The Outer Circle
Name: R
Date: Yesterday at 23:19 | Monday 05:19 in China
Middle-aged torpor? I'm haven't left university yet!
I take it your strategy is to outlive the competition?
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Name: Maybe
Date: Yesterday at 15:58 | 21:58 in China
Maybe we need to do it every year as various geopolitical situations develop. Or maybe not.
Looks like this is the only subject which can stir us out of our middle-aged torpor. Unless you can think of anything else?
It's not over until we die, so I don't think anyone should be getting over-confident at this early stage.
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Name: R
Date: Saturday at 19:46 | Sunday 01:46 in China
Didn't we already do that at some point in the past?
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Name: OK
Date: Saturday at 16:43 | 22:43 in China
I'm stupid. Perhaps we should simply vote on every potential non-UN country at Christmas? I wouldn't be that surprised if we all end up agreeing.
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Name: R
Date: Saturday at 00:25 | 06:25 in China
The problem with your definition is that this inevitably boils down to 'sounds like a proper country to Matthew, which is far more likely if its easy for him to go to'. I think the idea of 'Us' agreeing is naive!
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Name: R
Date: Saturday at 00:23 | 06:23 in China
At this point I feel free to call you on being stupid. Try the M, R, A and U symbols in the top right
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Name: Hexagons
Date: Friday at 16:57 | 22:57 in China
Presumably they are just for your countries? So no visualisation of our cumulative bag?
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Name: What about...
Date: Friday at 13:56 | 19:56 in China
"Sounds like a proper country to us."
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Name: Matthew
Date: Friday at 10:21 | 16:21 in China
I would use a criterion like
"A member of the United Nations, or a) generally recognised as a sovereign state, b) with control over a clearly defined territory"
My personal view would be:
Vatican (yes, just doesnt want to be a UN member)
Kosovo (yes, only poorly recognised because people dont want to annoy Russia)
Taiwan (yes, only poorly recognised because people dont want to annoy China)
South Ossetia, Abkhazia, TNRC and other unrecognised "countries" (no. fails on a. one or two UN members should not constitute "generally")
Western Sahara+Palestine (no. fails on b. The *governments* have some recognition, but not the territories)
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