Guess the Map 12: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Mercator

[warpus]

Nice, I was trying to figure out what Bolivia and Iceland could have in common that nobody else does.. nothing else really makes sense

Wait, does that mean I have to post a map next?

 

[warpus]

I made a map. It should be fairly accurate, but it's possible I missed up (and/or missed some islands)

The darker shade of red, the more of something the country has. Black is top dog. Green means that the country will in the next several years be turning very light red and officially joining this map, but currently wouldn't be on it.

 

[The_J]

Something military?

Something about % of women in government positions

got it

Nice, I was trying to figure out what Bolivia and Iceland could have in common that nobody else does.. nothing else really makes sense

Italy, France and Britain are really in the same category as Afghanistan and Iraq o_O?

 

[warpus]

Not related to military in any way.

 

[Synobun]

Green is going to become black or join the rest of the scale?

 

[warpus]

green is going to join the rest of the scale, starting at one of the lowest levels (lightest red)

edit: I created a legend:

going from nothing yet but soon (green) - the least (light red) - the most (black)

 

[Birdjaguar]

Use of telephones for transactions beyond talking and texting.

 

[cardgame]

Factories or power generation?

 

[warpus]

Nothing related to telephones, factories, or power generation.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The darker shade of red, the more of something the country has

Hmmm... More of something.... so it is one or more actual things one can hold or touch?

 

[Kyriakos]

There is Bangladesh, so I suppose (?) this isn't about some natural resource. Can't be population either, obviously (some populous countries missing).
Is it health-related?

 

[EnglishEdward]

Mobile Phones

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Number of people over a certain age?

 

[Kyriakos]

Number of people over a certain age?

Thought of that, but for "under a certain age".
Then again, doesn't Aethiopia have a relatively young population? And at any rate they have three times the population of S. Arabia.

 

[warpus]

Hmmm... More of something.... so it is one or more actual things one can hold or touch?

You can touch these things, yes. Hold them, it depends on how you define "hold". You can grab hold of parts but you can't pick this thing up.

Mobile Phones

Nothing related to phones.

Number of people over a certain age?

Nothing related to demographics.

I'll give a hint. The # of these each of these countries has is relatively low. The lowest category is 1, the next one is 2, the next one is 3, and so on, although it jumps up a bit in further categories. When it gets to India it jumps up a bit and jumps up even more when it gets to China.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Power plants of some sort?

 

[warpus]

Nothing related to power plants or electricity generation.

 

[emzie]

Green means that the country will in the next several years be turning very light red and officially joining this map, but currently wouldn't be on it.

Metro systems!

 

[warpus]

Metro systems!

Ding ding ding ding ding ding

We have a winner!

 

[Kyriakos]

Ding ding ding ding ding ding

We have a winner!

Eh, how old is your map? Athens has had a metro for a decade or something, and supposedly Thessalonike will have this year (was to have it "this year" for years now)

(edit: I now see "light red", aka the palest pink possible, covers Greece, but still, it will be 2 metros soon/"soon")