I love watching theses guys. Having been a quartermaster in the navy i love looking at nautical charts an maps especially historical ones. Very cool video.
Book: The Mouse that Roared (featuring the Duchy of Grand Fenwick). A micronation declares war on the United States hoping to be defeated so they can rake in US reconstruction dollars (like the Marshall Plan). Also an excellent film starring Peter Sellers.
In terms of music from other nations, I would highly recommend checking out the offerings from Quebec, specifically from the 1960s and 1970s. Most of them are sung in typical Quebec French, which differs significantly from Parisian French. Sometimes the lyrics are punctuated by an anglicized hybrid of Quebecois French, often with double meanings, particularly in the music of Robert Charlebois. I lived in Montreal, Quebec for roughly 20 years, and though I realize Quebec is part of Canada, the culture there is totally unique and separate from the rest of the country. Most people who classify or rate Canadian music completely ignore music from Quebec, as few know the language and also because the Quebec culture is very localized and somewhat isolated. In fact, most musical artists from Quebec are better known in France than they are even in Ontario, the province immediately adjacent to Quebec on the west. The song I would recommend is 'Vert' by Harmonium, though I could have picked dozens of other songs by dozens of other great artists. Besides Harmonium, I would recommend listening to the music of Robert Charlebois, Louise Forestier, Beau Dommage, Gilles Vigneault, Diane Dufresne, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Garolou, Fabienne Thibeault, Claude Dubois, Offenbach, and the spiritual grandaddy of them all, Félix Leclerc. Admittedly, understanding the language helps a lot. Nevertheless, there are so many masterpieces sprinkled throughout the work of these special singer-songwriters that it's well worth the research. "Gens du pays, c'est votre tour De vous laisser parler d'amour" - Gilles Vigneault
This video was amusing and informative. As for music, "Descarga de la Luz" by Orquesta de la Luz, a Japanese salsa band (you read that correctly). And they do sing in Spanish, learning lyrics phonetically as I recall. Tito Puente guests on the track. I think it's killer. The band retired a while back, which is unfortunate.
Hello! So there could be a variety of reasons why a country wouldn't recognize another, usually emerging from regional conflicts. In the case of Kosovo, something interesting happens. Among the countries that don't recognize Kosovo are Spain, Romania and Greece. This happens because they all have some territories that ask for either autonomy or independence from the main state. Catalonia just had a referendum for independence 7 years back, proceeding to declare their own independence for a short while, The Szekely Land in Romania has also been manifesting their desire for autonomy for a while now and for Greece... Well, one could argue that Kosovo is for Serbia what North Macedonia is for Greece. So these countries wouldn't want to recognize Kosovo due to the fact that they would set a precedent that could further increase the tensions regarding the relationship with their territory.
I just read your comment, and as a Greek citizen I want to correct you . Greece not officially recognizing Kosovo has nothing to do with North Macedonia, but everything to do with Turkish occupied Northern Cyprus, which uses kosovo's case together with Turkey for their recognition as a country 50 years after their military invasion and illegal occupation of North Cyprus. Another point of possible conflict is in the Greek region of Thrace , where Muslims (ethnically is a mix group, but the majority of them identifies as Turkish - under international agreement is recognized as a religious minority , not ethnic), may be used as a pretext for a Turkish military invasion of my country. See the recognition of a region as a "country" can open up more than an innocent can of worms...
@@manpetepetrop8034 I get it, but wouldn't Kosovo claiming independence be more equivalent to Northern Cyprus saying it wanted out from under Turkey, considering it is Turkey that occupied it like Serbia held Kosovo?
In the Maghreb region, we have a problem called Western Sahara. It's mainly recognized by Algeria, its sponsor, and only recently many countries revoked recognition and added it back to Morocco. It is a huge problem because it made the entire Maghreb region fragmented over politics and unable to cooperate together economically despite the fact that people in the Maghreb have so much in common from history to language to traditions and culture. Especially Tunisia Algeria Morocco Western Libya. Even today, Morocco and Algeria have closed militarized borders and both people cannot travel to each other by land. That's my example of how such a thing could have terrible consequences for everyone.
Two African novels I recenly read set in fictional countries. Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo: Set in Jidada, which is basically Zimbabwe, but all the inhabitants are animals. It's Animal Farm meets Maus. Also, Bound to Violence - Yambo Ouologuem. Set in Nakem, which, again, is bascially Mali. The story behind the novel is as inrteresting as the books itself. It's only just been reissued in English after being supressed for nearly 50 years.
@@NoProtocol You're welcome. Connected to this video, I'm trying to read at least one book by an author from every country in the world (63 so far). Though I keep falling down rabbit holes. On my 5th book from Singapore atm,
My recommendation for music would be Gurbet by Özdemir Erdoğan, that speaks to the melancholy of being far from home. It is still wholly relatable even it being in Turkish.
I think there are lots of literary fictional countries, especially in futurist writings. The first two that came to mind were Panem and Lilliput. I have to agree about, The Handmaid’s Tale. I could see the points she as trying to make. And while I disagreed with her POV, the book was so well written that is wasn’t heavy-handed or overly preachy and just enjoyable. The same could be said for 1984. And while I haven’t read all of the Narnia books I’ve heard they have a message. Perhaps it’s more obvious in the later books because I didn’t see it.
Hey I’m curious, where are you from? While your English is very American, I hear a slight accent that to me sounds Scandinavian. Is this just in my head somehow?
"China wants to..." ha! my ex gf was from Taiwan. we were talking about nightmares once, and she told me that her most common nightmare, as a kid, was of the Chinese communists invading her country. when we were dating, one of her absolute best friends was Chinese, and it was one of the many periods when the invasion seemed imminent. I kept thinking... how will they react if this actually happens?!
It never will. China builds not bombs like USA. Taiwan WILL SOON WANT TO RETURN TO THEIR MOTHERLAND, CHINA. Having been ripped away by rebel and western military……. Like,Hawaii, Guam, Puerto rica, Yokohama, etc etc ad nauseam
Put it like this. I'm Scottish. I don't feel British, though I am. I take offence when being told I'm British. When you are told to do a British accent, people always do an English accent, as if everything British is English, and that's a big deal for me, I do not want to get thrown in with England. It's a very contentious issue with a lot of Scots and always will be until we're independent.
Fascinating subject - I think I saw this a short while back, but certainly wirht seeing again. Books: I'd go for Perdito Street Station, by China Mieville. Or maybe Railsea by the same author. Music: Just because I got the CD today - La Villa Strangiato by Rush, or The Enemy Within, also by Rush, for the same reason
Book: "The Prisoner of Zenda" - Set in Ruritania, an Eastern European country, during a succession crisis around the turn of the last century. Also got a shout out from Evelyn Waugh, who had the former King of Ruritania living in reduced circumstances in London in "Vile Bodies". Book (well, graphic novel, but shush.) "King Ottokar's Sceptre", a Tintin story, features our main characters foiling a plot by the country of Borduria to steal the crown jewels of neighboring Syldavia, in order to provoke a civil war and open it for invasion.
I think if a simple majority of undisputed countries recognize a land as a country, then it's a country. That seems to be the most pragmatic and reasonable solution to the debate.
@@NoProtocol The entire album "Drømmen drømmerne drømmer" is really good stuff. Other great songs are "Eddie & Suzanne", "Et annet sted" or "Tomme lommer".
well, you could have gone with the 80s song, "We are the World". or you could have narrowed the field to the genre of "country" music! that said... Kate Bush has a song called "Oh, England, My Lionheart!". the Beatles "Back in the USSR". "O Canada!". America (the song, not the band). Born in the USA. The Land Down Under. Africa. Grease (ohh.... no, wait. that's from the musical. not the same thing!) I can think of lots of songs about States within the US... but those wouldn't count.
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If we are all interconnected and the same, and the notion of a country with indigenous populations is getting blurred. Why dose my government insistently enforced a two tier justice system depending on your birth and where you are from?
Military power is a huge factor, both for obtaining independence and for preventing being pushed around by bigger countries which like pushing everyone else around like the USA does. If you can't stop the USA couping your government or dictating your policies, then you aren't really independent and aren't really a country, no matter how much local nationalists may get aroused by their flags. So that thing at the end about the difference between countries and regions getting blurred risks whitewashing the difference between nation-states and provinces of the world empire. Only militarily independent states (e.g. having no US military bases on the territory, or there with the clear understanding that you have the strength to kick them out at will if you want to) can enter into truly free treaties and trade relationships on the basis of mutual respect and equality, rather than as client states or puppet states being given orders about treaties and trade. Globalism or Imperialism? Usually there is no difference. So I'm very against separatism and the creation of small states out of bigger states, because smaller states inevitably have less military independence and therefore less political, diplomatic and economic sovereignty. Sovereignty being preconditional for democracy, because the people do not rule themselves if their country is effectively ruled by the rulers of another country, then smaller countries are also less able to have democracy, let alone popular sovereignty as such. And no, I do not trust in the good intentions of free trade zones and international corporate committees like the EU and the WTO to make things better for anybody except transnational corporations and bankers.
What about Christiania in Denmark? They claim to be sovereign. As I was leaving the community I saw a sign that read “You’re now entering the EU”. It cracked me up 😂
Surprised they didn't mention Sport in this video.. Fifa Qualification round starts with 211 Teams (eligible) 215 Teams overall en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_qualification
How are they sure what a country actually is if "country" doesn't always mean "country?" Like the countryside. Country music is not national anthem.. at least, as I know it.
Kosovo,Transnistria and the donbas/crimea demonstrate the weirdness...it is intellectual vs political. They are all very similar, with the exception that Kosovo leans western, while Transnistria, the donbas and crimea lean Russian. Some countries like Spain and Greece realize that if you recognize Kosovo, by intellectual standards, you then have to recognize Transnistria. Most of Europe and the USA, just blow it off and are hypocrites. They recognize kosovo, but not Transnistria.
An example of a country that doesn't exist - The Murrawarri Republic. The long and short is that the Murrawarri people live in Australia, and they were never conquered, they never signed any treaty subordinating them to the British Crown or (later) the Australian Government. They just live on the continent that everyone agrees is the country of Australia. So, after requesting documentation showing war had been declared against them in the past, or they'd signed a treaty at some point, or they'd ceded sovereignty at some point, and receiving no response from the Crown, the Republic declared that it was a "continued Free and Independent State, in line with International law and covenants". The Murrawarri Republic is not recognised by any country, and appears to claim more than three-fold the are understood by both other Aboriginal groups and the Australian government to be the historical extent of the Murrawarri people. Making the whole conversation a lot more complicated, both for the Murrawarri Republic, and any other indigenous groups that might seek independence.
For a book in a fictional country, Prisoner of Zenda. The king of Ruritania is poisoned on the eve of his coronation, so his councillors get his English doppelganger (who happens to be there and nobody else noticed) to pretend to be the king. Pulpy Victorian adventure hijinks ensue 😅
@@NoProtocol Yeah, it's one of those that fades away because it's not by a Conan Doyle or a Rider Haggard. I guess it's always been what we'd call a cult classic
Countries are as important as ever. Because it's not about what you feel allegiance to, but about jurisdiction and therefore about your rights, democracy and the rule of law.
I'd argue the exact opposite. Nations are about your allegiance, to the flag, the values and everything one's country is about. Countries are not about 'democracy', that is a negligent thing to say. There are various systems of governing and democracy is just an idea that gets swirled on the system, a cute idea but never fully reached. No country is democratic at the end of the day, that's why an index score exists and why the last few years were described grim for those countries claiming to be 'democratic'...
@@ThePunisher014 People have started to give up on democracy in droves because it has been corrupted. To serve the people a government needs a people and a territory to serve it on, through jurisdiction and the rule of law. Laws that say you can burn your flag on that territory, where the police will protect you when you are attacked for it, but also that a multinational company can not just dump chemical waste on that territory or exploit labourers as they please. It's nation states that have improved the lives of their peoples massively over the past centuries when they developped. History is proof you need a country to make things better in.
'1984' is really England under Soviet Rule. The Ministry of Fear is the Senate House you can see from Russell Square where Orwell worked in the War for the BBC in room 101. 1984 was inspired by Jack London's 'The Iron Heel' & 'We' by an Eastern European Writer.
5:25 sovereign: you have the last word on all your laws and taxes and there is no one higher up who can interfer. Which mean UN should not reconize every EU countries then. 🤓
No, because each single member can decide that a given EU law is against the sovereign countries constitution and reject to ratifi it. Eu are only able to make laws for areas where the single members parlament have accepted it.
They have an earlier video "How do you start a new country?" which relates to this one.
I haven’t seen that one yet, I’ll put it on the list to watch in the future!
I love watching theses guys. Having been a quartermaster in the navy i love looking at nautical charts an maps especially historical ones. Very cool video.
I do my best to compliment people when I first meet them, and your smile lights up your entire face and makes ME smile.
Book: The Mouse that Roared (featuring the Duchy of Grand Fenwick). A micronation declares war on the United States hoping to be defeated so they can rake in US reconstruction dollars (like the Marshall Plan). Also an excellent film starring Peter Sellers.
I much appreciate that you added a summary!
Yesterday i was looking in the ocean on google maps for random islands, i always find one i've never heard of before lol.
"Take Taiwan..." Lol, savage!
"The list of unrecognised countries... Sorry, the list of UNrecognised countries." 😄
I've been lied to all over again.
We’ve all been lied to, over & over again.
What a state to get into!
Love the video protocol Stay motivated Dream big 1 mill on the way
In terms of music from other nations, I would highly recommend checking out the offerings from Quebec, specifically from the 1960s and 1970s. Most of them are sung in typical Quebec French, which differs significantly from Parisian French. Sometimes the lyrics are punctuated by an anglicized hybrid of Quebecois French, often with double meanings, particularly in the music of Robert Charlebois. I lived in Montreal, Quebec for roughly 20 years, and though I realize Quebec is part of Canada, the culture there is totally unique and separate from the rest of the country. Most people who classify or rate Canadian music completely ignore music from Quebec, as few know the language and also because the Quebec culture is very localized and somewhat isolated. In fact, most musical artists from Quebec are better known in France than they are even in Ontario, the province immediately adjacent to Quebec on the west.
The song I would recommend is 'Vert' by Harmonium, though I could have picked dozens of other songs by dozens of other great artists. Besides Harmonium, I would recommend listening to the music of Robert Charlebois, Louise Forestier, Beau Dommage, Gilles Vigneault, Diane Dufresne, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Garolou, Fabienne Thibeault, Claude Dubois, Offenbach, and the spiritual grandaddy of them all, Félix Leclerc. Admittedly, understanding the language helps a lot. Nevertheless, there are so many masterpieces sprinkled throughout the work of these special singer-songwriters that it's well worth the research.
"Gens du pays, c'est votre tour
De vous laisser parler d'amour" - Gilles Vigneault
This video was amusing and informative. As for music, "Descarga de la Luz" by Orquesta de la Luz, a Japanese salsa band (you read that correctly). And they do sing in Spanish, learning lyrics phonetically as I recall. Tito Puente guests on the track. I think it's killer. The band retired a while back, which is unfortunate.
as you can see from my many responses, this was fun! thanks!
These two are so original and funny.
Hello! So there could be a variety of reasons why a country wouldn't recognize another, usually emerging from regional conflicts. In the case of Kosovo, something interesting happens. Among the countries that don't recognize Kosovo are Spain, Romania and Greece. This happens because they all have some territories that ask for either autonomy or independence from the main state. Catalonia just had a referendum for independence 7 years back, proceeding to declare their own independence for a short while, The Szekely Land in Romania has also been manifesting their desire for autonomy for a while now and for Greece... Well, one could argue that Kosovo is for Serbia what North Macedonia is for Greece. So these countries wouldn't want to recognize Kosovo due to the fact that they would set a precedent that could further increase the tensions regarding the relationship with their territory.
Thanks so much for adding this!
Great explanation! I wanted to explain the status of Kosovo myself, but it would take me too long, my English is not that good.
Thanks!
I just read your comment, and as a Greek citizen I want to correct you . Greece not officially recognizing Kosovo has nothing to do with North Macedonia, but everything to do with Turkish occupied Northern Cyprus, which uses kosovo's case together with Turkey for their recognition as a country 50 years after their military invasion and illegal occupation of North Cyprus. Another point of possible conflict is in the Greek region of Thrace , where Muslims (ethnically is a mix group, but the majority of them identifies as Turkish - under international agreement is recognized as a religious minority , not ethnic), may be used as a pretext for a Turkish military invasion of my country. See the recognition of a region as a "country" can open up more than an innocent can of worms...
@@manpetepetrop8034 I get it, but wouldn't Kosovo claiming independence be more equivalent to Northern Cyprus saying it wanted out from under Turkey, considering it is Turkey that occupied it like Serbia held Kosovo?
I love these guys. I strongly recommend their video about map projections. It's called all maps are wrong.
Australasianeuropeanpan features in the song Dark Angel by Electric Six, I've always found it funny
In the Maghreb region, we have a problem called Western Sahara. It's mainly recognized by Algeria, its sponsor, and only recently many countries revoked recognition and added it back to Morocco. It is a huge problem because it made the entire Maghreb region fragmented over politics and unable to cooperate together economically despite the fact that people in the Maghreb have so much in common from history to language to traditions and culture. Especially Tunisia Algeria Morocco Western Libya. Even today, Morocco and Algeria have closed militarized borders and both people cannot travel to each other by land. That's my example of how such a thing could have terrible consequences for everyone.
They did slightly flub when splitting the UK into 4 countries. They added 4 to the total instead of 3.
For a brief second, I thought they were saying Wales was a micronation when they showed the list 😅
you're not the only one.
No Protocol Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
Thanks for stopping by!
Two African novels I recenly read set in fictional countries. Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo: Set in Jidada, which is basically Zimbabwe, but all the inhabitants are animals. It's Animal Farm meets Maus. Also, Bound to Violence - Yambo Ouologuem. Set in Nakem, which, again, is bascially Mali. The story behind the novel is as inrteresting as the books itself. It's only just been reissued in English after being supressed for nearly 50 years.
Rob, these are two authors that I haven’t heard of before. Thank you!
@@NoProtocol You're welcome. Connected to this video, I'm trying to read at least one book by an author from every country in the world (63 so far). Though I keep falling down rabbit holes. On my 5th book from Singapore atm,
I spent the first 7mins of this vid saying "what about Sealand"
Thankfully, Sealand was indeed addressed 😅
"How many countries are there?"
"Who's asking?"
Was the made-in-Thailand mug some sort of an easter egg? 🤔
Not at all lol just happened to be the mug I grabbed
For your music topic. Try Zemfira (Russian) and her track Blues.
Music I recommend is by Intended Immigration and song is Tangodeur.
Cheers
My recommendation for music would be Gurbet by Özdemir Erdoğan, that speaks to the melancholy of being far from home. It is still wholly relatable even it being in Turkish.
I like your mental curiosity ❤💙
I think there are lots of literary fictional countries, especially in futurist writings. The first two that came to mind were Panem and Lilliput.
I have to agree about, The Handmaid’s Tale. I could see the points she as trying to make. And while I disagreed with her POV, the book was so well written that is wasn’t heavy-handed or overly preachy and just enjoyable. The same could be said for 1984. And while I haven’t read all of the Narnia books I’ve heard they have a message. Perhaps it’s more obvious in the later books because I didn’t see it.
"Country" is basically just what occupations call themselves to self-legitimize.
Masayoshi takanaka. Always good tunes with him.
Excellent choice, Breezin’ is a personal favorite
Hey I’m curious, where are you from? While your English is very American, I hear a slight accent that to me sounds Scandinavian. Is this just in my head somehow?
After these Olympics opening ceremony, I'm even more confused about how many countries are out there.
"China wants to..." ha!
my ex gf was from Taiwan. we were talking about nightmares once, and she told me that her most common nightmare, as a kid, was of the Chinese communists invading her country.
when we were dating, one of her absolute best friends was Chinese, and it was one of the many periods when the invasion seemed imminent.
I kept thinking... how will they react if this actually happens?!
It never will. China builds not bombs like USA. Taiwan WILL SOON WANT TO RETURN TO THEIR MOTHERLAND, CHINA. Having been ripped away by rebel and western military……. Like,Hawaii, Guam, Puerto rica, Yokohama, etc etc ad nauseam
funny fact The world's first public Christmas tree came from Tallinn Estonia in 1441, 50 years before America was discovered
The universal Postal Union has 192 members , 160 of which you can write using their very own postcode
The main reason why Spain doesn't recognize Kossovo is because recognizing them would give Catalonia another way to argue for independence.
Put it like this. I'm Scottish. I don't feel British, though I am. I take offence when being told I'm British.
When you are told to do a British accent, people always do an English accent, as if everything British is English, and that's a big deal for me, I do not want to get thrown in with England. It's a very contentious issue with a lot of Scots and always will be until we're independent.
Fascinating subject - I think I saw this a short while back, but certainly wirht seeing again.
Books: I'd go for Perdito Street Station, by China Mieville. Or maybe Railsea by the same author.
Music: Just because I got the CD today - La Villa Strangiato by Rush, or The Enemy Within, also by Rush, for the same reason
I think the first novel that comes to my mind with a fake country setting is _The Mouse That Roared_ and its "Duchy of Grand Fenwick".
I don’t know this one!
love map men!!
There was a country named Moronica in a 3 Stooges short, not sure if it was based on a book though.
I’d like that name for a country lol
Books.....The golden compass.
Music, nofx- stickin in my eye/ Megadeath, tornado of soul/ Martha and the vandellas, nowhere to run to.
I do indeed like NOFX
Book: "The Prisoner of Zenda" - Set in Ruritania, an Eastern European country, during a succession crisis around the turn of the last century. Also got a shout out from Evelyn Waugh, who had the former King of Ruritania living in reduced circumstances in London in "Vile Bodies".
Book (well, graphic novel, but shush.) "King Ottokar's Sceptre", a Tintin story, features our main characters foiling a plot by the country of Borduria to steal the crown jewels of neighboring Syldavia, in order to provoke a civil war and open it for invasion.
Today is the first time I’ve heard of The Prisoner of Zenda, but you’re not the only one to mention it. I’ll have to check it out
Hi again NP, hope you're having a great monday. Looking forward to this one!
Hi Steffen! Happy Monday
I think if a simple majority of undisputed countries recognize a land as a country, then it's a country. That seems to be the most pragmatic and reasonable solution to the debate.
Ever seen taskmaster? I think you'll enjoy it.
No I haven’t! I don’t watch many films to be honest
@@NoProtocol it's not a movie but you'll see what it is once you look it up.
Love the Margarete Atwood reference
Check out Mopedbart by Hubbabubbaklubb. A Norwegian song in Norwegian about crusin' on your moped.
I will! I don’t know too many Norwegian songs
@@NoProtocol The entire album "Drømmen drømmerne drømmer" is really good stuff. Other great songs are "Eddie & Suzanne", "Et annet sted" or "Tomme lommer".
I always thought there were as many countries as there are bones in the body.
The argument over the name Macedonia fits here.
oh, wow... I just realized that your audience is probably from all over the world! cool...
well, you could have gone with the 80s song, "We are the World". or you could have narrowed the field to the genre of "country" music!
that said... Kate Bush has a song called "Oh, England, My Lionheart!". the Beatles "Back in the USSR". "O Canada!". America (the song, not the band). Born in the USA. The Land Down Under. Africa.
Grease (ohh.... no, wait. that's from the musical. not the same thing!)
I can think of lots of songs about States within the US... but those wouldn't count.
Religion is most important to some then country.
so, on the Family Guy, when Peter declared his house an independent country... HE WAS RIGHT??
Who would have thought that the actual correct answer to "How many countries are there?"is....... Ï don't know".
5:16 That's Marvin the Paranoid Android of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fame. ... Nice to see you Marvin. "How droll. Did I tell you that I'm feeling depressed." -- Marvin 0-/
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If we are all interconnected and the same, and the notion of a country with indigenous populations is getting blurred.
Why dose my government insistently enforced a two tier justice system depending on your birth and where you are from?
What was the fictional country depicted in “The Mouse That Roared ?”
I've always been taught there are 197 nations.
Military power is a huge factor, both for obtaining independence and for preventing being pushed around by bigger countries which like pushing everyone else around like the USA does. If you can't stop the USA couping your government or dictating your policies, then you aren't really independent and aren't really a country, no matter how much local nationalists may get aroused by their flags. So that thing at the end about the difference between countries and regions getting blurred risks whitewashing the difference between nation-states and provinces of the world empire. Only militarily independent states (e.g. having no US military bases on the territory, or there with the clear understanding that you have the strength to kick them out at will if you want to) can enter into truly free treaties and trade relationships on the basis of mutual respect and equality, rather than as client states or puppet states being given orders about treaties and trade. Globalism or Imperialism? Usually there is no difference.
So I'm very against separatism and the creation of small states out of bigger states, because smaller states inevitably have less military independence and therefore less political, diplomatic and economic sovereignty. Sovereignty being preconditional for democracy, because the people do not rule themselves if their country is effectively ruled by the rulers of another country, then smaller countries are also less able to have democracy, let alone popular sovereignty as such. And no, I do not trust in the good intentions of free trade zones and international corporate committees like the EU and the WTO to make things better for anybody except transnational corporations and bankers.
What about Christiania in Denmark? They claim to be sovereign. As I was leaving the community I saw a sign that read “You’re now entering the EU”. It cracked me up 😂
but do you know about the (fictional) country of Pineland that exists right here, within the United States?
So, Antarctica.
Surprised they didn't mention Sport in this video.. Fifa Qualification round starts with 211 Teams (eligible) 215 Teams overall en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_qualification
I kind of love you! And my mumbler is....
Stand in line mate……. She is Tops !
@@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt I don't have a line, but you can stand over there, if you want.
Just joking…
How are they sure what a country actually is if "country" doesn't always mean "country?" Like the countryside. Country music is not national anthem.. at least, as I know it.
Books set in fictional countries... The Chronicles of Narnia, Gulliver's Travels, The Lord of the Rings.
Kosovo,Transnistria and the donbas/crimea demonstrate the weirdness...it is intellectual vs political. They are all very similar, with the exception that Kosovo leans western, while Transnistria, the donbas and crimea lean Russian. Some countries like Spain and Greece realize that if you recognize Kosovo, by intellectual standards, you then have to recognize Transnistria. Most of Europe and the USA, just blow it off and are hypocrites. They recognize kosovo, but not Transnistria.
An example of a country that doesn't exist - The Murrawarri Republic. The long and short is that the Murrawarri people live in Australia, and they were never conquered, they never signed any treaty subordinating them to the British Crown or (later) the Australian Government. They just live on the continent that everyone agrees is the country of Australia. So, after requesting documentation showing war had been declared against them in the past, or they'd signed a treaty at some point, or they'd ceded sovereignty at some point, and receiving no response from the Crown, the Republic declared that it was a "continued Free and Independent State, in line with International law and covenants".
The Murrawarri Republic is not recognised by any country, and appears to claim more than three-fold the are understood by both other Aboriginal groups and the Australian government to be the historical extent of the Murrawarri people. Making the whole conversation a lot more complicated, both for the Murrawarri Republic, and any other indigenous groups that might seek independence.
For a book in a fictional country, Prisoner of Zenda. The king of Ruritania is poisoned on the eve of his coronation, so his councillors get his English doppelganger (who happens to be there and nobody else noticed) to pretend to be the king. Pulpy Victorian adventure hijinks ensue 😅
You’re the second person to mention this book, first I’ve heard of it
@@NoProtocol Yeah, it's one of those that fades away because it's not by a Conan Doyle or a Rider Haggard. I guess it's always been what we'd call a cult classic
❤Your hair gorgeous always
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Countries are as important as ever. Because it's not about what you feel allegiance to, but about jurisdiction and therefore about your rights, democracy and the rule of law.
I'd argue the exact opposite. Nations are about your allegiance, to the flag, the values and everything one's country is about. Countries are not about 'democracy', that is a negligent thing to say. There are various systems of governing and democracy is just an idea that gets swirled on the system, a cute idea but never fully reached. No country is democratic at the end of the day, that's why an index score exists and why the last few years were described grim for those countries claiming to be 'democratic'...
@@ThePunisher014 People have started to give up on democracy in droves because it has been corrupted. To serve the people a government needs a people and a territory to serve it on, through jurisdiction and the rule of law.
Laws that say you can burn your flag on that territory, where the police will protect you when you are attacked for it, but also that a multinational company can not just dump chemical waste on that territory or exploit labourers as they please.
It's nation states that have improved the lives of their peoples massively over the past centuries when they developped. History is proof you need a country to make things better in.
They have a nod to the elections in the video.
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'1984' is really England under Soviet Rule. The Ministry of Fear is the Senate House you can see from Russell Square where Orwell worked in the War for the BBC in room 101. 1984 was inspired by Jack London's 'The Iron Heel' & 'We' by an Eastern European Writer.
And he wanted to call it 1948, but they thought that was too controversial.
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5:25 sovereign: you have the last word on all your laws and taxes and there is no one higher up who can interfer.
Which mean UN should not reconize every EU countries then. 🤓
No, because each single member can decide that a given EU law is against the sovereign countries constitution and reject to ratifi it. Eu are only able to make laws for areas where the single members parlament have accepted it.
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Take Taiwan 😂😂😂
even the un says israhell is not a country
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Thanks for getting here so quickly!
lmao Iran and Egypt were FAR from the first "countries"
Im Not recognizing IzraeL Either. 😌
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