Guess the Map IX: The Richese are no match

[Lohrenswald]

I assume it isn't unemployment.

 

[metatron]

Urbanization?

No.

I assume it isn't unemployment.

It isn't.

 

[Takhisis]

Immigration after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Current locations of former Stasi members.

 

[Goodfella]

Support of communism and UnAmerican activities.

 

[gay_Aleks]

How about Jewish communities?

 

[metatron]

All of those may have some very vague relation to what what we're looking for, but aren't really close.
Unemployment really was the best guess so far, since it appears to have direct interdependence with this.

Generally you guys could think about how such a dataset can come about. I mean here you have a set of numbers ranging from 81 to 128 (or whatever).
How is this supposed to reflect something as unevenly distributed as Jewish population or former Stasi members?

Additional tip: You may think that these numbers are grouped around a national average of 100. They're not.

 

[Kyriakos]

Neo-nazi groups?

 

[Takhisis]

Major German teams? That would explain why Bavaria is not highlighted.

 

[Goodfella]

Gender distribution?

 

[metatron]

Gender distribution?

I suppose this is close enough.
Gender in general would be way more evenly distributed.
This is the number of men in the age group 18-29 per 100 women in the age group of 18-29.

It's a nice map, cause one can make out certain features with remarkable reliability (many of the things you guys guessed correlate - positively or negatively - even Kyriakos' Neo Nazis, and even finer points such as cities with reknowned technical univesities breaking the trend of other cities with ordinary universities* can be observed as well).

In case, you do, you know, care, wikipedia has a map on the same datum for the age group 30-39 as well:

Spoiler :

See. Way different.

*Yes, Germany has a gender education gap of epic proportions that dwarves the US one with ease. It's not for poops and giggles that i keep annoying our forum femenists with that stuff.

 

[Goodfella]

So why are there so many more guys in the East?

I'll post one in a while.

 

[Goodfella]

Sorry all, I was traveling and forgot to post. Open floor.

 

[Omni314]

Open floor? Well why not.

P.S. Dot on bottom right is meant to be Tonga, but I wasn't too sure if that's the right dot.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Monarchy related?

Remaining royal families would have been possible, but doesn't Japan also have a royal family?

 

[Arakhor]

There's also a suspicious lack of Monaco, Liechtenstein, and the various UAE states, let alone the Commonwealth countries.

 

[Lohrenswald]

My guess is that these are the countries that have "kingdom" in their official names.

Monaco and Liechtenstein are principalities, and I think most of the commonwealth countries simply use the term "monarchy".

 

[Arakhor]

I think that's probably the answer, yes. Canada is a dominion, Australia a commonwealth and so on.

 

[Borachio]

Isn't Greenland independent now?

edit: Oh no. It's autonomous within the Kingdom of Denmark.

 

[warpus]

Tourism related?