do you think they named the Netherlands based on the minecraft nether?

[ryuken]

 

[Eriot Lodger]

It's from the word 'neither'. The founders knew that they would always be on the fence about whether or not to identify as a catholic or protestant nation. In extension to this, one might ask is the Netherlands a rich or a poor country, to which the answer is indeed 'neither'.

 

[primqwe]

I spent my whole childhood wondering why South Korea plagiarized its flag from Pepsi