>>9391026Well, to merge they would have to share the border. When in fact they can't. God can't allow two countries with the slightly similar names be together on the map. That would be an evil deed for human kind after all. So God put these two countries on the different continents just to make it easier for you to tell which one's which.
Like: "Aha! That mordor'ish big-ass Island of death and horror on the edge of the civilized world is called Austria - the only place where Hitler or Satan might be ever born!"
Or: "ah! these cute European bürgers are Australians: they speak in a funny way and lost war to some retarded chickens. Nothing to see here."
Pretty much easy to remember, thanks God.