Got some good answers on my question about making size-adjusted worldmaps. http://people.cas.sc.edu/hardistf/cartograms/ has a java tool (that I couldn’t get to work for some reason), http://www.santafe.edu/~mgastner/ has the really nice visualisations that I want, with a link to this guy http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/ who made the book “The Atlas of the real world”. And then, software!
I’ll post a post later if I get this stuff to work.