Waverley Island has been my greatest cartographic challenge to date. Taking me almost 6 months and over 300 hours, I worked tirelessly to create a urban area approximately twice the size of San Francisco. When creating my first country, Santa Maria, I created a variety of city maps and tied them together into one country, but there were endless blank spaces between the cities that were left to the imagination. I wanted to fix that problem with Waverley Island. I decided to pack the entire country into one dense island comprising of seven boroughs. I started drawing from the core of each borough and then expanded outward until they converged upon either a natural barrier such as mountains or rivers, or until they joined up with another part of the country. I felt that this would represent a more accurate picture of multinodal urban development, where many dense cores are established and then naturally expand outward until their growth is hindered by an obstacle. Waverley Island is its own unique place, and isn't really comparable to any cities in present-day America.