On Exactitude in Science, an old Jorge Luis Borges story, described a map of an Empire that became so meticulously real that its cartographers essentially replicated the very Empire they were mapping. Lewis Carroll (of Alice in Wonderland) actually wrote something which precedes this by 50 years, with his 1893 novel Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, in which one character exclaims, "And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!" The character confesses that they don't use the map, though: "We now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."
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