Montenegro. Small country in the Balkans, that after a century in bigger unions since WW1, became independent in 2006. Sometimes argued as a precedent for Scotland.
So has indy given its ordinary folks a fair life empowered over what happens to them, keeping it locally suitable? Not judging by this story of a rural community's seasonal grazing pasture nicked for international military use. www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/saving-a-critical-pastureland-in-montenegro/
Decided from the top "with no publicly available environmental, health, or economic impact evaluations, and without any substantial negotiations with the affected pastoral communities, or any apparent respect for their legal rights."
Because power corrupts the same in a union or in a separation.
