World's Smallest Country For Sale

[matcom]

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LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - For sale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports.

Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.

Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family.

He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.

The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins.

The family saw off an attempt by Britain's Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/od_nm/island_dc

[UrbScotty]

1. I'm in (nt)

[Hugin]

2. A couple of servers and we're in business!!!

:thumbsup:

[xchrom]

3. so long as he doesn't want much for it.

[rug]

4. Let's declare independence and move the Lounge there.

[mainegreen]

5. Sealand's offsite data storage and web hosting is interesting.

Companies love it as the data stored there is immune to government subpoena powers. Since Sealand makes it's money from this, they sure as hell won't give it up. Of course, it's also a great place to set up dissident websites. A dual edged sword.