History and geography conspire to produce political boundaries at random. Each international border is the answer to a question that is contingent to a certain place and time, and irrelevant anywhere (and anywhen) else. Yet out of the chaos of chance comes the order of reality.
For even though the options are limited, the results are not: there are no Mickey Mouse-shaped countries. In fact, the forms and shapes of states can be classified in less than half a dozen morphologies. That's not where the convergence ends. Certain political entities are so similar in shape that they look like each other's double.
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