Community question.
I've been on and about thinking how I could improve my country, Drabantia, to be more realistic, especially in terms of geography and climate.
First of all, I'm still sort of confused as to what the climate could actually be. The hypothetical maps on the Talk:World climate page didn't really help: one says steppe, the other says Winnipeg. So I settled for somewhere in between for now. And then it kind of hit me: The lake surrounding my country has no output. There has to be saltwater.
Or does it? The lake, which lies on the same latitude as Edmonton, Copenhagen or Moscow, probably doesn't dry up as much as the Caspian Sea does, for example. Meaning that with no output, the water level would just keep on rising and the salinity would remain the same.
Even if the area was dry, I still don't think the temperature and other aspects of the climate allow the lake to have no output at all. There's large rivers: Bráh and Lorava, draining all Litvania; Borava, draining 80% of Drabantia; Banuj, draining the remaining 20% + some of Escadia and possibly UL100h too; and finally Helm and Gilson.
TL;DR So, my bold proposal: Is it possible to connect the lake to the Great Rift Sound? I imagine it similar to the Saint Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
There's many pros:
There's wetlands (that until recently were lakes) in Suria, where the river would flow- no radical changes required.
Several proposals on the OGF:Plate tectonics page see the area as a mid-continental rift.
The benefits for the countries around the lake would be immense. In addition to opening them to intl. shipping lines, it would make for a better connection with the rest of Uletha and more importance.
So, what does everyone (namely the admin team) think? I know edits and changes in grey territories are usually frowned upon, but I feel like this is a really important issue.