Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[Lohrenswald]

What's it about?

Honestly, it seems kind of uncreative.

 

[Vylinius]

I've been working on this little story project of a post economic and politically collapsed world. So this is just the latest map I made to help me visualize things. I might change it later and I thought it would be best to post it here maybe get some feedback from people that aren't my family.

Edit: 500th Post!

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Kosovo surviving a world economic collapse....lol.

 

[Borachio]

What happened to Northern Ireland?

 

[Vylinius]

Good point, I kind of didn't think the Balkans through as much as I should have. I should probably go back and edit that. Then again that was the point of posting here for people to find my mistakes.

Edit: Replies so fast. Northern Ireland the conflict there just started up again or that was the idea. I'm not sure how accurate that is. I got a lot of my information from just asking people I knew, history books, my old geography book, and wikipedia.

 

[LamaGT]

Why do many heavily populated areas get no government?

 

[Vylinius]

The idea was that heavily urbanized areas under regimes that aren't doing much of a good job currently in managing their urban centers sort of lost control over large tracts of it. China is somewhat a lack of creativity on my part though. Wikipedia wasn't much help with how the internal dissent is in China for obvious reasons or I might of made more represented factions there. So I sort of just winged it there as well.

Edit: In Europe it's just chaos in some areas as it's more of governments reasserting their control over those areas or conflicting with other powers for control of that area.

Edit2: I don't know if this helps but this is supposed to be several decades like some 40-60 years after the collapse of the global economy which was shortly followed by a near total political collapse in most countries. In a lot of ways it was just supposed to be the worst possible scenario I could think. I suppose some areas need more factions or unity while others should probably be more broken up and some countries should probably not exist.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Well, then, my thoughts:

You should drop the "obscure" cultural areas, like Occitania and Skåne.

You should drop some "marginal" aereas. I don't think it makes to much sense that there is a state on the eastern coast of russia and in the dry places of USA, while lot's of Europe, even parts of Germany and France, are completely collapsed.

You should revork a bit "to fit economics", it's wierd that Germany collapses while Greece is mostly intact.

 

[LamaGT]

The idea was that heavily urbanized areas under regimes that aren't doing much of a good job currently in managing their urban centers sort of lost control over large tracts of it. China is somewhat a lack of creativity on my part though. Wikipedia wasn't much help with how the internal dissent is in China for obvious reasons or I might of made more represented factions there. So I sort of just winged it there as well.

Edit: In Europe it's just chaos in some areas as it's more of governments reasserting their control over those areas or conflicting with other powers for control of that area.

Edit2: I don't know if this helps but this is supposed to be several decades like some 40-60 years after the collapse of the global economy which was shortly followed by a near total political collapse in most countries. In a lot of ways it was just supposed to be the worst possible scenario I could think. I suppose some areas need more factions or unity while others should probably be more broken up and some countries should probably not exist.

But the people are still going to be there. Is the black supposed to mean a Fallout-style wasteland?

 

[Vylinius]

More of just political anarchy I should of done a better job of separating between areas where people are but it's anarchy and areas that are uninhabited.

Edit: Suggestions for China, East Asia in general, and Africa would be greatly appreciated.

 

[madviking]

hah! yes! west virginia doesn't exist anymore!

 

[JohannaK]

How the hell could Aragon get Catalan land.

 

[Vylinius]

I have no excuse. I was just lazy and didn't bother to look up the border between Catalonia and Aragon. It'll be corrected in the next version.

 

[Dachs]

How the hell could Aragon get Catalan land.

Because global cat-tastrophe.

 

[Proman]

Familiar?

 

[TheLastOne36]

Umm future economic unions after the collapse of the EU?

 

[Angst]

Umm future economic unions after the collapse of the EU?

that wouldn't make sense with anything taking in south italy or spain, germany absorbing the balkans rather than sticking with n. italy and the lowlands, and half of dk being left out of scandinavia

 

[Arakhor]

Spain being in North Africa clearly indicates a tarted-up EU3 map.

 

[hoplitejoe]

One of the millions of predictions of what Europe will look like in 20 years despite there being no evidence any nation in Europe would join a union with another country?

 

[really]

Edit: Replies so fast. Northern Ireland the conflict there just started up again or that was the idea. I'm not sure how accurate that is. I got a lot of my information from just asking people I knew, history books, my old geography book, and wikipedia.

That is Ulster rather than Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone = NI, NI + Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan = Ulster)