I would like to have a list of atlases that do the following:

1) when more than one country is shown , adjacent countries should have different colors

2) when the U. S. (or part of it) is shown (in isolation)then different states should have different colors. The same for Canada/ provinces, country X/its next political subdivision

3)If a single U.S. state is shown (in isolation)then counties should be in various colors and the same for the analogues in other countries.

4) 1,2,3 should be done for every map in the atlas

At the moment the only atlas I have that does this is the Rand McNally Quick Reference World atlas (2005).($5.95 was the cover price). The current version of this atlas abandons (4).

Apparently the makers and consumers of atlases have no interest in this political-color principle. My guess would be that the compilers do not care much for political geography—although I suppose that abandoning the political-color idea allows more information to be conveyed by shading, etc..