HB 19-46: Now We're Really Screwing Around with Borders Act (Passed)

[Former President tack50]

Obligatory "not a representative, but..."

This bill seems to be at the same time a fun meme bill, a serious bill to recognize long standing nations as well as a bill that could seriously harm Atlasia's international standing and annoy our allies. I would personally divide this bill into 3 types of claims:

1: Fun meme claims that won't do any harm. These include: the independence of Molossia, recognizing the GDR sovereignty over Ernst Thälman island, recognizing Sealand as well as the entirety of Section II.

2: Serious claims of places that are everything but countries and that where the harm in our foreign policy can be manegable. The biggest one here is the recognition of Palestine, but I would also place the recognition of Somaliland here. Taiwan under normal circumstances would also go here, but China has their "One China policy" which means either a possible war with China over Taiwan or having to revoke the recognition of the PRC so I would advice against it.

3: Claims of places that are basically puppets of unfriendly countries or where the harm in our foreign policy would be too large to manage. These include puppets of Russia like South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Artsakh and Transistria; the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (the objective is to eventually reunify Cyprus and it would annoy Greece and Cyprus and probably the EU) and Western Sahara (this one is easier to deal with but it would still annoy Morocco).

Either way, in my opinion Taiwan and Western Sahara would be the "borderline" cases; everything else in what I said in point 3 should be removed. And the rest is fine, ranging from innocent fun to important stuff.

[Former President tack50]

Worth noting that the point where Atlasia makes claims to Marie Byrd land would be a breach of the Antarctic Treaty. Atlasia has reserved the right to make claims, but it has not done so. Making one would be a breach of the treaty technically, even if Atlasia has always reserved that right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System