{"id":3765,"date":"2006-12-23T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/12\/23\/3765.html"},"modified":"2006-12-23T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T23:24:19","slug":"unrecognized-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/12\/23\/unrecognized-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrecognized countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got curious about various things about official recognition of national sovereignty, which quickly led me to Wikipedia's <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_unrecognized_countries\">List of unrecognized countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There's all sorts of fiction fodder there.  Walter Jon Williams already did a lot with this general idea, by featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transnistria\">Transnistria<\/a> prominently in his novella \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0406\/greenleopards.shtml\">The Green Leopard Plague<\/a>,\" but I think there's plenty more that could be done.<\/p>\n<p>I especially like the names \"South Ossetia\" and \"Nagorno-Karabakh\" in the modern sections.  But the historical section is mostly what I wanted to point to, full of evocative names and material for alternate-history stories: Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic; Free and Independent Republic of West Florida; State of Muskogee; Bougainville; Lajtabansag State; etc.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not really sure what that page's distinction is between a historical unrecognized state and a historical failed state; it seems to me that states and quasi-states have to exist for a certain amount of time before you can really call them \"unrecognized.\"  So if they're going to include <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lajtabansag_State\">Lajtabansag State<\/a>, which lasted for 32 days in 1921, there are probably a lot of other statelike entities they could list that didn't last long enough for anyone to decide whether to recognize them or not.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thought it was an interesting list.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got curious about various things about official recognition of national sovereignty, which quickly led me to Wikipedia&#8217;s List of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}