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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 points 15 minutes ago

TwatWaffle McDunceland

[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 3 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

Whatever the Cherokee word for "stolen land" is.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 11 minutes ago

Truly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 2 points 56 minutes ago

United States of Native America

Rename it to Mexico. Then the whole gulf of mexico situation is fixed.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Muskland. Quickly so we can start a fight.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Eagleland

I played far too much Earthbound.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As Amerigo is the Italianized version of the German 'Emmerich', is call it like that.

Bonus is that there is a very unassuming German border town called thusly.

[–] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

OK hear me out: It should be named after the first European explorer to discover it and popularize the European expansion: Christopher Columbus.

  • Like its namesake, the nation too is racist, cruel and genocidal. Even the Spanish Inquisition era Catholics were like, damn Christopher!
  • Like the largest exporter of cocaíne in South America, it too is full of drugs, and its elections are the plaything of big money cartels and foreign powers.
  • It was mostly settled by white people from England.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you your new nation: British Columbia.

[–] Tum@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Hank D. Hamburgers Electric Freedom Gun-Republic

~~Republuc~~ llc

[–] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

The Adjacent States of Denial

[–] Etterra 36 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Stolidus

  • It sounds strong and powerful
  • It's Latin, and therefore properly awesome.
  • It's definition is: foolish, absurd, dumb, forceless, powerless
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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 hours ago

United mcstatesface

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 12 points 7 hours ago

The Land of the Flee while you still can

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 hours ago

Oooh a contest to name the country, most votes wins!

I'll set up the 1-900 number, just $10 to submit your vote.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Serious answer: the Viking settlers named the land "Vinland" long before Columbus was even born. That name is of Germanic origin, same as the English language, and would be appropriate for settlers of Germanic origin (England, Germany, etc.)

Alternatively, a name in ~~the~~ a Native American language would be most appropriate given that they were the original inhabitants of the land.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

they were the original inhabitants of the land.

Nope. Third, apparently, and counting.

The pirates of yore were based on an old fraternity from the 1300s and before, that called this land - no lie - Merica.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

what in gods name are you blathering about?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A name in the Native American language

There is no single native American language. There are over 200 of them, and used to be around 300-400, in 57 different families and over two dozen completely isolated languages (which might not be, but it's hard to find out). And they'd likely be at the very least somewhat mutually culturally insensitive.

So that might be even more difficult than using English, which at least has the benefit of being popular now.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 3 hours ago

Vinland is Newfoundland, I'm afraid! It's not generally thought that the Norse made it as far south in the Americas as the modern day contiguous USA

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

Sounds a lot like Finland doesn't it? I believe if our name is on it then it's ours!

[–] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"OKLAHOMA", but in all caps because it's big now.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 50 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago

Hey now, I'm feeling attacked!

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[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Listen. I know you said no wrong answers but unfortunately due to the past few decades of the American Political system, pretty much anything is now effectively accurate. Even such things as:

  • The Divided States of America
  • McMilitary Industrial Complex
  • The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Republic
  • Red vs Blue
  • Gilded Ruins
  • AmeriKKKa
  • Walmartistan
  • Gunlandia
  • Yeehaw Reich
  • Methlehem
  • Debtlandia
  • Live, Laugh, Lawsuit
[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Trade names with the Gulf and become the United States of Mexico.

[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

That’s just Mexico’s actual name

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 19 points 10 hours ago

A not-insignificant amount of the USA was Mexico, at one time.

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 hours ago

South Canada

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago

Clown Country

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 32 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Given the religious fervor throughout its history, how about naming it after an ancient biblical region?

Transjordan?

Wait. Shit, that won't work, even Jordan's gone woke. Maybe something else in the region?

OH! How about Gilead!?

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago

Sodom. From the story of Sodom & Gommorah, but I would choose the name based on a passage from Ezekiel.

"This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Except Transjordan isn't biblical. It's the region of Palestine that became The Kingdom of Jordan. As opposed to Cisjordan, which is the region that became Israel and the present Palestine.

But I don't think we're allowed to say cis anymore. /s

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[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 hours ago

President Camacho would be a marked improvement.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

United States of Lee (after General Robert Lee)

New motto

All For Me and None For Thee

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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Dumbfuckistan

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago

united states of fuck you, i got mine.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 14 points 10 hours ago

Donald Trump’s Best, Biggest Country in the World, the Biggest, Juiciest Country there is, you know it, folks, No Illegals Allowed, No Fentanyl, All the Guns! And Covfefe!

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago

American States of Maga

And yes, it is infinitely recursive.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Whatever the natives decide on tbh. Turtle island is popular but applies to the continent not the country

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
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