This is a prime example of how it should be the prime directive for the country to reach a prime number of states. This can be taken on as the prime responsibility for the prime minister (if you had one…you should make one).
United Kingdom: recreate the English heptarchy, keep Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland as separate things, and then give London autonomy too. Now we have 11 that are all of a similar scale. Cumbria becomes part of Scotland and Cornwall becomes part of Wales to account for the parts that weren’t in the heptarchy. If Northern Ireland unites with the rest of Ireland, we create a united body to represent the crown dependencies and overseas territories and count that as the 11th
I’m onboard with this plan.
Or, or! You drop 3 to become 47 states in their prime. Which would you pick?
Texas, Florida, South Dakota (just to fuck around).
Fuse North and South Dakota into one big, irrelevant state.
Drop Hawaii by giving them back their independence
“One nation, indivisible; except by itself and one.”
And we all agree who that “one” is
If we had zero states, we’d really be indivisible.
Wouldn’t that make everyone else indivisible by us? I think the military would like a word.
But we wouldn’t be one nation anymore, we’d be zero nations.