new countries

A thread in the same style as the Explain the AH Quote, the AH Title and Description Game and AH Cultural Descriptions threads (with a dash of the Form alternate/new ethnic groups of the world for added flavour). The 1st poster provides the name of a counterfactual nation and the second poster...

So, as the story goes, when the revolutionaries won their independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands they could not agree on what to name their new country. They eventually decided to go with the name “Belgium”, naming the nation after a fierce Celtic warrior-tribe that supposedly...