Poland and Lithuania managed to get along swimmingly for a few hundred years. I say we let them try it again.
ETA: Funny that both Alessan and I chose the word “swimmingly”
If my one and only Brazilian friend is anything to go by, this would be a HUUUGE no no. She has to leave the room when the Portuguese football team appear on TV.
Well, if it starts to get down to the line, we may just have to assign everyone to the next country down alphabetically. This would have the advantage of nobody having to merge economies with Zimbabwe.
I for one welcome our new Uruguayan countrymen!
Man. Doesn’t anyone like the Portuguese?
That might worry their neighbors in the (Dominica)[sup]2[/sup]n Republic.
I don’t think it can be done.
Personally, I think the evil aliens are planning to incinerate us next year anyway, and they’re just fucking with our heads.
waitaminute, what temperature scale are they using? If it’s one that has water freezing at 0 and boiling at five trillion units, we might not even notice it…
I blame the (Dominican) Republicans.
I think its long past time in which the US rejoins the UK again.
I’d suggest that all Latin countries pair up using similarity of food as a criteria. All the burrito countries would join together and distance themselves from the taco and salsa countries
It seems to me that countries that border each other often also hate each other. Therefore, I suggest painting the world with a four-colour map and uniting countries of the same hue. Just as long as we can be purple.
Germany+Austria. Sorry Austria, but the time for pretending you’re not Southeast Germany is over.
Canada+USA. Sorry Canada, but the time for pretending you’re not Northern America is over.
Australia+New Zealand. Sorry New Zealand, but you know the drill.
Mexico+Guatemala. Heck, mix and match Central and South America, pretty much anyone could partner with anyone, except Columbia+Venezuela. Only problem is Brazil, and they could just annex Paraguay.
Spain+Portugal.
France+Luxemburg. It’s the Alsace-Lorraine all over again. Sorry Luxemburg, you’re now Northern Strasbourg.
Belgium+Netherlands. Yeah, sorry Walloons. You should have joined France when you had the chance.
Italy pairs with, in a wild card, Greece. Hello Magna Grecia.
Balkans? Whatever, mix and match.
Poland+Lithuania. Obvious.
Czech+Slovakia. Now we only have to come up with a name for the new country.
Norway+Sweden. Again, stop pretending to speak different languages and being different countries.
China+Mongolia.
Russia+Belorus.
South Korea+North Korea. Yes, there will be a war. The war will be over in a year.
Japan. Well, Japan is going to have to be partnered with a micronation. Pick a random Pacific island.
Vietnam+Laos.
Thailand+Cambodia.
Malaysia+Indonesia.
The pattern in all these is there are two basic forms of integration. One where a small, even micro country gets absorbed into a large country. Another is a union of more or less equals. Countries that can’t merge with a neighbor can find a micronation. Or put it another way, micronations are going to be pretty much extinct after a year, they all get conquered.
I want to be green!
France-Monaco and Italy-San Marino seem like logical choices.
Or we could have a Organization of Tiny European Countries (OTEC) and lump Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Monaco together, like a land-locked Micronesia. We’ll throw in Vatican City just to make it an even number.
They are England’s oldest ally, if nothing else.
Let me rewrite:
Originally Posted by deadtwo99: “What about poor Tuvalu?”
They could join with Cocos (Keeling) Islands to become .cc.tv, although the latter is not a country.
And Uruguay is already Argentina’s Canada.
If it were France/Andorra, they wouldn’t even have to fight over who is the new leader! (Andorra’s co-leaders are the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell in Spain)
We should merge Russia and China. We’ll cut down on evil superpower Anti-American nations by 50%!
I would vote in the U.S. referendum to request assimilation by the Canadians. Under their constitution.
Oh no, but then their own tiny Olympicswould cease to be a real international sporting event!
Personally, speaking as a Norwegian, I’m all for the creation of a Scandinavian superstate. If we got ourselves de-balkanized, as it were, we could be a player on the international scene. Picture it: Swedish arms industry, Danish design, and Norwegian… I don’t know, lutefisk? No, wait, oil. Yeah, that was it.
Heck, yeah. We’ll conquer Europe. And, not least, maybe I’ll finally have a chance to root for a national soccer team that’s actually capable of winning something.
Although, for some reason, this doesn’t seem to be a popular viewpoint around here.
Poor, poor Mongolia.
Oh that is hilarious. I had no idea such a thing existed.
On the bright side, if we de-balkanize the Balkans, Scandinavia, the Baltics, and assorted other European clusters we’ll finally solve that pesky Eurovision bloc voting problem.