ZenOps
06-12-2016, 09:26 AM
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/portuguese-man-buys-tiny-island-successfully-establishes-his-own-kingdom.html
Not successfully recognized as a country... Yet. I'd assume that if he was successful, he would have to pay taxes - to himself.
“I am whatever I want to be – that’s the dream, isn’t it,” he said. “If I decide I want to have a national song, I can choose it, and I can change it any time. The same with my flag – it could be blue today, red tomorrow. Of course, my power is only absolute here, where I am the true sovereign.”
Barros got a chance to buy the island fourteen years ago, when it was owned by a wealthy British family who wanted to sell it for 25,000 Euros ($31,000), because it was of no use to them.
Not successfully recognized as a country... Yet. I'd assume that if he was successful, he would have to pay taxes - to himself.
“I am whatever I want to be – that’s the dream, isn’t it,” he said. “If I decide I want to have a national song, I can choose it, and I can change it any time. The same with my flag – it could be blue today, red tomorrow. Of course, my power is only absolute here, where I am the true sovereign.”
Barros got a chance to buy the island fourteen years ago, when it was owned by a wealthy British family who wanted to sell it for 25,000 Euros ($31,000), because it was of no use to them.