Enclave challenge

Create a scenario where a country is surrounded by a single neighbor. the weirder and more creative your scenario is the better.
 
After Charles II of Burgundy became King of France in 1523, the principality of Liège was a nominally independent country surrounded by the French possessions.
 
Isn't San Marino or Lesotho already pretty crazy?

Ah, yes, but they are contiguous. Something weirder would be a country that is a whole load of non-contiguous enclaves, all of which are surrounded by the same country.

I'm reminded of the Boer-enclave state (can't remember the name right now) in Male Rising, where the white-majority areas in the Transvaal separated from the remainder, though it still became a member of *South Africa.
 
Alright, how about this:

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta ends up in the territory of the Vatican. That makes it an enclave inside another enclave, both surrounded by just one other sovereign state.

Lets add another layer: Either Italian unification doesn't incorporate Naples, or Italy is broken up in WW2 (I like this option better). Either way, South Italy does not want North Italy to include Rome, for diplomatic reasons. It is decided that the eternal city will be an international city, and effectively becomes an independent city state that happens to be surrounded ny North Italy.

Combine that with my proposal in the first paragraph, and you have a state inside a state inside a state inside a state.
 
Ah, yes, but they are contiguous. Something weirder would be a country that is a whole load of non-contiguous enclaves, all of which are surrounded by the same country.
How about if France grants independence to its Indian territories, or if they declare independence during WWII. ,
 
Brunei and Timor Leste both pretty much meets the OPs request of multiple enclaves surrounded by other nations if it weren't for the ocean access both have.

Alternative would be if from 1948 India and Pakistan weren't dicks about the princely states that the UK promised each to have the right to decide to join Pakistan, India, or independence. Especially India simply didn't respect the choice SEVERAL made to be independent and simply invaded illegally instead. You could have had a patchwork of a few good sized enclaves (one the size of France even). Plus if this causes the international community to actually stop that region from seizing through military force colonial lands you could see Portuguese and French India each be a series of enclaves.

After the USSR broke up you could see the next level of Republics ( like Chechnya tried) go independent and the entire former Soviet Union could now be a patchwork of enclaves everywhere with Russian territory snaking around them most of them especially in the East.

South Africa and US "native reserves" which each nation claimed were sovereign (and the US still does) actually became independent in all aspects. For South Africa this would mean continued apartheid in the rest of SA I suppose.
 
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