Yet Another (Lousy) Panem Map

[deathmallow]

Here's my LOLworthy 15 minute crappy computer-done job showing the locations and relative sizes of the districts I'm using for AFAF geography--I've used principally natural resource considerations in the locations, as well as the few canon clues we have. It's a rough job and the hand-drawn one would be far more precise, but this will give you an

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[sabaceanbabe]

crappy goddamn LJ just ate my long and well-reasoned post! *grr*

Attempt at re-creation:

Your map is very much I how I picture Panem with the exception of 11 and 4. The map in my head has Florida included in 11, while 4 extends farther down the coast of Mexico and up into the high desert of Texas (obviously they don't fish there).

Not only am I saving a copy of your map for future reference, but I'm copying this comment in case LJ is still hungry.

ETA: *kicks LJ again* This comment is better than the previous one anyway.

[deathmallow]

OK, let's see. Hear me out here...

Florida: Assigned it to Four because it has a well-known productive fisheries and lucrative tourism coast. Any crop grown here, including citrus, is also grown in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi (which I did assigned to Eleven.)

Inland Texas: Didn't include it, or any far-inland regions, because I was thinking from the perspective of "How does it profit the Capitol to include this in the district?" (I did this with other districts also--Twelve extends basically just far enough north to enclose the Pennsylvania anthracite mines and no further.) It would basically be needing more Peacekeepers as security and more infrastructure to support far-flung towns in a region that's useless to the district industry. They can just as easily build their processing plants along the coast and tell any survivors in the high desert "Tough shit, don't care this is your home, you're moving to the coast and becoming part of the fisheries district." I do imagine there's plenty of Texan and Mexican heritage in

[jocelyncs]

Another question/consideration/dorktastic ramble: would Nine go so far northwest? That's heading into mountainous (and cold) territory which I doubt would be so good for grain production.

I do vote for you posting all your thoughts on the various districts and the "district center" locations - I take nerdly joy in these theories.

[deathmallow]

That's Manitoba and a little bit of Saskatchewan. The mountains are further west, it's still pretty flat in the area I chose. And those are areas right now that in Canadian agriculture, do grow grain. It's actually pretty surprising in ag where they manage to grow stuff--there's a guy on my rep list growing soybeans up in Maine which is crazy.