Geography Now Opening Lines - April Fools Countries

"Hey everybody! Alright, this is gonna be an interesting one. Imagine a place that has existed for about 80 years but has never quite properly shown up on the map, because any land that it has, shifts. Nobody can be born a citizen. And even those living amongst you might be one of them. Much is still being revealed about [country] but we do know that this is one nation that has defied the odds to exist in a modern world as a recognized sovereign state. Welcome to the world's only known partially declassified nation."

"I just said "Welcome to Geography Now!" in this country's native language."

"In this world some countries form through war some through alliance some through marriage some through insurrection. And then you have some countries like this one, which was kind of like" "No Estonia come stay with us here. Don't leave." "No mom first the Danish then the Polish Lithuanian the Swedish the Russians Estonia is too much of a mess. I'm running away and finding a new home." "Once you leave you can never come back." "Hey can we come? Sure. And that's basically [country]."

"Just a full disclosure: I bit my tongue and it's very swollen, so I have like a little bit of a speech impediment, but the show must go on. Ow! So, anyway! I know you guys come to this channel to learn about countries of the world, but some breaking news! A new federative union country has been formed. And it is the only country to have lands based on almost every continent in the world. Yes even Antarctica. Yeah, that Antarctic Treaty had a little bit of a loophole."

"Tlaxqlaíqxíki Uqulqa'aíníqí'i ísîlaxúmbu a'laqulama'a iq'akuala'isalq'uul. Or to shorten it out..."

"Well, just when you thought the UN can't get more crowded, a small nation gains independence and changes its name at the last minute. We were going to cover this country later, but wow! As of 2021, [country's former name (I didn't know fake countries can change their name)] has just changed their name to [country], which means, we will have to nullify the alphabetical rule and cover this country. Welcome to the world's first and only floating country."

"You know, most countries in the world were established by a people group or conquest from another people group. But then every so often you get a country that was established by a group of people that got lost in the desert and then were promised land from an African prince if they could survive in a haunted cave that nobody wanted. Welcome to the world's only accidental underground country...by Buddhist monks...from Russia."

"You know, sometimes the best way to run a country is to let a 4-year-old girl be the prime minister as the attorney general awaits the national creed while wrapped up in purple linen. That's [country]."