Man forms tiny European nation, 160,000 sign up to become citizens

With the advent of modern communication and means of travel, it seems unlikely there is any area of the world left unclaimed by one nation or another. But such land does, or in fact did exist within Europe, and one man has just made his claim to it and created a brand new European nation.

The man in question is former Czech Vit Jedlicka. He is now the president of the Free Republic of Liberland, which is a 7km² stretch of land on the west bank of the Dunube river between Serbia and Croatia. It is actually disputed land by the Serbian and Croatian governments, neither currently own it, and therefore it was classed as no man’s land.

Liberland already has a website, a flag, a coat of arms, and a moto: “To live and let live.”…