World's smallest country for sale

Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:59 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242351,00.html

Another addition to the List of Things I Must Own.

The name just sounds themepark-ish.

Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:19 pm

I think I should steal an offshore oil rig or island here and call it...New Sealand!

Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:31 pm

A billion for something like that? For that price they should throw in the entire ocean as well.... get some ferry tax in as well

Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:43 pm

It's a crap country.

Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:48 pm

Holy potatoes! $977 million for two concrete towers with approximately 1,800-square-foot steel platform set on top of them?

I find that to be very expensive for a place to be sold as a place for people to live at. Also rising sea levels would one day eventually sink it, plus there the fact it can be reached only by sea or air which would be a problem in stormy weather.

Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:52 pm

They say if you read the article (which means scrolling down) that it'd probably be quite a bit less then 977 mill.
If they were simply looking for keepers of it, i'd go. But i'd want a dog, a boat, and a place for my guinea pigs. It does look a bit run down though... doesn't it?

Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:52 pm

Uh.. HAHAHHAAHHA?!

Seriously how would you live on that thing.. o_O How would you keep enough food around (then again I'm the vegetable junkie that needs to go to the store every week.)? I would seriously go crazy and jump into the ocean.

Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:07 pm

As long as I had electricity and High speed internet I'd be happy.... I'd soooo redesign it ala Dr. Evil.

Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:19 pm

WANT TO LIVE YOUR DREAM OF BEING AN EVIL, MEGLOMANIACAL DICTATOR!?

WELL NOW YOU CAN!
For just $977 million, you can own your very own country!! Perfect for those aspiring evil overlords on your gift list!

(Yes, I'm such a dork.)

Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:43 pm

...what the heck? That's actually a country? o___0 Um...riiiiight. I wouldn't pay a penny for it! I don't want to be stuck in the middle of the ocean on a raised piece of scrap - that's what it looks like to me anyway.

Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:34 am

What are the laws of the country though? Could someone actually buy a peice of something and call it a country? What if they took someone there and killed them and then proclaimed as owner of that country that it was all legal? What if some mad scientist went to a place like that and made some kind of genetic monstrosity that wouldn't be legal in another country? What could a person get away with if they had their own country?

Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:44 am

smudgeoffudge wrote:What are the laws of the country though? Could someone actually buy a peice of something and call it a country? What if they took someone there and killed them and then proclaimed as owner of that country that it was all legal? What if some mad scientist went to a place like that and made some kind of genetic monstrosity that wouldn't be legal in another country? What could a person get away with if they had their own country?

A Dutch/German gorup invaded Sealand under arms and took the Prince hostage, the king rescued him via Helicopter and Shotgun and took them as prisoners at war. Sealand has a glorious military history.

Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:06 am

977 mil.

I could buy a Tank for that.
Scratch that, a Tank Regiment.
And an aircraft carrier.

Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:13 am

Is it an actual country, though? It keeps saying self'proclaimed 'country'

Man, I'd hate to have a passport of that country. Can you imagine going on holiday and customs getting on your smurf for not knowing the country?

Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:34 pm

If I had 977 mill, it would not be going toward that crap 'country'. It would be..."Hello, Jimmy Choo. Hello, Manolo Blahnik. Hello, Louis Vuitton..." Well, you get where I'm going with this.

How was that even legally allowed to be a country?