The offshore Principality of Sealand, recognized by no major nations and burned badly in a fire last year, is up for sale. Sorry: up for "transfer." Apparently you can't just sell a principality.
On a related note, Things has posted a comment about micronations, squatters, vacation communities, and the Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia.
For more on micronations, go here.
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Guy Montag|1.4.07 @ 10:31AM|#
Humm, let me see if I have any certificates from those Colorado Freemen laying about for a swap.
Brian Defferding|1.4.07 @ 10:38AM|#
I wonder how much it'll go for.
|1.4.07 @ 11:23AM|#
Think of the marketing opportunity for eBay if they could auction a country's transfer.
|1.4.07 @ 11:27AM|#
I'll throw in if someone starts a pot.
Warren|1.4.07 @ 11:37AM|#
did somebody mention pot?
|1.4.07 @ 11:42AM|#
Lamar,
Ebay's sold islands larger than Sealand. Frankly, nobody need care who is living on that wretched platform.
Brian Defferding|1.4.07 @ 11:51AM|#
Let's hope Michael Jackson doesn't move his Neverland Ranch there.
|1.4.07 @ 11:54AM|#
Warren,
I'll throw in on that, too.
|1.4.07 @ 12:12PM|#
FWIW, I've always thought that they should have sold the movie rights for the story of that place.
I.Self.Divine.|1.4.07 @ 12:20PM|#
I got money on the pot...and the island.
Larry A|1.4.07 @ 1:00PM|#
If I was going to live on an offshore oil rig, I think I'd rather have one in the Gulf of Mexico rather than the North Sea.
|1.4.07 @ 2:20PM|#
No, Larry A, if you WERE to live on an offshore oil rig, not if you WAS to live...
|1.4.07 @ 3:35PM|#
Larry, Sealand isn't an oil rig, it's an intentionally sunken ship.
|1.4.07 @ 5:26PM|#
I will contribute. I vote we legalize pot when we arrive at our New World.
|1.4.07 @ 11:05PM|#
Why would we have to legalize pot? It will never have been illegal.
It might be tough to get at first. The guy on the corner will be a wee bit further away.
Erwin|1.5.07 @ 11:40AM|#
Actually, Sealand is neither an oil rig nor a sunken ship.
It's a British radar platform left over from WW2.
Thomas Paine\'s Goiter|1.5.07 @ 2:37PM|#
Floating platforms is where it's at!