I was thinking one band for most of it around the globe but to taper wider at the best climates for farming, leisure, surfing, etc., with other cool islands that would spell out my name or make a cool design to almost prove the existence of God /you by having the all the islands shaped like cats.
In this scenario you are a designer (watch maker) God who then turns into a person that has to live in the world they design
Pangea was just a big glob and really inefficient.
You’d want a band around the equator, to maximize sea access to facilitate travel, and prevent a few cultures from isolating other.
Pangea is constant war or a single authoritarian government to keep everyone in line.
A band would lead to coalitions, any one empire just couldn’t defend it’s whole shoreline and would over extend and collapse and fracture.
Also, it would be a lot like Australia where the coasts are nearly the only habitable places while the entire center is nearly barren.
That would be possible, but depends on a shit ton of variables. It could just as easily be a giant rainforest full of massive lakes and rivers.
I believe Aussie is so dry inland, because one single tectonic plate can’t really make mountains, so it’s all flat and what water make it there just evaporate.
Multiple plates jammed together gets huge mountain ranges, which means slopw for rivers and maybe even snow melt that flows down.