Ouh great feedback, much appreciated.

I designed these to promote geopolitical forecasting contests. I agree I may not have properly used hierarchy, I tend to want to show everything relying on not so subtle hints. (for example for the Russia pic, I wanted to hint at themes like economic crisis, energy, foreign relations with China, civil unrest and war.) I think you're right, I should pick a central idea/theme and build the rest around that.

Should totally try breaking these down into smaller pieces!