Where in the world is MnF?

[Sasso]

I was in the MnF hotel today waiting to uh... "Catch up" with an old friend, when I really noticed the clocks on the wall. You know, these ones

I was curious to see if the dev's had done their homework, so I opened up a timezone convertor to see if the Tokyo and New York timezones amtched up, an guess what?d check it out

They do! Nice one MnF.

Wait, if the timezone are correct, then surely it must be possible to figure out where in the world MnF is.

So what do we know? Well if the clock for Tokyo says 6 and New York says 5, then that puts our city of sin in either two timezones in the world. Either GMT +6 or GMT -6. The only country that uses GMT+6 is Khazakstan. 8 countries use GMT-8 (Central USA, Central Canada, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.)

We also know that MnF Metropolis is on an island.

So let's get the easy one out of the way. If MnF Metropolis was in the GMT+6 Timezone it would have to be located in the northern aprt of the Caspian sea near the coastline of Kazakhstan. Collections of Islands belonging to Khazakstan are located here here here here and here

( Map link https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@45.741376...5576,7.88z )
At this point however I have to point out the elephant in the room. MnF Metropolis is called....MnF Metropolis. That's a clearly English root name. I'm willing to give some leeway across other Latin based European languages, but the 2 dominant languages in Khazakstan are Kazakh and Russian, which are more Slavic. For now, I'm ruling out MnF as being in Kazakhstan.

First off for GMT-6, we can eliminate Canada and the US right off the bat. There are no major bodies of water in the Central US that could fit an island with a city on it, and any in Canada are too far north for the island to be mostly tropical.

First off, one strong contendor is that the island is located in the Gulf of California, on the western side of Mexico. Sinaloa and the Baja California Sur are the only two costal states in Mexico that use the GMT-6 timezone. Possible island locations are here here here here here and here

https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@25.752238...8484417,7z


https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@15.664859...5445618,7z
Moving further south Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize have some small groups of islands off the coast

Nicaragua has two major inland lakes, Lago Xolotlan and  Lago Cocibolca, both of which have collections of islands inside them.
https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@11.856208...4953482,9z

Overall, I think that the most likely spots are the mexico areas around the Gulf of California. Second place goes to Nicaragua. I'm bending the rules by ignoring the not-very-tropic snow in Red Heat, but it's the only way that this really works at all.