Its a Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection map

Looks like its actually a hao proyection map

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Isn't the etymology for China something like "middle kingdom"? Like, ancient China literally thought they were in the center of the world. So did the Romans and pretty much any other civilization, too.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        We as a collective also thought our world was the center of the universe and solar system too lmao

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          From an administration point of view it makes perfect sense. I think all the superiority shit is just a happy coincidence for supremacists

      • huf [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        IIRC a better translation is "central state".

        like if the US called their own state "The Government" in official communication.

    • booty [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The center of our world map is the Atlantic Ocean because we are secretly being ruled by the fishmen in Atlantis