For years, artists and comedians have painted make-believe scenarios of American states physically seceding the mainland. It seems like a silly thought: physically disconnecting a body of land that size would be an enormous and destructive undertaking, and the notion of such a state leaving the government seems irrelevant in today’s society.
Unfortunately, this will be an all too real predicament for the United Kingdom over the next several years. With the recent “Brexit” process underway, the quartet of nation-states will now have to deal with the massive undertaking of removing itself from the conglomerate of European nations, both governmentally and geographically.
Experts have debated how the UK plans to go about separating the country from the mainland, whether it would be easier to blast apart the land with trillions of tons of TNT, or instead to dig a giant moat in true English fashion. In any case, our team of artists have created a depiction of how Europe may look in ten or twenty years:
Absolutely incredible. We can see that the body of water that will separate the UK from Europe is expected to be positively massive, impossible for anybody to swim across except for maybe like 20 career swimmers. Officials are already debating what to name the new body of water, with such names as “Really Big Sea Lake” and “Channel McChannelface” gaining serious traction among politicians. The new channel is expected to obliterate the habitats of millions of flora and fauna, driving hundreds of protected species into extinction. Let’s hope that the citizens of the UK won’t end up regretting their decision to physically rip their country from the European mainland which it is definitely attached to today!
–Jacob Conrad, Staff Member