You forgot all the football fields that'll be there in 17776.

Well, funny you should mention that, in the time frame of the story, one of the characters is a football player in college.

What kind of football?

He plays a version of American football that incorporates some of the rules of Canadian football, including 3 downs to make 10 yards and a punt returner can kick the ball back. A safety doesn't automatically give a team 2 points, the team that scores the safety gets the ball on the 15 yard line and has 3 chances to score a touchdown, otherwise they can kick a field goal and get 3 points. These are a few of the differences between "modern" American football and the football played in 22,000 AD.

I prefer real football :)

Real football as in soccer/futball or real football as in American football?

Fotball in Norwegian and football in English and "Soccer" in Retardian.
The reason i make fun of the word "Soccer" is because of the Norwegian word "Sokker" which mean socks :)

I believe the American name for "football/futball" came from a phrase about the game. I read it somewhere but I can't remember where it was and what the phrase is. Maybe I'll find it one of these days.

In my parallel universe Fur World, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, the eastern-most part of Quebec (east of what Humans call the Saint Lawrence River) and Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are all part of the massive, independent North East Kingdom -- generally referred to as the Kingdom. The King happens to be a Raccoon.

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and parts of Pennsylvania make up the sovereign Dominion of New Etruria (the Dominion). It is a quasi-democratic government, but it was founded chiefly by Cervines, both local and refugees from the Scale Wars in the Old World. The Deer would prefer you keep this in mind in all dealings with them.

Far to the North and West, in Eastern Alaska and parts of Yukon and British Columbia, is the Kingdom of the Bears (KOB). While it has not actually had a King in a century and a half, the old name lives on. Territorial management is by an elected parliamentary system, similar to the North American Confederatton's and you can guess what the dominant species is. Several of my ancestors come from there, but we lived in the other part of Yukon, which is known as... Yukon.

Interesting. In my world, Alaska and Hawai'i are kingdoms which is why they aren't shown here. This map was drawn on a spur of the moment idea which is why some of the borders don't make much sense. As I said, most of the provincial borders are on natural borders, mountains, lakes, rivers, etc. Therefore, Delaware wouldn't be the size it's shown here. It would take up the entire Delmarva peninsula and its western border would be the Susquehanna River. Most, if not all, panhandles would be given to another state. For example, the Oklahoma panhandle would be given to Texas.

My anthros don't include any hoofed animals due to the fact that they are a created species (combining human and animal DNA to create the humanimal species) and hoofed animals couldn't be converted into human-like animals. (Plus, there's also the need to have prey animals for the omnivorous humanimals. (Yes, even today's herbivores become omnivorous because of the human DNA in their bodies.))

The hoofers and other grazers in my world are basically vegetarian (lacto-ovo) but not Vegan. They can and do eat milk and egg-based products. In my first story, a Jack Rabbit walks into a bar/diner and asks for a salad -- with half a hard-cooked egg. A Doe in the current series asks for a salad with egg and cheese -- and helps her roommates clean up a cheese pizza. Trying to live on a purely raw vegetable diet is extremely inefficient -- how far can you get from a sanitary? "Excuse me, lunch says now."

My protagonist, a 21st Century human male, is shocked when he sees a rabbit eating chicken and a rabbit eating a steak before he has it explained that all humanimals are omnivorous. He's still a wee bit shocked but, eventually, he comes to accept it. He's also a bit of a smart aleck and harasses a vixen (my icon) every time they enjoy dinner together by asking her if she's going to order chicken or eggs. Needless to say, she gives him a bit of a dirty look every time he does that. I really need to get back to that story because I really like it and believe it will probably be well-received.

Heh. Talk about stereotyping. My brother and I went to a church supper this evening (not my church -- I'm pretty sure Chaos Magicians don't do that sort of thing). One of the church ladies was serving salad and I remarked that I can't eat raw onion. In fact, my girlfriend, the Kitsune have each have lists of food on our phones that the other can't eat. But it's easy to remember what she likes -- really likes. Chicken, eggs -- and fish.

Yeah. Amanda glares at Michael all the time when he does that. I believe that in one instance, when Michael asks about her ordering chicken, Amanda's response was, "That's speciesist." After she said, the Michael says, "Okay, what do you want?" She ducks her head and whispers, "Chicken." Some time later when Michael picks on her about it In anther restaurant, she makes it a point to order fish rather than chicken. LOL.

Like offering watermelon to -- oh, the SJWs are already after me.

The Kitsune got me turned onto these green pea crisps a few years ago. We both like them, but she tried me on one of her favorite Japanese snacks (she was born on Okinawa). Little fish-shaped crisps with a sort of foamy texture. And they taste like FISH. I can't stand them, but they seem to be addictive. To her.

You're not talking about taiyaki, are you? Those are a very popular snack in Japan. In fact, I've seen them in numerous anime shows.

She keeps a package or two of Taiyaki in the freezer. I haven't had one yet, but her roommate says they are an 'acquired taste.' I actually like rice balls with red bean paste, so these might be good.

The things I'm thinking of are small -- maybe an inch from nose to tail -- and insanely crispy. The taste falls between cat food and lutefisk, if you ask me. I couldn't swallow it and get it out of my mouth fast enough.

I think I know what you're talking about but, I can't remember what it's called.

Looks about right, though I'm a bit surprised at my region. I would think the North Plains, being as it has a lot of Northern Prairie Culture contained there-in, would reach a little further south but not quite so far west. I guess it would depend on how much attitudes change over the millennia. Still, a lot of "Fargo" attitude is prevalent in a large part of the prairie. If the USA ever splinters, I think my state would choose to partner with those with similar ideas and beliefs.

New Yorkers and Californians can jeer at us all they like, but there's quite a bit of wisdom in the agricultural states. Maybe they oughta try slowing down a bit and see if the rest doesn't improve their health. =P Might make them less crazy anyhow.

Well, what I did was I tried to follow current state lines as much as possible and, at the same time, give this map a bit of a unique look to it. (If you'll note, the coastlines of Mississippi and Alabama are longer here than they actually are.) The western edge of the Northern Plains Region is the continental divide as is the western edge of the Texas Region. Also, the state and city names on this map are the current names but, in the story this map is from, the state names have animal, plant and weather influenced names, i.e. Georgia is Gargia, Florida is Flamingo and Carolina is Carpolina.

Oh yeah, I read the description, so I know about the name changes. XD Though I'm at a loss as to what one could rename the cities in my area. =P Most people just call them "cold" and leave it at that.

In any case, even if the boundaries are different, I'm sure there are still something like counties. Would be real interesting to see how the culture had changed over the millennia. If at all. XD Americans can be pretty stubborn about keeping their traditions, even the silly ones.

LOL. Well, I'm guessing you're from the Dakotas area so, Pierre would be called Pear; Bismark might be called Biscarp; Dakota would be called Dogota, etc.

I can't remember if I mentioned this in the description but, at the time of the map, humans are going extinct due to a genetically modified virus intended to kill every living human. Because of this virus, 500 years in our future, humans managed to splice human and non-ungulate land mammal DNA with human DNA creating the humanimals. At first, there's a lot of animosity between the two subspecies with the humanimals enduring slavery, including and especially sex slavery for almost 1,000 years until they finally win equality after over 100 years of war between humans and humanimals. My story takes place about 1,000 years after the end of the next Ice Age. The humanimals use a lot of human customs because they are, basically, following the same evolutionary steps that humans took until the humanimal culture is about the equivalent of 1980s human culture.

I don't think it was mentioned in the description, no, but I did infer that humanity had either gone extinct or had altered itself into anthropomorphic animals of some kind. Having things named after animals or similar things made it somewhat obvious. =P

I'm not sure how much I can suspend my disbelief about the idea of these guys having a culture similar to 1980's America. Mostly because history doesn't happen in a vacuum. =P A lot of factors go into cultural change, both the rising and the falling, and I would think their version of 80's culture would look a lot different to our own.

Also, I'm not sure "evolutionary steps" is the proper terminology for it. That's using the old Popular Evolution myth, the idea that everything is progressing from the crude and chaotic to the sophisticated and ordered. But many cultures are the result of humans picking up the pieces from the fall of a previous empire or culture, or several of them in the case of the Greeks. It can't be "evolution" in the sense of continual development, as I imagine the plague and the war between the species would result in a great deal of chaos and destruction. Even if society didn't collapse, it would probably suffer like Germany did after the first World War. The culture would go through a few drastic changes, though the new ones would likely have elements of the old in them. Traditions do tend to last a very long time, and they endure when they are especially useful to survival and the maintenance of a culture or nation. And if their new culture does indeed resemble 1980's America in any part, then in many ways they're regressing to an earlier point in history, at least culturally, though this is not bad in itself. You sometimes have to double-back when you've taken the wrong path to get back onto the right one, as annoying and painful as it may be.

Of course, much of my rambling here is influenced by a video I just watched. It's about C.S. Lewis' views on evolution, or at least the Popular Myth of it, and not the scientific theory or hypothesis itself. It's done by a YouTuber who scribbles out some basic pictures to help illustrate Lewis' points, and I feel it helps one understand them very well, perhaps better than if you read the book. At least, I feel like it's been that way for me.

You can find it here: https://youtu.be/2GCWGyWCLTo
There's also a shorter video that just covers the main point of my ramblings here: https://youtu.be/8t0UDoKImBs

I think they're worth watching if only to understand the difference between the myth and the theory itself. Because it's very easy for our imaginations to run away on us, and attach to some very attractive and appealing ideas, no matter how false they might be. It's only when sits back and begins to apply reason to the myth that one begins to realize that's all that it is: a myth, and nothing more. Not that it has no value by being a myth, but we must not mistake it for a fact. Mythology itself is valuable, and perhaps your humanimals have their own myths of some kind to pass around the campfire, or share at the dinner table, or just to read to a child before bed. Yet it is myth and not fact.

Regardless of my ramblings, I do wish you luck in continuing your universe and writing stories set in it. No doubt you have many very interesting tales to tell. I hope you write them soon.

I don't know anything about evolutionary myth (other than the fact that I don't accept Darwinian evolution) and fact. What I did with my story was to take human and humanimal progress to an utter and complete stop with an Ice Age that destroyed all aspects of progress and civilization. Consequently, after realizing they needed each other more than not, the humans and humanimals started the slow progress back to civilization. The time frame of my story is the equivalent, technologically, to 1980s human time but not an exact match to it. In fact, the protagonist is amazed at times about the incongruity of things, including travel restrictions. Computers are more prevalent than was the case in the 1980s but home computers are unheard of nor are they even being considered which causes the protagonist to suggest to the president of the company he works for to look into developing a microchip to spur the development of home computers. The rail system is far more utilized than it was in the RL 1980s and air travel is restricted within the different regions, i.e. flight from Gargia to Flamingo is on a military or tragedy, i.e. death of family, need only. However, flight between the regions is allowed with few restrictions due to the vast size of the country.

I'll look into the videos you mentioned. I may be able to pick up a few ideas to use in my story.

Sorry about the late reply. My anxiety disorder kinda made me fear that a harsh rejection due to my ramblings. But yeah, the videos kinda explain it better than I could. Probably because they're using the writings of a better writer, and apologist, than I. =P

I do wonder how they ended up following the norms of the 1980s, but I suppose weirder things have happened. The protagonist is probably going to cause quite a stir from his various ideas, especially if he recalls things that have been lost over the years. That was one of the points in one of the videos, I think, that every culture is often some mish-mash of ones before it, or building upon the ruins and scraps of a previous empire. C.S. Lewis was a Professor, so he might have known a bit about the history of cultures. You might consider including some trends or ideas from later decades or eras, or earlier ones, having barely survived into the future to be halfway reborn and reshaped. But again, it's up to you.

In any case, I think I forgot this entire conversation. XD I hope you do well in your future writings. Keep up with the great ideas!

Oh, don't worry. I welcome honest critiques. As for following the norms of the 1980s, I don't know if I'd call it that. It's kind of like an "evolutionary" situation. For example, computer technology is on a par with the 1980s; however, there are no cell phones, not even as an idea and yet, hybrid cars are the norm. Flying is possible but trains and ships are the preferred mode of long-distance travel. Desktop computers are little more than word processors because personal computers are only ideas on drawing boards; consequently, the internet is unheard of. The year in the humanimal calendar is 7,354. The reason that their technology being on a par with 1970s through 2020 is because their "Medieval" times lasted almost 3,000 years because it took that long before the different races (species) could actually work together for the betterment of the humanimal species as a whole rather than for their own selfish racial goals. These are a few of the things that are in my head as I write the story.

There's no telling how things might go if the world were to suffer such a cataclysm. Scientific progress, or in this case, recovery, would possibly take a different path. It's not like new civilizations will have a new tech tree where they can just pick what to research. =P Although how well science develops would depend on their worldview. Certain ideological beliefs can hamper scientific inquiry for various reasons. The different factions and tribes might hold some of those beliefs, which would keep the recovery process going longer.

In any case, so long as you make things plausible enough, the story should come out fine. I wish you well as you continue your work.

Thanks. Right now, the hard thing for me is to find animal, plant, sound, meteorological, and geological names to incorporate into different human names, i.e. Jaguarville for Jacksonville, Catlanna for Atlanta, Gargia for Georgia, Flamingo for Florida, Amurica for America, Furance for France, etc. Those are a few of the names I've already come up with (although outside of Gargia and Flamingo, I only mention the other cities and countries.