that's what happens when you give zero recognition to any pre-existing cultural or national boundaries.
>>2160214
This. Though keep in mind that a lot of states and counties still have "natural" borders from rivers--for instance, New Jersey borders Pennsylvania on the Delaware and New York on the Hudson.
Because its aesthetic.
>>2160214
Yeah, the Americans didn't really care about old native territories so they just created new borders that suited them. Same reason a lot of the African countries are so boxy.
it just so happens that this land has no indigenous nations, and it has to be divided up by a power colonizing it, barring rivers as natural debarkation, the property lines are going to be straight, as it is efficient