A friend and I once whiled away an afternoon making surprisingly elaborate plans for subduing the island of Tuvalu with a small mercenary force and installing ourselves as its leaders.
Wow, what a fascinating and twisted history. Another real world example of the arbitrariness of sovereignty can be found in Sealand, that British wartime platform sunk into the English channel which abandoned and later taken over by a squatter becaming the sovereign nation of Sealand and at least temporarily a free data kingdom ala Neal Stephenson's Kinakuta in Cryptonomicon.
I'll play bongos in TL! Cartography is an invention. And how many people are told constantly that they are part of an empire, or live in countries that no longer exist? It's all so strange... Thanks for reading and commenting, comrade!
A friend and I once whiled away an afternoon making surprisingly elaborate plans for subduing the island of Tuvalu with a small mercenary force and installing ourselves as its leaders.
Allow me to apply for the job of Holy Minister of Propaganda for the Monanarchic Republic of Grey Tuvalu and Protectorates.
Wow, what a fascinating and twisted history. Another real world example of the arbitrariness of sovereignty can be found in Sealand, that British wartime platform sunk into the English channel which abandoned and later taken over by a squatter becaming the sovereign nation of Sealand and at least temporarily a free data kingdom ala Neal Stephenson's Kinakuta in Cryptonomicon.
Yes indeed! I was actually going to do one on Seeland, too. Still might!
Telepathic Llamas is the name of my new band. Seriously though how many other places don't exist other than in cartographers' crazed minds?
I'll play bongos in TL! Cartography is an invention. And how many people are told constantly that they are part of an empire, or live in countries that no longer exist? It's all so strange... Thanks for reading and commenting, comrade!