Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
The government of the roman chatholic church however ( ie the vatican) is arguably (for some refuse to accept its status as a nation in and of itself) the only other canidate for the position of worlds oldest and predates everyone elses governments by a thousand plus years.
True, the Church has been around for quite some time, but the Vatican, or Vatican City as a government, has only been around since the 1930's, the land being given to the Church for their tacit approval of Mussolini's regime.