Sealand is for Sale!

Couldnt you just build your own mini oil rig style thing and stick it just outside territorial waters creating your own principality? A lot easier than invading seaworld (and less likely to fall down).



Hmmm Andrewistan... :p
 
Amp34 said:
Couldnt you just build your own mini oil rig style thing and stick it just outside territorial waters creating your own principality? A lot easier than invading seaworld (and less likely to fall down).



Hmmm Andrewistan... :p
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I'm guessing a lot of the value comes from the notoriety that the "micronation" has garnered over the years. The initial takeover, the hostage situation, the run-in with ships and warning shots etc. The current owners have already done a lot of PR – issueing passports, stamps, certificates etc. – and it is ultimately this which makes a "micronation" become recognised internationally as a true sovereign-state. Sealand is far from that, of course.

Similar attempts at forming "micronations" off the coast of other countries have resulted in the countries in question taking them by military force – usually if they believe the "micronation" poses a risk to the country, is designed to circumvent taxes or things of that nature. At the moment the only reason Sealand hasn't been destroyed by the British armed forces is because they don't care about a family of nutjobs who have set up shop on some rustbucket and leased out some office space to a web hosting company. If there was a serious incident in the "micronation" involving a British citizen, I'm sure it'd be on its side and in flames within minutes :)
 
Al Vallario said:
Similar attempts at forming "micronations" off the coast of other countries have resulted in the countries in question taking them by military force – usually if they believe the "micronation" poses a risk to the country, is designed to circumvent taxes or things of that nature. At the moment the only reason Sealand hasn't been destroyed by the British armed forces is because they don't care about a family of nutjobs who have set up shop on some rustbucket and leased out some office space to a web hosting company. If there was a serious incident in the "micronation" involving a British citizen, I'm sure it'd be on its side and in flames within minutes :)
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Aye, sure the UK will just get the US to declare that the family is an Al-Queada cell leader, and procede to bomb the living crap out of it.
 
Mearsk Sealand is an intermodal company which specialise in both sea distribution and overland delivery.

It has nothing to do with one crackpots vision.
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but drink are drugs are banned from the place. You're only allowed a shower every few days, and I believe there is only one toilet.
 
NickXX said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but drink are drugs are banned from the place. You're only allowed a shower every few days, and I believe there is only one toilet.
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lol one toilet for a whole island. Can't they just do it off the edge of their island? :confused:
 
For those who didn't know (I didn't until recently), there are various sea forts kicking about in the Thames Estuary:

Maunsell sea forts:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Sea_Forts


I suggest that all prospective buyers of Sealand look into Knock John:
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Bargaintastic - all yours for the price of a ladder.
 
Notice in the pictures that they have a huge network center. Microsoft eat your heart out. :p

Also i noticed they have dell gear, wonder how you would get an engineer out there. lol
 
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Hugogo said:
What do you think would happen if you just invaded it? If i were to take a boat and capture it? Could i declare it my own?
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Didn't a bunch of germans try that already?
 
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