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* **Style** - Challenges focused on making timelines or maps in a specific style. | * **Style** - Challenges focused on making timelines or maps in a specific style. | ||
- | * **Urban** - Challenges which focus on an urban environment. | ||
===== Unused Challenges ===== | ===== Unused Challenges ===== | ||
^ Challenge Title ^ Category ^ Challenge Text ^ | ^ Challenge Title ^ Category ^ Challenge Text ^ | ||
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|**101 Dalmatians**|Conflict|Make a map showing an ethnic group rising up in rebellion.| | |**101 Dalmatians**|Conflict|Make a map showing an ethnic group rising up in rebellion.| | ||
|**99 Luftballons**|Conflict|Make a map showing the aftereffects of a military incident caused by an overreaction to a benign threat.| | |**99 Luftballons**|Conflict|Make a map showing the aftereffects of a military incident caused by an overreaction to a benign threat.| | ||
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|**All In The Name**|Single country|Make a map showing a country, city, or region which has recently undergone a significant name change.| | |**All In The Name**|Single country|Make a map showing a country, city, or region which has recently undergone a significant name change.| | ||
|**All Roads Lead Away From Rome**|-|Make a map showing the neighbors of a great power, be it on the rise or decline.| | |**All Roads Lead Away From Rome**|-|Make a map showing the neighbors of a great power, be it on the rise or decline.| | ||
+ | |**Always Look on the Bright Side e of Life**|Single country, Conflict|Make a map showing a country after a war that has moved on and developed as though the war never happened.| | ||
|**Always Something New Out of Africa**|Divergence|Make a map showing a historically significant African nation that didn't exist OTL.| | |**Always Something New Out of Africa**|Divergence|Make a map showing a historically significant African nation that didn't exist OTL.| | ||
+ | |**Always the Bridesmaid**|Single Country|Make a map showing a secondary power that is constantly overshadowed by a more powerful ally.| | ||
+ | |**Antiquated Union**|Single Country|Make a map showing a nation that survived from Antiquity to the Present Day.| | ||
|**Art of Carving**|Single country|Make a map of a rump state that lost some if not most of its core territories.| | |**Art of Carving**|Single country|Make a map of a rump state that lost some if not most of its core territories.| | ||
|**Arthur' | |**Arthur' | ||
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|**Back to the Future**|-|Make a map showing what someone from the past thinks the world will look like in the future.| | |**Back to the Future**|-|Make a map showing what someone from the past thinks the world will look like in the future.| | ||
|**The Badlands**|-|Make a map showing a dangerous, sparsely populated region.| | |**The Badlands**|-|Make a map showing a dangerous, sparsely populated region.| | ||
+ | |**Better Together**|Single Country|Make a map showing a union state of two ostensibly equal nations.| | ||
+ | |**Before the Fall**|Single Country|Make a map showing the maximum extent of an expansionist country before it is turned back and shrinks.| | ||
|**Beyond the Borders**|-|Make a map showing the organisation of one or several non-state actors.| | |**Beyond the Borders**|-|Make a map showing the organisation of one or several non-state actors.| | ||
|**Blame Kaiphranos**|-|Make a map showing an unexpected country with two warm-water ports, a transcontinental railroad to connect them and Alsace-Lorraine.| | |**Blame Kaiphranos**|-|Make a map showing an unexpected country with two warm-water ports, a transcontinental railroad to connect them and Alsace-Lorraine.| | ||
|**Boom 'til Bust**|Social/ | |**Boom 'til Bust**|Social/ | ||
|**The Boys Are Back in Town**|-|Make a map showing a state that is descended from a state that no longer exists.| | |**The Boys Are Back in Town**|-|Make a map showing a state that is descended from a state that no longer exists.| | ||
- | |**Bricks and Marble**|Urban|Make a map showing | + | |**The Brady Bunch**|-|Make a map showing |
|**Calculus Of Power**|-|Make a map showing the effects of political horse trades.| | |**Calculus Of Power**|-|Make a map showing the effects of political horse trades.| | ||
|**Catastrophe (Almost) Averted**|-|Make a map showing a world where a major " | |**Catastrophe (Almost) Averted**|-|Make a map showing a world where a major " | ||
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|**A Country Fit for a Villain**|FPS-ASB, | |**A Country Fit for a Villain**|FPS-ASB, | ||
|**Crossover Showdown**|Conflict|Show recognizable ATL versions of two unrelated OTL empires facing off against each other. (Romans vs. Zulus, Mongols vs. Inca, etc.)| | |**Crossover Showdown**|Conflict|Show recognizable ATL versions of two unrelated OTL empires facing off against each other. (Romans vs. Zulus, Mongols vs. Inca, etc.)| | ||
+ | |**Darkest Night**|Conflict|Make a map showing a country or region at the time of a mass-killing of a minority or other marginalised group.| | ||
|**Destiny, Altered**|Personal|Make a map showing a world/ | |**Destiny, Altered**|Personal|Make a map showing a world/ | ||
|**Deus Vult**|Conflict, | |**Deus Vult**|Conflict, | ||
|**The Devil You Know**|Conflict|Make a map showing the partnerships and conflicts between two nations.| | |**The Devil You Know**|Conflict|Make a map showing the partnerships and conflicts between two nations.| | ||
|**Driving the Autobahn**|Social/ | |**Driving the Autobahn**|Social/ | ||
- | |**Diaspora**|-|Make a map showing a population | + | |**Did the Harvest to Their Sickle Yield**|Social/ |
|**Domino Effect**|Conflict|Make a map showing the process and/or aftermath of a quick series of uprisings, successful or not, in several countries that share a common aim or inspiration.| | |**Domino Effect**|Conflict|Make a map showing the process and/or aftermath of a quick series of uprisings, successful or not, in several countries that share a common aim or inspiration.| | ||
|**Don' | |**Don' | ||
|**Down Without the Sickness**|Divergence|Make a map showing an ATL where an OTL plague was prevented/ | |**Down Without the Sickness**|Divergence|Make a map showing an ATL where an OTL plague was prevented/ | ||
+ | |**Dulce et Decorum Est**|Conflict|Make a map showing a war with high soldier casualties that does not involve nuclear weapons.| | ||
|**Easiest to Remember**|Divergence|Make a map showing an OTL volatile border that in an ATL remained unchanged and is instantly recognizable.| | |**Easiest to Remember**|Divergence|Make a map showing an OTL volatile border that in an ATL remained unchanged and is instantly recognizable.| | ||
|**The Empires No One Suspected**|-|Make a map showing a large empire that no one would have though could happen before it did. For example the Mongol Empire, the early Caliphate, etc.| | |**The Empires No One Suspected**|-|Make a map showing a large empire that no one would have though could happen before it did. For example the Mongol Empire, the early Caliphate, etc.| | ||
- | |**Encyclopaedia Cartographica**|Style, | ||
|**The End Is Nigh!**|-|Make a map showing the predicted effects of a looming disaster either real or imagined.| | |**The End Is Nigh!**|-|Make a map showing the predicted effects of a looming disaster either real or imagined.| | ||
|**The Enemy of My Enemy**|Conflict|Make a map showing what happens when, instead of capitalists and socialists fight against fascists, this world has fascists and capitalists team up against the socialists.| | |**The Enemy of My Enemy**|Conflict|Make a map showing what happens when, instead of capitalists and socialists fight against fascists, this world has fascists and capitalists team up against the socialists.| | ||
- | |**The Eperopolis**|Urban|Make a map showing the conurbation of several (formerly) independent cities.| | + | |**The Eperopolis**|-|Make a map showing the conurbation of several (formerly) independent cities.| |
|**Escape From the Dustbin of History**|Divergence|Make a map showing a now-extinct nation (Khazaria, The Khanate of the Golden Horde, the Inca Empire, etc.) which survives until modern times, modern times being defined as the era of the internet, nuclear weapons, etc.| | |**Escape From the Dustbin of History**|Divergence|Make a map showing a now-extinct nation (Khazaria, The Khanate of the Golden Horde, the Inca Empire, etc.) which survives until modern times, modern times being defined as the era of the internet, nuclear weapons, etc.| | ||
|**The Evil Empire**|Divergence|Make a map showing an empire that broke up IOTL lasting longer.| | |**The Evil Empire**|Divergence|Make a map showing an empire that broke up IOTL lasting longer.| | ||
+ | |**Exodus**|Social/ | ||
|**Ex Uno Plures**|Conflict|Make a map of a defeated country being broken up into smaller states after a war.| | |**Ex Uno Plures**|Conflict|Make a map of a defeated country being broken up into smaller states after a war.| | ||
+ | |**False Start**|Conflict|Make a map showing an up-and-coming Great Power getting its nose bloodied because it tried to punch above its weight class before it was really ready.| | ||
|**Fantastick Inspiration**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a fantasy senario based on historic events or a historic period.| | |**Fantastick Inspiration**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a fantasy senario based on historic events or a historic period.| | ||
|**Fantasy Fan**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing an existing fantasy setting or an alternate history version of the same.| | |**Fantasy Fan**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing an existing fantasy setting or an alternate history version of the same.| | ||
|**Feign Themselves Just Men**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or country which is the focal point for espionage conflict between two nations in an ATL Cold War.| | |**Feign Themselves Just Men**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or country which is the focal point for espionage conflict between two nations in an ATL Cold War.| | ||
|**First Nationstates**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when Indigenous American tribes advance technologically faster than they did in our timeline, and the formation of organized states is more widespread.| | |**First Nationstates**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when Indigenous American tribes advance technologically faster than they did in our timeline, and the formation of organized states is more widespread.| | ||
+ | |**For All the Saints**|Divergence, | ||
|**Five Minutes to Midnight**|Apocalyptic/ | |**Five Minutes to Midnight**|Apocalyptic/ | ||
|**For the Ladies**|Social/ | |**For the Ladies**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**For the People, By the People**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**Fortnight Event Convention**|-|Make a map showing an event that spanned two weeks.| | ||
|**Fresh Air**|-|Make a map showing a park, forest, or other natural setting.The natural area can be supported by a national, regional, or local agency, or completely unofficial.| | |**Fresh Air**|-|Make a map showing a park, forest, or other natural setting.The natural area can be supported by a national, regional, or local agency, or completely unofficial.| | ||
+ | |**Freedom of Movement**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**The Frigid Cold**|-|Make a map showing a country or subdivision of a country that exists entirely within the Artic or Antarctic circle.| | ||
|**From Nothing to Nightmare**|Conflict|Make a map showing a once backwards, weak country that has become a powerful pariah state.| | |**From Nothing to Nightmare**|Conflict|Make a map showing a once backwards, weak country that has become a powerful pariah state.| | ||
- | |**From Sea to Sea**|Single country|Make a map showing a country that borders two major bodies of water.| | ||
|**From the West**|Divergence|Make a map showing the western Americas being colonized by Asian countries.| | |**From the West**|Divergence|Make a map showing the western Americas being colonized by Asian countries.| | ||
+ | |**Fry it Up**|Single Country|Make a map showing a country with a panhandle.| | ||
+ | |**From The Worldweek**|Style|Make a map in the style of maps used in news media.| | ||
+ | |**Gerry' | ||
|**Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!**|Conflict|Make a map showing an ongoing revolt or rebellion.| | |**Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!**|Conflict|Make a map showing an ongoing revolt or rebellion.| | ||
|**The Golden Age**|-|Make a map showing a country or civilisation in a Golden Age.| | |**The Golden Age**|-|Make a map showing a country or civilisation in a Golden Age.| | ||
|**Globar War Series**|Conflict, | |**Globar War Series**|Conflict, | ||
|**Great is Our Sin**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or the world during or after a conflict that used Weapons of Mass Destruction (i.e. Bioweapon, Chemical Weapon, Nuke or Radiological weapon).| | |**Great is Our Sin**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or the world during or after a conflict that used Weapons of Mass Destruction (i.e. Bioweapon, Chemical Weapon, Nuke or Radiological weapon).| | ||
- | |**The Great Rebuilding**|Urban|Make a map showing an urban reconstruction effort.| | + | |**The Great Rebuilding**|-|Make a map showing an urban reconstruction effort.| |
|**The Guide**|Style|Make a map showing a guidebook entry to show a tourist/ | |**The Guide**|Style|Make a map showing a guidebook entry to show a tourist/ | ||
- | |**The Gun is Our Government**|Conflict|Make a map showing a stateless region, the warlords / gangs / militias that maintain, or fail to maintain, a bit of order, economic activity and how it functions without state protection, etc.| | ||
|**Guns of the X**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world where a group of time travelers go back in time to give a group anachronistically powerful weapons.| | |**Guns of the X**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world where a group of time travelers go back in time to give a group anachronistically powerful weapons.| | ||
|**Happy Holidays!**|Social/ | |**Happy Holidays!**|Social/ | ||
|**The Hatters Parliament**|Divergence|Make a map showing a world or nation in which a benign OTL ideology has been taken to twisted extremes. For example anti-Racism leading to it being illegal for people to marry within their race.| | |**The Hatters Parliament**|Divergence|Make a map showing a world or nation in which a benign OTL ideology has been taken to twisted extremes. For example anti-Racism leading to it being illegal for people to marry within their race.| | ||
- | |**Here be Dragons and Giants**|Social/ | + | |**Here be Dragons**|-|Make a map showing a major nation that hasn't been explored by Europeans yet.| |
- | |**HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, BATMAN!**|-|Make a map showing | + | |**Here be Dragons and Giants**|Social/ |
+ | |**Hero of the Day, Vampire of the Night**|Conflict|Make a map showing | ||
+ | |**The Holy Elsewhere**|Social/ | ||
|**Hope and Change**|-|Make a map showing the results of a realigning election in a nation. Realigning elections for example is UK 1945, 1983, 1997 & USA 1860, 1896, 1932, 1968, 1980 , 2008.| | |**Hope and Change**|-|Make a map showing the results of a realigning election in a nation. Realigning elections for example is UK 1945, 1983, 1997 & USA 1860, 1896, 1932, 1968, 1980 , 2008.| | ||
|**Human Nature**|-|Make a map showing an attempt by humans to preserve the natural environment.| | |**Human Nature**|-|Make a map showing an attempt by humans to preserve the natural environment.| | ||
|**Humanity' | |**Humanity' | ||
+ | |**Hunny, I'm Home!**|Social/ | ||
|**If Stirling Never Stopped**|Conflict|Make a map showing a country analogous to the Domination of Draka, e.g. Large, militaristic China or over-expanding, | |**If Stirling Never Stopped**|Conflict|Make a map showing a country analogous to the Domination of Draka, e.g. Large, militaristic China or over-expanding, | ||
|**Implausible Colonizers**|Single country|Make a map showing the colonial empire of a nation not known for it in OTL.| | |**Implausible Colonizers**|Single country|Make a map showing the colonial empire of a nation not known for it in OTL.| | ||
+ | |**In At the Death**|Conflict|Make a map showing the aftermath of a war in which one side was forced into unconditional surrender.| | ||
|**In the Ghetto**|Social/ | |**In the Ghetto**|Social/ | ||
|**Islands in the Sea**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing the aftereffects of a person, place, or area having been transported back in time.| | |**Islands in the Sea**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing the aftereffects of a person, place, or area having been transported back in time.| | ||
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|**The Little Apple**|Divergence|Make a map showing a settlement which became a major city in OTL but didn't in this timeline.| | |**The Little Apple**|Divergence|Make a map showing a settlement which became a major city in OTL but didn't in this timeline.| | ||
|**A Little-Known Fact**|-|Make a map about a person, place, or idea which is well known in OTL but only a footnote in the world of the map. (The campaigns of Alexander, the king of Macedon who got himself killed at the Granicus, surviving communities of that weird Jewish sect called Christianity, | |**A Little-Known Fact**|-|Make a map about a person, place, or idea which is well known in OTL but only a footnote in the world of the map. (The campaigns of Alexander, the king of Macedon who got himself killed at the Granicus, surviving communities of that weird Jewish sect called Christianity, | ||
+ | |**Lo, How the Mighty Have Fallen**|-|Make a map showing a previously powerful nation being divided up.| | ||
|**Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair**|-|Make a map showing a successfully built megastructure, | |**Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair**|-|Make a map showing a successfully built megastructure, | ||
|**A Looong TL A' Windin' | |**A Looong TL A' Windin' | ||
|**Loose Change**|-|Make a map showing the events proposed by an ATL conspiracy theory.| | |**Loose Change**|-|Make a map showing the events proposed by an ATL conspiracy theory.| | ||
+ | |**Lonely Light**|-|Make a map showing a country or region which is in a bad situation, that is still an improvement over their previous situation.| | ||
|**Lotsa Flowers Bloomed**|-|Make a map showing a world with 5 socialist great powers in it.| | |**Lotsa Flowers Bloomed**|-|Make a map showing a world with 5 socialist great powers in it.| | ||
+ | |**Make Others Do The Dirty Work**|Conflict|Make a map of a proxy war.| | ||
|**Manifest Destiny**|Conflict, | |**Manifest Destiny**|Conflict, | ||
|**Many Drops Making A Sea**|Conflict|Make a map showing multiple, separate conflicts taking place in the same region.| | |**Many Drops Making A Sea**|Conflict|Make a map showing multiple, separate conflicts taking place in the same region.| | ||
+ | |**Map of the Fortnight**|-|Make a map showing a country or region during two weeks that changed the world or their aftermath.| | ||
|**Mark of a Nation**|Style, | |**Mark of a Nation**|Style, | ||
|**Military Illogic**|-|Make a map showing a polity that possesses some military function that makes no sense, like a Landlocked country with a navy or a country with a large mountain division when the country and surrounding areas have no mountains.| | |**Military Illogic**|-|Make a map showing a polity that possesses some military function that makes no sense, like a Landlocked country with a navy or a country with a large mountain division when the country and surrounding areas have no mountains.| | ||
- | |**Municipal Pride**|Divergence, Urban|Make a map showing a city that was destroyed in OTL surviving in an ATL.| | + | |**Municipal Pride**|Divergence|Make a map showing a city that was destroyed in OTL surviving in an ATL.| |
|**More Than One Can Chew**|-|Make a map showing an empire shortly before it collapses from overstretching, | |**More Than One Can Chew**|-|Make a map showing an empire shortly before it collapses from overstretching, | ||
+ | |**More Than You Can Chew**|Conflict|Make a map showing a minor incident or conflict which rapidly grew to a major international conflict.| | ||
|**More Than Words**|Style|Create a map that stands on its own. Other than labels on the map itself, the map shall have no accompanying explanations, | |**More Than Words**|Style|Create a map that stands on its own. Other than labels on the map itself, the map shall have no accompanying explanations, | ||
|**Mosaic Earth**|-|Make a map Showing a world made out of areas from different periods of history, like a Mosaic Earth TL.| | |**Mosaic Earth**|-|Make a map Showing a world made out of areas from different periods of history, like a Mosaic Earth TL.| | ||
|**My Beloved Nemesis**|Conflict|Make a map showing two countries that were formerly violent rivals, but are now cordial and friendly.| | |**My Beloved Nemesis**|Conflict|Make a map showing two countries that were formerly violent rivals, but are now cordial and friendly.| | ||
|**My Friends Are My Power**|Conflict|Make a map showing a war where an alliance of many weak countries wins against one or a few stronger countries.| | |**My Friends Are My Power**|Conflict|Make a map showing a war where an alliance of many weak countries wins against one or a few stronger countries.| | ||
+ | |**My Superpower 'Tis of Thee**|Single country|Make a map showing a former colony that has become a superpower.| | ||
|**A Nation Displaced**|Single country|Make a map showing a government-in-exile that possess land.| | |**A Nation Displaced**|Single country|Make a map showing a government-in-exile that possess land.| | ||
|**A Nation Divided**|Single country, Conflict|Make a map showing one nation that is divided into separate independent states.| | |**A Nation Divided**|Single country, Conflict|Make a map showing one nation that is divided into separate independent states.| | ||
|**Natives? What Natives? | |**Natives? What Natives? | ||
+ | |**New Jersey**|Divergence|Make a map showing a "New Jersey" | ||
+ | |**New New England**|Divergence|Make a map showing a "New England" | ||
+ | |**The NEW New Zion**|Divergence|Make a map showing an alternate resettlement of the Latter Day Saint movement in a place other than Utah.| | ||
|**A New World**|Divergence|Make a map showing an alternate colonization of North America.| | |**A New World**|Divergence|Make a map showing an alternate colonization of North America.| | ||
- | |**Nix the Notion of the Nation**|-|Make a map showing a sovereign political entity that is able to to maintain a significant degree of influence that is not, itself, a nation state.| | ||
|**No Industrial Revolution**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when, for whatever reason, be it economic, political, social or technological, | |**No Industrial Revolution**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when, for whatever reason, be it economic, political, social or technological, | ||
|**No One Does It Like You**|Conflict, | |**No One Does It Like You**|Conflict, | ||
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|**Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted**|Apocalyptic/ | |**Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted**|Apocalyptic/ | ||
|**Now-Punk**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world the the technology and culture of a modern (1950s onwards) time period has been extrapolated and exaggerated.| | |**Now-Punk**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world the the technology and culture of a modern (1950s onwards) time period has been extrapolated and exaggerated.| | ||
- | |**Of Myths and Legends**|FPS-ASB, | + | |**The Ocean is Full of Terrors**|-|Make a map showing a state founded by a seaborne conquest or migration.| |
+ | |**Of Myths and Legends**|FPS-ASB, | ||
+ | |**The Old Country**|Single country|Make a map showing a country that has survived in recognisable form for over 1000 years.| | ||
+ | |**One for You, One for Me**|-|Make a map showing two or more powers dividing a region among themselves.| | ||
+ | |**One Of Them Is Not Like The Other**|Single Country|Make a map showing a country that stands out compared to its neighbors.| | ||
|**One Small Step**|-|Make a map showing some aspect of space exploration or travel within the Solar System.| | |**One Small Step**|-|Make a map showing some aspect of space exploration or travel within the Solar System.| | ||
|**On the Run from the Science Police**|Social/ | |**On the Run from the Science Police**|Social/ | ||
|**An Overlay of Universes**|Style|Make a single map showing the differences in borders between an ATL and OTL.| | |**An Overlay of Universes**|Style|Make a single map showing the differences in borders between an ATL and OTL.| | ||
- | |**The Pale Continent**|Divergence|Make a map showing arbitrary colonial borders in Europe in a timeline where it was colonised by countries from another region.| | ||
|**Pastures New**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created landmass.| | |**Pastures New**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created landmass.| | ||
+ | |**Poland Can Into Space**|Divergence, | ||
|**The Price of Victory**|Conflict|Make a map showing a Pyrrhic victory.| | |**The Price of Victory**|Conflict|Make a map showing a Pyrrhic victory.| | ||
|**A Premature Birth**|Single country|Make a map showing an independent Ukraine, Poland, Syria, USA, etc. or the formation of a Yugoslavia or an Israel or any other " | |**A Premature Birth**|Single country|Make a map showing an independent Ukraine, Poland, Syria, USA, etc. or the formation of a Yugoslavia or an Israel or any other " | ||
|**The Presidents of Paradise**|Single country|Make a map showing a state that started off with idealistic aims, but now violates those ideals.| | |**The Presidents of Paradise**|Single country|Make a map showing a state that started off with idealistic aims, but now violates those ideals.| | ||
- | |**The Promised Land**|Social/ | ||
|**Prosperity and Poverty**|Social/ | |**Prosperity and Poverty**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**Public Opinion**|Social/ | ||
|**The Puppet Masters**|-|Make a map showing what happens when an OTL conspiracy theory is true.| | |**The Puppet Masters**|-|Make a map showing what happens when an OTL conspiracy theory is true.| | ||
|**Puzzling Provinces**|Divergence|Make a map showing a country' | |**Puzzling Provinces**|Divergence|Make a map showing a country' | ||
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|**The Republic of Genetalia**|-|Make a map showing a country that looks like one or more sex organs.| | |**The Republic of Genetalia**|-|Make a map showing a country that looks like one or more sex organs.| | ||
|**The Return of the King**|-|Make a map showing a country where the ruling dynasty was removed from power, but later returned to power. " | |**The Return of the King**|-|Make a map showing a country where the ruling dynasty was removed from power, but later returned to power. " | ||
+ | |**Rhodesians Never Die**|Single country|Make a map showing a country with some form of institutionalised segregation.| | ||
|**The Right Man in the Wrong Place**|Personal|Make a map showing what would happen if a different person rose to prominence or influence during a time of crises or a time where that person could make all the difference in the world.| | |**The Right Man in the Wrong Place**|Personal|Make a map showing what would happen if a different person rose to prominence or influence during a time of crises or a time where that person could make all the difference in the world.| | ||
|**Room 101**|-|Make a map showing the methods an oppressive state uses to control its populace. E.g.: propaganda broadcasting, | |**Room 101**|-|Make a map showing the methods an oppressive state uses to control its populace. E.g.: propaganda broadcasting, | ||
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|**The Seas we Make Ourselves**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created body of water.| | |**The Seas we Make Ourselves**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created body of water.| | ||
|**Shakeit World Order**|Divergence, | |**Shakeit World Order**|Divergence, | ||
+ | |**Show, Don't Tell**|Style|Make a map with no words or letters on it.| | ||
|**SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS**|Single country|Make a map showing a nation that succeeded on the world stage massively OTL (The British Empire, The USA, The USSR, etc) that is a shell of its alternate self, or simply non-existent.| | |**SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS**|Single country|Make a map showing a nation that succeeded on the world stage massively OTL (The British Empire, The USA, The USSR, etc) that is a shell of its alternate self, or simply non-existent.| | ||
|**The Sick Man**|Single country|Make a map showing a declining great power.| | |**The Sick Man**|Single country|Make a map showing a declining great power.| | ||
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|**Straight Outta Da Pulps**|Social/ | |**Straight Outta Da Pulps**|Social/ | ||
|**Strictly Business**|-|Make a map showing something related to an alternate illegal or legally dubious organisation.| | |**Strictly Business**|-|Make a map showing something related to an alternate illegal or legally dubious organisation.| | ||
+ | |**Stuck in the Middle of You**|Single country|Make a map of an independent nation that is entirely surrounded by another country.| | ||
|**Special Needs**|-|Make a map showing territory controlled by a non-national entity, be it a supranational organization, | |**Special Needs**|-|Make a map showing territory controlled by a non-national entity, be it a supranational organization, | ||
|**Special Treatment**|-|Make a map showing a Hong Kong-style Special Administrative Region where a small enclave of a country is, for almost all intents and purposes, separate.| | |**Special Treatment**|-|Make a map showing a Hong Kong-style Special Administrative Region where a small enclave of a country is, for almost all intents and purposes, separate.| | ||
|**The Sun Never Sets**|Single country|Make a map showing a country that spans several continents.| | |**The Sun Never Sets**|Single country|Make a map showing a country that spans several continents.| | ||
- | |**The Tail Wagging the Dog**|Single country|Make a map showing a union between two or more countries in which one or more of the originally subordinate ones managed to achieve a superior position over the originally dominant power while still remaining within the union.| | + | |**Sunshine and Happiness**|-|Make a map showing a country |
|**The Taller They Are**|Conflict|Make a map showing one side of a war - who will ultimately lose - just as they look like they' | |**The Taller They Are**|Conflict|Make a map showing one side of a war - who will ultimately lose - just as they look like they' | ||
|**Terraformation**|-|Make a map showing a man-made gographical feature : an artificial mountain, lake, island, a canal (urbanization does not count). This geographical alteration must be intentional (not the result of pollution or of a technological disaster), visible from the surface and of large scale.| | |**Terraformation**|-|Make a map showing a man-made gographical feature : an artificial mountain, lake, island, a canal (urbanization does not count). This geographical alteration must be intentional (not the result of pollution or of a technological disaster), visible from the surface and of large scale.| | ||
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|**They Came from Earth-2**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world which has been invaded/ | |**They Came from Earth-2**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world which has been invaded/ | ||
|**They' | |**They' | ||
+ | |**This is my Boomstick**|-|Make a map showing a rising world power in Sub-Saharan Africa.| | ||
|**The Thorn in the Foot**|Conflict|Make a map showing a guerilla war or other form of asymmetric warfare.| | |**The Thorn in the Foot**|Conflict|Make a map showing a guerilla war or other form of asymmetric warfare.| | ||
|**Those Whose Walls Already Rise**|-|Make a map showing an alternate defensive wall, or other defensive fortifications.| | |**Those Whose Walls Already Rise**|-|Make a map showing an alternate defensive wall, or other defensive fortifications.| | ||
- | |**Thou Shalt be a Father of Many Nations**|Divergence|Ancient Israel-wank. Show a ' | + | |**Thou Shalt be a Father of Many Nations**|Divergence|Make a map showing |
+ | |**Three' | ||
|**Time of Legends**|Apocalyptic/ | |**Time of Legends**|Apocalyptic/ | ||
|**Tiny but Economically Prosperous!**|Single country|Make a map showing an alternate microstate.| | |**Tiny but Economically Prosperous!**|Single country|Make a map showing an alternate microstate.| | ||
+ | |**To Infinity**|-|Make a map set in the world of a comic book from an ATL.| | ||
|**To New Lands!**|Social/ | |**To New Lands!**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**To the Victor**|Conflict|Make a map showing a pivotal battle.| | ||
|**Together at Last**|Single country|Make a map showing a nation that encompasses an entire ethnic group.| | |**Together at Last**|Single country|Make a map showing a nation that encompasses an entire ethnic group.| | ||
|**Toxicity**|Apocalyptic/ | |**Toxicity**|Apocalyptic/ | ||
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|**United we Stand, Divided we Are**|Conflict, | |**United we Stand, Divided we Are**|Conflict, | ||
|**Unity Through A New Language**|-|Make a map showing a map of a polity or region with a high degree of linguistic diversity that has adopted a non native and non-historic language as a unifying force; and example of this would be OTL India adopting French instead of English as a lingua franca.| | |**Unity Through A New Language**|-|Make a map showing a map of a polity or region with a high degree of linguistic diversity that has adopted a non native and non-historic language as a unifying force; and example of this would be OTL India adopting French instead of English as a lingua franca.| | ||
- | |**The Untied States of America**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when after independence the 13 colonies are unable to maintain a union between themselves, and instead go their separate ways as sovereign states.| | ||
|**Uplifted**|-|Make a map showing a world where a species of animal other than humans has gained sapience| | |**Uplifted**|-|Make a map showing a world where a species of animal other than humans has gained sapience| | ||
|**Upon Pillars of Salt and Pillars of Sand**|Single country|Make a map showing an unstable nation on the verge of collapse.| | |**Upon Pillars of Salt and Pillars of Sand**|Single country|Make a map showing an unstable nation on the verge of collapse.| | ||
+ | |**Urban Guerrilla Warfare**|Conflict|Make a map showing a city plagued by guerilla warfare between different factions.| | ||
|**Vascodagamia**|-|Make a map showing a city, state, or region named after an explorer.| | |**Vascodagamia**|-|Make a map showing a city, state, or region named after an explorer.| | ||
|**Victory in defeat**|Conflict|Make a map showing the results of a defeat in a conflict, the result of which ultimately strengthened the vanquished side with respect to the winner.| | |**Victory in defeat**|Conflict|Make a map showing the results of a defeat in a conflict, the result of which ultimately strengthened the vanquished side with respect to the winner.| | ||
+ | |**Virulent**|-|Make a map showing the extent of an epidemic.| | ||
|**Völkerwanderung**|Social/ | |**Völkerwanderung**|Social/ | ||
|**Wandering Religions**|Social/ | |**Wandering Religions**|Social/ | ||
|**The War No One Saw Coming**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or the world at the beginning, middle or right after a war that no one foresaw and/or thought possible.| | |**The War No One Saw Coming**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or the world at the beginning, middle or right after a war that no one foresaw and/or thought possible.| | ||
|**WTF or War The Fuck? | |**WTF or War The Fuck? | ||
+ | |**The War Unseen**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region before and after a devastating war.| | ||
|**Wars Worse Than Civil**|Conflict|Make a map showing atrocities committed during a civil war.| | |**Wars Worse Than Civil**|Conflict|Make a map showing atrocities committed during a civil war.| | ||
+ | |**We Will We Will Rock You**|Conflict, | ||
+ | |**WHAT ARE THOSE!? | ||
+ | |**What' | ||
+ | |**Where the Smiles Died**|-|Make a map showing a scenario where a single event drastically changed the regional or global situation.| | ||
+ | |**Why Me? | ||
|**The Wealth of Nations**|Social/ | |**The Wealth of Nations**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**We Happy Few**|Single country, Apocalyptic/ | ||
+ | |**We Shall All Hang Separately**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when after independence the 13 colonies are unable to maintain a union between themselves, and instead go their separate ways as sovereign states.| | ||
|**We, the Others**|-|Make a map showing a state where government decisions are, at least ostensibly, not made by people but by some other entity. For example a theocratic state where government decisions are supposedly made by one or several divine beings, a state controlled by an AI, a country whose government makes decisions by chance (e.g. by flipping a coin), etc.| | |**We, the Others**|-|Make a map showing a state where government decisions are, at least ostensibly, not made by people but by some other entity. For example a theocratic state where government decisions are supposedly made by one or several divine beings, a state controlled by an AI, a country whose government makes decisions by chance (e.g. by flipping a coin), etc.| | ||
+ | |**We the People**|Single country|Make a map showing a successful pan-nationalist movement.| | ||
|**We' | |**We' | ||
|**We' | |**We' | ||
+ | |**Weird Cola War**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**Weird Console War**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**What Have We Done**|-|Make a map showing the results of an action or event which seemed to be a good idea, but later turned out to have been a grave mistake.| | ||
|**Where the Green Grass Grows**|-|Make a map showing a national park, forest, or natural preserve.| | |**Where the Green Grass Grows**|-|Make a map showing a national park, forest, or natural preserve.| | ||
|**Where the Streets are Paved with Gold**|Social/ | |**Where the Streets are Paved with Gold**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**Why Hello...**|Conflict|Make a map showing a nation launching a surprise attack against another.| | ||
|**With Great Power**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world where superheroes exist.| | |**With Great Power**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world where superheroes exist.| | ||
+ | |**The Womb of Nations**|Social/ | ||
+ | |**The World Factbook**|Style|Make a map showing the world from ATL textbook, encyclopedia, | ||
|**The World in its Darkest Hour**|Conflict|Make a map showing the world at what is commonly considered its lowest point.| | |**The World in its Darkest Hour**|Conflict|Make a map showing the world at what is commonly considered its lowest point.| | ||
|**A World Made for Two!**|Personal|Make a map showing a world that was altered due to a marriage that did not happen in OTL happening, or a marriage that did happen not happening.| | |**A World Made for Two!**|Personal|Make a map showing a world that was altered due to a marriage that did not happen in OTL happening, or a marriage that did happen not happening.| | ||
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|**The Yankee' | |**The Yankee' | ||
|**You Are Now Exiting The Comfort Zone**|Style|Make a map showing an area that you, as a mapmaker, have never explored in detail before.| | |**You Are Now Exiting The Comfort Zone**|Style|Make a map showing an area that you, as a mapmaker, have never explored in detail before.| | ||
+ | |**You Think I'd Really Fall for T—**|Conflict|Make a map showing a surprise attack in the rear/ | ||
|**Zamenhof' | |**Zamenhof' | ||
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|MotF 93|**Making a Mark on the Map**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created landmass or body of water.| | |MotF 93|**Making a Mark on the Map**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created landmass or body of water.| | ||
|MotF 94|**This is Planet Earth**|-|Make a map showing one of the initial stages of a worldwide unification.| | |MotF 94|**This is Planet Earth**|-|Make a map showing one of the initial stages of a worldwide unification.| | ||
- | |MotF 95|**Ab Urbe Condita**|Urban|Make a map showing one or several city states.| | + | |MotF 95|**Ab Urbe Condita**|-|Make a map showing one or several city states.| |
|MotF 96|**Just in Case**|Conflict|Make a map showing a country' | |MotF 96|**Just in Case**|Conflict|Make a map showing a country' | ||
|MotF 97|**The Conqueror**|Single country, Personal|Make a map showing an empire built through the efforts of a single person.| | |MotF 97|**The Conqueror**|Single country, Personal|Make a map showing an empire built through the efforts of a single person.| | ||
- | |MotF 98|**Greener Pastures**|Social/ | + | |MotF 98|**Greener Pastures**|-|Make a map showing a legal discrepancy between countries that prompts related border traffic.| |
|MotF 99|**The Dust Has Settled**|Conflict|Make a map showing the world or a continent before and after a World War.| | |MotF 99|**The Dust Has Settled**|Conflict|Make a map showing the world or a continent before and after a World War.| | ||
|MotF 100|**The Centenary**|-|Make a map showing the 100th anniversary of an event.| | |MotF 100|**The Centenary**|-|Make a map showing the 100th anniversary of an event.| | ||
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|MotF 102|**The Last Straw**|-|Make a map showing the details or effects of a single deliberate action that leads to immediate and far-reaching political ramifications.| | |MotF 102|**The Last Straw**|-|Make a map showing the details or effects of a single deliberate action that leads to immediate and far-reaching political ramifications.| | ||
|MotF 103|**Sunshine and Lollipops**|-|Make a map showing a utopia.| | |MotF 103|**Sunshine and Lollipops**|-|Make a map showing a utopia.| | ||
- | |MotF 104|**Mind the Gap**|Urban|Make a map showing an urban rail system.| | + | |MotF 104|**Mind the Gap**|-|Make a map showing an urban rail system.| |
|MotF 105|**The Weak Suffer What They Must**|-|Make a map showing a forced population transfer or its aftereffects.| | |MotF 105|**The Weak Suffer What They Must**|-|Make a map showing a forced population transfer or its aftereffects.| | ||
|MotF 106|**Maps in the Mirror**|-|Make a map showing a scenario from an ATL which is, in some manner, the ironic reverse of a scenario from OTL.| | |MotF 106|**Maps in the Mirror**|-|Make a map showing a scenario from an ATL which is, in some manner, the ironic reverse of a scenario from OTL.| | ||
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|MotF 109|**Puzzling States of America**|Divergence, | |MotF 109|**Puzzling States of America**|Divergence, | ||
|MotF 110|**Danse Macabre**|-|Make a map of the aftermath of a pandemic.| | |MotF 110|**Danse Macabre**|-|Make a map of the aftermath of a pandemic.| | ||
+ | |MotF 111|**There' | ||
+ | |MotF 112|**The Tail Wagging the Dog**|-|Make a map showing a union between multiple countries within which a previously subordinate country has become dominant, and the previously dominant country has become subordinate.| | ||
+ | |MotF 113|**Tickled Punk!**|Style|Make a map showing a " | ||
+ | |MotF 114|**From Sea to Sea**|Single country|Make a map showing a country that borders two major bodies of water.| | ||
+ | |MotF 115|**Weird World War II**|Conflict, | ||
+ | |MotF 116|**Between a Rock and a Hard Place**|Single country|Make a map showing a buffer state.| | ||
+ | |MotF 117|**False Friends**|-|Make a map showing a place, event, organisation, | ||
+ | |MotF 118|**The Pale Continent**|Divergence|Make a map showing all or part of Europe in a timeline where it was colonised by countries from another region.| | ||
+ | |MotF 119|**Blink and You'll Miss It 2**|Single country|Make a map showing a short-lived state or a region in transition.| | ||
+ | |MotF 120|**Let' | ||
+ | |MotF 121|**The Promised Land**|Social/ | ||
+ | |MotF 122|**And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth**|Social/ | ||
+ | |MotM 3|**Encyclopedia Cartographica**|Style, | ||
+ | |MotF 123|**Bricks and Marble**|-|Make a map showing an alternate city or an alternate version of an OTL city.| | ||
+ | |MotF 124|**On the Shoulders of Giants**|Apocalyptic/ | ||
+ | |MotF 125|**HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, BATMAN!**|-|Make a map showing a continent or region that is very politically diverse and fragmented.| | ||
+ | |MotF 126|**Nix the Notion of the Nation**|-|Make a map showing a significantly influential sovereign political entity that is not a nation state.| | ||
+ | |MotF 127|**This Too Shall Pass**|Social/ |
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