Melvin Loh said:Guys, what about if there's a stronger more influential Northern League in the 1970s, which actually facilitates the secession of northern Italy from the remainder of the peninsula ? Maybe this northern Italian entity also fragments into city-states, so you have separate geopolitical entities in the Italian Alps of Venice, Turin, Genoa, etc ?
BTW, couldn't you argue that OTL the Vatican and San Marino effectively remain Italian city-states to this day ?