Aland & The Faroe Island - Aloft and Alone

 Micro Non-Nation states on their own private islands.  They are on the out rim of other nations and yet must make a choice to join another or remain in the twilight storm. 

 

Turkmenistan & Pakistan - Nations of the Middle West

 Just as their is the Middle East, there is the Middle West.  Islam was destined to root and bloom within these lands.  They are beyond the Arab and Persian.  They both had an age were Christian Empires would overrule their native people of the most powerful Empires; Russia for Turkmenistan and England for Pakistan.  

However they have broken free from their forlorn colonizers, yet have a true potential to maintain a friendship between Islam and Christianity, and bridges of memory between Russia and England.  From Queen Elizabeth to Peter the Great, upon the Glory of WWII, they share memories with the West and memories with the Traditional East, the Middle East.  Thus they deserve the term of being the true Middle West. 

    

Lebanon & Tahiti, Lands Consecrated by the Frenchman

 At opposite ends of the Earth, they are sisters quite literally underneath each other.  Dig down straight down from Lebanon you will French Polynesia.  

We can make earth Heaven or Hell, and these two places have born witness two both.  It is up to each to choose heaven.  

 

Hungary & Bulgaria - Major Nations on Europe Minor Across the Rift to Asia Minor

 Eastern Europe by geography, and unique slices of Europe challenge the trinity of Germanic, Slav, and Latin voices.  They are ancient arrivals who entered when the Roman Empire was in its heyday.  Along the Danube they have bore witness to changes, and carry an age that Western Europe is totally ignorant, when they for a time lived under Islamic Supremacy under the Ottoman Turks.  

After fall of the Last of Middle Age Empires, the Ottomans, they wickedly expressed their freedom.  However during The War of Endless Tears they joined in alliance with Nazi Germany, as the lesser point of Axis Powers that are often ignored; as Italy, Japan, and Germany get all the credit for being a part of the Axis.

 But in the aftermath of the Allied Victory, geography again and the powers that be saw that were pulled in the Soviet Orbit hard and fast.  But after the most hopeful key note in human history on 11/9 they were liberated by a gentle letting go and letting God. 

Today they life free and have a depth that no power in the East nor the West can truly understand.  Their unique sufferings political overcasts to the extreme edges of humanity has given them a secret knowing, and true appreciation for their own cultures.  

Yes, they are sisters but separated by parallel fates of time. 

 

  

Azerbaijan & Uzbekistan - Central Eurasia

 Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan are sisters of Central Asia.  Once upon a time they were drafted into the Soviet Empire.  But in a past life they were in Russian Empire.  Further back there were home to Khans and an essential core of the Great Mongol Empire.  Through the ages they are kept true to their culture and have taken their first steps into the modern world with radically different approaches.  

From the Caspian to the Aral Sea, they sit alone and often ignored by the greater world, yet are players who song is just beginning. 

 

Finland & Sweden

 Ancient cousins, in a similar home yet aliens to each others culture.  There are some similarities but they differ like the Irish to the English languages.  Nonetheless, they are united in faiths in different keys and chords that neither can understand to the other. 

  

Iceland & Norway

Sisters of the North, with a edge of lands in the Americas and New World.  They are similar on the outside but very different in the inside.  But this pair of Elsa and Anna have been separated for ages, leading to a rift in common familiarity in tongue.  However  their mostly long forgotten ancestors were one in the same family, not to long ago.