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

[MaryKB]

The percentage of the country that's cultivated land.

edit: I spent an hour reading the wikipedia page for Denmark's economy trying to find outliers and I think I got it

Good one. I've been trying to figure out something common between Denmark, Ukraine, and India.

 

[Takhisis]

Doesn't Denmark mostly produce beer and lego?

Pork and lego, actually.

 

[MaryKB]

Also crazy Oedipal princes.

 

[AdamCrock]

... and "Olsen's Gang"

 

[Birdjaguar]

Good one. I've been trying to figure out something common between Denmark, Ukraine, and India.

Their initials are DUI, so maybe it's about drinking and driving.

 

[Goodfella]

Percentage of land area dedicated to agriculture (all kinds)?

Yes, this is close enough. It’s percent of land area used for arable agriculture.

The first map included other types of agriculture (like pasture land). This led to the weird situation where Saudi Arabia was number 1, because apparently they’re classifying 80% of their land as pasture land to the UN. That seemed kind of arbitrary (I know there are rural people there with sheep/goats/cows, but is 80% of the land really being grazed, consistently?), so I switched to this one (arable agriculture is pretty objective - a farm is a farm).

 

[AdamCrock]

@tjs282 have won, waiting for the next one

 

[tjs282]

The percentage of the country that's cultivated land.

edit: I spent an hour reading the wikipedia page for Denmark's economy trying to find outliers and I think I got it

edit edit:

Not quite the same answer but I seem to be second to the party

Yes, this is close enough. It’s percent of land area used for arable agriculture.

The first map included other types of agriculture (like pasture land). This led to the weird situation where Saudi Arabia was number 1, because apparently they’re classifying 80% of their land as pasture land to the UN. That seemed kind of arbitrary (I know there are rural people there with sheep/goats/cows, but is 80% of the land really being grazed, consistently?), so I switched to this one (arable agriculture is pretty objective - a farm is a farm).

Oh. Gosh.

That really was a fairly wild shot in the dark, wasn't expecting to be right. So I haven't got a new map prepped, nor do I even know if there's data readily available for any of the few vague ideas I've had.

Since @emzie did at least do some research to earn her answer, maybe she'd like to take over as runner-up?

Otherwise, open floor.

 

[emzie]

thanks!

 

[cardgame]

anything to do with trade or diplomacy?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is it connected to political unrest?

 

[emzie]

Nope!

Blue is a subset of red.

 

[The_J]

Is all the grey really grey?

EDIT: Something humanitarian?

 

[emzie]

Grey is definitely grey.

 

[AdamCrock]

I think it might be resource related but I don't know which resource. Not Oil, Not Uranium, Not Iron, Not Coal.... hmm .... Shoot : Rice ?!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Grey is definitely grey.

As in neither one extreme or the other? If so, then the red must be a lot, more, better, etc. and blues less of that, and grey an unknown level. This implies three tiers:
Red: highest or best or most
Blue: less than red
Grey: an unknown amount but not red or blue

 

[Hrothbern]

the red dots are Andorra, Monaco, Vatican, San Marino, and some tropical island dots.

 

[emzie]

As in neither one extreme or the other? If so, then the red must be a lot, more, better, etc. and blues less of that, and grey an unknown level. This implies three tiers:
Red: highest or best or most
Blue: less than red
Grey: an unknown amount but not red or blue

Grey: Neither
Red: Either
Blue: Both

 

[Kyriakos]

Ok, for help to those of us who are AI experiments:

Grey: ¬(x∨y)
Red: x∨y
Blue: x∧y

 

[The_J]

Would most people say that either categories are somewhat mutually exclusive? (clearly not, but hey, just asking)