Okay, I know the real reason that the little coloured outlines on the severe weather advisory maps stop dead at the US/Canada border is that the Canadian weather service does not have the authority to issue weather advisories for US territories, but what it looks like at a casual glance is that the weather system is actually shaped like that.
Now I’m imagining a fantasy setting where the natural world really does respect political boundaries. Each country has its own totally isolated climate. Rivers need to be issued passports in order to flow between nations, or else they just stop at the border and start flooding everything. Migratory animals form orderly queues at customs checkpoints and have all their paperwork in order – nobody knows how they prepare it.
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