Own Imaginary Country?

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Hi, all my life I have drawn maps of my own imaginary country complete with rivers, mountains, towns and cities etc, that grew more and more complex as time went on... it was peopled as well with my own characters etc, and I still have a lrage number of town street maps as well as road maps, showing hundreds of place names...

Does anyone else have this, or can anyone on the forum identify with this desire to have an imaginary country or cities where they can be in control of layout and design etc, and make up names for all the towns and features? This isn't something I can share with typical people out there! Yet it is just one of my varied interests!

I used to do this (although not as detailed with street maps). I still have thoughts about my own country, with all its laws and various systems.

I used to do this with solar systems. Id draw all the planets and moons and astroids. You should get one of those sims games to map your countrys out on.

Only for my Traveller campaigns. I'll start with the standard world-generation procedure, modified to derive starbases after local tech level is determined, and then attempt to detail the political and religious factors afterward. This becomes much more complex when the dice rolls define the world government as "Balkanized", although I try to keep the number of countries between 2 and 12, inclusive.

Even within a single country, there will be factions that are aligned with or against the government by varying degrees.

Traveller has several excellent systems for world development.

That is how I passed the time in math class as a kid. I'd tear a page in my notebook and trace around the edge, then take out the torn page. That was the coastline. I'd find indentations and place rivers and mountains and forests, put in cities and towns, etc.. Then I'd name everything. I had a plant book that had all the Latin names of all kind of plants and I'd use that. I even had kingdoms that went to war with each other.

Wow! I hadn't thought of that in years. Thank you so much for that post.

SimCity! I have built many cities. It's a great play.

SimCity is great fun! Too bad I can not experience my creations from a Sim's perspective.

Not a city or country, but an early 1900s girls' boarding school in London. I drew images of about 200 students, drew maps of the school, drew up schedules for the younger grades. Created lists of classes, class times, and concentration requirements for the older girls, then assigned each of them a concentration and created a personalized class schedule for each girl based on their major and year. Created a school schedule of events with school breaks, club meetings, and performances. Created sports teams. Invented a detailed school supply list.

Eventually playing sims replaced the need to work on my boarding school, but I still have all the notebooks, and still feel a very strong desire to work on it from time to time.

I have my own imaginary world but it is not very detailed (so far it only has a city, a town and a beach) because I prefer to focus more on the characters than the setting. I can't even decide what type of world to make it (based on modern times or steampunk/Victorian/olden times? Should it be more sci-fi or fantasy oriented?)

I have drawn maps of my imaginary city when I was a kid.

It's based on my home town but the architectural style is darker and more menacing. Supposedly this city exists in a shadowy parallel reality, which is a sort of a mirror image of our reality.

Some day I should totally write a book about it - something like a sci-fi novel

Have done it for cities in rpg games some but not to the country level.

I was never that detailed on the locations within the world, but I've created whole worlds, even galaxies before.

I have created my own little government, but that's about it.