There are 193 UN recognised countries, two UN observer states (the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority), and plenty of partially recognised or disputed countries. But what if there was more?
Leaving aside factors like natural resources, stability, population, etc., what countries do you want to exist, simply because it would be pretty neat? Joke answers are acceptable and encouraged.
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I don’t think any country needs to exist. We could have a government like The Federation in star trek where the entire Earth is the “country,” if we didn’t have hate and distrust of others and could actually share the planet equally.
It won’t get better until we at least have the same laws for all people. It shouldn’t be an incentive to move production overseas just because those countries don’t have minimum wage and uses children for labour. All people should get the same minimum care all over the globe.
Yeah but that’s gonna make it so much harder to divide peoples via nationalist sentiment and continue imperialist exploitation.
Oligarchs and billionaires already work to undermine and break the EU because it carries collectivist sentiments and brought some beneficial side effects to the people - mostly somewhat privileged white people at that.
That’s fair enough, nationalism has been the cause of both world wars, as well as most conflicts around the world.
Think about how it would be if the president was like current POTUS.
Let me rephrase the question, which countries do you want to exist? Post has been edited to clarify
Well, I am a hard anarchist; I don’t think any countries or borders should exist. But I am also a realist, and don’t believe an anarchist utopia is really possible. Not without global human enlightenment, anyway.
frankly I think if everyone on the planet over a certain age took a heroic dose of mushrooms, just once, we could get about 90% of the way to global human enlightenment. A little ego death, as a treat.
Unfortunately, with the draconian laws against psychedelics (how dare you try and escape this reality when we’ve made it so pleasant!), this will almost certainly never come to pass.