This 3-story, 96-yr-old Georgian is close to the hustle and bustle of Chicago's South Side. But with 4 fireplaces and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar, you may never want to leave.
Posted on 07/03/2008 4:57:48 PM PDT by ellery
Want your own country? Follow those who have started their own mini-states
DAYTON, Nev.—The Republic of Molossia isn't on any road map, but if you get lost along the way, you can always ring the president, who is happy to give directions.
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Not every dictator gives travel tips to the tourists. But Molossia isn't any run-of-the-mill country. It's a micronation, a teeny republic that consists of—well, to be honest—Baugh's three-bedroom house and 1.3-acre yard.
Baugh, a 45-year-old father of two, is a micronationalist, one of a wacky band of do-it-yourself nation builders who raise flags over their front yards and declare their property to be, as Baugh puts it, "the kingdom of me."
In a scorched corner of the Nevada desert, an area where few would likely assert a counter-claim, Baugh has declared independence, hanging a sign, marking his borders and, in his driveway, building a customs shack. He has a space program (a model rocket), a currency (pegged to the value of chocolate-chip cookie dough), a railroad (model size), a national sport (broomball) and—in his landlocked desert region—a navy (an inflatable boat).
"Welcome to Molossia!" called Baugh, who during the week works as a human resources recruiter but on a recent Saturday stood on his doorstep, wearing a formal military uniform (dress cap, brass-buttoned jacket, gold epaulets, six medals, tricolor sash and patent-leather shoes), and prepared to lead a 45-minute trek through his small backyard. "You're our fifth visitor this year," he said, with a satisfied grin.
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Yes indeed. Happy independence day, Freepers, and God bless America!
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This 3-story, 96-yr-old Georgian is close to the hustle and bustle of Chicago's South Side. But with 4 fireplaces and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar, you may never want to leave.
Every time I start thinkin’ I’m weird....people post something like this.
Eek — if Obamanation annexes DC, I’m forming the Constitutional Republic of Elleryburgh.
:) I know what you mean. Here’s a wiki list of micronations that makes for some fun reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations
If I were to start my own micronation, it would be the Republic of Subterrania, and my presidential palace would be a series of single-wide mobile homes, buried below ground after some industrious use of a backhoe, then covered up with some 2-x-4s, gravel, dirt, etc., and one concrete staircase leading down to the residence.
And then you will find the mother of all apocalyptic, end-of-the-world, bomb shelters, and an arsenal that would make any Second Amendment-believing American proud as Hell.
Somehow, I hate him already.
Harumpph.
These people will be singing a different tune when dwarves show up and start nesting in the attic.
Little buggers just keep coming back, too.
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Things will be different when I’m on top of the dung hill...
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