The Principality of Sealand

Everybody dreams of founding their own country where they can come up with their own laws and kick people out who are really really annoying. Plus you get to issue your own currency and give out passports and all other kinds of stuff. Enter The Principality of Sealand, located 6 miles off the coast of Britain, it used to be a WWII base but the British abandoned it and some fool claimed it as his own country. Now it sounds pretty bogus to me but hey you never know maybe some fool did find a free piece of unoccuppied land in international waters and claimed it as his own. The website makes interesting reading anyway.

Update: So I did a bit more research on the old interweb on sealand and came up with a couple of interesting articles. There is an old article from wired that talks about some companies plan to make millions of dollars and there is a Wikipedia article that goes into a lot of history. Its all very strange really.