Liechtenstein’s territory may make up 0.08% of total alpine territory… But alpine territory makes up 100% of Liechtenstein’s territory 🤓
So, per capita Lichtensteinians are the Alpiniest population?
I assume this is using an elevation cut-off to define the edges of the range?
Also the shape of the Italian portion and the way it cuts up the flag makes it look like Malta has invaded the mainland
I’d rather just have a normal map with the alpine area shaded in…
Gotta zoooooom in to see that 0.08% on mobile. 😅 Ah, Lichtenstein. Hold on, li’l alpine tomato. 🤓
It’s possible to form that country in HOI4. Alpine Federation.
It’s one of the more reasonable formables too, I suppose, given Switzerland’s whole existing multi-ethnic federation deal
I got curious as to what its demographics would be like. Assumptions made here are:
- People from Italy are all counted as Italians, from France as French, from Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein as Germans. I know ethnicities and languages get very blurry at the borders even before you account for migration, but I am looking for a rough idea here
- People from Switzerland are grouped into one of those three according to language or placed into the “Other” category (particularly notable for Switzerland’s fourth official language, Romansh)
- People from Slovenia are also in the “Other” category
With that, our Alpine Confederation here has a population of 30.87 million and the proportions of the three big languages is reversed. It’s 37.8% Italians, 34.4% French, 24.5% Germans, and 3.4% others. This population would take Switzerland from being the 22nd most-populous state in Europe to the 10th, just behind Poland. Italy would become less populous than Spain. A very loose estimation of its GDP, just using national averages for the populations, would be about two trillion USD, roughly equal to Russia
Monaco should be in there, too, with a ridiculous share of the alpine territory.
