City-States

Will we ever see the return of city-states, or are they forever relegated to the ash heap of history?

This isn't Civ 5 idiot, city states are fictional

They aren't though.

Well I don't see any, do you?
Retard
I bet you're a stupid trump voter

Well, there's Singapore.

...

and a few others, but they are gone for the most part

>you will never defend the kingdom from the ramparts with your bow and arrows
why live

>Lichtenstein
>Gibraltar
>Hong Kong
>Luxembourg
This better be bait.

doesnt london have a city state?

>what is Liechtenstein

>I DON'T SEE ANY SO THEY NEVER EXISTED

>YOU MUST BE A TRUMP SUPPORTER BECAUSE I THINK YOUR DUMB XD

I think with rapid transportation or cars they'll be gone for a while.

well if the retards keep pushing the no-borders business what do you think the urban elites are going to propose?

In the U.S, in the event of a major catastrophe or war, you better believe that New York and Seattle among others will close themselves off and become an independent functional governing body in the form of a city-state. They are massive enough to be able to do that.

>Luxembourg
>city state

Y-yeah, city state.

You forgot Singapur and Macau

Yes. When there is an eventual societal breakdown, the city-state is a natural progression between the chaos and nation-state.

t. autist

>>Gibraltar
>>Hong Kong
Them are dead city states, taken over by bigger nations.

No. Because city states were mearly nations that did not have the force-projection to rule beyond their walls

Why are you so mad estii? Why all the insults? Are you mad because you live in a joke of a country? Never contributed anything to history? Are you mad because of your mediocre standard of living?

im mad because theres a chance we wont get female woman president :((((((

Ever been to Arizona?

Good there you go

Lol are you retarded? Or are you just drinking? Id drink myself to death too if I lived in meme country.

marina kaljurand
im not talking about your nigger country

>Will we ever see the return of city-states

It's already the case. The drastic schism between major cities and regions in every country.

Ethicities, values, cost of living, lifestyle... everything is different.

Not just that, but the cities also have a drastically over-inflated self worth. They think that governments should pander exclusively to them, or even proportionately.

They mistakenly believe that regions cannot exist without the cities, while the opposite is what is true.

Governments really need to start taking steps to de-urbanize.

I just now realized Estonia is a real place. I always thought it was a joke country.

He's trolling

it is the first step after anarchy

so, it will happen if we have societal callapse

ok shut up you take that back now

Also I thought it was in Africa.

I say it is high time to pull NATO out of there at let all the Baltic meme countries become Russia's problem again.

If the U.S. has a civil war, yes.

The country will be segmented into city states.

>What is Singapore

Vatican
The Citi

You mean the City of London? It's still a part of the UK, but it sure seems like a de facto city-state.

>The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns. It is located in the wider Temple area of the capital, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within the City of London.
>The Inn is a professional body that provides legal training, selection, and regulation for members. It is ruled by a governing council called "Parliament", made up of the Masters of the Bench (or "Benchers"), and led by the Treasurer, who is elected to serve a one-year term. The Temple takes its name from the Knights Templar, who originally leased the land to the Temple's inhabitants (Templars) until their abolition in 1312. The Inner Temple was a distinct society from at least 1388, although as with all the Inns of Court its precise date of founding is not known.

ayyyyy

Not sure, but looks confy, we kinda have very centralized towns here

The problem with city-states is that they're dependent on other countries anyway. They need land to feed themselves and space to grow. If the surrounding countries of a city-state are hostile, then it doesn't take make much to wipe them out. City-states exist in security if they have a nation-state to protect them. Any city-state that uses the land beyond the urbanized area for farming or other resources becomes a small country. And that country might as well expand to use the land/resources beyond. They'll keep expanding until they come across people who don't want them there, then they establish a border or go to war.

City states in isolation don't work.

Shitty-states? I can think of a few.

Singapore is a City-State.

And a powerful one at that.

>american and slav """educations"""

The world will be nothing but city states by 2035

that's a bold prediction. Want to explain your reasoning?

There's still tons of them but they are "encapsulated" by a larger nation for defense, immigration, and various other reasons.
Places like hong kong and monaco are probably the most well known. They are still city-states though, but in a modern world a "defence pact" like in civ5-style is more in the style of giving up a large portion of their sovereignty in exchange rather than a simple trade deal. But places like Monaco are still economically independent and are tax havens of course.

Say that to my face and not online fucker, see what happens

Dude shanghai, Monaco some cities in US flyover states are urban islands. They around

Checked, and also I remember it being in Africa. Barenstein universe?

When or if technology exceeds the power of electricity, or if automation becomes the norm, city states would make way more sense for ease of access.

London might secede from the UK over Brexit, so there's that.

Stop this meme with the star as a name.

You fucking freak.

Monaco
Singapore
Vatican City

Some of the richest and most developed states on the planet are cities.
Namely because they're so expensive to live in they prevent riffraff from having any power.