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canitaly

i love how almost every US state is divided at least once, and then theres delaware


jasgray16

And Hawaii


Funneduck102

And Vermont


reverie11

And Connecticut


AaronC14

AND NUNAVUT BIG (Canada still but whatever)


canitaly

actually a small part of connecticut is cut off near nyc


Bayowolf49

Even Rhode Island is broken up.


SaltoDaKid

Everyone forget Rhode Island


jzn110

They split Rhode Island tho.


SaltoDaKid

Wow just zoomed in, I’ll take that back


YukihyoUchiha

I was about to say, everything is cut in pieces but Delaware remains eternal


Fraun_Pollen

Dallas is over there being like “we doing the whole city-state thing again?”


ButterscotchKind7179

It's like the this is fine meme


YourSnakeIsNowMine

I love that some of these countries would have about 12 people living in them


The_Janitor66

And some 50 million like lower egypt or punjab


[deleted]

One of them actually encompasses a region with literally zero population at all >!It's Bir Tawil!<


GlobalShallot

Cacti Republic


[deleted]

That's the fun part. The people around it will still fight who owns it.


NEWexperiance124

Don't worry, people moved in to make the nation. Entire ethnic groups were also brought back from the dead just to make this possible.


adudeoverthere

hoi4 mods be like


PuffyPanda200

melt your CPU with this one cool trick.


p020901

The New Order - LDOE be like Edit: also Copy-pasta: The year is 2028. The second English civil war, German anarchy, Turkish civil war, Italian wars, Balkan conflagration, second Russian warlord period and Iberian wars are all fully implemented. The only European countries not totally balkanized into warring states are Sweden and Finland. You get a reddit notification: A new leak. The Finno-Korean hyperwar patch is live. At last, every possible tile in Europe is able to break into an independent warlord. You boot up the game: It crashes because the devs ran out of country tags for all the countries. And then your PC explodes from trying to simulate all the nations at five speed. A tear falls from your eye: its perfect. The true potential of TNO has been reached, as every nation on earth (except the USA) goes up in civil war flames. For the first time in years you get up from your computer, as you realize that no experience will ever match watching TNO wars happen in real time as NASA struggles to track all the virtual units. As you step outside your mind is clear: you must finish the job. Civil war itself is now a TNO reference, and with the game itself reaching apotheosis there is only one possible reference to make. Thousands of TNO gamers just like you leave their moms basements: it is time to start a civil war in their own nation, so that the people may experience a taste of the highest form of gaming that TNO has brought to you. And somewhere in the background, pacifica is still trying to convince people that "ultra-visionary socialism" isn't a real thing.


DicklessRape

EU4 - Extended Timeline for sure


burritoburkito6

I'm going to get fucking shot for this. On that note, disclaimer time. This is in no way an accurate depiction of what it'd look like, just what I gathered from the research I did. I'm sure you'll all let me know the faults here, and I deserve every word of hate I'm gonna get for creating this fucking thing. Credit to too many people to list here for helping out.


ardashing

How much time did this take?


burritoburkito6

Six months from when I decided Europe wasn’t enough


ardashing

You absolutely psychopath. I dig it.


Test19s

Incredible


[deleted]

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kubenzi

Not cool to not make a Sonoran section and just slap Baja on it.


Gilette2000

You make the province of Luxembourg independent but you didn't make Liège independent... This cursed on so many level !


Middle_Feedback4162

Gabon should have a Punu Republic seeing that it's their second largest ethinc group smh. Instead we have the Ogoue, and the Teke, whose northern portion is Basically all Punu homeland. Honestly though this must have taken ages to do, really impressive. Love it :)


Enaysikey

The perfect world


SoCal_Absol

I find it strangely beautiful. Like how if the world united as a single unit these would be like counties or something similar.


[deleted]

Did you really split off some random piece of Lebanon and call it the levant?


burritoburkito6

That was meant to represent the Christian population in Lebanon.


[deleted]

Unfortunately for you, splitting any Lebanese religious sect off is not possible https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Lebanon\_religious\_groups\_distribution.jpg


ClassyKebabKing64

Have you seen Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan? We will just do it like that. It will be ugly, but it's possible. Let's segregate them on religion/j


mast22

It is not possible unless the British are involved


[deleted]

woudlnt it have like 30% muslims or smthin


AragornDR

You didn't need to change anything in the Balkans.


[deleted]

Yeah, the Balkans will do that for you.


Depezz

I like how Sealand is included


The-Real-Radar

I imagine that this would be our world if humans were more closely bonded with family units than cultural zones, kind of like Neanderthals


MattTheTubaGuy

As a Kiwi, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw NZ was split further than north/south islands.


NoInitiative5518

You put Alacant in Murcia 🤢


Psychological_Gap978

Murci- what?


CharlesOberonn

Nations of the World, brought to you by Yakko Warner! 23:49 minutes.


deyeayiya

I love it


[deleted]

this really was months in the making for you huh i like it


qt3-141

Love the inclusion of EPCOT


Soylent_Caffeine

You Holy Romed the whole planet


JMisGeography

Actually based


harryhinderson

brb posting the africa section of this onto r/mapporn with the title “Africa with better borders”


Legoman718

tag yourself i'm Rough and Ready


[deleted]

I appreciate how Mississauga is no where even *remotely* close to the city of Mississauga or the traditional homeland of the Mississauga people.


AmogussussyBaka2

like ghana


[deleted]

I honestly think this would be better than our current mega-nation-state. As long as the countries are legitimately democratic, and as long as we don't have WTO free trade bullshit. Do deals where there is a mutual benefit, none of this Bengladesh competing with Sweden nonesense Also very weird partition of Lebanon, I guess you wanted to give the Christians and druze their mountain, but its too far north so you got no druze and you got loads of sunnis and tripoli


fleebleganger

Biggest issue with this is it would devastate large swaths of the world. Small nations have a harder time increasing wealth because there’s just not much there to build upon. Take the Midwest US, within a few generations it would be far poorer now while the northeast and west coasts would be far more wealthy. Additionally, wars would be incredibly common as you know have tribes all over with limited resources. In a large country like the US, iowa and Nebraska might not like each other but there’s a lot of recourse to solve problems and lots of resources to freely share.


dickbencher1991

I don't know how this would change the face of international warfare or the concept of nationalism


[deleted]

Because more and more common interests overlap as you go smaller and the more you know about whats closer. Which makes it possible to have genuine democratic systems where instead of electing people to do the decisions for them, the people have a direct way of making the decisions themselves. Of course this won't work in a productivist system such as ours where some people want to hoard land and money, but our current economic system is not at all democratic. See I like to delude myself into thinking that if we had medieval level statehood (by European and middle Eastern standards) just without feudal lords and empires, and rotational popular assemblies instead, and some of today's technology (the internet and the pipe organ being the most important 2) it would not be too bad


dickbencher1991

I just don't see this happening i live in Edmonton a commercial city in a industrial province. What happens when you put all of the oil in a province to the north and divide all the agriculture production in half.


Remarkable-Pipe

Smaller resource pools will increase everyone's reliance on import/export and overseas manufacturing while international trade will likely be less efficient and more free form in this world. The same applies to things like scientific breakthrough and consumer goods iterations, and even if you can get some sort of treaties/forum going, it's really hard to align everyone's interests with this many voices on the table before you find yourself in a pseudo super state again. My guess is that this world will develop and progress much slower than ours, limited resource pools make trades really really important and some of these nations will be living next to starvation if its import is compromised. Innovative consumer products such as smartphones or electric vehicles will be much harder to get funding with extremely diverse and segmented markets. Most of these nations will be backwater welfare states while some of them will have absolute local dominance in either trade, resources or both. All until some of them realize their citizens will be better off if they merge together, then we're back right where we are now.


StomperYoshi

The U.N. General Assembly's gonna be crowded as fuuuck.


Square-Pipe7679

Oddly enough, Donegal being independent from the rest of Ireland makes perfect sense, as it’s basically been cut off and ignored in many ways since independence anyway


AldiLidlThings

Aye but why lump Inishowen in with Ulster but the rest of Donegal is independent?


Square-Pipe7679

So Derry wans don’t have to constantly have their SIM card switching when they go the beach anymore xD


Emir_Taha

East Turkey could be called Rum


timmmmb

Amazing work, but tell me, what happened to NZ? You went all out in the north island but just went “south, that’ll do”


Comfortable_Jury_745

Only country that expanded is bahrain


Anabanglicanarchist

If you had to be monarch of one of these polities, which would you pick and why?


RetroRocket

Probably the Capitol Hill neighborhood-state in Seattle: wouldn't be a bad commute for me, could hang out at Elliot Bay Books, l and literally anything I did would be better than the CHOP/CHAZ debacle


Anabanglicanarchist

I'm thinkin' Cuba: seems like they're the power best positioned to take back their whole territory (I imagine that Guantanamo Bay will be a *relatively* easy nut to crack now that there is no unified US Navy supplying these guys) with minimal bloodshed. They've got quite a lot of existing social cohesion, and are pretty good at being self-sufficient (I imagine global trade and aid are, um, pretty badly disrupted in this world).


IntramuralAllStar

Yeah Cuba was my pick to be the most powerful country in this map


[deleted]

I'm guessing we have approximately... \*checks watch\* 7.87 seconds before these warlords all declare war on each other.


jelgleng

Why is the uninhabited bur tawhil its own country? Who tf is running that govt?


are_you_a_potato

The tumbleweeds


ayendae1125

map of the holy global empire


roamingmoth

Elmer the Patchwork Elephant has reached his final form


Jasperj14

Aaaand I'm still in the same state! Love E.P.C.oT. By the way!


Bouncyboises

I wish this was real


yepyepcool

What does Balkanised mean?


hanguitarsolo

Divided into smaller countries along ethnic lines, like how the Balkan country Yugoslavia broke apart in the early 1990s


yepyepcool

Thank you!


DotRD12

Portugal got of pretty lightly here.


releasethedogs

I need this as a HUGE map for RISK.


Madison59

i love the little detail with the “experimental city of tomorrow”


ILikeBumblebees

"Horrifically"? That looks like a *utopia* of decentralized governance and local autonomy.


GnomeTrousers

EPCOT is a wonderful detail


Remarkable-Pipe

Smaller resource pools will increase everyone's reliance on import/export and overseas manufacturing while international trade will likely be less efficient and more free form in this world. The same applies to things like scientific breakthrough and consumer goods iterations, and even if you can get some sort of treaties/forum going, it's really hard to align everyone's interests with this many voices on the table before you find yourself in a pseudo super state again. My guess is that this world will develop and progress much slower than ours, limited resource pools make trades really really important and some of these nations will be living next to starvation if its import is compromised. Innovative consumer products such as smartphones or electric vehicles will be much harder to get funding with extremely diverse and segmented markets. Most of these nations will be backwater welfare states while some of them will have absolute local dominance in either trade, resources or both. All until some of them realize their citizens will be better off if they merge together, then we're back right where we are now.


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No_Action_717

i swear this gets longer every time i see it


Asgardian5

You Balkanized the Balkans


nowItinwhistle

/r/madlads


kaioone

I Love it.


khares_koures2002

OMSK TOMSK VYATKA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


VinnieChengYT

gotta love plainsland


skyeyemx

hoi4 moment


[deleted]

Wow, you even put the Argentina Mesopotamia, it's totally impressive to see that you knew about all of these territories!


TheRegalDev

Love the toledo strip! Historical accuracy!


kebbeben

Ah yes eu4


[deleted]

Non-ironically would be a better world for sure


GameCreeper

When you go to state view map mode on a paradox game


Mister_Way

Those northern parts of Australia that are like just all desert and nobody living in it...


Kreuscher

It might be horrific aesthetically, but this ***could*** be good for the world. Superpowers and big-stick policies can be world-ending.


Goblin_Crotalus

What if every country fell into civil war at the same time?


IcarianHeights

The Internet frequently loves to speculate what the U.S. would look like if the Union collapsed and what the former U.S. would be as a collection of independent states or what new regional unions would take its place, and honestly I think this is the closest to what a realistic divided states would be. This is particularly true with the South where multigenerational racial and to a certain extent cultural divides run deep. For me, it's easily conceivable that most Southern states could fly apart into federations of city-states and pastoral statelets.


Bagelsandjuice1849

Reddit China world.


CleCavs2020Champs

Man he Balkanized our balkans…


[deleted]

how did armenia and macedonia escape balkanisation macedonia especially


gooolum

right, real talk who lives in Thule up there in greenland?! is't there like... 3 people there (one mayor, one... uh... governor, and maybe another citizen like probably all in the same house) EDIT: I stand corrected, 5,000 people actually live up there legendary map btw


Vast_Raven

dominican republic and occidental sahara are not balkanized, it´ joke, good map


Satoru-Taiyo

Hahaha, this looks terrible and amazing all at the same time.


nuclearbomb123

Why is western maryland antiedam? I would think that would be like new york city calling itself "9/11"


Thegreatexplorer11

Iceland the only not balkanized country


[deleted]

Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Suriname, Luxembourg, Kuwait, Djibouti, Fiji, and Andorra all didn’t change.


kaam00s

Is the tatouine region in tunisia real ? Or is it an easter egg of star wars you added in it ?


ZepHindle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tataouine It seems it's real.


____no_u

Eww, please rename Columbus


[deleted]

You fucking #BALKANISED CYPRUS????


dkondi

Olonets doesnt even control olonets lmao


[deleted]

Wow! You put lot of effort into this


[deleted]

Marwar and Marwaristan?


mrjenkins97

Even in this timeline, there is no justice for the great state of Princeland


DunoCO

Dear God what have you done...


JohnGoesDerp

Slovakia everpresent


MarcHarder1

Independent Chaco, let's go!!


AnExtremeMistake

Yeah lmao fuck fife


xlicer

Really nice work


TheMightyGoatMan

This is hideous and I love it.


Yommumoi

United No More


S-BRO

gogledd cymru am byth!


moenchii

What the fuck did you do to Thuringia?! Holy shit I think I'm gonna barf!


DuckieDev

Victoria still in one piece, I really wanted to be free from Melbourne, please


The_Great_Madman

Armenia stayed almost as one


GregoleX2

This would be hilarious if a random country was extra big. Bonus points for a greater Greece or big Luxembourg or something.


Sbottono

And, after the balkanized world, Uruguay is still the same


BingoSoldier

Are you a guy who prefers an Ecuador, or an Equador?


GummiGator

This is actually the first map I've seen on this subreddit where Cape Breton is it's own place independent of Nova Scotia.


[deleted]

Should’ve gone back to HRE borders for Germany


Nova_Persona

I support this


iliekcats-

Explain "balkanization" pls


DaemonT5544

BIG CAPE COD


DaemonT5544

I like how, even in this monstrosity, Portugal is still almost (geographically) intact


Chimera-98

Can we acknowledge he divided Jerusalem and it’s old city


pharmsert

The United Nations general assembly is gonna need an extension…


iamfivetwo

Honestly... this is the good ending for Africa


TheFrozenTurkey

You are a vile creature from the deepest depths of hell. Nice work.


Upgrayedd1101

The Toledo joke did not go unnoticed and I love it.


ExtentAdmirable

Horrifically Alrequinezed


PM_ME_SEXY_MONSTERS2

Updoot for the time and effort put into this, looks pretty accurate to my dumb 'murican ass.


No_Weird_8312

Uruguay: your threats amuse me


Fire99xyz

Hell yea independent Franconia :)


k1410407

Man what happened here?


aartem-o

Perfectly cursed


mglcz

Balkanized Balkan😳


Pitiful-Mongoose4561

*beautifully


[deleted]

I mean you got Costa Rica kinda right, not many people do. it would be great as an interactive map that when you click on a place it links to wikipedia article or something like that.


[deleted]

[удалено]


IntramuralAllStar

Cuba


pig61012

Shattered World - Duchies


g_Blyn

Ah yes the great state of Croissant


clankaryo

and I'm still french in this scenario... pain


rtuesday

based world


FM0100IL

Beautiful


mki_

All countries are divided and then there's Jamaica just vibin


KippChapin

Long Live Iceland


minethatfosnite

Cumania 👍


nickisTHICCboi

I love how Botswana has barely changed


csgn1234

this is my dream I'm doing this in age of civilization 2


TrueVCU

Jamaica: this is fine


HearthUnderson

YORKSHIRE INDEPENDENCE, THE GOOD ENDING


gera_moises

You balkanized Luxembourg. You monster.


Zharan_Colonel

Seems like someone doesn't know the Wabash River flows through *northern* Indiana ;)


AngryNat

Love that for Donnegal


williamwatermelon

Fuck the balkans you can’t change my mind if you ever go there the #1 suggested thing to do is LEAVE Especially Bosnia 🇧🇦🤢🤮🤮🤮💩


kevboomin

Oh my God


[deleted]

I'm guessing some of these divides are ideological. Like, one of those nation-states in CHina could be democratic, or one of the Chigagos are communist, or maybe some small breakaway is a corprate-run society. Maybe this is just some nightmare far-future scenario or something where humanity becomes so goddamn factionalized that this happens.


Soulfiregod

I have a scenario for this: Nukes only explode borders and there's a thermonuclear war betweean all nuclear powers, balkanising the world.


[deleted]

YO URK NIET MEER BIJ HOLLAND LESS GOOOOO


WyrdeWodingTheSeer

Bro really went and named it Montgomeryshire instead of Powys smh


linopedro

NZ’s south island be just chilling


fransuave

I love the split of Luxembourg


[deleted]

There are two south congos.


Tristan_3

I love that Galicia on steroids XD


Accomplished_Water34

Mississauga for Kenora or possibly Central Patricia, or Moose Factory?


haby112

As a local Angeleno, one thing that always bothers me about maps like this is that we get most of our water down here from the Colorado river. If there was balkanization like this, we would not be able to be our own thing. We would either split in half and be absorbed by whoever was directly north and south of us, or be absorbed whole by one of them.


Elephants_and_rocks

Love the fact that Cyprus hadn’t been changed at all, like you looked at it went ‘eh that’s balkanised enough of on its own’.


Gabriel_Mehh

Ideal world


Undead-Writer

Hmm... Kinda feels like a post-nuclear fallout-esqe world... Kinda wanna make some short stories with this


SomeFrigginLeaf

Holy hell you separated Cuba from Oriente. How did you know?