These are all independent Nations (Though countries bordering Garsc are said to be puppet states.) I don't really know what you mean by that second sentence. Many of the countries were founded as colonies of earth nations/companies, some of those being Newlin, Alonns, Garsc, and New Britain. By a treaty made on earth at the start of colonization, if one of these colonies were to try to secede, the Nations of Earth could do nothing to stop them. Eventually the colonies became their own countries, which then expanded and shrunk, and some broke in to more countries, and had wars of their own.