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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @06:48PM
Taking from others what they think is theirs usually only ends badly. Especially a nation state. There are many tracts of land out there like this. Basically only 'legally' not someones or ambiguous legally. But someone considers it theirs. In the days of decently accurate GPS these sorts of situations will pop up more and more. Even with GPS it is not always clear. As our continents shift around. Australia has that issue as it has moved nearly 1.5 meters since 1994. So that is about 7 meters every 100 years. Some surveys are wildly old and gaps like this appear. Or were already there and no one really cared. So the survey dudes put in markers all over the place to mark the relative locations. But not everywhere did this or the marker may have gone missing.
A guy I used to work with had something like this happen to him with a fence. His neighbor decided to build a fence right on the line. He did not do a new survey and ended up building the fence a about 5 inches into my coworkers yard as he was using an out of date survey. The fence had to be torn down and moved. As there is also a concept of taking land after a few years the new boundary would have been the fence.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 14 2016, @07:47PM
Was his neighbor a relative of Ariel Sharon?
On that topic (not quite off-topic), the existing US-Mexico barrier had to be build in many places pretty deep inside the US (can't build in the Rio Grande footprint), actually placing American farms, a golf course, and a few citizens on the Mexico side.
So those people are in US territory, but on the wrong side of the physical border, sometimes by a few miles. Not quite a sovereign state, but quite a geographical oddity.
I guess trump will need to learn from Sharon and get his wall built inside Mexico to avoid problems.