Near-future scifi story premise: world where it is illegal to have nations larger than 50 million.
UN has automatic obligation to launch a coalition to militarily break up any attempt to form larger nations.
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So... what stops unions/alliances from forming? AKA legal loopholes.
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Nothing. That's where interesting story possibilities happen.
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So all the unions and federations quickly rename themselves into alliances of free nations, and then it's business as usual with nothing changing?
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That's like saying a bunch of welded steel balls is the same as a bunch tied together with string
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It is the same if the string is just decorative and placed in such a way as to obscure the welds that are still there.
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Is that how it played with USSR? Seems to me many of the welds were really broken. Especially in former soviet republics where oil and gas opened up to foreign companies.
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