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I'm sorry to be that guy, but a small note to all webdevs on Hackernews: please make sure to skip all bloated and hip Javascripts. Because not all visitors have the latest and fastest devices. This great article is unfortunately unreadable for me because I can't scroll down.
Isn't it some Czech style prank? Similar to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402906/
And if no-one claims the area, you can wander in and stake your own claim. Of course, if no-one recognises you, there's not much you can do, and if you don't ally with someone meaty, no-one will stop an 'annexation'. Ultimately it's a jape, but unlike most micronations, it's not stretching the rules - the land really is currently, officially, unclaimed.
I'm sorry to be that guy, but a small note to all webdevs on Hackernews: please make sure to skip all bloated and hip Javascripts. Because not all visitors have the latest and fastest devices. This great article is unfortunately unreadable for me because I can't scroll down.
Works fine on my iPhone 6plus
I'm sorry to be that guy, but a small note to all webdevs on Hackernews: please make sure to skip all bloated and hip Javascripts. Because not all visitors have the latest and fastest devices. This great article is unfortunately unreadable for me because I can't scroll down.
Micro nations are not new, and they are almost never successful [1]. They are ripe for fraud: selling passports, fraudulent government bank, etc. In the event that they pick up any traction, they are swallowed by their neighbors with real armies (eg. Minerva), and the rest of the world sighs with relief. An interesting example of one that is still officially around, also claims land in Croatia, and exists just for fr…
Existing government is sub-optimal and competition tends to increase quality. Is there a special property of government service that makes this principle fail here?
Unfortunately, the Paraduin people seem a bit nutty to me. An excerpt from their constitution, which is in Dutch:
"Paraduin is een monarchie. De titel van de monarch is prins(es), voluit Prins(es) van Paraduin. Monarch zijn Prins Ogidius en diens wettige opvolgers. De opvolging wordt bij wet geregeld."
Translates to:
"Paraduin is a monarchy. The monarch holds the title of Prince(ss), in full the Prince(ss) of Paraduin. Monarchs are Prince Ogidius and his lawful successors. Succession is determined by law."
Paraduin itself is something like a religion, they (if there's more than one person, I'm not sure) believe there's a magical parallel universe from which some people are fleeing unto the earth we live on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZdkqqjosCM&t=6m49s
Essentially the river has changed, but the two countries claimed land at different times.
Why must every inch of this land have to be incorporated somehow? I'd much rather have no man's land, than have a land owned by a particular man's ideology (regardless of how much I may be inclined to agree with it).
There is also a lot of effectively lawless land around the world.
Edit: Got the activation link in SPAM, perhaps google didn't recognize the new country sending emails :P