Well. They each have their own governments and languages so your joke doesnt really work here. We’re tearing ourselves apart within the same government and language. This is more like you made the US and Mexico the same country.

Belgium was created out of an agreement between Catholic France and Protestant Netherlands. The area that is Belgium now was in dispute for decades. Strangely a German Prince of Coburg was made King, Leopold I. The court/royal palace and legal system was conducted in French. A Vlaams individual could go trial and never really understand anything going on in court. Vlaams citizens were treated as less than.