I like that yours is 45 rows of asterisks.

Makes me think a project-and-rasterize pipeline, sampling a simplified world water boundary map under a variety of projection parameters should give you a range of bitmaps, and then it is up to whoever to decide if the detail lost in all of this renders it incompatible with the world as they know it.

The site below takes detailed map files and removes significant detail for practical purposes:

https://mapshaper.org/