On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
As for Free State Bavaria, I don't know the details, but if they are just as independent as the US states (separate laws and courts, separate taxes, separate incorporation statutes, the need to file as a foreign corporation anyway), then I don't know of any reason not to have a chapter there as well.
Bavaria is very well connected with the rest of Germany. This is the main reason why they don't need a separate chapter. Bavaria has its own Supreme Court, as well as they have a distinct conservative party from the rest of Germany (imagine California with something like "New Republican Party of California", which makes a coalition with Republican Party at the federal level; of course, without any office of RP in California).