I went to town on this one - 13 iterations. Why? Because only a general recognition is expected of the world so this distortion would seem acceptable, besides, the one in the lecture was distorted moreso! I do not feel an inset map of the world is necessary. Identifying individual countries is not the purpose here, just the spatial pattern of the main contributors to the GDP and to show the differences between adjoining areas.
The most obvious anomaly here is Japan - the 'tongue' of Asia; this perfectly illustrates the impact that this one country has to the GDP and overshadows its neighbors, even accounting for the fact that adjoining countries post good figures too.
I played with various projections but settled for Robinson because of its minimal distortion of area and shape.
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