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Buffer states

There would surely be need for a buffer utilising the Ural Mountains and Volga River, for the same reasons that the Rocky Mountain States exist. (Perhaps Volga-Uralia would be ruled by some minor Russian royal puppet, recruited from the ranks of "White Russian" exiles.)

In particular, I don't accept the very large RMS shown here is logical or consistent with PKD's vision. The the explanation at www.high-castle-world-map.com doesn't really help much: The role of the Rocky Mountain States is that of a buffer state inbetween territories which are controlled by Nazi Germany and Japan. They could not fulfil this role if Germany would be able to send troops through the territory of the allied CSA all the way west to the PSA border. Therefore Texas and the more western states must belong to the RMS to keep both sides apart from each other.

On the contrary, as a buffer, the RMS is clearly a minimal concession by the nuclear-armed Nazis to the Japanese, using only mountain/desert areas less viable for crop-growing etc. Real world Nazi practice in Europe also suggests that they would impose a RMS without great regard for the traditional national or state borders. Hence it might even be restricted to Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Western Montana and the Canadian Rockies (Eastern BC).

The Nazis would foster good relations with the quasi-puppet CSA by giving it Texas at least. That way the CSA still doesn't border the PSA or "threaten" the Japanese.

106.68.124.51 (talk) 07:28, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Mediterranean Sea

What happened to the Mediterranean Sea on this map?

1.126.106.218 (talk) 17:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)