It’d be revenge for all that shit the Mongols put the Chinese and Russians through in the 13th century!
Can’t we merge with the UK instead? Please?
Italy with San Marino - To prevent exclaves
Japan with Taiwan - They have fairly good relations, and they are both islands in East asia
Israel? No idea… Maybe Saudi Arabia for the lulz
Merge Slovenia, Slavonia and Slovakia.
For their new national anthem, a tape of a cat sneezing three times.
What happens if a country is wiped off the map before the deadline? Certainly a handful of countries will take the attitude that they can get a better deal by holding the world hostage. Given what’s at stake, it seems like the prudent thing to do might be to just obliterate such states using the combined military might of the rest of the world.
Could we, for example, reduce Monaco to a smoking crater, toss the charred remains of their flag over to another intransigent state, and call it a day?
Even smoking craters can have recognised governments. Poland got the ever-loving shit kicked out of it in WWII yet they were still a recognised state with a government. If you can convince the survivors to join up another nation, or simply blackmail ‘join with x or we’ll turn your country into plate glass’ then go for it. If at the deadline the amalgamation has not happened, however…
Serbia and [del]Lusatia[/del] Sorbia? Iberia (Spain+Portugal) and Iberia (in Georgia the country)? Georgia and Georgia for that matter?
Wasn’t there a semi-serious movement a few years back for the Cayman Islands to join Canada as an eleventh province?
Let’s stop living in sin with Bermuda and just tie the knot already.
Nah, it’d be fine. Instead of the games being internationals they’d be the “Islands of Origin” series. Eastern Islands vs Western Islands, with your loyalties depending on how you pronounce “across the ditch”.
Also Taiwanese are one of the few East Asian peoples who have relatively fond memories of the Japanese from the imperial era.
That’s the only way I’d agree to it. I like my Canadian health care and gun regulations just fine, thank you very much.
And I hear you guys wear your shoes in the house. That’s just wrong.
Plus the Queen, resuming sovereignty over all of North America. I think we would need to insist on that as a condition of union.
How long do the newly created borders have to last? Because I would just force areas of multiple tiny, weak states under the same roof until ET is satisfied. Russia, China, the US, and other major world powers are not going to voluntarily dilute their national identities if they can just cram a few Yugoslavias together.
Will you bring chocolate? And some beer? Not sure how long the U.K. is going to stay merged with itself, but that needn’t prevent me asking nicely for good Belgian choccy. ![]()
I had never heard of these tiny Olympics, but I love the idea. It just sounds more fun, somehow.
And cannot need enormous big sports stadia, so less environmentally nasty.
Are they very small and cute and fluffy and friendly games? Or does the sheer smallness lead to even fiercer rivalry?
Couldn’t we take say Samoa instead of Oz? (There’s a couple of other pacific island options if Samoa isn’t keen). ![]()
In Honolulu, Lusitania Street connects, appropriately, with Lisbon Street, which meets Beretania Street. “Beretania” was the Hawaiians’ approximation of “Brtiannia,” and their consulate was located there when Hawaii was a kingdom.
We could merge these three nations (with little difference to the UK or Hawaiian flag). There is now a new baby heir to the British throne, but, as it always is with long-defunct monarchies, Portugal and Hawaii’s claims are split between representatives of the various cadet branches. We will need to put baby Prince George in a chalk circle, and whoever can coax him out is the winner.
In what language?
A lot of Spain is perfectly OK with the Portuguese (just don’t name them in Galicia), but the Portuguese wouldn’t want to join with Spain. They managed to break apart again after we were all in personal union under Philip II, there is no reason why they’d want to have to put themselves in the situation of having to remind Madrid periodically that “we’re not one of your borroughs, you centralist fucks!”