Finaly - Own Your Own Country!

Here is your chance to run your own show, issue your own passport, decide your own taxes and make any business you please legal or ilegal! For sale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports. Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation -- even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea. Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base against German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family. He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the Principality of Sealand. The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins as its currency.The family saw off an attempt by the Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force. So today there is no jurisdiction by any other country in the world, a perfect base for online gambling or offshore banking. Calling it a cross between a house and a ship, the prince acknowledged it was not the world's most picturesque country, boasting as it does two large concrete towers with eight rooms in each tower. So there you have it, your chance to become a Prince in your own real country. If you buy it, let us know!