Guess the Map IX: The Richese are no match

[TheMulattoMaker]

Overall number of government workers...?

 

[AdamCrock]

Number of left party supporters, socialists ?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Damn it, when did India go commie then?

 

[AdamCrock]

Damn it, when did India go commie then?

You are right this can't be it since North and South Korea are equally orange.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Amount of Russian speakers?

 

[W|M]

Overall number of government workers...?

The closest so far, but it's still only vaguely related to the answer

 

[Kyriakos]

Number of corrupt foreign interest NGOs?

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

% of GDP or overall amount spent on paying government employees?

 

[Takhisis]

People on the dole, maybe.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Please to be providing the hints for the clueless.

 

[W|M]

The answer doesn't involve government employees

 

[Takhisis]

Why is Sudan not split? Would the colours of each half change if we updated the map?

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

% of budget spent on a thing?

 

[W|M]

Why is Sudan not split? Would the colours of each half change if we updated the map?

I forgot to split it, South Sudan should be grey

% of budget spent on a thing?

no

 

[Takhisis]

Oil production. Wait, no, scratch that, South Sudan should still have it. Something about presidents and elections, perhaps.

 

[Kyriakos]

Number of local (ie country-wide) TV channels?

Although i doubt Russia has that many, most of the euro countries have very very few. Greece, of course, has a lot, but they all are the same crap anyway.

 

[Goodfella]

I think it might be that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_television_broadcast_stations

Russia's #1 here. Some of the other countries don't seem to match up but WIM might be using different data since a lot of wiki's data is really old.

 

[W|M]

It's not that

 

[Takhisis]

Cultivated surface?

 

[Kyriakos]

Does it have to do with universities/students?