Guess the Map VI: Retroactive Cartographer

[emzie]

US debt holdings? Perhaps slightly more specific, US debt privately owned?

 

[Floating Pants]

Oh geez, I can't believe no one has gotten it yet!

Here's the key, straight out of a Wiki article. It's the % of world sales.

1 USA 37–40%
2 Japan 9–12%
3 UK 7–9%
4 Germany 7–8%
5 France 4.5–5.5%
6 Canada 2.6–3.3%
7 Australia 1.5–1.8%
8 Brazil 2.0–3.8%
9 Italy 1.7–2.0%
10 Spain 1.7–2.3%
11 Netherlands 1.2–1.8%
12 Mexico 2.1–4.6%
13 Belgium 0.7–0.8%
14 Switzerland 0.75–0.9%
15 Austria 0.5–0.7%
17 Russia 2.0–2.9%
18 Taiwan 0.9–1.6%
19 Argentina 0.5–0.7%
20 Denmark 0.45–0.65%


If that doesn't give it away... I dunno what will.
The trend sort of follows the amount people employed and working in this occupation as well. Maybe a bit of an exception for the U.K. and possibly Mexico in that trend.

And remember, it's still about sales of a particular item.

 

[GamezRule]

Oil sales?

Music sales?

 

[emzie]

So the US has 37-40% of sales of X, Japan has 9-12% of sales of X and so on?

I can't imagine it's something made in a normal sense... the skewing towards the US is too large.

TV? Movies? Music? Books?

 

[emzie]

Oil sales?

Music sales?

WTH dude, you edited music sales in after my post

 

[GamezRule]

Lol, it was before I knew you posted, though.

 

[emzie]

I went ahead and googled it (protip: copy pasting from wikipedia allows people to do this) and you're right. I assume given the specific nature of your guess, this is what you did.

 

[jtb1127]

I googled music as well and it is most definitely music.

 

[Floating Pants]

Yeah, I figured a google search would give it away anyways... Music sales.

I say give the next map to GamezRule, trusting his word of that he edited it before he saw you.

 

[GamezRule]

And my first decree is to give the map to contre because I am lazy.

 

[emzie]

Black means none. The gradient then goes from dark-red-brown at the low end to the light green on the high end.

edit: and yeah, I dug up data on every little island and micronation. I need to stop spending 2 hours on these maps.

 

[BigTin]

so most of the Islamic speaking nations are very low, while it seems like being near the equator or in scandinavia give you a lot of this.

 

[uat2d]

% of energy sources other than oil?

 

[hoplitejoe]

Looks like the amount of forest cover to me.

 

[GamezRule]

Looks like the amount of forest cover to me.

I think Canada would be higher.

 

[emzie]

Looks like the amount of forest cover to me.

Correct.

I think Canada would be higher.

A lot of prairies, tundra and peat bogs.

 

[hoplitejoe]

Map will be posted later today.

 

[hoplitejoe]

Get this in a day, I dare you.

 

[BigTin]

Ok Red is Canada, Morocco, Portugal, Iceland, Belgium, Aruba, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.

Dark Orange is USA, Spain, Australia, Germany and Italy.
Light Orange is Norway.
Dark Yellow is Denmark
Yellow is Finland and Croatia
Lime green is Ireland
Light Green is Netherlands.
Green is France
Next green, none
Sea Green, Sweden
Light Blue, Israel.
Blue, none.
Dark Blue, UK.

I want to say number of nukes held in country during cold war era

 

[Verarde]

Iceland? Nukes?