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The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter

posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 14 2016, @06:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the revolutionary dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

One man is trying to create a utopia on what he says is unclaimed land between Serbia and Croatia. He's banned from setting foot in his would-be territory, but he has not given up.

The president stared across the water at his country, from which he is exiled.

We were in a boat on the Danube, only a few yards from the territory of Liberland - what he calls the "beloved country".

But we knew that if we tried to disembark, the Croatian river police would arrest us. Patriotism struggled with prudence, and lost.

Liberland is only 7 sq km (2.5 sq miles) of uninhabited marshland. But in the mind of Vit Jedlicka, its first president, it's the fulfilment of the libertarian dream - a land with no compulsory taxes, no gun control, with Bitcoins as currency.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @06:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @06:25PM (#426606)

    I thought it was Peterland?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 14 2016, @06:49PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday November 14 2016, @06:49PM (#426614) Journal

    The gay bar down by the airport already took the name.

    • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:58AM

      by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:58AM (#426772) Journal

      That's the one across from the Cockpit bar and lounge ?

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      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:24AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:24AM (#426782)

        Not a quote from the episode. Mod down -10 Lame.