Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[madviking]

Interesting. Any ideas why ???

it's a terrible place to live

 

[Joecoolyo]

I resent that!

 

[warpus]

Whoever dreamt that idea up?

I am 80% sure it was an American.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Spoiler :

The county in Texas in which I live seems to be one of the outliers that is happier than its neighbors.

Clearly they didn't ask the average library patron.

 

[warpus]

Here's another interesting map:

 

[Kyriakos]

So Greece is the subnational level of the Byzantine Empire? (Russia's other regions present this too). I guess this allows for this rate.

 

[gay_Aleks]

In our Black Sea resorts, instead of kicking the tourists that are misbehaving, we just shoot 'em.

 

[Kyriakos]

I seriously doubt the map is correct. Doesn't the UK have the largest homicide/violent crime rate in the entire EU anyway?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Keep in mind, that's per 100k population...

 

[Flying Pig]

Seems to correlate fairly well with emptiness (excepting the other obvious correlation with organised violent crime). Not sure what to take from that.

 

[Borachio]

I seriously doubt the map is correct. Doesn't the UK have the largest homicide/violent crime rate in the entire EU anyway?

Violence generally, yes. But only 13th for homicide.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html

 

[The_J]

Seems to correlate fairly well with emptiness (excepting the other obvious correlation with organised violent crime). Not sure what to take from that.

What's then up with northern Finland?
And what's there in Belgium (...don't think the EU counts as organized crime ^^)?

 

[Flying Pig]

Finland I was going with emptiness, not really sure about Belgium though... interesting map. I mean part of it must be statistics - murders are pretty rare, so one murder in a town of 200 will show up much more than one murder in one of 100,000.

 

[Kyriakos]

What's then up with northern Finland?
And what's there in Belgium (...don't think the EU counts as organized crime ^^)?

 

[Arakhor]

I think a map of relative corruption would be interesting to see.

 

[Borachio]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_statistics#Perception_of_corruption

Hoho! Bottom four: Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece.

 

[Arakhor]

Heh. Byzantine corruption is best corruption!

 

[Kyriakos]

Meh, that likely monitors only south-friendlier types of corruption

 

[Heretic_Cata]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_statistics#Perception_of_corruption

Hoho! Bottom four: Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece.

Wow, being as corrupt as a western nation is actually a compliment.
Progress!

We hope to, one day, be as corrupt as Botswana, Oman or Bhutan. One can dream.

 

[Borachio]

Yeah. But... you know... Italy!