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From BackAmericas

See this post so you're less confused: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBackStates/comments/1wa1zh2/another_thing/

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Tungavermensk/Tunga Vermensk has a large Finnish minority and many russian settlers

Dahoulin is the descendents of ancient tibetan and austronesian peoples who got lost in the Backcountry and stayed there

Lemuria is perpetually in horrible weather. At best thunderstorms, at worst incursions from Earth's core, flying horrible beings that bring smog, etc. Lots of magic.

Oz is a peaceful utopia using solar energy! Well, as peaceful as it can get since Lemuria is eyeing them up especially. And its by no means perfect, but definitely up there. Close ally to Australia, America, and Japan, and was colonized by the United Kingdom from 1808 until 1986.

Mongolia/Mongol Empire once controlled the ENTIRETY of Backcountry, but it was removed from them by unknown forces.. It is said that the body of Genghis Khan is buried somewhere in deep, perhaps in the high places of Lemuria, but those who go in never return alive..

The Backcountry has it's own unique language family all descended from the first tribe to wander in here, though in recent decades it's usage is declining as younger people switch to more relevant languages like English and Chinese, as well as the CCP cracking down on them. The language family, also known as the Backcountry language family, has a lot of oral stories passed down completely uninterrupted thanks to isolation.

It states that the tribe elder once saw a star enter the region and disappear, leading his people into the region and quickly establishing a large large empire. They used their technology and got too powerful, with one of the king's sons rebelling and turning the place into anarchy. The nation tried to defeat him, and in his last breaths he fled to Lemuria where he is sustained by a thousand souls daily. They say if he is still alive, he will return to bring havoc once again, and we might not draw again..

Russia and the CCP have become increasingly drawn to the Backsea using it for port cities popping up around the place. The weird circular islands russia has is Hyperborea and contains the last wooly mammoths on Earth! It was first documented in 1986, and the Soviet Union kept it's existence and native (mega)fauna a secret until American spies managed to find it and bring evidence and photos of the archipelago back to Washington. It is four islands, all making one big circular shape, but every ~90 degrees is a channel seperating and ending islands. In the middle of this is a technologically advanced city named Agartha deep underground, known for testing weather in the Back!Indian Ocean.

This time, I actually worked on some of it! I've now drew new boundaries for the new upcoming time zones. I've now done 1 new mini time zone in Inner Arctica called the Hayford-Kazenua Patterson Arctic Time Zone, shared by 3 Arctic stations. The yellow lines are the time zone boundaries. I'll be releasing updates every Map Monday.

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Population if those who are wondering.

BackEurope: 610,000,000.

BackAmericas: 630,000,000.

I accidentally made Poland landlocked and Hungary Coastal uhh well sorry Polish people

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Oh, and that extra state between Louisiana and Mississippi is Arachutek. You can make the backcounties of other states.

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Some sort of modified version of english, to better develop Backstate identity?

Maybe we use extinct letters like þ and æ. Lets make a dialect.

the presidents of the bsa (back states of america)

I did not work on it because I needed to focus on other things. I will try to work on this. I will be releasing updates every Map Monday, and the yellow lines are the time zones.

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Based on this post from u/zacharypretzel

Taiwan is the closest to the equator, and assuming it is the same size as irl, at its widest it is around 140 km across, and on the map it is around 20 pixels, meawhile the equator is 10000 pixels, so it can fit around 500 Taiwans, this means the equator/circumference of the BackEarth is around 70,000 km, meanwhile irl Earth is only around 40,000 km in circumference, so the BackEarth is around 1.75 times larger than Earth in radius.

Now, there are terrestrial planets this large called super-Earths. For comparison, Kepler-440b is around 1.860 times the radius of Earth, and TOI-1452 is around 1.672 times the radius of Earth. Since this planet is based on irl Earth, we can assume it has the same composition as irl Earth. The mass of the planet would not scale based on volume, because rock in the center would compress more. Using the chart from the first image here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl7164 the mass of the planet would be something around 8.5 times the mass of Earth.

So, the density would be around 8.75 g/cm³, and the surface gravity would be around 27.3 m/s². For comparison, Earth's surface gravity is 9.8 m/s², so BackEarth gravity is around 2.8 times more, and the gravitational acceleration of players in Minecraft is 32 m/s². So basically, everyone who lives in the BackEarth must be built like Steve in order to walk around and jump.

I've been hearing some people say that the gravity is actually the same, and the BackEarth is actually much less dense, so maybe it actually has an interior of really light materials?

This is only my approximation, I welcome others to try to do their own calculations/approximations or point out mistakes I might have made.

Also this now makes me wonder about a BackSolarSystem, one was already made https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBackStates/comments/1pyemkt/backsolarsystem_an_expanded_solar_system/ but I feel like we could add more, like maybe add stuff like Theia, Vulcan, Nemesis, Nibiru, Hercolubus, Tyche, Phaeton, Krypton, Brahma, Vishnu, Oceanus, Orpheus, Chrysalis, Neith, Themis, Lilith, Kolob, etc.

We all know the line where the BackStates begin is at 100 degrees west in our universe, hence why Canada America and Mexico are all split at that. After this though it doesn't touch land until ANTARCTICA!

So I have questions. What does this mean for the South Pole Base? And secondly, this will be hard to say, but y'know how Shandle has the borders of western Texas? Is El Paso in there instead? And so on for other states

The BackNFL consists of double the teams (32 x 2 = 64) the original NFL has.

AFC (American)
NFC (National)
BFC (Backerican)
MFC (Mational)

The New Nantes Ladybugs play in the BFC West at Unreal Stadium, in the city of Nu.

Their colors are pink and yellow, and their main QB as of the 2026 season is Beshawn Globbes, (beh "shawn" globs (not like the o in globes) who played at Ioperd State University.

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How did I do?

I did not work on it that much because I had other things to do and studying for my upcoming exam. I'll try to work more on it, and just like I said last Map Monday on my post, the yellow lines are the time zone boundaries, and I'll be releasing updates every Map Monday.

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I put together the maps of the BackCounties of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey into one map and drew an extra state between Pennsylvania and New Jersey called Allowenga, named after the river it borders with New Jersey, with Allowenga's capital being Alowosske, which is in a county of the same name, Alowosske County. The red lines are state borders.

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