derrhalt said:i don't know but i do belive that the Papal state does'nt exist.
Did you check in every corner of the world? The papacy has a strange propensity toward moving to the Baltic, Africa, or other far-flung areas (even saw the Papal States with a colony in Canada once, although they still had their capital in Rome. But maybe had I played that game longer, the capital would have moved, making for one of the oddest scenarios I've ever seen- "Fine, fine, the Lord be with you, eh? Now pass me one of them donuts, yeh hoser."
Anyways, the papal states don't technically have to exist for the pope to exist, so long as the ruling nation still allows him to have religious authority- such as during the 19th-century Roman Republic, who overthrew the pope politically but left him in control religiously during their two-year tenure as one of the coolest nations in history.