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Gillypie
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yo guys i recently started a country because someone told me it would fail misrebly if i tried.
to join go to http://www.freewebs.com/davelandkingdom/ and read everything and then go to the join daveland page to see how to join.
join daveland today and write your comments.
people on this site are into geeky things like this (no offence im a geek too) so you are the first people ive asked.
please reply.

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Seppuku Arts
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Well unless you can buy an island that's not owned by another country or anything like that, you might be able to...The was one person who built his home in the ocean outside of the UK and claimed it as his own country as nobody else owned the space of land/sea there.


But it's a bit of fun on the net...so good luck with Daveland Kingdom, I vote you don't have democracy and that you have an evil fascist totalitarian leader...I mean democracy is so last century.

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If you can't defend it, it wont be your country for long

All countires rise and fall on the blood of their citizens!

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 02:04
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Quote: "If you can't defend it, it wont be your country for long
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His country of 3 people stands up to defend themselves with shotguns and hunting knives.



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Aaron Miller
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I once wanted to buy an island and make my own country.

This reminds me of that episode of Family Guy, E PETERBUS ENUM (Or something like that), where Peter establishes Petoria, and then goes to war with the USA.



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Inspire
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 02:57
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@ Aaron:

I love the "Can't Touch This" song in that episode.

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tha_rami
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 03:00 Edited at: 27th Aug 2007 03:02
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Well, that actually happened for real once, I think.

The Principality of Outer Baldonie (I think it had like a population of 8) issued a war declaration to the Soviet Union.

Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Outer_Baldonia


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 04:09
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That's hilarious... a military of 70 individuals going at one of the biggest world powers at the time XD



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Grandma
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 04:13 Edited at: 27th Aug 2007 04:19
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So it was Baldonia that brought down the soviet union!

Haha, can't underestimate small nations now can we.

Edit: ^and 69 of them were Admirals! How very admirable.

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@Inspire
LOL! Yeah, that song made me laugh.

@Grandma
Indeed we can't... We shall form our own nation! And bring world boredom!!


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Phaelax
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Quote: "That's hilarious... a military of 70 individuals going at one of the biggest world powers at the time "


America had to start somewhere!


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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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it says 2006 on your site


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Gillypie
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its kinda just online but my room is part of it
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Hobgoblin Lord
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I'll join if I can be the Minister of Harlot quality assurance.

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Opposing force
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I declare war on your country.

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Lukas W
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Does anyone own the sky?
I mean you have countries, but where does the borders end?
It would be cool to build a flying country.

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Kentaree
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I'm confused... how is a website a country?

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 16:39
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My friend josh is hopng to start a country called Tectania... He has everything he needs. Except some land.
There's a little island of the coast of somewhere that's actually just an oil rig, but is actually deemed as a small country.

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Dr Manette
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Build an underwater city populated by the greatest minds of the time. Then we could shun all other countries in favor of our "new" form of government until genetic experimentations destroy our perfect city.... hmm, that's a good premise for a game....

Seriously, buy an island, plant a flag, then you've got a country. Course, the UN might not acknowledge you, but meh.


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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 16:43
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Quote: "Seriously, buy an island, plant a flag, then you've got a country. Course, the UN might not acknowledge you, but meh."

Why do you need a flag? You just need a govenment.

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Grandma
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 17:00
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Because flags are cool.

I shall have a round flag just be special and unique. One filled with the most gruesome colors the world has ever known!

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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 17:22
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Quote: "Does anyone own the sky?"


Yeah Rupert Murdoch He owns everything the government and Bill Gates doesn't

Yes, a flying country would be an interesting idea...some reason I'm thinking of Sonic the Hedgehog and FFXII. But it would be a wee bit risky if it were possible - like say suddenly it dropped out of the sky and you were flying over France at the time, I mean it would be a tragedy because the English wouldn't have anybody worthwhile to bully.

Quote: "One filled with the most gruesome colors the world has ever known!"


Lime Green?

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soapyfish
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 18:10
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Did NOBODY see the series called 'How to Start Your Own Country' ?

It's worth a google if you don't know what I'm talking about.

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jasonhtml
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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 18:13
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wow! the Wiki about the Principaliry of Outer Baldonia was hilarious! im going to make my own nation now

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Posted: 27th Aug 2007 18:14
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Quote: "Quote: "One filled with the most gruesome colors the world has ever known!"

Lime Green?
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Humm, humm, pink on green, humm.

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Who let the Vatican be it's own country? It's bascally a blob attached to Rome. It's a country with a wall around it and a gate on a street in Rome.

IIRC Pireate Bay was thinking about collecting donations and buy that oil rig Insert Name Here mentioned, declaring it a country and thus escape all copyright laws. But they didn't want to sell.

soapyfish:
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Blobs of neon green, pastel pink and mustard brown smeared on a flag would look very distrubing.

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Agent Dink
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It would be pretty awesome to start one's own country... Maybe we can all make some form of Nerd utopia on some island in the middle of the ocean.



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Insert Name Here
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That would be cool.

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Seppuku Arts
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Quote: "Who let the Vatican be it's own country? It's bascally a blob attached to Rome. It's a country with a wall around it and a gate on a street in Rome."


It's so that Italians who want to see the Pope have to get a passport like everybody else. I'm going to guess and say it's probably because they don't want to make 'Italy' the centre of Catholicism, but to have separate place that has no nationality and is neutral amongst Catholics...Just a guess though.

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Your room, Gillipie, incedentelly, is not part of your country, it is part of what ever country you live in. In order for it to be a country you must wrie a letter to the prime minister/president, informing them that you are withdrawing the part of land from the country you live in.

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Agent Dink
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I don't imagine that would go over too well with them either...



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I beleive that they can do nothing about it if you own the land, though if you do own the country then you are not protected by their laws or police force/army, so you can potentially be invaded very easily by the army, and then you've just lost land!

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Ummm, if I'm not mistaken, technically the land is still government property, at least in the US. They can order you off of it for government projects and things if I am not mistaken. I think they are supposed to compensate you for it, but I'm not certain on the matter.



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I think england is different...

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If I were PM, I don't think i'd mind if someone wanted to remove their land from England. I could just send in a tank, blow up their house and whoopdeedo another peice of land to build my nee housing estate on.

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In 'How to Start Your Own Country' the chappy started off trying to acquire some land of his own but soon gave up and just declared his flat as his own country (with letter to Tony and everything)

He then went on to design his own money (which was accepted in one shop iirc but that was only due to the noob cashier not questioning money she had never seen before)

Oh and a flag that he flew from his window.

It all went tits up when he tried getting more serious, joining the UN and all that so he eventually decided to settle for an 'internet community' type setup. He had his own t.v. channel I think.

Most of that is from memory though so it won't be 100% accurate.

Let's not forget the national anthem that can be seen here http://youtube.com/watch?v=X-CFz9kYBJI

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Quote: "I think england is different..."


I own my land, but technically it's at the crowns discression as English people are her subjects.

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Egypt is fun. According to the constitution, everyone OWNS a part of the country relative with the number of citizens. (So if there were 100 citizens, you'd own 1/100th of the country). If a majority of the people would declare to sell the country, it could actually be sold in total. They even made a comedy movie about it


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Quote: "Quote: "One filled with the most gruesome colors the world has ever known!"

Lime Green?"


NOOOO! Lime Green, Hot Pink, Honey Mustard Yellow, and Black!!!

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Quote: "Egypt is fun. According to the constitution, everyone OWNS a part of the country relative with the number of citizens. (So if there were 100 citizens, you'd own 1/100th of the country). If a majority of the people would declare to sell the country, it could actually be sold in total. They even made a comedy movie about it"


Wow, that's a pretty cool idea. I once considered starting my own country, but islands are soo expensive these days and father just won't give me my allowance these days.

I think I'd be very possible to try on some island, though. Just pick one out in the Pacific, and just start building. If you get enough people, then you're golden. That is, till Uncle Sam comes in with his fists of fury.

And no, not our Uncle Sam.


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Quote: "And no, not our Uncle Sam. "


LOL

Well... we don't need to give the (not our) Uncle Sam a reason to attack us.. unless of course you stole the island from them. There's gotta be some un-owned islands out there. Flag in dirt, get some guns, it's yours... at least till some evil country overruns your meager defense force...



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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "Flag in dirt, get some guns, it's yours... at least till some evil country overruns your meager defense force..."

Who said anything about meager? All you need is a few billion dollars and you could have equipment to hold off a few hundred attackers by yourself .


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What kind of equipment are we talking? Tactical nukes?



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That's just the start. I envision thousands of robot armed turrets, tanks, bunkers, and surface to air missiles. Submarines will act as radar surveillance and alert the bots while we sit comfortable in our anti explosion dome, aka the City of L33t.

Everything will be powered by love, so we won't have to rely on foreign economies (food is grown in another anti locus dome).

And, if need be, a big button that launches the whole island into orbit, from which we can fire our super nukes.



All that's left is a few billion dollars. Bill Gates has money, right? And he's always up to creating an unstoppable empire.


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Quote: "What kind of equipment are we talking? Tactical nukes?"


Remote controlled .50 cals =P

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Quote: "What kind of equipment are we talking? Tactical nukes?"

Fighter jets, missles, ships, landmines, barbed wire, pillboxes with automatically firing weapons, sea mines, anti-air weapons, helicopters, sniper rifles, a reinforced concrete and steel boobytrapped underground bunker, and of course a tank or two. The usual stuff .

And you could control all of this remotely from your underground bunker impervious to air strikes even if they do manage to get past your AA defenses .


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Hmmm.. I have maybe $3000 I can spare to forming the country... that would buy me, what... one .50cal sniper rifle at best?

Who wants to buy the remote control airforce?



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I can donate Bill Gates.

Acording to Grandma, I am now enemy of the evil republic, who captured Paris Hilton and couldn't manage it.
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Here's a picture of our island.

I figured every island should have a giant satalite guided harpoon.


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