Ignoring the massive cost, legal hurdles, and the opinion of the residents/government/outside powers, if you could magically grant independence to certain territories or form new bigger nations from existing ones with no repercussions to yourself, what new countries would you create?

Please treat this as a non-serious post, let’s not get into a massive political debate, those never end well.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Lots of fun stupid ideas here…

    • Everyone in the world is now their own microstate with their current position as the start point for a voronoi style distribution of territory.
    • Canada and Canadia are now legally distinct, coterritorial nations. Anyone who refers to themselves as Canadian has the effect of renouncing their citizenship to Canada and joining Canadia. Anyone who refers to themselves as Canadan does the opposite.
    • The world is now divided into nations by elevation rather than latitude and longitude.
    • All locations are redistributed by their affixes. All -stans are one nation. All -villes are another. All -tons and -towns another. All San- and Santa- are another. And so on, and so on. Any conflicts based on having multiple affixes are decided by a fight to the death between randomly chosen locals who prefer one or the other.
    • All areas are formed into nations based on the most common seasoning in that region.