The following Statehood challenges are long shots. They are not expected to happen, but they still

The following Statehood challenges are long shots.  They are not expected to happen, but they still might.  They are presented here as very optimistic speculations that hopefully become true and will be assuredly fun to debate.  And do not think they are impossible.  When asked which countries were most and least likely to become communist, Karl Marx predicted the democratic USA would become communist and discounted the idea that Czarist Russia ever would.