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.
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.
We can make earth Heaven or Hell, and these two places have born witness two both. It is up to each to choose heaven.
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.
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.
Today, they are nations of Europe that remind us of her two extremes, from the West to the East.
Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan are united by banner of red an yellow, honoring our sun. They are union of Eurasia proper. Ancient connections formed when they were pulled into the orbits of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, but after the fall, they were able to breathe free.
It just so happens Morocco is the Far West and Bangladesh in the Far East are united in prayers that flow in opposite directions, in perfect Providential concord of their flags of a Yin/Yang, counter charge concord.
They are a reminder that Asia and Africa share similar yet different heavens.
United by Providence and happenstance, the cheery smell of cinnamon at Christmas transports everyone to the sacred tears of Sri Lanka, from Italy to India, these centers of civilization are light years a way in religious form, yet united under the lion with sword. They are separated at a perpetual divinely ordained impasse of love and compassion.
From Krishna to Christ, a chosen one was chosen to enrapture our civilization with love, charm, soulfulness, and friendship. From the Ocean of Mystics to the Sea of Middle Earth, Sri Lanka and Venice perpetually retain a sacred space on the heart of mankind.
Nauru and Curaçao are oceans away, yet know secret of the island way of life.
Just as Nauru is Polynesian proper of mixed East Asian and Aboriginal-Black, many on Curaçao are mixed "Polynesian" faux-proper of mixed European, African, and Native American.
It is matter of destiny, that matches lovers, jobs, the religious, and nations.
During the cold war by the gravity of the US and USSR they were drawn into opposite orbits. Eventually after the frost of the Cold War melted they become there very own.