states are not just measure of area with people in it ! States are independent governed bodies who need equitable representation in the federal government . It is sad that our view of the federal government has flipped so upside down that a person can not know something so basic <| sep |> When people say Boxes are easy then I know they haven ' t ever tried drawing any boxes of their own This map took ten months just to conceptualize correctly drawing the final draft only took about a week , but wow did it ever go through some changes . Attempt One Horrifyingly , my first plan was to draw the entire country one province at a time . like , I would complete one province map , and then work on a complete map of the province immediately adjacent . Sometimes , you ' re better off not having perseverance . Attempt Two Here , I wasted way too much time drawing tiny rivers . There are so many ways to throw away your time in this hobby ! Attempt Three Things are getting serious , but a lot of the provinces are still halfbaked and the visual style is really lacking . With all the maps I ' ve ever done , imagining motion is very helpful to make the borders , you have to imagine the wave of settlement sweeping from the Atlantic to the Pacific , and of course it always helps to imagine an accompanying history . Large territories get cut down to size ! The two sweeping horizontal lines you might notice were originally intended to divide the country ' s Francophone , Anglophone , and Hispanophone regions , which generally served as a helpful guiding principle .