Hey Sup Forums, what do you guys think about this map I made for a sci-fi story I am writing...

Hey Sup Forums, what do you guys think about this map I made for a sci-fi story I am writing? I will get into lore if requested by I am mostly looking for if the countries look good and if it makes (enough) sense.

When you say makes sense, do you mean like in our world but in the future? Because then it's fucking ridiculous

It's supposed to be after a large-scale nuclear war that shifted the climate. Many smaller states disappeared and other areas just became impossible to inhabit because of the lack of resources. The whole story is set in the future and focuses on the war between the dark blue state and the yellow state.

So did Switzerland just get fucking nuked then lol

Pretty much all mountain and desert areas are uninhabitable because of the war that took place prior to the main story. Some people still live in Switzerland but it is closer to Siberia than modern-day Swissland

Chinese coastal cities would be nuked, as they are the most relavent population/economy/inustrial wise. Also all of the different people groups in the purple african country banding together is unlikely, also people living in northeastern siberian settlements is retarded

Agreed, probably just include around south aftrica and maybe Madagascar

I think you'll want to think about the backstory of this world. A nuclear war sets the world back to 0, and every major population centre on earth would be wiped out. You'd see empires rising out of the places you deem uninhabitable, the Tibet's of the World would be the ones who rule it.

Also, if the story of the world is between the Yellow and the blue state, consider the tech level this world is at. Transatlantic warfare was practically impossible until around 1600, and we only really perfected it around 1950.

In this case the cacauses(armenia, georgia, azerbaijan) would be uninhabitable as well as large parts of the pinkish country in south america

Switzerland has enough nuclear bunkers and underground farms for 114% of its population

Southern africa is a desert

That's what it originally was but a friend told me that it looks too weird to just have a little nob on the bottom of Africa

What is the lore, because this doesn't make sense

Whats more likely is a civilization rising out of the present day dprc in central africa as they have the population and resources

what do think of my map its for an alternate reality where op is a faggot

The Yellow state is run by a ruthless dictator who took control of Iraq-Syria by setting it up as a base for her Jonestown-esque cult. After overthrowing the Iraqi-Syrian government she started violating near every treaty possible and discreetly started manufacturing nuclear bombs, drone warfare devices, genetically engineered super soldiers, anti-ballistic missiles, shit like that. She starts allying with the US on their war on terror and begins sweeping up the Middle East, installing puppet governments or just taking the land for her own country. She invades Iran but absolutely BTFO's the place and begins gearing for a war with NATO. Her genetic super-soldiers armed with railguns and supported by drone warfare begin to roll over into Turkey. The United States refuses to help Turkey because of the recent Turkish president's stance against Democracy and the European Union. Turkey falls rather quickly and after sweeping Egypt, most of Arabia, North Africa, and Central Asia the United States figures she may be a threat. This is evident when the yellow state invades Italy in order to restore the Roman Empire by taking Rome. She occupies Europe with her seemingly invincible army, and the United States fractures into civil war for suffering such a crushing defeat. America exits the war and the yellow state is free to take basically whatever it wants. America balkanizes and it becomes a sort of Holy-Roman-Empire kind of country with numerous little cities fighting each other but unifying in case of an outside threat. This is what the dark blue state is.

The purple and red states have similar stories, due to sheer population size they manage to fill the power vacuum in their respective regions and take over most of their neighbours. They leave the yellow state alone and the yellow state doesn't want to have to occupy countries with large and volatile populations so it just leaves them be. China is nuked into the ground though, because they stand as the last vanguard against the yellow state. China attempts to fight back but EMP strikes by the yellow state render their nuclear response systems as good as a bucket above a slightly open door. Japan fills in the void and "Establishes humanitarian missions" in the coastal cities which are essentially loyal to the Japanese government, which explains the pink state. South America breaks into three factions wanting to unify the continent, but each side lacks the manpower or wealth needed to win the war. The light green state is a union between NZL and AUS essentially bowing to the yellow state.

"Please don't hurt us we just want to hunt emus"

Q1. Why does the Yellow state want to expand, and why are the population willing to allow this forever war?

Q2. So in a state of Disarry, the US managed to take over the entirety of Central America, yet didn't take Mexico city, and is now a HRE?

Q3. How the extremely diverse peoples of Africa and Asia unify into a single nation-state?

Q4. Who fired the nukes? Prewar yellow state? The Russians and Americans trying to contain her?

Q5. How did conventional blitzkrieg tactics beat the Atomic bomb?

The yellow state wants to expand for the same reason Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon Bonaparte did. The population is fine with this. The soldiers are genetically bred to fight in artificial wombs and are wards of the state. The capital is protected from attacks with advanced anti-ballistic technology.

Central America collapsed along with Canada, and they are all in the defensive union. Mexico city was reduced to rubble after the wars and the desert became too uninhabitable due to the change in the climate

Simple, they were reduced in population and the nations with higher more developed populations colonized the areas

yellow state fired the first few nukes, others fired at yellow state, but yellow state had some experimental anti-ballistic technology that kept the capital safe.

The atomic bomb was not nearly as powerful once yellow state perfected its defense capabilities. Sure it halted front lines periodically but eventually yellow state got very very good at recovering from attacks, and preventing them altogether.

Ok, so what happens when the Women dies?

And DC and Toronto aren't Irradiated wastes because? Also, how does the system of governance work, is there a Hapsburg equivalent or do the smaller states actually have a degree of autonomy in voting for the leader?

Ok, but Nigeria, South Africa and Ethiopia all have radically different official languages, not to mention pidgen dialects and tribal languaes? How can such a huge state even communicate with its lower half?

Ahh, I see. look into the Reagan era STAR WARS program for inspiration on that.

She won't die naturally. She can be killed, she cannot die from another cause.

They are, some local warlord leads some people in hazmat suits to make what they can out of the land. Think Fallout and the Wild West. Towns are founded, people move in, small city-states form.

There are very few ethnic groups there left. The purple state did to the coast of Africa what the British did to the coast of Africa

I will, thank you! ^^

Ok, so what happens to the empire once it does fall apart?

So what happens to the water these cities are near? Toronto sits on the St. Lawrence, which feeds into the great lakes and the entire water supply of the Midwest, whether it comes from the lakes or from the aquifers beneath them. What happens to all that water?

Who dominates then? Is it South African? Ethiopian? Nigerian? The same for the Pink and Red states. Accepting the depopulation of China, Indonesia is home to some of the most populated cities in the world, and wouldn't be in the firing line of a nuclear exchange. How do the predominantly Hindu and Shinto states respectively control a population of Muslims who definitely outnumber them?

Also, what are the South Americans fighting about?

Well once it falls apart it results in a bunch of nations breaking off and fighting like hell over scraps of territory. It is based in Iraq so the Middle East will try to claim the status of the yellow state.

Well some rivers still have clean water. Generally big cities do not have good water to drink. Filters that filter out radiation do exist but they are only in the richer shitholes in North America

The main course of the story is the dark blue state unifying and attacking the yellow state. The yellow state dominates but the dark blue state begins to be able to fight back as the story progresses. As for how the Hindus and Shintos control the Muslims, well, they act more as a vassal than as a direct part of the pink state or the red state.

The three S.A factions are fighting over who to align with. Blue wants to ally with dark blue, light blue with yellow, and lavender wants to be isolationist.