# Liberland - A brand new country in Europe!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 16, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838 "2015-04-16T16:04:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838/41 "2026-07-11T13:25:10Z")

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Thought I’d revive this rotting corpse of a thread as the BBC recently sent a reporter to Liberland. It’s depressing reading.

> **[Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8eqyj8e2o)**
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> They think democracy has run its course - so they're setting up their own nations instead.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838/42 "2026-07-11T13:37:10Z")

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> [@MrAtoz](#):
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> Not all of them are exercises in libertarianism. Some of them are just for fun, some are experiments in political or social science, some of them are efforts to study how nations start and how a particular group of people become “a nation.”

My favorite is the one where a guy declared himself king just because his daughter wanted to be a princess.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838/43 "2026-07-11T16:26:32Z")

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The Princess: Me mother’s a beer!

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838/44 "2026-07-11T16:40:58Z")

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Is this a joke? I could have sworn I was already living in a world where money buys you votes and politicians. What a scammer!

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberland-a-brand-new-country-in-europe/717838/45 "2026-07-13T06:45:44Z")

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I expect the Hallmark Channel to jump on this right away. The movie writes itself. The princess of Liberland runs away to America, disguises herself as a humble exchange student, falls for a sensitive young lad who is, like, a farmer or something because it gives him the chance to take his shirt off a lot, and then must decide between true love and her scheduled wedding to the prince of Bullshitania. Catch _Liber-Love_, starring Lacey Chabert, this October.

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