The World At A Glance

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The World at a Glance

Third rock from the Sun. We call it home. It's a great, big world out there. Lots of interesting people, cultures, landscapes, seascapes, sunsets, moonrises, night skies, forests, animals, and man-made stuff to see.

Diameter:                   ~25,000 miles
Axial tilt:                 23 1/2 degrees
Bulges at middle:           slightly
Moons (natural):            1
Moons (artificial):         many small ones
Atmosphere:                 normal for size, too many noxious gasses
Surface:                    75% water
Polar caps:                 yes
Electromagnetic radiation:  quite a bit
Plant species:              too many to count
Animal species:             too many to count
Intelligent life:           debatable

Continents at a Glance

Continents are huge land masses. According to classical geography, they are surrounded by water like humongous islands, but in fact they may be sourrounded by water, land, ice, and armies. For instance, Europe and Asia are clearly one continent, but are considered as two continents for purposes of League Football.

Continent	Capital
Africa	London
Antarctica	Ice Station Zebra
Asia	<none>
Australia	Wellington
Europe	Brussels
North America	Tokyo
South America	Miami

Countries at a Glance

Countries are political divisions of land masses (usually continents but sometimes islands or undersea coral ridges). Countries may have natural boundaries such as rivers or mountains, man-made boundaries such as painted black lines, fences and mine fields, or unnatural boundaries, such as murderous differences between warring, peaceful, religious factions. (Ed. note - such boundaries may also occur inside a country, leading to states, provinces, civil war, and other forms of entertainment.)

Belgium	France	USA	UK

States / Provinces / etc. at a Glance

States, provinces and the like, are typically subdivisions or countries. They typically have a form of government, whose primary purpose seems to be a sort of low-level, usually non-lethal warfare with the national (or federal) government (I.E., that of the country).

Boundaries are determined in a manner similar to those of countries - randomly.

California	Georgia	New York	Ohio	Texas

Cities / Towns / etc. at a Glance

Cities, towns, and related terms refer to aggregations of humans living together in a common locale, sometimes harmoniously. The smaller ones often have reasonable forms of self-government, but at some point yet undiscovered, a critical mass of some sort is hit, and the government begins to bloat enormously, just as it does in states and nations. Eventually it evolves into a deadly life form concerned only with its own existence. Like a rabid fish (sic) it will eat everything in the vicinity, including its citizens.

Cleveland, OH	Los Angeles, CA	Mt. Vernon, OH	San Jose, CA
Utica, NY

Other Stuff at a Glance

These are purely geographical entities. As such, they do not form governments, fight wars, murder, rape, beam television signals into homes, or commit any of the other insane acts of human civilization.

Deserts	Ice	Islands	Mountains	Oceans

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