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at patch of land on the western bank of the Danube river.
A small new country bordering Croatia and Serbia.
TestTube News viewers, we wanted to know…
How Powerful is Liberland?
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How Powerful is Liberland?
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How Powerful is Liberland?
Well, the micronation of Liberland was founded in April 2015 as a tax-less, unregulated,
libertarian utopia on a small piece of disputed territory.
So far, their assets consist entirely of a dilapidated house left over from the 80s,
a number of self-issued stamps, and a massive worldwide internet presence.
Although Liberland is small, it’s only the 3rd smallest country in the world.
It is roughly 16 times the size of the Vatican, and 2 and a half times the size of Monaco.
Liberland’s 2.7 square miles could potentially hold 400 Walmart Supercenters, 115 Louvre
Museums, or replace New York’s largest landfill.
Now, although Liberland has received literally hundreds of thousands of applications for
citizenship, few people actually populate the country.
As a matter of a fact, their President was arrested twice while trying to enter Liberland,
making its current permanent population zero.
Still, as a free country, it stands to reason that most, if not all of the 360,000 applicants
will be allowed in, making Liberland the most densely populated country in history.
At 133,000 residents per square mile, that’s more than two and a half times the density
of the current frontrunner.
Look out, China’s Autonomous Region of Macau (MA-cow).
But can Liberland's economy support such a significant potential population?
Although no GDP figures are yet available, their President has informed us that they’ve
received about $40,000 dollars in donations so far.
This makes Liberland the most severely impoverished country on earth.
Please write to the UN and petition your local government to send humanitarian aid to Liberland.
And don’t worry, they do take Bitcoin.
Of course, a nation is only as powerful as its diplomatic ties.
Without them, there’s nobody to come to your aid when a disaster strikes, an invading
army shows up, or a gust of wind knocks down your parliamentary building.
Luckily, they’re not all alone out there.
The one and only country to recognize their sovereignty and establish diplomatic relations
is the Kingdom of North Sudan.
However, it might be worth noting that the Kingdom of North Sudan is actually another
micronation, which is ruled by the iron fist of a seven-year-old American girl from Virginia.
Powerful allies, indeed.
Finally, considering that Liberland’s head of state was stopped from entering the country
by a few Croatian police officers, it’s unlikely Liberland has an effective defense
force.
In fact, they state that their only military weapon is quote “diplomacy”.
That ranks them somewhere around 200th in the world.
Still, they’re tied with about 15 other defenseless countries, including Liechtenstein
the world’s largest producer of false teeth.
So all in all, how powerful is Liberland?
Well, it is the third smallest, most impoverished, unprotected, tax-free land of drugs and guns.
But their political premise, which guarantees personal liberty, secularism, and a lack of
Nazi or Communists, makes Liberland… the single most ideologically powerful nation
on Earth since the Ancient Roman Empire.
Live and let live.
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