Guess the Map VIII: Didn't Color the Island Countries

[stfoskey12]

I'm pretty sure it's coastline length. Should I just assume that I won?

Yes..

 

[Goodfella]

Sorry for the assumption. But I wasn't sure and I thought you might have gone out of town or something.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

No. I'll give a hint after some more guesses.

Do they have to be good guesses?

Political structure?
Last time a certain thing happened?
Aspirations to global domination?
Fondness for books by 19th Century authors?

...I got nuthin', but I'm the only one guessin'...

 

[stfoskey12]

Sorry for the assumption. But I wasn't sure and I thought you might have gone out of town or something.

It's fine. I probably should have checked the forum more often. Anyway, does your map have anything to do with British colonies since Brazil, Peru, Mauritania, and Palau are the only exceptions?

 

[CocoIsKing28]

Spoiler :

Repost. I've got nothing either.

 

[Goodfella]

It's not about colonies. The map is of something that each of these countries has. It's related to government.

 

[Lohrenswald]

A senate?

 

[keli]

An embassy somewhere ? Or something to do with the chief of justice?

 

[Goodfella]

No to both. To be clear, you can only have one of these things.

 

[Takhisis]

If the US is in and Canada isn't, it's clearly democracy.

 

[Goodfella]

If the US is in and Canada isn't, it's clearly democracy.

Yeah that's it...democracy.

I'm not really sure how I can give better hints without giving it away. It's a thing that each of these countries has and it's related to government.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

...bicameral legislature?

 

[Goodfella]

Maybe try history of government.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

I keep thinking of ideas, and Wikipedia keeps disproving them.

 

[classical_hero]

Countries that a federal republics?

 

[CocoIsKing28]

Is it something to do with a certain part of government in existence as long as the country itself?

 

[nocho]

Does it have to do with the voting system somehow?

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Something related to the national constitution?

 

[Goodfella]

No to all. I give a more revealing hint. It's about where the government is located.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Capital cities that were specifically built from the ground up to be capital cities?

...or something

EDIT: Or maybe capital cities that have their own state/province, but it seems like DF in Mexico would be one, not sure.