Hey, Kids, Let's Start a Country!

Jedlicka and the Liberland flag                                                    liberland.org

So, there are those who have signed up to colonize Mars ~ and then there are those who've signed up for something only slightly less adventurous but a whole lot closer to home. Last Monday, Czech politician Vit Jedlicka, his partner, and two other Libertarians claimed an isolated patch of Serbo-Croatia to be the world's newest country and named it Liberland. Since then, more than 200,000 souls brave and true have petitioned to join in the fun. Applications are pouring in from all over the world and from people with all sorts of talents and experience, but Jedlicka has high standards. "The model citizen of Liberland would be [American founding father] Thomas Jefferson," he said, "which is why we established the country on his birthday. Citizens will be able to pursue happiness and this is the place where we can make this happen" (story, video): http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/liberland-hundreds-of-thousands-apply-to-live-in-worlds-newest-country?CMP=ema_565