Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days

[aronnax]

There used to much more... But noooooooo drive on the right like Frenchmen...

 

[TheLastOne36]

Surprised Belize doesn't drive on the Left like other former British possessions.

 

[Jan H]

why does suriname drive on the left? very strange...
(and why is samoa highlighted on the map? edit:I found the probable reason)

some funny facts:
Hong Kong still drives on the left, so China is the only country that drives partially left and partially right.
Sweden used to drive on the left until 1967, then they switched to the right. Must have been quite a job to switch all road marks, signs etc.!

 

[a_propagandist]

Good to see we Americans are on the side of world majority for once. Now, let's just get the metric system in and we'll be good.

 

[cardgame]

I like my miles and feet. Everything else can be metric (it already is) but keep miles and feet and yards.

 

[Mowque]

I like my miles and feet. Everything else can be metric (it already is) but keep miles and feet and yards.

Argh. I hate miles.
Although it is easy for me to visualize it. It is exactly one mile to the nearest stop sign.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Argh. I hate miles.
Although it is easy for me to visualize it. It is exactly one mile to the nearest stop sign.

I hate Miles to.

Except it is hard to visualize a Mile. I know though, that a Kilometer was my former Apartment in Canada to the nearest mall. I can visualize that distance wherever I go.

I can't visualize a mile for sh!t though. I don't even know how much more a mile is than a KM.

 

[aronnax]

I like my miles and feet. Everything else can be metric (it already is) but keep miles and feet and yards.

Then what is the point?
America is a world power. It should at least used the same measurements as the rest of the world. I mean, its not like a good 1/3 of the world uses Miles and Feet like driving on the left or right.

Its just three countries.



And seriously, Liberia and Myanmar?

 

[TheLastOne36]

Then what is the point?
America is a world power. It should at least used the same measurements as the rest of the world. I mean, its not like a good 1/3 of the world uses Miles and Feet like driving on the left or right.

Its just three countries.



And seriously, Liberia and Myanmar?

Myanmar doesn't even use Metric system, they just took a couple aspects from it and made their own system.

 

[Tani Coyote]

It's not 100% complete, but close enough.

After the victory by the forces of the United Federation, Kingdom of Acorn and it's allies over the Eggman Empire in Mobian Alert, the Egg Emperor found himself cornered in his throne room by his archenemy. While Shadow the Hedgehog and other agents had helped Sonic take down the last bastion of the Eggman Empire, it was decided that it was Sonic's right to be the one to take down the fat man himself.

In the ensuing battle, the Egg Dome was completely destroyed thanks to the carnage within. While Julian Ivo Robotnik had been defeated, he refused to surrender. Rather, he fled deeper into his fortress as it fell apart, with his blue nemesis in pursuit. However, the blue hedgehog had decided to toy with his archenemy, following more slowly than he could.

This mistake would prove foolish. Eggman was eventually cornered in a labratory, where he had placed himself in a podlike device. While Sonic assured the good doctor that he would defeat any robot or chase any escape pod, the Doctor replied with his usual evil laughter, stating, "I am escaping, rodent, but to another time and another place, somewhere not even you can follow me!"

The hero was surprised to see Eggman's pod vanish in a flash of light...

---

The Doctor rematerialised several years beforehand, at GUN Headquarters. The day and time he had chosen was the same day that the infamous Shadow the Hedgehog had joined the military organisation, thus providing GUN with huge amounts of information on the Eggman Empire - Shadow having been a former agent of the Doctor. With a single touch, those who would have met with Shadow found themselves erased, and thus a meeting was arranged between the black hedgehog and the mad scientist instead.

The ultimate lifeform retained his usual cool and collected appearance despite the change of events, and the Doctor began to do his work. Unable to erase Shadow as well - having tried and failed, this was reasoned to how Shadow existed 'outside' of time in a sense, and thus was immune to being erased, just like he was immune to roboticisation - the Doctor tried to reason with him.

Dr. Eggman claimed that it was strange that Shadow was planning to throw his lot in with humans, or GUN specifically. It was the humans, via GUN, who had killed everyone who Shadow had ever cared about, and the few who treated him as a person rather than a weapon or tool. An organisation would always stay an organisation, and what was to prevent Shadow from becoming the same cold-blooded murderer that previous GUN agents had?

After a bit of logic, the lifeform was dissuaded from signing up after all. As Eggman vanished, he let out a deep bellow of evil laughter, knowing he was sure to have damaged GUN's war effort...

---

Returning to the exact time and place he had left, Eggman found his base intact. He checked his data screens, and saw that the majority of the Eggman Empire was still stable and under his control, even while parts of it had collapsed as a natural part of the stress of war.

When asking his computer to give him a full update on the status of all provinces, the list showed their "damage" meters, as a measure of how much destruction had been caused by the enemy countries. Eggman asked where the "Eastern provinces" were on the list.

The computer responded that the Eggman Empire signed over the majority of it's eastern territories to Red Claw after humiliation in the Dragon Kingdom by the same group.

Naturally, Eggman asked what "Red Claw" was. He was answered by a large history lesson on how it was an organisation founded several years ago in the barren tundra of the former Siberia. It developed under a powerful leadership with access to the region's natural resources, until it became a regional power that humbled the Eggman Empire.

...What was more shocking was it's leader. Shadow the Hedgehog.

Eggman soon received an incoming message. Upon agreeing to view it, he found it was a video conversation with said hedgehog, dressed in an imperial military robe. The hedgehog chuckled, mentioning how Eggman had done the world a favor by preventing Shadow's joining of GUN. Because of staying rogue, Shadow had realised his full potential and founded a cosmopolitan superpower accepting of all beings, human, Mobian or robotic. Shadow concluded the meeting by saying, "You may have been able to alter the past and change our present, but do you know what the future will hold, Doctor?"

With the conversation ended, Eggman pulled on his moustache, due to a lack of head hair to pull on. His attempts to weaken GUN had succeeded enormously, but at the expense of much of his empire and the formation of a technologically-advanced, well-trained foe on his eastern borders.

The Doctor immediately rushed to draw up plans... hoping he could find some way to turn this to his advantage...

 

[Tee Kay]

I must say, I like this timeline.

Anyway, was it ever explained why Nanjing became a radioactive wasteland?

 

[Tani Coyote]

Thank you Tailleskangaru!

And I'm not sure... probably somewhere in the story that I don't remember... I merely tried my best to convert the Mobius file into an actual map. I didn't know where to place most things, but went with common sense(i.e. the Dragon Kingdom should be placed in Eastern Asia because of it's culture).

I'm glad somebody enjoyed the story, however! ^__^

 

[Miles Teg]

Argh. I hate miles.

I hate Miles to.

This thread makes me feel unloved.

 

[aronnax]

This is my prediction of LGBT laws in the world in 2030.

India recently stuck down its criminalisation of gay sex showing the slow but present world shift of attitudes towards homosexuality. This map here is a prediction of what LGBT laws will be like in 21 years base on growing trends within the nations, government and LGBT group activism and whether or not such laws are still enforce.

The following nations will by 2030, strike down their Criminalisation : Trinidad and Tobago, Namibia, Singapore, Bhutan, Morocco and Lebanon. These nations have in common, vocal LGBT Right Groups, increasingly tolerant social views, lack of enforcement and some strong government support.

The number of countries recognising same sex marriage rises from 8 to 28, mostly in the EU. Nepal becomes the first Asia nation to recognise same sex marriages in about 2010. Cambodia, with Royal support also allows same sex marriage become the 2nd Asian nation to do so. Japan will shortly expand it recognition of same sex marriage from foreign marriages to all its citizens. Israel also introduces civil same-sex marriages despite heavy religious opposition from the Jews, Muslims and Christian heads. Uruguay leads South America, being the first from the continent to legalise SSM. Argentina, Colombia and Brazil follow shortly. In Oceania, Australia and New Zealand follow suit.

Meanwhile, the number of nations that recognise some form of civil unions has reached new records. Mozambique becomes the first African nation since South Africa to recognise gay civil unions.

Spoiler :

Yes, Im shocked too, apparently they had quite strong protests for such relationships.

Thailand, with its liberal policies and large gay culture recognises these relationships. Taiwan follows suit with increasing liberalisation. China, after a slow, slow crawl enacts the bill, recognising gay civil unions.

Possible nations may decriminalise homosexuality if they experience democratisation : Iran, Algeria, Myanmar
2009

Spoiler :

Spoiler :

2030

 

[Godwynn]

The world by language family.

 

[TheLastOne36]

The world by language family.

Like I said numerous times, Slavic isn't just like Romantic or Germanic or Celtic, it is much farther apart than those language Families.

 

[Godwynn]

Like I said numerous times, Slavic isn't just like Romantic or Germanic or Celtic, it is much farther apart than those language Families.

Erm... okay?

You think you should have your own language family?

 

[TheLastOne36]

Erm... okay?

You think you should have your own language family?

No, they aren't that distant... We do share some similar variations of Proto-Slavic words, but that is about it. You basically can't understand anything a Serbian is saying for example, unlike Portuguese and Italian for example, or Danish and German. Does it warrant a group? Probably not. I need to make a comparison to another language group to help you understand... but I don't know any.

 

[Godwynn]

No, they aren't that distant... We do share some similar variations of Proto-Slavic words, but that is about it. You basically can't understand anything a Serbian is saying for example, unlike Portuguese and Italian for example, or Danish and German. Does it warrant a group? Probably not. I need to make a comparison to another language group to help you understand... but I don't know any.

So what, then, are you complaining about? I posted a map with language families and you said that Slavic languages are further apart, but you wouldn't create a new language family.

 

[REDY]

No, they aren't that distant... We do share some similar variations of Proto-Slavic words, but that is about it. You basically can't understand anything a Serbian is saying for example, unlike Portuguese and Italian for example, or Danish and German. Does it warrant a group? Probably not. I need to make a comparison to another language group to help you understand... but I don't know any.

Dont be riduculous, I am nearly sure that you understand Czech, Russian or Serbian better than Americans understand German or Swedish