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[edit] The map is incorrect

As you can see by the map on Max Barry's official web site [1], the author of the map on this article made several mistakes. I suggest replacing it with a corrected map. -- LGagnon 15:26, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

There are still several problems. Part of South America is marked as green when it shouldn't be, part of Great Britain is the wrong color, a few countries in Europe and the Mid-East are miscolored, a small green island east of Australia isn't even on Barry's map (and is the wrong color), Sri Lanaka is not on the official map, all purple countries are marked as "emerging markets" (which only Africa was in the book), and the word socialist should be in quote marks (whether or not they are socialist countries is never proven). -- LGagnon 20:28, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

That part of South America is Guyane, a DOM of France as is the green dot next to Australia is New Caledonia, which is a pays d'outre-mer. Republic of Ireland and Turkey is politically closer to the “socialist” countries then America, Belarus is politically closer to Russia then the the “socialist” countries and the blue speck is Kaliningrad Oblast, part of Russia. I based the map on the back of book plus some practical geography.159753 28 June 2005 20:11 (UTC)

Real world situations don't apply here. This is a work of fiction, and what the author says goes. The real life standings of countries don't mean anything for this story, as Barry has completely changed the world in his book. For instance, Guyane may be owned by France now, but it is owned by America in his book. And as for countries not on his map, they don't exist for the purpose of this article. Again, you are trying to apply real life to fiction when you can't. -- LGagnon June 30, 2005 12:41 (UTC)

The map on Max Barry's website gives a quite clear explination of what region is what (ie: lumping Africa and the Middle East in the same category contradicts his assertations), I see no need to completely deviate from it, especially to simply add "real world" geography. A 5 color map ("US territories", Europe/China/Cuba, Africa, Middle East, Russia) should suffice, and should follow Barry's layout. -- Anon. August 5th, 2005