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It's called the commonwealth, and it includes 30 percent of the land mass of earth.
by lettergram 10y ago
It's called the commonwealth, and it includes 30 percent of the land mass of earth.
- toyg 10y agoIt's also little more than a figment of imagination these days, as the bulk of UK trade is with Europe, Australia has turned to China, Canada lives off US trade and South Africa is following suit. I guess there's always Zimbabwe...
- thesimpsons1022 10y agonot really analog or even close to what the eu is.
- speeder 10y agoAlso the sun never sets in it. Literally.
- SwellJoe 10y agoBut what percentage of the GDP?
- MLR 10y agoSimilar to the EU currently and growing much faster, India and the African nations have a lot more growth potential than modern day Europe.
- rangibaby 10y agoThere's not much "common wealth" in the Commonwealth though. I think the main extent of our cooperation is hosting the Commonwealth Games every few years. I wonder if the UK will start buying NZ dairy products again. UK joining the EEC (they went from taking 75% of NZ cheese exports to <10%) and the oil shock in 1973 basically tanked the NZ economy.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoOf course, a lot of that land mass is in virtually uninhabitable parts of Canada and Australia.
- rodgerd 10y agoThis is literally delusional.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966250 and marked it off-topic.