“They have absolutely no infrastructure set up to govern themselves. None. No government, no buildings, no laws - no nothing.”
Given what is provided in the link below, the above statement is very ignorant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalitat_de_Catalunya
In addition to the autonomous actions of the regional government provided in the link above, is a regional region-wide tax agency that when into operation in May of this year, ahead of the latest “independence vote”.
Full disclosure: I have not given this information to take either a pro or con position on independence for Catalonia.
The information I posted was from a conversation with a local person after the ISIS truck guy ran into pedestrians. That Catalonia had been warned and had blown Madrid off. Your argument is with them.
I wonder if within FR we could have a semblance of discussion vs calling names. “Very ignorant’ - you could perhaps say, ‘Well according to Wikipedia” or something. Which I am not sure I believe is THE source of all good info. Just saying.