Re: becoming a nation
- From: v$af$ppint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("ppint. at IMT")
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:52:11 -0000 (GMT)
- hi; in article, <FlAfj.113$qV.87@trnddc03>,
clough@xxxxxxxxx "Brenda Clough" suggested:
Johan Larson wrote:[snip]
How does one "officially" become a country, and it is likely
some existing nation would object to this arrangement?
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.
- this alone would not suffice; it is a condition
neither sufficient *nor* necessary;
To compete in the Olympic Games?
- ditto;
A flag, passports, diplomats?
- neither are the first two of these; the third might
well prove to be a practical necessity, but may not
be a legal one;
- with the correct technical apparatus, and sufficiently
A more important and deeper issue is, where exactly is this
'land'? Every place up to three miles offshore (and sometimes
more, depending on the shore and the minerals therein) is
claimed by some sovereign nation or another. To make this fly
you need a place claimed by nobody, which is to say it must be
either undiscovered (unlikely) or it must be recently come into
existence (say by volcanic action).
ah, "creative" quartermaster i/c supplies and adaptable
(and highly motivated) organisation of engineers, this
could perhaps be arranged, and your corps ready to spring
into action at the correct location, could it not?
- love, a ppint. prepared to allow the approach might
be regarded as somewhat unorthodox...
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