In this world some countries form through war some through alliance some through marriage some through insurrection
And then you have some countries like this one, which was kind of like no Estonia come stay with us here
Don't leave no mom first the Danish then the Polish Lithuanian the Swedish the Russians Estonia is too much of a mess
I'm running away and finding a new home once you leave you can never come back
Hey, can we come sure and that's basically patch. Amber -
Everyone I'm your host barbs
we've covered hybrid countries before
You know Belgium being French and Dutch
Cyprus being greek turkish and so on or then you get to this place
a triple hybrid formed by one of the most marginalised groups in Europe the
Baltics toss in some African and Polynesian influence and bam. You got patch. Amber - the world's most unexpected smallest conjoin Empire. Let's begin
Patch amber - has a story unlike any other because it started out as like a group of Baltic Runaways that turned
Castaways turned sovereign breakaways and here are the ways you can find their territories
first of all
The country is made up of parts that are scattered on three multiple continents three oceanic territories and to mainland
exclaves patch island in the mid-atlantic where the largest city Arsenal square can be found as well as the largest Airport Arsenal Square International
However, the second island amber island off the coast of Tanzania is where the capital and second largest city
Jacobian can be found as well as the first exclave called Madame Angola
Surrounded by Tanzania's Linda province the last island an atoll known as - Islands with the town of mokuba
Just below the Cook Islands made up of one major island with other smaller sand Bank Lagoon Islands around it a little further up north
They have a dispute with French Polynesia over the Ruru - and to Thai islands
Otherwise the last and final territory unit lies just off the coast of the Black Sea a peninsular patch called zakuska
Surrounded by this National Park in Bulgaria's Bocas peninsula. It has a port that is leased out to patch
amber - in the town of balchik until the year 2080 9 as they signed a 99 year lease in
1990 with five main units all located in four different regions across the planet
This makes them the smallest nation with the largest range of time zones on any given day
The Sun will be shining somewhere on the Confederation. Now. Here's where things get a little interesting
how on earth did these random areas across four separate regions become one country basically if you want the shortest
explanation in the mid 18th century the Baltic nations were experiencing a nationalistic enlightenment period during the Russian Empire years finally in
1873 people from each Baltic state started a small revolution
Gathering anyone that would follow them to migrate out of the Baltics to anywhere that would accept them
After months of traveling south with no luck of finding anywhere that would take them in
They finally came across the town of Baltic in Bulgaria
the Bulgarians agreed that they could have a small plot of land to
Temporarily live and work in with the intent that they would build ships and sail for new lands off the Black Sea
Eventually some of the people never left and just kind of made that plot their home
nonetheless many including the original three founders kept their word built ships and sailed out of
Baltic through the Bosphorus Strait through the newly opened Suez Canal across the eastern Horn of Africa where their ship got lodged into a rock
And the adventurers were forced to settle on an uninhabited newly discovered island from there
They decided to call it new ball Tia after their homeland later
It would be changed to Amber soon their population grew they expanded to the mainland on the African continent where they bought a small new
exclave from the diminishing German Empire
They named it after their first daughter Ingo Leah from there the country made more money through trade mostly with the swahili z-- and arabs
and european powers some people from the
Lithuanian influence community wanted to expand and sailed west to the atlantic discovered a new island named patch
whereas some from the estonian influence community did likewise and went way far out to Polynesia and discover a new island and named it -
From there each new colony became very autonomous to the point where they became
Constituent nations all joined in a Confederated state as in they have their own constitutions governments and even currencies
However, they still stick together with historical ties and the new constructed language that they spoke and that's kind of how it happened
Otherwise some notable spots to check out in case if you visit might include places like George's square
caldera bridge of patch Island the Polo stadium Amber's monkfish
Grotto and Artem Monument the madam Ingo Leah Library and Museum the Dashwood Works market moku ball culture center and the art room
Memorial and that's just about it. Now. What are the islands like in terms of nature? Well, we'll find out in
Now patch ember - is made up of many different islands and enclaves
but they're actually very
Distinct and different from each other physically for one patch island is a volcanic formed island on the southern part of the mid-atlantic
Ridge fault line which gives them a cooler wetter biosphere
The island has one main volcano patch peak with underwater vents that heat up the coast causing the beaches to bubble and stay warm
It's relatively green with shrubbery grasses and they are known for producing root vegetables
Like purple potatoes red turnips and black radish. In fact, there are one of the largest exporters of black radish to France
Otherwise thousands of miles away on amber island and the madam in Golia exclave
Amber is a breakaway Flattr island that used to be connected to the mainland through an isthmus
The climate is drier and warmer with Savannah like scenery here
You can find the largest lake lake in Col as well as the longest river the bamboo rule
This is kind of like the fruit harvesting capital with numerous indigenous types like the snake fruit the banana passionfruit
The weird monster or fruit and the black sapote fruit which grows here and it tastes like chocolate pudding seriously look it up
It's a real fruit up north and south cuzco
Of course their land is the exact same as bulgaria as this is kind of like the grain and forest state of the country it
Harvests mostly rye and oats with a small lumber industry that ships to neighboring countries and finally all the way across the world
thousands of miles away
We have - island a lagoon at toll caused by a collapsed dormant volcano with thin sand bank islands flanking the exterior with a lush
interior main island here
Of course
They produce coconuts copra and act mainly as the gateway to the Pacific as a huge stopover hub for trans-pacific
travel many unique endemic animals can also be found on the island - such as the horns albatross the
Three-legged salamander the national animal the purple penguin and finally the iguana on - which spits out a tar-like substance
In self-defense and locals have discovered that it's actually flammable
Otherwise food on patch you find a unique
Lithuanian Islander influenced style with dishes like purple Zeppelin's beetroot soup and sea bass in amber
You have a Latvian
African fusion with things like smoked fish and beets with monster pancakes and mushrooms as well as dill drink with - Island
Of course you find the majority
Estonians and they fused a Polynesian style to their traditional cuisine you find things like coconut semla smoked yellowfin
Tuna and jackfruit bread and turtle egg and smoked sprat open-faced sandwiches
now if the food tells you a story and how the people of this country are just wait till you see
the next part is the
First of all, before we get into this the people of this country are called amber in so all people prefer to be called by
Their region followed by amber in so for example a person from patch would be patch
Amber in amber ins from amber are just called amber confusing but got it good know. Whatever
Anyway, the country has about 6.5 million people all together and it is the world's smallest remaining Empire
The majority of the country is made up of what most residents classify as neo Balt which is something like a mixture between all Baltic
people's Estonian Latvian and Lithuanian
However, generally they can be divided into three sister categories the - Estonia bulk group at about 31% a patch little bulk group at around
29% and the amber lat of alt group at around 28% The remaining group is mostly made up of East African bon twos and
Polynesians with a few other Asians tossed in because their domain is so widely dispersed the country actually
adopts regional currencies per territory patch uses the US dollar amber and Madam Angola
I used the Tanzanian shillings a Cusco uses the euro and - uses the French Polynesian thrunk
Patch uses the types aap American style plug outlets madam ago Lea and amber used types G and M
the Cusco uses C and F and - uses AI
Well, the language of the country is a somewhat Creole mixture of Estonian Latvian and Lithuanian
However, each region has their own stronger language influence based off of the majority community patch more lithuanian
Amber more Latvian and - more Estonian hears - resident Artur explaining. Hello, my friend. I am mark - from - Island
So for example the word for ice in Latvia nice labels in Lithuanian, it's led us and in Estonia
It's yeah, so we found a common ground for all those three words and it is led
Yeah in Lithuanian
The word for Sun is Sola in Latvian is also solid but in stone and it's biker
So we again we mix the words and we come up with shaking each iron speaks with the wrong grammar their own
Dialect I come from - so we speak more Estonian influenced
It's kind of strange right Thank You Archer in order to communicate. They developed a unique writing system
It's like a fusion of phonetic letters and pictographs all areas of the country use the same alphabet
But the words they spell might not be intelligible to the other region therefore
Each person is required to memorize somewhere between 800 - mm pictographs inspired by ancient Baltic pagan symbols
So for example, this pictograph means electricity the word may be pronounced differently on each Island
But as long as they see this symbol, they'll know that the writer is talking about electricity
Otherwise the people of patch. Amber - have quite a catalogue of colorful traditions on patch
They have an egg throwing festival celebrating the coming of spring on amber
The residents celebrate the bay ABAB day as for - they have a coconut husking championship
You might see the locals donning the Khoikhoi cloth, which brings us to history in the quickest way
I can explain it Baltic Alliance formed in Kaunas, Lithuania
Amongst the three founding members southern European migration zakuska port negotiated with Bulgarians migrated south to East African coast
amber
Established alphabet created creole language becomes official group of little bolts sail off and discover patch
Shortly Estonia bolts sail off and discover - World War one in World War two. Not much affected. Stay neutral
1990s economic boom through finance and travel sector 2000s. They open up trade Commerce deals with air and ship transport
And here we are today
Otherwise some of the most notable people from this country might include supuesto das volts
isaac bill to seal vex bill totosai event a vote see game in nante esse your let to see
Castilla and you host liquid Rukh just about it time to move on to the final segment of this episode in there
Now being such a regionally dispersed nation can be quite advantageous
Yet dangerous at the same time depending on how you play your cards
First of all, the nation has always had close ties to every state that is near to them patch
Always kind of help link Brazil with Angola and hence since the twentieth century had depended on both of them for much of their trade
In export sector amber cooperates heavily with Tanzania and Mozambique
No surprise
acting as kind of like a security checkpoint for all shipments coming in from the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia and since then the three
Nations work together just fine Zak Cusco obviously works
Well with Bulgaria as many Bulgarians come in and out for work every day over thirty percent of the workforce is foreign
Bulgarians and without Bulgaria
They could not function for - New Zealand and the French Polynesian islands have the most business and provide the majority of imports and exports
For the island not only have they adopted the French Polynesian Fronk but many
Polynesians from French Polynesia have moved in and settled adding their own cultural flair when it comes to their best friends
however
most ambiens will probably tell you their mother nations Latvia Lithuania and
Estonia the three Baltic sisters have always had close ties to their run away cousins the Baltic countries offer many
scholarships business investments and aid to
Ambering locals tourism is huge on both sides and the three just kind of love hearing back from their weird Island cousins in conclusion patch
Amber - is such a strange anomaly created by historical circumstances that never happened because all of this is false. There is no patch
Amber - congratulations. If you are new to this channel, I do this every year and you just got fooled
Happy April Fool's Day. Stay tuned kitsy kwaka is coming up next. Hey everybody, so
the native instrument of
Confederation of patch amber - is the pizza and I have to say this is probably the best
And from a mall because you get to eat it
Who doesn't like eating?