Revolution Map Analysis

Revolution Map Analysis.

We got an interesting glimpse at a map used by the NBC show "Revolution" (nutshell - all electricity stops working, 15 years later people vie for control of resources and people) of how much of North America is now constituted...

Alright.   Making up what was once the US:

• The Monroe "Republic" - where our show is set.  Capital revealed as Philadelphia, Independence Hall.  Consists of:  Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Parts of Virginia, The Mid-Atlantic States, New England, The Maritime Provinces, and parts of southern Québec.. up to the Gaspar peninsula.
• The Georgia Confederation - one of the main rivals of the Monroe Republic.  Term Confederation can't be accidental, implying it is somehow tied to the confederacy.  Consists of Kentucky, the rest of Virginia, and everything south.. including eastern Louisiana (more on that in a bit).
• The "Plains Nation" - sounds like a rather boring name, but also sounds like they imply it is somehow tied to indians (i.e., the "plains nations".Basically everything west of the Mississippi, although oddly hewing to the Minnesota / Wisconsin state line (St Croix river and whatever it goes overland).  Runs basically to the rockies.
• Texas.  Boundary between them and the Plains Nation appears to be the Arkansas River.  Includes most lf Louisiana, though not on the current Mississippi course. (again more on that below).   Interestingly Texas extends well down into Mexico.   But calls itself Texas implying Texas controls this area, not Mexico.
• Wasteland.   Assume this is an area that no one governs and no one wants.   This seems to include much of the Mountain time zone.  Also includes the Sonora area of Mexico.  Hard to tell but it looks like it also contains a larger Great Salt Lake.   Hard to tell for certain but Washington state looks to be about the same shade, so it might be an extension of Wasteland.
• California Commonwealth - California, Oregon, and parts of Nevada.   A notebook or something was set over its northern boundary so not sure on its extent.  It   Also includes all of Baja California.

Notes:

•  Overall I find it odd how many boundaries stick to old state boundaries, as well as the US-Canada boundary.
• In what I take to be some actual forethought on the part of the show, they show it not using the current Mississippi route through New Orleans and into the Mississippi River Delta.  They show it going basically along the Atchafalaya River route that the Mississppi "wants" to take, that the US Army Core of Engineers prevented with the Old River Control Structure.     I take it they have concluded in the absense of maintenance by the federal government the Mississippi overcame the Old River Control Structure and rerouted (as it used to do before the levees) to the Atchafalaya River route.  An act which would lead to the inevitable erosion of the delta perhaps as far back as New Orleans itself.    
• Nothing is really said about Canada at all... though it is odd that the Monroe Republic seems to respect the sovereignty of Ontario.   Despite having two (former?) metropoli right on the border... Detroit and Buffalo... it does not extend into Ontario at all.   Further east however it incorporates New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, presumably Prince Edward Island and what looks like Québec south of the Saint Lawrence, up to and including the Gaspar peninsula.   This strikes me as odd, there is a language difference and Québec has always struck me as an area that would abosutely stick together on its own if things came to that.   Of course this could just be an idle map of "claimed" territory.  Perhaps the Monroe Republic is interested in claiming the Saint Lawrence seeway given its ports on the Great Lakes.  But if so, why stay out of Windsor, Niagara, etc?   
• The Plains Nation sticks mostly to the US-Canada Border, being either the 49th parallel or the Rainy River/Lake of the Woods in Minnesota...except a significant chuck that appears to follow the Red River of the North up to Winnipeg, then the Assinboine River until roughly Regina (Saskatchewan), then back southeast along the Souris River (the upper part of the river, not further east where it joins the Assinboine).   This rather odd shape would bisect both Winnipeg and Regina.   
• There is also an odd shape between the Plains Nations and the northern parts of "Wasteland".  Doesn't seem to follow the continental divide.  Almost looks like it stretches near yellowstone.  I may need to overlay another map to verify what this is.

Sorry for the long delay.