To turn off roads, use the data map... go to View | Map Styles.

POI's can be turned off under View | Show or Hide Places. You cannot toally get rid of town labels, but it may help to reduce the font, go to View | Map Font.

You can cover up adjoining states using a drawing object with a white fill. This template ($75) facilitates that.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/downloads/individual.state
There are some sample states.

Eric

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