Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20121008012726/@comment-1895174-20121013055059

Regulus22 wrote:

Rassilon of Old wrote:

Regulus22 wrote: Well Cuba and New Zealand I consider to laregely to extensions of US and Australia. Cuba cause of how US is able to impose such massive restrictions on it and NZ well, realy just a cultural thing. Oh no, don't tell a New Zealander they're Aussie. New Zealand is definitely NOT a part of Australia, nor is it considered to be, legally, socially, or culturally. They're an extension of what people consider Australia (seriously a couple exchange students I knew though NZ was tasmania). Besides Australia is the continent the way I see it and the way it officially is. New Zealand and I'm fairly sure Papua New Guinea and all them islands are just subsidiaries of the Australian continent.

As far as an economic sphere of influence, it's really only "all them islands", as we saw when Samoa moved the International Date Line so it could be in the same day as Australia. But that's about it.

Also, we are REALLY off topic.