I just saw this very cool population density map that shows the population density of the world in dots of different sizes and colors. The interesting thing to me is how much of the world's landmass is covered by black and gray, especially the majority of Canada and Australia. Sometimes it's easy to forget how much sparsely-settled wilderness there still is.
This could also be a great alternate Earth map. Just redraw the coastlines to conform to this map, maybe eliminating a color or two, and you have something that's close but not too close to the current real thing.
Maybe Canada and Australia were the first countries to fall when the other primates took over and nuked everything. Or maybe those countries and most of Russia broke up and sunk due to a combination of global warming, resource grabbing, and deep crust mining...
Could be useful in a zombie apocalypse game - use it to determine encounter frequency and numbers. In such a game it could be cross-referenced with a map of nations with high numbers of guns for ammo and arms tables.
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