What used to be Belgium

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https://cia.gov/cia//publications/factbook/geos/be.html

http://www.visitbelgium.com/

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/be.html

  THE evening news on state television opened with fuzzy pictures of what appeared to be Belgium's King Albert II and Queen Paola fleeing the country on a military plane as a clutch of monarchists waved Belgian flags outside the royal palace. Then there was video of trucks blocked at Belgium's new border.

Flanders, the report on Wednesday said, had proclaimed independence. Belgium, a fragile federal nation of 10 million people, was no more.
 

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/belgium-put-back-together-after-split/2006/12/15/1166162319915.html

The news flash came right after the evening news on Belgian state television Wednesday: the Flemish Parliament had voted for Flanders' secession from the Kingdom of Belgium. Over the next hour and a half, the trusted TV anchors fielded a spectacular special report: They cut to live footage from the Royal Palace, where an emotional crowd had gathered to protest for the survival of their country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked, NATO headquarters on red alert, and police controls thrown up along the border between Flemish-speaking and French-speaking regions. A parade of prominent politicians and public figures opined on the grave development, and there was even a report of julbilation among Catalans keen to separate their region from Spain.

And it was all fiction...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1570141,00.html