但事实上，虽然非联合国会员国家及民族组织 — — 包括中东的所谓亚述国或者加拿大的水牛河丘国在内 — — 依然只像是美国著名戏剧团体“马克思兄弟”所虚构的戏剧（有人甚至希望把由喜剧班子成员格兰切诺·马克思任首相的所谓“自由尼亚”也位列其中 ） ， 但如今已经有六个前会员国成功争取到了联合国资格，连已经独立但缺乏联合国承认的科索沃也将走上这条道路，可见在政治版图上，那些虚构的国家是很可能会摇身一变，成为真正国家的。
Indeed, though the UNPO, to which both belong – alongside Assyria and the Buffalo River Dene Nation – has a vaguely Marx Brothers’ air to it (one expects Freedonia, the mythical country of which Groucho Marx was prime minister, to be on the roster), six member states already have left it to join the UN, and Kosovo, now independent if lacking UN recognition, will eventually follow. Political maps are never carved in stone.