Notes - Welcome to Liberland, the World’s Newest Country, The New York Times PDF

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Welcome to Liberland, the World’s Newest Country, The New York Times The proclamation - Liberland is a deserted piece of land between Serbia and Croatia - The Danube (Liberland) was the natural border between Serbia and Croatia - Czech Politician Vit Jedlicka and his committee on April 13 2015 created the State of the Free Republic of Liberland. ! The President - Jedlicka became President of Liberland after he was elected by his girlfriend and college friend. He believed that the land was his due to the homestead principle and the rules from the Montevideo Convention 1933. - Liberland was not being recognised by the international community and by Serbia who described it as not a serious act and by Croatia as a joke. - The legtimacy of Jedlicka was being challneged by the Liberland Settlement Association on May 8 as they believed it was a radical libertarian experiment and settled in Liberland. Croatia started denying people entry into Liberland and arrested Jedlicka. - Jedlicka believed that despite the situation with Croatia any attention was good. - Within a few weeks there were 330k applications for citizenship. By June Jediicka only handed 330 citizenships. He wanted to keep Liberland small. He believed majority of the freedom loving interest would come from those seeking freedom in general. 82k Egyptians signed up, the most applications next were from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. - He believed the government would only control security, legal things and diplomacy.He wanted complete privatisation of schools and health care, voluntary taxation - Jedlicka had to establish Liberland as a soverign state. This was difficult as Croatians felt Liberland was Serbian territory and if Croatians crossed this was illegal. Jeddicka thought the best way would be diplomatically by creating an alliance with a Czech member of the European Parliament Tomas Zdechovsky. ! The Diplomatic Mission - Zdechovsky came on a plane and then they drove to the Croatian border checkpoint and then they got through to the Liberlandian base camp and were two miles upstream from Liberland. ! The Policija - They went on a boat and they went downstream to towards the Liberland-Croatia border. A Policijia boat came along and Jedlicka said that the diplomat is measuring the borders. The policeman said every will be arrested since the border is not defined and is in dispute but the diplomat would not be arrested since he had a diplomatic passport. Jedlicka could not establish Liberland as a soverign state. The Matrix - He believed the only way he could tkae control of liberland from the LSA was to rally his troops against the threat of Croatia. - Liberland was an example of how to create freedom and wanted to have a rolling effect in other states. - He believed nationhood would be achieved through an app as it would connect Liberlandians to one another through a messaging and commenting system. - He would create a task site and each completed task would give the people points so they could purchase citizenship. This would create a currency that would have value and would be named the Liberlandian merit. The Martins - The President of Liberland came to London to hire his citizens. The State Visit to France - There was support from France

The President in America - Liberlandian Independence Day was on 4th July. Croatia believed that Liberland did not exist and they would continue to remove people living there. - Jedlicka had established 10 consular offices around tAmerica in a week and Croatia only had 4. - Jedlicka believed that the Croatian police barring him and his future citizens settling helped him. - The Belgium elites were distant....