And The World According to Surrealism...

Another map, this time for Mirek. This is the "Surrealist Map of the World" (From Vanetes, Brussels, 1929). Interestingly enough, the US doesn't even exist in this one.
Katharine Harmon mentions this map in her book "You Are Here", a sort of Surrealist's manifesto from 1925:

“Even more than patriotism – which is a quite commonplace sort of hysteria, though emptier and shorter-lived than most – we are disgusted by the idea of belonging to a country at all, which is the most bestial and least philosophic of the concepts to which we are all subjected.. Wherever Western civilization is dominant, all human contact has disappeared, except contact from which money can be made – payment in hard cash.”

Again, click on the map to enlarge it.

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The World According to Reagan

While researching cartograms for a policy development project, I recently came across a couple of fantastic maps. Simplified to the point of parody, "The World According to Reagan" map divides the world according to the "White Hats vs. the Black Hats" cowboy/Western cinema genre paradigm. (Click the map to enlarge it.)

White Hats (Sheriffs, Good Guys):
The USA
Thatcherland

White Hat Deputy Sheriffs, Posse members:
Japan Corporation
Israel
Our China (Taiwan)
Our Oil (Saudis)

Black Hat:
USSR (Godless, Communists, Liars and Spies)

Black Hat Stooges:
Muslim Fanatics (Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Their China
Soviet Colony (Cuba)
Socialists and Pacifists (France, Spain, etc.)


This one's for you, Daniel (x2).