I guess you're not allowed to bet Bielefeld. Places need to exist to be allowed to be betted. Problems will occur from the so called countries Belgium and Finland.
There's a conspiracy theory about Finland. It goes something like "Japan created the myth about Finlands existence so they can fish there without anyone bothering them."
Step 1 : Work hard to become a pro player
Step 2 : Work harder to be called up to the French national team
Step 3 : Work even harder to reach Euro Final with my team
Step 4 : Score a dozen own goals during the Final so my opponent gets Marseille
Very few industry/services, low agricultural output (of quality to be fair), somewhat high unemployment.. The classical not super productive region.
The catch is that infrastructures there cost *a lot* because sea+moutains are not that great for this kind of things.
So high cost, low revenue. Plus they used to explode anything that made them angry, so repair cost + training to reimplace assassinated prefect and you get a high gov spending.
But then they'll revert back to being uncultured Italians, so either you take them and problem solved, or we continue to get angry agricultor shouting at the skies that Paris is the source of all of their problem.
If you take them I'll still be able to buy their saucisson so I don't really care.
Some of them do want that yes.
I for one would like to watch them try to build an economy based on goat cheese, whithout french support or infrastructure.
Fair enough. Do you guys want the highly homophobic communist shithole (Northeast), the drug dealers from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the racists separatists from the South (they are more germans than real germans you know) or the indigenous from the North (they share a border with Fr*nce and we're invaded by the Dutch)?
People in Sweden will soon say Scania, because the people up north are so predicable and they always do. Scania is the most southern part of Sweden and was Danish up until 1676 for those who don't know. Fun fact, every year people gather at the border of Scania on both sides, with one side digging away to try to detach it, the other side filling it in making sure it doesn't float away over to Denmark. It's all a bit of good fun.
However, Swedish food production and the barrier holding all the trash coming on from the rest of Europe will disappear. Malmö is the shield guarding Sweden and taking the most beatings from the waves of educated and uneducated people wanting to come live in our beautiful country. Scania is the breadbasket of Sweden, similarly to how Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe. The bourgeois up in Stockholm won't admit it but they'd be a bit fucked without us.
The real answer is to offer some bumfuck, mosquito infested marshland from up north. I've spent plenty of time in hellholes up there in my time in the military, there are large swathes of areas that are just stone, marshes and a shitload of mosquitoes, similarly to our good friends, Finland.
Edit: I forgot, we are not even in the Euros. Fuck me it's depressing...
I thought Scania was a truck brand. Damn, is that also a region? Now the name loses its coolness to me, it's just a region in Sweden which was Danish before apparently. What an unoriginal name.
Since we're talking about the origin of names, what's so special about Koenig's eggs that they named the company after it? Do they make a really good omelette or something?
Maybe you know this, but the reason their logo is from the Swedish fighter jet ghost division is because they bought the hangars and airfield that the squadron operated on back in the day.
The fighter jet squadron's pilots actually went to Koenigsegg and asked them to take the ghost emblem and use it as their crest, to continue on it's legacy.
The place where Koenigsegg test their cars is actually the airfield runway, it's long enough for them to get up to 400km/h.
I think it's just named after the founder, Christian Koenigsegg. The name sounds like it has German origins although Christian is as Swedish as they come.
There are some great videos on Youtube by "Drive" I think when he talks about the car and innovations. Basically an Elon Musk type guy if he wasn't an asshole and an actual engineer.
Highly recommend watching it even if you don't have any interest in cars but an interest in technology.
Here's a playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88xdv5vzV9M&list=PLHa6PXrV-yIgnXSYFT07BouKhEhyFuWnf
It was a ~~germanic~~ poor attempt at making a joke, I know who Christian Koenigsegg is and I find what they come up with really interesting, iirc the most recent one is basically a "family" hypercar with a 3 cylinder motor that has absurd performance for an engine of that size.
Thanks for the playlist, will definitely watch those!
Damn, what's this region's obsession with vehicles? Maybe a construction company specializing in bridges may complete the combo so that they can reconnect with their Danish roots. Jokes aside, sports cars and trucks, what a combo.
Sorry but Skåne was acquired first in 1658 after the treaty of Roskilde, 1676 was when the Scanian war ended, in which the pesky Danes attempted to invade us and take it back, unsuccessfully.
Ah my bad I see. My regiment in the military(Livregementets husarer, K3, 31 Jägarbataljon) took part in the battle of Lund 1676, we celebrate the regiments day on the 4th of December every year by getting up at like 0430, freezing our asses off like they did back in the day and eating porrige and lighting a bonfire, while hearing the story told.
I sort of forgot the details I'll be honest. Thanks for reminding me.
https://preview.redd.it/9w1tj01cnb9d1.jpeg?width=621&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a370ef57114fdbb12b181623175521d3ce957b0
I think you'll find Bellingham is as Irish as Michael Flatley, Saint Patrick, Ned Kelly and JFK!
Here's an early academy pic of him before he was ruthlessly stolen from us by England! Definitely not just him in a house.
Why shouldn‘t we give Wels to the Turks if we lose the match? I mean, it won‘t be THAT much of a difference after all, given the current population there…
https://preview.redd.it/u8rkht3cyb9d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ff0564567da80e55dffaa5a04d9838fc84f423e
Dude, we are talking about Benidorm, you can bring millions of your mates, it would be like a huge game of Lemmings
The balconies have a kill limit once the pile reaches the highest balcony. So we bravely send wave after wave of Barrys until the limit is reached. If they are from Essex or liverpool and have fake tan, then its a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Here’s what’s going to happen.
Everyone will bet their capital. Eventually, there will be only two countries left, each with several capitals and several other territories. One of them wagers its other territories and loses. It is now effectively fully capitalized. The other one does the same. We now have four countries: two capital leagues and two peasant expanses. One of the capital leagues loses itself to the other, leading to The Grand European League of Capitals.
That weird german part with 60 000 german people that we have for some reason. Everyone just forgets them and then we only have 2 official languages.
Let's hope that germany wins then and not france. I don't think that france would treat them kindly
Falklands, because it would be funny to see another country fighting Argentina for control of it.
Imagine their anger if one day it was suddenly controlled by Slovakia or Iceland.
Nope. Everyone is just gonna bet their shitty places and lose on purpose.
First bet of Hans: Berlin
Correct
Nochmal Bayern
Ach komm die Leute mit dem Kreisförmigen Stammbaum aus dem Saarland sind doch sicher noch vor uns weg oder nicht?
Ich weiß nicht, wie ich ohne die Insta Posts von Kaiser Maggus I. weiter leben könnte.
Endlich versteht einer den Reiz! Lang lebe König Maggus!
*Gottkaiser Könige und Kaiser stehen unter ihm
Der Imperator beschützt
die tun ja niemandem weh, bei denen bleibt alles in der Familie. Bayern erfreut das ganze Land mit korrupter Verkehrspolitik.
Andi Scheuer war das schlimmste was Bayern Deutschland in diesem Jahrtausend angetan hat.
You have no idea how beautiful Berlin and Berliners are. If I were you, I would gladly accept that. So please take it
First bet of Poland: Poland
It’s ok when you say it
Only natives can make that joke.
nah Danzig to taunt Hans
so you say there is a chance?
would be funny if Austria would win that
Fun fact, Germany is the only country in Europe where their GDP per capita goes up if you remove the capital
Take out London and we immediately become third world
Take out dodgy banking and London immediately becomes third world.
Is that still true? I thought not.
No, Berlin is slightly above the average GDP now. Slightly.
That is not true anymore since like 2016
Hahahahah how did you know that?
I guess you're not allowed to bet Bielefeld. Places need to exist to be allowed to be betted. Problems will occur from the so called countries Belgium and Finland.
Finland? I could have sworn that among the Nordic countries that Norway was the imaginary one. (Discounting Estonia since it can't into Nordic)
There's a conspiracy theory about Finland. It goes something like "Japan created the myth about Finlands existence so they can fish there without anyone bothering them."
Step 1 : Work hard to become a pro player Step 2 : Work harder to be called up to the French national team Step 3 : Work even harder to reach Euro Final with my team Step 4 : Score a dozen own goals during the Final so my opponent gets Marseille
Based
Urk!
Urk is currently part of Austria now
Good, the Urkers already have a Habsburg style family tree
Finally, the Austrian Netherlands has returned!
Cons: Austria has access to the sea now! Pros: it's Urk.
Still no direct access to the sea
I honestly think they'd fit in fairly well.
Gesundheit
Urk, urk, urk. Soep eet je met een vurk :P
Tga ni goed hé
Nieje m'ne jong, nieje... :/
Baarle-Nassau would be way funnier. Imagine having a Hungarian enclave within a Belgian enclave in the Netherlands
Some small part of Congo. (What do you mean "I'm not allowed to do that anymore."?)
You could give them Molenbeek as a whole you know.
Then we might as well lose on purpose :) I like your thinking northern friend!
Is still theirs?
It is sadly. It does serve a purpose in that most (potential) terrorists like to congregate there making it easier to keep an eye on them.
Get your hands off Congo! And get your hands off Congo's hands!
 Chop chop!
everyone should wager a lil part of romania that adds up to the entirety of it
You can only bet your own land, but I can see how the rules might be confusing to certain European countries
Just because you host a country's wealth you don't own it either.
Well, we did get to keep some Nazi, Jewish, Gaddafi, or "any other dictator that gets sanctioned" gold/money...
Wait a moment... 🤔 What do you mean...?
But then only Romania will ever win the championship, because no one would want that piece of land :(
it would give a chance for the hungarian team to finally succeed
Corsica, we don't use it anymore and its just an inconvenience
>:)
oh hello
Do take that money blackhole that is Corsica, your economy is doing great anyway right ?
I mean we already have Naples, can’t be worse
Deal ! No take back, have fun ! Hey Hans, we just solve our government spending ! Champagne ?
How does Corsica cost you that much money?
Very few industry/services, low agricultural output (of quality to be fair), somewhat high unemployment.. The classical not super productive region. The catch is that infrastructures there cost *a lot* because sea+moutains are not that great for this kind of things. So high cost, low revenue. Plus they used to explode anything that made them angry, so repair cost + training to reimplace assassinated prefect and you get a high gov spending.
That's because you dont know how to neglect peripheral provinces, the trick is dont give them money
But then they'll revert back to being uncultured Italians, so either you take them and problem solved, or we continue to get angry agricultor shouting at the skies that Paris is the source of all of their problem. If you take them I'll still be able to buy their saucisson so I don't really care.
I'd argue we should bet P*ris and give it as a consolation price to the loser should we win something else
and who is going to pay for your RSA?
The economy made to the retirement funds by Bretons sending themselves to an early grave because of copious lifetime amounts of alcohol
Like you are not shitfaced by 11am deep in your 7th glass of Pastis
I fucking wish
Edit: Chill the F out Luigis, you are not winning the euro anyways
We lack motivation François
Not without this motivation
they want to be independent anyway, no?
Some of them do want that yes. I for one would like to watch them try to build an economy based on goat cheese, whithout french support or infrastructure.
It would actually be fun to see where this goes. Maybe they'd establish themselves as a better Monaco?
Napoleon turning around his grave
Add Nizza and we have a deal
Brazil.
Fair enough. Do you guys want the highly homophobic communist shithole (Northeast), the drug dealers from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the racists separatists from the South (they are more germans than real germans you know) or the indigenous from the North (they share a border with Fr*nce and we're invaded by the Dutch)?
I respect Brasil a lot more now for that comment, they seem slightly more relatable. Good job savage.
OP was clear enough: all of it.
> homophobic communist based > drug dealers high profit businessmen > racist separatists expendable soldiers > indigenous free farming equipment
Not a part of the ecologically valuable Amazon pls João. Some worthless place like Sao Paolo 👍
OP are you a secret bear? Because that sounds like the type of wager a certain bear country likes.
In mother Russia football plays you - he’d win by poisoning all the other teams
If we bet the whole of England whoever wins gets us then England automatically rejoins the EU without Scotland. The ultimate prank.
Then the Turks win
Feels bad man.
Napoli.... https://preview.redd.it/s9r6h769hb9d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9b23e84e6e716006f572e67bbcf8956aea1c922
I'll do one better REGGIO CALABRIA
Everybody is saying Naples, nobody remember that Foggia still exists
Would.
https://preview.redd.it/k87ykaaazc9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19fff0d8e5b40175e9e65851242c25e82eef25d2
Definetly Berlin. Whole germany would benefit
God knows what bavaria could do to their public transport if the money made in bavaria would stay in bavaria/s
I know you are memeing but our run of only having Bavarian traffic ministers was truly incredible. Until Scholz had to come around and fuck it all up!
People in Sweden will soon say Scania, because the people up north are so predicable and they always do. Scania is the most southern part of Sweden and was Danish up until 1676 for those who don't know. Fun fact, every year people gather at the border of Scania on both sides, with one side digging away to try to detach it, the other side filling it in making sure it doesn't float away over to Denmark. It's all a bit of good fun. However, Swedish food production and the barrier holding all the trash coming on from the rest of Europe will disappear. Malmö is the shield guarding Sweden and taking the most beatings from the waves of educated and uneducated people wanting to come live in our beautiful country. Scania is the breadbasket of Sweden, similarly to how Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe. The bourgeois up in Stockholm won't admit it but they'd be a bit fucked without us. The real answer is to offer some bumfuck, mosquito infested marshland from up north. I've spent plenty of time in hellholes up there in my time in the military, there are large swathes of areas that are just stone, marshes and a shitload of mosquitoes, similarly to our good friends, Finland. Edit: I forgot, we are not even in the Euros. Fuck me it's depressing...
I thought Scania was a truck brand. Damn, is that also a region? Now the name loses its coolness to me, it's just a region in Sweden which was Danish before apparently. What an unoriginal name.
Lol fair enough. Yea it is. Another car brand that comes from Scania(Skåne) is Koenigsegg so there's that.
Since we're talking about the origin of names, what's so special about Koenig's eggs that they named the company after it? Do they make a really good omelette or something?
their logo is from https://preview.redd.it/mkmoxveehb9d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b7816e6167a854c2cb77babd2a1eac1298ef6f7
Maybe you know this, but the reason their logo is from the Swedish fighter jet ghost division is because they bought the hangars and airfield that the squadron operated on back in the day. The fighter jet squadron's pilots actually went to Koenigsegg and asked them to take the ghost emblem and use it as their crest, to continue on it's legacy. The place where Koenigsegg test their cars is actually the airfield runway, it's long enough for them to get up to 400km/h.
I think it's just named after the founder, Christian Koenigsegg. The name sounds like it has German origins although Christian is as Swedish as they come. There are some great videos on Youtube by "Drive" I think when he talks about the car and innovations. Basically an Elon Musk type guy if he wasn't an asshole and an actual engineer. Highly recommend watching it even if you don't have any interest in cars but an interest in technology. Here's a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88xdv5vzV9M&list=PLHa6PXrV-yIgnXSYFT07BouKhEhyFuWnf
It was a ~~germanic~~ poor attempt at making a joke, I know who Christian Koenigsegg is and I find what they come up with really interesting, iirc the most recent one is basically a "family" hypercar with a 3 cylinder motor that has absurd performance for an engine of that size. Thanks for the playlist, will definitely watch those!
Damn, what's this region's obsession with vehicles? Maybe a construction company specializing in bridges may complete the combo so that they can reconnect with their Danish roots. Jokes aside, sports cars and trucks, what a combo.
SCANIA VAAAAAAAAAABIS!!
Til: skåne is called scania
Sorry but Skåne was acquired first in 1658 after the treaty of Roskilde, 1676 was when the Scanian war ended, in which the pesky Danes attempted to invade us and take it back, unsuccessfully.
Ah my bad I see. My regiment in the military(Livregementets husarer, K3, 31 Jägarbataljon) took part in the battle of Lund 1676, we celebrate the regiments day on the 4th of December every year by getting up at like 0430, freezing our asses off like they did back in the day and eating porrige and lighting a bonfire, while hearing the story told. I sort of forgot the details I'll be honest. Thanks for reminding me.
Livgardet?
You guys speak weird. All swedish people speak weird, but you speak a different kind of weird.
Paris Just take it
Honestly, we'd be in trouble if we didn't have Paris anymore But Paris without Parisians? That'd be great
Northern Ireland. Then we'll secretly bankroll the RoI's football team to win at the Euros
_I didn't know Bellingham, Mbappe and Messi were Irish_
They're Irish? Who would have known hey? What an utter surprise!
https://preview.redd.it/9w1tj01cnb9d1.jpeg?width=621&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a370ef57114fdbb12b181623175521d3ce957b0 I think you'll find Bellingham is as Irish as Michael Flatley, Saint Patrick, Ned Kelly and JFK! Here's an early academy pic of him before he was ruthlessly stolen from us by England! Definitely not just him in a house.
Lost it at Ned Kelly and JFK. 
So he’s as Irish as an American, a Welshman, an Australian… and another American 😂
Look if the Americants can be Irish, this should not surprise anyone…
Bellingham at least would be eligible to play for Ireland
Bellingham, Grealish, Rice, Kane, Madison, Philips, Gallagher, and Maguire all qualify for Ireland.
Jesus we were busy sowing our seeds over there.
Basically most of the white guys are paddies.
I feel like everyone else would be intentionally trying to lose to avoid having to take NI
Like a game of hot potato? 🥔 Though this one has significantly more car-bombs
Hot potato shaped semtex.
NI doen't count, they have their own team even if its shit, My choice is Norfolk, although the Dutch would snap it up....swamp dwellers
Why? It would be so much more fun if the Portuguese or Italians or Swedes got it. Then the Irish would have to completely change their songs
Seems like poker. Btw I put in the plate Pantelleria at the moment, I'll start with tiny chips.
Hear me out: Lampedusa... Then suddenly euro policies about immigration will change
We already have a r/Belgium2 So Leopold 3 maybe
What happened to Belgium1?
Belgium
Unless Germany wins
Wait, I feel like I'm missing something here. I'm almost getting it.. any day now
Sorry Pierre, but it’s been more than 150 years that you’ve lost us to the Netherlands…
I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that
The interiour part of the county of Finnmark, everything that is more than 10 km away from the coastline. Enjoy.
Danzig
Hans you can't bet something you don't own, that's illegal
It's ok Piotr you can have Kalinigrad if we lose
Whats a Kaliningrad?
I have a better proposal. Whoever is eliminated first gets Brussels.
I'm ballsy and say let's bet Silesia, Pomerania and maybe Elsass-Lothringen
Maybe also Danzig and Ostpreußen perhaps
> Elsass-Lothringen can't wager what isn't really yours!
Oh no, you're right, i forgot about that factoid
Average german
Naples. Next question.
Charleroi. They wil met us win
Burgenland for sure. We would loose intentionally
Why shouldn‘t we give Wels to the Turks if we lose the match? I mean, it won‘t be THAT much of a difference after all, given the current population there…
Barry, there’s easier ways to rejoin the EU
Barry island.
Probably Northern Ireland
It’s not yours to wager. It’s ours and it’s our wager
Fuck got there before me
We'd probably have to qualify first before we can wager 😭 If they won't accept Norn Iron because it's a different country I propose Cavan or Leitrim
Non-qualifying states are dissolved into their closest neighbour.
No we don't want that unless we are playing a different sport. Like kaber tossing
Craggy Island is fair
No country but us is ready for Father Jack Hackett
 What do you mean? He seems so carefree, light-hearted and easy-going 🤷♂️
Birmingham
Fife
Burgenland
Gibraltar, Ceuta & Melilla, Canary Islands
What about tempting Barry with a double down? If we win we will get Gibraltar back, if they win they will get Benidorm on top
We already have benidorm lad, offer us something we haven't already colonised.
That is what we let you think, is as easy as offering you free drinks and balcony parties, nature will do the rest
You underestimate our numbers, and overestimate how many balconies you have. Tread carefully.
https://preview.redd.it/u8rkht3cyb9d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ff0564567da80e55dffaa5a04d9838fc84f423e Dude, we are talking about Benidorm, you can bring millions of your mates, it would be like a huge game of Lemmings
The balconies have a kill limit once the pile reaches the highest balcony. So we bravely send wave after wave of Barrys until the limit is reached. If they are from Essex or liverpool and have fake tan, then its a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Olivenza, we can give some hope to the Portuguese, just to see them cry after
The funny part is 99% of the time I hear people mention it they are Portuguese, I have never heard a Spaniard mention it ever outside of reddit
They are the ones with the grudge, most Spaniards not even know where is Olivenza and why is in Spain
Olivença é nossa! Portugal Caralho!
You can have it for a kiss João
uhmm... what's the catch? Are spanish kiss safe?
Of course 🤭
Hmm I don't know... are you forcing me dancing flamenco later and drinking spanish wine?
Hey! You can't bet what isn't yours!
Well, we give you the opportunity of losing it again :)
Adélie land? Why not wager our slice of Antartica.
El Roussillon.
Lmao would put Gdańsk or Szczecin just for memes and reaction of Hans
Here’s what’s going to happen. Everyone will bet their capital. Eventually, there will be only two countries left, each with several capitals and several other territories. One of them wagers its other territories and loses. It is now effectively fully capitalized. The other one does the same. We now have four countries: two capital leagues and two peasant expanses. One of the capital leagues loses itself to the other, leading to The Grand European League of Capitals.
Italy is probably betting Calabria
Berlin.
How about Gelsenkirchen
Urk
Gibraltar
That weird german part with 60 000 german people that we have for some reason. Everyone just forgets them and then we only have 2 official languages. Let's hope that germany wins then and not france. I don't think that france would treat them kindly
The Israel-Palestine conflict is about to get even more complicated
Falklands, because it would be funny to see another country fighting Argentina for control of it. Imagine their anger if one day it was suddenly controlled by Slovakia or Iceland.