Didn't you hear that the United States added 33 new states including Puerto Rico and Guuam. They annexed Mexico to make the border wall a shorter distance to maintain and create a domestic lithium production industry. The EU in Brussels gave into the demands to make Germany a State as a condition to not hurt the EU's credit as they default on all of their debt. All of the former UK except northern ireland are now also now states because the tories liked the environmental policy, trade policy, and border policies of the United States. Canada gave up and swallowed its pride and stopped pretending to not be part of the United States.