Thank you for the pointless history lesson, informing me of nothing I was not already aware of. You know perfectly well that I was referring to the way that the services and social functions of Catalonia are closely integrated with Spain, and trying to create a truly independent state would be a lot harder than the UK divorcing from the EU. This is as compared to Monaco, which whilst closely linked to France, has been independent and in control of it's own destiny since the Kingdom of Sardinia disolved in the mid 1800s, long before any of the modern technical and financial entanglements came into existence.