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Did the pope vote in Argentina's election?
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I know The Vatican constitutes a state, but i don't think it constitutes a country.
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, is a landlocked independent country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
They were given a tax-free country from Mussolini for being chill about the whole Holocaust thing
I know we hate religion here. But Jesus Christ. There's enough Dodgy aspects of the Catholic church without making shit up.
??? That's literally what happened. History is stranger than fiction. And speak for yourself mate, I have no problems with religion.
Considering the Lateran treaties came before Hitlers rise to power. I doubt that.
It is a indipendant state/country, with a ruling king, enforced borders, its own passports and even a standing army.
If religious victory gets hard, domination is always an option
What the international law cares about is "sovereign states" or "sovereign subjects of international law" not countries which is a much more informal term. Sovereign states technically don't even need a territory - 122 states have official diplomatic relations with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (not to be confused with the Republic of Malta) which has had no territory since 1799.
Sovereign states don’t need territory? This changes everything!
Nope, you just need to convince a hundred something control freaks on a power trip that you are one of them and that they should give you a bunch of privileges, including legal immunity. Easy.
On a global scale they are synonyms xd
Which is made even more confusing by British “countries” (🏴🏴🏴🇯🇪).
Eh, the British "countries" are countries in name only. They don't really fit any of the usual things people would think of as constituting a country.
In reality, they're constituted like less than the state of a federation like the US, Germany, or Australia. A state has a constitutional right to its governance, and cedes some power to the federal government. The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are rights granted by Westminster, and could be taken away at will. Nothing Biden, or Trump, or Mike Johnson wanted could ever take away Maine's right to its own governance like that.
I know. Hence quotation marks.
Oh right, the “quotation marks”
The technical term for quotation marks used that way is "scare quotes".
What do you think the difference is?
In other words there’s no country music in a city state
Wow. This is either A+ trolling or just sad
I’m serious. Just think about it. You already intuitively know what the difference is based on the way these words are used throughout our language.
Before the states in the USA United… the were just states… separate ones… they had no rural land?
Good point.
You could also have just looked at the defile the words
One has people who live “in the country”, whereas a city-state is a state in which all the people live in a city and nobody lives “in the country”.
https://www.thoughtco.com/country-state-and-nation-1433559