Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-400920-20121221113452/@comment-1310192-20121224174321

Red VS Blue wrote: Vexacus, those are silly names. A country calls itself whatever it pleases. There are no international requirements that states name themselves as a reflection of what they are. As an example: the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor much of an empire. Or North Korea, which isn't democratic, nor a republic, nor ruled for the people, and doesn't control all of Korea.