what do you think is the coolest,most dynamic alliance/grouping of countries?
>>219783055The nordics. We should just becone one country, fuck it. Scandiland, one nation to rule them all.
>>219783116even the salmonpipo?
>>219783207Even them.
>>219783055ASEAN, by far. Small enough that every member feels unique but is related, and not too big it's close to meaningless (like the African Union). And at the same time it's very diverse in many different ways:>Religion: Muslims, Catholics, Prostestants, Hindus, animists, Buddhists, Taoists>Ethnicities: literally thousands of different tribes, plus the westerners in Singapore and all the expats and sexpats elsewhere, and a lot of historical migration of Chinese all over>Language: thousands of different languages spoken, with influence from many different European languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Dutch), and and even the dominant languages like Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Burmese, are all of different language families, and top it all off the sole official language of ASEAN is English lol>Writing system: boring same Latin script in some places, weird-ass Latin script in Vietnam with all the tonal diacritics, unique scripts in Thailand and Cambodia, Arabic derived scripts like Jawi, more unique regional ones like Javanese script, and many many others>Size: big countries like Indonesia and Thailand, and small countries like Singapore and East Timor>Government: Military dictatorships, liberal democracies, absolute monarchy (Brunei), regional monarchies (Indonesia, Malaysia), communist states (Laos, Vietnam), regions under Sharia lawAll while the people there still broadly identify themselves as being part of a shared SEAsian identity, except maybe some ethnically Chinese people and sinicized Viets. Actually it's kinda funny how some SEAsians become Arabized, others Sinicized, and others Westernized lmao, and after all they mostly were actually Indianized in origin, it's like the crossroads of the world over there
>>219783116>We should just becone one country>flagYou ruined it
>>219783251>>219783116Greenlanders will be trying to escape it while Estonians will be trying to get in.
>>219785092SEAs are the only race chill enough to allow this level of internal diversity to coexist.
>>219783055Holy I want to smash this guy's head
>>219787961you mean kiss?thats kidna gay...
you always hear of fennoswedes but not norwegoswedes
>>219783055MIKTA meets regularly but I have no idea why it was created in the first place
