India

India

India is a bizarre case. As a nation, it was a combination of dozens of independent and often enemy statelets, principalites, and sultanates. This antagonism lead to the split off of Pakistan and Bangladesh, and ongoing unrest in a number of other provinces, many of whom would be very happy to carve off from the large mother state. Check out that map above, they all want to be their own country. Sure, India is huge, and splitting it up probably wouldn’t kill it, but that many independent states? It might mean the end of India as an international powerhouse.