Altered Maps 15

[madviking]

Five-second Google search suggests about 200k commuting from France to Switzerland and Germany combined; that's just from one country, to their day jobs.

when 200k people descend upon switzerland per day , they call it "commuting". when 200k men and arms descend upon poland per day, they call it "blitzkrieg".

 

[PicturesquePict]

Top seven strongest nations in the world:

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Seems legit.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Sweden has just been bragging, all talk no action. Wouldn't last 10 seconds in the ring

 

[PicturesquePict]

It's legit! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Strongest_Man#Championships_by_country

USA #1

 

[Joecoolyo]

I chuckled

 

[PicturesquePict]

And if we use the same data, but historical borders, then top three strongest nations are:

1) Kalmar Union - 13 gold, 14 silver, 14 bronze
2) the PLC - 10 gold, 10 silver, 3 bronze
3) the USA - 10 gold, 7 silver, 8 bronze

USA no longer #1

 

[Lohrenswald]

The Kalmar union was never a country

 

[Arakhor]

I'm surprised that the Spanish and Austrian Empires don't figure in that list.

 

[Tee Kay]

There's lots of talk of an early federal election in Australia so I'll be putting out some maps.

First up: Australian Greens federal House of Reps primary vote in 2013, by electorate.

Spoiler :

Greens primary vote crashed from 11.76% in 2010 to 8.65% in 2013, but has since recovered and the party is now polling between 13-16%

Currently the only Greens seat is Melbourne. The surrounding four seats may flip at the next election; Higgins in particular is looking like a fun three-way race between Greens, Labor, and the incumbent Liberals. Labor also wants Melbourne back and has a young immigrant lesbian human rights lawyer as a candidate, against the balding white middle class male Greens MP, so that one will be interesting to watch.

The Sydney inner city seats also have high Greens support but are all held by very high profile and/or popular MPs and so are unlikely to be converted. Finally there's Richmond, which is a long shot but a Greens MP could get in through an alliance between the local hippies and anti-fracking farmers.

 

[PicturesquePict]

From the World Romanist Association:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/12/245656/-Romanistan-The-Gypsy-Republic-a-fable#

Sinti Polajki, president of the World Romanist Association, is on a mission. For many years now, he has been lobbying world leaders to fulfill his lifelong dream: based on the right of all peoples to a country of their own, Polajki argues for the creation of a sovereign Gypsy state in the country of Sweden. Here are some of his arguments:

"After all, Gypsies (the Roma or Romani people) have lived in Sweden since at least the 16th century and thus have a valid claim to the territory. Without a nation, spread throughout the world, Gypsies have suffered persecution under Nazis, Communists and many Christian states. They have even been blamed as partially responsible for the cruficixion of Christ. In Spain, even the word "Gitano" was made illegal; in that country, as in others, Gypsies were forced to assimilate into the mainstream of the country or suffer dire consequences. At least 200,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Third Reich. It is therefore necessary that Gypsies have a national state of their own, in a land they historically occupied, such as Sweden. To claim that Romanistan, the Gypsy homeland, should not exist is to reveal a deep, evil, anti-romanism. Only the filthiest racist could deny the Gypsies a country of their own."

If we are to choose a particular region of Sweden for Romanistan - how about Gotland ???:



Gotland currently has just 57,200 inhabitants (18 per each km2).

It is seriously underpopulated (compared to, for example, Bangladesh).

With Bangladeshian density, Gotland could house 3,3 million people.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Swedes has been in Sweden for several thousand years though.
And the gypsies have lived in other countries for longer.

Honestly this is a pretty stupid idea

 

[Civ'ed]

just give them some of the mountains in the far far north, problem solved.

 

[PicturesquePict]

Swedes has been in Sweden for several thousand years though.

But Swedish Prime Minister himself said that people with more recent immigrant background should have priority in Sweden.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2GzcGaLsA

 

[Lohrenswald]

note: former

Also, he said to make the country more open to immigrants, not to dissolve it or cede territory

 

[PicturesquePict]

Whatever... Romanistan in Sweden still makes a good Altered Map, though.

Has there ever been any Gypsy state, by the way?

I vaguely recall that they had some tiny sovereign principalities in Medieval Europe.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sweden must agree with the proposition and create a Romani state in Gotland.

Sweden Yes.

 

[PicturesquePict]

Sweden Yes.

Yes, but it's a great challenge:


Link to video.

 

[really]

 

[Civ'ed]

Whatever... Romanistan in Sweden still makes a good Altered Map, though.

yes but where's the statistics?