The Principality of Sealand
Posted on June 26th, 2006
“Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The island fortress is conveniently situated from 65 to 100 miles from the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The official language of Sealand is English and the Sealand Dollar has a fixed exchange rate of one U.S. dollar.” - so sayeth the Sealand website. Quite conveniently, the Sealand site lacks and photos of this glorious offshore data haven / pirate radio base- most likely because it looks like their precious ‘principality’ is just a tiny offshore platform! And now, it has been abandoned due to fire… Ha!
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1. Anonymous | June 27th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
how dare you make fun of an entire principality! have you no respect for the sealandians? all they want to do is store their data and say YARRR! on the radio…is that asking so much? “a tiny offshore platform” you say? well how big is your offshore platform? huh? that’s what i thought. :p
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