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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: 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.