Guess the Map X: "Portugal? Going to live it up down ol’ South America, huh, Mikey?"

[Kyriakos]

Considering all of the microstates are orange, maybe something to do with visa regulations?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Something about political participation of women ?
Number of female civil servants ?
Women in the police force ?

 

[Lohrenswald]

What does the black mean, then? Since it's just the Vatican City and Saudi Arabia... Is their colour what it is because of their religious importance? No data?

Quatar is also black it looks to me
you can trace some of the reason why these three are different to religion, but that isn't very useful

Is it related to taxes?

no

Regions with highest income per capita ?
black highest, orange lowest

no

Do the Channel Islands have a different colour compared to the UK?

yes

Is it necessarily a scale, or just 3 different categories?

it is indeed 3 different categories

Considering all of the microstates are orange, maybe something to do with visa regulations?

no

Something about political participation of women ?
Number of female civil servants ?
Women in the police force ?

It's not related to specifcally women's rights or anything like that

 

[Kyriakos]

Citizenry-related? (as in rights or ids etc?) We do use citizen ID cards here. Maybe Brazil does too, so maybe some other citizen right/papers issue? Passport? etc

 

[Lohrenswald]

Citizenry-related? (as in rights or ids etc?) We do use citizen ID cards here. Maybe Brazil does too, so maybe some other citizen right/papers issue? Passport? etc

no

 

[Lohrenswald]

Hint:
Black=0
Orange=1
Blue=more than 1

 

[The_J]

Some observations:
- north Korea has the same colour as south Korea
- Czech republic has a different colour than Slovakia
- Romania has a different colour from Bulgaria and Hungary
- Somalia is in
- west sahara has a different colour than Morocco
- of the western world, mainly Skandinavia and new Sealand have a different colour


So this is NOT the voting result of anything UN related, I guess.
3 categories indicates it's not something language related
Does it maybe have something to do with the government system, maybe inheritance of power? (that's one of a few things where I could see Vatican and Saudi Arabia together)

EDIT: Didn't see Lohrenswald's post...mmhh....

 

[Lohrenswald]

Does it maybe have something to do with the government system

Yea, I'd say so

maybe inheritance of power?

no

 

[Synobun]

Levels of government beyond the federal tier?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Levels of government beyond the federal tier?

not entierly sure what that even means

the answer is no

 

[Synobun]

not entierly sure what that even means

the answer is no

I DON'T LIKE YOUR STUPID GAME ANYWAYS

y'all got any more of them hints?

 

[Lohrenswald]

It's got to do with like state apparatus, but not actual governing

 

[GoodSarmatian]

OK, black is zero, orange is one and blue is more than one and it has to do with the political system.
I thought it could be the number of political parties that have been in government since the end of WW2, but then the entirety of Europe should be blue.
Independent branches of government ? I think the Nordic countries have seperation of powers.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Independent branches of government ?

For almost all of the blue countries, more than one is actually just 2

 

[Lohrenswald]

I think the Nordic countries have seperation of powers.

As an aside, sometime in the past, the nordic countries had 4

 

[GoodSarmatian]

For almost all of the blue countries, more than one is actually just 2

Chambers of government ?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Chambers of government ?

It's got to do with like state apparatus, but not actual governing

you're really really close, though

 

[Lohrenswald]

you're really really close, though

as in, this is literally numbers of chambers

but chambers of what?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Chambers of parliament.
Or legislative chambers in general if you want to call it a diet or somesuch.

 

[Lohrenswald]

yes

(I'd say legislative assembly, but close enough, lol)

Vatican state and Saudi Arabia, being two of the very very few self-professed non-democracies, do not have any legislative assembly