Want to buy a country?

[Stormlight]

Now's your chance (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=175554)

Sealand, the sea-fort turned world's smallest country, is up for sale.

The tiny principality was known as Roughs Tower when it was built in 1941 by the British Navy and is a 550sqm steel platform perched on two concrete towers 11kms off the coast of Harwich, England.

I better start saving up, then!:spend:

[xouper]

Now's your chance (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=175554)

Sealand, the sea-fort turned world's smallest country, is up for sale.

The tiny principality was known as Roughs Tower when it was built in 1941 by the British Navy and is a 550sqm steel platform perched on two concrete towers 11kms off the coast of Harwich, England.

I better start saving up, then!:spend:Or maybe not:
http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/sealand.htm

Note, that "country" is smaller than Bill Gates's house.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand

[Stormlight]

:chuckle:

[livius drusus]

What a gyp. I'll just stick with my original plan of buying Luxembourg. It's still smaller than Bill Gates' house, but at least it's a genuine country, dammit.

[Shelli]

heh

[Stormlight]

What a gyp. I'll just stick with my original plan of buying Luxembourg. It's still smaller than Bill Gates' house, but at least it's a genuine country, dammit.

Oh. Will I be your slave then? :livius:

[livius drusus]

Slave is such an ugly word. I prefer to think of you and all your compatriots as my serfs.

[Stormlight]

As you wish, mistress. :ballgag:

[Ymir's blood]

Serfs or smurfs?

[godfry n. glad]

Ooooo...I think thinking of them as smurfs is just smurfy.

[Dingfod]

Smurf those smurfs, your smurfyness.

[JoeP]

What a gyp. I'll just stick with my original plan of buying Luxembourg. It's still smaller than Bill Gates' house, but at least it's a genuine country, dammit.

Oh. Will I be your slave then? :livius:

She didn't have to buy my country for that to happen. :control:

[livius drusus]

:squeezle:

[ChuckF]

She didn't have to buy my country for that to happen. :control:
You are such the demesne pet.

[Shake]

... its owners, who want offers of eight digits or over...
How about 00000005? What? That's eight digits.

[quiet bear]

If I owned my own country, I'd make a blanket law: If you are in your car, and the engine is running...NO CELL PHONE. Period. First offense is also your last. Zero tolerance. Get caught behind the wheel talking, and lose your license. Forever.

It is written, decreed for all to know, by qb, all wise and knowing of good stuff.

[Stormlight]

I like that law, qb! We might just sell you Luxembourg after all.

And while you're at it, could you please, please make it illegal to sing commercials to old Rock 'n' Roll songs? Please? I can't take this any longer. :tremble:

[Petra]

Beware these dodgy real estate deals. Last year I bought Lohachara as my future retirement plan. What a rip off!

[Stormlight]

:lol:

[California Tanker]

This is the independent country of Waveland under British Occupation. (Seriously)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Rockall.jpg

More commonly known as Rockall, it's a large rock sticking out of the sea about 200km from Ireland.

NTM

[Dingfod]

More commonly known as Rockall, it's a large rock sticking out of the sea about 200km from Ireland.Rockall's Wikipedia page is larger than Rockall.

[livius drusus]

I like that law, qb! We might just sell you Luxembourg after all.

Hey! Enough with this treasonous talk. Luxembourg shall have but one mistress and no master.

[Ymir's blood]

Smurfette?

[California Tanker]

The Rockall Saga continues. When wargaming, we'd hypothesise some oil-strike in the area to cause the fight. Looks like we were right.

This is particularly interesting as the 'claim requirements' are the same ones that the Russians used recently when they put that flag on the sea bed up North.

RTÉ News: Rockall talks set for January (http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1228/rockall.html)

Talks over the oil-rich area of Rockall are to take place in Dublin on 9 January.

The talks between four countries are being set up in the hope that negotiations will edge closer to an agreement in a dispute over territorial rights to a massive oil-rich area in the north Atlantic