Is your country a country?

[Australian rePublic]

Diarcesia is a collection of countries that agree to be represented internationally as one entity.

Like the UK?

[Diarcesia]

Diarcesia is a collection of countries that agree to be represented internationally as one entity.

Like the UK?

More decentralized than the UK, the closest equivalent that I can think of is the Empire of Tamriel. The big difference versus that is the countries (or polities, which is what they're actually called) don't have armies, but they share a common currency and have some control over their borders.

[La Habana Cuba]

At first you might think that this is a stupid question, but here me out

Well there a lot of places where if you ask if they're countries, and the answer is yes, or no, or maybe- depending on who you ask- and every one of those answers is correct.

The USA

I almost Hong Kong and Macau. Are they countries?

And those who choose to recognise Taiwan can't (officially) recognise the People's Republic of China, and vice versa. So which is a country? Taiwan or PRC? Both?

Is Israel a country? Is Palestine a country? Are they both countries?

Was the USSR a single country? Or was it a collection of countries?

Is West Sahara a country?

North and South Korea do not recognise eachother, so are they countries? (Vietnam)

They have a similar status to the historical nations of North and South Vietnam, East and West Germany, etc. Were they countries?

Then you have unions like the European Union- and her members

So with so many crazy examples in the real world, where does your NationStates nation stand?
Universally recognised?
Universally unrecognised?
Semi-recognised?
Micronation?
Other?

Australian Republic is a universally recognised nation whose recognition is undisputable

Where does your "nation" stand?

EDIT
At the end of the day, you can call yourself a "country" as much as you want, but you won't actually qualify as one, unless OTHERS also agree with you

Minister of Foreign Relations:
:
Felipe Pérez Roque, a close personal friend of President Elián González,
once dismissed of his post for disloyalty to the revolution,
now politically revived.

The government and nation of La Habana Cuba is a nation named after a real world nation like the Australian Republic, not a made up nation name, as fellow democratic multi political party nations, we recognize the awesome government, nation and people of Australia.

We wish to establish economic, political and cultural diplomatic relations with Australia, and we invite you to vote and post on our embassy exchange web site page.

La Habana Cuba needs immigrants and will soon announce an immigration policy plan, we hope and trust Australia will send us at least a few immigrants per year.

Here is a Link to our embassy exchange web site page.

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We thank President Donald J Trump of the USA of America and Vice President Mike Pence for their secret help in the successful pro democratic, pro multi political party, military coup d'état of La Habana Cuba, as well as President Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Vice President Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Miami Shores, for abvious reasons, which without their help and support this could never have been possible.
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As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced and is practiced all over the world, we recognize Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China as one nation under the one and only true government and nation of Taiwan China.
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As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced is practiced all over the world, we recognize North and South Korea as one nation under the democratic, multi political party nation and government of South Korea.
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As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced is practiced all over the world, we recognize Vietnam as a democratic multi political party nation, not the current government in power.
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As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced is practiced all over the world, we recognize the Venezuelan democratic opposition as the true government of Venezuela, who has a government in exile in our nation with an Ambassador to our nation, one of my other NS nations.
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As a pro Jewish nation, we recognize Israel and the Jewish people, La Habana Cuba used to have the largest Jewish Jewban community of the Caribbean islands, we wish to revive that community through our soon to be announced immigration plan.
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The former USSR Soviet Union Russia, was an imperialist communist socialist empire, as it has been practiced and is practiced all over the world, which took over and destroyed La Habana Cuba with the help of Fidel and Raul Castro Ruz.
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We recognize the Western Sahara as part of Morocco.
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While we recognize the EU and the European union nations, as a union of nations, we think the EU nations should have complete control over immigration issues, while cooperating on economic issues.

Make Cuba Great Again:

President Elián González.
Vice President Rosa María Payá.
Conservative Nationalist Party CNP.
La Rosa Blanca White Rose Nationalist Party.
ALT Right Nationalist Party.
La Habana Cuba Council of Ministers.
Democratic Republic of La Habana Cuba.

[Peraya]

Yes, Peraya is recognised as an independent country by the international community.

[Greater Miami Shores]

At first you might think that this is a stupid question, but here me out

Well there a lot of places where if you ask if they're countries, and the answer is yes, or no, or maybe- depending on who you ask- and every one of those answers is correct.

The USA

I almost Hong Kong and Macau. Are they countries?

And those who choose to recognise Taiwan can't (officially) recognise the People's Republic of China, and vice versa. So which is a country? Taiwan or PRC? Both?

Is Israel a country? Is Palestine a country? Are they both countries?

Was the USSR a single country? Or was it a collection of countries?

Is West Sahara a country?

North and South Korea do not recognise eachother, so are they countries? (Vietnan)

Then you have unions like the European Union- and her members

So with so many crazy examples in the real world, where does your NationStates nation stand?
Universally recognised?
Universally unrecognised?
Semi-recognised?
Micronation?
Other?

Australian Republic is a universally recognised nation whose recognition is undisputable

Where does your "nation" stand?

EDIT
At the end of the day, you can call yourself a "country" as much as you want, but you won't actually qualify as one, unless OTHERS also agree with you

Minister of Foreign Relations:
:
Minister of Foreign Relations, Otto Reich.
German Austrian Jewish Father.
Catholic Cuban Mother of Spaniard descent.
Born in La Habana Cuba City Province.
Conservative Republican Party CRP.

Our nation is a real world nation, as it is a real world regional named nation, as the Australian Republic is a real world named nation, not a made up nation name, as fellow democratic multi political party nations, we recognize the awesome government, nation and people of Australia, we wish to establish economic, political and cultural diplomatic relations with Australia, we invite you to vote and post on our embassy exchange web site page.

Miami Shores currently only has 492 legal Australian immigrants in the real world and ns world, but Miami Shores needs immigrants and will soon announce an immigration policy plan, we hope and trust Australia will send us at least a few immigrants per year.

Here is a Link to our embassy exchange web site page.

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=417280
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We thank President Donald J Trump of the USA of America and Vice President Mike Pence for their secret help in the successful pro democratic, pro multi political party, military coup d'état of La Habana Cuba, our good friend and ally for abvious reasons, which we also helped with.
_______________________________________________
As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced and is practiced all over the world, we recognize Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China as one nation under the one and only true government and nation of Taiwan China.
___________________________________________
As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced is practiced all over the world, we recognize North and South Korea as one nation under the democratic, multi political party nation and government of South Korea.
_________________________________________________
As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced is practiced all over the world, we recognize Vietnam as a democratic multi political party nation, not the current government in power.
_________________________________________
As fellow anti commies, as has been practiced is practiced all over the world, we recognize the Venezuelan democratic opposition as the true government of Venezuela, who has a government in exile in our nation with an Ambassador to our nation, one of my other NS nations.
_________________________________________
As a pro Jewish nation, we recognize Israel and the Jewish people, Miami Shores now has in the real world and ns world 169,829 legal Jewish immigrants, 08.03 % of our population, and make up the second largest ethnic group in our nation.

Our Vice President Ileana Ros-Lehtinen our potential and for sure next future President is of half Jewish descent on her mothers side of the family, the Jewish people consider the female family line more important than the male family line, her mother converted to Catholic for marriage reasons, than Eleana converted to Episcopalian for personal reasons.

But Ileana has been to Israel at least once and considers herself a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people, Ileana's family in Cuba founded one of the first Jewish synagogues of Cuba.

I myself, am part Jewish, my father is a German Austrian Jew, and my mother a Catholic of Cuban Spaniard descent.
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The former USSR Soviet Union Russia, was an imperialist communist socialist empire, as it has been practiced and is practiced all over the world, which took over and destroyed La Habana Cuba, our other homeland, with the help of Fidel and Raúl Castro Ruz.
______________________________________________
We recognize the Western Sahara as part of Morocco.
_______________________________________________
While we recognize the EU and the European union nations, as a union of nations, we think the EU nations should have complete control over immigration issues, while cooperating on economic issues.

Make Miami Shores Great Again.

President Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
Vice President Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Conservative Republican Party.
Miami Shores Council of Ministers.
Democratic Republic of La Habana Cuba.

[Krumolia]

Krumolia is a universally recognized sovereign federal republic.

[The Sextant Islands and City of Rajapore]

The Sextant Islands and City of Rajapore is a British Protectorate (B.S.I.C.R. Protectorate). Thus it is not a sovereign state, merely a colony.

[Akvir]

It depends on who you ask. While we do maintain diplomatic relations with a multitude of countries, and we hold territory where our own laws are enforced, some countries view us as something more akin to a non-sovereign organization do to our exact nature as a military order. However, even we are not above claiming this as an excuse for some of our... activities over seas. So, really, it's whatever is convenient for us at the moment.

[Stroulia]

Stroulia is indeed considered an independent nation, with full representation in the UN, and diplomatic missions across the world.

[The Chris Empire]

Yes, Universally recognized.

[Siornor]

I wish I had something interesting to say here but I really don't. We're in the WA, active in our region, everyone in the world recognizes us. Even our smaller, piddly neighbor country which has sworn to annihilate us recognizes us, because without that recognition they can't annihilate us.

[The Atlantean Islands]

Atlantis is indeed a country, and has been since around 3000 BC. It even has a territory in the Aegean sea since the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks.

[The Free Islands of Independence]

Universally Recognized

[Blodrike]

We have a flag, language, culture, government and army. That should be enough to make us a nation-state.

[Nyorklandia]

Recognized as a nation by Zeritae, and Ameriquae, my more liberal counterparts.


Oh, and the former nation of zeritainus.

[Kannabyss]

We're a proto-state. We control multiple portions of land, but generally are not recognized by the international community.

[Westwickport]

No our country is a nation state

[Cekoviu]

Globally recognized. We're pretty new, so not quite on the Antarctican map yet, but our cartographer has said we'll be on the next update if we're still around.

[Austins Colony]

We are a recognized nation by many

Those who recognize us: Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Portugal, Czech Republic, United States, Israel, Spain, and most of the UN member states

Those who don't recognize us: Mexico, Cuba, Russia, Palestine, China, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, North Korea

[Yavakhstan]

Certainly yes.
Most countries recognize Yavakhstan as a country.

[Terra Britania]

The British Empire is a Universally Recognised nation. There are no sovereign nations in existence who don't acknowledge the British Empire as an equally sovereign nation.

[Estainia]

The Greater Reunited Empire of Estainia and Alisonia is universally recognized as a sovereign nation-state, also known as a country, by every other country on our planet as well as several NGOs. The various constitute-states, e.g. counties, duchies, kingdoms, that make up the Empire are generally recognized as sub-national entities (similar to a U.S. State perhaps), though this is not legally true we allow it for the sake of logistical ease as the Empire is a feudal entity, bound together by oaths of fealty and loyalty towards other lords and lordings.

Hopefully this answers your question adequately.

[Ascion]

TECA (The Eastern Commonwealth of Ascion) is universally recognised as a country, despite it’s name. The name “Commonwealth” has the same meaning with “Federal Republic”, with only difference that the central government has no authority over the states except military and ideology.

[Pilarcraft]

Universally Recognized.

[Narland]

Universally Recognized.