<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>todorstoyanov</author><text>Fascinating how protected by their geography are USA, Canada, Ireland and maybe UK.&lt;p&gt;The remaining countries have too many neighbors and, accordingly, potential opponents. Look at the Balkans or part of Africa.&lt;p&gt;I live in Sofia, Bulgaria and it has always seemed silly to me that the reason our city was chosen as the capital was the fact that it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Now with this war in Ukraine, this idea seems genius to me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The topologist’s world map (2020)</title><url>https://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wnkrshm</author><text>This is beautiful, especially with the colors on the top right - though I have a nitpick that it is missing an entire continent (probably because it doesn&amp;#x27;t show up in a list of countries): Antarctica&lt;p&gt;Edit: I now realize it&amp;#x27;s only supposed to show the graph national borders, though on a political world map, Antarctica is still shown. In a topological fashion, it could be added as a white circle around the entire map.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The topologist’s world map (2020)</title><url>https://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/</url></story>