{ "project": "MapPalace (app for remembering every country): country shape pictures", "job": 1, "instructions": "AGENT.md (authoritative: context, style, references, rules, upload API, procedure)", "order": "P0 -> P1 -> P2 -> P3; upload each image as soon as it passes", "deliver": { "upload": "PUT /api/file/?key=KEY", "list": "GET /api/list?key=KEY", "final": "report.txt" }, "references": [ "style-app-icon.png", "style-og-image.png", "ref-cl.png", "ref-it.png", "ref-jp.png", "ref-ar.png", "ref-au.png", "ref-br.png", "ref-ca.png", "ref-cn.png", "ref-eg.png", "ref-fi.png", "ref-fr.png", "ref-de.png", "ref-gr.png", "ref-in.png", "ref-id.png", "ref-ir.png", "ref-ie.png", "ref-ke.png", "ref-mg.png", "ref-mx.png", "ref-mn.png", "ref-ma.png", "ref-nz.png", "ref-ng.png", "ref-no.png", "ref-pe.png", "ref-ph.png", "ref-pl.png", "ref-pt.png", "ref-ru.png", "ref-sa.png", "ref-za.png", "ref-kr.png", "ref-es.png", "ref-se.png", "ref-th.png", "ref-tr.png", "ref-ua.png", "ref-gb.png", "ref-us.png", "ref-vn.png", "ref-af.png", "ref-al.png", "ref-dz.png", "ref-ao.png", "ref-am.png", "ref-at.png", "ref-az.png", "ref-bs.png", "ref-bd.png", "ref-by.png", "ref-be.png", "ref-bz.png", "ref-bj.png", "ref-bt.png", "ref-bo.png", "ref-ba.png", "ref-bw.png", "ref-bn.png", "ref-bg.png", "ref-bf.png", "ref-bi.png", "ref-kh.png", "ref-cm.png", "ref-cv.png", "ref-cf.png", "ref-td.png", "ref-co.png", "ref-cg.png", "ref-cd.png", "ref-cr.png", "ref-ci.png", "ref-hr.png", "ref-cu.png", "ref-cy.png", "ref-cz.png", "ref-dk.png", "ref-dj.png", "ref-do.png", "ref-ec.png", "ref-sv.png", "ref-gq.png", "ref-er.png", "ref-ee.png", "ref-sz.png", "ref-et.png", "ref-fj.png", "ref-ga.png", "ref-gm.png", "ref-ge.png", "ref-gh.png", "ref-gt.png", "ref-gn.png", "ref-gw.png", "ref-gy.png", "ref-ht.png", "ref-hn.png", "ref-hu.png", "ref-is.png", "ref-iq.png", "ref-il.png", "ref-jm.png", "ref-jo.png", "ref-kz.png", "ref-xk.png", "ref-kw.png", "ref-kg.png", "ref-la.png", "ref-lv.png", "ref-lb.png", "ref-ls.png", "ref-lr.png", "ref-ly.png", "ref-lt.png", "ref-lu.png", "ref-mw.png", "ref-my.png", "ref-ml.png", "ref-mr.png", "ref-mu.png", "ref-md.png", "ref-me.png", "ref-mz.png", "ref-mm.png", "ref-na.png", "ref-np.png", "ref-nl.png", "ref-ni.png", "ref-ne.png", "ref-kp.png", "ref-mk.png", "ref-om.png", "ref-pk.png", "ref-ps.png", "ref-pa.png", "ref-pg.png", "ref-py.png", "ref-qa.png", "ref-ro.png", "ref-rw.png", "ref-ws.png", "ref-sn.png", "ref-rs.png", "ref-sl.png", "ref-sk.png", "ref-si.png", "ref-sb.png", "ref-so.png", "ref-ss.png", "ref-lk.png", "ref-sd.png", "ref-sr.png", "ref-ch.png", "ref-sy.png", "ref-tw.png", "ref-tj.png", "ref-tz.png", "ref-tl.png", "ref-tg.png", "ref-tt.png", "ref-tn.png", "ref-tm.png", "ref-ug.png", "ref-ae.png", "ref-uy.png", "ref-uz.png", "ref-vu.png", "ref-ve.png", "ref-ye.png", "ref-zm.png", "ref-zw.png", "ref-ad.png", "ref-ag.png", "ref-bh.png", "ref-bb.png", "ref-km.png", "ref-dm.png", "ref-gd.png", "ref-ki.png", "ref-li.png", "ref-mv.png", "ref-mt.png", "ref-mh.png", "ref-fm.png", "ref-mc.png", "ref-nr.png", "ref-pw.png", "ref-sm.png", "ref-st.png", "ref-sc.png", "ref-sg.png", "ref-kn.png", "ref-lc.png", "ref-vc.png", "ref-to.png", "ref-tv.png", "ref-va.png" ], "tasks": [ { "id": "S-CL", "priority": "P0", "file": "shape-cl.png", "country": "Chile", "reference": "references/ref-cl.png", "hook": "A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a very long, thin, shiny red chili pepper hanging from north to south along the Pacific: a green stalk at the northern border, the curly tip breaking into the little islands of Tierra del Fuego in the far south. Keep the outline exact. The chili has a cheeky grin around the middle (near Santiago). Faded cameos: an ice-cream cone (Argentina) leaning against its eastern side, a kite (Peru) and a potato (Bolivia) at its top.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Chile, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a very long, thin, shiny red chili pepper hanging from north to south along the Pacific: a green stalk at the northern border, the curly tip breaking into the little islands of Tierra del Fuego in the far south. Keep the outline exact. The chili has a cheeky grin around the middle (near Santiago). Faded cameos: an ice-cream cone (Argentina) leaning against its eastern side, a kite (Peru) and a potato (Bolivia) at its top.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Chile: Argentina: A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili. Bolivia: A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side. Peru: A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Argentina", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili." }, { "country": "Bolivia", "picture": "A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side." }, { "country": "Peru", "picture": "A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IT", "priority": "P0", "file": "shape-it.png", "country": "Italy", "reference": "references/ref-it.png", "hook": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia.", "picture": "The outline becomes an elegant high-heeled boot with a spur at Gargano, its toe in Calabria kicking a ball (Sicily) south-west, and Sardinia as a second ball waiting further west. Tiny Roman columns decorate the shin near Rome. Switzerland appears on top as a faded round loaf sitting on the cuff, and France to the north-west as a faded hexagon cheering.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Italy, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes an elegant high-heeled boot with a spur at Gargano, its toe in Calabria kicking a ball (Sicily) south-west, and Sardinia as a second ball waiting further west. Tiny Roman columns decorate the shin near Rome. Switzerland appears on top as a faded round loaf sitting on the cuff, and France to the north-west as a faded hexagon cheering.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Italy: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. San Marino: A tiny round dot inside Italy near Rimini, perched on the slopes of Monte Titano. Slovenia: A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast. Switzerland: A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner. Vatican City: A tiny walled blob on the west bank of the Tiber in Rome, with the dome of St Peter’s inside.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "San Marino", "picture": "A tiny round dot inside Italy near Rimini, perched on the slopes of Monte Titano." }, { "country": "Slovenia", "picture": "A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast." }, { "country": "Switzerland", "picture": "A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Vatican City", "picture": "A tiny walled blob on the west bank of the Tiber in Rome, with the dome of St Peter’s inside." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-JP", "priority": "P0", "file": "shape-jp.png", "country": "Japan", "reference": "references/ref-jp.png", "hook": "A curved dragon of islands along Asia’s coast, Hokkaido as its head and Kyushu its tail.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long, graceful dragon curving through the sea: Hokkaido as its head with whiskers in the northeast, Honshu as its bent body, Shikoku as a small front paw, and Kyushu as its tail in the southwest, with the tiny southern islands trailing like glowing sparks. It looks playful and wise. Faded cameos: Russia’s Sakhalin island just north of the head, and the Korean tiger across the strait to the west, its hind legs and tail near the dragon’s tail as if they are about to play tag.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Japan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long, graceful dragon curving through the sea: Hokkaido as its head with whiskers in the northeast, Honshu as its bent body, Shikoku as a small front paw, and Kyushu as its tail in the southwest, with the tiny southern islands trailing like glowing sparks. It looks playful and wise. Faded cameos: Russia’s Sakhalin island just north of the head, and the Korean tiger across the strait to the west, its hind legs and tail near the dragon’s tail as if they are about to play tag.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ar.png", "country": "Argentina", "reference": "references/ref-ar.png", "hook": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a tall waffle ice-cream cone pointing south: the scoops are the wide north, the crisp tip ends at Tierra del Fuego. Keep the outline exact. Give the cone a happy face near the Pampas and a drip of melting ice cream on the Atlantic side. Along the west, a faded long red chili (Chile) leans against it like a friend; to the northeast a faded mate gourd (Uruguay) smiles from across the river.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Argentina, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a tall waffle ice-cream cone pointing south: the scoops are the wide north, the crisp tip ends at Tierra del Fuego. Keep the outline exact. Give the cone a happy face near the Pampas and a drip of melting ice cream on the Atlantic side. Along the west, a faded long red chili (Chile) leans against it like a friend; to the northeast a faded mate gourd (Uruguay) smiles from across the river.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Argentina: Bolivia: A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side. Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Chile: A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili. Paraguay: A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body. Uruguay: A mate gourd: its round belly on the Río de la Plata, narrowing north toward Brazil.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bolivia", "picture": "A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side." }, { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Chile", "picture": "A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili." }, { "country": "Paraguay", "picture": "A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body." }, { "country": "Uruguay", "picture": "A mate gourd: its round belly on the Río de la Plata, narrowing north toward Brazil." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AU", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-au.png", "country": "Australia", "reference": "references/ref-au.png", "hook": "A huge round loaf with a bite out of the top (the Gulf of Carpentaria) and a crumb, Tasmania, dropped below.", "picture": "The outline becomes a giant golden round loaf of bread with a bite taken out of the top (the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north), Cape York as a crusty point sticking up on the north-east, and Tasmania as a small crumb below the south-east. The loaf smiles contentedly, with steam curling up from its middle. To the north, a faded cameo of the tail of the New Guinea bird dangles its feathers over the bite as if sniffing the bread; to the south-east, a faded fish and canoe (New Zealand) paddle past.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Australia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a giant golden round loaf of bread with a bite taken out of the top (the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north), Cape York as a crusty point sticking up on the north-east, and Tasmania as a small crumb below the south-east. The loaf smiles contentedly, with steam curling up from its middle. To the north, a faded cameo of the tail of the New Guinea bird dangles its feathers over the bite as if sniffing the bread; to the south-east, a faded fish and canoe (New Zealand) paddle past.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-br.png", "country": "Brazil", "reference": "references/ref-br.png", "hook": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a huge, cheerful macaw-like parrot head looking east: the wide Amazon basin is the feathered crown, the northeastern bulge (near Recife) is the hooked beak pointing at the Atlantic, the eye sits near the middle of the country, and the narrowing south is its neck. Keep the outline exact. Faded cameos: a mate gourd (Uruguay) under its chin, an ice-cream cone (Argentina) leaning on its southwest, a potato (Bolivia) the parrot is eyeing hungrily in the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Brazil, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a huge, cheerful macaw-like parrot head looking east: the wide Amazon basin is the feathered crown, the northeastern bulge (near Recife) is the hooked beak pointing at the Atlantic, the eye sits near the middle of the country, and the narrowing south is its neck. Keep the outline exact. Faded cameos: a mate gourd (Uruguay) under its chin, an ice-cream cone (Argentina) leaning on its southwest, a potato (Bolivia) the parrot is eyeing hungrily in the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Brazil: Argentina: A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili. Bolivia: A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side. Colombia: The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon. Guyana: A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle. Paraguay: A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body. Peru: A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner. Suriname: A square kitchen sponge with a nibbled bottom edge, squeezed between Guyana and French Guiana. Uruguay: A mate gourd: its round belly on the Río de la Plata, narrowing north toward Brazil. Venezuela: A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Argentina", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili." }, { "country": "Bolivia", "picture": "A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side." }, { "country": "Colombia", "picture": "The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon." }, { "country": "Guyana", "picture": "A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle." }, { "country": "Paraguay", "picture": "A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body." }, { "country": "Peru", "picture": "A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner." }, { "country": "Suriname", "picture": "A square kitchen sponge with a nibbled bottom edge, squeezed between Guyana and French Guiana." }, { "country": "Uruguay", "picture": "A mate gourd: its round belly on the Río de la Plata, narrowing north toward Brazil." }, { "country": "Venezuela", "picture": "A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CA", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ca.png", "country": "Canada", "reference": "references/ref-ca.png", "hook": "A giant with a big bite out of its middle — Hudson Bay — and a crown of Arctic islands on top.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a huge friendly giant: the Arctic islands form a jagged crown on top, Hudson Bay is a big round bite mark in its belly (as if it ate a cookie), Labrador and Nova Scotia are its eastern arm waving, British Columbia its western shoulder. Keep the outline exact. The giant laughs and holds its tummy. Faded cameos: a wide soft pillow (United States) under its feet along the south, and Alaska as a detached pillow corner wrapped around its western shoulder like a scarf.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Canada, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a huge friendly giant: the Arctic islands form a jagged crown on top, Hudson Bay is a big round bite mark in its belly (as if it ate a cookie), Labrador and Nova Scotia are its eastern arm waving, British Columbia its western shoulder. Keep the outline exact. The giant laughs and holds its tummy. Faded cameos: a wide soft pillow (United States) under its feet along the south, and Alaska as a detached pillow corner wrapped around its western shoulder like a scarf.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Canada: United States: A wide pillow across the continent with two tassels: Texas and Florida; Alaska and Hawaii float off on their own.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "United States", "picture": "A wide pillow across the continent with two tassels: Texas and Florida; Alaska and Hawaii float off on their own." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CN", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-cn.png", "country": "China", "reference": "references/ref-cn.png", "hook": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail.", "picture": "The outline becomes a proud rooster facing east to the Pacific: its comb and head in the northeast (Manchuria), its round chest along the coast, its big fanned tail in the west (Xinjiang and Tibet), and Hainan as a grain of corn at its feet in the south. The rooster is mid-crow, beak open to greet the sunrise. Faded cameos: Mongolia’s fluffy sheep napping in the hollow of its back, and Kazakhstan’s patterned steppe rug under its tail.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, China, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a proud rooster facing east to the Pacific: its comb and head in the northeast (Manchuria), its round chest along the coast, its big fanned tail in the west (Xinjiang and Tibet), and Hainan as a grain of corn at its feet in the south. The rooster is mid-crow, beak open to greet the sunrise. Faded cameos: Mongolia’s fluffy sheep napping in the hollow of its back, and Kazakhstan’s patterned steppe rug under its tail.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than China: Afghanistan: A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China. Bhutan: A plump dumpling squeezed between China and India high in the Himalayas. Myanmar (Burma): A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand. India: A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka. Kazakhstan: A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge. Nepal: A long brick laid along the Himalayas, with Everest on its northern edge. North Korea: The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia. Kyrgyzstan: A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley). Laos: A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand. Mongolia: A fat sheep lying down between Russia and China: woolly body in the west, little head poking out east. Pakistan: A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Tajikistan: A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana. Vietnam: A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas).\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Afghanistan", "picture": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China." }, { "country": "Bhutan", "picture": "A plump dumpling squeezed between China and India high in the Himalayas." }, { "country": "Myanmar (Burma)", "picture": "A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand." }, { "country": "India", "picture": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka." }, { "country": "Kazakhstan", "picture": "A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge." }, { "country": "Nepal", "picture": "A long brick laid along the Himalayas, with Everest on its northern edge." }, { "country": "North Korea", "picture": "The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia." }, { "country": "Kyrgyzstan", "picture": "A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley)." }, { "country": "Laos", "picture": "A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand." }, { "country": "Mongolia", "picture": "A fat sheep lying down between Russia and China: woolly body in the west, little head poking out east." }, { "country": "Pakistan", "picture": "A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Tajikistan", "picture": "A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana." }, { "country": "Vietnam", "picture": "A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas)." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-EG", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-eg.png", "country": "Egypt", "reference": "references/ref-eg.png", "hook": "A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a sturdy, cheerful cardboard box standing on top of a faded box (Sudan) below, with a blue Nile ribbon threaded up through its eastern half from the faded box into the green fan of the delta at the top. The Sinai triangle on the north-east corner is a little flap of the box lifted open. A faded huge box with a bite in its top (Libya) stands beside it to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Egypt, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a sturdy, cheerful cardboard box standing on top of a faded box (Sudan) below, with a blue Nile ribbon threaded up through its eastern half from the faded box into the green fan of the delta at the top. The Sinai triangle on the north-east corner is a little flap of the box lifted open. A faded huge box with a bite in its top (Libya) stands beside it to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Egypt: Israel: A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat. Libya: A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra. Palestinian Territories: Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Israel", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat." }, { "country": "Libya", "picture": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra." }, { "country": "Palestinian Territories", "picture": "Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-FI", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-fi.png", "country": "Finland", "reference": "references/ref-fi.png", "hook": "A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden.", "picture": "The outline becomes a cheerful maiden in a long skirt, her hem along the southern coast, one arm raised in the north-west, waving, and blue lake-dots sprinkled over her dress. Sweden appears to the west as a faded leaning cucumber, and Norway to the north as a faded ladle whose handle curls just above her raised hand. Estonia sits across the water to the south as a faded slice of bread.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Finland, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a cheerful maiden in a long skirt, her hem along the southern coast, one arm raised in the north-west, waving, and blue lake-dots sprinkled over her dress. Sweden appears to the west as a faded leaning cucumber, and Norway to the north as a faded ladle whose handle curls just above her raised hand. Estonia sits across the water to the south as a faded slice of bread.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Finland: Norway: A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia. Sweden: A long cucumber leaning against Norway on the Baltic side, with Gotland floating like a seed. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Norway", "picture": "A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia." }, { "country": "Sweden", "picture": "A long cucumber leaning against Norway on the Baltic side, with Gotland floating like a seed." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-FR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-fr.png", "country": "France", "reference": "references/ref-fr.png", "hook": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”.", "picture": "The outline becomes a proud hexagonal tile with six slightly wobbly sides and a cheerful face, a tiny tower drawn near Paris in the north. Spain appears to the south-west as a faded bull’s hide hanging from its edge, and Italy to the south-east as a faded boot stepping off its corner. Switzerland appears to the east as a faded round loaf the hexagon leans on.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, France, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a proud hexagonal tile with six slightly wobbly sides and a cheerful face, a tiny tower drawn near Paris in the north. Spain appears to the south-west as a faded bull’s hide hanging from its edge, and Italy to the south-east as a faded boot stepping off its corner. Switzerland appears to the east as a faded round loaf the hexagon leans on.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than France: Andorra: A small round pebble stuck high in the Pyrenees, squeezed between France and Spain. Belgium: A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet. Italy: A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia. Luxembourg: A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany. Monaco: A thin ribbon of Riviera coast hugging French cliffs, just short of the Italian border. Spain: A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west. Switzerland: A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Andorra", "picture": "A small round pebble stuck high in the Pyrenees, squeezed between France and Spain." }, { "country": "Belgium", "picture": "A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." }, { "country": "Italy", "picture": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia." }, { "country": "Luxembourg", "picture": "A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany." }, { "country": "Monaco", "picture": "A thin ribbon of Riviera coast hugging French cliffs, just short of the Italian border." }, { "country": "Spain", "picture": "A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west." }, { "country": "Switzerland", "picture": "A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-DE", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-de.png", "country": "Germany", "reference": "references/ref-de.png", "hook": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet.", "picture": "The outline becomes a sturdy, friendly standing figure with a wide northern coast as its shoulders, broad Bavarian feet planted in the south on Alpine peaks, and a small black bear peeking from its pocket near Berlin. Denmark sits on its head as a faded hat-like thumb. France appears to the west as a faded hexagon and Poland to the east as a faded round puzzle piece, both shaking its hands.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Germany, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a sturdy, friendly standing figure with a wide northern coast as its shoulders, broad Bavarian feet planted in the south on Alpine peaks, and a small black bear peeking from its pocket near Berlin. Denmark sits on its head as a faded hat-like thumb. France appears to the west as a faded hexagon and Poland to the east as a faded round puzzle piece, both shaking its hands.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Germany: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. Belgium: A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg. Czechia: A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east. Denmark: Jutland is a thumb pointing up at Norway. France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. Luxembourg: A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany. Netherlands: A low square with a bite out of its middle (the IJsselmeer) and islands strung along the top like beads. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Switzerland: A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "Belgium", "picture": "A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg." }, { "country": "Czechia", "picture": "A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east." }, { "country": "Denmark", "picture": "Jutland is a thumb pointing up at Norway." }, { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "Luxembourg", "picture": "A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany." }, { "country": "Netherlands", "picture": "A low square with a bite out of its middle (the IJsselmeer) and islands strung along the top like beads." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Switzerland", "picture": "A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-gr.png", "country": "Greece", "reference": "references/ref-gr.png", "hook": "A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs.", "picture": "The outline becomes a hand reaching south: the Peloponnese’s three peninsulas are fingers dipping into blue water, and the islands are crumbs sprinkled from the fingertips. A tiny temple sits near Athens. Bulgaria appears to the north as a faded bar of soap the hand has just used, and Turkey to the east as a faded long dachshund across the sea, catching a few crumbs.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Greece, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a hand reaching south: the Peloponnese’s three peninsulas are fingers dipping into blue water, and the islands are crumbs sprinkled from the fingertips. A tiny temple sits near Athens. Bulgaria appears to the north as a faded bar of soap the hand has just used, and Turkey to the east as a faded long dachshund across the sea, catching a few crumbs.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Greece: Albania: A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot. Bulgaria: A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe. North Macedonia: A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Albania", "picture": "A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot." }, { "country": "Bulgaria", "picture": "A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." }, { "country": "North Macedonia", "picture": "A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IN", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-in.png", "country": "India", "reference": "references/ref-in.png", "hook": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big diamond-shaped kite: its wide top along the northern Himalayas, its body over the central plateau, and its sharp point at the southern tip, from which a single teardrop (Sri Lanka) falls into the sea. The kite smiles as it soars, with a ribbon fluttering from the northeast. Faded cameos: Pakistan’s slanted leaf blowing along the northwest edge, Nepal’s brick resting on top, and Myanmar’s smaller kite with a long tail flying to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, India, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big diamond-shaped kite: its wide top along the northern Himalayas, its body over the central plateau, and its sharp point at the southern tip, from which a single teardrop (Sri Lanka) falls into the sea. The kite smiles as it soars, with a ribbon fluttering from the northeast. Faded cameos: Pakistan’s slanted leaf blowing along the northwest edge, Nepal’s brick resting on top, and Myanmar’s smaller kite with a long tail flying to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than India: Bangladesh: A hand of river channels reaching into the Bay of Bengal, hugged almost all round by India. Bhutan: A plump dumpling squeezed between China and India high in the Himalayas. Myanmar (Burma): A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Nepal: A long brick laid along the Himalayas, with Everest on its northern edge. Pakistan: A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bangladesh", "picture": "A hand of river channels reaching into the Bay of Bengal, hugged almost all round by India." }, { "country": "Bhutan", "picture": "A plump dumpling squeezed between China and India high in the Himalayas." }, { "country": "Myanmar (Burma)", "picture": "A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Nepal", "picture": "A long brick laid along the Himalayas, with Everest on its northern edge." }, { "country": "Pakistan", "picture": "A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ID", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-id.png", "country": "Indonesia", "reference": "references/ref-id.png", "hook": "A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long, friendly island dragon swimming east along the equator: Sumatra as its head in the west, Java and the small islands as the bumps of its spine, Borneo and Sulawesi as its body and legs, and western New Guinea as its tail in the east. It smiles and splashes through the sea. Faded cameos: Papua New Guinea as the tail half of a bird whose head the dragon’s tail is holding, and Malaysia’s slice of Borneo riding on the dragon’s back.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Indonesia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long, friendly island dragon swimming east along the equator: Sumatra as its head in the west, Java and the small islands as the bumps of its spine, Borneo and Sulawesi as its body and legs, and western New Guinea as its tail in the east. It smiles and splashes through the sea. Faded cameos: Papua New Guinea as the tail half of a bird whose head the dragon’s tail is holding, and Malaysia’s slice of Borneo riding on the dragon’s back.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Indonesia: Timor-Leste: The eastern half of Timor, an island that local legend says is a sleeping crocodile. Malaysia: Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo. Papua New Guinea: The tail half of the New Guinea “bird”, cut off by an almost ruler-straight border with Indonesia, plus islands east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Timor-Leste", "picture": "The eastern half of Timor, an island that local legend says is a sleeping crocodile." }, { "country": "Malaysia", "picture": "Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo." }, { "country": "Papua New Guinea", "picture": "The tail half of the New Guinea “bird”, cut off by an almost ruler-straight border with Indonesia, plus islands east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ir.png", "country": "Iran", "reference": "references/ref-ir.png", "hook": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big plump cat sitting on the Gulf shore: its head with two pricked ears in the northwest corner, its back curving along the Caspian Sea in the north, and its round body and paws filling the south. It looks curious, ears up, as if it has just heard something. Faded cameos: Turkey’s long dachshund to the west with its wagging tail right by the cat’s ears (a friendly dog-and-cat moment), Iraq’s shield on its western side, and Afghanistan’s leaf by its eastern side.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Iran, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big plump cat sitting on the Gulf shore: its head with two pricked ears in the northwest corner, its back curving along the Caspian Sea in the north, and its round body and paws filling the south. It looks curious, ears up, as if it has just heard something. Faded cameos: Turkey’s long dachshund to the west with its wagging tail right by the cat’s ears (a friendly dog-and-cat moment), Iraq’s shield on its western side, and Afghanistan’s leaf by its eastern side.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Iran: Afghanistan: A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China. Armenia: A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge. Azerbaijan: A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west. Iraq: A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through. Pakistan: A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe. Turkmenistan: A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Afghanistan", "picture": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China." }, { "country": "Armenia", "picture": "A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge." }, { "country": "Azerbaijan", "picture": "A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west." }, { "country": "Iraq", "picture": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through." }, { "country": "Pakistan", "picture": "A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." }, { "country": "Turkmenistan", "picture": "A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IE", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ie.png", "country": "Ireland", "reference": "references/ref-ie.png", "hook": "A teddy bear sitting with its back to Britain; its top-right corner is Northern Ireland, part of the UK.", "picture": "The outline becomes a cuddly teddy bear sitting with its back to the east, its paws and snout formed by the bumpy Atlantic west coast, little green clovers on its fur. The light-grey north-east corner (Northern Ireland, part of the UK) becomes the bear’s ear, kept plain and neutral. Great Britain appears to the east as a faded figure striding away south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Ireland, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a cuddly teddy bear sitting with its back to the east, its paws and snout formed by the bumpy Atlantic west coast, little green clovers on its fur. The light-grey north-east corner (Northern Ireland, part of the UK) becomes the bear’s ear, kept plain and neutral. Great Britain appears to the east as a faded figure striding away south.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Ireland: United Kingdom: Great Britain is a figure striding south: Scotland the head, Wales a knee, Cornwall a kicking foot.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "United Kingdom", "picture": "Great Britain is a figure striding south: Scotland the head, Wales a knee, Cornwall a kicking foot." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KE", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ke.png", "country": "Kenya", "reference": "references/ref-ke.png", "hook": "A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a tilted square with a relaxed, happy face, dipping its western corner into the cool blue of Lake Victoria like a toe in a pool, with a ruler-straight north-east side and a sandy diagonal coast. Next to it, a faded square (Uganda) also has its corner in the same lake, splashing playfully. A faded giant 7 (Somalia) stands along its straight north-east side.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Kenya, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a tilted square with a relaxed, happy face, dipping its western corner into the cool blue of Lake Victoria like a toe in a pool, with a ruler-straight north-east side and a sandy diagonal coast. Next to it, a faded square (Uganda) also has its corner in the same lake, splashing playfully. A faded giant 7 (Somalia) stands along its straight north-east side.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Kenya: Ethiopia: A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti. Somalia: A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa. South Sudan: A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast. Uganda: A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Ethiopia", "picture": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti." }, { "country": "Somalia", "picture": "A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa." }, { "country": "South Sudan", "picture": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." }, { "country": "Uganda", "picture": "A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MG", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-mg.png", "country": "Madagascar", "reference": "references/ref-mg.png", "hook": "A giant footprint in the Indian Ocean, as if Africa just stepped off it.", "picture": "Make the island a giant green footprint pressed into the turquoise ocean, the rounded heel in the south and the toes clustered at the narrow northern tip, with a playful dotted trail of tiny footprints implied in the water. To the north-west, three faded stepping stones (Comoros) lead from a faded African coastline (Mozambique) towards it. A small faded pear (Mauritius) floats to the east. Add a smiling lemur peeking from the heel as decoration.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Madagascar, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the island a giant green footprint pressed into the turquoise ocean, the rounded heel in the south and the toes clustered at the narrow northern tip, with a playful dotted trail of tiny footprints implied in the water. To the north-west, three faded stepping stones (Comoros) lead from a faded African coastline (Mozambique) towards it. A small faded pear (Mauritius) floats to the east. Add a smiling lemur peeking from the heel as decoration.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MX", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-mx.png", "country": "Mexico", "reference": "references/ref-mx.png", "hook": "A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big curved golden horn (like a hunting horn) sweeping from northwest to southeast, with the Yucatán Peninsula in the east as a thumb raised up and Baja California on the west as a long dangling ribbon tied to the horn. Keep the outline exact. Little musical notes float out of the narrow end at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Faded cameos: a wide pillow with tassels (United States) resting above, and a coffee pot (Guatemala) and slice of toast (Belize) dancing to the tune at the horn’s southeastern end.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Mexico, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big curved golden horn (like a hunting horn) sweeping from northwest to southeast, with the Yucatán Peninsula in the east as a thumb raised up and Baja California on the west as a long dangling ribbon tied to the horn. Keep the outline exact. Little musical notes float out of the narrow end at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Faded cameos: a wide pillow with tassels (United States) resting above, and a coffee pot (Guatemala) and slice of toast (Belize) dancing to the tune at the horn’s southeastern end.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Mexico: Belize: A slice of toast standing upright under Mexico’s Yucatán thumb, its crumbs (the cays) scattered along the reef. Guatemala: A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean. United States: A wide pillow across the continent with two tassels: Texas and Florida; Alaska and Hawaii float off on their own.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belize", "picture": "A slice of toast standing upright under Mexico’s Yucatán thumb, its crumbs (the cays) scattered along the reef." }, { "country": "Guatemala", "picture": "A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean." }, { "country": "United States", "picture": "A wide pillow across the continent with two tassels: Texas and Florida; Alaska and Hawaii float off on their own." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MN", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-mn.png", "country": "Mongolia", "reference": "references/ref-mn.png", "hook": "A fat sheep lying down between Russia and China: woolly body in the west, little head poking out east.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big fluffy sheep lying down for a nap, its thick woolly body filling the west and centre (the pointed Altai end as its back end) and its small head with floppy ears in the eastern bulge. It looks blissfully sleepy, maybe with a tiny cloud above. Faded cameos: China’s rooster below, the sheep resting in the curve of its back, and Russia’s giant along the north, tucking the sheep in like a blanket.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Mongolia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big fluffy sheep lying down for a nap, its thick woolly body filling the west and centre (the pointed Altai end as its back end) and its small head with floppy ears in the eastern bulge. It looks blissfully sleepy, maybe with a tiny cloud above. Faded cameos: China’s rooster below, the sheep resting in the curve of its back, and Russia’s giant along the north, tucking the sheep in like a blanket.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Mongolia: China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MA", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ma.png", "country": "Morocco", "reference": "references/ref-ma.png", "hook": "The north-west corner of Africa, facing Spain across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, with a long Atlantic coast.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a friendly corner piece of a jigsaw puzzle, the corner at Africa’s north-west, its long Atlantic coast on the west side and its short northern coast nearly touching a faded stretched bull’s hide (Spain) across a narrow blue strait. Give it a curious face, as if it is reaching towards Spain. A faded giant block (Algeria) sits to its east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Morocco, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a friendly corner piece of a jigsaw puzzle, the corner at Africa’s north-west, its long Atlantic coast on the west side and its short northern coast nearly touching a faded stretched bull’s hide (Spain) across a narrow blue strait. Give it a curious face, as if it is reaching towards Spain. A faded giant block (Algeria) sits to its east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Morocco: Algeria: Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top. Spain: A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Algeria", "picture": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top." }, { "country": "Spain", "picture": "A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NZ", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-nz.png", "country": "New Zealand", "reference": "references/ref-nz.png", "hook": "Two long islands tilted SW–NE: the Māori call the North Island Māui’s fish and the South Island his canoe.", "picture": "The outline becomes Māui's fish and canoe: the North Island is a big friendly fish whose head points south-east near Wellington and whose tail flips up as the Northland peninsula in the north-west; the South Island is a long wooden canoe tilted south-west to north-east right below it, with Stewart Island as a small round anchor stone at the southern end. A fishing line runs from the canoe's northern tip to the fish's mouth and the fish grins as if it likes being caught. Across the sea to the north-west, a faded giant round loaf (Australia) watches, a crumb (Tasmania) beside it.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, New Zealand, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes Māui's fish and canoe: the North Island is a big friendly fish whose head points south-east near Wellington and whose tail flips up as the Northland peninsula in the north-west; the South Island is a long wooden canoe tilted south-west to north-east right below it, with Stewart Island as a small round anchor stone at the southern end. A fishing line runs from the canoe's northern tip to the fish's mouth and the fish grins as if it likes being caught. Across the sea to the north-west, a faded giant round loaf (Australia) watches, a crumb (Tasmania) beside it.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NG", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ng.png", "country": "Nigeria", "reference": "references/ref-ng.png", "hook": "A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a sturdy, cheerful green box with a big blue Y drawn inside it by the two rivers, meeting in the middle and flowing down to a fan-shaped delta on the southern coast. A faded torch (Benin) stands upright against its western side, and a faded thin arm (Cameroon) reaches up along its eastern edge towards a small blue Lake Chad in the north-east corner, giving the box a high-five.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Nigeria, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a sturdy, cheerful green box with a big blue Y drawn inside it by the two rivers, meeting in the middle and flowing down to a fan-shaped delta on the southern coast. A faded torch (Benin) stands upright against its western side, and a faded thin arm (Cameroon) reaches up along its eastern edge towards a small blue Lake Chad in the north-east corner, giving the box a high-five.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Nigeria: Benin: A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River. Cameroon: A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad. Chad: A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Benin", "picture": "A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River." }, { "country": "Cameroon", "picture": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad." }, { "country": "Chad", "picture": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NO", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-no.png", "country": "Norway", "reference": "references/ref-no.png", "hook": "A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long ladle: the wide southern part is the bowl full of soup with steam rising, and the long thin northern coast is the handle curving north-east, its fjords drawn as little ripples along the edge. Sweden appears to the east as a faded cucumber the ladle rests on, and Finland as a faded maiden raising her hand to touch the handle.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Norway, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long ladle: the wide southern part is the bowl full of soup with steam rising, and the long thin northern coast is the handle curving north-east, its fjords drawn as little ripples along the edge. Sweden appears to the east as a faded cucumber the ladle rests on, and Finland as a faded maiden raising her hand to touch the handle.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Norway: Finland: A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden. Sweden: A long cucumber leaning against Norway on the Baltic side, with Gotland floating like a seed. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Finland", "picture": "A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden." }, { "country": "Sweden", "picture": "A long cucumber leaning against Norway on the Baltic side, with Gotland floating like a seed." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PE", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-pe.png", "country": "Peru", "reference": "references/ref-pe.png", "hook": "A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big colourful kite tilted along the Pacific: the long straight southwestern coast is the kite’s leading edge, the northern corner points toward Ecuador, and Lake Titicaca at the southeastern corner is a small blue patch on the kite fabric. Keep the outline exact. The kite smiles and a long red chili (Chile) hangs from its southern tip like the string. Faded cameos: a slice of cake (Ecuador) and a jigsaw corner (Colombia) to the north, a potato (Bolivia) to the southeast.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Peru, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big colourful kite tilted along the Pacific: the long straight southwestern coast is the kite’s leading edge, the northern corner points toward Ecuador, and Lake Titicaca at the southeastern corner is a small blue patch on the kite fabric. Keep the outline exact. The kite smiles and a long red chili (Chile) hangs from its southern tip like the string. Faded cameos: a slice of cake (Ecuador) and a jigsaw corner (Colombia) to the north, a potato (Bolivia) to the southeast.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Peru: Bolivia: A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side. Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Chile: A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili. Colombia: The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon. Ecuador: A wedge of cake balancing on the equator line, dropping Galápagos crumbs far out in the Pacific.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bolivia", "picture": "A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side." }, { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Chile", "picture": "A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili." }, { "country": "Colombia", "picture": "The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon." }, { "country": "Ecuador", "picture": "A wedge of cake balancing on the equator line, dropping Galápagos crumbs far out in the Pacific." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PH", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ph.png", "country": "Philippines", "reference": "references/ref-ph.png", "hook": "A scatter of 7,000+ islands: Luzon a big boot on top, Mindanao a fist at the bottom.", "picture": "The outline becomes a cheerful scatter of islands: Luzon in the north as a big boot with its toe pointing up, Mindanao in the south as a friendly fist (a fist bump, not a punch), the central islands as scattered crumbs, and long Palawan in the west as a pointing stick. Tiny boats link them. Faded cameos: Taiwan’s sweet potato just north of the boot’s toe, and Malaysia’s slice of Borneo to the southwest, where Palawan is pointing.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Philippines, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a cheerful scatter of islands: Luzon in the north as a big boot with its toe pointing up, Mindanao in the south as a friendly fist (a fist bump, not a punch), the central islands as scattered crumbs, and long Palawan in the west as a pointing stick. Tiny boats link them. Faded cameos: Taiwan’s sweet potato just north of the boot’s toe, and Malaysia’s slice of Borneo to the southwest, where Palawan is pointing.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PL", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-pl.png", "country": "Poland", "reference": "references/ref-pl.png", "hook": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round jigsaw puzzle piece with a smiling face, a straight sandy beach along its northern edge, a blue river winding through its middle, and a tiny mermaid waving near Warsaw. Germany appears to the west as a faded sturdy figure, Belarus to the east as a faded round bowl, and Slovakia to the south as a faded hedgehog napping below.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Poland, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round jigsaw puzzle piece with a smiling face, a straight sandy beach along its northern edge, a blue river winding through its middle, and a tiny mermaid waving near Warsaw. Germany appears to the west as a faded sturdy figure, Belarus to the east as a faded round bowl, and Slovakia to the south as a faded hedgehog napping below.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Poland: Belarus: A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia. Czechia: A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet. Lithuania: The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Slovakia: A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belarus", "picture": "A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia." }, { "country": "Czechia", "picture": "A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." }, { "country": "Lithuania", "picture": "The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Slovakia", "picture": "A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PT", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-pt.png", "country": "Portugal", "reference": "references/ref-pt.png", "hook": "A sardine standing on its tail beside Spain, its whole belly turned to the Atlantic.", "picture": "The outline becomes a silvery sardine standing upright on its tail, its belly and fins along the western Atlantic coast, its tail fin along the southern Algarve coast and its head in the north. A little blue river crosses its middle near Lisbon, with a tiny sailing ship nearby. Spain appears to the east as a faded stretched bull’s hide the sardine leans on.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Portugal, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a silvery sardine standing upright on its tail, its belly and fins along the western Atlantic coast, its tail fin along the southern Algarve coast and its head in the north. A little blue river crosses its middle near Lisbon, with a tiny sailing ship nearby. Spain appears to the east as a faded stretched bull’s hide the sardine leans on.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Portugal: Spain: A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Spain", "picture": "A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-RU", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ru.png", "country": "Russia", "reference": "references/ref-ru.png", "hook": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.", "picture": "The outline becomes a huge, gentle sleeping giant stretched across the whole northern edge, its head in the west near Moscow, a low ridge of the Ural mountains as a blanket fold, and its far-eastern hands (Kamchatka and Chukotka) reaching out to the Pacific. The small Kaliningrad crumb sits apart in the west like a dropped cookie. Kazakhstan appears below as a faded rug and China as a faded rooster.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Russia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a huge, gentle sleeping giant stretched across the whole northern edge, its head in the west near Moscow, a low ridge of the Ural mountains as a blanket fold, and its far-eastern hands (Kamchatka and Chukotka) reaching out to the Pacific. The small Kaliningrad crumb sits apart in the west like a dropped cookie. Kazakhstan appears below as a faded rug and China as a faded rooster.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Russia: Azerbaijan: A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west. Belarus: A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Estonia: A slice of rye bread with crumbs (Saaremaa, Hiiumaa) falling off its west edge into the Baltic. Finland: A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden. Georgia: A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge. Kazakhstan: A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge. North Korea: The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia. Latvia: A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga. Lithuania: The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit. Mongolia: A fat sheep lying down between Russia and China: woolly body in the west, little head poking out east. Norway: A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Azerbaijan", "picture": "A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west." }, { "country": "Belarus", "picture": "A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Estonia", "picture": "A slice of rye bread with crumbs (Saaremaa, Hiiumaa) falling off its west edge into the Baltic." }, { "country": "Finland", "picture": "A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden." }, { "country": "Georgia", "picture": "A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge." }, { "country": "Kazakhstan", "picture": "A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge." }, { "country": "North Korea", "picture": "The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia." }, { "country": "Latvia", "picture": "A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga." }, { "country": "Lithuania", "picture": "The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit." }, { "country": "Mongolia", "picture": "A fat sheep lying down between Russia and China: woolly body in the west, little head poking out east." }, { "country": "Norway", "picture": "A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SA", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-sa.png", "country": "Saudi Arabia", "reference": "references/ref-sa.png", "hook": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest.", "picture": "The outline becomes a giant, gentle desert tortoise seen from above: its big patterned shell fills the land from the Red Sea coast in the west to the Gulf coast in the east, its head peeks out at the northwestern corner toward the Gulf of Aqaba, and little feet poke out at the edges. It looks wise and unhurried, with a tiny palm oasis on its shell. Faded cameos: Yemen’s shoe under its southwest side, Oman’s crescent curving round the southeast, and Qatar’s thumb sticking up from its eastern side.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Saudi Arabia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a giant, gentle desert tortoise seen from above: its big patterned shell fills the land from the Red Sea coast in the west to the Gulf coast in the east, its head peeks out at the northwestern corner toward the Gulf of Aqaba, and little feet poke out at the edges. It looks wise and unhurried, with a tiny palm oasis on its shell. Faded cameos: Yemen’s shoe under its southwest side, Oman’s crescent curving round the southeast, and Qatar’s thumb sticking up from its eastern side.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Saudi Arabia: Iraq: A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through. Jordan: A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba. Kuwait: A small square in the Gulf’s top corner with a bite taken out: Kuwait Bay. Oman: A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz. Qatar: A thumb sticking up from Arabia into the Gulf. United Arab Emirates: A wedge of cheese on the Gulf coast, its tip poking toward the Strait of Hormuz. Yemen: A shoe at the bottom of Arabia, its sole on the Gulf of Aden, toe at the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Iraq", "picture": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through." }, { "country": "Jordan", "picture": "A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba." }, { "country": "Kuwait", "picture": "A small square in the Gulf’s top corner with a bite taken out: Kuwait Bay." }, { "country": "Oman", "picture": "A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz." }, { "country": "Qatar", "picture": "A thumb sticking up from Arabia into the Gulf." }, { "country": "United Arab Emirates", "picture": "A wedge of cheese on the Gulf coast, its tip poking toward the Strait of Hormuz." }, { "country": "Yemen", "picture": "A shoe at the bottom of Arabia, its sole on the Gulf of Aden, toe at the Bab-el-Mandeb strait." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ZA", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-za.png", "country": "South Africa", "reference": "references/ref-za.png", "hook": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big, smiling slice of cake at the southern tip of Africa, with a perfectly round hole in the middle-east where Lesotho sits as a faded mountain plug, and a small bite on its eastern edge holding a faded pebble (Eswatini). Its southern tip (Cape Agulhas) points into the meeting of two oceans with little waves. A faded shield (Botswana) and a faded square (Namibia) sit along the northern edge.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, South Africa, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big, smiling slice of cake at the southern tip of Africa, with a perfectly round hole in the middle-east where Lesotho sits as a faded mountain plug, and a small bite on its eastern edge holding a faded pebble (Eswatini). Its southern tip (Cape Agulhas) points into the meeting of two oceans with little waves. A faded shield (Botswana) and a faded square (Namibia) sit along the northern edge.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than South Africa: Botswana: A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi. Lesotho: A round blob of mountains: the whole country lies above 1,400 m, a highland island inside South Africa. Mozambique: A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Namibia: A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi. Eswatini: A small round pebble wedged between South Africa and Mozambique. Zimbabwe: A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Botswana", "picture": "A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi." }, { "country": "Lesotho", "picture": "A round blob of mountains: the whole country lies above 1,400 m, a highland island inside South Africa." }, { "country": "Mozambique", "picture": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe." }, { "country": "Namibia", "picture": "A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi." }, { "country": "Eswatini", "picture": "A small round pebble wedged between South Africa and Mozambique." }, { "country": "Zimbabwe", "picture": "A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-kr.png", "country": "South Korea", "reference": "references/ref-kr.png", "hook": "The hind legs and tail of the Korean tiger: the tail sticks out at Homigot cape, Jeju dropped below.", "picture": "The outline becomes the lower half of a striped tiger: its hind legs planted in the south, the fringe of southwestern islands as fluffy fur, and a little tail flicking out of the east coast at Homigot near Pohang. Jeju island below is a ball the tiger is playing with. Faded cameos: North Korea above as the same tiger’s head and front paws, and Japan’s curving dragon to the southeast, its tail (Kyushu) close by across the strait.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, South Korea, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes the lower half of a striped tiger: its hind legs planted in the south, the fringe of southwestern islands as fluffy fur, and a little tail flicking out of the east coast at Homigot near Pohang. Jeju island below is a ball the tiger is playing with. Faded cameos: North Korea above as the same tiger’s head and front paws, and Japan’s curving dragon to the southeast, its tail (Kyushu) close by across the strait.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than South Korea: North Korea: The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "North Korea", "picture": "The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ES", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-es.png", "country": "Spain", "reference": "references/ref-es.png", "hook": "A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west.", "picture": "The outline becomes a stretched bull’s hide pinned up to dry, with leg-like corners in the north-west (Galicia), north-east (Catalonia) and south (Andalusia), and a small sun shining over its centre where Madrid is. A friendly cartoon bull peeks out from behind it. Portugal appears on its west side as a faded standing sardine, and France to the north as a faded hexagon.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Spain, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a stretched bull’s hide pinned up to dry, with leg-like corners in the north-west (Galicia), north-east (Catalonia) and south (Andalusia), and a small sun shining over its centre where Madrid is. A friendly cartoon bull peeks out from behind it. Portugal appears on its west side as a faded standing sardine, and France to the north as a faded hexagon.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Spain: Andorra: A small round pebble stuck high in the Pyrenees, squeezed between France and Spain. France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. Portugal: A sardine standing on its tail beside Spain, its whole belly turned to the Atlantic. Morocco: The north-west corner of Africa, facing Spain across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, with a long Atlantic coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Andorra", "picture": "A small round pebble stuck high in the Pyrenees, squeezed between France and Spain." }, { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "Portugal", "picture": "A sardine standing on its tail beside Spain, its whole belly turned to the Atlantic." }, { "country": "Morocco", "picture": "The north-west corner of Africa, facing Spain across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, with a long Atlantic coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SE", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-se.png", "country": "Sweden", "reference": "references/ref-se.png", "hook": "A long cucumber leaning against Norway on the Baltic side, with Gotland floating like a seed.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long green cucumber leaning against the mountains on its western side, with a cheerful face near its southern tip and a small seed (Gotland) floating in the Baltic to the south-east. Tiny islands near Stockholm look like sesame sprinkles. Norway appears to the west as a faded ladle supporting it, and Finland to the north-east as a faded maiden.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Sweden, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long green cucumber leaning against the mountains on its western side, with a cheerful face near its southern tip and a small seed (Gotland) floating in the Baltic to the south-east. Tiny islands near Stockholm look like sesame sprinkles. Norway appears to the west as a faded ladle supporting it, and Finland to the north-east as a faded maiden.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Sweden: Finland: A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden. Norway: A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Finland", "picture": "A maiden with one arm raised: Finns call the outline “Suomi-neito”, the Finnish Maiden." }, { "country": "Norway", "picture": "A long ladle along the top of Scandinavia, its handle reaching north-east to Russia." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TH", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-th.png", "country": "Thailand", "reference": "references/ref-th.png", "hook": "An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk.", "picture": "The outline becomes a happy elephant’s head seen from the side: its forehead and eye in the north and centre, its big round ear in the northeast (the Isan plateau), and its long trunk hanging down the Malay Peninsula in the south, curling slightly at the tip. It looks gentle and playful, maybe spraying a little water. Faded cameos: Myanmar’s kite to the west with its tail fluttering beside the trunk, Cambodia’s rice bowl under the ear, and Malaysia’s finger continuing from the trunk’s tip.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Thailand, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a happy elephant’s head seen from the side: its forehead and eye in the north and centre, its big round ear in the northeast (the Isan plateau), and its long trunk hanging down the Malay Peninsula in the south, curling slightly at the tip. It looks gentle and playful, maybe spraying a little water. Faded cameos: Myanmar’s kite to the west with its tail fluttering beside the trunk, Cambodia’s rice bowl under the ear, and Malaysia’s finger continuing from the trunk’s tip.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Thailand: Myanmar (Burma): A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand. Cambodia: A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle. Laos: A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand. Malaysia: Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Myanmar (Burma)", "picture": "A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand." }, { "country": "Cambodia", "picture": "A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle." }, { "country": "Laos", "picture": "A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand." }, { "country": "Malaysia", "picture": "Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TR", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-tr.png", "country": "Türkiye", "reference": "references/ref-tr.png", "hook": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long, cheerful dachshund lying east to west: its nose and front paws are the small European part across the Bosporus in the northwest, its long body fills Anatolia, and its wagging tail is in the east. Its belly rests on the Mediterranean coast and it looks happy and curious. Faded cameos: Bulgaria’s bar of rose soap and Greece’s hand being sniffed by its nose, Iran’s sitting cat at its tail end (a friendly dog-and-cat meeting), Georgia’s fish above its back, and Syria’s pie under its belly.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Türkiye, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long, cheerful dachshund lying east to west: its nose and front paws are the small European part across the Bosporus in the northwest, its long body fills Anatolia, and its wagging tail is in the east. Its belly rests on the Mediterranean coast and it looks happy and curious. Faded cameos: Bulgaria’s bar of rose soap and Greece’s hand being sniffed by its nose, Iran’s sitting cat at its tail end (a friendly dog-and-cat meeting), Georgia’s fish above its back, and Syria’s pie under its belly.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Türkiye: Armenia: A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge. Azerbaijan: A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west. Bulgaria: A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end. Georgia: A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge. Greece: A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs. Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner. Iraq: A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through. Syria: A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Armenia", "picture": "A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge." }, { "country": "Azerbaijan", "picture": "A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west." }, { "country": "Bulgaria", "picture": "A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end." }, { "country": "Georgia", "picture": "A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge." }, { "country": "Greece", "picture": "A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs." }, { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." }, { "country": "Iraq", "picture": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through." }, { "country": "Syria", "picture": "A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-UA", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-ua.png", "country": "Ukraine", "reference": "references/ref-ua.png", "hook": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.", "picture": "The outline becomes a wide, golden round loaf of bread with a decorated crust, sliced from north to south by a blue river running through its middle like a knife cut, with a few wheat ears on top. Belarus appears to the north as a faded round bowl, Poland to the west as a faded puzzle piece, and Moldova to the south-west as a faded bunch of grapes beside the loaf.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Ukraine, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a wide, golden round loaf of bread with a decorated crust, sliced from north to south by a blue river running through its middle like a knife cut, with a few wheat ears on top. Belarus appears to the north as a faded round bowl, Poland to the west as a faded puzzle piece, and Moldova to the south-west as a faded bunch of grapes beside the loaf.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Ukraine: Belarus: A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west. Moldova: A bunch of grapes hanging between Romania and Ukraine, the Prut along its west side: fitting for a wine country. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Romania: A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Slovakia: A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belarus", "picture": "A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." }, { "country": "Moldova", "picture": "A bunch of grapes hanging between Romania and Ukraine, the Prut along its west side: fitting for a wine country." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Romania", "picture": "A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Slovakia", "picture": "A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GB", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-gb.png", "country": "United Kingdom", "reference": "references/ref-gb.png", "hook": "Great Britain is a figure striding south: Scotland the head, Wales a knee, Cornwall a kicking foot.", "picture": "The outline becomes a lively figure striding south: Scotland as a head with wild Highland hair, Wales as a bent knee bulging west, Cornwall as a foot kicking south-west, and a tiny clock tower near London in the south-east. Ireland appears to the west as a faded teddy bear sitting with its back turned, and France to the south-east as a faded hexagon across the Channel.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, United Kingdom, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a lively figure striding south: Scotland as a head with wild Highland hair, Wales as a bent knee bulging west, Cornwall as a foot kicking south-west, and a tiny clock tower near London in the south-east. Ireland appears to the west as a faded teddy bear sitting with its back turned, and France to the south-east as a faded hexagon across the Channel.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than United Kingdom: Ireland: A teddy bear sitting with its back to Britain; its top-right corner is Northern Ireland, part of the UK.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Ireland", "picture": "A teddy bear sitting with its back to Britain; its top-right corner is Northern Ireland, part of the UK." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-US", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-us.png", "country": "United States", "reference": "references/ref-us.png", "hook": "A wide pillow across the continent with two tassels: Texas and Florida; Alaska and Hawaii float off on their own.", "picture": "Turn the lower 48 states into a wide, puffy, comfy pillow stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with Texas in the south-middle and Florida in the southeast as two tassels hanging down. Keep the outline exact. The Great Lakes are little blue buttons on its top edge; the pillow yawns sleepily. Alaska (in an inset or at its true place) is a detached pillow corner, Hawaii a few tiny feathers floating in the Pacific. Faded cameos: a giant (Canada) standing on it, and a curved horn (Mexico) underneath.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, United States, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the lower 48 states into a wide, puffy, comfy pillow stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with Texas in the south-middle and Florida in the southeast as two tassels hanging down. Keep the outline exact. The Great Lakes are little blue buttons on its top edge; the pillow yawns sleepily. Alaska (in an inset or at its true place) is a detached pillow corner, Hawaii a few tiny feathers floating in the Pacific. Faded cameos: a giant (Canada) standing on it, and a curved horn (Mexico) underneath.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than United States: Canada: A giant with a big bite out of its middle — Hudson Bay — and a crown of Arctic islands on top. Mexico: A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Canada", "picture": "A giant with a big bite out of its middle — Hudson Bay — and a crown of Arctic islands on top." }, { "country": "Mexico", "picture": "A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-VN", "priority": "P1", "file": "shape-vn.png", "country": "Vietnam", "reference": "references/ref-vn.png", "hook": "A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas).", "picture": "The outline becomes a long, S-shaped bamboo carrying pole bending along the coast, with a round rice basket at each end: the northern basket over the Red River delta and the southern basket over the Mekong delta, both overflowing with rice. The pole bounces playfully as if someone is walking with it. Faded cameos: Laos’s twisted root and Cambodia’s rice bowl tucked into the curve on the west, and China’s rooster just above the northern basket.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Vietnam, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long, S-shaped bamboo carrying pole bending along the coast, with a round rice basket at each end: the northern basket over the Red River delta and the southern basket over the Mekong delta, both overflowing with rice. The pole bounces playfully as if someone is walking with it. Faded cameos: Laos’s twisted root and Cambodia’s rice bowl tucked into the curve on the west, and China’s rooster just above the northern basket.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Vietnam: Cambodia: A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Laos: A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Cambodia", "picture": "A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Laos", "picture": "A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AF", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-af.png", "country": "Afghanistan", "reference": "references/ref-af.png", "hook": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big green leaf with veins, its pointed tip in the southwest and the long thin Wakhan Corridor in the northeast drawn as its stalk, reaching east to touch China. The leaf flutters happily as if in a mountain breeze. Faded cameos: Iran as a sitting cat to the west, reaching a curious paw toward the leaf, and Pakistan as a second, slanted leaf lying along the southeast side, like two leaves fallen from the same tree.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Afghanistan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big green leaf with veins, its pointed tip in the southwest and the long thin Wakhan Corridor in the northeast drawn as its stalk, reaching east to touch China. The leaf flutters happily as if in a mountain breeze. Faded cameos: Iran as a sitting cat to the west, reaching a curious paw toward the leaf, and Pakistan as a second, slanted leaf lying along the southeast side, like two leaves fallen from the same tree.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Afghanistan: Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner. Pakistan: A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib. Turkmenistan: A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert. Uzbekistan: A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley. Tajikistan: A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." }, { "country": "Pakistan", "picture": "A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib." }, { "country": "Turkmenistan", "picture": "A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert." }, { "country": "Uzbekistan", "picture": "A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley." }, { "country": "Tajikistan", "picture": "A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AL", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-al.png", "country": "Albania", "reference": "references/ref-al.png", "hook": "A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot.", "picture": "The outline becomes a tall, slim lighthouse-keeper figure standing on the western coast, its face turned west toward the sea and a tiny eagle perched on its northern head. Mountains are drawn as bumps along its eastern side. Across the water, Italy’s heel appears as a faded high-heeled boot tip, and Greece to the south-east as a faded hand dipping three fingers in the sea, waving hello.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Albania, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a tall, slim lighthouse-keeper figure standing on the western coast, its face turned west toward the sea and a tiny eagle perched on its northern head. Mountains are drawn as bumps along its eastern side. Across the water, Italy’s heel appears as a faded high-heeled boot tip, and Greece to the south-east as a faded hand dipping three fingers in the sea, waving hello.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Albania: Montenegro: A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor. Greece: A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs. North Macedonia: A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner. Kosovo: A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Montenegro", "picture": "A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor." }, { "country": "Greece", "picture": "A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs." }, { "country": "North Macedonia", "picture": "A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Kosovo", "picture": "A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-DZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-dz.png", "country": "Algeria", "reference": "references/ref-dz.png", "hook": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a giant, good-natured sand-dune giant lying across the Sahara, its short northern coast a blue Mediterranean collar and its southern point a big sandy toe dipping towards Mali and Niger. A faded slim strip (Tunisia) leans on its north-east shoulder like a friend, and a faded bow tie (Mali) is pinned to its southern edge. A faded huge box (Libya) stands to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Algeria, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a giant, good-natured sand-dune giant lying across the Sahara, its short northern coast a blue Mediterranean collar and its southern point a big sandy toe dipping towards Mali and Niger. A faded slim strip (Tunisia) leans on its north-east shoulder like a friend, and a faded bow tie (Mali) is pinned to its southern edge. A faded huge box (Libya) stands to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Algeria: Tunisia: A slim upright strip, Africa’s northernmost tip, with the Gulf of Gabès bitten out of its east coast. Libya: A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner. Mauritania: A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends. Morocco: The north-west corner of Africa, facing Spain across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, with a long Atlantic coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Tunisia", "picture": "A slim upright strip, Africa’s northernmost tip, with the Gulf of Gabès bitten out of its east coast." }, { "country": "Libya", "picture": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Mauritania", "picture": "A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." }, { "country": "Morocco", "picture": "The north-west corner of Africa, facing Spain across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, with a long Atlantic coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ao.png", "country": "Angola", "reference": "references/ref-ao.png", "hook": "A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big golden square biscuit with a cheeky grin, the bite in its eastern side showing crumbly edges where Zambia pushes in. The detached Cabinda piece to the north is a small crumb mid-air, as if it just fell off. Faded cameos: DR Congo’s round blob sipping the Atlantic through a straw between the biscuit and its crumb, and Namibia’s square below holding its long panhandle like a tray under the biscuit.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Angola, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big golden square biscuit with a cheeky grin, the bite in its eastern side showing crumbly edges where Zambia pushes in. The detached Cabinda piece to the north is a small crumb mid-air, as if it just fell off. Faded cameos: DR Congo’s round blob sipping the Atlantic through a straw between the biscuit and its crumb, and Namibia’s square below holding its long panhandle like a tray under the biscuit.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Angola: Congo - Brazzaville: A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it. Namibia: A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Congo - Brazzaville", "picture": "A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." }, { "country": "Namibia", "picture": "A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-am.png", "country": "Armenia", "reference": "references/ref-am.png", "hook": "A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge.", "picture": "The outline becomes a soft crumpled felt hat leaning south, its narrow tip pointing down to the Iranian border, with Lake Sevan in the east drawn as a shiny blue badge pinned on it. The hat looks sleepy and cosy, maybe with an apricot tucked in the band. Faded cameos: Georgia’s long fish swimming west just above the hat, Azerbaijan’s bird’s head to the east, and its loose feather (Nakhchivan) drifting beside the hat’s southwest edge.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Armenia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a soft crumpled felt hat leaning south, its narrow tip pointing down to the Iranian border, with Lake Sevan in the east drawn as a shiny blue badge pinned on it. The hat looks sleepy and cosy, maybe with an apricot tucked in the band. Faded cameos: Georgia’s long fish swimming west just above the hat, Azerbaijan’s bird’s head to the east, and its loose feather (Nakhchivan) drifting beside the hat’s southwest edge.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Armenia: Azerbaijan: A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west. Georgia: A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge. Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Azerbaijan", "picture": "A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west." }, { "country": "Georgia", "picture": "A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge." }, { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AT", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-at.png", "country": "Austria", "reference": "references/ref-at.png", "hook": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland.", "picture": "The outline becomes a cheerful tadpole: a plump round head in the east with big eyes near Vienna, and a thin wiggly tail stretching west, its tip flicking. Small music notes float from its mouth like a waltz. Switzerland appears at the tail’s tip as a faded round loaf being tickled, and Italy below as the faded top of a boot, Germany above as a faded standing figure.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Austria, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a cheerful tadpole: a plump round head in the east with big eyes near Vienna, and a thin wiggly tail stretching west, its tip flicking. Small music notes float from its mouth like a waltz. Switzerland appears at the tail’s tip as a faded round loaf being tickled, and Italy below as the faded top of a boot, Germany above as a faded standing figure.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Austria: Czechia: A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west. Italy: A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia. Liechtenstein: A thin upright sliver on the east bank of the Rhine, squeezed between Switzerland and Austria. Slovakia: A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east. Slovenia: A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast. Switzerland: A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Czechia", "picture": "A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." }, { "country": "Italy", "picture": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia." }, { "country": "Liechtenstein", "picture": "A thin upright sliver on the east bank of the Rhine, squeezed between Switzerland and Austria." }, { "country": "Slovakia", "picture": "A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east." }, { "country": "Slovenia", "picture": "A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast." }, { "country": "Switzerland", "picture": "A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-az.png", "country": "Azerbaijan", "reference": "references/ref-az.png", "hook": "A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west.", "picture": "The outline becomes a lively bird’s head facing east, with the Absheron Peninsula as its pointed beak pecking at the Caspian Sea and the Greater Caucasus as a crest of feathers along the north. The separate Nakhchivan piece in the west is a single feather floating loose. Faded cameos: Georgia’s long fish swimming west from the back of the bird’s head, and Armenia’s crumpled hat sitting between the head and its drifting feather.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Azerbaijan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a lively bird’s head facing east, with the Absheron Peninsula as its pointed beak pecking at the Caspian Sea and the Greater Caucasus as a crest of feathers along the north. The separate Nakhchivan piece in the west is a single feather floating loose. Faded cameos: Georgia’s long fish swimming west from the back of the bird’s head, and Armenia’s crumpled hat sitting between the head and its drifting feather.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Azerbaijan: Armenia: A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge. Georgia: A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge. Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Armenia", "picture": "A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge." }, { "country": "Georgia", "picture": "A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge." }, { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bs.png", "country": "Bahamas", "reference": "references/ref-bs.png", "hook": "A spray of flat islands sprinkled southeast from Florida toward Cuba, like crumbs brushed off a table.", "picture": "Turn the scattered islands into a trail of golden cookie crumbs being brushed across a turquoise tablecloth from northwest to southeast. Keep every island outline exact. Give the biggest crumbs (Andros, Grand Bahama, Great Abaco) small smiling faces. Faded cameos: Florida as a dangling pillow tassel (United States) in the northwest, and a long friendly crocodile (Cuba) along the south, mouth open to catch falling crumbs.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bahamas, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the scattered islands into a trail of golden cookie crumbs being brushed across a turquoise tablecloth from northwest to southeast. Keep every island outline exact. Give the biggest crumbs (Andros, Grand Bahama, Great Abaco) small smiling faces. Faded cameos: Florida as a dangling pillow tassel (United States) in the northwest, and a long friendly crocodile (Cuba) along the south, mouth open to catch falling crumbs.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BD", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bd.png", "country": "Bangladesh", "reference": "references/ref-bd.png", "hook": "A hand of river channels reaching into the Bay of Bengal, hugged almost all round by India.", "picture": "The outline becomes an open green hand whose fingers are watery river channels spreading south into the Bay of Bengal, with the thin southeastern strip as a thumb. Little boats float between the fingers and the hand waves cheerfully. Faded cameos: India’s big kite curving around the west, north and east as if giving a hug, and Myanmar’s kite with its long tail just southeast, touching the thumb.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bangladesh, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes an open green hand whose fingers are watery river channels spreading south into the Bay of Bengal, with the thin southeastern strip as a thumb. Little boats float between the fingers and the hand waves cheerfully. Faded cameos: India’s big kite curving around the west, north and east as if giving a hug, and Myanmar’s kite with its long tail just southeast, touching the thumb.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Bangladesh: Myanmar (Burma): A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand. India: A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Myanmar (Burma)", "picture": "A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand." }, { "country": "India", "picture": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-by.png", "country": "Belarus", "reference": "references/ref-by.png", "hook": "A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump, round ceramic bowl with a gentle face, painted with a red-and-white woven pattern along its rim, full of forest green and a tiny sleeping mink curled in the middle. Poland appears to the west as a faded round puzzle piece clicking into place beside it, and Ukraine to the south as a faded wide loaf of bread the bowl rests on.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Belarus, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump, round ceramic bowl with a gentle face, painted with a red-and-white woven pattern along its rim, full of forest green and a tiny sleeping mink curled in the middle. Poland appears to the west as a faded round puzzle piece clicking into place beside it, and Ukraine to the south as a faded wide loaf of bread the bowl rests on.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Belarus: Latvia: A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga. Lithuania: The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Latvia", "picture": "A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga." }, { "country": "Lithuania", "picture": "The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-be.png", "country": "Belgium", "reference": "references/ref-be.png", "hook": "A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg.", "picture": "The outline becomes a slice of layered cake lying on its side, with a crispy crust along the short north-west coast and cream layers running across. Its pointy south-east tip pokes playfully at Luxembourg, drawn as a faded little shield. The Netherlands appears to the north as a faded low square and France to the south as a faded hexagon, both eyeing the cake.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Belgium, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a slice of layered cake lying on its side, with a crispy crust along the short north-west coast and cream layers running across. Its pointy south-east tip pokes playfully at Luxembourg, drawn as a faded little shield. The Netherlands appears to the north as a faded low square and France to the south as a faded hexagon, both eyeing the cake.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Belgium: France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet. Luxembourg: A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany. Netherlands: A low square with a bite out of its middle (the IJsselmeer) and islands strung along the top like beads.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." }, { "country": "Luxembourg", "picture": "A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany." }, { "country": "Netherlands", "picture": "A low square with a bite out of its middle (the IJsselmeer) and islands strung along the top like beads." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bz.png", "country": "Belize", "reference": "references/ref-bz.png", "hook": "A slice of toast standing upright under Mexico’s Yucatán thumb, its crumbs (the cays) scattered along the reef.", "picture": "Turn the outline into an upright slice of golden toast: the straight western edge is the crust against Guatemala, the ragged eastern coast is the bitten edge, and the offshore cays are crumbs scattered along a coral-pink reef line. Keep the outline exact. The toast smiles and stretches its arms. Faded cameos: Mexico’s Yucatán thumb resting on its top, and a steaming coffee pot (Guatemala) to the west, pouring toward it.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Belize, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into an upright slice of golden toast: the straight western edge is the crust against Guatemala, the ragged eastern coast is the bitten edge, and the offshore cays are crumbs scattered along a coral-pink reef line. Keep the outline exact. The toast smiles and stretches its arms. Faded cameos: Mexico’s Yucatán thumb resting on its top, and a steaming coffee pot (Guatemala) to the west, pouring toward it.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Belize: Guatemala: A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean. Mexico: A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Guatemala", "picture": "A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean." }, { "country": "Mexico", "picture": "A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BJ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bj.png", "country": "Benin", "reference": "references/ref-bj.png", "hook": "A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a tall, friendly torch: the narrow southern coast is the wooden handle and the wider north becomes a cheerful, flickering flame whose tip touches a blue Niger River at the top. A faded thin ribbon (Togo) flutters along its western side, and a faint chunky box (Nigeria) on the east seems to hold the torch up. A small faded bean (Burkina Faso) warms itself by the flame in the north-west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Benin, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a tall, friendly torch: the narrow southern coast is the wooden handle and the wider north becomes a cheerful, flickering flame whose tip touches a blue Niger River at the top. A faded thin ribbon (Togo) flutters along its western side, and a faint chunky box (Nigeria) on the east seems to hold the torch up. A small faded bean (Burkina Faso) warms itself by the flame in the north-west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Benin: Burkina Faso: A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner. Nigeria: A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle. Togo: A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Burkina Faso", "picture": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Nigeria", "picture": "A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle." }, { "country": "Togo", "picture": "A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BT", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bt.png", "country": "Bhutan", "reference": "references/ref-bt.png", "hook": "A plump dumpling squeezed between China and India high in the Himalayas.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump steamed dumpling with pleats along its northern Himalayan edge, little snowy peaks on top like sprinkles, and rosy cheeks. It sits snugly and smiles contentedly. Faded cameos: China’s rooster tail feathers fanning above it, India’s big kite below it, and Nepal’s long brick a little way to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bhutan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump steamed dumpling with pleats along its northern Himalayan edge, little snowy peaks on top like sprinkles, and rosy cheeks. It sits snugly and smiles contentedly. Faded cameos: China’s rooster tail feathers fanning above it, India’s big kite below it, and Nepal’s long brick a little way to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Bhutan: China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. India: A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "India", "picture": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bo.png", "country": "Bolivia", "reference": "references/ref-bo.png", "hook": "A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big friendly potato with knobbly bumps all around, a little green sprout growing out of the northern tip (Pando) and a small lake-blue dimple on the western edge for Lake Titicaca. Keep the outline exact. The potato smiles and wiggles its sprout. Faded cameos: a kite (Peru) to the northwest, a red chili (Chile) to the southwest, an ice-cream cone (Argentina) below and a big parrot head (Brazil) peeking from the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bolivia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big friendly potato with knobbly bumps all around, a little green sprout growing out of the northern tip (Pando) and a small lake-blue dimple on the western edge for Lake Titicaca. Keep the outline exact. The potato smiles and wiggles its sprout. Faded cameos: a kite (Peru) to the northwest, a red chili (Chile) to the southwest, an ice-cream cone (Argentina) below and a big parrot head (Brazil) peeking from the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Bolivia: Argentina: A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili. Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Chile: A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili. Paraguay: A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body. Peru: A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Argentina", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili." }, { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Chile", "picture": "A long, thin chili pepper hanging down the Pacific coast: Chile = chili." }, { "country": "Paraguay", "picture": "A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body." }, { "country": "Peru", "picture": "A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BA", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ba.png", "country": "Bosnia & Herzegovina", "reference": "references/ref-ba.png", "hook": "A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big friendly heart with rosy cheeks, its narrow southern tip just dipping a toe into the sea at Neum. A small palace dome sits in its middle. Croatia appears as a faded boomerang curling around the heart’s west and north like a hugging arm, and Serbia to the east as a faded arrowhead pointing south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bosnia & Herzegovina, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big friendly heart with rosy cheeks, its narrow southern tip just dipping a toe into the sea at Neum. A small palace dome sits in its middle. Croatia appears as a faded boomerang curling around the heart’s west and north like a hugging arm, and Serbia to the east as a faded arrowhead pointing south.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Bosnia & Herzegovina: Croatia: A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia. Montenegro: A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Croatia", "picture": "A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia." }, { "country": "Montenegro", "picture": "A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bw.png", "country": "Botswana", "reference": "references/ref-bw.png", "hook": "A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi.", "picture": "Make the outline a sandy-coloured shield with a zebra-striped band across it and a calm, proud face, the Okavango Delta drawn as a little green fan of water in the north-west. Along its northern top lies a faded cameo of Namibia’s long panhandle, like a handle carried over the shield. At the tiny north-east point, a faint butterfly wingtip (Zambia) touches it, as if landing on the shield’s corner.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Botswana, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a sandy-coloured shield with a zebra-striped band across it and a calm, proud face, the Okavango Delta drawn as a little green fan of water in the north-west. Along its northern top lies a faded cameo of Namibia’s long panhandle, like a handle carried over the shield. At the tiny north-east point, a faint butterfly wingtip (Zambia) touches it, as if landing on the shield’s corner.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Botswana: Namibia: A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi. South Africa: The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it. Zimbabwe: A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Namibia", "picture": "A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi." }, { "country": "South Africa", "picture": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." }, { "country": "Zimbabwe", "picture": "A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BN", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bn.png", "country": "Brunei", "reference": "references/ref-bn.png", "hook": "Two crumbs on Borneo’s north coast, split apart by a sliver of Malaysia.", "picture": "The outline becomes two golden cake crumbs lying on Borneo’s northern shore, the bigger one in the west and the tiny one in the east, both with sweet little faces looking at each other across the gap. Faded cameo: Malaysia’s big slice of Borneo surrounding them, its thin Limbang sliver poking between the two crumbs like a curious finger, and the body of Indonesia’s island dragon resting in the south of the island.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Brunei, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes two golden cake crumbs lying on Borneo’s northern shore, the bigger one in the west and the tiny one in the east, both with sweet little faces looking at each other across the gap. Faded cameo: Malaysia’s big slice of Borneo surrounding them, its thin Limbang sliver poking between the two crumbs like a curious finger, and the body of Indonesia’s island dragon resting in the south of the island.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Brunei: Malaysia: Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Malaysia", "picture": "Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BG", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bg.png", "country": "Bulgaria", "reference": "references/ref-bg.png", "hook": "A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end.", "picture": "The outline becomes a pink bar of rose soap with a rose pressed into its middle, bubbles foaming along the eastern Black Sea edge and a blue ribbon of Danube water rinsing its northern top. A line of tiny mountains runs across its middle. Romania appears to the north as a faded round fish splashing in the Danube, and Greece to the south as a faded hand reaching up to grab the soap.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bulgaria, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a pink bar of rose soap with a rose pressed into its middle, bubbles foaming along the eastern Black Sea edge and a blue ribbon of Danube water rinsing its northern top. A line of tiny mountains runs across its middle. Romania appears to the north as a faded round fish splashing in the Danube, and Greece to the south as a faded hand reaching up to grab the soap.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Bulgaria: Greece: A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs. North Macedonia: A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner. Romania: A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Greece", "picture": "A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs." }, { "country": "North Macedonia", "picture": "A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Romania", "picture": "A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BF", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bf.png", "country": "Burkina Faso", "reference": "references/ref-bf.png", "hook": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire.", "picture": "Make the outline a plump, sleepy cocoa bean lying on its side, its rounded western end a little head with closed eyes and its eastern end tapering towards Niger. It lounges on top of a faded chocolate bar (Ghana) to the south, with a faded ivory tile (Côte d’Ivoire) and a thin ribbon (Togo) also under it. In the north-west, a faint bow tie (Mali) is draped over its shoulder like a scarf.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Burkina Faso, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a plump, sleepy cocoa bean lying on its side, its rounded western end a little head with closed eyes and its eastern end tapering towards Niger. It lounges on top of a faded chocolate bar (Ghana) to the south, with a faded ivory tile (Côte d’Ivoire) and a thin ribbon (Togo) also under it. In the north-west, a faint bow tie (Mali) is draped over its shoulder like a scarf.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Burkina Faso: Benin: A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River. Côte d’Ivoire: A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons. Ghana: A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner. Togo: A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Benin", "picture": "A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River." }, { "country": "Côte d’Ivoire", "picture": "A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons." }, { "country": "Ghana", "picture": "A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Togo", "picture": "A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BI", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-bi.png", "country": "Burundi", "reference": "references/ref-bi.png", "hook": "A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a small, warm red-and-green heart with a shy smile, its point at the south-west resting on the blue tip of Lake Tanganyika. Directly north, a faded cameo of Rwanda as a little knot of green hills leans down as if hugging its twin. To the east, a faint square framed by lakes (Tanzania) watches, and DR Congo’s round blob is a pale shape across the water to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Burundi, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a small, warm red-and-green heart with a shy smile, its point at the south-west resting on the blue tip of Lake Tanganyika. Directly north, a faded cameo of Rwanda as a little knot of green hills leans down as if hugging its twin. To the east, a faint square framed by lakes (Tanzania) watches, and DR Congo’s round blob is a pale shape across the water to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Burundi: Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Rwanda: A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Rwanda", "picture": "A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KH", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-kh.png", "country": "Cambodia", "reference": "references/ref-kh.png", "hook": "A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round, happy rice bowl, with Tonlé Sap lake in the west-centre drawn as a heap of white rice and the Mekong as a blue chopstick-like line down the eastern side. Steam curls up and the bowl smiles. Faded cameos: Vietnam’s long S-shaped carrying pole curving around the east and south with a rice basket under the bowl, Thailand’s elephant head to the west, and Laos’s twisted root dangling into the bowl from the north.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Cambodia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round, happy rice bowl, with Tonlé Sap lake in the west-centre drawn as a heap of white rice and the Mekong as a blue chopstick-like line down the eastern side. Steam curls up and the bowl smiles. Faded cameos: Vietnam’s long S-shaped carrying pole curving around the east and south with a rice basket under the bowl, Thailand’s elephant head to the west, and Laos’s twisted root dangling into the bowl from the north.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Cambodia: Laos: A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand. Thailand: An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk. Vietnam: A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas).\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Laos", "picture": "A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand." }, { "country": "Thailand", "picture": "An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk." }, { "country": "Vietnam", "picture": "A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas)." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cm.png", "country": "Cameroon", "reference": "references/ref-cm.png", "hook": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a friendly triangular figure sitting on the Gulf of Guinea, its long thin northern arm stretched up to dip its fingertips into a small blue Lake Chad at the top, with a delighted face. A faded small square with a tiny island (Equatorial Guinea) sits by its southern foot, and a faded plump cushion (Gabon) rests below. Nigeria’s faded box stands on the west side of the arm.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Cameroon, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a friendly triangular figure sitting on the Gulf of Guinea, its long thin northern arm stretched up to dip its fingertips into a small blue Lake Chad at the top, with a delighted face. A faded small square with a tiny island (Equatorial Guinea) sits by its southern foot, and a faded plump cushion (Gabon) rests below. Nigeria’s faded box stands on the west side of the arm.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Cameroon: Central African Republic: A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge. Chad: A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge. Congo - Brazzaville: A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers. Equatorial Guinea: A small square on the mainland (Río Muni) plus Bioko island off Cameroon’s coast. Gabon: A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic. Nigeria: A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Central African Republic", "picture": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge." }, { "country": "Chad", "picture": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge." }, { "country": "Congo - Brazzaville", "picture": "A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers." }, { "country": "Equatorial Guinea", "picture": "A small square on the mainland (Río Muni) plus Bioko island off Cameroon’s coast." }, { "country": "Gabon", "picture": "A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic." }, { "country": "Nigeria", "picture": "A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CV", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cv.png", "country": "Cape Verde", "reference": "references/ref-cv.png", "hook": "Ten islands in a horseshoe opening west, off Senegal’s Cap-Vert peninsula that gave them their name.", "picture": "Make the island outlines into a lucky golden horseshoe floating in the deep blue Atlantic, open to the west, each island a shiny nail-hole bump with tiny waves around it. On the right edge, a faded cameo of Senegal as a head facing west, its pointed nose (Dakar) aimed at the horseshoe with curious eyes. Keep each island’s outline exactly; the horseshoe is suggested by colour and sparkle.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Cape Verde, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the island outlines into a lucky golden horseshoe floating in the deep blue Atlantic, open to the west, each island a shiny nail-hole bump with tiny waves around it. On the right edge, a faded cameo of Senegal as a head facing west, its pointed nose (Dakar) aimed at the horseshoe with curious eyes. Keep each island’s outline exactly; the horseshoe is suggested by colour and sparkle.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CF", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cf.png", "country": "Central African Republic", "reference": "references/ref-cf.png", "hook": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a soft, lumpy oval cushion lying on its side, with a sleepy smile, its southern edge stitched with a blue thread for the Ubangi River. A faded huge blob (DR Congo) lies below the stitches, and a faded second lumpy oval (South Sudan) rests beside it to the east like a matching cushion. Chad appears as a faint big block leaning on top.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Central African Republic, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a soft, lumpy oval cushion lying on its side, with a sleepy smile, its southern edge stitched with a blue thread for the Ubangi River. A faded huge blob (DR Congo) lies below the stitches, and a faded second lumpy oval (South Sudan) rests beside it to the east like a matching cushion. Chad appears as a faint big block leaning on top.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Central African Republic: Cameroon: A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad. Chad: A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Congo - Brazzaville: A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers. South Sudan: A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Cameroon", "picture": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad." }, { "country": "Chad", "picture": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Congo - Brazzaville", "picture": "A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers." }, { "country": "South Sudan", "picture": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TD", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-td.png", "country": "Chad", "reference": "references/ref-td.png", "hook": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a big, sturdy block with a calm face, sandy gold in the north with dark Tibesti peaks in the north-west, turning to green savanna in the south. On its western edge, a small blue Lake Chad sparkles, and a faded thin arm (Cameroon) reaches up from the south-west to dip its fingers in. A faded lumpy oval cushion (Central African Republic) lies underneath the block.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Chad, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a big, sturdy block with a calm face, sandy gold in the north with dark Tibesti peaks in the north-west, turning to green savanna in the south. On its western edge, a small blue Lake Chad sparkles, and a faded thin arm (Cameroon) reaches up from the south-west to dip its fingers in. A faded lumpy oval cushion (Central African Republic) lies underneath the block.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Chad: Cameroon: A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad. Central African Republic: A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge. Libya: A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner. Nigeria: A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Cameroon", "picture": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad." }, { "country": "Central African Republic", "picture": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge." }, { "country": "Libya", "picture": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Nigeria", "picture": "A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-co.png", "country": "Colombia", "reference": "references/ref-co.png", "hook": "The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a giant jigsaw-puzzle corner piece come to life: its two straight-feeling coasts (Caribbean in the north, Pacific in the west) are the smooth edges, the thin southern tail to Leticia is a little tab. Keep the outline exact. Give it a happy face in the Andes and a tiny steaming coffee cup in its hand. Faded cameos: an S-shaped strip (Panama) clicking into the northwest corner, a wide shape with an open mouth (Venezuela) to the east, a kite (Peru) below.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Colombia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a giant jigsaw-puzzle corner piece come to life: its two straight-feeling coasts (Caribbean in the north, Pacific in the west) are the smooth edges, the thin southern tail to Leticia is a little tab. Keep the outline exact. Give it a happy face in the Andes and a tiny steaming coffee cup in its hand. Faded cameos: an S-shaped strip (Panama) clicking into the northwest corner, a wide shape with an open mouth (Venezuela) to the east, a kite (Peru) below.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Colombia: Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Ecuador: A wedge of cake balancing on the equator line, dropping Galápagos crumbs far out in the Pacific. Panama: A sideways S-shaped strip linking Central and South America, cut through by the Panama Canal. Peru: A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner. Venezuela: A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Ecuador", "picture": "A wedge of cake balancing on the equator line, dropping Galápagos crumbs far out in the Pacific." }, { "country": "Panama", "picture": "A sideways S-shaped strip linking Central and South America, cut through by the Panama Canal." }, { "country": "Peru", "picture": "A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner." }, { "country": "Venezuela", "picture": "A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CG", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cg.png", "country": "Congo - Brazzaville", "reference": "references/ref-cg.png", "hook": "A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers.", "picture": "Make the outline a long, wobbly S-shaped river snake, friendly and curious, with its tail at the short south-western coast and its head at the northern tip, leaning north-east. Its whole eastern side slides along a blue river ribbon, with a faded huge blob (DR Congo) across the water. Gabon is a faded plump cushion that the S curls around, and a small faded crumb (Cabinda) sits by its tail.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Congo - Brazzaville, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a long, wobbly S-shaped river snake, friendly and curious, with its tail at the short south-western coast and its head at the northern tip, leaning north-east. Its whole eastern side slides along a blue river ribbon, with a faded huge blob (DR Congo) across the water. Gabon is a faded plump cushion that the S curls around, and a small faded crumb (Cabinda) sits by its tail.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Congo - Brazzaville: Angola: A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north. Cameroon: A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad. Central African Republic: A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Gabon: A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Angola", "picture": "A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north." }, { "country": "Cameroon", "picture": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad." }, { "country": "Central African Republic", "picture": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Gabon", "picture": "A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CD", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cd.png", "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "reference": "references/ref-cd.png", "hook": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a huge, round, leafy-green blob creature with a happy face, the Congo River curling across its body like a blue ribbon, sipping the Atlantic through a striped straw at its thin western strip. Its south-eastern finger (the Congo Pedicle) playfully pokes a faded butterfly (Zambia) below. A faded square biscuit (Angola) sits underneath, with its little crumb (Cabinda) on the far side of the straw.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Congo - Kinshasa, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a huge, round, leafy-green blob creature with a happy face, the Congo River curling across its body like a blue ribbon, sipping the Atlantic through a striped straw at its thin western strip. Its south-eastern finger (the Congo Pedicle) playfully pokes a faded butterfly (Zambia) below. A faded square biscuit (Angola) sits underneath, with its little crumb (Cabinda) on the far side of the straw.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Congo - Kinshasa: Angola: A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north. Burundi: A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda. Central African Republic: A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge. Congo - Brazzaville: A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers. Rwanda: A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below. South Sudan: A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast. Uganda: A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Angola", "picture": "A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north." }, { "country": "Burundi", "picture": "A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda." }, { "country": "Central African Republic", "picture": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge." }, { "country": "Congo - Brazzaville", "picture": "A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers." }, { "country": "Rwanda", "picture": "A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below." }, { "country": "South Sudan", "picture": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." }, { "country": "Uganda", "picture": "A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CR", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cr.png", "country": "Costa Rica", "reference": "references/ref-cr.png", "hook": "A short stretch of isthmus between Nicaragua and Panama, the Nicoya Peninsula sticking out like a thumb into the Pacific.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a friendly hand giving a thumbs-up: the Nicoya Peninsula (northwest, on the Pacific) is the raised thumb, the Osa Peninsula (south) a little finger, the Caribbean coast the back of the hand. Keep the outline exact. Draw a small smiling volcano in the middle of the country. Faded cameos: a wedge of cheese with a big hole (Nicaragua) on top, and an S-shaped ribbon (Panama) the hand is holding at the southeast end.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Costa Rica, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a friendly hand giving a thumbs-up: the Nicoya Peninsula (northwest, on the Pacific) is the raised thumb, the Osa Peninsula (south) a little finger, the Caribbean coast the back of the hand. Keep the outline exact. Draw a small smiling volcano in the middle of the country. Faded cameos: a wedge of cheese with a big hole (Nicaragua) on top, and an S-shaped ribbon (Panama) the hand is holding at the southeast end.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Costa Rica: Nicaragua: A wedge of cheese, tip at the Gulf of Fonseca, with a giant hole (Lake Nicaragua) in its southwest corner. Panama: A sideways S-shaped strip linking Central and South America, cut through by the Panama Canal.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Nicaragua", "picture": "A wedge of cheese, tip at the Gulf of Fonseca, with a giant hole (Lake Nicaragua) in its southwest corner." }, { "country": "Panama", "picture": "A sideways S-shaped strip linking Central and South America, cut through by the Panama Canal." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CI", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ci.png", "country": "Côte d’Ivoire", "reference": "references/ref-ci.png", "hook": "A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons.", "picture": "Make the outline a smooth, creamy ivory tile with softly carved edges and a gentle smile, its straight southern edge turning into a sandy beach with little blue lagoons. A friendly cartoon elephant could peek over the tile from the north as a decoration, staying inside the outline. Faded cameos: a slanted slice of toast (Liberia) to the west, a chocolate bar (Ghana) to the east, and a cocoa bean (Burkina Faso) resting on the north edge.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Côte d’Ivoire, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a smooth, creamy ivory tile with softly carved edges and a gentle smile, its straight southern edge turning into a sandy beach with little blue lagoons. A friendly cartoon elephant could peek over the tile from the north as a decoration, staying inside the outline. Faded cameos: a slanted slice of toast (Liberia) to the west, a chocolate bar (Ghana) to the east, and a cocoa bean (Burkina Faso) resting on the north edge.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Côte d’Ivoire: Burkina Faso: A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Ghana: A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle. Guinea: A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia. Liberia: A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Burkina Faso", "picture": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire." }, { "country": "Ghana", "picture": "A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle." }, { "country": "Guinea", "picture": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia." }, { "country": "Liberia", "picture": "A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-HR", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-hr.png", "country": "Croatia", "reference": "references/ref-hr.png", "hook": "A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia.", "picture": "The outline becomes a curved croissant-boomerang, flaky layers drawn along the long Adriatic arm, with island crumbs scattered off the coast. A little checkerboard pattern decorates its crust near Zagreb at the elbow. Bosnia appears inside the curve as a faded heart being hugged, Slovenia at the north-west tip as a faded running hen, and Hungary to the north as a faded oval.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Croatia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a curved croissant-boomerang, flaky layers drawn along the long Adriatic arm, with island crumbs scattered off the coast. A little checkerboard pattern decorates its crust near Zagreb at the elbow. Bosnia appears inside the curve as a faded heart being hugged, Slovenia at the north-west tip as a faded running hen, and Hungary to the north as a faded oval.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Croatia: Bosnia & Herzegovina: A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west. Montenegro: A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania. Slovenia: A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bosnia & Herzegovina", "picture": "A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." }, { "country": "Montenegro", "picture": "A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." }, { "country": "Slovenia", "picture": "A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CU", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cu.png", "country": "Cuba", "reference": "references/ref-cu.png", "hook": "A long crocodile — Cubans call it “El Caimán” — swimming just south of Florida.", "picture": "Turn the long island into a cheerful green crocodile swimming east: the thin western tip (Pinar del Río) is the tail, the wide eastern end (near Guantánamo) is the head with a big toothless smile, small bays along the north coast as scales. Keep the outline exact. Isla de la Juventud below is a round egg floating behind it. Faded cameos: a dangling pillow tassel (Florida) to the north, a turtle (Jamaica) swimming to the south, a crab claw (Haiti) reaching out from the east to shake hands.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Cuba, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the long island into a cheerful green crocodile swimming east: the thin western tip (Pinar del Río) is the tail, the wide eastern end (near Guantánamo) is the head with a big toothless smile, small bays along the north coast as scales. Keep the outline exact. Isla de la Juventud below is a round egg floating behind it. Faded cameos: a dangling pillow tassel (Florida) to the north, a turtle (Jamaica) swimming to the south, a crab claw (Haiti) reaching out from the east to shake hands.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cy.png", "country": "Cyprus", "reference": "references/ref-cy.png", "hook": "A frying pan whose long handle (the Karpas peninsula) points north-east towards Syria.", "picture": "The outline becomes a cast-iron frying pan with the long thin Karpas peninsula as its handle pointing north-east, mountains in the south-west drawn as a little heap of food sizzling. A small olive branch lies across the pan. Turkey appears to the north as a faded long dachshund sniffing the handle, and Syria to the east as a faded slice of pie the handle points at.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Cyprus, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a cast-iron frying pan with the long thin Karpas peninsula as its handle pointing north-east, mountains in the south-west drawn as a little heap of food sizzling. A small olive branch lies across the pan. Turkey appears to the north as a faded long dachshund sniffing the handle, and Syria to the east as a faded slice of pie the handle points at.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-cz.png", "country": "Czechia", "reference": "references/ref-cz.png", "hook": "A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round-headed carp swimming west, its big head in Bohemia with mountain ridges drawn as a frilly rim around it, and its tail fin in Moravia to the east. A tiny castle sits in the middle of its head where Prague is. Slovakia appears to the east as a faded hedgehog sniffing the tail, and Austria to the south as a faded tadpole swimming alongside.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Czechia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round-headed carp swimming west, its big head in Bohemia with mountain ridges drawn as a frilly rim around it, and its tail fin in Moravia to the east. A tiny castle sits in the middle of its head where Prague is. Slovakia appears to the east as a faded hedgehog sniffing the tail, and Austria to the south as a faded tadpole swimming alongside.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Czechia: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Slovakia: A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Slovakia", "picture": "A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-DK", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-dk.png", "country": "Denmark", "reference": "references/ref-dk.png", "hook": "Jutland is a thumb pointing up at Norway.", "picture": "The outline becomes a hand giving a thumbs-up: Jutland is the thumb pointing north, and the islands to the east (Funen, Zealand) are curled fingers, with a little harbour boat by Copenhagen. Norway appears to the north as a faded ladle the thumb is pointing at, Germany to the south as a faded figure wearing Denmark like a hat, and Sweden to the east as a faded cucumber.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Denmark, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a hand giving a thumbs-up: Jutland is the thumb pointing north, and the islands to the east (Funen, Zealand) are curled fingers, with a little harbour boat by Copenhagen. Norway appears to the north as a faded ladle the thumb is pointing at, Germany to the south as a faded figure wearing Denmark like a hat, and Sweden to the east as a faded cucumber.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Denmark: Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-DJ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-dj.png", "country": "Djibouti", "reference": "references/ref-dj.png", "hook": "A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a small, cheeky red crab claw opening to the east, its two pincers wrapped around the blue Gulf of Tadjoura. A faded shoe (Yemen) sits across the narrow strait to the north-east, its toe just out of the claw’s reach, as if the crab is about to tickle it. Ethiopia appears as a faded big round shield behind the claw to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Djibouti, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a small, cheeky red crab claw opening to the east, its two pincers wrapped around the blue Gulf of Tadjoura. A faded shoe (Yemen) sits across the narrow strait to the north-east, its toe just out of the claw’s reach, as if the crab is about to tickle it. Ethiopia appears as a faded big round shield behind the claw to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Djibouti: Eritrea: A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti. Ethiopia: A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti. Somalia: A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Eritrea", "picture": "A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti." }, { "country": "Ethiopia", "picture": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti." }, { "country": "Somalia", "picture": "A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-DO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-do.png", "country": "Dominican Republic", "reference": "references/ref-do.png", "hook": "The plump shell of a crab: the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, while Haiti is its open claw to the west.", "picture": "Turn the outline into the round, bumpy shell and body of a friendly crab seen from above, with the Samaná Peninsula (northeast) as a small leg kicking out and the southeastern corner as another leg. Keep the outline exact. The crab smiles and its little eyes on stalks rise from the north coast. Its big claw is Haiti, shown faded to the west, opened wide around the gulf. Faded cameo: the head of a crocodile (Cuba) peeking in from the northwest.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Dominican Republic, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into the round, bumpy shell and body of a friendly crab seen from above, with the Samaná Peninsula (northeast) as a small leg kicking out and the southeastern corner as another leg. Keep the outline exact. The crab smiles and its little eyes on stalks rise from the north coast. Its big claw is Haiti, shown faded to the west, opened wide around the gulf. Faded cameo: the head of a crocodile (Cuba) peeking in from the northwest.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Dominican Republic: Haiti: The western third of Hispaniola: two long peninsulas open like a crab’s claw around the Gulf of Gonâve.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Haiti", "picture": "The western third of Hispaniola: two long peninsulas open like a crab’s claw around the Gulf of Gonâve." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-EC", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ec.png", "country": "Ecuador", "reference": "references/ref-ec.png", "hook": "A wedge of cake balancing on the equator line, dropping Galápagos crumbs far out in the Pacific.", "picture": "Turn the mainland outline into a cheerful wedge of cake sitting on a thin golden line (the equator) drawn across its northern part, as if balancing on a tightrope. Keep the outline exact. The cake has volcano-shaped candles along its central Andes. Far to the west, the Galápagos islands are little crumbs with a tiny tortoise on one of them. Faded cameos: a jigsaw corner piece (Colombia) to the north and a kite (Peru) wrapping the south and east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Ecuador, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the mainland outline into a cheerful wedge of cake sitting on a thin golden line (the equator) drawn across its northern part, as if balancing on a tightrope. Keep the outline exact. The cake has volcano-shaped candles along its central Andes. Far to the west, the Galápagos islands are little crumbs with a tiny tortoise on one of them. Faded cameos: a jigsaw corner piece (Colombia) to the north and a kite (Peru) wrapping the south and east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Ecuador: Colombia: The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon. Peru: A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Colombia", "picture": "The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon." }, { "country": "Peru", "picture": "A broad tilted kite on the Pacific below Ecuador, with Lake Titicaca at its southeastern corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SV", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sv.png", "country": "El Salvador", "reference": "references/ref-sv.png", "hook": "A plump caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific shore, its humps a row of volcanoes.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a plump green caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific coast: its head at the western end near Guatemala, its tail at the Gulf of Fonseca in the east, and small cone-shaped humps along its back for the volcanoes. Keep the outline exact. The caterpillar smiles and has tiny feet along the southern (Pacific) edge. Faded cameos: a coffee pot (Guatemala) ahead to the west and a watermelon slice (Honduras) along its north, which it eyes happily.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, El Salvador, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a plump green caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific coast: its head at the western end near Guatemala, its tail at the Gulf of Fonseca in the east, and small cone-shaped humps along its back for the volcanoes. Keep the outline exact. The caterpillar smiles and has tiny feet along the southern (Pacific) edge. Faded cameos: a coffee pot (Guatemala) ahead to the west and a watermelon slice (Honduras) along its north, which it eyes happily.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than El Salvador: Guatemala: A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean. Honduras: A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Guatemala", "picture": "A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean." }, { "country": "Honduras", "picture": "A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GQ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gq.png", "country": "Equatorial Guinea", "reference": "references/ref-gq.png", "hook": "A small square on the mainland (Río Muni) plus Bioko island off Cameroon’s coast.", "picture": "Draw the mainland outline as a small, neat square gift box with a friendly face, tucked under a faded wide triangle (Cameroon), with a faded plump cushion (Gabon) hugging its east and south. Bioko island to the north-west is a little green volcano with a puff of cloud, floating just off the faded triangle’s coast like a balloon tied to the box. Keep the tiny southern island Annobón as a dot.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Equatorial Guinea, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the mainland outline as a small, neat square gift box with a friendly face, tucked under a faded wide triangle (Cameroon), with a faded plump cushion (Gabon) hugging its east and south. Bioko island to the north-west is a little green volcano with a puff of cloud, floating just off the faded triangle’s coast like a balloon tied to the box. Keep the tiny southern island Annobón as a dot.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Equatorial Guinea: Cameroon: A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad. Gabon: A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Cameroon", "picture": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad." }, { "country": "Gabon", "picture": "A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ER", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-er.png", "country": "Eritrea", "reference": "references/ref-er.png", "hook": "A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti.", "picture": "Make the outline a kitchen funnel lying along the Red Sea, its wide mouth in the north-west and its thin spout running south-east, pouring a sparkle of sand towards a faded crab claw (Djibouti) at the tip. A faded big round shield (Ethiopia) stands behind the funnel to the south, and a faded shoe (Yemen) sits across the blue sea to the east, watching. Add a tiny olive sprig as decoration on the funnel.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Eritrea, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a kitchen funnel lying along the Red Sea, its wide mouth in the north-west and its thin spout running south-east, pouring a sparkle of sand towards a faded crab claw (Djibouti) at the tip. A faded big round shield (Ethiopia) stands behind the funnel to the south, and a faded shoe (Yemen) sits across the blue sea to the east, watching. Add a tiny olive sprig as decoration on the funnel.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Eritrea: Djibouti: A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea. Ethiopia: A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Djibouti", "picture": "A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea." }, { "country": "Ethiopia", "picture": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-EE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ee.png", "country": "Estonia", "reference": "references/ref-ee.png", "hook": "A slice of rye bread with crumbs (Saaremaa, Hiiumaa) falling off its west edge into the Baltic.", "picture": "The outline becomes a thick slice of dark rye bread with a soft face, its west edge crumbling into two big crumbs (Saaremaa and Hiiumaa) floating in the sea. A tiny tower sits on the north coast where Tallinn is. Finland appears across the water to the north as a faded maiden reaching for the bread, and Latvia to the south as a faded strip with a round bite out of it.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Estonia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a thick slice of dark rye bread with a soft face, its west edge crumbling into two big crumbs (Saaremaa and Hiiumaa) floating in the sea. A tiny tower sits on the north coast where Tallinn is. Finland appears across the water to the north as a faded maiden reaching for the bread, and Latvia to the south as a faded strip with a round bite out of it.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Estonia: Latvia: A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Latvia", "picture": "A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sz.png", "country": "Eswatini", "reference": "references/ref-sz.png", "hook": "A small round pebble wedged between South Africa and Mozambique.", "picture": "Make the outline a small, smooth, round river pebble with a sweet, contented face, nestled into a notch in the eastern side of a faded large shape (South Africa). To the east, a faded twisted Y (Mozambique) leans against it like a friendly neighbour. A faded round mountain plug (Lesotho) sits to the south-west inside South Africa, waving across.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Eswatini, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a small, smooth, round river pebble with a sweet, contented face, nestled into a notch in the eastern side of a faded large shape (South Africa). To the east, a faded twisted Y (Mozambique) leans against it like a friendly neighbour. A faded round mountain plug (Lesotho) sits to the south-west inside South Africa, waving across.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Eswatini: Mozambique: A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe. South Africa: The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Mozambique", "picture": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe." }, { "country": "South Africa", "picture": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ET", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-et.png", "country": "Ethiopia", "reference": "references/ref-et.png", "hook": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big, round, green-and-gold shield-shaped hill with a gentle, proud face and a single new flower blooming near its centre, where Addis Ababa is. The Rift Valley can be a soft crease running from north-east to south-west. A faded giant 7 (Somalia) curls around its eastern side like a hugging arm, and a faded funnel and crab claw (Eritrea, Djibouti) sit on its north-east rim.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Ethiopia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big, round, green-and-gold shield-shaped hill with a gentle, proud face and a single new flower blooming near its centre, where Addis Ababa is. The Rift Valley can be a soft crease running from north-east to south-west. A faded giant 7 (Somalia) curls around its eastern side like a hugging arm, and a faded funnel and crab claw (Eritrea, Djibouti) sit on its north-east rim.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Ethiopia: Djibouti: A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea. Eritrea: A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti. Kenya: A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria. Somalia: A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa. South Sudan: A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Djibouti", "picture": "A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea." }, { "country": "Eritrea", "picture": "A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti." }, { "country": "Kenya", "picture": "A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria." }, { "country": "Somalia", "picture": "A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa." }, { "country": "South Sudan", "picture": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-FJ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-fj.png", "country": "Fiji", "reference": "references/ref-fj.png", "hook": "Two big stepping stones, round Viti Levu and long Vanua Levu, lying just west of the 180° line.", "picture": "The outline becomes two big friendly stepping stones in the sea: Viti Levu as a round, sleepy stone in the south-west and Vanua Levu as a long stretched stone to the north-east, with small islands (Taveuni, the Lau group) as tiny pebbles hopping east. A cheerful little crab is jumping from the round stone to the long one, leaving splashes. To the west, a faded wishbone (Vanuatu) floats on the waves; to the south-east, faded tongs (Tonga) gently reach towards the pebbles as if to pick one up.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Fiji, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes two big friendly stepping stones in the sea: Viti Levu as a round, sleepy stone in the south-west and Vanua Levu as a long stretched stone to the north-east, with small islands (Taveuni, the Lau group) as tiny pebbles hopping east. A cheerful little crab is jumping from the round stone to the long one, leaving splashes. To the west, a faded wishbone (Vanuatu) floats on the waves; to the south-east, faded tongs (Tonga) gently reach towards the pebbles as if to pick one up.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GA", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ga.png", "country": "Gabon", "reference": "references/ref-ga.png", "hook": "A plump cushion on the equator with a pointy nose, Cap Lopez, sniffing the Atlantic.", "picture": "Make the outline a plump, leafy-green cushion with a contented face, its sharp western point (Cap Lopez) turned into a little nose sniffing the ocean, and a thin golden line for the equator running across it as a seam. A faded wobbly S (Republic of Congo) wraps around its eastern and southern sides like a cosy scarf. A faded small square (Equatorial Guinea) sits on its north-west corner, and a faded triangle (Cameroon) rests above.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Gabon, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a plump, leafy-green cushion with a contented face, its sharp western point (Cap Lopez) turned into a little nose sniffing the ocean, and a thin golden line for the equator running across it as a seam. A faded wobbly S (Republic of Congo) wraps around its eastern and southern sides like a cosy scarf. A faded small square (Equatorial Guinea) sits on its north-west corner, and a faded triangle (Cameroon) rests above.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Gabon: Cameroon: A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad. Congo - Brazzaville: A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers. Equatorial Guinea: A small square on the mainland (Río Muni) plus Bioko island off Cameroon’s coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Cameroon", "picture": "A wide triangle with a long thin arm stretching north to touch Lake Chad." }, { "country": "Congo - Brazzaville", "picture": "A wobbly “S” leaning north-east, its eastern edge traced by the Congo and Ubangi rivers." }, { "country": "Equatorial Guinea", "picture": "A small square on the mainland (Río Muni) plus Bioko island off Cameroon’s coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gm.png", "country": "Gambia", "reference": "references/ref-gm.png", "hook": "A thin worm crawling into Senegal along the Gambia River.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a long, thin, smiling worm wriggling east along a blue river line, its head at the Atlantic coast in the west with a tiny round mouth (Banjul) and its tail tip far inland. Around it, a large faded head (Senegal) facing west seems amused, as if the worm is tickling its chin. Keep the worm cheerful and cartoonish.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Gambia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a long, thin, smiling worm wriggling east along a blue river line, its head at the Atlantic coast in the west with a tiny round mouth (Banjul) and its tail tip far inland. Around it, a large faded head (Senegal) facing west seems amused, as if the worm is tickling its chin. Keep the worm cheerful and cartoonish.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Gambia: Senegal: A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Senegal", "picture": "A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ge.png", "country": "Georgia", "reference": "references/ref-ge.png", "hook": "A long fish swimming west to the Black Sea, its back along the Greater Caucasus ridge.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long silvery fish swimming west, its open-mouthed nose at the Black Sea coast, its spiky dorsal fin made of snowy peaks along the northern Greater Caucasus border, and its tail in the east. The fish looks eager, as if about to dive into the sea. Faded cameos: Armenia’s crumpled hat just below its belly, Azerbaijan’s bird’s head near its tail, and Turkey’s long dachshund lying to the southwest.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Georgia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long silvery fish swimming west, its open-mouthed nose at the Black Sea coast, its spiky dorsal fin made of snowy peaks along the northern Greater Caucasus border, and its tail in the east. The fish looks eager, as if about to dive into the sea. Faded cameos: Armenia’s crumpled hat just below its belly, Azerbaijan’s bird’s head near its tail, and Turkey’s long dachshund lying to the southwest.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Georgia: Armenia: A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge. Azerbaijan: A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Armenia", "picture": "A small crumpled hat leaning south, with big Lake Sevan as its blue badge." }, { "country": "Azerbaijan", "picture": "A bird’s head pecking the Caspian with the Absheron beak; Nakhchivan is a lost feather to the west." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GH", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gh.png", "country": "Ghana", "reference": "references/ref-gh.png", "hook": "A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a tall, happy chocolate bar with neat squares, standing on the Gulf of Guinea, Lake Volta drawn as a glossy puddle of melted chocolate spreading across its middle-east. On its northern top sits a faded cocoa bean (Burkina Faso) like a cherry on a cake. A faded thin ribbon (Togo) runs down its eastern side like wrapper string, and a faded ivory tile (Côte d’Ivoire) stands to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Ghana, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a tall, happy chocolate bar with neat squares, standing on the Gulf of Guinea, Lake Volta drawn as a glossy puddle of melted chocolate spreading across its middle-east. On its northern top sits a faded cocoa bean (Burkina Faso) like a cherry on a cake. A faded thin ribbon (Togo) runs down its eastern side like wrapper string, and a faded ivory tile (Côte d’Ivoire) stands to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Ghana: Burkina Faso: A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Côte d’Ivoire: A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons. Togo: A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Burkina Faso", "picture": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire." }, { "country": "Côte d’Ivoire", "picture": "A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons." }, { "country": "Togo", "picture": "A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GT", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gt.png", "country": "Guatemala", "reference": "references/ref-gt.png", "hook": "A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a round-bellied coffee pot: the square Petén block in the north is the tall lid with a knob, the broad southern part along the Pacific is the belly with little smiling volcano bumps, and the narrow strip reaching the Caribbean in the east (Izabal) is the spout, puffing a little steam cloud. Keep the outline exact. Faded cameos: Mexico’s curved horn around the lid, an upright slice of toast (Belize) waiting by the lid, a watermelon slice (Honduras) near the spout, and a caterpillar (El Salvador) crawling by the south-eastern end of the belly.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Guatemala, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a round-bellied coffee pot: the square Petén block in the north is the tall lid with a knob, the broad southern part along the Pacific is the belly with little smiling volcano bumps, and the narrow strip reaching the Caribbean in the east (Izabal) is the spout, puffing a little steam cloud. Keep the outline exact. Faded cameos: Mexico’s curved horn around the lid, an upright slice of toast (Belize) waiting by the lid, a watermelon slice (Honduras) near the spout, and a caterpillar (El Salvador) crawling by the south-eastern end of the belly.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Guatemala: Belize: A slice of toast standing upright under Mexico’s Yucatán thumb, its crumbs (the cays) scattered along the reef. El Salvador: A plump caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific shore, its humps a row of volcanoes. Honduras: A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet. Mexico: A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belize", "picture": "A slice of toast standing upright under Mexico’s Yucatán thumb, its crumbs (the cays) scattered along the reef." }, { "country": "El Salvador", "picture": "A plump caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific shore, its humps a row of volcanoes." }, { "country": "Honduras", "picture": "A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet." }, { "country": "Mexico", "picture": "A curved horn sweeping southeast, with Baja California dangling on the west and the Yucatán thumb in the east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GN", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gn.png", "country": "Guinea", "reference": "references/ref-gn.png", "hook": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia.", "picture": "Make the outline a colourful boomerang in mid-flight, its western end at the Atlantic coast, the curve arching east then hooking south, with motion lines and a joyful face near the bend. Underneath the arch, a faded small fist (Sierra Leone) and a faded slanted slice of toast (Liberia) duck playfully as it flies over. A faded head (Senegal) watches from the north-west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Guinea, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a colourful boomerang in mid-flight, its western end at the Atlantic coast, the curve arching east then hooking south, with motion lines and a joyful face near the bend. Underneath the arch, a faded small fist (Sierra Leone) and a faded slanted slice of toast (Liberia) duck playfully as it flies over. A faded head (Senegal) watches from the north-west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Guinea: Côte d’Ivoire: A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons. Guinea-Bissau: A small block with a frayed, river-cut coast and the Bijagós islands scattered off it like confetti. Liberia: A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends. Senegal: A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half. Sierra Leone: A small round fist on the Atlantic, with the little Freetown peninsula as its thumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Côte d’Ivoire", "picture": "A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons." }, { "country": "Guinea-Bissau", "picture": "A small block with a frayed, river-cut coast and the Bijagós islands scattered off it like confetti." }, { "country": "Liberia", "picture": "A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." }, { "country": "Senegal", "picture": "A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half." }, { "country": "Sierra Leone", "picture": "A small round fist on the Atlantic, with the little Freetown peninsula as its thumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gw.png", "country": "Guinea-Bissau", "reference": "references/ref-gw.png", "hook": "A small block with a frayed, river-cut coast and the Bijagós islands scattered off it like confetti.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a small party block with a frayed, ribbon-like western edge where the rivers cut in, and the Bijagós islands scattered offshore as bright confetti dots, keeping each island’s true shape. Give the block a festive, delighted face. A faded head (Senegal) above peeks down at the party, and a faded boomerang (Guinea) curves around its east and south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Guinea-Bissau, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a small party block with a frayed, ribbon-like western edge where the rivers cut in, and the Bijagós islands scattered offshore as bright confetti dots, keeping each island’s true shape. Give the block a festive, delighted face. A faded head (Senegal) above peeks down at the party, and a faded boomerang (Guinea) curves around its east and south.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Guinea-Bissau: Guinea: A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia. Senegal: A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Guinea", "picture": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia." }, { "country": "Senegal", "picture": "A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-gy.png", "country": "Guyana", "reference": "references/ref-gy.png", "hook": "A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a giant peanut shell standing on end: the wide northern coast is the top pod, the narrow middle (around 4°N) is the pinched waist, and the southern Rupununi bulge is the round bottom pod. Draw the Essequibo River as a blue seam running down the middle. Keep the outline exact. The peanut smiles and holds a tiny leaf umbrella. Faded cameos: a square kitchen sponge (Suriname) to the east and a big parrot head (Brazil) below, looking at the peanut hungrily.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Guyana, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a giant peanut shell standing on end: the wide northern coast is the top pod, the narrow middle (around 4°N) is the pinched waist, and the southern Rupununi bulge is the round bottom pod. Draw the Essequibo River as a blue seam running down the middle. Keep the outline exact. The peanut smiles and holds a tiny leaf umbrella. Faded cameos: a square kitchen sponge (Suriname) to the east and a big parrot head (Brazil) below, looking at the peanut hungrily.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Guyana: Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Suriname: A square kitchen sponge with a nibbled bottom edge, squeezed between Guyana and French Guiana. Venezuela: A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Suriname", "picture": "A square kitchen sponge with a nibbled bottom edge, squeezed between Guyana and French Guiana." }, { "country": "Venezuela", "picture": "A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-HT", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ht.png", "country": "Haiti", "reference": "references/ref-ht.png", "hook": "The western third of Hispaniola: two long peninsulas open like a crab’s claw around the Gulf of Gonâve.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big open crab claw: the long southern peninsula (Tiburon) is the lower pincer, the shorter northwestern peninsula the upper pincer, and Gonâve Island between them a little snack the claw is about to catch. Keep the outline exact. Give the claw a cheeky grin near the eastern base. Faded cameos: the crab’s round shell (Dominican Republic) to the east, and a crocodile head (Cuba) peeking across the water to the northwest, the claw playfully about to tickle its nose.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Haiti, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big open crab claw: the long southern peninsula (Tiburon) is the lower pincer, the shorter northwestern peninsula the upper pincer, and Gonâve Island between them a little snack the claw is about to catch. Keep the outline exact. Give the claw a cheeky grin near the eastern base. Faded cameos: the crab’s round shell (Dominican Republic) to the east, and a crocodile head (Cuba) peeking across the water to the northwest, the claw playfully about to tickle its nose.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Haiti: Dominican Republic: The plump shell of a crab: the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, while Haiti is its open claw to the west.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Dominican Republic", "picture": "The plump shell of a crab: the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, while Haiti is its open claw to the west." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-HN", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-hn.png", "country": "Honduras", "reference": "references/ref-hn.png", "hook": "A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a wide slice of watermelon (a triangle) with its rind along the long northern Caribbean coast and its tip pointing south to the Gulf of Fonseca. Keep the outline exact. The Bay Islands just off the north coast become little seeds that popped out. The slice smiles. Faded cameos: a coffee pot (Guatemala) tilting from the west as if to pour, a caterpillar (El Salvador) crawling near the southwest edge, and a cheese wedge (Nicaragua) below.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Honduras, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a wide slice of watermelon (a triangle) with its rind along the long northern Caribbean coast and its tip pointing south to the Gulf of Fonseca. Keep the outline exact. The Bay Islands just off the north coast become little seeds that popped out. The slice smiles. Faded cameos: a coffee pot (Guatemala) tilting from the west as if to pour, a caterpillar (El Salvador) crawling near the southwest edge, and a cheese wedge (Nicaragua) below.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Honduras: Guatemala: A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean. El Salvador: A plump caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific shore, its humps a row of volcanoes. Nicaragua: A wedge of cheese, tip at the Gulf of Fonseca, with a giant hole (Lake Nicaragua) in its southwest corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Guatemala", "picture": "A coffee pot: square Petén is the lid, the wide belly runs along the Pacific, a spout pokes east to the Caribbean." }, { "country": "El Salvador", "picture": "A plump caterpillar crawling west along the Pacific shore, its humps a row of volcanoes." }, { "country": "Nicaragua", "picture": "A wedge of cheese, tip at the Gulf of Fonseca, with a giant hole (Lake Nicaragua) in its southwest corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-HU", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-hu.png", "country": "Hungary", "reference": "references/ref-hu.png", "hook": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west.", "picture": "The outline becomes a lumpy, smiling potato-like oval with a blue river running north to south through its middle and a bean-shaped lake in its west. Two tiny towns face each other across the river where Budapest is. Slovakia appears to the north as a faded hedgehog trotting along on top, and Austria to the west as a faded tadpole head nudging it.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Hungary, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a lumpy, smiling potato-like oval with a blue river running north to south through its middle and a bean-shaped lake in its west. Two tiny towns face each other across the river where Budapest is. Slovakia appears to the north as a faded hedgehog trotting along on top, and Austria to the west as a faded tadpole head nudging it.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Hungary: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. Croatia: A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia. Romania: A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania. Slovakia: A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east. Slovenia: A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "Croatia", "picture": "A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia." }, { "country": "Romania", "picture": "A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." }, { "country": "Slovakia", "picture": "A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east." }, { "country": "Slovenia", "picture": "A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-is.png", "country": "Iceland", "reference": "references/ref-is.png", "hook": "A rounded blob with a ragged claw (the Westfjords) reaching north-west towards Greenland.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round, friendly blob creature with a frosty glacier hat on its middle, little steam puffs rising from hot springs near Reykjavík in the south-west, and the ragged Westfjords as a claw-hand reaching north-west. Greenland appears faintly to the north-west as a big pale icy shape the claw waves at. No other neighbours are needed.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Iceland, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round, friendly blob creature with a frosty glacier hat on its middle, little steam puffs rising from hot springs near Reykjavík in the south-west, and the ragged Westfjords as a claw-hand reaching north-west. Greenland appears faintly to the north-west as a big pale icy shape the claw waves at. No other neighbours are needed.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IQ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-iq.png", "country": "Iraq", "reference": "references/ref-iq.png", "hook": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through.", "picture": "The outline becomes a lumpy, friendly shield with two wavy blue rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) running from the northwest to the southeast across it, and a tiny teapot-like spout in the southeast at Basra dripping into the Gulf. Give it a calm smile in the middle. Faded cameos: Kuwait’s small square with a bite out of it right next to the spout, Iran’s sitting cat leaning on the eastern side, and Syria’s slice of pie to the northwest.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Iraq, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a lumpy, friendly shield with two wavy blue rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) running from the northwest to the southeast across it, and a tiny teapot-like spout in the southeast at Basra dripping into the Gulf. Give it a calm smile in the middle. Faded cameos: Kuwait’s small square with a bite out of it right next to the spout, Iran’s sitting cat leaning on the eastern side, and Syria’s slice of pie to the northwest.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Iraq: Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner. Jordan: A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba. Kuwait: A small square in the Gulf’s top corner with a bite taken out: Kuwait Bay. Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest. Syria: A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." }, { "country": "Jordan", "picture": "A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba." }, { "country": "Kuwait", "picture": "A small square in the Gulf’s top corner with a bite taken out: Kuwait Bay." }, { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." }, { "country": "Syria", "picture": "A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-IL", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-il.png", "country": "Israel", "reference": "references/ref-il.png", "hook": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat.", "picture": "The outline becomes a tall, narrow ice-cream cone: the rounded northern part (Galilee) is a green-mint scoop with a blueberry where the Sea of Galilee is, and the long waffle cone narrows south through the Negev to its tip at Eilat, dipping into the Red Sea. A drip of ice cream runs down the side and the cone looks delighted. Faded cameos: Lebanon’s little domino balancing on top of the scoop, Egypt’s Sinai triangle to the west, and Jordan’s teapot to the east pouring tea into the same gulf beside the cone’s tip.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Israel, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a tall, narrow ice-cream cone: the rounded northern part (Galilee) is a green-mint scoop with a blueberry where the Sea of Galilee is, and the long waffle cone narrows south through the Negev to its tip at Eilat, dipping into the Red Sea. A drip of ice cream runs down the side and the cone looks delighted. Faded cameos: Lebanon’s little domino balancing on top of the scoop, Egypt’s Sinai triangle to the west, and Jordan’s teapot to the east pouring tea into the same gulf beside the cone’s tip.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Israel: Egypt: A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half. Jordan: A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba. Lebanon: A small tilted domino standing on the Mediterranean shore, Syria wrapped around its back. Palestinian Territories: Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea. Syria: A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Egypt", "picture": "A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half." }, { "country": "Jordan", "picture": "A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba." }, { "country": "Lebanon", "picture": "A small tilted domino standing on the Mediterranean shore, Syria wrapped around its back." }, { "country": "Palestinian Territories", "picture": "Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea." }, { "country": "Syria", "picture": "A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-JM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-jm.png", "country": "Jamaica", "reference": "references/ref-jm.png", "hook": "An oval island lying east–west south of Cuba, like a turtle shell.", "picture": "Turn the oval island into a happy sea turtle swimming west, seen from above: the shell is the island outline, with the Blue Mountains as the highest dome of the shell in the east and Portland Point as a little flipper on the south coast. Keep the outline exact. Add small head and flippers peeking only slightly beyond the outline at the western end. Faded cameos: a long crocodile (Cuba) to the north and a crab claw (Haiti) to the northeast, the turtle waving at both.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Jamaica, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the oval island into a happy sea turtle swimming west, seen from above: the shell is the island outline, with the Blue Mountains as the highest dome of the shell in the east and Portland Point as a little flipper on the south coast. Keep the outline exact. Add small head and flippers peeking only slightly beyond the outline at the western end. Faded cameos: a long crocodile (Cuba) to the north and a crab claw (Haiti) to the northeast, the turtle waving at both.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-JO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-jo.png", "country": "Jordan", "reference": "references/ref-jo.png", "hook": "A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba.", "picture": "The outline becomes a sturdy desert-coloured teapot: the eastern panhandle reaching to Iraq is its handle, the main body is the pot, and the narrow southwestern tip at Aqaba is its spout, pouring a little stream of tea into the Red Sea. A puff of steam rises from its top in the north and it looks proud and hospitable. Faded cameos: Israel’s ice-cream cone to the west dipping its tip in the same gulf, Saudi Arabia’s tortoise below, and Iraq’s shield touching the handle.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Jordan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a sturdy desert-coloured teapot: the eastern panhandle reaching to Iraq is its handle, the main body is the pot, and the narrow southwestern tip at Aqaba is its spout, pouring a little stream of tea into the Red Sea. A puff of steam rises from its top in the north and it looks proud and hospitable. Faded cameos: Israel’s ice-cream cone to the west dipping its tip in the same gulf, Saudi Arabia’s tortoise below, and Iraq’s shield touching the handle.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Jordan: Iraq: A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through. Israel: A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat. Palestinian Territories: Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea. Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest. Syria: A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Iraq", "picture": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through." }, { "country": "Israel", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat." }, { "country": "Palestinian Territories", "picture": "Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea." }, { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." }, { "country": "Syria", "picture": "A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-kz.png", "country": "Kazakhstan", "reference": "references/ref-kz.png", "hook": "A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge.", "picture": "The outline becomes a huge, colourful steppe rug with felt patterns, its western edge dipping into the Caspian Sea and its eastern corner in the Altai mountains; the Aral Sea on the southern edge is drawn as a nibbled spot, and Lake Balkhash as a blue stripe in the pattern. The rug ripples like it’s flying gently. Faded cameos: Russia’s giant lying along the northern edge, China’s rooster tail feathers brushing the eastern corner, and Kyrgyzstan’s whale swimming under the southeast.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Kazakhstan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a huge, colourful steppe rug with felt patterns, its western edge dipping into the Caspian Sea and its eastern corner in the Altai mountains; the Aral Sea on the southern edge is drawn as a nibbled spot, and Lake Balkhash as a blue stripe in the pattern. The rug ripples like it’s flying gently. Faded cameos: Russia’s giant lying along the northern edge, China’s rooster tail feathers brushing the eastern corner, and Kyrgyzstan’s whale swimming under the southeast.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Kazakhstan: China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Kyrgyzstan: A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley). Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb. Turkmenistan: A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert. Uzbekistan: A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Kyrgyzstan", "picture": "A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley)." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." }, { "country": "Turkmenistan", "picture": "A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert." }, { "country": "Uzbekistan", "picture": "A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-XK", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-xk.png", "country": "Kosovo", "reference": "references/ref-xk.png", "hook": "A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.", "picture": "The outline becomes a sparkling gem, a small roughly diamond-shaped crystal with two shiny facets for its two basins and mountain ridges drawn as its rim, a soft glow in its middle near Pristina. Albania appears to the south-west as a faded tall strip, and North Macedonia to the south-east as a faded round pancake with sun rays.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Kosovo, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a sparkling gem, a small roughly diamond-shaped crystal with two shiny facets for its two basins and mountain ridges drawn as its rim, a soft glow in its middle near Pristina. Albania appears to the south-west as a faded tall strip, and North Macedonia to the south-east as a faded round pancake with sun rays.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Kosovo: Albania: A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot. North Macedonia: A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner. Montenegro: A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Albania", "picture": "A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot." }, { "country": "North Macedonia", "picture": "A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Montenegro", "picture": "A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-kw.png", "country": "Kuwait", "reference": "references/ref-kw.png", "hook": "A small square in the Gulf’s top corner with a bite taken out: Kuwait Bay.", "picture": "The outline becomes a small square biscuit with a neat bite taken out of its eastern side (Kuwait Bay) and a crumb (Bubiyan Island) lying by its northeast corner. The biscuit looks a bit startled at the bite. Faded cameos: Iraq’s lumpy shield just above with its tiny spout dripping into the Gulf next to the biscuit, and Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise to the south, eyeing the crumbs.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Kuwait, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a small square biscuit with a neat bite taken out of its eastern side (Kuwait Bay) and a crumb (Bubiyan Island) lying by its northeast corner. The biscuit looks a bit startled at the bite. Faded cameos: Iraq’s lumpy shield just above with its tiny spout dripping into the Gulf next to the biscuit, and Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise to the south, eyeing the crumbs.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Kuwait: Iraq: A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through. Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Iraq", "picture": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through." }, { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KG", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-kg.png", "country": "Kyrgyzstan", "reference": "references/ref-kg.png", "hook": "A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley).", "picture": "The outline becomes a big friendly whale swimming east toward China, with Lake Issyk-Kul in the northeast drawn as its bright blue eye and snowy mountain ridges as bumps along its back. The deep notch in the southwest is a bite mark in its belly, and the whale looks a little surprised about it. Faded cameos: Uzbekistan’s twisting neck and Tajikistan’s crooked tree branch both poking curiously into the bite, and Kazakhstan’s patterned steppe rug spread above.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Kyrgyzstan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big friendly whale swimming east toward China, with Lake Issyk-Kul in the northeast drawn as its bright blue eye and snowy mountain ridges as bumps along its back. The deep notch in the southwest is a bite mark in its belly, and the whale looks a little surprised about it. Faded cameos: Uzbekistan’s twisting neck and Tajikistan’s crooked tree branch both poking curiously into the bite, and Kazakhstan’s patterned steppe rug spread above.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Kyrgyzstan: China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Kazakhstan: A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge. Tajikistan: A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana. Uzbekistan: A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Kazakhstan", "picture": "A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge." }, { "country": "Tajikistan", "picture": "A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana." }, { "country": "Uzbekistan", "picture": "A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LA", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-la.png", "country": "Laos", "reference": "references/ref-la.png", "hook": "A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand.", "picture": "The outline becomes a twisted, knobbly tree root: thick and gnarled in the northern mountains, then winding south in a long thin tail, with the Mekong as a blue ribbon along much of its western side. The root looks sleepy and stretchy, as if reaching down for a drink. Faded cameos: Thailand’s elephant to the west, its big ear beside the root, Vietnam’s S-shaped carrying pole curving to the east, and Cambodia’s rice bowl at the bottom where the root’s tip dips in.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Laos, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a twisted, knobbly tree root: thick and gnarled in the northern mountains, then winding south in a long thin tail, with the Mekong as a blue ribbon along much of its western side. The root looks sleepy and stretchy, as if reaching down for a drink. Faded cameos: Thailand’s elephant to the west, its big ear beside the root, Vietnam’s S-shaped carrying pole curving to the east, and Cambodia’s rice bowl at the bottom where the root’s tip dips in.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Laos: Myanmar (Burma): A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand. Cambodia: A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Thailand: An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk. Vietnam: A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas).\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Myanmar (Burma)", "picture": "A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand." }, { "country": "Cambodia", "picture": "A round rice bowl with the big Tonlé Sap lake as the rice in the middle." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Thailand", "picture": "An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk." }, { "country": "Vietnam", "picture": "A long “S”: a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end (the Red River and Mekong deltas)." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LV", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-lv.png", "country": "Latvia", "reference": "references/ref-lv.png", "hook": "A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga.", "picture": "The outline becomes a wide slice of cheese with a perfectly round bite out of its top, where the blue Gulf of Riga sits, crumbs scattered around the bite and a tiny port with ships at its bottom near Riga. Estonia appears to the north as a faded slice of rye bread, looking guilty, and Lithuania to the south as a faded big round blob.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Latvia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a wide slice of cheese with a perfectly round bite out of its top, where the blue Gulf of Riga sits, crumbs scattered around the bite and a tiny port with ships at its bottom near Riga. Estonia appears to the north as a faded slice of rye bread, looking guilty, and Lithuania to the south as a faded big round blob.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Latvia: Belarus: A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia. Estonia: A slice of rye bread with crumbs (Saaremaa, Hiiumaa) falling off its west edge into the Baltic. Lithuania: The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belarus", "picture": "A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia." }, { "country": "Estonia", "picture": "A slice of rye bread with crumbs (Saaremaa, Hiiumaa) falling off its west edge into the Baltic." }, { "country": "Lithuania", "picture": "The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LB", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-lb.png", "country": "Lebanon", "reference": "references/ref-lb.png", "hook": "A small tilted domino standing on the Mediterranean shore, Syria wrapped around its back.", "picture": "The outline becomes a small domino tile standing slightly tilted on the Mediterranean shore, its long western side along the coast and two rows of round pips running down it like the two mountain ranges. A tiny green cedar tree grows on top and the domino smiles. Faded cameos: Syria’s slice of pie wrapping around its north and east sides, and Israel’s ice-cream cone below, the domino balancing on its scoop.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Lebanon, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a small domino tile standing slightly tilted on the Mediterranean shore, its long western side along the coast and two rows of round pips running down it like the two mountain ranges. A tiny green cedar tree grows on top and the domino smiles. Faded cameos: Syria’s slice of pie wrapping around its north and east sides, and Israel’s ice-cream cone below, the domino balancing on its scoop.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Lebanon: Israel: A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat. Syria: A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Israel", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat." }, { "country": "Syria", "picture": "A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ls.png", "country": "Lesotho", "reference": "references/ref-ls.png", "hook": "A round blob of mountains: the whole country lies above 1,400 m, a highland island inside South Africa.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a round, rocky mountain plug with snowy peaks and a happy face, wearing a small woven conical straw hat on top. It fits snugly into the hole of a faded large shape around it (South Africa), like a cork in a bottle. To the north-east, a faded small pebble (Eswatini) sits in South Africa’s other edge and waves.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Lesotho, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a round, rocky mountain plug with snowy peaks and a happy face, wearing a small woven conical straw hat on top. It fits snugly into the hole of a faded large shape around it (South Africa), like a cork in a bottle. To the north-east, a faded small pebble (Eswatini) sits in South Africa’s other edge and waves.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Lesotho: South Africa: The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "South Africa", "picture": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LR", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-lr.png", "country": "Liberia", "reference": "references/ref-lr.png", "hook": "A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a golden-brown slice of toast lying diagonally along the beach, its long south-west side touching the blue Atlantic, with a cheerful face and a little pat of butter melting in the middle. A faded boomerang (Guinea) flies over its top, a faded small fist (Sierra Leone) gives a thumbs-up at its north-west end, and a faded ivory tile (Côte d’Ivoire) sits beside it to the east like a plate.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Liberia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a golden-brown slice of toast lying diagonally along the beach, its long south-west side touching the blue Atlantic, with a cheerful face and a little pat of butter melting in the middle. A faded boomerang (Guinea) flies over its top, a faded small fist (Sierra Leone) gives a thumbs-up at its north-west end, and a faded ivory tile (Côte d’Ivoire) sits beside it to the east like a plate.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Liberia: Guinea: A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia. Côte d’Ivoire: A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons. Sierra Leone: A small round fist on the Atlantic, with the little Freetown peninsula as its thumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Guinea", "picture": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia." }, { "country": "Côte d’Ivoire", "picture": "A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons." }, { "country": "Sierra Leone", "picture": "A small round fist on the Atlantic, with the little Freetown peninsula as its thumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ly.png", "country": "Libya", "reference": "references/ref-ly.png", "hook": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra.", "picture": "Make the outline a giant sandy cardboard box with a cartoon bite mark taken out of the middle of its top edge (the Gulf of Sidra), crumbs falling into the sea, and a surprised face. A faded near-square box (Egypt) stands next to it in the east like a sibling box. Across the sea to the north, a faded boot (Italy) and three tiny faded stepping stones (Malta) peer down at the bite.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Libya, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a giant sandy cardboard box with a cartoon bite mark taken out of the middle of its top edge (the Gulf of Sidra), crumbs falling into the sea, and a surprised face. A faded near-square box (Egypt) stands next to it in the east like a sibling box. Across the sea to the north, a faded boot (Italy) and three tiny faded stepping stones (Malta) peer down at the bite.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Libya: Algeria: Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top. Chad: A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge. Egypt: A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side. Tunisia: A slim upright strip, Africa’s northernmost tip, with the Gulf of Gabès bitten out of its east coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Algeria", "picture": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top." }, { "country": "Chad", "picture": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge." }, { "country": "Egypt", "picture": "A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." }, { "country": "Tunisia", "picture": "A slim upright strip, Africa’s northernmost tip, with the Gulf of Gabès bitten out of its east coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LT", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-lt.png", "country": "Lithuania", "reference": "references/ref-lt.png", "hook": "The biggest, southernmost Baltic blob, its short coast partly hidden behind the thin Curonian Spit.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump, round loaf-shaped cushion with a gentle smile, a thin sandy spit like a ribbon along its short western coast, and a tiny howling wolf on a hill in the south-east near Vilnius. Latvia appears to the north as a faded strip with a round bite, and Belarus to the south-east as a faded round bowl the cushion leans on.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Lithuania, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump, round loaf-shaped cushion with a gentle smile, a thin sandy spit like a ribbon along its short western coast, and a tiny howling wolf on a hill in the south-east near Vilnius. Latvia appears to the north as a faded strip with a round bite, and Belarus to the south-east as a faded round bowl the cushion leans on.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Lithuania: Belarus: A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia. Latvia: A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belarus", "picture": "A plump rounded bowl with no coast, wider than tall, sitting between Poland and Russia." }, { "country": "Latvia", "picture": "A wide strip with a deep bite out of its top: the round Gulf of Riga." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LU", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-lu.png", "country": "Luxembourg", "reference": "references/ref-lu.png", "hook": "A tiny upright shield wedged between Belgium, France and Germany.", "picture": "The outline becomes a tiny upright knight’s shield with a friendly face, a small castle on a rock drawn in its southern half and green forest in its northern half. Belgium appears to the west as a faded slice of cake whose tip pokes the shield, France to the south as a faded hexagon, and Germany to the east as a faded sturdy figure holding the shield up.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Luxembourg, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a tiny upright knight’s shield with a friendly face, a small castle on a rock drawn in its southern half and green forest in its northern half. Belgium appears to the west as a faded slice of cake whose tip pokes the shield, France to the south as a faded hexagon, and Germany to the east as a faded sturdy figure holding the shield up.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Luxembourg: Belgium: A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg. France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belgium", "picture": "A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg." }, { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-mw.png", "country": "Malawi", "reference": "references/ref-mw.png", "hook": "A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a long, slim figure lying north to south and cuddling a long blue lake (Lake Malawi) along its eastern side like a body pillow, with a peaceful smile at the northern end. A small red rising sun peeks over the lake as decoration. Its southern tail rests snugly in the fork of a faded twisted Y (Mozambique), and a faded butterfly (Zambia) flutters to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Malawi, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a long, slim figure lying north to south and cuddling a long blue lake (Lake Malawi) along its eastern side like a body pillow, with a peaceful smile at the northern end. A small red rising sun peeks over the lake as decoration. Its southern tail rests snugly in the fork of a faded twisted Y (Mozambique), and a faded butterfly (Zambia) flutters to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Malawi: Mozambique: A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Mozambique", "picture": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-my.png", "country": "Malaysia", "reference": "references/ref-my.png", "hook": "Two pieces: a finger pointing down the Malay Peninsula and a big slice of northern Borneo.", "picture": "Two pieces: the peninsula becomes a long pointing finger stretching south toward Singapore, with a happy little face on the fingertip, and northern Borneo becomes a big slice of cake, its eastern Sabah corner shaped like a raised cherry. They wave at each other across the sea. Faded cameos: Thailand’s elephant trunk ending where the finger begins, Singapore’s tiny diamond at the fingertip, Brunei’s two crumbs nestled in the cake’s northern edge, and Indonesia’s dragon beneath the cake.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Malaysia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Two pieces: the peninsula becomes a long pointing finger stretching south toward Singapore, with a happy little face on the fingertip, and northern Borneo becomes a big slice of cake, its eastern Sabah corner shaped like a raised cherry. They wave at each other across the sea. Faded cameos: Thailand’s elephant trunk ending where the finger begins, Singapore’s tiny diamond at the fingertip, Brunei’s two crumbs nestled in the cake’s northern edge, and Indonesia’s dragon beneath the cake.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Malaysia: Brunei: Two crumbs on Borneo’s north coast, split apart by a sliver of Malaysia. Indonesia: A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea. Thailand: An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Brunei", "picture": "Two crumbs on Borneo’s north coast, split apart by a sliver of Malaysia." }, { "country": "Indonesia", "picture": "A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea." }, { "country": "Thailand", "picture": "An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ML", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ml.png", "country": "Mali", "reference": "references/ref-ml.png", "hook": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big sandy-and-green bow tie, the large northern triangle in desert gold and the southern half in green, pinched at a knot in the middle, with a blue Niger River curling through the southern half like a stitched pattern. Give it a dapper, cheerful face at the knot. A faded fat bean (Burkina Faso) leans on its south-east corner, and a faded big square with a finger (Mauritania) stands to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Mali, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big sandy-and-green bow tie, the large northern triangle in desert gold and the southern half in green, pinched at a knot in the middle, with a blue Niger River curling through the southern half like a stitched pattern. Give it a dapper, cheerful face at the knot. A faded fat bean (Burkina Faso) leans on its south-east corner, and a faded big square with a finger (Mauritania) stands to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Mali: Algeria: Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top. Burkina Faso: A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Guinea: A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia. Côte d’Ivoire: A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons. Mauritania: A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria. Niger: A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner. Senegal: A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Algeria", "picture": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top." }, { "country": "Burkina Faso", "picture": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire." }, { "country": "Guinea", "picture": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia." }, { "country": "Côte d’Ivoire", "picture": "A square ivory tile laid on the Gulf of Guinea, its bottom edge a long, straight beach of lagoons." }, { "country": "Mauritania", "picture": "A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria." }, { "country": "Niger", "picture": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Senegal", "picture": "A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MR", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-mr.png", "country": "Mauritania", "reference": "references/ref-mr.png", "hook": "A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a big sandy square with a friendly face and one narrow finger raised in the far north, as if asking a question in class. Along its coast, add a few flamingos and pelicans for the Banc d’Arguin bird sanctuary. A faded bow tie (Mali) is draped along its eastern side, and a faded head (Senegal) looks up from just south across a blue river.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Mauritania, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a big sandy square with a friendly face and one narrow finger raised in the far north, as if asking a question in class. Along its coast, add a few flamingos and pelicans for the Banc d’Arguin bird sanctuary. A faded bow tie (Mali) is draped along its eastern side, and a faded head (Senegal) looks up from just south across a blue river.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Mauritania: Algeria: Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends. Senegal: A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Algeria", "picture": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." }, { "country": "Senegal", "picture": "A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MU", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-mu.png", "country": "Mauritius", "reference": "references/ref-mu.png", "hook": "A small pear-shaped island east of Madagascar, ringed by a coral reef.", "picture": "Make the island a plump, juicy green pear with a cheerful face, wider at the south and narrowing northwards to its stalk, lying in turquoise water inside a thin white ring of coral reef. Far to the west, a faded giant footprint (Madagascar) appears at the edge, as if the pear just rolled away from it. Keep the coastline exact; the pear look comes from colour and shading.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Mauritius, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the island a plump, juicy green pear with a cheerful face, wider at the south and narrowing northwards to its stalk, lying in turquoise water inside a thin white ring of coral reef. Far to the west, a faded giant footprint (Madagascar) appears at the edge, as if the pear just rolled away from it. Keep the coastline exact; the pear look comes from colour and shading.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MD", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-md.png", "country": "Moldova", "reference": "references/ref-md.png", "hook": "A bunch of grapes hanging between Romania and Ukraine, the Prut along its west side: fitting for a wine country.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump bunch of purple grapes hanging from a little stem in the north, tapering to a point in the south, with a blue river running down its west side. Romania appears to the west as a faded round fish nibbling a grape, and Ukraine around the north and east as a faded wide loaf of bread holding the stem.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Moldova, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump bunch of purple grapes hanging from a little stem in the north, tapering to a point in the south, with a blue river running down its west side. Romania appears to the west as a faded round fish nibbling a grape, and Ukraine around the north and east as a faded wide loaf of bread holding the stem.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Moldova: Romania: A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Romania", "picture": "A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ME", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-me.png", "country": "Montenegro", "reference": "references/ref-me.png", "hook": "A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round, mountain-topped cookie with a deep, wiggly bite taken from its western coast where the Bay of Kotor is, little blue water filling the bite. A tiny gold eagle is drawn like a sprinkle on top. Croatia appears to the north-west as a faded boomerang tip, Bosnia to the north as a faded heart, and Albania to the south-east as a faded tall strip.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Montenegro, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round, mountain-topped cookie with a deep, wiggly bite taken from its western coast where the Bay of Kotor is, little blue water filling the bite. A tiny gold eagle is drawn like a sprinkle on top. Croatia appears to the north-west as a faded boomerang tip, Bosnia to the north as a faded heart, and Albania to the south-east as a faded tall strip.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Montenegro: Albania: A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot. Bosnia & Herzegovina: A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum. Croatia: A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia. Kosovo: A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Albania", "picture": "A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot." }, { "country": "Bosnia & Herzegovina", "picture": "A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum." }, { "country": "Croatia", "picture": "A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia." }, { "country": "Kosovo", "picture": "A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-mz.png", "country": "Mozambique", "reference": "references/ref-mz.png", "hook": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe.", "picture": "Make the outline a long, twisted Y-shaped tree trunk growing along the Indian Ocean coast, its stem down the eastern coast, one branch reaching west (Tete) and a faded thin strip (Malawi) resting in the fork like a hammock. Give the tree a kind face near the fork and a few leaves. A faded footprint (Madagascar) sits across the sea to the east, and a faded pebble (Eswatini) by the southern roots.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Mozambique, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a long, twisted Y-shaped tree trunk growing along the Indian Ocean coast, its stem down the eastern coast, one branch reaching west (Tete) and a faded thin strip (Malawi) resting in the fork like a hammock. Give the tree a kind face near the fork and a few leaves. A faded footprint (Madagascar) sits across the sea to the east, and a faded pebble (Eswatini) by the southern roots.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Mozambique: Malawi: A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side. South Africa: The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side. Eswatini: A small round pebble wedged between South Africa and Mozambique. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it. Zimbabwe: A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Malawi", "picture": "A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side." }, { "country": "South Africa", "picture": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side." }, { "country": "Eswatini", "picture": "A small round pebble wedged between South Africa and Mozambique." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." }, { "country": "Zimbabwe", "picture": "A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-mm.png", "country": "Myanmar (Burma)", "reference": "references/ref-mm.png", "hook": "A kite with a long tail running down the Malay Peninsula toward Thailand.", "picture": "The outline becomes a colourful kite: its broad body over the north and the Irrawaddy valley, its lower point at the delta, and the long narrow southern strip as a fluttering kite tail with little bows, running down beside the Andaman Sea. The kite looks joyful, swooping in the breeze. Faded cameos: Thailand’s elephant head to the east with its trunk hanging right beside the kite’s tail, and India’s bigger kite flying to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Myanmar (Burma), into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a colourful kite: its broad body over the north and the Irrawaddy valley, its lower point at the delta, and the long narrow southern strip as a fluttering kite tail with little bows, running down beside the Andaman Sea. The kite looks joyful, swooping in the breeze. Faded cameos: Thailand’s elephant head to the east with its trunk hanging right beside the kite’s tail, and India’s bigger kite flying to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Myanmar (Burma): Bangladesh: A hand of river channels reaching into the Bay of Bengal, hugged almost all round by India. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. India: A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka. Laos: A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand. Thailand: An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bangladesh", "picture": "A hand of river channels reaching into the Bay of Bengal, hugged almost all round by India." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "India", "picture": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka." }, { "country": "Laos", "picture": "A twisted root growing south along the Mekong, wedged between Vietnam and Thailand." }, { "country": "Thailand", "picture": "An elephant’s head: the north is the head, the Malay Peninsula its long trunk." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NA", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-na.png", "country": "Namibia", "reference": "references/ref-na.png", "hook": "A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big square of golden desert with tall orange dunes along its western coast and a long, thin handle (the Caprivi Strip) stretching east at the top-right. Give the square a sunny, smiling face with a small sun above it. The handle rests along the top of a faded shield (Botswana), and its tip just touches a faded butterfly wing (Zambia); a faded bitten biscuit (Angola) sits on top.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Namibia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big square of golden desert with tall orange dunes along its western coast and a long, thin handle (the Caprivi Strip) stretching east at the top-right. Give the square a sunny, smiling face with a small sun above it. The handle rests along the top of a faded shield (Botswana), and its tip just touches a faded butterfly wing (Zambia); a faded bitten biscuit (Angola) sits on top.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Namibia: Angola: A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north. Botswana: A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi. South Africa: The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Angola", "picture": "A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north." }, { "country": "Botswana", "picture": "A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi." }, { "country": "South Africa", "picture": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NP", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-np.png", "country": "Nepal", "reference": "references/ref-np.png", "hook": "A long brick laid along the Himalayas, with Everest on its northern edge.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long, slightly tilted clay brick lying northwest to southeast, its northern edge topped with a row of snowy peaks like icing, Everest the tallest on the northeastern side. Green terraces line its southern side and it looks steady and proud. Faded cameos: China’s rooster tail feathers above it, India’s big kite below it, and Bhutan’s plump dumpling a short way to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Nepal, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long, slightly tilted clay brick lying northwest to southeast, its northern edge topped with a row of snowy peaks like icing, Everest the tallest on the northeastern side. Green terraces line its southern side and it looks steady and proud. Faded cameos: China’s rooster tail feathers above it, India’s big kite below it, and Bhutan’s plump dumpling a short way to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Nepal: China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. India: A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "India", "picture": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NL", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-nl.png", "country": "Netherlands", "reference": "references/ref-nl.png", "hook": "A low square with a bite out of its middle (the IJsselmeer) and islands strung along the top like beads.", "picture": "The outline becomes a low, flat square tray with a round bite out of its middle filled with blue water (the IJsselmeer), a string of island beads along its northern edge and a tiny windmill near the west coast. Belgium appears to the south as a faded slice of cake, and Germany to the east as a faded sturdy figure holding the tray level.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Netherlands, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a low, flat square tray with a round bite out of its middle filled with blue water (the IJsselmeer), a string of island beads along its northern edge and a tiny windmill near the west coast. Belgium appears to the south as a faded slice of cake, and Germany to the east as a faded sturdy figure holding the tray level.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Netherlands: Belgium: A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Belgium", "picture": "A slice of cake lying on its side: a short crust on the North Sea, the tip poking south-east at Luxembourg." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NI", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ni.png", "country": "Nicaragua", "reference": "references/ref-ni.png", "hook": "A wedge of cheese, tip at the Gulf of Fonseca, with a giant hole (Lake Nicaragua) in its southwest corner.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a wedge of yellow holey cheese: the sharp tip at the Gulf of Fonseca in the northwest, the long straight-ish Caribbean coast as the rind on the east, and Lake Nicaragua in the southwest as a big blue-filled hole, with Lake Managua a smaller hole above it. Keep the outline exact. The cheese grins. Faded cameos: a watermelon slice (Honduras) resting on top and a thumbs-up hand (Costa Rica) below, reaching for a nibble.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Nicaragua, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a wedge of yellow holey cheese: the sharp tip at the Gulf of Fonseca in the northwest, the long straight-ish Caribbean coast as the rind on the east, and Lake Nicaragua in the southwest as a big blue-filled hole, with Lake Managua a smaller hole above it. Keep the outline exact. The cheese grins. Faded cameos: a watermelon slice (Honduras) resting on top and a thumbs-up hand (Costa Rica) below, reaching for a nibble.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Nicaragua: Costa Rica: A short stretch of isthmus between Nicaragua and Panama, the Nicoya Peninsula sticking out like a thumb into the Pacific. Honduras: A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Costa Rica", "picture": "A short stretch of isthmus between Nicaragua and Panama, the Nicoya Peninsula sticking out like a thumb into the Pacific." }, { "country": "Honduras", "picture": "A wide slice of watermelon: rind along the Caribbean, tip pointing down to a tiny Pacific outlet." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ne.png", "country": "Niger", "reference": "references/ref-ne.png", "hook": "A huge block of Sahara whose only big river, the Niger, just clips its south-west corner.", "picture": "Make the outline a huge, sleepy sand-coloured block of desert with gentle dunes and the brown Aïr Mountains as a bump in the middle, with a little orange sun above. In the south-west corner, a short blue river curls past, and a faded torch flame (Benin) flickers against that corner, warming its toes. A faded chunky box (Nigeria) lies along the south and a faded big block (Chad) to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Niger, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a huge, sleepy sand-coloured block of desert with gentle dunes and the brown Aïr Mountains as a bump in the middle, with a little orange sun above. In the south-west corner, a short blue river curls past, and a faded torch flame (Benin) flickers against that corner, warming its toes. A faded chunky box (Nigeria) lies along the south and a faded big block (Chad) to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Niger: Algeria: Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top. Benin: A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River. Burkina Faso: A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Chad: A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge. Libya: A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends. Nigeria: A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Algeria", "picture": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top." }, { "country": "Benin", "picture": "A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River." }, { "country": "Burkina Faso", "picture": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire." }, { "country": "Chad", "picture": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge." }, { "country": "Libya", "picture": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." }, { "country": "Nigeria", "picture": "A chunky square with a “Y” inside: the Niger and Benue rivers meet in its middle." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KP", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-kp.png", "country": "North Korea", "reference": "references/ref-kp.png", "hook": "The head and raised front paws of the Korean tiger, reaching up toward China and Russia.", "picture": "The outline becomes the upper half of a leaping striped tiger: its head and chest fill the broad northern part, and its front paws stretch up toward the northeastern corner near Russia and along the northern border with China. It looks brave and playful, mid-jump. Faded cameos: China’s rooster comb (Manchuria) just above the paws, as if the tiger is about to tickle it, and South Korea below as the tiger’s own hind legs and tail.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, North Korea, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes the upper half of a leaping striped tiger: its head and chest fill the broad northern part, and its front paws stretch up toward the northeastern corner near Russia and along the northern border with China. It looks brave and playful, mid-jump. Faded cameos: China’s rooster comb (Manchuria) just above the paws, as if the tiger is about to tickle it, and South Korea below as the tiger’s own hind legs and tail.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than North Korea: China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. South Korea: The hind legs and tail of the Korean tiger: the tail sticks out at Homigot cape, Jeju dropped below. Russia: A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "South Korea", "picture": "The hind legs and tail of the Korean tiger: the tail sticks out at Homigot cape, Jeju dropped below." }, { "country": "Russia", "picture": "A giant spread across the whole top of Asia and eastern Europe, 11 time zones wide, plus the Kaliningrad crumb." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MK", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-mk.png", "country": "North Macedonia", "reference": "references/ref-mk.png", "hook": "A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round, sunny pancake with eight rays of light glowing from its middle, and two blue berry-shaped lakes sitting in its south-west corner. A small river runs through it from north-west to south-east. Greece appears to the south as a faded hand holding the pancake up, and Kosovo to the north as a faded small diamond.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, North Macedonia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round, sunny pancake with eight rays of light glowing from its middle, and two blue berry-shaped lakes sitting in its south-west corner. A small river runs through it from north-west to south-east. Greece appears to the south as a faded hand holding the pancake up, and Kosovo to the north as a faded small diamond.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than North Macedonia: Albania: A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot. Bulgaria: A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end. Greece: A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs. Kosovo: A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Albania", "picture": "A tall narrow strip along the coast, standing face to face with the heel of Italy’s boot." }, { "country": "Bulgaria", "picture": "A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end." }, { "country": "Greece", "picture": "A hand with three fingers (the Peloponnese) dipping into the sea, scattering islands like crumbs." }, { "country": "Kosovo", "picture": "A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-OM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-om.png", "country": "Oman", "reference": "references/ref-om.png", "hook": "A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big crescent moon curving around Arabia’s southeastern corner, its outer edge along the Arabian Sea, its northern horn at Muscat, plus the small detached Musandam tip in the north drawn as a little guard star at the Strait of Hormuz. The crescent smiles calmly and smells of frankincense, shown as soft swirls. Faded cameos: the UAE’s cheese wedge snuggled inside the northern horn, and Yemen’s shoe touching the southwestern end.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Oman, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big crescent moon curving around Arabia’s southeastern corner, its outer edge along the Arabian Sea, its northern horn at Muscat, plus the small detached Musandam tip in the north drawn as a little guard star at the Strait of Hormuz. The crescent smiles calmly and smells of frankincense, shown as soft swirls. Faded cameos: the UAE’s cheese wedge snuggled inside the northern horn, and Yemen’s shoe touching the southwestern end.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Oman: Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest. United Arab Emirates: A wedge of cheese on the Gulf coast, its tip poking toward the Strait of Hormuz. Yemen: A shoe at the bottom of Arabia, its sole on the Gulf of Aden, toe at the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." }, { "country": "United Arab Emirates", "picture": "A wedge of cheese on the Gulf coast, its tip poking toward the Strait of Hormuz." }, { "country": "Yemen", "picture": "A shoe at the bottom of Arabia, its sole on the Gulf of Aden, toe at the Bab-el-Mandeb strait." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PK", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-pk.png", "country": "Pakistan", "reference": "references/ref-pk.png", "hook": "A slanted leaf from the Arabian Sea up to the Karakoram, the Indus River as its midrib.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big green leaf slanting from the Arabian Sea coast in the southwest up to its tip in the northern Karakoram mountains, with the Indus River drawn as its blue central vein. The leaf looks lively, curling slightly as if in the wind. Faded cameos: Afghanistan’s leaf lying against the western side with its long stalk stretching past the northern tip, India’s kite to the east, and Iran’s sitting cat to the southwest.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Pakistan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big green leaf slanting from the Arabian Sea coast in the southwest up to its tip in the northern Karakoram mountains, with the Indus River drawn as its blue central vein. The leaf looks lively, curling slightly as if in the wind. Faded cameos: Afghanistan’s leaf lying against the western side with its long stalk stretching past the northern tip, India’s kite to the east, and Iran’s sitting cat to the southwest.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Pakistan: Afghanistan: A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. India: A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka. Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Afghanistan", "picture": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "India", "picture": "A big kite hanging off Asia, its tip dripping a teardrop: Sri Lanka." }, { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ps.png", "country": "Palestinian Territories", "reference": "references/ref-ps.png", "hook": "Two pieces: the West Bank, a kidney west of the Jordan River, and the thin Gaza Strip on the sea.", "picture": "Two pieces: the West Bank becomes a plump kidney bean lying beside the Jordan River and the Dead Sea on its east side, and the Gaza Strip on the Mediterranean coast becomes a slim green bean pod. Both look calm and friendly, with small sprouting leaves. Faded cameos: Jordan’s teapot just east across the river, and Egypt’s Sinai triangle touching the southern tip of the bean pod.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Palestinian Territories, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Two pieces: the West Bank becomes a plump kidney bean lying beside the Jordan River and the Dead Sea on its east side, and the Gaza Strip on the Mediterranean coast becomes a slim green bean pod. Both look calm and friendly, with small sprouting leaves. Faded cameos: Jordan’s teapot just east across the river, and Egypt’s Sinai triangle touching the southern tip of the bean pod.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Palestinian Territories: Israel: A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat. Egypt: A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half. Jordan: A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Israel", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat." }, { "country": "Egypt", "picture": "A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half." }, { "country": "Jordan", "picture": "A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PA", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-pa.png", "country": "Panama", "reference": "references/ref-pa.png", "hook": "A sideways S-shaped strip linking Central and South America, cut through by the Panama Canal.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a long ribbon or friendly snake lying on its side in an S-curve from west to east, with a tiny blue gap-line across its narrow middle where the canal runs and a little ship sailing through it. Keep the outline exact. The ribbon has a smiling face at its eastern end. Faded cameos: a thumbs-up hand (Costa Rica) holding the western end, and a jigsaw corner piece (Colombia) the eastern end clicks into.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Panama, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a long ribbon or friendly snake lying on its side in an S-curve from west to east, with a tiny blue gap-line across its narrow middle where the canal runs and a little ship sailing through it. Keep the outline exact. The ribbon has a smiling face at its eastern end. Faded cameos: a thumbs-up hand (Costa Rica) holding the western end, and a jigsaw corner piece (Colombia) the eastern end clicks into.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Panama: Colombia: The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon. Costa Rica: A short stretch of isthmus between Nicaragua and Panama, the Nicoya Peninsula sticking out like a thumb into the Pacific.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Colombia", "picture": "The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon." }, { "country": "Costa Rica", "picture": "A short stretch of isthmus between Nicaragua and Panama, the Nicoya Peninsula sticking out like a thumb into the Pacific." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PG", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-pg.png", "country": "Papua New Guinea", "reference": "references/ref-pg.png", "hook": "The tail half of the New Guinea “bird”, cut off by an almost ruler-straight border with Indonesia, plus islands east.", "picture": "The outline becomes the tail half of a big tropical bird: the straight western border (141°E, with a small bend along the Fly River) is where the body continues off-page, the Papuan Peninsula in the south-east is a long elegant tail feather, and New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville in the north-east are loose feathers drifting away on the breeze. The feathers ruffle happily as if the bird is shaking itself. To the west, a faded dragon's tail (Indonesia) curls up to touch the bird's tail; to the south, a faded giant loaf (Australia) sits across the narrow strait.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Papua New Guinea, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes the tail half of a big tropical bird: the straight western border (141°E, with a small bend along the Fly River) is where the body continues off-page, the Papuan Peninsula in the south-east is a long elegant tail feather, and New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville in the north-east are loose feathers drifting away on the breeze. The feathers ruffle happily as if the bird is shaking itself. To the west, a faded dragon's tail (Indonesia) curls up to touch the bird's tail; to the south, a faded giant loaf (Australia) sits across the narrow strait.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Papua New Guinea: Indonesia: A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Indonesia", "picture": "A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-py.png", "country": "Paraguay", "reference": "references/ref-py.png", "hook": "A lopsided butterfly: the dry Chaco is one wing, the green east the other, and the Paraguay River its body.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a lopsided butterfly: the large northwestern Chaco is the bigger wing (sandy-coloured), the smaller southeastern region the second wing (lush green), and a blue river-shaped body runs between them along the Paraguay River. Keep the outline exact. The butterfly smiles, with two little antennae near the river’s northern end. Faded cameos: a potato (Bolivia) to the northwest, a big parrot head (Brazil) to the east watching it, an ice-cream cone (Argentina) below.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Paraguay, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a lopsided butterfly: the large northwestern Chaco is the bigger wing (sandy-coloured), the smaller southeastern region the second wing (lush green), and a blue river-shaped body runs between them along the Paraguay River. Keep the outline exact. The butterfly smiles, with two little antennae near the river’s northern end. Faded cameos: a potato (Bolivia) to the northwest, a big parrot head (Brazil) to the east watching it, an ice-cream cone (Argentina) below.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Paraguay: Argentina: A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili. Bolivia: A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side. Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Argentina", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili." }, { "country": "Bolivia", "picture": "A big lumpy potato with a sprout poking north and Lake Titicaca as a dent on its western side." }, { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-QA", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-qa.png", "country": "Qatar", "reference": "references/ref-qa.png", "hook": "A thumb sticking up from Arabia into the Gulf.", "picture": "The outline becomes a friendly thumb sticking up north from the Arabian mainland into the turquoise Gulf, giving a big thumbs-up, with a little thumbnail at its northern tip. It looks pleased with itself. Faded cameos: Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise at the thumb’s base to the south, Bahrain’s small pebble just to the west as if about to be flicked like a marble, and the UAE’s cheese wedge to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Qatar, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a friendly thumb sticking up north from the Arabian mainland into the turquoise Gulf, giving a big thumbs-up, with a little thumbnail at its northern tip. It looks pleased with itself. Faded cameos: Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise at the thumb’s base to the south, Bahrain’s small pebble just to the west as if about to be flicked like a marble, and the UAE’s cheese wedge to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Qatar: Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-RO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ro.png", "country": "Romania", "reference": "references/ref-ro.png", "hook": "A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump, round fish swimming west, with a big curved fishbone arc of mountains drawn inside its body and its tail fin flicking in the east at the Danube delta on the Black Sea. Bubbles rise from its mouth near the western border. Moldova appears to the north-east as a faded bunch of grapes it is eyeing, and Bulgaria to the south as a faded bar of soap.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Romania, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump, round fish swimming west, with a big curved fishbone arc of mountains drawn inside its body and its tail fin flicking in the east at the Danube delta on the Black Sea. Bubbles rise from its mouth near the western border. Moldova appears to the north-east as a faded bunch of grapes it is eyeing, and Bulgaria to the south as a faded bar of soap.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Romania: Bulgaria: A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west. Moldova: A bunch of grapes hanging between Romania and Ukraine, the Prut along its west side: fitting for a wine country. Serbia: A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bulgaria", "picture": "A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." }, { "country": "Moldova", "picture": "A bunch of grapes hanging between Romania and Ukraine, the Prut along its west side: fitting for a wine country." }, { "country": "Serbia", "picture": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-RW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-rw.png", "country": "Rwanda", "reference": "references/ref-rw.png", "hook": "A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a small, soft knot of rolling green hills tied like a bow, with a golden sun rising over it and a cheerful face, the western edge dipping its feet into a blue Lake Kivu. Directly south, a faded little heart (Burundi) leans against it like a twin sibling. A faded square (Uganda) sits above, and a faded huge blob (DR Congo) lies across the lake to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Rwanda, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a small, soft knot of rolling green hills tied like a bow, with a golden sun rising over it and a cheerful face, the western edge dipping its feet into a blue Lake Kivu. Directly south, a faded little heart (Burundi) leans against it like a twin sibling. A faded square (Uganda) sits above, and a faded huge blob (DR Congo) lies across the lake to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Rwanda: Burundi: A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast. Uganda: A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Burundi", "picture": "A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." }, { "country": "Uganda", "picture": "A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-WS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ws.png", "country": "Samoa", "reference": "references/ref-ws.png", "hook": "A plump turtle (Savaiʻi) paddling east after a long eel (Upolu), with tiny Manono and Apolima between.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump, round sea turtle (Savai'i, in the west) swimming east after a long, slim, smiling eel (Upolu, in the east), with two tiny pebble-like islets (Manono and Apolima) bobbing between them like bubbles. The turtle paddles eagerly, and the eel looks back over its shoulder playfully. To the south, faded upright tongs (Tonga) reach up towards them; to the south-west, faded stepping stones (Fiji) rest on the sea.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Samoa, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump, round sea turtle (Savai'i, in the west) swimming east after a long, slim, smiling eel (Upolu, in the east), with two tiny pebble-like islets (Manono and Apolima) bobbing between them like bubbles. The turtle paddles eagerly, and the eel looks back over its shoulder playfully. To the south, faded upright tongs (Tonga) reach up towards them; to the south-west, faded stepping stones (Fiji) rest on the sea.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SN", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sn.png", "country": "Senegal", "reference": "references/ref-sn.png", "hook": "A head facing the Atlantic: Dakar is its nose poking west, and The Gambia a worm sliding into its lower half.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big, friendly head in profile facing west, its pointed nose at Dakar sniffing the ocean breeze and its eyes looking out to sea. A thin faded worm (The Gambia) wriggles into its lower half, making the head giggle as if tickled. Out at sea to the west, a small faded horseshoe of islands (Cape Verde) floats in front of the nose, and a faded big square (Mauritania) rests on top.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Senegal, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big, friendly head in profile facing west, its pointed nose at Dakar sniffing the ocean breeze and its eyes looking out to sea. A thin faded worm (The Gambia) wriggles into its lower half, making the head giggle as if tickled. Out at sea to the west, a small faded horseshoe of islands (Cape Verde) floats in front of the nose, and a faded big square (Mauritania) rests on top.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Senegal: Gambia: A thin worm crawling into Senegal along the Gambia River. Guinea: A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia. Guinea-Bissau: A small block with a frayed, river-cut coast and the Bijagós islands scattered off it like confetti. Mali: A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends. Mauritania: A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Gambia", "picture": "A thin worm crawling into Senegal along the Gambia River." }, { "country": "Guinea", "picture": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia." }, { "country": "Guinea-Bissau", "picture": "A small block with a frayed, river-cut coast and the Bijagós islands scattered off it like confetti." }, { "country": "Mali", "picture": "A bow tie: a big desert triangle in the north knotted to a southern half where the Niger River bends." }, { "country": "Mauritania", "picture": "A big square of Sahara with a narrow finger poking north between Western Sahara and Algeria." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-RS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-rs.png", "country": "Serbia", "reference": "references/ref-rs.png", "hook": "A chunky arrowhead pointing south, with the Danube crossing its top and forming the border with Romania.", "picture": "The outline becomes a chunky arrowhead-shaped kite pointing south, with a blue river ribbon across its northern part and a tiny white-walled fortress where two rivers meet near Belgrade. Hungary appears to the north as a faded oval, Romania to the north-east as a faded round fish, and Bulgaria to the east as a faded bar of soap.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Serbia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a chunky arrowhead-shaped kite pointing south, with a blue river ribbon across its northern part and a tiny white-walled fortress where two rivers meet near Belgrade. Hungary appears to the north as a faded oval, Romania to the north-east as a faded round fish, and Bulgaria to the east as a faded bar of soap.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Serbia: Bosnia & Herzegovina: A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum. Bulgaria: A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end. Croatia: A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west. Kosovo: A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia. North Macedonia: A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner. Montenegro: A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor. Romania: A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Bosnia & Herzegovina", "picture": "A heart-shaped triangle that touches the sea with just one tiny tip at Neum." }, { "country": "Bulgaria", "picture": "A bar of rose soap: the Danube rinses its top edge, the Black Sea foams along its right end." }, { "country": "Croatia", "picture": "A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." }, { "country": "Kosovo", "picture": "A small landlocked diamond tucked between Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia." }, { "country": "North Macedonia", "picture": "A rough landlocked oval with two big lakes, Ohrid and Prespa, in its south-west corner." }, { "country": "Montenegro", "picture": "A small rounded shape with a short coast and a fjord-like bite: the Bay of Kotor." }, { "country": "Romania", "picture": "A plump round fish swimming west, its tail flicking at the Danube delta on the Black Sea." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SL", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sl.png", "country": "Sierra Leone", "reference": "references/ref-sl.png", "hook": "A small round fist on the Atlantic, with the little Freetown peninsula as its thumb.", "picture": "Make the outline a small, round, friendly fist giving a thumbs-up, the thumb being the Freetown peninsula on the west coast, drawn as green mountains with a tiny sleeping lion shape in the hills. A faded boomerang (Guinea) swoops over the top, and a faded slanted slice of toast (Liberia) leans against the south-east side. The mood is encouraging, like a cheerful “well done”.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Sierra Leone, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a small, round, friendly fist giving a thumbs-up, the thumb being the Freetown peninsula on the west coast, drawn as green mountains with a tiny sleeping lion shape in the hills. A faded boomerang (Guinea) swoops over the top, and a faded slanted slice of toast (Liberia) leans against the south-east side. The mood is encouraging, like a cheerful “well done”.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Sierra Leone: Guinea: A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia. Liberia: A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Guinea", "picture": "A boomerang curving from the Atlantic coast eastward, arching over Sierra Leone and Liberia." }, { "country": "Liberia", "picture": "A slice of toast slid diagonally down the Atlantic beach, tucked under Guinea’s boomerang." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SK", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sk.png", "country": "Slovakia", "reference": "references/ref-sk.png", "hook": "A hedgehog trotting west: its pointy snout at Bratislava, the Tatras as spikes on its back, a round rump in the east.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump, friendly hedgehog trotting west, its pointy snout at the narrow western tip near Bratislava, the snowy Tatra peaks along its northern back drawn as soft spikes, and its round rump in the east. Poland appears to the north as a faded round puzzle piece above it, Hungary to the south as a faded oval it sniffs at, and Austria as a faded tadpole head near its snout.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Slovakia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump, friendly hedgehog trotting west, its pointy snout at the narrow western tip near Bratislava, the snowy Tatra peaks along its northern back drawn as soft spikes, and its round rump in the east. Poland appears to the north as a faded round puzzle piece above it, Hungary to the south as a faded oval it sniffs at, and Austria as a faded tadpole head near its snout.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Slovakia: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. Czechia: A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west. Poland: An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top. Ukraine: A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "Czechia", "picture": "A fish swimming west: a round Bohemian head ringed by mountains, a Moravian tail to the east." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." }, { "country": "Poland", "picture": "An almost round puzzle piece between Germany and Belarus, with a straight Baltic coast on top." }, { "country": "Ukraine", "picture": "A wide round loaf of bread, sliced into left and right halves by the Dnipro like a knife." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SI", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-si.png", "country": "Slovenia", "reference": "references/ref-si.png", "hook": "A running hen facing east, as Slovenes say, with its tail dipping into a tiny Adriatic coast.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump hen running east: its head and beak in the north-east (Prekmurje), its tail feathers dipping into the little Adriatic coast in the south-west, and its legs along the southern border. A tiny friendly dragon rides on its back near Ljubljana. Italy appears to the west as a faded boot cuff, and Croatia to the south as a faded boomerang curving under the hen’s feet.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Slovenia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump hen running east: its head and beak in the north-east (Prekmurje), its tail feathers dipping into the little Adriatic coast in the south-west, and its legs along the southern border. A tiny friendly dragon rides on its back near Ljubljana. Italy appears to the west as a faded boot cuff, and Croatia to the south as a faded boomerang curving under the hen’s feet.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Slovenia: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. Croatia: A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia. Italy: A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia. Hungary: A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "Croatia", "picture": "A boomerang or croissant: a long Adriatic coast full of islands bending around Bosnia." }, { "country": "Italy", "picture": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia." }, { "country": "Hungary", "picture": "A lumpy oval with no sea, cut top to bottom by the Danube, with Lake Balaton like a bean in the west." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SB", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sb.png", "country": "Solomon Islands", "reference": "references/ref-sb.png", "hook": "Two rows of canoes paddling south-east in convoy, with a channel nicknamed “The Slot” between them.", "picture": "The outline becomes a convoy of big canoes paddling south-east in two neat rows: the north-east row is Choiseul, Santa Isabel and Malaita, the south-west row is New Georgia, Guadalcanal and Makira, with calm water (The Slot) between them and smaller islands as little boats tagging along. Paddles dip and splash, and the canoes look determined and cheerful. At the north-west end, a faded loose feather (Bougainville of the Papua New Guinea bird) floats just behind them; to the south-east, a faded wishbone (Vanuatu) lies ahead like a finish line.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Solomon Islands, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a convoy of big canoes paddling south-east in two neat rows: the north-east row is Choiseul, Santa Isabel and Malaita, the south-west row is New Georgia, Guadalcanal and Makira, with calm water (The Slot) between them and smaller islands as little boats tagging along. Paddles dip and splash, and the canoes look determined and cheerful. At the north-west end, a faded loose feather (Bougainville of the Papua New Guinea bird) floats just behind them; to the south-east, a faded wishbone (Vanuatu) lies ahead like a finish line.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SO", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-so.png", "country": "Somalia", "reference": "references/ref-so.png", "hook": "A giant “7” forming the tip of the Horn of Africa.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a giant, friendly number 7 made of sandy beach, its corner at the very tip of the Horn of Africa (north-east) and its long stem running down the Indian Ocean coast, with a little white star twinkling above the corner. The 7 curls its arm around a faded big round shield (Ethiopia) like a hug. A tiny faded crab claw (Djibouti) playfully pinches the western end of its top bar.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Somalia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a giant, friendly number 7 made of sandy beach, its corner at the very tip of the Horn of Africa (north-east) and its long stem running down the Indian Ocean coast, with a little white star twinkling above the corner. The 7 curls its arm around a faded big round shield (Ethiopia) like a hug. A tiny faded crab claw (Djibouti) playfully pinches the western end of its top bar.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Somalia: Djibouti: A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea. Ethiopia: A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti. Kenya: A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Djibouti", "picture": "A small crab claw gripping the Gulf of Tadjoura at the mouth of the Red Sea." }, { "country": "Ethiopia", "picture": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti." }, { "country": "Kenya", "picture": "A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SS", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ss.png", "country": "South Sudan", "reference": "references/ref-ss.png", "hook": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp.", "picture": "Make the outline a soft, lumpy oval cushion with a calm face, a blue White Nile ribbon running north through it and a green, reedy swamp (the Sudd) spread across its middle with a shoebill bird standing in the reeds. A faded blocky box (Sudan) sits above it, and a faded matching lumpy oval cushion (Central African Republic) lies beside it to the west, as if they are a pair on a sofa.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, South Sudan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a soft, lumpy oval cushion with a calm face, a blue White Nile ribbon running north through it and a green, reedy swamp (the Sudd) spread across its middle with a shoebill bird standing in the reeds. A faded blocky box (Sudan) sits above it, and a faded matching lumpy oval cushion (Central African Republic) lies beside it to the west, as if they are a pair on a sofa.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than South Sudan: Central African Republic: A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Ethiopia: A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti. Kenya: A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria. Sudan: A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side. Uganda: A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Central African Republic", "picture": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Ethiopia", "picture": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti." }, { "country": "Kenya", "picture": "A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria." }, { "country": "Sudan", "picture": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side." }, { "country": "Uganda", "picture": "A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LK", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-lk.png", "country": "Sri Lanka", "reference": "references/ref-lk.png", "hook": "A teardrop falling from the tip of India.", "picture": "The outline becomes a shiny teardrop with a round bottom in the south and its narrow top in the north, falling from the tip of India above, with a dotted line of sandbanks (Adam’s Bridge) trailing behind it like splashes. The drop looks cheerful, not sad, with a tiny smile and a green hilly middle. Faded cameos: the tip of India’s big kite just above to the northwest, and the Maldives’ string of coral pearls dangling to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Sri Lanka, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a shiny teardrop with a round bottom in the south and its narrow top in the north, falling from the tip of India above, with a dotted line of sandbanks (Adam’s Bridge) trailing behind it like splashes. The drop looks cheerful, not sad, with a tiny smile and a green hilly middle. Faded cameos: the tip of India’s big kite just above to the northwest, and the Maldives’ string of coral pearls dangling to the west.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SD", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sd.png", "country": "Sudan", "reference": "references/ref-sd.png", "hook": "A big blocky square with the Nile running up through it and a short Red Sea coast on its right side.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a sturdy, smiling cardboard box carrying a faded box (Egypt) stacked on its head, with a blue Nile ribbon threaded up through both, and two blue rivers (Blue and White Nile) joining near the middle where Khartoum is. A faded lumpy oval (South Sudan) hangs below like a cushion, and a faded funnel (Eritrea) sits on its eastern shoulder by the Red Sea.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Sudan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a sturdy, smiling cardboard box carrying a faded box (Egypt) stacked on its head, with a blue Nile ribbon threaded up through both, and two blue rivers (Blue and White Nile) joining near the middle where Khartoum is. A faded lumpy oval (South Sudan) hangs below like a cushion, and a faded funnel (Eritrea) sits on its eastern shoulder by the Red Sea.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Sudan: Central African Republic: A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge. Chad: A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge. Egypt: A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half. Eritrea: A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti. Ethiopia: A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti. Libya: A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra. South Sudan: A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Central African Republic", "picture": "A lumpy oval lying on its side in the very centre of Africa, the Ubangi River tracing its southern edge." }, { "country": "Chad", "picture": "A big landlocked block with Lake Chad, which gave it its name, on its western edge." }, { "country": "Egypt", "picture": "A nearly square box with the Sinai triangle stuck on its top-right corner and the Nile running up its eastern half." }, { "country": "Eritrea", "picture": "A funnel along the Red Sea: wide at the Sudan end, narrowing to a thin coastal strip by Djibouti." }, { "country": "Ethiopia", "picture": "A big rounded shield on the Horn of Africa, cut off from the sea by Eritrea and Djibouti." }, { "country": "Libya", "picture": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra." }, { "country": "South Sudan", "picture": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SR", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sr.png", "country": "Suriname", "reference": "references/ref-sr.png", "hook": "A square kitchen sponge with a nibbled bottom edge, squeezed between Guyana and French Guiana.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a square, bubbly yellow-and-green kitchen sponge with little pores, its southern edge nibbled and uneven. Keep the outline exact. The sponge has a cheerful face and soap bubbles floating off its northern (Atlantic) coast. Faded cameos: a peanut standing on end (Guyana) to the west and a big parrot head (Brazil) below, about to take a playful nibble.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Suriname, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a square, bubbly yellow-and-green kitchen sponge with little pores, its southern edge nibbled and uneven. Keep the outline exact. The sponge has a cheerful face and soap bubbles floating off its northern (Atlantic) coast. Faded cameos: a peanut standing on end (Guyana) to the west and a big parrot head (Brazil) below, about to take a playful nibble.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Suriname: Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Guyana: A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Guyana", "picture": "A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-CH", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ch.png", "country": "Switzerland", "reference": "references/ref-ch.png", "hook": "A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner.", "picture": "The outline becomes a round golden loaf of bread with a crescent bite taken out of its south-west corner, where a little blue lake glints. Snowy Alpine peaks are drawn as crusty bumps along its southern half. Austria appears to the east as a faded tadpole tail tickling the loaf, and Italy to the south as a faded boot top nudging it from below.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Switzerland, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a round golden loaf of bread with a crescent bite taken out of its south-west corner, where a little blue lake glints. Snowy Alpine peaks are drawn as crusty bumps along its southern half. Austria appears to the east as a faded tadpole tail tickling the loaf, and Italy to the south as a faded boot top nudging it from below.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Switzerland: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. Italy: A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia. Liechtenstein: A thin upright sliver on the east bank of the Rhine, squeezed between Switzerland and Austria. Germany: A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "Italy", "picture": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia." }, { "country": "Liechtenstein", "picture": "A thin upright sliver on the east bank of the Rhine, squeezed between Switzerland and Austria." }, { "country": "Germany", "picture": "A chunky standing figure with Denmark perched on its head like a hat and Bavaria as broad feet." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-sy.png", "country": "Syria", "reference": "references/ref-sy.png", "hook": "A slice of pie with a short Mediterranean crust in the west and the Euphrates crossing it.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big slice of pie with a golden crust along the short Mediterranean coast in the west, its filling spreading east toward Iraq, and the Euphrates drawn as a blue syrup swirl crossing from the northwest to the southeast. It looks tasty and cheerful. Faded cameos: Turkey’s long dachshund lying along the top edge sniffing the pie, Lebanon’s small domino leaning against the western crust, and Iraq’s shield at the eastern end.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Syria, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big slice of pie with a golden crust along the short Mediterranean coast in the west, its filling spreading east toward Iraq, and the Euphrates drawn as a blue syrup swirl crossing from the northwest to the southeast. It looks tasty and cheerful. Faded cameos: Turkey’s long dachshund lying along the top edge sniffing the pie, Lebanon’s small domino leaning against the western crust, and Iraq’s shield at the eastern end.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Syria: Iraq: A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through. Israel: A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat. Jordan: A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba. Lebanon: A small tilted domino standing on the Mediterranean shore, Syria wrapped around its back. Türkiye: A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Iraq", "picture": "A lumpy shield with a tiny spout dripping into the Gulf at Basra; Tigris and Euphrates run through." }, { "country": "Israel", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south, its tip touching the Red Sea at Eilat." }, { "country": "Jordan", "picture": "A teapot: its handle sticks out east to Iraq, its spout pours into the Red Sea at Aqaba." }, { "country": "Lebanon", "picture": "A small tilted domino standing on the Mediterranean shore, Syria wrapped around its back." }, { "country": "Türkiye", "picture": "A long dachshund lying between the Black and Mediterranean seas, its nose poking into Europe." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tw.png", "country": "Taiwan", "reference": "references/ref-tw.png", "hook": "A sweet potato floating off China’s southeast coast.", "picture": "The outline becomes a plump sweet potato lying north to south, pointed at both ends, with a green leafy sprout at the northern tip near Taipei and a ridge of mountains down its middle like the potato’s bumpy skin. It bobs happily in the sea. Faded cameos: China’s rooster across the strait to the west, the tail sparks of Japan’s island dragon to the northeast, and the Philippines’ Luzon boot to the south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Taiwan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a plump sweet potato lying north to south, pointed at both ends, with a green leafy sprout at the northern tip near Taipei and a ridge of mountains down its middle like the potato’s bumpy skin. It bobs happily in the sea. Faded cameos: China’s rooster across the strait to the west, the tail sparks of Japan’s island dragon to the northeast, and the Philippines’ Luzon boot to the south.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TJ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tj.png", "country": "Tajikistan", "reference": "references/ref-tj.png", "hook": "A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana.", "picture": "The outline becomes a gnarled old tree lying on its side: its wide, snowy crown is the Pamir mountains in the east, its trunk and roots in the southwest, and a crooked branch stretching north into the Fergana Valley. Apricots hang from the branch and the tree looks wise and a bit mischievous. Faded cameos: Kyrgyzstan’s whale to the north with the branch tickling the bite in its belly, and Afghanistan’s leaf below with its long stalk along the crown’s southern edge.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Tajikistan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a gnarled old tree lying on its side: its wide, snowy crown is the Pamir mountains in the east, its trunk and roots in the southwest, and a crooked branch stretching north into the Fergana Valley. Apricots hang from the branch and the tree looks wise and a bit mischievous. Faded cameos: Kyrgyzstan’s whale to the north with the branch tickling the bite in its belly, and Afghanistan’s leaf below with its long stalk along the crown’s southern edge.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Tajikistan: Afghanistan: A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China. China: A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail. Kyrgyzstan: A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley). Uzbekistan: A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Afghanistan", "picture": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China." }, { "country": "China", "picture": "A rooster facing the Pacific: Manchuria is its comb, Xinjiang and Tibet its tail." }, { "country": "Kyrgyzstan", "picture": "A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley)." }, { "country": "Uzbekistan", "picture": "A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tz.png", "country": "Tanzania", "reference": "references/ref-tz.png", "hook": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast.", "picture": "Make the outline a big square picture frame of savanna with a happy face, decorated with blue lakes along its edges: Lake Victoria at the top, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi down the west side, and Zanzibar’s islands as little jewels off the east coast. Add a small snowy Kilimanjaro peak near the north-east as decoration. Faded cameos of a tilted square (Kenya) and a square (Uganda) sit on top, dipping corners into Lake Victoria.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Tanzania, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a big square picture frame of savanna with a happy face, decorated with blue lakes along its edges: Lake Victoria at the top, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi down the west side, and Zanzibar’s islands as little jewels off the east coast. Add a small snowy Kilimanjaro peak near the north-east as decoration. Faded cameos of a tilted square (Kenya) and a square (Uganda) sit on top, dipping corners into Lake Victoria.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Tanzania: Burundi: A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Kenya: A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria. Malawi: A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side. Mozambique: A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Rwanda: A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below. Uganda: A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Burundi", "picture": "A small heart pressed against the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, just under its twin, Rwanda." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Kenya", "picture": "A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria." }, { "country": "Malawi", "picture": "A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side." }, { "country": "Mozambique", "picture": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe." }, { "country": "Rwanda", "picture": "A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below." }, { "country": "Uganda", "picture": "A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TL", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tl.png", "country": "Timor-Leste", "reference": "references/ref-tl.png", "hook": "The eastern half of Timor, an island that local legend says is a sleeping crocodile.", "picture": "The outline becomes the eastern half of a friendly sleeping crocodile, its bumpy mountain back along the island’s spine, lying east to west, with the small Oecusse exclave in the west drawn as a single loose scale. The crocodile dozes with a peaceful smile. Faded cameos: the western half of the island as part of Indonesia’s long island dragon, and Australia’s huge round loaf to the south across the sea.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Timor-Leste, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes the eastern half of a friendly sleeping crocodile, its bumpy mountain back along the island’s spine, lying east to west, with the small Oecusse exclave in the west drawn as a single loose scale. The crocodile dozes with a peaceful smile. Faded cameos: the western half of the island as part of Indonesia’s long island dragon, and Australia’s huge round loaf to the south across the sea.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Timor-Leste: Indonesia: A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Indonesia", "picture": "A long dragon of islands along the equator, from Sumatra’s head to a tail on western New Guinea." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TG", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tg.png", "country": "Togo", "reference": "references/ref-tg.png", "hook": "A thin ribbon running north from a short coast, squeezed between Ghana and Benin.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a long, thin, fluttering ribbon running north from the short southern coast, green and yellow striped, with a happy face near the top. On its west, a faded chocolate bar (Ghana) looks as if the ribbon is tied around it, and on its east a faded tall torch (Benin) stands beside it like a partner. A faded bean (Burkina Faso) sits at its northern tip.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Togo, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a long, thin, fluttering ribbon running north from the short southern coast, green and yellow striped, with a happy face near the top. On its west, a faded chocolate bar (Ghana) looks as if the ribbon is tied around it, and on its east a faded tall torch (Benin) stands beside it like a partner. A faded bean (Burkina Faso) sits at its northern tip.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Togo: Benin: A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River. Burkina Faso: A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Ghana: A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Benin", "picture": "A tall thin torch: a narrow handle on the coast, the flame widening north up to the Niger River." }, { "country": "Burkina Faso", "picture": "A fat bean lying on its side, landlocked, resting on top of Ghana, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire." }, { "country": "Ghana", "picture": "A tall chocolate bar on the Gulf of Guinea, with Lake Volta as a puddle of melted chocolate in its middle." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TT", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tt.png", "country": "Trinidad & Tobago", "reference": "references/ref-tt.png", "hook": "Trinidad is a square with two arms reaching toward Venezuela; little cigar-shaped Tobago floats to the northeast.", "picture": "Turn Trinidad into a friendly square character with two long arms stretched out to the west: the northwestern peninsula and the southwestern peninsula are the arms, reaching to hug Venezuela across the Gulf of Paria. Keep the outline exact. Tobago, to the northeast, becomes a little cigar-shaped canoe or sausage-shaped buddy floating beside it. Faded cameos: Venezuela’s coast as a wide smiling neighbour to the west, a nutmeg (Grenada) far to the north.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Trinidad & Tobago, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn Trinidad into a friendly square character with two long arms stretched out to the west: the northwestern peninsula and the southwestern peninsula are the arms, reaching to hug Venezuela across the Gulf of Paria. Keep the outline exact. Tobago, to the northeast, becomes a little cigar-shaped canoe or sausage-shaped buddy floating beside it. Faded cameos: Venezuela’s coast as a wide smiling neighbour to the west, a nutmeg (Grenada) far to the north.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TN", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tn.png", "country": "Tunisia", "reference": "references/ref-tn.png", "hook": "A slim upright strip, Africa’s northernmost tip, with the Gulf of Gabès bitten out of its east coast.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a slim, upright figure standing tall on top of Africa, with an alert face at the northern tip looking out to sea, and a bite-shaped curve on its east side for the Gulf of Gabès. Across the sea to the north-east, a faded boot (Italy) is kicking a faded ball (Sicily) towards it, and the figure is ready to catch it. A faded giant block (Algeria) stands behind it to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Tunisia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a slim, upright figure standing tall on top of Africa, with an alert face at the northern tip looking out to sea, and a bite-shaped curve on its east side for the Gulf of Gabès. Across the sea to the north-east, a faded boot (Italy) is kicking a faded ball (Sicily) towards it, and the figure is ready to catch it. A faded giant block (Algeria) stands behind it to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Tunisia: Algeria: Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top. Libya: A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Algeria", "picture": "Africa’s largest country: a giant block of Sahara with a short Mediterranean coast on top." }, { "country": "Libya", "picture": "A huge square box of desert with a bite out of its top coast: the Gulf of Sidra." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-tm.png", "country": "Turkmenistan", "reference": "references/ref-tm.png", "hook": "A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert.", "picture": "The outline becomes a big puffy sand-coloured cloud floating east from the Caspian Sea coast, with soft dunes drawn inside it for the Karakum desert and a little blue river trimming its northeastern edge. The cloud looks dreamy and relaxed. Faded cameos: Kazakhstan’s steppe rug and Uzbekistan’s chunky body above it, Iran’s sitting cat below looking up at the cloud, and Afghanistan’s leaf at its southeastern edge.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Turkmenistan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a big puffy sand-coloured cloud floating east from the Caspian Sea coast, with soft dunes drawn inside it for the Karakum desert and a little blue river trimming its northeastern edge. The cloud looks dreamy and relaxed. Faded cameos: Kazakhstan’s steppe rug and Uzbekistan’s chunky body above it, Iran’s sitting cat below looking up at the cloud, and Afghanistan’s leaf at its southeastern edge.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Turkmenistan: Afghanistan: A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China. Iran: A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner. Kazakhstan: A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge. Uzbekistan: A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Afghanistan", "picture": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China." }, { "country": "Iran", "picture": "A sitting cat between the Caspian and the Gulf, its ears pricked up in the northwest corner." }, { "country": "Kazakhstan", "picture": "A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge." }, { "country": "Uzbekistan", "picture": "A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-UG", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ug.png", "country": "Uganda", "reference": "references/ref-ug.png", "hook": "A square with its bottom-right corner sunk into Lake Victoria.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a cheerful square sitting with its south-east corner dangling in the cool blue of Lake Victoria like feet in a pool, a thin blue Nile ribbon flowing out of the lake northwards through it. A grey crowned crane can stand on the square’s northern edge as decoration. A faded tilted square (Kenya) splashes in the same lake from the east, and a faded knot of hills (Rwanda) sits below the south-west corner.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Uganda, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a cheerful square sitting with its south-east corner dangling in the cool blue of Lake Victoria like feet in a pool, a thin blue Nile ribbon flowing out of the lake northwards through it. A grey crowned crane can stand on the square’s northern edge as decoration. A faded tilted square (Kenya) splashes in the same lake from the east, and a faded knot of hills (Rwanda) sits below the south-west corner.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Uganda: Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Kenya: A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria. Rwanda: A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below. South Sudan: A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Kenya", "picture": "A tilted square: ruler-straight Somalia side, a diagonal Indian Ocean coast, one corner dipped in Lake Victoria." }, { "country": "Rwanda", "picture": "A small knot of hills beside Lake Kivu, with its twin Burundi tucked just below." }, { "country": "South Sudan", "picture": "A lumpy oval in the middle of the continent, with the White Nile flowing north through the vast Sudd swamp." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ae.png", "country": "United Arab Emirates", "reference": "references/ref-ae.png", "hook": "A wedge of cheese on the Gulf coast, its tip poking toward the Strait of Hormuz.", "picture": "The outline becomes a cheerful wedge of yellow cheese with round holes, its wide rind along the southern and western desert border and its sharp tip in the northeast at Ras al-Khaimah, sniffing toward the Strait of Hormuz. Give it a happy face near the Gulf coast. As faded cameos: Oman’s crescent moon curling around the eastern side with its little Musandam tip like a guard on the point, and Qatar’s thumb poking up to the west, giving a thumbs-up.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, United Arab Emirates, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a cheerful wedge of yellow cheese with round holes, its wide rind along the southern and western desert border and its sharp tip in the northeast at Ras al-Khaimah, sniffing toward the Strait of Hormuz. Give it a happy face near the Gulf coast. As faded cameos: Oman’s crescent moon curling around the eastern side with its little Musandam tip like a guard on the point, and Qatar’s thumb poking up to the west, giving a thumbs-up.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than United Arab Emirates: Oman: A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz. Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Oman", "picture": "A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz." }, { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-UY", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-uy.png", "country": "Uruguay", "reference": "references/ref-uy.png", "hook": "A mate gourd: its round belly on the Río de la Plata, narrowing north toward Brazil.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a round mate gourd: the wide rounded southern part along the Río de la Plata is the belly, the narrower northern end toward Brazil is the gourd’s mouth with a little metal straw (bombilla) sticking up. Keep the outline exact. The gourd has a calm, content smile and a wisp of steam. Faded cameos: a big parrot head (Brazil) leaning down from the north toward the straw, and an ice-cream cone (Argentina) standing across the river to the west.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Uruguay, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a round mate gourd: the wide rounded southern part along the Río de la Plata is the belly, the narrower northern end toward Brazil is the gourd’s mouth with a little metal straw (bombilla) sticking up. Keep the outline exact. The gourd has a calm, content smile and a wisp of steam. Faded cameos: a big parrot head (Brazil) leaning down from the north toward the straw, and an ice-cream cone (Argentina) standing across the river to the west.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Uruguay: Argentina: A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili. Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Argentina", "picture": "A long ice-cream cone pointing south to Tierra del Fuego, leaning against Chile’s thin chili." }, { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-UZ", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-uz.png", "country": "Uzbekistan", "reference": "references/ref-uz.png", "hook": "A chunky body in the west with a twisting neck running east into the Fergana Valley.", "picture": "The outline becomes a funny creature with a chunky body and a long twisting neck: the body fills the west by the Aral Sea, and the neck and small head reach east into the Fergana Valley. It looks curious, stretching its neck to peek. Faded cameos: Kyrgyzstan’s whale to the east with the creature’s head poking into the bite on its belly, Kazakhstan’s steppe rug above, and Turkmenistan’s puffy cloud below.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Uzbekistan, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a funny creature with a chunky body and a long twisting neck: the body fills the west by the Aral Sea, and the neck and small head reach east into the Fergana Valley. It looks curious, stretching its neck to peek. Faded cameos: Kyrgyzstan’s whale to the east with the creature’s head poking into the bite on its belly, Kazakhstan’s steppe rug above, and Turkmenistan’s puffy cloud below.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Uzbekistan: Afghanistan: A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China. Kazakhstan: A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge. Kyrgyzstan: A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley). Tajikistan: A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana. Turkmenistan: A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Afghanistan", "picture": "A leaf with a long thin stalk, the Wakhan Corridor, reaching east to touch China." }, { "country": "Kazakhstan", "picture": "A huge steppe rug from the Caspian Sea to China, the Aral Sea nibbled from its southern edge." }, { "country": "Kyrgyzstan", "picture": "A whale swimming east to China, Lake Issyk-Kul as its eye, a bite out of its belly (Fergana Valley)." }, { "country": "Tajikistan", "picture": "A gnarled tree: the wide Pamir mountains in the east, a crooked branch reaching north into Fergana." }, { "country": "Turkmenistan", "picture": "A bulging cloud on the Caspian’s east shore, filled mostly by the Karakum desert." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-VU", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-vu.png", "country": "Vanuatu", "reference": "references/ref-vu.png", "hook": "A wishbone dropped in the sea: two arms in the north (Santo and Pentecost), the stem trailing south to Tanna.", "picture": "The outline becomes a wishbone lying in the sea: the western arm in the north is Espiritu Santo and Malakula, the eastern arm is Maewo and Pentecost, and the stem runs south through Efate and Erromango to Tanna and tiny Aneityum at the southern tip. Two cheerful seabirds each hold one arm in the north, about to pull and make a wish. To the north-west, faded canoes in two rows (Solomon Islands) paddle closer to watch; to the east, faded stepping stones (Fiji) sit in the sea.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Vanuatu, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a wishbone lying in the sea: the western arm in the north is Espiritu Santo and Malakula, the eastern arm is Maewo and Pentecost, and the stem runs south through Efate and Erromango to Tanna and tiny Aneityum at the southern tip. Two cheerful seabirds each hold one arm in the north, about to pull and make a wish. To the north-west, faded canoes in two rows (Solomon Islands) paddle closer to watch; to the east, faded stepping stones (Fiji) sit in the sea.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-VE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ve.png", "country": "Venezuela", "reference": "references/ref-ve.png", "hook": "A wide shape along the Caribbean with Lake Maracaibo opening like a mouth in the west and the Orinoco fanning out east.", "picture": "Turn the outline into a big friendly creature lying along the Caribbean: Lake Maracaibo in the northwest is its wide-open mouth (singing or laughing), the Orinoco delta in the east is a fanned-out feathery tail, and the southern Amazonas lobe is its round belly. Keep the outline exact. Faded cameos: a jigsaw corner piece (Colombia) to the west that the mouth is about to take a playful bite of, a peanut (Guyana) to the east, and Trinidad’s two arms reaching in from the northeast to shake hands.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Venezuela, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the outline into a big friendly creature lying along the Caribbean: Lake Maracaibo in the northwest is its wide-open mouth (singing or laughing), the Orinoco delta in the east is a fanned-out feathery tail, and the southern Amazonas lobe is its round belly. Keep the outline exact. Faded cameos: a jigsaw corner piece (Colombia) to the west that the mouth is about to take a playful bite of, a peanut (Guyana) to the east, and Trinidad’s two arms reaching in from the northeast to shake hands.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Venezuela: Brazil: A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa. Colombia: The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon. Guyana: A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Brazil", "picture": "A giant parrot head looking east: the Amazon is its head, the northeast bulge its beak pecking toward Africa." }, { "country": "Colombia", "picture": "The corner piece of South America: coasts on both the Caribbean and the Pacific, and a thin tail south to the Amazon." }, { "country": "Guyana", "picture": "A giant peanut shell standing on end, pinched at the waist, with the Essequibo River running down its middle." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-YE", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-ye.png", "country": "Yemen", "reference": "references/ref-ye.png", "hook": "A shoe at the bottom of Arabia, its sole on the Gulf of Aden, toe at the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.", "picture": "The outline becomes a sturdy walking shoe lying east to west: its sole along the southern Gulf of Aden coast, its pointed toe at the southwestern Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and its heel in the east by Oman; Socotra island far to the southeast is a small pebble it has kicked away. The shoe looks adventurous, ready to step across the strait. Faded cameos: Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise resting on top of the shoe, Oman’s crescent by the heel, and Djibouti’s crab claw across the strait near the toe.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Yemen, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a sturdy walking shoe lying east to west: its sole along the southern Gulf of Aden coast, its pointed toe at the southwestern Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and its heel in the east by Oman; Socotra island far to the southeast is a small pebble it has kicked away. The shoe looks adventurous, ready to step across the strait. Faded cameos: Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise resting on top of the shoe, Oman’s crescent by the heel, and Djibouti’s crab claw across the strait near the toe.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Yemen: Oman: A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz. Saudi Arabia: A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Oman", "picture": "A crescent wrapping Arabia’s southeast corner, plus a detached tip (Musandam) guarding Hormuz." }, { "country": "Saudi Arabia", "picture": "A giant tortoise filling most of Arabia: its shell between the Red Sea and the Gulf, head poking northwest." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ZM", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-zm.png", "country": "Zambia", "reference": "references/ref-zm.png", "hook": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it.", "picture": "Make the outline a big, colourful butterfly with green and copper-orange wings spread east and west and a happy face, its top pinched in where a faded finger of a huge blob (DR Congo) pokes down playfully. Along its southern edge, a blue river with a tiny white waterfall (Victoria Falls). A faded long panhandle (Namibia) touches the lower western wing, and a faded rounded box (Zimbabwe) sits below the falls.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Zambia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the outline a big, colourful butterfly with green and copper-orange wings spread east and west and a happy face, its top pinched in where a faded finger of a huge blob (DR Congo) pokes down playfully. Along its southern edge, a blue river with a tiny white waterfall (Victoria Falls). A faded long panhandle (Namibia) touches the lower western wing, and a faded rounded box (Zimbabwe) sits below the falls.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Zambia: Angola: A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north. Botswana: A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi. Congo - Kinshasa: A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth. Malawi: A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side. Mozambique: A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Namibia: A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi. Tanzania: A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast. Zimbabwe: A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Angola", "picture": "A big square biscuit with a bite taken out of its east side and a crumb (Cabinda) dropped to the north." }, { "country": "Botswana", "picture": "A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi." }, { "country": "Congo - Kinshasa", "picture": "A huge round blob in the heart of Africa, sipping the Atlantic through a thin straw at the Congo River mouth." }, { "country": "Malawi", "picture": "A long thin strip hugging Lake Malawi, which runs down most of its eastern side." }, { "country": "Mozambique", "picture": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe." }, { "country": "Namibia", "picture": "A big square on the Atlantic with a long panhandle (the Caprivi Strip) poking east to the Zambezi." }, { "country": "Tanzania", "picture": "A big square framed by lakes: Victoria on top, Tanganyika and Malawi down the west, Zanzibar off the coast." }, { "country": "Zimbabwe", "picture": "A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ZW", "priority": "P2", "file": "shape-zw.png", "country": "Zimbabwe", "reference": "references/ref-zw.png", "hook": "A rounded box between two rivers: the Zambezi (Victoria Falls) on top and the Limpopo along the bottom.", "picture": "Draw the outline as a rounded wooden treasure box with a cheerful face, a blue river with a tiny white waterfall (Victoria Falls) and a long lake (Kariba) along its north-west top, and another blue river along its bottom edge. A small stone bird can sit on the lid as decoration. A faded butterfly (Zambia) flutters above the top river, and a faded twisted Y (Mozambique) wraps around its eastern side like an arm.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Zimbabwe, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the outline as a rounded wooden treasure box with a cheerful face, a blue river with a tiny white waterfall (Victoria Falls) and a long lake (Kariba) along its north-west top, and another blue river along its bottom edge. A small stone bird can sit on the lid as decoration. A faded butterfly (Zambia) flutters above the top river, and a faded twisted Y (Mozambique) wraps around its eastern side like an arm.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Zimbabwe: Botswana: A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi. Mozambique: A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe. South Africa: The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side. Zambia: A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Botswana", "picture": "A rough shield filled by the Kalahari, its north-east corner touching Zambia at one tiny spot on the Zambezi." }, { "country": "Mozambique", "picture": "A long coastal strip shaped like a twisted “Y”, one arm reaching west between Zambia and Zimbabwe." }, { "country": "South Africa", "picture": "The southern tip of Africa, with Lesotho punched out as a hole and Eswatini bitten from its east side." }, { "country": "Zambia", "picture": "A butterfly whose top is pinched in by the Congo Pedicle, a wedge of DR Congo poking into it." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AD", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-ad.png", "country": "Andorra", "reference": "references/ref-ad.png", "hook": "A small round pebble stuck high in the Pyrenees, squeezed between France and Spain.", "picture": "The outline becomes a smooth round pebble with a tiny happy face, wedged high in snowy mountains, with little peaks drawn along its edges. A small red cow sits on top as a mascot. France appears to the north as a faded hexagon gently pressing down, and Spain to the south as a faded stretched bull’s hide holding the pebble up like a hammock.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Andorra, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a smooth round pebble with a tiny happy face, wedged high in snowy mountains, with little peaks drawn along its edges. A small red cow sits on top as a mascot. France appears to the north as a faded hexagon gently pressing down, and Spain to the south as a faded stretched bull’s hide holding the pebble up like a hammock.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Andorra: France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”. Spain: A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." }, { "country": "Spain", "picture": "A stretched bull’s hide: Spaniards really call it “la piel de toro”, with Portugal cut off the west." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-AG", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-ag.png", "country": "Antigua & Barbuda", "reference": "references/ref-ag.png", "hook": "Two islands stacked north–south: lacy, rounded Antigua below and low, flat Barbuda above it.", "picture": "Turn rounded Antigua (south) into a cheerful lace doily-like cookie with frilly bays all around its edge, and flat Barbuda (north) into a sleepy flat pancake floating above it, both smiling up at each other. Keep the outlines exact. Far to the west, faded, a cricket bat (St Kitts) and ball (Nevis) fly through the air, and the two islands look ready to catch the ball.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Antigua & Barbuda, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn rounded Antigua (south) into a cheerful lace doily-like cookie with frilly bays all around its edge, and flat Barbuda (north) into a sleepy flat pancake floating above it, both smiling up at each other. Keep the outlines exact. Far to the west, faded, a cricket bat (St Kitts) and ball (Nevis) fly through the air, and the two islands look ready to catch the ball.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BH", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-bh.png", "country": "Bahrain", "reference": "references/ref-bh.png", "hook": "A small pebble in the Gulf, tied to Saudi Arabia by a long causeway, with Qatar’s thumb just east.", "picture": "The outline becomes a smooth, shiny pebble with a little smile, sitting in the blue Gulf, its small sister islets around it like pebble babies. A long string (the causeway) runs west from the pebble to the shore. Faded cameos: Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise on the western shore holding the other end of the string, and Qatar’s thumb poking up to the east, ready to play marbles with the pebble.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Bahrain, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a smooth, shiny pebble with a little smile, sitting in the blue Gulf, its small sister islets around it like pebble babies. A long string (the causeway) runs west from the pebble to the shore. Faded cameos: Saudi Arabia’s giant tortoise on the western shore holding the other end of the string, and Qatar’s thumb poking up to the east, ready to play marbles with the pebble.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-BB", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-bb.png", "country": "Barbados", "reference": "references/ref-bb.png", "hook": "One lone pear-shaped island out in the Atlantic, the easternmost of the Caribbean.", "picture": "Turn the island into a plump, shiny pear with its stalk at the narrow northern tip and its round bottom in the south, rolling happily across a blue ocean. Keep the outline exact. Add a little leaf on the stalk and a bright smile on the west (calm) side. Far to the west, faded, a teardrop (Saint Lucia) and a kite with a long tail (St Vincent) wave at it.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Barbados, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the island into a plump, shiny pear with its stalk at the narrow northern tip and its round bottom in the south, rolling happily across a blue ocean. Keep the outline exact. Add a little leaf on the stalk and a bright smile on the west (calm) side. Far to the west, faded, a teardrop (Saint Lucia) and a kite with a long tail (St Vincent) wave at it.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KM", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-km.png", "country": "Comoros", "reference": "references/ref-km.png", "hook": "Three islands in a row like stepping stones between Mozambique and Madagascar.", "picture": "Make the islands three round, mossy stepping stones in a turquoise sea, running from north-west to south-east, each with a little smiling face; Grande Comore, the largest, has a tiny puffing volcano. To the south-east, a faded giant footprint (Madagascar) waits as if the next step lands there, and to the west a faded coastline (Mozambique) is the starting bank. Keep each island’s true shape.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Comoros, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Make the islands three round, mossy stepping stones in a turquoise sea, running from north-west to south-east, each with a little smiling face; Grande Comore, the largest, has a tiny puffing volcano. To the south-east, a faded giant footprint (Madagascar) waits as if the next step lands there, and to the west a faded coastline (Mozambique) is the starting bank. Keep each island’s true shape.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-DM", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-dm.png", "country": "Dominica", "reference": "references/ref-dm.png", "hook": "A single leafy oval island standing upright, sandwiched between French Guadeloupe and Martinique.", "picture": "Turn the upright oval island into a big glossy rainforest leaf standing on its stalk at the southern tip, with a central vein running north–south along the volcanic ridge. Keep the outline exact. Give the leaf a happy face and a tiny parrot (purple and green) perched on its western edge. Faded cameos: a butterfly (Guadeloupe) fluttering just to the north, and a small island (Martinique) to the south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Dominica, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the upright oval island into a big glossy rainforest leaf standing on its stalk at the southern tip, with a central vein running north–south along the volcanic ridge. Keep the outline exact. Give the leaf a happy face and a tiny parrot (purple and green) perched on its western edge. Faded cameos: a butterfly (Guadeloupe) fluttering just to the north, and a small island (Martinique) to the south.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-GD", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-gd.png", "country": "Grenada", "reference": "references/ref-gd.png", "hook": "A whole nutmeg (the Spice Isle!) with baby nutmegs Carriacou and Petite Martinique rolling north.", "picture": "Turn the oval island into a whole nutmeg seed wrapped in a lacy red mace net, with a friendly face. Keep the outline exact. Carriacou and Petite Martinique to the north become two smaller nutmegs rolling along behind like children. Faded cameos: the long tail of a kite (St Vincent and the Grenadines) dangling down from the north to meet them, and Trinidad’s two outstretched arms far to the south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Grenada, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the oval island into a whole nutmeg seed wrapped in a lacy red mace net, with a friendly face. Keep the outline exact. Carriacou and Petite Martinique to the north become two smaller nutmegs rolling along behind like children. Faded cameos: the long tail of a kite (St Vincent and the Grenadines) dangling down from the north to meet them, and Trinidad’s two outstretched arms far to the south.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KI", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-ki.png", "country": "Kiribati", "reference": "references/ref-ki.png", "hook": "A pearl necklace across the equator: three scattered groups of atolls on both sides of the 180° line.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long pearl necklace laid across the equator: three clusters of shining pearls, the Gilbert group in the west, the small Phoenix group in the middle and the Line Islands far east, joined by a faint silver thread. The pearls sparkle and the necklace curves gently as a playful dolphin lifts its middle with its nose. To the west, a faded single round dot (Nauru) rolls towards the necklace like a lost pearl; to the north, two faded slanting chains of atolls (Marshall Islands) look on, and to the south faded tiny islands in a line (Tuvalu) trail away.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Kiribati, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long pearl necklace laid across the equator: three clusters of shining pearls, the Gilbert group in the west, the small Phoenix group in the middle and the Line Islands far east, joined by a faint silver thread. The pearls sparkle and the necklace curves gently as a playful dolphin lifts its middle with its nose. To the west, a faded single round dot (Nauru) rolls towards the necklace like a lost pearl; to the north, two faded slanting chains of atolls (Marshall Islands) look on, and to the south faded tiny islands in a line (Tuvalu) trail away.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LI", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-li.png", "country": "Liechtenstein", "reference": "references/ref-li.png", "hook": "A thin upright sliver on the east bank of the Rhine, squeezed between Switzerland and Austria.", "picture": "The outline becomes a thin upright sliver like a tall candle or bookmark, with a tiny castle perched on a cliff on its western edge near Vaduz and a ribbon of river along its west side. Switzerland appears to the west as a faded round loaf across the river, and Austria to the east as a faded tadpole tail curling around it like a friendly hug.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Liechtenstein, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a thin upright sliver like a tall candle or bookmark, with a tiny castle perched on a cliff on its western edge near Vaduz and a ribbon of river along its west side. Switzerland appears to the west as a faded round loaf across the river, and Austria to the east as a faded tadpole tail curling around it like a friendly hug.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Liechtenstein: Austria: A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland. Switzerland: A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Austria", "picture": "A tadpole: a fat head in the east around Vienna and a thin tail wriggling west to Switzerland." }, { "country": "Switzerland", "picture": "A rounded loaf of bread with Lake Geneva bitten out of its south-west corner." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MV", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-mv.png", "country": "Maldives", "reference": "references/ref-mv.png", "hook": "A string of coral pearls hanging south of India, the last atolls crossing the equator.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long necklace of glowing coral pearls and little rings (the atolls) hanging north to south in a turquoise sea, the bottom pearls dipping just below a dotted equator line. Tiny fish swim through the loops and the necklace sparkles. Faded cameos: the tip of India’s big kite to the northeast, as if the necklace hangs from it, and Sri Lanka’s teardrop to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Maldives, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long necklace of glowing coral pearls and little rings (the atolls) hanging north to south in a turquoise sea, the bottom pearls dipping just below a dotted equator line. Tiny fish swim through the loops and the necklace sparkles. Faded cameos: the tip of India’s big kite to the northeast, as if the necklace hangs from it, and Sri Lanka’s teardrop to the east.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MT", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-mt.png", "country": "Malta", "reference": "references/ref-mt.png", "hook": "Three stepping stones south of Sicily: Malta, Gozo and tiny Comino between them.", "picture": "The outline becomes three stepping stones in a blue sea: a bigger stone (Malta) in the south-east, a medium stone (Gozo) to its north-west, and a tiny pebble (Comino) between them, each with a cheerful face and a little fortress wall on the big one. Italy appears to the north as a faded boot toe with the Sicily ball just above the stones.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Malta, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes three stepping stones in a blue sea: a bigger stone (Malta) in the south-east, a medium stone (Gozo) to its north-west, and a tiny pebble (Comino) between them, each with a cheerful face and a little fortress wall on the big one. Italy appears to the north as a faded boot toe with the Sicily ball just above the stones.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MH", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-mh.png", "country": "Marshall Islands", "reference": "references/ref-mh.png", "hook": "Two parallel chains of atolls, Ratak (“sunrise”) and Ralik (“sunset”), slanting north-west to south-east.", "picture": "The outline becomes two parallel slanting chains of tiny ring-shaped atolls running from north-west to south-east, drawn as two rows of floating rubber rings: the eastern row (Ratak) glows with a warm sunrise light, the western row (Ralik) with a soft orange sunset light. The rings bob happily on gentle waves. To the west, a faded dotted line of islands (Micronesia) stretches away; to the south, a faded pearl necklace (Kiribati) glints along the equator.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Marshall Islands, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes two parallel slanting chains of tiny ring-shaped atolls running from north-west to south-east, drawn as two rows of floating rubber rings: the eastern row (Ratak) glows with a warm sunrise light, the western row (Ralik) with a soft orange sunset light. The rings bob happily on gentle waves. To the west, a faded dotted line of islands (Micronesia) stretches away; to the south, a faded pearl necklace (Kiribati) glints along the equator.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-FM", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-fm.png", "country": "Micronesia", "reference": "references/ref-fm.png", "hook": "A long dotted line of 600 islands in four clusters, stretched east–west north of New Guinea.", "picture": "The outline becomes a long dotted line of tiny islands stretched west to east, drawn as a row of four little turtle families swimming in a line: Yap in the west, Chuuk (a ring-shaped lagoon) next, Pohnpei as a bigger round turtle, and small Kosrae last in the east. The turtles look forward eagerly, all swimming east. At the western end a faded short string of islands (Palau) waves goodbye; at the eastern end two faded parallel chains of atolls (Marshall Islands) wait like a welcoming double row.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Micronesia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a long dotted line of tiny islands stretched west to east, drawn as a row of four little turtle families swimming in a line: Yap in the west, Chuuk (a ring-shaped lagoon) next, Pohnpei as a bigger round turtle, and small Kosrae last in the east. The turtles look forward eagerly, all swimming east. At the western end a faded short string of islands (Palau) waves goodbye; at the eastern end two faded parallel chains of atolls (Marshall Islands) wait like a welcoming double row.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-MC", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-mc.png", "country": "Monaco", "reference": "references/ref-mc.png", "hook": "A thin ribbon of Riviera coast hugging French cliffs, just short of the Italian border.", "picture": "The outline becomes a thin festive ribbon lying along the sea, curled at its ends, with tiny yachts in the water to its south and a little toy race car zooming along it. France appears around it as a faded hexagon corner with cliffs, holding the ribbon, and Italy’s boot top peeks faintly just to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Monaco, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a thin festive ribbon lying along the sea, curled at its ends, with tiny yachts in the water to its south and a little toy race car zooming along it. France appears around it as a faded hexagon corner with cliffs, holding the ribbon, and Italy’s boot top peeks faintly just to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Monaco: France: A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "France", "picture": "A hexagon: the French really call their country “l'Hexagone”." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-NR", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-nr.png", "country": "Nauru", "reference": "references/ref-nr.png", "hook": "A lone round dot just south of the equator, with one ring road around the whole island.", "picture": "The outline becomes a single round, cheerful button-like island in the open sea, with a thin ring road drawn as a circle just inside the coast and a tiny lagoon as a dimple near the south-west middle. The island smiles and spins slowly like a coin. Off to the east, a faded pearl necklace (Kiribati) holds out its nearest pearl, Banaba, as if inviting the dot to join; far to the north-east, faded double chains of atolls (Marshall Islands) wave.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Nauru, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a single round, cheerful button-like island in the open sea, with a thin ring road drawn as a circle just inside the coast and a tiny lagoon as a dimple near the south-west middle. The island smiles and spins slowly like a coin. Off to the east, a faded pearl necklace (Kiribati) holds out its nearest pearl, Banaba, as if inviting the dot to join; far to the north-east, faded double chains of atolls (Marshall Islands) wave.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-PW", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-pw.png", "country": "Palau", "reference": "references/ref-pw.png", "hook": "A short string of islands east of the Philippines: big Babeldaob on top, tiny Rock Islands scattered south.", "picture": "The outline becomes a short string of islands drawn as a mother turtle with her babies: big Babeldaob in the north is the mother swimming ahead, and the Rock Islands to the south-west are tiny mushroom-shaped baby turtles following in a wiggly line, ending with Peleliu and Angaur. A full moon glows softly above them and the mother looks back proudly. To the west, faded islands with a boot on top and a fist at the bottom (Philippines) wave across the water; to the east, a faded dotted line of islands (Micronesia) begins.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Palau, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a short string of islands drawn as a mother turtle with her babies: big Babeldaob in the north is the mother swimming ahead, and the Rock Islands to the south-west are tiny mushroom-shaped baby turtles following in a wiggly line, ending with Peleliu and Angaur. A full moon glows softly above them and the mother looks back proudly. To the west, faded islands with a boot on top and a fist at the bottom (Philippines) wave across the water; to the east, a faded dotted line of islands (Micronesia) begins.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SM", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-sm.png", "country": "San Marino", "reference": "references/ref-sm.png", "hook": "A tiny round dot inside Italy near Rimini, perched on the slopes of Monte Titano.", "picture": "The outline becomes a tiny round button with a smiling face, topped by three little towers on three bumps of a mountain. Around it, Italy appears as a faded boot, with the button sewn onto the boot’s Adriatic (eastern) side near the top, and a few blue waves of the Adriatic just to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, San Marino, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a tiny round button with a smiling face, topped by three little towers on three bumps of a mountain. Around it, Italy appears as a faded boot, with the button sewn onto the boot’s Adriatic (eastern) side near the top, and a few blue waves of the Adriatic just to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than San Marino: Italy: A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Italy", "picture": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-ST", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-st.png", "country": "São Tomé & Príncipe", "reference": "references/ref-st.png", "hook": "Two volcanic islands, a big one and a small one, sitting right by the equator in the Gulf of Guinea.", "picture": "Draw the two islands as a big and a small green volcano with friendly faces, the big one (São Tomé) in the south and the little one (Príncipe) to the north-east, like a parent and child. A thin golden line for the equator passes just south of the big island, through a tiny islet. A faded plump cushion (Gabon) appears at the eastern edge, and cocoa pods can decorate the green slopes.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, São Tomé & Príncipe, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Draw the two islands as a big and a small green volcano with friendly faces, the big one (São Tomé) in the south and the little one (Príncipe) to the north-east, like a parent and child. A thin golden line for the equator passes just south of the big island, through a tiny islet. A faded plump cushion (Gabon) appears at the eastern edge, and cocoa pods can decorate the green slopes.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SC", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-sc.png", "country": "Seychelles", "reference": "references/ref-sc.png", "hook": "A scatter of granite and coral islands, sprinkled like sesame seeds north-east of Madagascar.", "picture": "Show the islands as golden sesame seeds sprinkled across a turquoise ocean, the bigger granite seeds (Mahé and its neighbours) clustered in the north-east and smaller coral seeds trailing south-west, each keeping its true outline. Add a tiny smiling giant tortoise on Mahé as decoration. In the far south-west corner, a faded giant footprint (Madagascar) peeks in, as if the seeds were scattered past it.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Seychelles, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Show the islands as golden sesame seeds sprinkled across a turquoise ocean, the bigger granite seeds (Mahé and its neighbours) clustered in the north-east and smaller coral seeds trailing south-west, each keeping its true outline. Add a tiny smiling giant tortoise on Mahé as decoration. In the far south-west corner, a faded giant footprint (Madagascar) peeks in, as if the seeds were scattered past it.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-SG", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-sg.png", "country": "Singapore", "reference": "references/ref-sg.png", "hook": "A small diamond-shaped island at the very tip of the Malay Peninsula.", "picture": "The outline becomes a sparkling, wide diamond gem lying at the very tip of the Malay Peninsula, with its tiny islets around it like glittering chips. It twinkles and smiles, perhaps with a little lion-like tuft of mane. Faded cameos: Malaysia’s pointing finger reaching down from the north and almost touching the gem, and Indonesia’s island dragon swimming just to the south.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Singapore, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a sparkling, wide diamond gem lying at the very tip of the Malay Peninsula, with its tiny islets around it like glittering chips. It twinkles and smiles, perhaps with a little lion-like tuft of mane. Faded cameos: Malaysia’s pointing finger reaching down from the north and almost touching the gem, and Indonesia’s island dragon swimming just to the south.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-KN", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-kn.png", "country": "St. Kitts & Nevis", "reference": "references/ref-kn.png", "hook": "A cricket bat and ball: long St Kitts is the bat, round Nevis the ball just to the southeast.", "picture": "Turn St Kitts into a wooden cricket bat: the wide northwestern body of the island is the blade, the thin southeastern peninsula is the handle pointing toward Nevis. Turn round Nevis into a bright cricket ball just being hit, with little motion lines. Keep both outlines exact. The bat has a joyful face. Faded cameo: two islands (Antigua and Barbuda) far to the east with outstretched hands ready to catch the ball.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, St. Kitts & Nevis, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn St Kitts into a wooden cricket bat: the wide northwestern body of the island is the blade, the thin southeastern peninsula is the handle pointing toward Nevis. Turn round Nevis into a bright cricket ball just being hit, with little motion lines. Keep both outlines exact. The bat has a joyful face. Faded cameo: two islands (Antigua and Barbuda) far to the east with outstretched hands ready to catch the ball.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-LC", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-lc.png", "country": "St. Lucia", "reference": "references/ref-lc.png", "hook": "A teardrop-shaped island pointing north, with the twin Piton peaks on its southwest coast.", "picture": "Turn the island into a big shiny raindrop falling upward, its point at the northern tip and its round bottom in the south. On the southwest coast near Soufrière, two small pointed volcano peaks (the Pitons) poke up like the drop’s little horns or ears. Keep the outline exact. The drop smiles. Faded cameos: a kite (St Vincent) floating to the south and a pear (Barbados) far to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, St. Lucia, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn the island into a big shiny raindrop falling upward, its point at the northern tip and its round bottom in the south. On the southwest coast near Soufrière, two small pointed volcano peaks (the Pitons) poke up like the drop’s little horns or ears. Keep the outline exact. The drop smiles. Faded cameos: a kite (St Vincent) floating to the south and a pear (Barbados) far to the east.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-VC", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-vc.png", "country": "St. Vincent & Grenadines", "reference": "references/ref-vc.png", "hook": "An oval volcanic island with a string of tiny Grenadines trailing south toward Grenada like a kite’s tail.", "picture": "Turn St Vincent into a bright oval kite flying high, with a small smiling volcano peak (La Soufrière) at its northern end, and turn the chain of Grenadine islets to the south into the kite’s tail with little bows. Keep all outlines exact. The kite looks joyful in the wind. Faded cameos: a teardrop (Saint Lucia) just to the north, and a nutmeg (Grenada) at the end of the tail to the south, holding it like a string.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, St. Vincent & Grenadines, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: Turn St Vincent into a bright oval kite flying high, with a small smiling volcano peak (La Soufrière) at its northern end, and turn the chain of Grenadine islets to the south into the kite’s tail with little bows. Keep all outlines exact. The kite looks joyful in the wind. Faded cameos: a teardrop (Saint Lucia) just to the north, and a nutmeg (Grenada) at the end of the tail to the south, holding it like a string.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TO", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-to.png", "country": "Tonga", "reference": "references/ref-to.png", "hook": "Tonga is a pair of tongs: two parallel north–south lines of islands, with big Tongatapu at the bottom.", "picture": "The outline becomes a pair of kitchen tongs standing upright in the sea: two parallel north–south arms of islands, the Vava'u group as the joined handle in the north, Ha'apai in the middle, and big Tongatapu as the gripping tip at the bottom in the south. The tongs are reaching playfully to pick up something tasty. To the north-west, faded stepping stones (Fiji) look like they're about to be picked up; to the north, a faded plump turtle chasing an eel (Samoa) swims by.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Tonga, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a pair of kitchen tongs standing upright in the sea: two parallel north–south arms of islands, the Vava'u group as the joined handle in the north, Ha'apai in the middle, and big Tongatapu as the gripping tip at the bottom in the south. The tongs are reaching playfully to pick up something tasty. To the north-west, faded stepping stones (Fiji) look like they're about to be picked up; to the north, a faded plump turtle chasing an eel (Samoa) swims by.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-TV", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-tv.png", "country": "Tuvalu", "reference": "references/ref-tv.png", "hook": "Nine tiny islands in a north-west to south-east line; “Tuvalu” means “eight standing together”.", "picture": "The outline becomes nine tiny islands in a slanting north-west to south-east line, drawn as nine small friends standing close together on the sea, eight holding hands and a ninth little one (Niulakita) hurrying to join at the south-east end. They look happy and a bit wobbly on the waves, with one ring-shaped atoll (Funafuti) near the middle holding a football. To the north, a faded pearl necklace (Kiribati) glints; to the south, faded stepping stones (Fiji) rest on the water.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Tuvalu, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes nine tiny islands in a slanting north-west to south-east line, drawn as nine small friends standing close together on the sea, eight holding hands and a ninth little one (Niulakita) hurrying to join at the south-east end. They look happy and a bit wobbly on the waves, with one ring-shaped atoll (Funafuti) near the middle holding a football. To the north, a faded pearl necklace (Kiribati) glints; to the south, faded stepping stones (Fiji) rest on the water.\n\nIt has no land neighbours: show the sea around it, calm and simple.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" }, { "id": "S-VA", "priority": "P3", "file": "shape-va.png", "country": "Vatican City", "reference": "references/ref-va.png", "hook": "A tiny walled blob on the west bank of the Tiber in Rome, with the dome of St Peter’s inside.", "picture": "The outline becomes a tiny walled garden blob with a big dome in its middle and a keyhole-shaped square opening to the east, two little crossed keys lying in the grass. Around it, Italy appears as a faded boot, with the blob shown as a bright dot on the boot’s shin, and a thin blue river (the Tiber) just to the east.", "prompt": "Flat friendly picture-book illustration, thick soft dark outline (#263238), simple shapes, soft gradients, light from the top-left. Square 1024×1024. Use the attached map as the base: keep its opaque background (paper-beige land, light-blue sea #C7DEE6) and keep the dark country exactly in place, at the same size, with its coastline and borders unchanged.\n\nTurn the dark country, Vatican City, into this picture, in full colour, filling its outline: The outline becomes a tiny walled garden blob with a big dome in its middle and a keyhole-shaped square opening to the east, two little crossed keys lying in the grass. Around it, Italy appears as a faded boot, with the blob shown as a bright dot on the boot’s shin, and a thin blue river (the Tiber) just to the east.\n\nDraw each neighbouring country inside its own outline as a small faded cameo (about 40 % opacity) of its own picture, never brighter than Vatican City: Italy: A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia.\n\nNo text, no letters, no numbers, no flags, no logos.", "neighbours": [ { "country": "Italy", "picture": "A high-heeled boot kicking a ball (Sicily) towards Sardinia." } ], "size": "1024×1024 · opaque PNG" } ] }