Im not trying to sound disgusting but NOrway and sweden are shaped like penises.....

i came across that recently on stumble... it's great.

That's how I came across it as well...Stumble!

@tilMletokill I love how out of everything on that map you focus in on that fact.

Hell yea I mean uhhhhh Nigga you gay!

Awesemness

All that stands out to me are the political inaccuracies. I mean the time frame more than anything, but there are other issues..

Very cool.
What's the deal with "Darwinist" and "Clanker" though?

Here are quite a few other maps made back in the day when it was considered 'cool' to picture countries shaped like their racial stereotypes: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/08/dogs-of-war.html

.....Awesome!!!

I couldnt be arsed to take the non- essential bits out but the 'Clanker' and 'Darwinist' bits are as described on the site

The Clanker Powers:

Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much as a sign of direct aggression, but more as an indicator that it was now Germany’s turn to start a grand global Empire to challenge the world’s current one.

Austria Hungary is an aggressive armoured giant, teetering on shoddy foundations. It is also the primary aggressor in a land grab against Serbia, with two bayonets piercing the border.

The Ottoman empire is a teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses.

The Swiss watch ticks away the time, comfortable to wait it all out.

The Darwinist Powers:

Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire.

France’s elephant beast (wearing the French kepi they started the war with before adapting their firefighter helmets) is influenced by the Elephantine Collossus built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris (later it ended up going to the Moulin Rouge.)

Russia is a huge imperialist bear, rotting and filled with maggots.

Serbia’s imagery is an indicator of the huge amounts of civilian deaths and suffering they’ll find themselves subject to.

Norway and Sweden are both Scandinavian trolls in the style of John Bauer, an inspirational illustrator from the era who produced a lot of phenomenal work during the war.

Portugal is a parrot for the Entente trying to goad a slumbering Spain into the war.

Ireland looks askance to Britain and brandishes a shillelagh. An indicator of their very rough relationship at the time, and of their upcoming involvement with the Central powers.

Italy is a clutch of snakes with intents on the Central powers despite existing agreements. A foreshadowing of their arrangements at the secret 1915 Treaty of London where they were promised land in exchange for involvement. It was heavily influenced by Italian Prime Minister, Antonio Salandra’s open policy of serving Italy’s "divine self-interest."

I read that stuff, and did some searching on the website.
Apparently its for a new book by Scott Westerfeld called Leviathan, a steampunk WW1 novel.
So I guess the map is almost literal.

steampunk?

Ha ha, I just noticed they let 'Entente' slip with the Portuguese parrot.

Racial stereotypes? Where?

Nice knee-jerk PC.

@JECE: Steampunk is a genre of novels in which steam-powered technology is the predominant one. It explores what would have happened if steam energy technologies were enhanced instead of the shift to fossil fuels and other forms of energy. Thus you get things like steam powered castles and flying machines and computers in some instances.

Steampunk is like cyberpunk in the 19th century.

So sort of like http://www.ifelix.co.uk/space1889.html?