Uneasy lies the head that bears the royal crown.
Our territorial acreage exceeds that of about six countries, including Sealand, of course.
Of course, why bother with being just a country when by rights you should be considered an entire world?
In our attempts to acquire legally the materials and supplies essential to our quest we lavishly used the scavenged materials at our disposal.
Accordingly, I've been notified of a critical shortage of specific materials useful in engineering projects including high-quality spacesuit faceplate manufacture and the essential industry of ben-wa ball manufacturing. Naturally, only the best materials will do for these enterprises.
I have decided to mount an expedition to acquire a replacement supply.
A candidate asteroid has been selected. Based on our astrometric survey data, including having analyzed its gravimetric behavior it appears to be rich in heavy metals.
My plan is to take a single shuttle craft and a spider robot out to the asteroid belt to retrieve the object. Then I will return with it for our materials processing to dismantle it.
I will call the trek "The Black Hills Asteroid Quest."
I don't know if I'd care to live on a platform out in the middle of an ocean. Although, it would be neat to have your own country.