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Can you guess what this map is trying to represent?

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.c...92a0d28_o1.jpg

The size of the state corollates to the avg IQ of the country listed in that state. Stupid fucking VietNamese!

Well, it isn't population correlates to state size, because Indonesia would be California then.

I'm thinking it's population of the state is roughly that of the nation whose name is superimposed.

The UK, India, China, and the US are missing. No country repeats. Hmmm.

Hmmm...what makes Russia be in New England...with Greece, Belgium, and Bangladesh?

Canada's population is 33 Million (texas) and Indonesia's population is 234 million (louisiana)

It's not population.

It could be a pictograph, with the surface area of the states representing a static value of some quality of the country in question;
...or it could be that a relationship between some quality of the country and some quality of the state is being represented.

I'd guess its a GDP corellation.

Interesting thought. The Dominican Republic and Belgium are both in New england and are the same size. I would assume that Belgium would be much larger then, but maybe the Dominican Republic has a large agriculture industry?

OK. Dominican Republic is $77 Billion GDP and Belgium is $342 Billion GDP

The CIA world fact book is helpful here.

That the United States, much like the world, is a diverse and wonderful place.

you got it!

it's here is the link

I don't know, but I love that I get to live in Australia!

didn't even know what the hell GDP is

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The total economic output of a region originating from that region's soil. So international output is not considered in GDP. It is included in GNP (Gross National Product).

The giveaway was France in California.

When the US has to declare bankrupcy, this is how the judge will divide up the country.

Actually, I think Saudi Arabia gets the whole thing.

Because California often brags about it's economy and how if it were a country is would be equal to France? Now that I think about it, I'd heard that tidbit a few times before.

At one point, California, were it a country, had the fifth largest GDP in the world.

and Orange county, the eighth.

France/California threw me off. California represents a large GDP, but the French have a 35 hour work week, and are lazy, fun-loving, cheese-eating, wine-drinking, nappy-headed hos who love to get butt-fucked in the mouth (they invented oral sex, you know;) . They CAN'T have a large GDP. I call.

Funny, I was talking to a friend last night. She works for a factory near here that is based in France...hence Frenchie execs etc. (This is in contrast to the tons of Japanese-based companies around here.) Anyway, this company shows no mercy. They will work weeks, even Sundays with no days off, 12 hour days, etc. She said they have said they think Americans are lazy. I'm like WHAT? They're French, they work like 30 hours a week over there. And, they're French! But they think we are lazy if we don't want to work a hundred hours in a week. Puh. Embrasse mon derriere, I say.

True Spexx but you are forgetting about all the MoMoney, MoMoney, MoMoney all dem ho's be bringin' in.

yea but they get the entire month of August off from work, paid, and it dosent take away from their personal vacation days!

Mo money mo problems.
It's like the more money we come across, the more problems we see.

Yes, but I'd rather have a problem say, worrying about the Lexus repair than if I can make rent. ;)

Oh, oh, I've got it. Bush sold the naming rights.

Meh - protesting foreigners is all.
The Americans on average work longer hours than anyone else, with less vacation time and fewer national holidays. And that's generally acknowledged (at least in Britain) as we are always compared with the US rather than the rest of Europe as a way of bashing Brits as well as Yanks.

Unless, of course, you work for the state! :blush: :p I do get unheard of time off, it's a huge plus for my job. But factories? You can't be a minute late, you can't take time off, easily. Sometimes they make you take your vacation week when the plant is on shutdown, so your whole life and family has to be worked around it. I've been trying to get this girl to come back to school, so she has better options!

Interesting factoid (the map). Hardly useful.

Yet another ego boost for all of us:p

Can I tell people I am Finnish, now?

The French are a non-working group. I don't know many people who work only a 30 hour work week. Sarkozy is going to give them a wake-up call.