If You've Ever Read about the Founding Fathers and Thought,Hoaahhh?
That Could Be me
Well good News Compadre We couldn't agree With you more?
so, we're About to show you how you Can start your very Own Country because this
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Now before You go off and Name Yourself King or Queen of I'm super coolest an or joe Bereta Is awesome Vania
you need to know the Rules of Starting your Own Country
It May Seem counterintuitive for you to have to follow the rules when Forming A nation but These are the Guidelines Recognized by international Organizations
for you to be Formally Recognized as a Nation Without that you're Just Another Crazy Person Living in the Woods A
New Country Must Have 3 Things 1 A clearly defined Territory
There doesn't Seem to be any Minimum Size for this the Vatican City for Instance is Only TWo-Tenths of A square mile Or about
13 Acres Which Is Over 100 Times Smaller than the Island of Manhattan
Second You must have a permanent Population again no Minimums here have been Set the Pitcairn Islands now Have
Less Than 50 People Living on Them 50 They Can fit the entire Nation's Population on a school bus
Lastly you must have a government Capable of interacting With other States This one Is a little Tougher to define as you Essentially need to
Be recognized as A Nation in Order to Interact With other Nations but you're Already a Nation if You Already Interact With other Nations so
Here's Hope and Portugal
Owes you a favor but Where are you gonna get This Land you Have Basically two Options Claim Land that has Never Been Claimed or?
Take Over Existing Territory You might Hope that you Can find an Island but it has to be super
Isolated According to International law Nations Owned the Sea for the first 12 Miles out from the coast so if you're Close Enough to another
Nation your Island is Already Claimed besides at this Point Pretty much everything has Been Claimed as far as
We know and Satellite Imagery has Found every last?
Island on Earth and Someone Already Called
Dibs on Holiday Now Many People Have Tried to get Around These laws One Eccentric millionaire Michael oliver Tried to create his Own Island Nation
Literally in
1972 He Started The republic Minerva When he Claimed the
Minerva Reefs Which We Should Mention are under Water most of the Time he Paid to have Sand Shipped in From Australia
And dumped on the Reefs in Hopes of Building them Into a permanent Island Where he Could set up his Idea of a libertarian Utopia
It was going Swimmingly until he Sent out Letters to his New Neighbors who Decided They Didn't like Where This
Was going the King of Tonga Proclaimed the Reefs belonged to his Nation and he
Was backed by a Conference of South Pacific States he totes Sent Troops to invade the Reefs and sent the Crazy
Millionaires Back to Where They Came from
Millionaire Land
From Time to Time A group of Mercenaries
Will Try to Take over an Island Which Is something that happens in fact the Island Nation of Comoros has
Had Twenty Coup attempts Since Declaring Independence From France in 1975 but
We don't recommend that because it tends to end in A hail of Bullets and That's that's not good for Anybody
Fun fact the most Successful attempt at Creating an Island Micronation is sea Land during
World war Two England built several Concrete fortresses in International Waters as an Early Warning Post for nazi Invasions
Some of These were Left Standing after the war and in
1966 Roy Bates and his Family Claimed One of These fortresses for Themselves Their original Plan
Was to Broadcast a Pirate Radio Station but Debate Soon Decided to Claim the Fortress under The Terms of Paranoia's
Saying if no one Else Claimed it then They Would and Thus
Began The Government of Sealand
And Here's The Crazy Part Because They're Outside of England's Territorial Waters British Judges Decided They have no Jurisdiction over Sea Land and now
Recognise it as its Own Country The Platform Is Only ten Thousand Square feet
About 1/5 of A football Field so it's not much of a Nation but A nation nonetheless
You can Get A Passport and everything it's crazy so what's your best Bet To find your Own Terra Nullius?
Well There's A small Stretch of Desert between egypt and Sudan Claimed by neither Country Mostly Because it's an Arid Sandy Wasteland with no naps
Resources and No Infrastructure However This Land Has Recently Been Claimed by
Jeremiah Heaton of Virginia Who is Currently Working on official Recognition by egypt Sudan and The African Union the Reason Jeremiah Is Creating his Own?
Nation Is so that he Can Officially Named his Daughter Princess Emily and
That's Adorbs if he Gets it then that Patch of dirt is Officially off the table however There's
Actually A Huge amount of Land that Remains Pretty much Unclaimed by any Nation
It's called Marie Byrd Land and it Consists, of Six Hundred and Twenty Thousand Square Miles of
Antarctica so while Most of the Continent has Been Planed and The u.s.
Reserved The Right to assert a claim later in A 1959 Treaty the Land has Never
Officially Been Claimed so if You want it's Yours for the taking
We should warn you Though that the highest Temperature reached during the Peak of summer IS 14 degrees Fahrenheit
So you're Gonna want to invest in a parka
Maybe Two so Make your Own Flag and get some Friends and Sailed due South to you hit a lot
Of Ice then it's Just a small Matter of Drafting a Constitution
Creating an Economy and Being Recognized by the un you know the Easy Stuff will cover it Someday
Thanks for Watching and don't Forget to leave more Suggestions in the Comments Below as always I'm Joe Bereta and This has Been Epic how
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