Posted on 04/24/2015 8:00:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Accessible only by car via miles of winding, dusty Croatian roads, Gornja Siga – current population zero – is an unlikely testing ground for a plan to shape the world’s political future. It is a secluded area where verdant forest meets white sand on a western bank of the river Danube. The only signs of life are a single dilapidated building with a curious flag flying outside, pheasants, deer, the occasional wild boar, and eagles and falcons overhead.
Yet last Monday the Eurosceptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka and two other libertarians declared this 7 sq km of Serbo-Croat no-man’s-land the world’s newest sovereign state, naming it Liberland. Despite abstaining in Liberland’s first presidential election, Jedlicka emerged victorious, thanks to votes from his fellow founding father and Liberland’s founding mother (also his girlfriend). Then things began to get weird.
In the week since Liberland announced its creation and invited prospective residents to join the project, they have received about 200,000 citizenship applications – one every three seconds – from almost every country in the world.
Prospective citizens are also offering Liberland their expertise in areas from solar power and telecoms to town planning and coin minting. “There is a spontaneous ordering taking place,” Jedlicka says. “People have planned the whole city in three days and others really want to move in and invest … what seemed like a dream now really looks possible.”
Liberland’s only stipulations are that applicants respect individual rights, opinions and private property, and have no criminal record or Nazi or Communist party background.
Jedlicka says: “The model citizen of Liberland would be [American founding father] Thomas Jefferson, which is why we established the country on his birthday. Citizens will be able to pursue happiness and this is the place where we can make this happen.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
May this new one last longer than the current one.
I thought it was going to be a place to send all the libs. Instead it’s where conservatives should go?
I much prefer sending the libs and keeping America for ourselves. I would go one step further, we can split America by people of different beliefs, much as I would hate to lose the coasts, they can have the east coast and the west coast and we’ll just have to make do with the gulf which would put us in a tricky position defense wise, too easy to close it off.
is there a limit to the number of countries we can be citizens of?
do we have to live in liberland to be a citizen?
i’d be fine with that... because once the sides are drawn up, we can move onto conquering the other territories and ousting the rabble
Yes, Liberland sounds like Liberaland.
Are muslims allowed in Liberland? That’s the $64,000 question.
“Are Muslims allowed?”
It says, “Liberland’s only stipulations are that applicants respect individual rights, opinions and private property,”
So no.
That is still one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed in my life. Incredible.
Sounds fishy to me.
1. It looks like the U.N. could step in and declare it a sanctuary or wetland, or some sort of eco preserve, thus stopping development in it's tracks.
2. How are they taking the land and from whom?
3. The idea of a tax haven where a new crop of banks can grow and thrive is certainly open season for predators like the Clintons and Soros...
It sounds like most American liberals would also be ineligible for citizenship.
Downtown Liberpolis.
Correct answer 8-)
+1
Has Vit Jedlicka gone Galt?
We cod run the libs off the west coast, if there are no tax collections the luck employee unions will leave, no welfare benefits and there goes millions more, say no to cap and trade and the environmentalists can go save China; pretty soon all the libs would self deport.
In our dreams right? :)
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