A Mapping Cliche is a trope used far too often in mapping to the point where it is recognizable and distracting. However, a cliche is not always a trope. Some often used plot points, such as major events such as nationiums forming at the end of the first episode, can be used by good mappers and still excel.
List of Cliches
Here is a list of the major cliches. Stray away from this list to ensure your content is not boring.
Country Cliches
Here are a list of cliches that a state will reform into.
- Germany is radicalized into a fascist, nationalist, and often neo-Nazi state, generally referred to as the Fourth Reich.
- Germany (and sometimes France) unite the European Union into a superstate controlled mainly by German politicians.
- Russia is radicalized into a Neo-Soviet Union.
- Russia collapses and is split into smaller states, or Siberia declares independence.
- Scotland (sometimes Wales, rarely Northern Ireland) declares independence from the United Kingdom in the aftermath of BREXIT.
- A former Yugoslav country, almost always Serbia, reunites Yugoslavia.
- Czechoslovakia is reunited either diplomatically or forcefully.
- Turkey annexes a few of its neighbors and becomes the Ottoman Empire.
- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and sometimes Finland and Iceland are united into Scandinavia.
- Spain crumbles and many of it's regions (usually Catalonia and/or Basque, often Galicia, and occasionally others) declare independence.
- Greece collapses due to an economic crisis.
- Austria and Hungary reunite, and usually start invading their neighbors.
- The Islamic State is formed in Syria and/or Iraq.
- Central Asia either unites or is re-annexed by Russia.
- Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and sometimes Cornwall and Brittany form the Celtic Union. They sometimes then annex England.
- The Baltic states unite.
- Benelux is formed, usually diplomatically or through the Netherlands conquering Belgium and Luxembourg.
- Korea is unfied under either government.
- Japan becomes an empire again and annexes surrounding countries.
- Australia and New Zealand unite into Oceania.
- Nations such as Russia, France, and Britain suddenly reform back into empires.
- Iberia is formed by Spain and Portugal.