Beyond Nations

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조선민주주의인민공화국 (Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk) - 우린 함께 나아간다 (Ulin Hamkke Naaganda)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, is a country in East Asia that encompasses the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, bordering South Korea to the south along the Demilitarized Zone, and China and Russia to the north along the Amnok and Duman Rivers. The country's capital and largest city is Pyongyang. Other major cities include Nampo, Kaesong, and Rason. Like South Korea, North Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of Korea.

North Korea is constitutionally a socialist one-party state ruled by the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea. The government system is described as totalitarian by human rights organizations and governments of other countries.

The country's first head of state, Kim Il-sung, used the Korean War and the August Incident to eliminate his political opponents and consolidate his power. After his death, his descendants, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un, continued his tyranny and also adopted his personality cult. It is considered one of the most restrictive internationally recognized states of the present day. In various democracy scales, the country has consistently ranked among the lowest since measurements began. The government has been criticized worldwide for serious human rights violations, and the country is largely isolated internationally.

The Korean Peninsula has been inhabited by humans since the Lower Paleolithic period, and the first settlements date back to the Neolithic period. The first records of statehood appear in the 7th century BC. After the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea by Silla and Balhae, Korea was ruled by the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392) and the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897). The subsequent Empire of Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910. After the end of the Japanese occupation and Japan's surrender in World War II, Korea was divided into two occupation zones by the Soviet Union and the United States. Attempts at unification failed, and the division hardened along political lines. The Korean War (1950 to 1953) sealed the division of the Korean Peninsula (see Korean Conflict).

Lithuania - Mes Pakeliui

North Korea - Ulin Hamkke Naaganda

Republiki ya Kongó - Nazali Pembeni

Congo is a republic in Central Africa. Its capital and largest metropolitan area, located off the port city of Pointe-Noire, is Brazzaville; the country is also known as Congo-Brazzaville.

The country borders Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly the Belgian Congo or Zaire), the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and the Atlantic Ocean. The United Nations Development Programme classifies the Republic of the Congo as a country with medium human development.

Congo - Nazali Pembeni

Kameruun - E Ngel Laawol

Winner of the week: 🥇2

Cameroon is a country in Central Africa. It borders Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. The country has a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest. The largest cities are the capital, Yaoundé, and the port city of Douala.

Cameroon is governed by an authoritarian regime, and freedom of expression is severely restricted. Corruption and human rights violations are widespread, with torture and arbitrary arrests occurring regularly.

On January 1, 1960, French Cameroon gained independence following a referendum and the expiration of the UN mandate and renamed itself the Republic of Cameroon. In December 1960, the 15th United Nations General Assembly decided that the trust territories should also be granted independence. This could be achieved through full independence, free association with an already independent state, or integration into an independent state. The British trustees denied their trust territories the first option—full independence. The north of the British Mandate trust territory therefore voted in a referendum to join Nigeria, while the southern part opted for federation with the Republic of Cameroon. Independence and simultaneous annexation took place on October 1, 1961. The state thus formed was called the Federative Republic of Cameroon. This is the reason why two official languages, French and English, are now recognized in Cameroon.

Cameroon - E Ngel Laawol

Cameroon 🥇 - E Ngel Laawol

Mallorca - Camí De L'illa

Mallorca is a Spanish island in the western Mediterranean Sea, approximately 170 kilometers from the Spanish mainland near Barcelona.

Mallorca is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, consisting of the Gymnesian and Pitiusan islands, which form an autonomous community within Spain. The capital of the Balearic Islands, Palma, is located on Mallorca. The official languages ​​are Catalan and Spanish. Mallorca is also the largest Spanish island and the seventh-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Mallorca - Camí De L'illa

Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi - Yo'ldamiz Biz

Uzbekistan is a 448,978 km² landlocked country in Central Asia with 37 million inhabitants. It borders on Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south and Turkmenistan to the southwest. The capital and, with around 2.5 million inhabitants, the largest city of the former Soviet republic is Tashkent. Other important cities in the Islamic country are Samarkand and Bukhara on the historic Silk Road.

After the founding of the state, the country was ruled authoritarianly by Islom Karimov. After Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in 2016, many repressions were relaxed, but serious human rights violations still occur regularly.

Uzbekistan - Yo'ldamiz Biz

Taiwan - Women

Taiwan is an island nation in East Asia that is diplomatically recognized by only a few countries due to the One China Policy. Its territory consists of the main island of Taiwan (99%) and other smaller islands. This technologically advanced industrial nation, which produces well over half of all semiconductor components manufactured worldwide, has a population of approximately 23.5 million.

The Republic of China was proclaimed in Nanking on January 1, 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution on the Chinese mainland. The island of Taiwan, under Chinese rule from 1683 to 1895 and from 1895 to 1945 under the rule of the Japanese Empire, only returned to the Republic of China at the end of World War II. In 1949 – following the defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and the founding of the People's Republic of China on the mainland – the government, elites, and armed forces of the Republic of China withdrew to the island of Taiwan. There, the Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai-shek, established a one-party rule that lasted for several decades, maintaining a state of emergency. The second half of the 20th century was characterized by high economic growth; towards the end of the 1980s, the Kuomintang initiated a gradual democratization process. In several scales of democracy measurement, the Republic of China (Taiwan) is today, alongside Japan and South Korea, one of the most democratic states in Asia, comparable to Germany and Switzerland.

Even after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the government of the Republic of China initially represented the Chinese state at the United Nations and was a permanent member of the UN Security Council. As a result of the People's Republic's one-China policy, however, more and more states severed diplomatic relations with the Republic of China, which was forced to cede its UN membership to the People's Republic in 1971 with UN Resolution 2758. In 1979, the United States finally severed diplomatic relations after establishing official relations with the People's Republic (Taiwan Relations Act). Today, only a minority of the international community maintains formal diplomatic relations with the government in Taipei. The status of the Republic of China under international law is disputed and is the subject of the Taiwan conflict.

Taiwan - Women

Anguilla - We Pon Di Shoreline

Anguilla is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom (British Overseas Territory Anguilla). It is located in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. The area forms the main island of the same name, Anguilla, together with several small, uninhabited coral islands. The name was derived from the Italian word anguilla for “eel” and refers to the elongated shape of the main island. Snake Island was also used as an alternative name. The Arawak called the island Malliouhana, the “arrow-shaped sea serpent.”

Anguilla - We Pon Di Shoreline

Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas - Ta Hanao Gi Chalan

The Northern Mariana Islands, fully known as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, are a sub-territory of the Mariana Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan and north of Guam.

The area consists of 16 islands stretching over 500 kilometers, of which Saipan, Tinian, and Rota are the largest. The Marianas Trench Marine National Monument was designated there in 2009.

86 percent of the population speaks a language other than English in private, including Micronesian and Polynesian languages. Population growth is 2.8 percent per year. Due to the predominantly female migrant workers in the textile sector, the Northern Mariana Islands used to have the largest female-to-female ratio in the world at 1:0.77, but this is no longer the case following the collapse of the textile industry. The population has declined in recent years, to an estimated 55,000 in 2017.

Marianas - Ta Hanao Gi Chalan

دولة فلسطين (Daulat Filastīn) - على الطريق (Ealaa Altariq)

The State of Palestine (Arabic دولة فلسطين, DMG Daulat Filasṭīn) is a de facto state in the Near East. He claims the areas of the West Bank including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Palestine is recognized as a state by 146 of the 193 member states of the United Nations; The neighboring country Israel, the USA, the German-speaking countries and some other countries in the Western world do not do this, but maintain official relations with it.

In 1988, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) declared independence, which has since claimed all of the territory occupied by Israel since 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. From 1994 onwards, several agreements led to Israel's withdrawal and thus to limited independence for Palestine in the autonomous areas. In 2007, due to the Fatah-Hamas conflict, Palestine split into two territories: the West Bank, ruled by Fatah, with around three million inhabitants, and the Gaza Strip, ruled by the radical Islamic Hamas, with around two million inhabitants. Both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are governed by authoritarian rule. After 2006, no elections were held in either area. Freedom of the press and freedom of expression are severely restricted.

In 2024, the International Court of Justice declared in a legal opinion that Israel was occupying the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law. Israel must evacuate all Israeli settlers from the occupied territories and compensate for the damage caused by the occupation. The legal opinion is not binding.

Palestine - Ealaa Altariq

United States of America - Voices

Winner of the weeks: 🥇8, 🥇52, 🥇53*

The United States of America is a democratic, federal republic in North America and, with some islands, in Oceania. It consists of 50 states, the capital Washington, D.C., which is its own federal district, as well as five major territories and nine island territories.

The 48 contiguous states, the so-called Lower 48, together with Alaska, from which they are separated by Canadian territory, form the Continental United States. The state of Hawaii and some smaller outlying areas are located in the Pacific and Caribbean. The country has a very high geographical and climatic diversity with a large variety of animal and plant species.

The United States of America is the third largest country in the world both in terms of area and population. Its area of ​​9.83 million square kilometers is exceeded only by Russia and Canada and its population of more than 334 million inhabitants is exceeded only by India and China. The most populous city in the USA is New York City, a global metropolis and one of the most important cultural, media, economic, trade and financial centers in the world. Important metropolitan areas are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco, each with over 5 million inhabitants. The degree of urbanization is 83 percent. A well-known national myth is that the United States is one of the most multicultural countries in the world; However, empirical studies show that the United States performs only averagely in global comparisons of ethnic and cultural diversity.

On July 4, 1776, delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence of the United States and thus the founding of the USA. The American War of Independence, which ended with the recognition of independence in the Peace of Paris (1783), was the first successful war of independence against a European colonial power. The current constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787. 27 additional articles were added. The first ten amendments, collectively called the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and guarantee a variety of unalienable rights.

Driven by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, the United States expanded its territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific throughout the 19th century. This included the violent expulsion of indigenous Indian tribes, the acquisition of new territories, etc. in the Mexican-American War and the founding of new states. The American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the United States in 1865 and to the fact that it finally embarked on the path to becoming an industrial state. By the end of the 19th century, the United States was the preeminent power in the Americas, and its economy had become the largest of the time.

U. S. A. - Voices

U. S. A. 🥇🥇🥇 - Voices

Even as a small child I wanted to learn a musical instrument...

...since there was a music school in our small town where I grew up, but it was limited to the activities of the local musicians' band, the choice was rather limited... because piano, guitar or saxophone were not offered and that's why I decided me for the trumpet, which was not used for cast-technical reasons, so the FLÜGELHORN became my instrument...
In my youth I turned my back on music and was active in sports towards the end of my teenage years...


“I can do many things so intensively that perfection isn’t even necessary.”

Marianas - Ta Hanao Gi Chalan

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