topography

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A precise description of a place.
2. (countable, uncountable)A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
3. (countable, uncountable)The features themselves.
4. (countable, uncountable)The surveying of the features.
5. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.

   “With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.”