New Zealand is very far off to the east of any other major landmass, and because of that it's frequently missing from infographics and other maps which try to display information about countries across the world in order to zoom in on the rest of the world
In New England, we removed the signs with the street names of all the main s6reets so when the British invaded, they would get lost. 250 years later, the big joke remains. But NZ has us completely beat. A whole stealth country!
That's a deliberate joke
This is a fantastic 404 page. I'm glad somebody in the NZ government is still allowed to have fun.
This is simply genius!
Context?
New Zealand is very far off to the east of any other major landmass, and because of that it's frequently missing from infographics and other maps which try to display information about countries across the world in order to zoom in on the rest of the world
No, why is there a connotation that you can't have fun in NZ?
Can you have fun in any government?
I mean I guess that's fair but I read it as him implying that the NZ government was especially boring. Guess I just misread the tone.
Following American and European politics, boring is not necessarily bad.
Far enough off the map, Peter Thiel bought citizenship there as somewhere to go after he finishes screwing up the United States.
Fair enough
The public service (government bureaucrats) have very high professional standards, and have quite tight budgets. This leads to less "fun" at work.
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Everyone is fucking each other though
If they’re doing that they’re hiding it well. Better than their search histories anyway.
It's been a difficult couple years for the public service, lots of layoffs/cost cutting and the government isn't popular.
really? that's peak hahahaha.
In New England, we removed the signs with the street names of all the main s6reets so when the British invaded, they would get lost. 250 years later, the big joke remains. But NZ has us completely beat. A whole stealth country!
Whats going on in the nordics
NZ govt deleted the Baltic Sea
The penis got cold and shrunken
Look at the Hudson Bay. I think the mapmaker accidentally put the Baltic Sea in the Hudson Bay and didn't realize their mistake.
r/mapswithoutzealand
Not enough time to explain: everyone in Copenhagen has been told to grab their biggest stick and head to east Amager.
Sea level dropped
NZ government has a sense of humour it seems
If they do it's at our expense.
You being... who?
No one said "you."
yeah but you said "our", which can be answered by "you", so that the one answering doesn't include themself
Are you ok?
yeah ! having a great evening ! and you ?
I think our friend has reading comprehension issues.
r/woooosh
Edit: now has 4 O’s.
There are 4 o's in r/woooosh.
r/itswooooshwith4os
Darn.
r/subsithoughtifellfor
r/subsiknewexisted
that's the joke
No baltic sea too.
Or Black Sea. Hudson bay looks funky, as do most islands. Also, Malaysia's gone and so is most of the Guyanas.
Maybe they took one island and used it to plug the Baltic Sea, and the other island was tethered to Churchill, Manitoba.
r/MapsWithoutTheBalticSea
They can't find the page, I can't find the country!
I think I’ve found the problem in their page. Am I considered a Hacker now?
Unfortunately this was changed during covid to provide health advice, and now it's just a bland page without a map.
No Denmark either
Denmark is there its just the baltic sea
Nice to see the effort they put in having lots of arctic islands from Canada to Russia and not giving a fuck about Japan, Philippines and Indonesia.
That's probably bait.
Indonesia is fine, East Malaysia and Brunei were disappeared
Well when your entire so called "real" country doesn't exist. Its kinda hard to provide information about it
Maps without Hawaii
r/mapwithouthawaii
That's great.
What did they do to Hudson Bay
r/mapswithoutlakes
lol something is missing..yeah...your own country
That’s the joke =) we don’t always take ourselves too seriously over here
They made Japan into a turd and disappeared almost all of the Philippines islands
This is brilliant.
Why does the Hudson Bay look so weird?
I know what's missing: Denmark and the entire Baltic Sea!
Black Sea and Caspian sea too
That's it, outjerked by the govt! Close the sub
theres only 6 kinds of banned maps in this sub and this is one of them lmao
r/woosh
r/mapswithoutBalticSea
Clever
most intelligent redditor
Good one
Why has the Baltic sea become Baltic land?
Antarctica? 😉
French guiana got sunk
Wait this is actually kinda cute I like this
Whoosh?
But why the fuck does it have to be the MERCATOR projection.... UGH.
Where the fuck is the baltic sea
it makes sense tho, since they couldn`t find it
NZ stands for not zere, what did you expect
what have you people done with our baltic sea
That's the joke, yes.
And Sweden is connected to Finland and Poland
Where TF is the Baltic sea
you were accessing top secrets & that's how they got you
don't worry, NZ has moved to caspian sea
Where’s Finland?
Repost. Literally the top post of all time on this sub.
Aren't there mega rich people building shit in NZ? Maybe it's a slow process of "if we just stop saying it people might forget it exists"
We were also caught in the crossfire I guess
They're obviously playing on it
kudos that's an excellent 404 page
Thats a great joke.