Which Spin-Off should be 186th? FINAL ROUND

[chontono]

Ok, I will open up a thread today

 

[chontono]

Will only countries be allowed or also territories with partial independence like Faroe, Reunion, Mayotte, Martinique…?

 

[Edweis]

Will only countries be allowed or also territories with partial independence like Faroe, Reunion, Mayotte, Martinique…?

Don't know about Flo's intention, but Réunion, Mayotte, and Martinique wouldn't count as they are French departments, and thus, don't have any more independence than Landes or Saône-et-Loire. The only difference is that Mayotte and Martinique are considered Unique Territorial Collectivities, like Corsica and Guyane, which means only one institution shares the competencies of a region and a department.

Nouvelle-Calédonie would be a better example, but even that one is considered a non-autonomous territory by the UN.

 

[ShoeFlo]

Small states special
Only countries (and regions!) with a population below 1 million are allowed. That's it.

Look, I didn't want to make it too hard for you, therefore I pointed out that not only countries are allowed (there are only around 45 recognized countries with under 1 million people in the world anyway)

The place you are joining with should be lowly populated and therefore it should be in best case tricky and challenging finding something from there. That's the idea of the whole thing. Whether it be a country, (partly) autonomous territories, oversea territories or departments (may it be British, French or Dutch..) and even, that's why I pointed it out, regions.

I stick to the WV rules:

Each country can be divided into separate regions if so desired (i.e. Wallonia and Flanders for Belgium; Catalonia, Basque Country, etc. for Spain). In terms of this contest, regions tend to be based on political units such as sovereign states; subnational units such as provinces, counties etc. A region that has no official definition of its area is not acceptable.

(no. 5 of Worldvision Rules)

For example, in Germany you could choose Bremen and Saarland

in Spain you could choose Navarre, Cantabria, La Rioja and the autonomous cities of Melilla and Ceuta

In USA you could choose both Dakotas, Alaska, Washington D.C., Vermont, Wyoming and the oversea territories Guam and Virgin islands, American Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands

France seems complicated because apparently New Caledonia and French Polynesia have a different constitutional status than Martinique and so on.. but to keep it simple: you can send Oversea departments, oversea collectivities, overseas territories and whatever New Caledonia is. As long as it's under 1 million people living there.

tbh I wasn't mentally prepared for complication because as a German we just have a country and 16 regions and that's the whole story. Some may consider Mallorca as our oversea territory because of all the vacationers that invade their beaches but that's not official (yet)