100 Biggest Cities in Russia on a Map

Actual lines of control are interesting, but get messy really quick. Libya is split in half. Yemen is split in half. Syria is split between the newly established government and Rojava. Pure de facto borders are interesting, but impractical for a quiz or for most maps.

As for recognised states, the Quizmaster is fairly consistent with what's been added. Taiwan has less and less recognition, but it still has relations with several countries. The Sahrawi (Western Saharan) control only covers a small strip in the desert, and it's administered from refugee camps in Algeria. Palestine is the only one I could see being added to Jetpunk.

Also, I've tried to recognise the dispute by using slashed lines on Crimea, and through greying out the cities. If I were to do a Ukraine quiz I would include the Crimean cities too, in grey.

They are Russian puppets at this point, but it's not really convention to include them as part of Russia on any map I've seen. I'm a huge map nerd, I've seen tonnes of maps lol. On the other hand, Crimean cities are clearly marked as disputed in the answer box and on the slashed lines on Crimea itself. And I don't know what part of Russian Federation being written in Russian bothers you. It's a quiz about Russia after all. I use the same convention of flag + country name in its language on my other recent maps by the way.

Some of the decisions made on Jetpunk are Quizmaster's decisions, like Palestinian statehood or what to call Myanmar/Burma, but I remember at one point he shared the source of the maps used on Jetpunk, and he didn't really make any modifications to regional borders. He has defended the choices of the maps, but I don't believe he's changed any borders from the source files. Yes, it was an illegal annexation. No, I don't agree that it was a good thing. If there is a better way to display them as contested cities, then I will make this change, although I likely wouldn't remove them outright unless other featured quizzes did the same thing.