Country for sale !! waterfront, must see

Interesting, I have never befor thought of North Sea wind and waves as "quiet neighbours"!

well - that brought back some memories!! As a young Lieutenant on the staff of the Flag Officer Medway,in whose "sea area" the Fort was, I remember the contingency plan we had to take back the Fort when/if, the Bates family ever left the place. The canny old so-and-so always left someone "on board" however, whenever they had to go ashore to do the shopping so we never got the chance to "invade" Tony

Country Website

This is a very interesting story. Apparently there was a fire in one of the generators and the fort was badly damaged.

Here is the official country website with the photos:

http://www.sealandgov.org/

You want to become a Lord or something like that? pay the reduced price of 19.99 pounds to them. That's so funny...titles as a special offer...no no

That's actually tempting... "Lord Kevin" has a nice ring to it.

If you buy two, do you get a special price? I'm just thinking, if I'm a Lord I think my girlfriend would like to be a Lady as well. LOL

That's not offered... here is the link http://www.redsave.com/index.asp?pageType=3&pid=2091&catId=21&track=SealandShopLink

Until recently, the surest way to obtain a reasonable title without intimate relations with a Royal (and sometimes even that isn't enough - I'm thinking of Harrods...), was to contribute large sums of money to political parties.

And before anyone actually doshes out any good money for Sealand, it might be worth pointing out that it would require only the merest hint of a rumour that the acquirer might be even remotely linked to Al Qaeda before the place was totally obliterated by C-130 Gunships (with the full approval of the UK I should add)...

I'd like the titular 'Lord Of The Left Pier, Order Of The Barnacle', myself.

On a serious note, these folks are missing the boat, as it were-- they ought to get into the Foreign Flagging business of pleasure yachts for the much larger initial fee plus the annual renewal residuals.

If the Marshall Islands can do it...

European Union

Maybe to become a member of the EU is also not a bad idea.
2 % VAT on a Yacht purchase running under the Sealand Flag and never ever
VAT problems on any Charter Income in the EU.
Just wondering if there is also a 6 mile zone territory around ??

Does Sealand come with a seat at the United Nations or would her "duly-appointed" representatives enjoy diplomatic immunity generally...?!

Only, if that is the case, then I have an idea for how a buyer might recoup the purchase price quite rapidly: sell expensive cars to New Yorkers and inhabitants of other major cities with parking problems on a tax-free basis together with an entitlement to carry CD plates!

I believe that the Egyptians have already proven the concept:

New York City's concentration of consulates and diplomatic missions to the United Nations has created an ongoing problem for police trying to enforce traffic and parking regulations.

The city says it has the right to act against all offenders - although its threat to tow away cars applied to consular vehicles, not to those with UN-registered plates.

Egypt is said to be the worst offender, owing $1.6m for more than 15,000 tickets.

If you look up Sealand at Wikipedia.org there's a bit of an explanation of how the "territorial waters" were divided between Sealand and England.

I was just thinking. Wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a plot on the moon and then declare yourself an independent country?

That way at least, even though you weren't officially recognised, sympathetic passer-bys might lend you their mobile phones "to call home"? Also, it would become extremely expensive for the UK or other country to invade...in order to reimpose their sovereignty?!

[Afterthought] You might then be able to charge NASA, the ESA etc. for registering their space shuttles, satellites, probes and sundry space stations under your Space-Ships Register (not to be confused with the UK SSR...[/Afterthought]

Here's the latest:



http://www.thelocal.se/6076/20070112/

It's an interesting idea:

I suppose that if everyone wanting to download Madonna's latest album had internet access via satellite and Pirate Bay had its own satellite-based servers, nuclear power station and teleport facilities, then it might just all work for awhile. Bearing in mind that the owners of copyright material have already taken such extreme steps as prosecuting skoolkids for thousands of dollars over copyright infringement successfully and that the Chinese competently censure the Internet with the full cooperation of major names like Google, I don't believe that Pirate Bay stand any chance...

On the other hand, if someone was to buy Sealand in order to establish it as a new offshore EU banking haven with generously-credited accounts in the names of current politicians, then...? It's amazing just how difficult it is these days to get rid of offshore banking havens, unless they're caught red-handed with cocaine-impregnated dollars or euros on their way to Al Qaeda terrorists. Otherwise, in nautical terms, it's just like having a well-charted but obscure reef in the middle of a very busy shipping channel. You have to ask just why they're not dynamited out of existence - unless of course, they harbour a lot of marine life...(eg. it all smells fishy)?!

Isn't the price reasonable for $2 billion? Someone like Gates/Allen/Ellison should buy this and start their own thing. No one can touch them.

Just think an Octopus or Rising Sun would look splendid at SeaLand!