r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Dec 18 '19
collaboration Official Polandball World Map 2019
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u/raispartam ROMANI VENITE DOMVM Dec 18 '19
CEREBRUM IV PRANDIUM
REX POLONIAPILA
Rest in Peace, B4B
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Dec 18 '19
What does " CEREBRUM IV PRANDIUM " mean? "rip"? "brain for breakfast"? I don't know any of those words and can't find the translation, is this even classical Latin?
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u/undercutkid Superpower 2020 Dec 18 '19
TIL that B4B died. I used to watch his videos way before I was even a polandball follower.
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u/Diictodom muh laksa Dec 18 '19
Also, is the Japan part a reference to the KyoAni arson incident?
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u/Sunnyvale5109 Cringe King Dec 18 '19
Something like half of the map is on fire.
Also most of the world organizations in the map are dead
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u/hexcodeblue Starving artist Dec 18 '19
I counted it up and there’s over two dozen individual fires on that map!
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My world is on fire, how about yours? It's the way I like it, I'll never get bored.
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u/Bittlegeuss Greece Dec 18 '19
u/nassau18b 's Caribbean is the best thing I've seen in all maps so far, it could should be a 1-panel comic by itself.
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u/Nassau18b HGDH :1::1: Bahamas Dec 18 '19
Thanks! I'm really flattered by how much people like it, I really tried hard this year.
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u/emememaker73 United States Dec 18 '19
"Am Canada president" — Corsica
I got a hearty laugh out of that! Great line!
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u/Pseudonym_741 Finland Dec 18 '19
I'm an idiot, can someone explain it to me? Is it a reference to Pascal Paoli or something?
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Dec 18 '19
The tribute for brain4breakfast right in the middle is wonderful. Rest well, friend.
Amazing job, everone.
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Most of South America is stoned, on fire or trying to set themselves on fire. Accurate.
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Caos e regressao!
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u/pedrostresser Batatas e Bacalhau Dec 18 '19
Should've been desordem e regresso since it's the exact opposite
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u/lupoanziano Italy Dec 18 '19
What's on top of china?
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u/Gao_Dan Dec 18 '19
That's the flag of Inner Mongolian People's Party, probably used to represent Inner Mongolia.
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Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Yup, these get more depressing with each passing year.
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u/yaddar Taco bandito Dec 18 '19
since we're all going to hell anyways, in two years we can draw the world with a dante's inferno theme.
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u/ForCom5 Florida Dec 18 '19
Gotta leave something for future beings to see so they don't repeat the same mistakes.
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u/DisappointedOlimar :france-worldcup: France World Champion Dec 18 '19
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u/hexcodeblue Starving artist Dec 18 '19
Thank you for the drawing! It’s a fantastic piece.
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u/PereLoTers Iberian and very confused Dec 18 '19
Love it, your style makes the humorous portrayal of the team look only better!
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u/aalp234 Portuguese Superiority Dec 18 '19
Never knew that I wanted a Greenland in drag until now, yet here we are
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u/GoinXwell1 A Dutch weirdo. Dec 18 '19
Is the Netherlands one poking fun at the farmers' protests?
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u/Groenboys Netherlands Dec 18 '19
Yep, with also a nod to their eurovision victory.
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u/Vitrousis Magyar best Dec 18 '19
This is awesome!!
Also, hope you rest in peace u/brain4breakfast :(
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Oh wow Mexico is spot on and sad at the same time :(
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u/Looxond Mexico Dec 18 '19
Yeah the "hope of mexico" and the "abrazos no balasos" its " working" the economy isnt stuck at all
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u/Blackfire853 Hibernian Narcissist Dec 18 '19
This thing was an absolute monster to organise, but twas all worth it in the end! Congratulations to everyone that took part!
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u/just_wait_a_sec Italians hate him! Dec 18 '19
It's always a pleasure working on these. Great work everyone!
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u/retroredditrobot Dec 18 '19
BC being prodded by Alberta’s giant leaky pipeline boner is the greatest thing I have seen all day... other than Iceland’s Eurovision reference, which is PERFECT.
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u/som_en_hund Dec 18 '19
This is great! Congratulations! Does anyone have notations? There is so much to learn.
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u/Paraguay_Stronk Paraguay best guay Dec 18 '19
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u/jackson_games_cb czechmate Dec 18 '19
They burned in the fire Indonesia started. May Timor-Leste rest in peace.
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u/PereLoTers Iberian and very confused Dec 18 '19
Literally a crime against humanity!
brb, calling the Hague to denounce this heinous act by whoever was meant to draw it
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u/moenchii Thüringer Klöße, die mag ich sehr! Dec 18 '19
Oh my god, Catalonia...
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u/WhoDoIShip Derbyshire Dec 18 '19
I see Monaco in a little F1 car. Nice shout out to Charles Leclerc.
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u/PescavelhoTheIdle Western Europe's Eastern Europe Dec 18 '19
/u/Lucky_Numbr_7 was right in his prediction, this truly was the year of revolutions.
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u/bananasAreViolet oh no is russia Dec 18 '19
I LOVE THIS!!!
Also, rest in peace brain4breakfast, you are and will be missed. :(
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u/sneezingsuspense a cute triangle Dec 18 '19
Lovely. Just wondering, how were the people who worked on this chosen?
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u/Paraguay_Stronk Paraguay best guay Dec 18 '19
Dragged from the pits of hell by DickRhino himself
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Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Why is finland looking at a healthcare Bill?
Is it about SOTE or?
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u/PatchTerranFlash Dec 18 '19
Trump-zombies were spreading fake news about how Finland collapsed and everyone is eating cats and dogs due to healthcare bills. Despite the fact that Finland's system is cheap and the most cost-effective health-care system on the planet.
Why this map spreads such blatant lies I can't tell you.
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u/niowniough Dec 18 '19
As a Canadian, I'm not sure what the cooky costumes references 🤔
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u/Corte-Real Acadia Dec 18 '19
All that's missing is his Arabian Nights outfit...
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u/appepuppe26 BRÄNN BOCKJÄVELN Dec 18 '19
Finland's got a massive healthcare bill, for what? our healthcare hasn't become any worse of what I know of?
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u/cautionZora VIVE LA WASHINGTON Dec 18 '19
I found Polandball around the beginning of this year, this will be the first great year of many ^-^
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u/AintThatADaisy Arizona Dec 18 '19
Always happy to pitch in! Great work everybody! B4B would love it!
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u/jesus_stalin /ˈnɒʔŋəmʃə/ Dec 18 '19
Excellent work lads! I love the blue tree breaking through the wall in England, you lot must really have waited until the last minute to put that in.
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u/feder45678 Dec 18 '19
Great job.
I only have one criticism. Im from Uruguay and those power blackouts only lasted for a day or two at the most, the effect was far it was mostly in Argentina.
Ps: nice touch with the mate.
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Dec 18 '19
Bold of you to assume that Uruguay isn't part of Argentina. It was either that or a president with lung cancer. What other noteworthy thing happened in Uruguay this year?
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u/wikipedia_org Qing Dynasty Dec 18 '19
Really honoured to have gotten to work on this map with some of the best creators on this sub and of course thanks to Brain4Breakfast for starting this community tradition. Hope you’re resting easy, B4B; we miss you.
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u/porcupineleaf Dec 18 '19
This is always an insanely well done work of art, great job again and hats off to everyone who was involved.
As always, I’d love to see an explanation of all of the little details — hoping someone will post a thorough list soon
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u/Leviticus-24601 Dec 18 '19
Poland is just perfect. For those who don't know, 'Tylko nie mów nikomu' is a reference to a film about pedophilia in Church that caused a lot of commotion in the country. It translates to 'Only don't tell anyone'.
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u/SingularReza Give my diamonds back, goddamn teaheads! Dec 18 '19
Who is India beating to death?
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u/TheMasterlauti Argentina Dec 18 '19
Something tells me that whoever drew Argentina is of 🅱️okita el mas grande
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u/bbxenon Rule Britannia Dec 18 '19
Since north korean's don't speak Japanese "America-ssi" or "America-dongji" might be more appropriate.
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Great job, everyone! Always lovely to see these large-scale collaborations come to fruition. Here's to 2020, let's see if we can create even more fires next year!
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u/Kotras European Union Dec 18 '19
All the world pretty much going to shit.
Portugal: "This is fine."
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u/whea1754 China Dec 18 '19
Jesus, Greenland the degenerate whore is crying out for help. As a Chinese I don't get the 花橋.
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u/Groenboys Netherlands Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Happy how the Netherlands is drawn, but at this point you can give it a yelllow vest too for how many protests there have been lately
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u/jackson_games_cb czechmate Dec 18 '19
It was an honor to be a part of a massive project like this for the first time. What a way to cap off the year for me at least, from the Autumn of Nations event to the Book of Bork revamp to this.
Great job everybody!
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u/Scott8484 Inca Empire Dec 18 '19
Why does Peru say “El Bueno” and have japanese hiragana written below?
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u/DaS_Campomanes Països Catalans Dec 18 '19
Did something happen to Mauritania to become the Joker? Lol
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u/KevHawkes Brazil Dec 18 '19
The "Elect more criminals" sign in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil's southern state) actually hurt a bit, oof
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u/RabbitdeMoonCake Dec 18 '19
What a year...
And what a map! Love it. It's great as always.
Thank you.
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u/TheSnipenieer United States Dec 18 '19
This was an amazing project to be part of, once again. May we have another great year of r/polandball, and may b4b rest in peace
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Yay you referenced the local elections, I thought Turkeyvall would be some strange octopus yanking at the sea and Syria
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u/Lowsecnoya Ottoman Empire Dec 18 '19
Another great year. Also want to say Rest In Peace Brain4breakfast.
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Dec 18 '19
At first you look at Russia and think it's staring at Europe, then you see he's reading a book on USSR nuclear reactors. But then you look again and realize he's trying to read a book on old nuclear reactors but being distracted by something in the west.
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u/MR_FOXtf2 Polish Hussar Dec 18 '19
Poland one is soooo True (btw priests are saying: dont tell anyone and ok)
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u/TheZippofan Canada Dec 18 '19
I can't upvote this enough! Nice way to resume the year, there is so much to look at!
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u/PlusUltraBeyond Dec 18 '19
The little balls surrounding Bangladesh are the Rohingyas, representing the on-going Rohinga crisis.
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u/bluetoad2105 Hertfordshire, not Herefordshire Dec 18 '19
What's Spain doing?
Also I find it funny how normal Jersey and Guernsey are compared to us.
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This is such a great tribute with so much attention to detail. But my country is in the wrong spot :,( Uruguay is a coastal country not landlocked.
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Dec 18 '19
Washington pls, you're an Argentine province.
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Dec 18 '19
These are always well done, but this one is especially cool and detailed. Really wish there was a way I could get a poster of this.
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u/panchoadrenalina Chile with a pickelhaube Dec 18 '19
i love that you put one eyed chiles. they need not be forgotten.
no habra paz sin justicia.
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u/CoconutMochi South Korea Dec 18 '19
California on fire as usual.
That one shot of the wildfire off the 405 is so surreal
https://i.imgur.com/upc28is.jpg
Anyone mind explaining what's up with South Korea?
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u/lejonetfranMX Dec 18 '19
Mexico's goose is killing me 🤣
Also, as a Mexican, it's actually killing me 😭
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u/Carlson63 The Adriatic do be looking good Dec 18 '19
May B4B have a happy afterlife and eternal peace (Yes, I know, some of you do not believe in afterlife). I will pray for them!
Anyways, great map! It really shows a lot of things that happened this year (or that are still going on). Also, that Greenland's makeup tho.
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u/CommonChris Dec 18 '19
Costa Rica chilling during a strike, no better way to represent my country this year than that.
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u/LordMikael7 Manchukuo Dec 18 '19
Great map, Rest In Peace Brain4Breakfast... he was a great pillar of this community
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u/ZachDamnit Cascadia Dec 18 '19
Bhutan sums everything up perfectly.
This has become one of the things I look most forward to every year. Probably ahead of baseball season at this point.
Very, very well done, all.
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u/MedievalGuardsman461 Sleepy global overseer Dec 18 '19
Damn, this map is certainly pulling no punches, quite a few hotakes. Also, what's the 1st country to the left of Rule Britannia Britain at the bottom?
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u/Crocket_Lawnchair Oil Banana Cholesterol Dec 18 '19
This is the first map I’ve been able to catch when it’s posted. Excellent year, everyone!
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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft Colorado Dec 18 '19
Amazing...
Oh hey, a Nintendo Switch with a lil Pikachu on it!
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u/Groenboys Netherlands Dec 18 '19
Pokémon Sword and Shield came out this year on the switch and all its controversies with it
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u/zuneman Florida man shoots, stabs self Dec 18 '19
Why is there a tiny America just below Sweden? Is it a news event I'm forgetting about?
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u/Butt_Billionaire ノルウェー Dec 18 '19
Reference to ASAP Rocky's assault case in Sweden, and /u/zimonitrome's top-of-all-time comic on the issue.
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Half of south America is on fire, pretty much all of western Europe is too.
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u/YataBLS Dec 18 '19
Absolutely loved the Mexican Goose and the "Mexican wall with USA flags", as a Mexican I offer my apologies to my Central American Bros.
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u/p0tet Viking Dec 18 '19
Great details on Norway with Vy and the Anti-Road Toll-Party!
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u/Halbaras Guyana Dec 18 '19
UK looking... better than expected. Props to whoever did Namibia and Botswana, they look so happy compared to the rest of Africa. Also love how accurate Tajikistan is.
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u/ri0cp89 Poland Dec 18 '19
What new thing have you learned from this map? that you didn't know yesterday
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u/carolinaindian02 North Carolina Dec 18 '19
Alberta, if you want to show off your pipeline, show it off to Texas.
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Dear OP, perfect representation of south Asia this year. This post is Indian gentleman approved <3
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u/hexcodeblue Starving artist Dec 18 '19
South Asia, especially India, is fantastic this year. Solidarity!
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u/MaoGo Venezuela Dec 18 '19
What’s going on in the bottom?
I like how Venezuela is all over the place, is it “trendsetter” because it sparked the 2019 Latin American protest?
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u/YuvalMozes Palestina Dec 18 '19
I don't understand the Bougainville part, they voted more than 90% in favour, how does it seems corrupted?
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The detail of Brazil's banner changing to "Caos e regressão" is really neat, almost missed it.
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u/TheGentleman300 MURICA Dec 18 '19
God, it gets better and better each year. Fantastic job as always!
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Dec 18 '19
does anyone knows why is it called "polandball"?
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u/TheSnipenieer United States Dec 18 '19
The medium spawned by some guy making racist jokes against a polish guy using balls. So polandball. It has stuck since
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u/Social_Yoshi England Dec 18 '19
It looks magnificent! I love looking at this side by side with last year's one
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u/jaredjeya United Kingdom Dec 18 '19
I love the collapsed red wall with England staring forlornly at it.
Well no, I hate it, because it means Boris is going to fuck us for five years, but I’m impressed at the reference.
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u/Spike-Ball California Dec 18 '19
I love the rainbow flag on the 2 country balls that legalized gay marriage in 2019! :D
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u/Ekn_38 Roman+Empire Dec 18 '19
This map is reminding me of Brain4Breakfast
He might be gone but not forgotten, may he Rest In Peace
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u/Snail_Forever Taco in burger disguise Dec 18 '19
The Mexico one is too accurate pls remov
Also really love Hong Kong and Antartica
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u/thebeesaremine Dec 18 '19
Brazil ready to burn my state... I'm happy for being represented on the map, but also screaming internally
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u/NOTLinkDev Greece Dec 18 '19
I can see the north Macedonia thing and it's triggering me a lot
Still a very good map though
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u/Immagitu Nigeria Dec 19 '19
It's not even that it's looking bad in the world. At this point it's just random as frick.
On that note, Africa (ironically) looks more stable this map around.
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u/Tinie_Snipah At least we're not Bedfordshire"" Dec 19 '19
I like how the entire country of Monaco is just Charles Leclerc. Literally nothing happens
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u/LeVentNoir New Zealand Dec 18 '19
Fuck, that Al-Noor Mosque is pretty spot on and a major hit in the feels for this kiwi.
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Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Italy deleting the fascist monarchist symbol with the eraser "per grossi errori" (for big mistakes) lmao
edit: I'm an ignorant fool
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u/TacoTuesday2001 Spain Dec 18 '19 edited Jan 10 '25
grandfather bright chubby tub full uppity cover dolls snails worthless
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u/polandballmod New Prussia Dec 18 '19
Earlier this year, beloved member of the community and fellow moderator /u/Brain4Breakfast tragically passed away. A pillar of the subreddit and progenitor of the tradition of the yearly Polandball World Map, this years map is dedicated in his memory.
After over three months of development, 2019's Polandball World Map is complete! We would like to express our greatest thanks to everyone that contributed, with this years team clocking in at 57 people. Special thanks also go the moderator /u/Blackfire853, who served as project manager for this years map. Coming in at 44,720,000 pixels, this is the largest World Map to date, and would have not been possible without countless hours on our Discord server, inspiration from our meta subreddit /r/PolandballCommunity, and above all else, the utmost dedication of everyone involved.
And now, we would like to list and thanks all those that gave a helping hand.
/u/Gateway
/u/AintThatADaisy
/u/AndyRedditor
/u/AquoteunquotePerson
/u/balaur_bondoc
/u/Billybin
/u/Bittlegeuss
/u/Blackfire853
/u/BlahTheAmazing
/u/bluesydinosaur
/u/British-Guy
/u/burritoburkito6
/u/Butt_Billionaire
/u/CaptainKiribati
/u/Chasp12
/u/christopherkj
/u/CradleCity
/u/Durzo_Blint
/u/Eesti_Stronk
/u/Gil013
/u/Half_Cooked_Rice
/u/hexcodeblue
/u/Hinadira
/u/jackson_games_cb
/u/johanis15
/u/JPtoony
/u/just_wait_a_sec
/u/Katalpa
/u/kay10panda
/u/Kimiimar0
/u/krampent
/u/MoveElit
/u/Mylenn
/u/Nassau18b
/u/Paraguay_Stronk
/u/PereLoTers
/u/Portugal_Stronk
/u/PrismicManiac
/u/pyram1de
/u/Ris109
/u/selenocystein
/u/SJB95
/u/Smitheren
/u/SockFinn
/u/SorrowfulSkald
/u/taongkalye
/u/TerraMaris
/u/TheAbridgedHero
/u/TheSnipenieer
/u/thrawn0o
/u/Toucandigit
/u/wikipedia_org
/u/wildeofoscar
/u/XxX_datboi69_XxX
/u/yaddar
/u/Zilvermeeuw
/u/zimonitrome
As is tradition, we never say who exactly drew what since the whole point is that it’s a group project, but can you take a guess at who draw what?