All rise to welcome...

[danalwyn]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

All please welcome Montenegro, the newest country on earth (majority of the vote seems to be in), and the latest member of the European continent.  This tiny nation will take with it the last remains of Yugoslavian nationalism when it suceeds (although considering that it was paired with Serbia I can't entirely blame it), although apparently none of the former nation's industrial power.  Expect this tiny nation of under 700,000 people to soon join the EU, displacing such former powerhouses as Malta and Luxemburg in the EU parliament.  Also expect it to serve as another cause for instability in Europe's Region of Drunken Incomprehensibility.

And let us all celebrate this as a milestone on the Balkan path of splitting into so many nations that each one will contain exactly one person.

Hey, it isn't every day that a country gets created.

-dA

I have nothing against Montenegro, but if the Balkans balkanize anymore the mapmakers are going to quit.

Comments

[crisiks.livejournal.com]

Okay, Montenegro? The Eurovision is a nice tradition and all, but when we were suggesting forming our own countries to be able to vote on each other? We were kidding. No, really.

[melligator.livejournal.com]

Mapmakers will be rejoicing that their services are required every five minutes!

We still have a wall map here with the USSR on it.

[saraswathi-rani.livejournal.com]

Expect this tiny nation of under 700,000 people to soon join the EU

... wow. My old town in Nebraska (Nebraska for chrissakes) had nearly as many people as that. How freakin' stupid.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

This may not say much. Europe has some small countries, and the US has some big cities. The population of the New York Metropolitan area is greater than the populations of Austria, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic combined. The population of New York, LA, and Chicago combined is approximately the size of either the United Kingdom or France.

But yeah, my suburb has over 100,000. 700,000 is nothing.

[bladed-crescent.livejournal.com]

I heard Rand and McNally were swearing for 37 straight minutes.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

Just wait until Kosovo breaks off. Then they'll really be upset.

[miseria-cantere.livejournal.com]

My Politics of Third World states lecturer is going to be deliriously happy when I see him this afternoon- the man quite possibly loves maps more than his own family.

In one lecture, he showed us twenty-two different maps of South Africa. I know this from the map tally that now dominates my notes.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

I love maps, but I don't love them enough that I want them to keep changing.

And why so many images of South Africa? It's not that exciting.