Such a moronic title: all nations are created illegally, if you believe otherwise show me the paperwork of the USA territory, signed by all previous residents (native Americans)... and no, their graves do not count as a signature under any legal definition.
I had considered the possibility of purchasing an island and having actual people living and working with me.<p>a bunch of my friends on IRC were very keen on the idea, although I don't suspect they know what burden it would entail.<p>yes, we'd be able to set up our own privacy policies and, yes we can have super fast internet, lay our own fiber and infrastructure of that nature could be created.<p>however, agriculture, the bureaucratic hoops we'd have to jump through to successfully secede and the general hard work and labour that would have to go in, I believe, is unaccounted for.<p>this is a cool concept, and micronations are a nice idea, I just wish I could find a plot of land that's not owned, I'd definitely put a lot of hard work into getting out of my country.
I might be reading this story incorrectly, but it seems like Ladonia is just a normal piece of property which is owned by artists who issue "citizenship".<p>Is there some other quality I am missing that separates it from any other piece of property someone owns, creates a website for, and calls a micronation?
Does anyone else hate how the horizontal scrollbars make you want to scroll left (with your arrow keys) and then it turns out that this is the command to go to another article?
At first, I thought it was a nation created by those that speak Ladin, which would not be surprising considering the autonomous stature of the region.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladin_language" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladin_language</a>
"Goaded, Vilks ignored the announcement and decided to take control of the area and <i>secede from Sweden</i>"<p>The whole secession would be somewhat more believable if the police protection of Vilks didn't costs the Swedish tax payers about a million USD per year.
I consider it an enormously antiquated idea to bind nations to a piece of land. We should try to arrive at a more abstract definition. And yes, of such nations we need many more.