Borders - Must they Be?

    I learned at UCLA (or perhaps re-learned) that the treaty of Westphalia of 1648 established sovereignty and thus we have the modern-day foundations of borders and limits of ownership as we know it. 

    Things have solidified since, with more countries becoming independent and covering their own grounds, sometimes stronger ones, like the United States, expanding and growing. Russia has ebbed and waned, as other former empires have come and gone. The Turks, the Persians, the Germans, the French, the British, the Austro-Hungarians, Spain, even Holland and Belgian, have had their attempts.

    Who is sovereign? What are the borders today? Who taxes whom? Who lives in power?

    The Jehovah's Witnesses believed that countries and secular control should not exist, that it should all belong to Jehovah. Many Christians, and Muslims, believe that God and His government should be the ultimate and sole rulers of us, His creations.

    Hmmm... China is different. The Hindus kind of have their state now.

    What of these borders?