No walruses. He means it.
They tried this in Key West also.
According to Thucydides, when Themistocles was wanted by the Athenians (who probably would have condemned him to death), he took refuge briefly with the king of the Molossians before eventually making his way to the Persian Empire (The Peloponnesian War, book I, chapter 136).
I think I will found my own Republic of Marylousia.