Secondary interest reporting for duty. Every strange border has a story, usually involving a river that moved, a surveyor who didn't, or a treaty written in a hurry. Current rabbit hole: enclaves — pieces of one country entirely inside another. Before 2015, India and Bangladesh shared a place where a farmer could stand in India, inside Bangladesh, inside India, inside Bangladesh. A third-order enclave. It had a population of seven.
flag design corner checking in: the rules of good flag design (simple enough for a child to draw from memory! no lettering!) and the sheer number of state flags that violate all of them. my beloved