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Sometimes governments have a sense of humour: https://www.govt.nz/404

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this french one is awesome

https://www.gouvernement.fr/gouvernement/le-systeme-d-inform...

They are simulating a meeting to define how to announce that the resource is gone! :)

lol, New Zealand is missing from the map.

Also, current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern featured in a tourist ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI

(Though AFAIK it was reddit which popularised the joke first)

Apparently it's relatively common: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/

The page was revised in April, so it may be a reference to Ikea leaving the country off of a map: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/ikea-reportedly-apologizes-f...

IKEA is a special case for New Zealand, the story goes that NZ slighted IKEA in some way a long time ago, something like being unwilling to provide favorable zoning for a flagship store, and this resulted in IKEA leadership blacklisting NZ. This is often given as the reason that no store exists even today.

Quite possibly not true, more likely is that the small population and logistics complexity makes it uneconomical to service, especially for a brand that depends on scale.

Apparently they're launching a store soon anyway.

IKEA-type shops were literally illegal in Ireland until recently (the law was changed in 2005 to allow limited types of shops, including IKEA, to have more than 6k sqm) and I don’t think they ever left us off their maps.

Are you sure it’s meant to be funny? The entire features some strange errors, like Sweden/Finnland being glued to mainland Europe?

Europe got a really bad wrap in this picture. My guess is that it's the result of a bad automatic vectorization of a raster picture.

But I think that a missing NZ would stick out like a sore thumb to New Zealanders. Just like the Fennoscandian errors you mentioned sticks out to a Fennoscandian like me. It's intentional; no doubt.

look at the filename https://www.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/error-map-with-nz-gone2.j...

error-map-with-nz-gone2.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/

also i noticed gov.nz looks like gov.uk. both look great.

slack has an eye-pleasing page https://slack.com/pi

It's a recreation of the game that Slack pivoted from. They also released most assets from the game into the public domain https://www.glitchthegame.com/

RIP Glitch <3

Magic... On tablet you can swipe through the scene.

On desktop, the scene scrolls as you move your mouse.

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