# Little Liechtenstein gets a bit bigger **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938 "2006-12-29T00:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/1 "2006-12-29T00:48:40Z")
[Link](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20985619-1702,00.html?from=public_rss) When you’re that small I suppose every little bit helps. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/2 "2006-12-29T00:59:10Z")
When are those folks gonna start an undeground city? Only _practicle_ choice, really… ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/3 "2006-12-29T01:41:47Z")
That’s a .3 percent growth rate! We better keep our eye on these guys! Next thing you know, they’re gonna anex New Jersey! Tris ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/4 "2006-12-29T02:07:10Z")
Those imperialist pigs in Switzerland\* better watch **out!** \*My male-line ancestors came from Grindelwald, Canton Bern. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/5 "2006-12-29T02:28:54Z")
Liechtenstein… Monaco… Andorra… San Marino… I’d be keeping an eye on Europe. Blink and one of these microstates might suddenly annex Australia, and then where will we be? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/6 "2006-12-29T02:40:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Blink and one of these microstates might suddenly annex Australia, and then where will we be? [/QUOTE] Now that would be an imaginative exercise in refining the accuracy of the borders. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/7 "2006-12-29T02:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Liechtenstein… Monaco… Andorra… San Marino… [/QUOTE] Don’t forget [Grand Fenwick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Fenwick) and [Latveria!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latveria) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/8 "2006-12-29T02:52:40Z")
Not to mention the [micronations . . .](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation) All very much in line with the [SubGenius](http://www.subgenius.com/) principle of psychopatriotic anarcho-materialism: “Every yard a kingdom, every child and dog a serf!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/9 "2006-12-29T02:57:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Liechtenstein… Monaco… Andorra… San Marino… I’d be keeping an eye on Europe. Blink and one of these microstates might suddenly annex Australia, and then where will we be? [/QUOTE] Or Vatican City. 'Course they’d probably annex Little Italy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/10 "2006-12-29T14:47:25Z")
My little sister has a friend in Liechtenstein (the friend is not little, she’s a 6-foot tall blonde knockout, but I digress) and she’s always good for an anecdote. She told me once that she and another girl went to a party in on the other side of the country one night and they lost their ride and ended up walking home. You can’t even walk from one end of our rural school district (where this girl came as an exchange student) that fast! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/11 "2006-12-30T00:22:56Z")
I had a goal of visiting all of the European mini-principalities/countries and made it to Luxembourg, Andorra, Monaco, and Liechtenstein. Didn’t get to San Marino as the floods of that October caused me to detour out of Northern Italy to sunny Switzerland. Besides seeing cattle humping in the main square of Liechtenstein and hiking up the mountain to the duke’s castle in Vaduz, it was not that memorable. They do issue a LOT of postage stamps for collectors and there are numerous corporations headquartered there for the tax benefits. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/12 "2006-12-30T05:47:51Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] They do issue a LOT of postage stamps for collectors and there are numerous corporations headquartered there for the tax benefits. [/QUOTE] When I was living in Berlin ages ago, I met a guy from Liechtenstein…his name was Bruno and he could easily have worked as a model for Armani…(sadly for me, he was a raging heterosexual, but I digress). Bruno was a very talented graphic artist and by the age of about 28, he had already designed many postage stamps for Liechtenstein. He told me stamps were one of the main exports of the country and though few of them actually ever made it to be “real” postage - most were sold in uncancelled batches to local and foreign collectors. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-liechtenstein-gets-a-bit-bigger/385938/13 "2006-12-30T08:41:11Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] sadly for me, he was a raging heterosexual, but I digress. [/QUOTE] I need to use this phrase - and soon! 😃