kiribati

The big asset of Kiribati is their extensive EEZ which guarantees income from fishing or other activities (mining, drilling etc).

If only time zones worked that way, Kiribati would be the wealthiest country on earth.

I was baffled because the timezone was being listed as UTC+14, and that places like Kiribati crossed the date line.

Therefore I think it's a moot issue - it will be a long time (if ever) before Kiribati is gone.

If Kiribati decides to have a new law, I probably won't even ever hear about it.

Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.

I wonder if the fine folks of Kiribati will go about slaughtering civilians as well.

The coolest thing is to overlay Kiribati over the continental US.

Like, suddenly it turns out that Kiribati is a major electronics supplier to the US:) End result - US economy takes a hit, China takes a smaller hit.

I think they were from Kiribati or Samoa.

Possible timeline of events: * Greenland leaves the Danish Realm * Greenland becomes sovereign nation * Greenland enters Compact of Free Association with the United States (similar to Kiribati and Micronesia) - boom, best of all worlds for the USA.

The PBS article says that "The nation of Kiribati, made up of 33 tiny islands far out in the Pacific Ocean, is getting smaller".

Fun fact: in Gilbertese (the language of Kiribati), an "s" sound is written "ti".

The Order of Malta has no territories except some buildings and no "real" citizens and is semi recognized like a country, more by tradition than other things, with a big difference that Kiribati has citizens that should be relocated.

--- The parent stated that " Any government can get RCE on any OS with the change in their couch." That implies that Kiribati currently could easily buy RCE on for example hardened Linux or OpenBSD running the most sensitive infra in the world.

My mother has been to Kiribati, she saw first hand portions that have been lost to the sea.

Unless you live in Kiribati, there might be somewhere else in the world where tomorrow is already today!

While true it's potentially harder to immigrate to New Zealand unless you come from Kiribati, Tuvalu or Tonga which have an extra entry option.