But if it's a fool's errand to guess how a war will change either the geopolitical map or the culture, that's only half of the equation.
"Mara and Dann" is set thousands of years in the future, during an ice age that has redrawn the geopolitical map.
Keeping the database of 410,000 names up to date is a full-time job made even more challenging by the world's changing geopolitical map.
Recent years have seen far-reaching changes in the geopolitical map of northern Europe.
But in the meantime, others are calling the tune in Europe, hardly an insignificant place on the geopolitical map.
On geopolitical maps, British territories were generally marked in red or pink, so this concept became known as the "Cape to Cairo red line".
The episode continues the "Nightingale" story-arc, a shadow organisation bent on changing the geopolitical map.
The finale continues the story-arc involving a multinational shadow organisation bent on changing the geopolitical map.
Even the geopolitical map of those countries that are setting up these funds is changing.
The game uses "geopolitical maps from National Geographic for more than 50 countries".