Re: becoming a nation
- From: throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop)
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:13:33 GMT
:: How does one "officially" become a country, and it is likely some
:: existing nation would object to this arrangement?
: Brenda Clough <clough@xxxxxxxxx>
: It depends on what the populace really means by 'official'. A seat at
: the UN? Get the population up above some of the teenier countries in
: the world. To compete in the Olympic Games? Start lobbying (bribing)
: the Olympic Committee now, and in fifty years you will be there. A
: flag, passports, diplomats? Find a seamstress, a printer, and some
: local goofballs with nothing much to do.
:
: A more important and deeper issue is, where exactly is this 'land'?
As usual, everything I need to know about the olympics and
national sovereignty, I learned on Futurama...
"Hail, hail, Robonia,
A land I didn't make up..."
--- national anthem of Robonia
(the country Bender invented
so he could compete in the olympics)
Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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