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A new series in mistakes of nature and political geography
To start with I hate Nevada
Nevada is an artificial and senseless wasteland
You have like half the population crammed into one city in the corner and then a big nothing
Las Vegas should be part of Arizona or California, the western towns near Tahoe should be in Interior California, and the great empty should be in Utah.
What a worthless, retarded premise for a state.
Here's another one, the Musandam Peninsula off the Straits of Hormuz:
Look at it, spiderlike, radiating that intangible malignity that was there from the beginning. Vile.
Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay
I'm going to be sick.
This hater here
Andorra is a geographical miracle baby
Not only do you get the whimsical nature of a little European fiefdom between two great powers, it is the onyl case I know of of a monarchy being co-ruled in personal union by the elected head of a republic (France) and an ecclesiastical prince-bishop (Bishop of Urgell)
Without politisperging, and purely from a geographical perspective- Israel doesn't really make sense as its own country. The land is not particularly defensible, and due to being on the coast and between lots of other larger powers, it was constantly invaded and ruled by said larger powers for most of its history. The present state of Israel currently only exists because a faraway country props it up both through direct financial/military aid, and indirectly though befriending/neutralizing most of its neighbors.
Also, the State of Maryland makes no geographical sense and should not exist in its current form. The Eastern Shore should be part of Delaware and the Western panhandle should be part of West Virginia.
I present perhaps the most dysfunctional country in the world for your consideration.
Half its provinces are dealing with armed conflict, over 100 armed groups run rampant, the government barely exudes any authority outside the capital, grinding poverty despite being one of the richest countries in minerals, and hundreds of ethnicities and tribes, there is no reason the DRC should continue to exist, or why it shouldn't have collapsed years ago. Yet it does, somehow, for reasons beyond my grasp.
Half its provinces are dealing with armed conflict, over 100 armed groups run rampant, the government barely exudes any authority outside the capital, grinding poverty despite being one of the richest countries in minerals, and hundreds of ethnicities and tribes
Without politisperging, and purely from a geographical perspective- Israel doesn't really make sense as its own country. The land is not particularly defensible, and due to being on the coast and between lots of other larger powers, it was constantly invaded and ruled by said larger powers for most of its history. The present state of Israel currently only exists because a faraway country props it up both through direct financial/military aid, and indirectly though befriending/neutralizing most of its neighbors.
Also, the State of Maryland makes no geographical sense and should not exist in its current form. The Eastern Shore should be part of Delaware and the Western panhandle should be part of West Virginia.
I entire Eastern Shore is a horroshow with even Virginia getting in on the gangbang, one peninsula Delaware arbitrarily separated by a straight line then Virginia getting the South, all to facilitate the Catholics building a colony that they populated with... Protestant workers, resulting immediately in Protestant revolt and the end of Maryland as a Catholic colony.
Las Vegas should be part of Arizona or California, the western towns near Tahoe should be in Interior California, and the great empty should be in Utah.
Would any of these places be populated if they were part of Arizona or California? Nevada existing a separate state with legal gambling and prostitution (and probably lower taxes) means you cross a line in the sand and suddenly it makes a lot of sense to set up shop.
Also, the State of Maryland makes no geographical sense and should not exist in its current form. The Eastern Shore should be part of Delaware and the Western panhandle should be part of West Virginia.
I find it hard to complain about the shape of Maryland when Delaware exists next door with a retarded looking near semicircle around Wilmington as part of its defined borders.
For geography's and historic ethnocultural's sake, the Maritimes, or at least New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, should be in the USA.
Geographically, it's pretty simple: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia allows all the Eastern Seaboard to be part of America. Ethnoculturally, their initial "English" colonists were actually New Englanders settling northwards, this in turn meant they had some Patriot sympathy in the Revolutionary War, and post-Revolution the new Loyalists moving into them - despite, well, Loyalism - were still so very Yankee at heart the Nova Scotia governor bitched they were whinier than the Thirteen Colonies ever were in demanding local self-control.
In turn I'm fine with Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton remaining with Canada because geographically, they're islands and allow Canada needed access out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and their own demographic and political history saw them separated from the mainland Maritimes more often than not first in colonial French days (the two islands spun off as French Newfoundland's successor "Ile-Royal" and settled by French Newfies than Maritime Acadians) then British (as separate colonies till CB got slapped onto Nova Scotia, and becoming a Gaelic haven than an Anglo settlement).
For geography's and historic ethnocultural's sake, the Maritimes, or at least New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, should be in the USA.
Geographically, it's pretty simple: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia allows all the Eastern Seaboard to be part of America. Ethnoculturally, their initial "English" colonists were actually New Englanders settling northwards, this in turn meant they had some Patriot sympathy in the Revolutionary War, and post-Revolution the new Loyalists moving into them - despite, well, Loyalism - were still so very Yankee at heart the Nova Scotia governor bitched they were whinier than the Thirteen Colonies ever were in demanding local self-control.
In turn I'm fine with Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton remaining with Canada because geographically, they're islands and allow Canada needed access out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and their own demographic and political history saw them separated from the mainland Maritimes more often than not first in colonial French days (the two islands spun off as French Newfoundland's successor "Ile-Royal" and settled by French Newfies than Maritime Acadians) then British (as separate colonies till CB got slapped onto Nova Scotia, and becoming a Gaelic haven than an Anglo settlement).
A portion of my ancestry is Ulster-Scots who settled there for a short time, before emigrating further to the U.S. I have heard this is actually a fairly common origin for Ulster-Scot Americans in the Northeast. Did not know the full cultural backstory of those regions, but what you described does make sense considering the general origin and temperament of Ulster-Scots.
Speaking purely geographically, America's northern border east of Lake Erie is essentially arbitrary. It should be pushed up to the St. Lawrence River, and annexation of the Maritime provinces would also make sense considering the cultural context you explained.
I find it hard to complain about the shape of Maryland when Delaware exists next door with a retarded looking near semicircle around Wilmington as part of its defined borders.
The Delaware semicircle is arguably less retarded and less arbitrary than the other borders. The whole Delmarva peninsula would make more sense if it were just Delaware.
Speaking purely geographically, America's northern border east of Lake Erie is essentially arbitrary. It should be pushed up to the St. Lawrence River, and annexation of the Maritime provinces would also make sense considering the cultural context you explained.
I've seen many people talk on imaginary American borders going up to the St. Lawrence and I absolutely see the appeal map-wise! But there's sadly two big issues:
1) It's full of Quebeckers and no one wants those,
2) Dividing it up is like splitting up the Nile or Mississippi in terms of the region absolutely depending on full control of both banks of the river, since the valley's between literal rocks (Appalachians to the south) and hard places (Canadian shield to the north) for sake of economic and military security of the locals.
That border of the St. Lawrence River, then shifting rightwards through the 45th parallel to the Appalachians, is more decent than such a straight line suggests at first glance: once you start the 45th you almost immediately touch the northernmost bit of the raggedy Adirondacks that are a bitch to travel through (it's barely populated for a reason), then the strategic Lake Champlain, then the ragged foothills of Vermont's northern border till you hit said Appalachians.
Indeed, balanced between geography and ethnocultural concerns, the northeastern US-Canadian border is as good as it gets outside some ultimately minor nitpicks to make it follow "natural borders" even more: the Missisquoi River roughly matches the 45th for Vermont's border between Lakes Champlain and Memphremagog; while Maine's western border can trace all the Appalachians' height of land till its real-world northern tip, then follow real-world lines till it can follow all the St. John River thence into a local Eel Creek that in turn empties into the real-world St. Croix River boundary.
Serious answer: these countries make me feel oddly uncomfortable when I remember they exist. I know basically nothing about this place. Isn't the English one full of pajeets? Disgusting.
