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This is site is gonna be western-centric so I'd not even bother with those countries:
So my answer is:
Hong Kong, Vietnam, Guangdong Province become one nation
Republic of Yue (粵共和國)
Historically we came from a common group of people... so... this make sense lol
A lot of Vietnamese words are similar to Cantonese.
So we just make this a dual-language nation of Cantonese + Vietnamese (plus we'd give protected status for minority languages/"dialects" and allow schools in their regions to use 50% of the time to use their language/"dialect" only, the other 50% they have to pick either Cantonese or Vietnamese as the main language, and also the other one become their sort of like "minor" language studies in college terms... so this de facto means the Northern part of this nation use Cantonese, Southern part use Vietnamese as the main one...
So someone running for president of the Republic of Yue is legally required to pass fluency test in both national languages to make sure people are united...
Oh fun fact: the 粵 Chinese character (as in 粵語/Cantonese) representing Guangzhou and Cantonese related words, and the 越 Chinese character in 越南 (Vietnam) are pronounced the exact same in both Cantonese and Mandarin.
Anyways... I'm gonna tag my favorite HKer on Lemmy @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
Hope you'd enjoy living in our Republic of Yue fantasy where Cantonese is a national language for once (can you imagine if Cantonese won the debate to become China's official language? 🥹)
/non-serious of course... but this would be a very funny country... imagine Cantopop with Vietnamese sprinkled inside? lolol