As separatist tendencies are brewing in the troubled European Union, a libertarian Euro-skeptic Czeck politician, his girlfriend and a third like-minded friend have planted a flag in Liberland, an empty 2.7- square-mile Serbo-Croatian no man’s land by the side of the Danube. The world’s newest sovereign state has already received 200.000 applications for citizenship from around the world. Its founding fathers name Thomas Jefferson as their inspiration, and aim to demonstrate that small government is the best way to run a prosperous nation where everyone can thrive. But first, they will need to build it.
Liberland now open for business as the latest state experiment
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