You don’t just get to create your own country, surely? Yet away from the scrutiny and glare of popular culture, people are doing just that. Micronations, they’re usually called. Nations like Sealand (an oil rig off the coast of England), The Republic of New Atlantis (which was a bamboo-raft nation founded by Ernest Hemingway’s brother), and the Kingdom of North Sudan (created so that the founder’s seven-year-old daughter could become a princess. Disney has bought the movie rights). Much closer to my home (Wittenberg, to be precise) is Germany’s Königreich Deutschland. Its eccentric founder,
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