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Okay, for the slightly bizarre pondering.. The random thought struck me on whether it's actually possible to create a new "nation" as it were in this day and age. I'm not talking about the natural evolution of countries to grow, split, change politics and wotnot. I mean more in the lines of.. if you got a few hundred folk together and settled on some uninhabited island that isn't under any countries control, could you declare it an independent nation? Creating an artificial "culture" or general differences to other societies? What would it take to do so and be recognised as such? Established infrastructure and government? Legal issues in ownership? Having some folks say "yes, we've created a new nation, now the UN must recognise us." ? Would the people there still be viewed as whatever "nationality" they'd originally been? But still, throwing the floor open to general thoughts on the subject...
