Civilization:
- Martial Arts Dojo +3 points
- Sushi Place +3 points, only worth 2 points if it's inside an old Pizza Hut building, with all the red triangular decor and wierd curtains intact.
- Cellphone coverage +1 points
- Thai food: +4 points
- Waitstaff with non-ear piercing +1
- Mural of cherry blossom festival +1
- Vegetarian fake-meat in supermarket: +4
- Bicyclist +1
- Airport +1, -1 if there's a row of trailers next to it, -2 if it's unpaved
- Touchy-feely meditation seminars: +1
- Community College +1
- University : +2
- Lovely ukrainian catholic church: +2
- Sikh Temple +2
- "Wireless High Speed Internet All Rooms" signs at hotels: +3
- Health food store: +2
- Greek food: +1
Not Civilized:
- Gun show -3
- Trailer Park -3
- Rustym abandoned truck trailied dragged to the side of the road and painted as a billboard -3
- Rusty abandoned car with broken axle on side of road -1
- Junk Yard -1, -3 if it calls itself an "antique machines display" and charges admission
- Restaurants named after furniture -2
- Store named "the store" - 2
- Public building with obviously Christian decor (crucifix in lobby) : -2
- Fenceposts "decorated" with boots or buckets: -3 per group
- Bar to completely close off highway in winter : -2
- Cattle guard on bridges: -1
- Unincorporated town -1 , -3 if it's an unincorporated town named "Progress". (not making this up)
- Livestock; Cows and sheep -1, Bison -2
- Scary rusty propane tank, cracked bu apparently in use -1
- Anti-abortion billboard with scary cartoon fetus whose head is shaped like a butternut squash: -1, -3 for more than one identical billboard in a row
- Restaurant claiming to serve genuine American food: -.5
- Homebuilt bridge that appears to be braced with car parts: -2
- "Country Western Dance Hall" with sheep grazing in it: -2
- Rusty piece of sheet metal painted to look like a moose: -1
- Stacks of metal drums labeled "gasoline" in red spray paint: -2
- Chainsaw carving: -2
- Calling yourself "Chainsaw carving capital of the world": -4
- Painfully tacky cemetary full of shiny pick marble headstones: -2
- Selling two distinct, bizarre things out of the same store, like furniture and livestyock feed, or auto glass and pellet stoves: -4
- ATVs: -2, -3 if all the riders are wearing hip waders
- Visibly crooked house, -1
- Using tarp or corrugated metal as a building/siding material: -1
- Road sign on stick in bucket with rocks: -3, also for road sign held in place by wood and cinder blocks
- Anything named after someone named "Tubby": -1
And here are some random cool things we've seen that we couldn't really figure out if they indicated civilization or not:
- Llamas
- Moose crossing signs
- Cool self-bracing drilling equipment
- Moose MacGillicuddy's Bar
- Butte
- Curling Club
