My challenge is that you (whoever you may be) manage to create a Netherlands in 2008 that exists out of basicly all the areas the Netherlands (sort of) claimed.
It should include all of the original Netherlands as in this link, so also including French, Hainaut, Flanders and Artois.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Provinces
It should also include all the area King William I claimed at the Vienna congres (option 3 at the link). So it sould also include the rhineland (up to the Moselle), Nassau and the duchy of Berg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands#Unification_under_King_William_I
And last it should include all the areas claimed by the Dutch after worldwar II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakker-Schut_Plan
The POD must be after the union of Utrecht in 1579. It must be an independent Netherlands, so it must not be part of the HRE, part of Germany, be in personal union with England, etc. Also it must be Dutch, so the major language must be Dutch (regional languages are allowed to exist, but they must have the status Frisian has now in the Netherlands, the national language must be Dutch). The people in this country must all feel Dutch, so noone should be wanting to join Germany, France, etc. And there should be no regions that wish to seceed.
For those people who wish to see a map I createted this abomination; the Netherlands I propose is within the black line. (If anyone can create a better one, please go ahead)
