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The world board, 2126 World map in pixel art. Each colour is a corporate state (ESTEMP); the sea belongs to Thalassa Corp. Small numbered squares are the twenty REGESTs; a skull marks the flooded Djibouti Triangle and a rocket marks Alcântara. To orbit · First Asteroid, 2046 1 · Brazil — Federal District (Brasília) 1 2 · United States — The Great Plains, over the spent Ogallala Aquifer 2 3 · Mexico — Mexico City, sinking and dry 3 4 · Canada — The Canadian Shield, burnt forest 4 5 · China — The Loess Plateau, eroded land 5 6 · Japan — Inland Tōhoku, empty villages 6 7 · South Korea — Gangwon, against the demilitarised zone 7 8 · India — The Thar Desert 8 9 · Indonesia — North Jakarta, below sea level 9 10 · Australia — The arid interior, around Alice Springs 10 11 · Germany — Lusatia, craters of old lignite mines 12 · United Kingdom — The Fens, flooded 13 · France — The empty diagonal, in the Massif Central 14 · Italy — Basilicata, the inland south 15 · Spain — Emptied Spain, around Soria 16 · Netherlands — The polders Thalassa has not flooded yet 17 · Switzerland — Valais, valleys without glaciers 18 · Russia — Kalmykia, steppe turning to desert 18 19 · Saudi Arabia — The edge of the Rub' al-Khali 19 20 · Türkiye — The Konya basin, ground sinking over a dry aquifer 20 WESTERN EUROPE ×2 11 · Germany — Lusatia, craters of old lignite mines 11 12 · United Kingdom — The Fens, flooded 12 13 · France — The empty diagonal, in the Massif Central 13 14 · Italy — Basilicata, the inland south 14 15 · Spain — Emptied Spain, around Soria 15 16 · Netherlands — The polders Thalassa has not flooded yet 16 17 · Switzerland — Valais, valleys without glaciers 17 Gulf of the Dismissal (2111) Alcântara · First Corporate War OmniTerra 38 Kuro-Tech 31 Aegis-Med 24 Petro-Vanguard 22 Severa Combine 12 Monsoon Workforce 18 Great Rift Holdings 14 Sahel Solar Trust 10 Thalassa Corp 30 THE BOARD · 2126

Each colour is a corporate state. The sea belongs to Thalassa Corp, whose red pieces sit in every ocean. Numbered squares are the REGESTs (Western Europe is enlarged in the corner). Hover a REGEST to see its name. On a phone, drag the map sideways.