialist Atlas - December 25th, 2017
Uh, so not much to post today. Below is the entire atlas compiled in one page, along with some maps I didn't include in the final cut. There are a few I made for fun that either had continuity errors or just didn't fit into the final product, so they're there!
This is probably my last real post here, so I might as well clarify some things.
Firstly, I still do commissions! My commissions cost 7 dollars for every hour that I work on a map, which is well below minimum wage where I live! If you ever want a commission, either message me on here or on DeviantArt. I'll still be viewing the forums, I just won't be participating in them. So yeah, I'll still get PMs.
Secondly, if people are interested in buying a physical copy of this project, please say so! I want to gauge interest as to whether or not I should! There's an easy way for me to publish the book, I just need to know if anyone's interested in purchasing it!
Thirdly, I'm no longer running the MotF contest. Tonight, the last threads of my tenure will go up, and @Kaiphranos will take it from there. I trust him, as he's run a pretty successful contest in the past (Alphabetic Bouts of Cartography).
Finally, anyone can feel free to cover this. Just message me if you do so I can see the amazing results!
Sorry about the spam for the past few days, hopefully you all enjoyed the project.
Merry Christmas everyone! Have a great 2018, and goodbye forever!
Some extra maps:
Sequoyah Complex (some small continuity errors here)
New Jersey Premier Election, 2014
Columbian Election, 2016 (rigged)
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One minor thing I noticed: on the big map of the United American Socialist Republic, there's a dot for a city in Carolina (Concord, I think?) above Charlotte with no label.
I'm not nearly close to catching up, but this is as good a place to ask as any.
What happens with World War I? Does the USA intervene and winds up losing? That would actually go far to explaining how the government got so discredited.
What happens with World War I? Does the USA intervene and winds up losing? That would actually go far to explaining how the government got so discredited.
Upvoteanthology
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The USA is too insular at that point, they don't bother intervening. Which is partly why the Central Powers win.
I'm definitely interested in a physical copy!
Good luck in your future endeavors~
Good luck in your future endeavors~
