[ WP ] Make up a country and convince me it 's real .

Textbooks across the globe, the very same that teach our children, tell us that there are 196 countries in the world. We, of course, know that's not true and that there are 201 countries that grace our fair planet. 
 One of those is Lhanar. 
 Nestled between Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar this is a country whose name the world has long since forgotten. 
 In 1946, fighting broke out between the people of India who occupied the area, and those who wanted the land for themselves. A bloody war was waged. 
 There were no whispers of this war - the rest of the world were too distracted by the devastation left by World War II to worry about a country that meant nothing to them. 
 For a whole year this land was fought over and many lives were lost. Eventually, on the 16th of November 1947, a time of peace began. 
 
 It was not until June 1953 that the area that formally belonged to India, became a country in its own right and the people who had settled there chose a name - Lhanar. It's meaning has been lost over time, though a legend exists that claims the man who lead the war shares his name with the country he helped to create. Books containing this information have of course been destroyed and so the legend is all that lives on. 
 The country is easily overlooked as major events are scarce - aside from a brief famine in the late 1950's ( due largely to a breakdown in trade from India ) the country is quiet and unremarkable. 
 I myself feel sorry for this tiny nation although perhaps it's best to keep it this way. Disturbing the peace would hurt the inhaibtants more than the feeling of being forgotten.
