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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: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:46AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:46AM (#426800) Journal

    Fuck that, I'm claiming Jupiter. You tiny little dwarf planets can kiss my shiny moons.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:54AM (#426886)

    I don't think we're sure that Jupiter even has a well-defined surface, so there may be a problem with that claim.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:45PM (#426948)

      He decided to pump up the volume and claimed the atmosphere instead.

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:55PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:55PM (#427191) Journal

    I bags Saturn. Titan is awash with enough hydrocarbons to keep America going for a fortnight.