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In a one world government where would the European Alliance come from???
I didn't catch the ep.s title... but it is from the one where the Ferengi crash the wormhole bidding...
Troi was checking on the negotiators, the human male inparticular, and his birthplace was Brussels, European Alliance...
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Presumably, individual places are referred to by the names they were using just before they joined the world gov't.
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Well, they've said "USA" before haven't they? Why's that any more likely to exist that a European Alliance?
Although I don't get why they didn't just say "Germany". They are quite happy to say "England", "France" and "Canada".
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because saying "Germany" makes baby jesus cry.
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Ah, but the half-Betazoid came from Brussels, not from Germany. How can we be sure which country that city will belong to in the 24th century, given the enthusiasm with which those people have been pulling their turf apart (ever since Napoleon cut-and-pasted that country for them)?
And I'm positive that the people from Brussels will be associated with the bureaucracy of the EU till the end of days, no matter what happens to the nations around them.
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You missed "European Community (Can I play too?)" from the start of that list.
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Well, perhaps there's a somewhat complex level of "world government" on Earth in the Federation. (And reasonably on other worlds, too.) If we consider the current "trend" of creating "mega-countries" -- like the European Union and the new African Union, then perhaps in the future, the United Nations (or another world government) becomes the global government, but the former nations retain their identity as divisions for local authority, much like there are states and counties in the US. Therefore, the individual countries (France or European Union, etc.) survive in some form as local administrative districts. Or something like that.
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That would be very logical. I suspect a world government can't really function properly without considerable power of 'local authorities' (the former countries).
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