Definitely i think rivers/waterways and farming land would be a bigger factor in how the lines were drawn up. Some regions are going to want to control water heavily, it's absolutely going to become a much bigger importance in a couple decades with how our climate is shifting. Right now the west cost is in a massive fucking drought and there is no way they could continue the way it is now without maintaining control of where their water comes from
From a simulation perspective, going down to county borders (Crusader Kings style) would probably be a feasible amount of granularity. Getting county maps and populations would be more time consuming than difficult, and county-level tax revenue figures might not be too much to add on top of this.
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Definitely i think rivers/waterways and farming land would be a bigger factor in how the lines were drawn up. Some regions are going to want to control water heavily, it's absolutely going to become a much bigger importance in a couple decades with how our climate is shifting. Right now the west cost is in a massive fucking drought and there is no way they could continue the way it is now without maintaining control of where their water comes from
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From a simulation perspective, going down to county borders (Crusader Kings style) would probably be a feasible amount of granularity. Getting county maps and populations would be more time consuming than difficult, and county-level tax revenue figures might not be too much to add on top of this.
Yeah no way Missouri wouldn't split in half, they did during the civil war.