When most people are unhappy with their country's political climate, they do one of three things: shrug their shoulders, get involved in politics, or move somewhere else.
Vit Jedlicka of the Czech Republic had another idea -- simply create your own country.
Jedlicka is the President of Liberland, a new nation that claims seven square miles of land in a disputed region between Croatia and Serbia on the Danube River.
Jedlicka envisions a country free from regulation and taxation, with minimal laws regulating personal or economic behavior.
Their economy would be driven through the financial services industry as a tax haven, and they would experiment with crypto currencies.
Liberland currently has no physical buildings or residents, and the Croatian government doesn't seem exactly keen on Jedlicka's plan.
Despite the concerns about feasibility, Liberland apparently has 400,000 interested citizens stemming from every state in the world.
The new country even has its own national beer.
Jedlicka seems confident of success, and revealed big plans for the summer in an exclusive article with the Independent:
And in the summer, he [Jedlicka] plans to stage a “state celebration” in a field next to the disputed territory which, if all goes to plan, could snowball into something much more.
“It’s going to be a big media event,” he says. “We would like to invite 5,000 people, with the best artists who support Liberland [attending], and we already have two or three major festival organisers in the area helping us.
“That could be the time when we actually take over control of this territory,” he says, with a clear sense of anticipation. “We are not pushing for it yet, but there is no way you can stop 5,000 people taking over control of Liberland.”