When the ayes lost the vote in Scotland’s bid for independence last September, it appeared to most of the world that the matter had been settled: The country’s three-centuries-old union with its United Kingdom neighbors would remain intact.

But the U.K. has promised a “devolution” of powers to Scotland’s Parliament—and with some Scots pushing for full authority over taxation, public expenditures and government regulations, details of the final power-sharing agreement are still very much up in the air.

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