when we decided a couple weeks ago to head to the California coast through Northern Nevada
we did what any content creator would do we googled interesting things to do that's how
we discovered that in a small town just outside the state's capital one man has started his very
own country the Republic of Malaysia the Republic of Malaysia is a micronation claiming sovereignty
over 11.3 acres of land near Dayton Nevada the micronation has not yet received recognition from
any other member of states of the United Nations it was founded by Kevin Baugh he continues to pay
property taxes on the land to the story County the recognized local government although he
calls it foreign aid in today's video we'll be traveling to malacia to pay an official visit to
his Excellency and to try and figure out if this is in fact the world's smallest country [Music]
all right we're about half an hour away from Malaysia the purpose of this video
is kind of just to suss out whether this place is legit or not it sounds pretty
weird yeah when you go on the website it's all legitimate like it actually looks like
a proper country I emailed the president Kevin his Excellency everything he wrote
like it just seemed like a legitimate Country and this is an official visit we're going to
get our passport stamped but I still a little part of me is wondering if this is just one big
joke or if he actually is serious about wanting this to be a legitimate country foreign [Music]
we've just pulled into a little city called Dayton apparently this is where this country is
located this all just sounds so weird where are we going to another country in the middle of nowhere
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thank you [Music] Mossy and flag got the right address
we made it they're all we made it the tour is about to start I really
don't know what to expect let's go check it out
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you're tight [Music]
oh yeah
that's an important thing
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population 31 humans four dogs 35 currency for Laura based on chocolate chip cookie dough we're
gonna get some velora hello how are you guys good how are you good I'm Adrian the first lady nice
to meet you thank you lovely to meet you hi president nice to meet you first tour of the
season that's the early one because it's huge last year was really hot during this time so we tried
to go an hour earlier so we'll see how well our um tourists that show up today remember that it's 9am
about 200 folks come visit us and then during the week we've discovered with our little cool
camera we have there that uh we have people come almost every single day we'd rather them
not come in you know sometimes they do so we try to create more things for them to
do out here so that they stay right over there satisfied with driving all the way over [Music]
thank you
hey guys it's very International there's people from all over everywhere I wonder what the
neighbors think of this I did not expect this many people to be here this is insane within 10 minutes
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okay and welcome to the Republic of Malaysia as mentioned a moment ago you were in the United
States now you are in a foreign country how does it feel totally different huh palacia
is what's called a micronation which is a tiny self declared country our nation
was originally founded on 26 May of 1977. uh back then it was known as the Grand Republic
of boldstein I was the Prime Minister my best friend James was a king he has a republican yes
Welcome to our nation now before we go much further and you're going to hear a lot more
about malacia over the next hour and a half or so before we go much further we're going
to stamp some passports because that's what you do when you come to foreign countries
absolutely Australia here and there we go do you want Canada yep we want this one too yeah
okay oh I see it says because she's going with the shrink camera yeah and there we go enjoy
got the Customs yeah smoothly velocity of weather is always perfect it's always about 70 degrees it
only rains at night when it's not inconvenient however we're so close to the U.S border their
crappy weather blows in all the time after arriving at malacia and speaking with his
Excellency it started to become clear that it was more than just the most elaborate drawn out
hilarious dad joke of all time the sheer size of this micronation and all of the work that's been
put into it was actually pretty impressive and Kevin seems to have thought of almost everything
from the customs office to the General Store post office a jail salt mine water reserve and
even a space station melacia seemed to have everything a real country would need to have
get to go into the president's office it's pretty huge not quite everyone
when the tour gets to go in but mostly most people are [Music]
all right [Music] that's gonna go in the fridge
that's why I like it [Music] thank you
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no we did not drink all the alcohol that came from these bottles at one point we're going to
build a a bottle house which is basically like it sounds a house made out of bottles
very common in ghost towns and so forth like that got a couple rows in and decided that's gonna be
too much work got rid of the bottle house and we just recycled them into this bottle for us
which is conveniently at the beginning of the trans velocia Trail the first lady has some
well actually fishing lady has some brochure come on yeah you gotta pass out so what we're gonna do
is pass out some brochures here uh basically if you can share one one for family kind of thing
incredibly Mind by happy political prisoners
one of my favorite things is the dad that gets dressed on those things yeah
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the tour itself lasted almost two hours with Kevin stopping at every section to talk about
all the little details that were included and what they all represented there was a
backstory to almost everything however there was one common theme throughout the whole
tour everything in malasia seemed to have an element of Comedy which made us question why
did he start this country in the first place well his Excellency did admit that you need
to have a bit of satire when starting your own country mostly so that any neighboring Nation
won't come and shut you down using extreme force after listening to him speak throughout the tour
it started to become clear that he thoroughly enjoyed showing complete strangers what he had
spent years creating the nation of Malaysia has to be the most elaborate art piece in history I
couldn't help but feel as though starting the Republic of Malaysia and campaigning
to have it recognized as a Sovereign Nation was done in order to show others that sometimes the
little guy can win and just because others might not recognize what you're doing is legitimate
that doesn't mean you have to stop believing in it yourself thank you thank you thank you
all right back to the US
um I still don't know
it's about what is it for real or not I think it's real that was wild yeah like shocked [Music]