Nice stunt, but without an army and/or international recognition it will never be a country.
yeah thats exactly what I thought however if they pose no threat then why need an army from the first place?
This man just claimed a new European nation. 160,000 people want to live there
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#13Nice stunt, but without an army and/or international recognition it will never be a country.
Suppose he gets some wealthy folks (especially from Serbia/Croatia) to keep their assets there. I doubt it would happen (chicken/egg problem, right?), but I could see a territory like that persisting without international recognition or an army. Of course, I'm no expert in geopolitics...
Short of trucking money in there's no way to move money to a country that has no international recognition.
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#14I'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.
Looks fine in W3M, so they're doing something right.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Suppose he gets some wealthy folks (especially from Serbia/Croatia) to keep their assets there. I doubt it would happen (chicken/egg problem, right?), but I could see a territory like that persisting without international recognition or an army. Of course, I'm no expert in geopolitics...
Short of trucking money in there's no way to move money to a country that has no international recognition.
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin comes to mind.
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#16Nice stunt, but without an army and/or international recognition it will never be a country.
Maybe soon a new part of Russia? Latest events around Ukraine have really made that thinkable.
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#17Nice stunt, but without an army and/or international recognition it will never be a country.
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#18I am trying to speculate what kind of people this new country can attract and give its citizenship? I tend to think (sorry for sounding biased) that it would be adventurers, hippies, suspicious characters, illegal migrants, fraudsters. The topic about legalisation of marijuana is quite popular on their forum so it may attract drug dealers and drug addicts.
Can this microstate be interesting for entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, doctors, economists - those who can contribute a lot to build some prosper experimental state, say micro-Singapore?
How can this country attract them, maybe, introduce sort of point based system for giving residence / citizenship?
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#20I'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.
Dito. Unreadable.