World's next country?

Yeah whatever happened with South Sudan? Youngest country as far as I remember, hope they are doing well.

War and literal genocide ever since independence. Not a success story unfortunately.

What are the chances of Georgia giving up on Abkhazia and South Ossetia?

I'd say small. You don't just give away what you believe is your rightful clay, and it would probably set precedent for the rest of the Caucasus, which is a clusterfuck of secessionist movements. Would be cool though, to have not three but tens of small Caucasian countries. Artsakh, Naxcivan, Adjaria, Abkhazia, the list goes on, and that's not including the stuff in Russia like Chechnya and Dagestan etc

Well, this thread died fast

You think the French state workers and bureaucrats in new Caledonia voted to stay because independence would cease their free money?