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

[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.