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James R. Green's avatar

I'm working on a map attempt of this world. Quick rough view here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15eHwzvXix7oHh13wtsfLJ3XZjPkvyBBq/view?usp=drive_link I will improve it over time.

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

Thanks! This is neat.

Mostly I picture the Americas as being more scattered though - a series of long/narrow islands (except maybe at high latitudes, like there could be a couple more Iceland style places further west) that play a similar role to Japan or New Zealand in our world - somewhere with an interesting culture and big enough to have some global impact, but not big enough to support the kind of population and power the current days Americas support

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James R. Green's avatar

Ok, so quite a bit smaller, like a couple New Zealand's and Japan's throughout both the US and Canada's current positions, right?

Is South America basically unchanged?

Also, what do you want for Europe's new northern sea, especially its northern shore? More Fjords and peninsulsas?

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Some Guy's avatar

I love how much you loved this, and how much you couldn’t just accept the city being a certain way for no reason. May I name a city on Mars after this?

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

Yeah I kept having to come up with more elaborate back stories for more parts of the culture as I went and the post kept getting bigger as a result. This must be how the one piece guy feels.

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The Author's avatar

A perfect city is not perfect unless its governance is based on a modified version of sortition, because any representative democracy has corruption, next-elections-pressure, career politicans, budget giving rich excessive power etc. dozen of problems sorition fairly solves. You can message me about this if you will.

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

This is the second time this week I've seen someone making these exact arguments for sortition and now I'm curious if it's a new Thing or just an odd coincidence

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The Author's avatar

Also many Finnish cities suffering from issues like privatization of water or digitalization projects not solving real problems that were lobbied by tech etc. Finland's greatness is partly historical. Finland has little well funded independent media outlets. Currently those on social security have no ability to start startups, save money, or invest or they lose social security which is economically bad and huge inequality. Finland has forced conscription for men lasting about year, another bad thing.

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

Well to be clear, the Finnish influence is mostly linguistic, the city itself was established by four other groups as well as Finns and got further diluted by other immigrant groups over time.

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George's avatar

Skimmed through this. Nice idea and beautiful passion. Have you been to Helsinki?

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

Thanks! I haven't been to any Scandinavian cities (it's on my Todo list for someday)

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