> trying to paint Europe as some kind of parochial backwater of medieval fiefdoms
no idea how you got "parochial backwater" from "microstate", it bothers you way more than it should
some of the most impressive, highly developed, secular, constitutional republics are microstates. whatever you associate the word with is not what I associate the word with.
no idea how you got "parochial backwater" from "microstate", it bothers you way more than it should
some of the most impressive, highly developed, secular, constitutional republics are microstates. whatever you associate the word with is not what I associate the word with.