Just a simple reminder that a topology is a network. This takes a topojson world map of countries and uses topojson.neighbors to populate an edge list and topojson.feature to populate a node list and bind that to a traditional force-directed network.
Modified http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js to a secure url
Modified http://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js to a secure url
https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js
https://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js