By 2100 how many nations will there be?

[MasterJedi]

I don't care.  I'll be dead.

But you want to be alive when the US of A grandly annex Canada!

[MODU]

I don't care.  I'll be dead.

But you want to be alive when the US of A grandly annex Canada!

I say we take both Canada and Mexico, and become the "United States of North America." 

[Colin]

I don't care.  I'll be dead.

But you want to be alive when the US of A grandly annex Canada!

I say we take both Canada and Mexico, and become the "United States of North America." 

Why change the name? America, North America same thing.

[MODU]

I don't care.  I'll be dead.

But you want to be alive when the US of A grandly annex Canada!

I say we take both Canada and Mexico, and become the "United States of North America." 

Why change the name? America, North America same thing.

Just so we don't piss off the United States of South America, and cause a major war, putting the United States of Central America in the cross fire. 

[MasterJedi]

I don't care.  I'll be dead.

But you want to be alive when the US of A grandly annex Canada!

I say we take both Canada and Mexico, and become the "United States of North America." 

Why change the name? America, North America same thing.

Just so we don't piss off the United States of South America, and cause a major war, putting the United States of Central America in the cross fire. 

Or we could just take everything in North and South America and then we really will be the United States of America.

[MODU]

I don't care.  I'll be dead.

But you want to be alive when the US of A grandly annex Canada!

I say we take both Canada and Mexico, and become the "United States of North America." 

Why change the name? America, North America same thing.

Just so we don't piss off the United States of South America, and cause a major war, putting the United States of Central America in the cross fire. 

Or we could just take everything in North and South America and then we really will be the United States of America.

Could you imagine the logistical nightmare (let alone the political one) of trying to manage a nation that large?

[Platypus]

...plus you'd have to offlaod Hawai'i.

The ¨Commonwealth of Australasia¨ would be happy to take it, i'm sure.

[Brutus]

300?  It's folly to predict the number, but I will say that I believe the trend will be towards a greater, rather than smaller, number of countries.  The balkanization of the world during the post-cold war years has further to go.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

2100 is a bit far away, but the current trend is towards ever more, ever smaller, ever less powerful nations and ever fewer (er...no, probably not that one), ever larger, ever more powerful private corporations, and that'll continue for quite a while.
Increased cooperation between nations, regionally à la EU or worldwide à la UNO, will be the most powerful force against that, but won't mean actual fusing of nations, desirable as that may be.

Nothing much to add.

Oh, yeah, except: Given the massive economic and cultural problems (and political cleavages) created by every country merger these past hundred years or so, I think I'll lay off  the "desirable as that may be" part.

Why? Giving the africans and aisans their independence didn't work. Look at africa today.

[AN Y]

By then, every man will live in a Republic of Himself.

And every woman will live in a Republic of Herself, of course.

[Platypus]

2100 is a bit far away, but the current trend is towards ever more, ever smaller, ever less powerful nations and ever fewer (er...no, probably not that one), ever larger, ever more powerful private corporations, and that'll continue for quite a while.
Increased cooperation between nations, regionally à la EU or worldwide à la UNO, will be the most powerful force against that, but won't mean actual fusing of nations, desirable as that may be.

Nothing much to add.

Oh, yeah, except: Given the massive economic and cultural problems (and political cleavages) created by every country merger these past hundred years or so, I think I'll lay off  the "desirable as that may be" part.

Why? Giving the africans and aisans their independence didn't work. Look at africa today.

..and then look at the culture borders.

It has to be done properly...Iraq doesn't really work, but Jordan does...why? cultural boundaries.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

for those who can't see it

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/3199/thefuturelv1.png