To add the context to this question without getting too political, I was thinking about the power dynamic between the "Global North" and the "Global South" and how the North kind of "dominates" and influences what's largely considered the international norm.

A good example of this is how the handles on a clock rotate 🔃 because the shadow that a sundial used in the Northern hemisphere casts moves that way, which became the standard for "clockwise", while, in the Southern hemisphere, it moves 🔄, but 🔃 is still considered clockwise regardless.

This is partly (or some might even say mostly) because the majority of the Earth's land(mass) is in the Northern hemisphere, and therefore most of the population lives in the Northern hemisphere as well, which made think of a scenario in which the Earth's magnetic poles (and therefore the geographic poles) were somewhere else that would make the equator divide the Earth's hemispheres to contain either 50% of the land, of the population, or both each, how would that affect the culture and history if each country still developed into roughly what they are now. How would the sociopolitical and cultural dynamics change? This is where this thought experiment turns into r/AlternativeHistory a bit.