[@The Spectre]

I'll have to go with just about everyone else on this matter: you'll need to drop the territories in Mexico or Colombia. Or if you really want to, find some manner of justification to take either beyond, "lol i just need more industrial resources". You'll need to work out some geopolitics to that effect as well to go about it. But for what I think of when I hear central America - agriculture - I don't necessarily see a power that can stand toe-to-toe with countries that hold industrial resources as Colombia and Mexico.

If you're of course afraid of an invasion or intervention by either power in the future, as would be rightly expected by the government, then it might perhaps be a good opportunity to be active in the international theater, but you'll also need to drop those claims still. In this case, I might suggest your focus moving ahead is to inter-twine your country's story with that of another and have diplomatic arcs under the pretense of finding allies in the Americas or abroad to protect your country from Mexico or Colombia. But to start off claiming parts of their land while they're not spoken for isn't a good foot to start on.

Hell from a writing perspective I'd argue it sets you up so independent of anyone for immediate needs you don't need to be active outside so you won't be so readily involved.

[@Apple]

Pretty sure [@Societas] has claim to Ireland too. So if you both want to be Ireland you'll need to work something out. I'm not entirely opposed to multi-player countries if that means more interesting stuff can be written. But the nation as a whole has been claimed.

[@Brithwyr][@jorcool]

As I'm sure I said one of the early intentions I have in this RP is to be soon involved in the Russian quagmire. You can be there, but from a military perspective I don't both will be lasting long since Siberia is so ungodly empty. From an ideological perspective, if one or both are pre-alligned communist then China'll probably end up avoiding you or both your statelets can be incorporated in the story involved. In either case if you plan on sticking around we'll probably have to put together a PM convo to work something out.