At least our sister-city is Paris.

Well this is Jersey City so naturally our sister city belongs to a country known for their human rights violations - neat!

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/11/jersey-city-signs-sister-city-agreement-with-israels-youngest-city.html

Not quite

A sister city means absolutely nothing and it's entirely ceremonial. It's dumb they didn't do their research but it's really pointless.

Topical joke.

It's an entire fake country - the United States of Kailasa

Why did they take down all the sister city flags at Exchange Place?

>Newark officials apparently thought they were getting involved in a cultural and trade deal with one of India’s emerging independent Hindu nations

lmao this screams fake. an independent religious state inside an existing country? How dumb you have to be to fall for this?

Its not unheard of... The Russian Federation has many state's in it that function independently of the federal government in Moscow such as: the Jewish Autonomous Oblast that is completely autonomous of Russia but exists inside of it; the 22 ethnic minority republics that have their own constitutions, languages, and legislature (but are represented in foreign affairs by Russia); and four okrugs-they basically they exist within Russia but are basically self governing and have the right to leave Russia if they wanted (now would Russia allow it who knows). Plus, PR is basically an independent state within the borders of the US. Thus, its not unheard of to have independent states within a larger governmental body, especially in federations.