Subject: NaNo geography is NaNo destiny.
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Posted on: 2016-11-03 11:44:00 UTC
I need - and this is the first and only time you'll ever hear me say this - some ideas for filling out a map.
Gravity's Embrace is set in our own semi-near future, but things have gotten a bit... strange. Western Europe looks something like this:
Since I have no idea where the story is going, I also have no idea how much of the map I'm going to use, but that's the thing: the more map I have, the more I can be inspired by.
So I want your suggestions. As the five nations on there show, they can be anything - we've got a cultural grouping (the Celtic League), a micronation writ large (Greater Sealand), a pair of independence movements (Euskadi-Catalunya, AKA Basque Catalonia), an in-joke (Hail Liechtenstein!), and an ancient nation reborn (the New Etruscans, whose pantheon the Romans nicked). The only other point I have on the map is that the western US is dominated by Deseret, the Mormon-theocratic state they made a vague effort at in the 1850s.
Everything else is empty. And I want it to be full. So chuck everything you've got at me. I don't promise to use it all (particularly if it overlaps, or if I flat-out don't have a clue what you're on about), but I'd really like to fill out the world, so I probably will. ^_^ Simple names + areas are fine, but if you want to give a cultural summary, go nuts!
hS, Mad Geographer