The Imaginary Cartography of Japan's America

Plied with enough sake to stagger the most gastropoidal salary man, what does the average Japanese remember about the geography of America? The map above is from a little known game for the Sega Saturn called Tengai Makyou: Daishi no Mokushiroku, a series apparently famed for its historical parody. I want to live in drunken […]

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Plied with enough sake to stagger the most gastropoidal salary man, what does the average Japanese remember about the geography of America? The map above is from a little known game for the Sega Saturn called Tengai Makyou: Daishi no Mokushiroku, a series apparently famed for its historical parody.

I want to live in drunken Japan's America, where New York is poised like a modern-day Atlantis right below coastal Detroit, Canada has been utterly submerged and Alaska floats like an icy Xanadu far to the polar north.

These Not So United States [Yukihime] (via Neatorama)