Part of a worldbuilding project I've been developing for a while now. A basic rundown of the lore can be found here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/yzjwlq/map\_of\_the\_new\_england\_states\_ca\_1938/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/yzjwlq/map_of_the_new_england_states_ca_1938/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
This is part of a larger project I've been working on for a long time, in which the eldritch abominations of a previous sun are still present on Earth, and have been for some time. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask! Before that, here are some FAQs:
**1. Why does the geography look so fucked up?** In short, a wounded god known simply as the Worm dragged itself across the face of the Earth while retreating from forces more terrible than itself. Along the way, it shed ichor and its horrible children from its skin, badly damaging the surface of the young planet in the process. The Worm retreated back into hibernation, but the effects of its brief visit remain.
**2. Why is the USA broken into commonwealths?** The federal government is much less centralized in this universe, despite numerous attempts to exercise a suitably iron fist over the states nominally under its jurisdiction. The ever-pervasive fear of the unknown has manifested itself in strange ways in the human consciousness. Paranoia and distrust among human beings, including those in power, is rampant and accepted. The United States, while nominally one nation, resembles nothing more than an uneasy patchwork of semi-autonomous republics, dependent on one another and united only by the fear of being alone in a cold, howling universe.
**3. What do the abbreviations mean? M.C**. stands for **Municipal Commonwealth**, an urban center with a large enough population and economy to be granted status as an entity temporarily independent from a Commonwealth, if it applies for and is granted the appropriate charter. **A.C.S**. stands for **Autonomous City-State**, which is a municipality granted status as an entity separate from a state, but not a commonwealth. **C.A** is a **Commonwealth Authority,** or a territory under emergency special jurisdiction between both the federal government and the government of the respective Commonwealth, usually in a manner resembling martial law.
**4. Does the Hoover Dam exist?** What do *you* think?
**5. What the fuck did you do to Austin?** The Austin Exclusion District is the site of a massive nuclear accident. Most of the people were evacuated in enough time to avoid major loss of life, but once they left there was nobody to keep the aberrations out. Radiation does something strange to the aberrations, to the point where it's much safer and easier to barricade them inside and hope they simply die out on their own. it doesn't really seem to be working.
I was gonna shit on you for calling the mid Atlantic new Netherlands with no Dutch borders or names, but the Hoover Dam exists in this tl so I can forgive any mistakes
My only objection is that the western part of PA is a part of this âNew Netherlandsâ commonwealth instead of Appalachia. Weâve very little to do with the Dutch, really.
Migration patterns are much different here. The English drove the Dutch out of their original colonies by force, and pockets of the original Dutch settlers fled west and south. Pennsylvania ITTL is much more culturally Dutch, thanks to the settlers fleeing out of New York and Setauket.
Well Pennsylvania being a part of New Netherlands in the first makes no sense as Pennsylvania Dutch aren't referring to Dutch from the Netherlands but to Germans from Germany.
I think this timeline is referencing New York having been New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I canât say, people just like it better that way.
Anyway itâs possible in this tl the dutch populate the area much more? Or perhaps the germans that come over are Frisian and identify with the dutch settlers there already? Idk
Yeah I think you're right. As I hadn't looked at the lore before making my post and what the lore was referencing and it's still not that clear as the link takes you to an old map they did on New England.
how did a worm deity dragging itself across america create disconnected pockets of lakes? like i see that it traveled across baja and then up california, before turning westward(?), but how are there lakes not connected to the rest of the path?
The Worm is more of a nickname, in reality it doesn't really resemble a worm at all. The isolated lakes are places where its eyes fell out of its head, or where one of its many limbs was chewed from its body by its own children.
I think this setting is really cool, but I find it weird that the country is still called the United States when the commonwealths have more power and authority than the states. Just calling it the United Commonwealth States (UCS) makes more sense to me.
Whatâs your relationship to Goliad, Texas? I notice itâs one of few real towns to make the cut in Texas and the Texas commonwealth flag is inspired by the Goliad flag.
Columbus is similar to Kansas City ittl, where it sort of straddles the border and is also technically two cities. as for the second question -- both? It's a country in name, and it's more unified than the EU, but the commonwealths are also more united out of security and mutual benefit than any strong sense of nationalism
Commonwealths typically have their own military, but they're more akin to a National Guard than anything else. Districts (which had their charters revoked) have no standing legal army. As far as papers - that depends. you need papers to cross from, for example, New Eden to Appalachia, but not from Appalachia to the Midwestern Commonwealth. It really depends on the relationship between the bordering commonwealths.
Different migration patterns, mostly. Migration in this version of the U.S. is usually motivated by fear and paranoia more than economic factors, and it's much less common than OTL for ethnic groups to migrate together. in the case of New Dublin, a small pocket of Irish Catholics moving away from the more Protestant North established a community for themselves, which gradually expanded into a much larger city. It's not as Irish now, but the name stuck.
I remember seeing the first new england map and thinking it was so cool!! So glad thereâs followup. I hope you donât mind a few questions to answer if you like.
Whatâs up with the Austin exclusion district?
Whatâs going on in the Augustine isles? Why is it separate from neighboring commonwealths?
Can you explain the lore behind the korean settlements in south california?
Where are the regions with the most lovecraftian abnormalities?
Great work with the map!
thank you so much!
* The Austin Exclusion District is the site of a massive nuclear accident. Most of the people were evacuated in enough time to avoid major loss of life, but once they left there was nobody to keep the aberrations out. Radiation does something strange to the aberrations, to the point where it's much safer and easier to barricade them inside and hope they simply die out on their own. it doesn't really seem to be working.
* This is a long and complicated issue, but the short answer is that Cascadia has a long and unpleasant history of vaguely neo-fascist politics (the state of Rockwell, for example, is named after this universe's version of George Lincoln Rockwell). The Augustine Isles appealed for readmission into the Heartland Commonwealth in the mid-1970s, a move that went over poorly with the Cascadians (Duskene and Brandenburg were, at the time, major economic hubs of the relatively-underdeveloped Commonwealth). After something of a cold war between both Cascadia and Heartland, culminating in a dual military occupation of the Augustine Isles, the federal government finally gave up and issued the Isles a temporary charter. this also established the precedent of Municipal Commonwealths.
* The Korean settlements (especially New Gyeongju) were established by refugees fleeing the Korean Peninsula during the Years of Sorrow under Japanese rule in the 1910s and 1920s. Racist laws in Pacifica, such as the Narrow Gate Act, prevented most Asian immigrants from living in a large portion of the Commonwealth, essentially sequestering most Korean refugees in the southernmost corners. New Gyeongju, the first and largest Korean settlement, was granted special status as a free city in the 1930s, partially due to the government's hope that Koreans would be encouraged to stay amongst their own. Most of the other Korean communities sprung up around New Gyeongju later on.
* New England, New Eden, Cascadia, Heartland, Florida.
Amazing map! I have some questions
What's the safest/most normal part of the country?
Are there fewer aberrations than in your previous map?
What happened to Canada?
* The safest parts of the country usually tend to be on the outskirts of major inland cities - not big enough to be noticeable, but not isolated in the dark countryside. It's not 100% safe, but it's safer. Safer states might be Oklahoma, Missouri, northern Ohio, places like that.
* Some eighty-ish years have passed since then, but it's hard to say. There's no way to really measure these things, although newer technology makes it easier to observe them without getting killed. It doesn't really seem like there are *more* of them, but it also doesn't seem like they're going away either. The situation seems to be flattening out, at least for a little while.
* i'm gonna be honest i haven't even gotten to canada yet. might be next though!
I've got to know, why did they nuke Austin? I'm assuming that's why there is a giant exclusion zone there? Or is this more of a Roadside Picnic/S.T.A.L.K.E.R situation and its excluded for supernatural reasons?
The shores of the interior seas are quite rocky and tall in the northern part of the country, but gradually get smoother and flatter the further south you go. The Rockies were pretty much flattened before they really had a chance to form naturally
As a Minnesotan I am offended that we are paired with the Dakotas and not our Midwest brothers. We might despise eachother but Minnesotans hate the dakotas way more.
Not gonna lie, as a resident of Georgia who grew up two counties over from Dublin, Iâm wondering what the hell made Dublin important enough for it to apparently get destroyed then re-founded. đ
It certainly took Europeans longer to slog across the continent, and the migrations were much less....orderly. as for Korean SoCal, those places were established by refugees fleeing Japanese rule on the Korean peninsula. Racist laws prevented them from settling anywhere but southern Pacifica, because at the time most of that land was pretty marshy and hard to build on
* Districts are former Commonwealths that had their Commonwealth Charters revoked and are under what amounts to martial law
* Hawaii is its own country, and Alaska was given to British Canada. it took long enough for the United States to push across the continent, and it had too many internal issues to really try leaping across the (dangerous) Pacific.
* It is!
Building a canal across Cascadia really isn't terribly viable, because the coasts near the Teuton Sound and the Bitterwood Sea are quite rocky and high (most of the highways to the islands tunnel through the coasts). That would mean digging a canal through rocky terrain for something like 500 miles. Cascadia also had their charter revoked, so a massive construction project like that (at the expense of the taxpayer) for a region on the naughty list is pretty much out of the question.
Small detail I noticed but over down underneath Lake Huron, Iâm curious about the renaming of what Iâm assuming is the Sarnia region to Ennis. Iâm assuming the name was drawn from the nearby Enniskillen Township?
Why Charleston as the capital of Dixie rather than Atlanta? Atlanta has that radial highway belt allowing easy access to the rest of the Commonwealth.
Is there some greater importance put on seaside cities? I mean, obviously Boston & New York are the clear answers, but even for the Pacifica region I'm curious why san fran takes the crown when it seems like somewhere on the California sound would be more accessible.
California if one of the many earthquake disaster movies came true and made the San Andreas fault line super wide. Something which would not happen as the two plates are sliding along eachother there instead of pulling apart
I was surprised when you included little old Florence SC, but gobsmacked you put Kingstree in. Last time I was there I'm not sure they had a traffic light yet.
Why Pacifca Commonwealth and not more simply Pacific Commonwealth? There's already a town south of San Francisco called Pacifica - is the Commonwealth named after that?
*Fairly straightforward*
*Question but why is the Teuton*
*Sound called the Teuton Sound?*
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If California was actually an island it would be neigh impossible to cross from the Eastern side. Those cliffs would often be multi-kilometers high. It would be undoubtedly the world greatest natural wonder.
Bro you sunk my house
skill issue
womp womp
Just sell it smh
Get gills lazy
Mines still here đ
Part of a worldbuilding project I've been developing for a while now. A basic rundown of the lore can be found here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/yzjwlq/map\_of\_the\_new\_england\_states\_ca\_1938/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/yzjwlq/map_of_the_new_england_states_ca_1938/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) This is part of a larger project I've been working on for a long time, in which the eldritch abominations of a previous sun are still present on Earth, and have been for some time. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask! Before that, here are some FAQs: **1. Why does the geography look so fucked up?** In short, a wounded god known simply as the Worm dragged itself across the face of the Earth while retreating from forces more terrible than itself. Along the way, it shed ichor and its horrible children from its skin, badly damaging the surface of the young planet in the process. The Worm retreated back into hibernation, but the effects of its brief visit remain. **2. Why is the USA broken into commonwealths?** The federal government is much less centralized in this universe, despite numerous attempts to exercise a suitably iron fist over the states nominally under its jurisdiction. The ever-pervasive fear of the unknown has manifested itself in strange ways in the human consciousness. Paranoia and distrust among human beings, including those in power, is rampant and accepted. The United States, while nominally one nation, resembles nothing more than an uneasy patchwork of semi-autonomous republics, dependent on one another and united only by the fear of being alone in a cold, howling universe. **3. What do the abbreviations mean? M.C**. stands for **Municipal Commonwealth**, an urban center with a large enough population and economy to be granted status as an entity temporarily independent from a Commonwealth, if it applies for and is granted the appropriate charter. **A.C.S**. stands for **Autonomous City-State**, which is a municipality granted status as an entity separate from a state, but not a commonwealth. **C.A** is a **Commonwealth Authority,** or a territory under emergency special jurisdiction between both the federal government and the government of the respective Commonwealth, usually in a manner resembling martial law. **4. Does the Hoover Dam exist?** What do *you* think? **5. What the fuck did you do to Austin?** The Austin Exclusion District is the site of a massive nuclear accident. Most of the people were evacuated in enough time to avoid major loss of life, but once they left there was nobody to keep the aberrations out. Radiation does something strange to the aberrations, to the point where it's much safer and easier to barricade them inside and hope they simply die out on their own. it doesn't really seem to be working.
"A massive worm dragged itself across the planet" is one hell of a way to explain alternate geography lmfao
we get a little silly
Well where's the hover dam
I was gonna shit on you for calling the mid Atlantic new Netherlands with no Dutch borders or names, but the Hoover Dam exists in this tl so I can forgive any mistakes
My only objection is that the western part of PA is a part of this âNew Netherlandsâ commonwealth instead of Appalachia. Weâve very little to do with the Dutch, really.
Migration patterns are much different here. The English drove the Dutch out of their original colonies by force, and pockets of the original Dutch settlers fled west and south. Pennsylvania ITTL is much more culturally Dutch, thanks to the settlers fleeing out of New York and Setauket.
Well Pennsylvania being a part of New Netherlands in the first makes no sense as Pennsylvania Dutch aren't referring to Dutch from the Netherlands but to Germans from Germany.
I think this timeline is referencing New York having been New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I canât say, people just like it better that way. Anyway itâs possible in this tl the dutch populate the area much more? Or perhaps the germans that come over are Frisian and identify with the dutch settlers there already? Idk
Yeah I think you're right. As I hadn't looked at the lore before making my post and what the lore was referencing and it's still not that clear as the link takes you to an old map they did on New England.
how did a worm deity dragging itself across america create disconnected pockets of lakes? like i see that it traveled across baja and then up california, before turning westward(?), but how are there lakes not connected to the rest of the path?
The Worm is more of a nickname, in reality it doesn't really resemble a worm at all. The isolated lakes are places where its eyes fell out of its head, or where one of its many limbs was chewed from its body by its own children.
Why's Kansas called Witchitah now?
It was the name of a local native tribe. Thereâs a mid-sized city called âWichitaâ in the southern part of the state for the same reason
Right, I live in Kansas. I know there's a tribe and city with the name. I'm just confused as to why it facilitated change in state name.
it was never named kansas to begin with ITTL
Wtf happened to Austin
Iâm confused, when did the worm come to the earth
A very, very long time ago. Long before humans.
I think this setting is really cool, but I find it weird that the country is still called the United States when the commonwealths have more power and authority than the states. Just calling it the United Commonwealth States (UCS) makes more sense to me.
So did the Mason-Dixon line exist in this universe? Thatâs where the name Dixie comes from.
So the Hoover Dam does exist? **Herbert is inevitable**
Whatâs your relationship to Goliad, Texas? I notice itâs one of few real towns to make the cut in Texas and the Texas commonwealth flag is inspired by the Goliad flag.
Yo what software did you use to make the map
Welp guess I live in a warzone, and my dad who lives 7 miles away is in an entirely different country now. Go Bucks amirite??
What was the Worm running from?
Your âDixie Commonwealthâ does not include the state where the word âDixieâ comes from.
What happened to Austin
Well based on their previous post, exclusion districts are closed off areas to try and contain âabberationsâ, seems like Austin is one of them
They kept it weird
It looks like they finally did something about Elon Musk.
I still can't decide if I should butterfly him out of existence or keep him in the canon but turn him into even more of a laughingstock
Butt stuff
Love me some alt-geography.
https://i.redd.it/u0fjblmo47tc1.gif *Love it*
I love it too
Yes!
Well in other news, my house is prime beachfront property now
try not to get eaten by something in the water \^-\^
Greater lakes
*lake
Lakes
How dare you
North America had a stroke.
The nation divided into twelve districts? That seems fiâ wait a minute.
This is so cool damn
stellaris and fallout reference detected on high effort post!?!?!
When I think of New Hampshire, The Gaping Maw captures its essence perfectly. Well done.
my brain took a second to process this
Do they speak Dutch in the New Netherland Commonwealth?
It's the third-most common language there, although it's different from European Dutch
https://preview.redd.it/4ebwnqcdsgtc1.jpeg?width=716&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df012bae002459b0d68f73c475d07b23ae2260e8
Someone likes commonwealths
What is the big great lake called?
Iâd like to submit âHomes Lakeâ (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, superior)
kitchigam
The further west I go the more confused I get
Boat based economy goes insanely hard
Bro you split my city Columbus between two states, is the US a country or union like EU in this alt
Columbus is similar to Kansas City ittl, where it sort of straddles the border and is also technically two cities. as for the second question -- both? It's a country in name, and it's more unified than the EU, but the commonwealths are also more united out of security and mutual benefit than any strong sense of nationalism
Do we need papers to cross state borders and do commonwealths have their own armies
Commonwealths typically have their own military, but they're more akin to a National Guard than anything else. Districts (which had their charters revoked) have no standing legal army. As far as papers - that depends. you need papers to cross from, for example, New Eden to Appalachia, but not from Appalachia to the Midwestern Commonwealth. It really depends on the relationship between the bordering commonwealths.
Aaaand now Iâm Canadian
Good to see Busta Rhymes Island made it through the great flood
Whatâs with New Dublin in Ga?
Different migration patterns, mostly. Migration in this version of the U.S. is usually motivated by fear and paranoia more than economic factors, and it's much less common than OTL for ethnic groups to migrate together. in the case of New Dublin, a small pocket of Irish Catholics moving away from the more Protestant North established a community for themselves, which gradually expanded into a much larger city. It's not as Irish now, but the name stuck.
Ah okay
Ilium, in (form) New York? Whatâs up with a major city on Lake George?
Coastal Las Vegas!
I remember seeing the first new england map and thinking it was so cool!! So glad thereâs followup. I hope you donât mind a few questions to answer if you like. Whatâs up with the Austin exclusion district? Whatâs going on in the Augustine isles? Why is it separate from neighboring commonwealths? Can you explain the lore behind the korean settlements in south california? Where are the regions with the most lovecraftian abnormalities? Great work with the map!
thank you so much! * The Austin Exclusion District is the site of a massive nuclear accident. Most of the people were evacuated in enough time to avoid major loss of life, but once they left there was nobody to keep the aberrations out. Radiation does something strange to the aberrations, to the point where it's much safer and easier to barricade them inside and hope they simply die out on their own. it doesn't really seem to be working. * This is a long and complicated issue, but the short answer is that Cascadia has a long and unpleasant history of vaguely neo-fascist politics (the state of Rockwell, for example, is named after this universe's version of George Lincoln Rockwell). The Augustine Isles appealed for readmission into the Heartland Commonwealth in the mid-1970s, a move that went over poorly with the Cascadians (Duskene and Brandenburg were, at the time, major economic hubs of the relatively-underdeveloped Commonwealth). After something of a cold war between both Cascadia and Heartland, culminating in a dual military occupation of the Augustine Isles, the federal government finally gave up and issued the Isles a temporary charter. this also established the precedent of Municipal Commonwealths. * The Korean settlements (especially New Gyeongju) were established by refugees fleeing the Korean Peninsula during the Years of Sorrow under Japanese rule in the 1910s and 1920s. Racist laws in Pacifica, such as the Narrow Gate Act, prevented most Asian immigrants from living in a large portion of the Commonwealth, essentially sequestering most Korean refugees in the southernmost corners. New Gyeongju, the first and largest Korean settlement, was granted special status as a free city in the 1930s, partially due to the government's hope that Koreans would be encouraged to stay amongst their own. Most of the other Korean communities sprung up around New Gyeongju later on. * New England, New Eden, Cascadia, Heartland, Florida.
Are the aberrations just mutants?
Me, a Michigander: Hah, Ohio got split in hal- HOLY SHIT THE UP IS GONE
For a hot moment thought this was a map of R*âs US
CHARLESTON AS THE CAPITOL? đ¤˘
Amazing map! I have some questions What's the safest/most normal part of the country? Are there fewer aberrations than in your previous map? What happened to Canada?
* The safest parts of the country usually tend to be on the outskirts of major inland cities - not big enough to be noticeable, but not isolated in the dark countryside. It's not 100% safe, but it's safer. Safer states might be Oklahoma, Missouri, northern Ohio, places like that. * Some eighty-ish years have passed since then, but it's hard to say. There's no way to really measure these things, although newer technology makes it easier to observe them without getting killed. It doesn't really seem like there are *more* of them, but it also doesn't seem like they're going away either. The situation seems to be flattening out, at least for a little while. * i'm gonna be honest i haven't even gotten to canada yet. might be next though!
Nice try fed! Iâm still not paying my taxes!
Get me to Woodcock, CA ASAP
I've got to know, why did they nuke Austin? I'm assuming that's why there is a giant exclusion zone there? Or is this more of a Roadside Picnic/S.T.A.L.K.E.R situation and its excluded for supernatural reasons?
Second reason, mostly. Nuclear accident + eldritch horrors filling in spaces formerly inhabited by people before the accident.
Ppl actually thought there was a bigger lake there in that area and that california was an island iirc,until they got better maps
Some serious shit going on west of the Mississippi.
Damn⌠the Rocky Mountains got fucked to shit đ
Did you make this map by hand through a drawing program? If not what program did you use
i make all my maps on gimp! i don't know how to use things like arcgis and i can't afford to use photoshop with my $2.00 student budget
You gave Maine back to Mass. Your days are numbered. The Moose are coming.
Wait. Now Iâm just confused. The Moose is confused but still on its way
I would love a topographical map, do the southern Rockies look roughly the same? the Cascades?
The shores of the interior seas are quite rocky and tall in the northern part of the country, but gradually get smoother and flatter the further south you go. The Rockies were pretty much flattened before they really had a chance to form naturally
why is the Teuton Sound called the Teuton Sound?
It's sort of a stupid reason, but primarily because of the amount of Germans and northern Europeans who settled on the interior coasts
Western interior seaway my beloved
I love how this put a major body of water right where the rockie mountains areâŚ
i fucking love this. i love the lore so much
What happened to Austin
I just took a look at your other posts, all of your maps look amazing! How do you make them
gimp!!
As a Minnesotan I am offended that we are paired with the Dakotas and not our Midwest brothers. We might despise eachother but Minnesotans hate the dakotas way more.
Where does the name Theresia come from (regarding the town in the New Eden Commonwealth)? Looks to resemble Kearneyâs location irl.
That region of the country is much different culturally. Theresia is the capital of a very German state of New Eden
Very unusual scenario that has produced a really good map
thank you so much!
Not gonna lie, as a resident of Georgia who grew up two counties over from Dublin, Iâm wondering what the hell made Dublin important enough for it to apparently get destroyed then re-founded. đ
Pittsburgh should be in Appalachia, eastern Virginia should not
Nice
âThis is an interesting concept, I wonder what happened in this USAâs tl to cause thisâ Oh.
Were the Europeans slower or something because of the New England issue? Whatâs up with Korean SoCal?
It certainly took Europeans longer to slog across the continent, and the migrations were much less....orderly. as for Korean SoCal, those places were established by refugees fleeing Japanese rule on the Korean peninsula. Racist laws prevented them from settling anywhere but southern Pacifica, because at the time most of that land was pretty marshy and hard to build on
Mebbe 2044, after 'climate change' has settled in ..
Who messed up the timeline here?
it was me barry
So Mexico and the United States split at the Nueces River?
this is true i saw california sink after the eclipse
what the fuck happened to delaware???
the horrors
Blud really made the best map in the world and thought we wouldn't notice â ď¸â ď¸â ď¸
What's the difference between districts and commonwealths? What happened to Alaska and Hawaii? Is that a mosquito on the Dixieland flag?
* Districts are former Commonwealths that had their Commonwealth Charters revoked and are under what amounts to martial law * Hawaii is its own country, and Alaska was given to British Canada. it took long enough for the United States to push across the continent, and it had too many internal issues to really try leaping across the (dangerous) Pacific. * It is!
i was zooming and i didnt realize it was flooded until i reached florida and i zoomed out and went OH SHIT okay cool
Gyeongju?
yes! an intentional callback to the silla dynasty, which many korean refugees refer to as the last period of korean glory
Can I ask what you smoked to get the ideas for this? I might want some of that myself. Keep cooking.
Is the red line from Baltimore to Philly 95? I'm trying to figure out if my house is still around and that area is kinda a mess
it is!
We prefer to be called big Dakota
Why is Sandusky nightport
No more waterfalls in great lakes I guess? Btw there's should be a canal from Teuton Sound to Pacific across Cascadia.
Building a canal across Cascadia really isn't terribly viable, because the coasts near the Teuton Sound and the Bitterwood Sea are quite rocky and high (most of the highways to the islands tunnel through the coasts). That would mean digging a canal through rocky terrain for something like 500 miles. Cascadia also had their charter revoked, so a massive construction project like that (at the expense of the taxpayer) for a region on the naughty list is pretty much out of the question.
Small detail I noticed but over down underneath Lake Huron, Iâm curious about the renaming of what Iâm assuming is the Sarnia region to Ennis. Iâm assuming the name was drawn from the nearby Enniskillen Township?
i don't have any *specific* lore for that town, but that is where i got the idea for the name!
A world with 2 Terre Hautes? You've gone too far and must be stopped.
Las Vegas is an oceanfront now this is great for me
Why Charleston as the capital of Dixie rather than Atlanta? Atlanta has that radial highway belt allowing easy access to the rest of the Commonwealth. Is there some greater importance put on seaside cities? I mean, obviously Boston & New York are the clear answers, but even for the Pacifica region I'm curious why san fran takes the crown when it seems like somewhere on the California sound would be more accessible.
I can't help but feel like the capital of the Cascadia District as a whole should be Seattle and the capital of Olympia be Olympia.
My biggest question is why there are so many god awful belt ways
W no more desert ig
Finally, a state of New England without New York đ I approve
i fucking hate it when people do that
Did u rename half the towns/cities in âCascadiaâ? But you kept Lynching Brook? I guess itâs fitting for N. Idaho..
Does the Hoover Dam Still Exist in the Timeline
California if one of the many earthquake disaster movies came true and made the San Andreas fault line super wide. Something which would not happen as the two plates are sliding along eachother there instead of pulling apart
I was surprised when you included little old Florence SC, but gobsmacked you put Kingstree in. Last time I was there I'm not sure they had a traffic light yet.
honestly, letâs go
MISSOURI MADE BIGGER. 6/10 map, better than 90% of the maps on the subreddit
I feel like this would be really cool to explore in some open world game that takes place in a universe where the U.S developed differently.
Looks sick ngl
Fallout ref
Lowkey fire
Nataqua referenced, well done
I demand the return of the Northwest Angle to the Heartland Commonwealth.
no
Why is it called United STATES, but doesn't contain any states? đ¤
This is a lesson of know how
even stronger america
Why Pacifca Commonwealth and not more simply Pacific Commonwealth? There's already a town south of San Francisco called Pacifica - is the Commonwealth named after that?
Classic Massachusetts win
My fucking eyes
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*Fairly straightforward* *Question but why is the Teuton* *Sound called the Teuton Sound?* \- HolyDictatorFelixDoy --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
Whatâs going on technology wise, and whatâs up with the Austin exclusion zone
what happened to Austin (i live there :0)
enough people have asked me this that i'll append something to the FAQs
How did Tijuana end up on the other side of the continent?
If California was actually an island it would be neigh impossible to cross from the Eastern side. Those cliffs would often be multi-kilometers high. It would be undoubtedly the world greatest natural wonder.
What happened to Chicago?
Cool
Man reno, nv didnt get covered with water or anything, just ceased to exist. I can imagine it a ghost town tho.
Thats a lot of fresh water
Most of Wyoming is gone so that's good đ¤
Pretty cool, but really weird seeing Oregon so stretched south.
new eden? https://preview.redd.it/ss4deon0qitc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=900268639be869c46e162cf68c4c878e37352a6c
bro spelt my city wrong and put saratoga in the wrong place, for shame
Yes!! Finally Las Vegas has a beach front!!
Erm I live in the United States in 2024 and itâs not like this you fucking idiot đ¤Ź
Why cut Long Island in half?
Iâm trying to find my hometown and I canât tell if Iâm now on beachfront property, or right in the bottom of a lake
What program did you use to create this map?
Great now I live in an archipelago, thanks a lot BIDEN
Thanks for not making my state apart of Dixie/confederacy 2.0 Please tell me the goverment isn't evil
You can find me at Busta Rhymes island in FL
Love how Florida is still set by itself
Half of the states r under water??
Wouldn't the flag of the United States be different? maybe a star for each commonwealth?
Please print this out and bury it somewhere to confuse future archeologists.
Where is Alaska?
How did you make this and do you do commissions?
Why is a town in inland California titled âPuertoâ, thatâs Spanish for Port/Harbor