So what’s Portugal? Narnia?

And yet the US is member of the UN and OAS is it not?

England, Wales and Scotland had EU PR elections for 15 years, but England still rejected PR at referendum.

Neither Greenland nor Iceland are in the EU.

The corruption was a feature, not a bug. The founders of the US were not good dudes.

Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Primal Scream, Queen, The Jam, Status Quo, ABBA, Cliff Richard, Mando Diao, Manic Street Preachers, Take That, The Libertines….

According to the in-universe history, the railways on Sodor were first built to facilitate coastal naval batteries in WWI. So not far off.