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Situation when one country is able to perform her foreign and interior politics fully without control of any other country. Independent countries recognize one another.

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Have there been any countries that voted themselves out of existence?

American Samoa used to be an independent nation. In 1900 the chiefs got together and gave their country to the United States, an event celebrated every year as Flag Day. When I lived there and worked …
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