Brandenburgia

[swamphen]

[P3D]

Could you put a scale to the map?

[swamphen]

Er...

Aside from scaling from the Known Size of Tasmania, I don't think that's really possible...I just took the World Map, cropped that out and blew it up to 671px height.

[Walter]

Well, the Melbourne-Sidney Distance is about 710 kilometers... at least I think it's kilometers. My Google Earth is currently spitting out everything in Japanese.

I just took the World Map, cropped that out and blew it up to 671px height.

Oh great! First you blow up your ships and now you have decided to blow up your nation. ;D

BTW, what's the '4' on the map? (North of Owenga)

[Borys]

Ahoj!
New Zealand is some 270,000 square kilometres. Let's give the DKB one third of the population density of the Netherlands, or 2/3rds of the UK, and they can fit those 40M people into that territory.
Using Dutch figures, New Zealand should have 100M people, UK figures - 60M. If somebody complains about mountains - Switzerland density gives New Zealand 100M, Austrian - c.30M ....

Maybe revert to OTL landmass?

Borys

[swamphen]

BTW, what's the '4' on the map? (North of Owenga)

I was originally going to have some of the other islands numbered, with names down in the right-hand corner with 1-3. When I changed it that one slipped through the cracks.

Ahoj!
New Zealand is some 270,000 square kilometres. Let's give the DKB one third of the population density of the Netherlands, or 2/3rds of the UK, and they can fit those 40M people into that territory.
Using Dutch figures, New Zealand should have 100M people, UK figures - 60M. If somebody complains about mountains - Switzerland density gives New Zealand 100M, Austrian - c.30M ....

Maybe revert to OTL landmass?

I'd really prefer not to...

Population density: it is likely heavy along the coasts, and along the Neue Dusseldorf-Seydlitzberg (Auckland-Wellington) spine, but otherwise the interior is very pastoral and agricultural.

[Borys]

Population density: it is likely heavy along the coasts, and along the Neue Dusseldorf-Seydlitzberg (Auckland-Wellington) spine, but otherwise the interior is very pastoral and agricultural.

Just like Switzerland  ...

And New Zealand has 2/3rds of the land surface of Japan, a mountainous country.  Japan had 49M in 1907 ...

Borys

[swamphen]

Well I can live with it either way - but (a) I don't think we should make geographic changes mid-stream and (b) one of the main reasons I stuck with the DKB in Nv3.0, instead of trading it in on something with more economic muscle as was my original thought for the reboot, was the spiffy new landmass.  :)

[Borys]

You keep the muscle on a smaller frame?
:)
Borys

[swamphen]

Well the points still apply, but if there's a consensus to handvavium away Brandenburgia's flab I won't raise a stink over it.  ;)

(Provided it doesn't raise the Resources Question that caused Brandenburg's geographic relocation between Nv2 and Nv3 in the first place.)

[Borys]

Ahoj!
I'll go with the mainstream here.
Borys

[P3D]

Well, we can me Brandenburg somewhat bigger than NZL without all that land mass.

[swamphen]

Given Brandenburg's "history", a Lot of Empty Space might be logical; i.e. a former colony that became Imperial HQ after a revolution back in the homeland...one might expect the population to be lower than you might think given the land area.

[swamphen]

..have been added to the map at the top of the thread.

Note that minor lines and 600mm (Field) gauge lines are not shown.

[Walter]

I was originally going to have some of the other islands numbered, with names down in the right-hand corner with 1-3. When I changed it that one slipped through the cracks.

I see...

4 - Freedonia. ;D