"I don't care" perfectly describes Missouri.
USA is a lot more like Eurasia. Culturally and borders are wild and divergent.
Plus, as you go west there are fewer big flowing rivers that are tough to cross - making natural borders. In vast flat areas it's easier to just draw a straight line on some random latitude or longitude.Its mostly just timing.
Eastern US developed earlier, transportation was horse-powered or over-river. Borders mostly followed natural features like rivers and population (that developed along rivers).
The western US and australia developed populations later. Trains (and later cars) were the prime modes of transportation, so they were created more square. And when these states were created, there was relatively little population in them at all, so they were larger (some of the western states, especially CA, would probably be multiple states if created today). Most of Australia, outside of its east coast, is still sparsely populated. There's only 25 million in the whole country, and 80% of those live along the east coast.
They honestly did pretty well just coming up with names of states if they've never been here. If you had me do a similar exercise there I think all I could really label would be Sydney(ish) and circle like the entire middle and label it "the outback", oh and the little island nub at the bottom is Tasmania, which I know because of googling the cartoon character as a kid.
Except by the last one he got distracted and almost called it directional Vagina.My favorites are (so far):
- Wibbly Rectangle
- Virginia directional quintuplicate
You mean there are times that they aren't?Awesome. Australian people must be a blast when they are drinking.