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Which tells me that's an Onion article, but doesn't tell me anything about the actual map.
Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place
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Which tells me that's an Onion article, but doesn't tell me anything about the actual map.
It's a joke, you know, how people are so resistant to filling out those census forms (or at least how the media portrays people to be).
That's at least what I got out of it.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Why are americans afraid of filling out the census form ?
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Silly americans, the government already knows the things in the form that they are going to write.
It's just like in communism when they only checked if you were being honest.
madviking
north american scum
Welcome to the Dark Side! 
WTH with Belarus? They look like fascists in Europe.
WTH with Belarus? They look like fascists in Europe.
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
Ha! Iran is more democratic than Singapore!
France looks like the least democratic in Western Europe. 
Aside from Transnistria, Belarus is probably the closest thing we have to the Soviet Union.
If it's from 2003, that means Khatami was President. It'll probably scored lower now.
Aside from Transnistria, Belarus is probably the closest thing we have to the Soviet Union.
If it's from 2003, that means Khatami was President. It'll probably scored lower now.
ZeletDude
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France looks like the least democratic in Western Europe.
I Noticed that too!
Also I've found some more interesting Democracy Maps;
Spoiler :
The Green Are Self Identified Democracies
Spoiler :
Heres another map. From Jan. 2008. And it's a lot different from the other map.
According to Wiki;
madviking
north american scum
Spoiler :
The Green Are Self Identified Democracies
At least these days the idea of a country ruled, at least nominally, by the people is widely accepted as the "right" form of government, and dictators no longer laugh themselves to death upon hearing of it.
Yared
That Guy
I don't know much about Minnesota but I do know that Richard Dean Anderssn comes from Minneapolis. There should be a tiny dot with "RDA lives here".
I love MacGyver and General O'Neil
Winner
Diverse in Unity
This map supposedly shows how the land/ocean distribution would look like if Earth stopped spinning on its axis (no, I don't mean if it became tidally locked, that's something entirely different).
Earth is not a perfect sphere - the equatorial regions are "bulged". Water stays there because it is forced there by the Earth's rotation. If this force suddenly vanished, water would flow 'downhill' to the regions closer to the poles.
Of course, the reality is that the shape of the Earth's rocky mass is also determined by the speed of its rotation. Eventually, the rock would change its shape too and the water would return to its normal place. If it wasn't all frozen by then.
Mathalamus
Emperor of Mathalia
This map supposedly shows how the land/ocean distribution would look like if Earth stopped spinning on its axis (no, I don't mean if it became tidally locked, that's something entirely different).
Earth is not a perfect sphere - the equatorial regions are "bulged". Water stays there because it is forced there by the Earth's rotation. If this force suddenly vanished, water would flow 'downhill' to the regions closer to the poles.
Of course, the reality is that the shape of the Earth's rocky mass is also determined by the speed of its rotation. Eventually, the rock would change its shape too and the water would return to its normal place. If it wasn't all frozen by then.
the air also retreats to the polar areas. which means 99% of the world isnt habitable.
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