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

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 Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @02:06PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @02:06PM (#426954) Journal

    It reminds me of that character in Snow Crash who drove around on a motorcycle wired with a nuclear warhead. The warhead was connected to the guy's heart monitor, such that it would explode if his heart stopped beating or if the signal was interrupted. It made him a nation unto himself and nobody messed with him.

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