To get things started, I'll pick Europe.
I've never thought of myself as a European (rather than British) and still don't, but over the last year (since i have had an internet connection) i have been able to read what other people from outside the EU think about it. The first thing that i noticed was that many see it as a single country with a single outlook on the world trying to compete with the USA. Maybe it's because i'm on the inside looking out, but it never entered my mind that there were Europeans with the desire to turn Europe into a superpower or at the very lest to make it into something that can have some political influence in the world. I thought that it was only for social and economics reasons that we had the EU, increase trade and the freedom to work and live anywhere inside of it, but some people are pushing for it to be more than that.
If the country's of Europe do manage to unite under one flag i think that it has all the necessary items needed to be the worlds financial superpower. Good social and political connections all over the world and very mixed economy. A large work force, some of which (western Europe) is as well educated as anywhere else in the world, plus a cheap and hard working work force in eastern Europe. Raw materials might be a problem but Europe is close to most other regions in the world that have those.
So which do you think ?