"a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club" Well the US was hardly the first to t

"a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club" Well the US was hardly the first to take that approach! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdo... However, I would point that here in the UK I suspect most people are actually completely unaware of the fact that there are multiple legal and education systems in our "country of countries".