Is Google Starting Its Own Country?

Life beyond the Googleplex: don't be evil, but do absolutely everything else, including creating offshore, oceanic supercomputer data centres that could set the stage for the creation of Google's very own...

Happy 40th Birthday, Sealand!

An abandoned military fortress off the British coasts, about seven miles from Suffolk, England, made the news several times in recent years. Roughs Tower or - as it is more popularly known - Sealand, was in...

Pirate Island: The Pirate Bay Seeks to Buy Sealand

I found this posting through boingboing.net: you, too, can be  a citizen of an oil-drilling platform! Think "Treasure Island" meets "Breaking the Waves"."CFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are...

Explore Micronations in Lonely Planet's Newest Guide

Bored of visiting the same UN-recognised countries? Ready to explore somewhere unique and perhaps a little wacky? want to add some really rare stamps to your passport? Then let Lonely Planet's guide to home made...

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