By 2100 how many nations will there be?

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Faoroe Island, Man, Scotland, Chechnya, Komi, Mari, Udmurtia, Tatarstan, Bashkiria Ossetia, Kalmukya, Tuva, Saha Yunnan, Tibet, East-Turkestan Savoy, Corsica, Provance Oldenburg, Lippe, Krim, Kurdistan, Palestine, Quebec, New Foundland Marianes Achech Punjab, Kerala, Nagaland, Deseret  Basque, Ulster, Kashmir, Wales, Catalonia, Sardinia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Kashmir, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ossetia, Kurdistan, Ontario, West Canada, Nunavut, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Chiapas, Western Sahara, North Cyprus, Dalitsan, Punjab, Assam, Tibet, Uyghurstan, Bali, Somailiand, Republic of Java and Sumatra, Jubaland, Confederate States of America, Pacifica, Kalimantan, West Jaya, Brittany, Alsace-Lorraine, Darfur, Southern Sudan, Bougainville and New Caledonia.

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Socialism is over. ITs done.

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2100 is a bit far away, but the current trend is towards ever more, ever smaller, ever less powerful nations and ever fewer (er...no, probably not that one), ever larger, ever more powerful private corporations, and that'll continue for quite a while.
Increased cooperation between nations, regionally à la EU or worldwide à la UNO, will be the most powerful force against that, but won't mean actual fusing of nations, desirable as that may be.

Nothing much to add.

Oh, yeah, except: Given the massive economic and cultural problems (and political cleavages) created by every country merger these past hundred years or so, I think I'll lay off  the "desirable as that may be" part.

Why? Giving the africans and aisans their independence didn't work. Look at africa today.

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for those who can't see it

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