Monaco: Europe’s Strangest Microstate 

I will not thank dollar shave club for sponsoring.

Dollar shave club for the win

I do have to say the razors are top notch and the price is great.

That was an interesting sponsor video. 0.o

"The idea of France having to deal with the Geo-Political equivalent of a hostile chihuahua on its doorstep evidently tickled Madrid"... Bwahahaha... GREAT line!... THIS is why I watch you guys...

Not mentioning the GP is like saying everything about the USSR but not mentioning the Cold War. :P

@@tjitse3916 And the 60s with James Bond and all the cute girls and all that. Cigarettes.

Yes I was bitterly disappointed when he didn’t mention the Monaco grand prox

It should really be called the Tour de Monaco. You literally drive all the way around the country 80 times in one race.

@@mpetersen6 its only 78 times

And none of the Lamborghini's was purple :-D

They’re a tax haven. They’re stealing the labor of other countries.

@Jacob Wilson “ their right” I don’t consider it a right to provide shelter to millionaire criminals that don’t contribute to society. These people from Microstates work so little yet get so much.

​@Jacob Wilson Do you per chance look at the gilded age, slavery in the American South, coal mine companies etc. and screech "ThAtS nOt ReAl cApItAlISm!" And yes, dear friend, I do think millionaires harm society.

​@Jacob Wilson False equivalencies and a misguided claim that that's in inherently socialistic or communistic and not Cultic megalomania mixed with pretend-communism is generally showing an ignorant take and a lack of understanding into the topic of communism and socialism. But nevertheless we did manage to find common ground in that billionaires are disgusting. Hoorah to that, akhi.

Actually, mine was that Monaco is way smaller than I thought...

If you think CP is large... Check out Golden Gate Park.

Yeah I was gonna say Golden Gate Park is a lot bigger. Central Park really isn’t that big it just photographs large and the whole idea of this famous park being in a larger than life city gives off a vibe that this park is huge

Forest park is one of the largest city parks

What if I tell you, A person in India single handedly created a forest much much bigger than Central Park. He got no help from anyone and this feat took 20 years to complete.

😀👍

The words of a man who never won there.

Just to be fair: I imagine a three times world champion to have a rather large living room, though.

Our original train station was on the seafront and the train tracks were on what is now the only motorway across town. The new underground station opened only in the 70s.

@@TheoHockeyton are you monégasque citizen ?

@@Pablo24000 yes I am.

@@TheoHockeyton do you want monaco to be part of france or stay independent ?

@@TheoHockeyton you don't have a french passport ?

AND the Monte Carlo Rally, crown jewel of the World Rally Championship and at one time host to a high-end speed boat grand prix in the harbor AND an air race!

Yet no mention at all. Shameful.

AND one of the most prestigious car shows (weeks) in the world!

That's what everyone knows about manaco, how about something we don't know

I 2nd dis Plot twist: he keeps Dave and the rest of his staff down there

Why do i feel like thats true. Def seems like the type to have bodies in the bssement. He didnt kill them. But he has em.

Including Indy Nidell?

Danny stop making alt accounts pushing your freedom propaganda.

Freedom for Danny!

ALL OF THIS!!!!

Yes, we need histories of fictional countries as well like freedonia, Sylvania, moronica, Etc

@@rufust.firefly2474 can’t forget Genovia 👀

Hell yeah!

@@rufust.firefly2474 let's not forget Elbonia, the mighty nation supplied with arms by Ian McCollum aka Gun Jesus, and with armoured vehicles by Nicholas Moran aka The Chieftan

I thought he already did.

Apparently Malta almost became part of the UK and even voted for it but the UK decided against it.

@N-B Rico you mean Knights.

Malta is beautiful. Went there as part of my honeymoon in 2014. The "city" of Mdina is so small you could walk from one end to the other in 5 minutes.

Agreed. You could do an episode on the great siege in 1565 alone. Although then that leads down the great internet rabbit hole of the templars... You have been warned!!!

And his farm is actually a terrarium.

@Maria Kelly look it up, not a traditional farm.

58...Lichtenstein has 35 policemen and 4 German Shepherds (at least it did when I visited in '87).

Ah, there is also an oyster farmer that runs la Pearl de monaco

Another fun fact, there are no plumber's helpers in Mo na Co, and Google doesn't know how to spell it

"Every f1"?

Good on them. Their only to do as they wish

I mean the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc is from there.

@@DevinEMILE and nico rosberg. Lots of f1 drivers were born in monaco to parents who were drivers before them, and some like verstappen werent born there, but still spent lots of time in monaco as kids

@@tnikoli40 David Coulthard admitted in an interview that he likes living in Monaco cause of the super low taxes.

I've visited...its crass. Nothing but rich Russian oligarchs & huge yachts. I usually stay in Villefranche and Nice. Much much nicer. I'm Irish, flight is only about 3 hours.

SideProjects or MegaProjects, maybe? Sounds cool.

Tom...that was built in skeleton form, and came by ships (many, many).

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I've got a feeling he's already done it... or maybe that was another channel

Lol you’d think. That’s where most of the formula drivers live too.

@@Oldwhiteguy Because of the climate and the nice central location..

Make your own video

Lol also I just learned they have a racer there, interesting....

Super Monaco GP for the Genesis ftw

but it can happen

The Grimaldis own a chateau (chateau de marchais ) in the north of France surrounded by 2,000 hectares. They could fit Monaco 8x over their hunting lodge.

The overall odds to the house itself I think from memory are about 2.5% if all possibilities covered

@Patricia Palmer The fact that nobody "heard about it" does not imply that research was not a pioneer. They date back to the beginning of the last century.

@N-B Rico it's not a recognized nation

It's a small swampy river bank on Serbia-Croatia border which is for various reasons claimed by neither of those countries, so a small bunch of European libertarians decide to claim it as an independent libertarian country. Population: one stray dog.

I want a Europe of 10,000 Liechtensteins

A libertarian dream.

@@joelhamilton8959, Israel and Taiwan are nations unrecognized by some countries, yet they exist.

Stuck in the basement and Gordon Ramsey yelling at him volume on max and on repeat the entire time

@@mizzshortie907 _ABSOLUTELY_ 👏

@@mizzshortie907 ALLEGEDLY!

Shhhh dont tell the world his secrets

From his Raid Shadow Legend

The boy with the blaze need SOMEWHERE to smash that dislike button.

Allegedly

@@skyerose501 ...of his beard.

China-Singapore population size comparison is about the same as France-Monaco. But I think Singapore is more like Liechtenstein. Monaco is like Hong Kong.

​@@nicksurface3513Hong Kong isn't a separate country

They are tiny states so they didn't have their own currency even before the euro (it would be totally useless for such a tiny state to have their own currency, it's much more efficient to have the same currency than their big neighbourg). All these states used the currency of their neighbourgs before (Monaco the French franc, San Marino the Italian lira and Andorra the French franc and the Spanish peseta). Since these big neighbourgs dropped their national currency for the euro, then the microstates de facto did the same. So it has nothing to do with the European Union, but using the money of their neighbourgs (which use the euro). Monaco uses the Euro because France uses the euro, even if it's not part of the European union (before they used the French franc yet they were not part of France, same with San Marino and Italy). In fact Monaco even had the Monegasque franc (but it was basically French franc printed in Monaco with a different design that had the same value than French franc and could also be used everywhere in France and French franc could be used everywhere in Monaco, just like today euro coins have different designs according to their country of origin but can be used everywhere in the Eurozone). Another exemple is Liechtenstein that use the Swiss franc. If Switzerland had joined the European Union and had changed its currency for the euro, then Liechstenstein would have done the same. Also there are a lot of countries using the money of a foreign country (for exemple some central American countries like Salvador and Panama use the US dollar and some Balkans countries like Montenegro and Kosovo use the Euro, but in these cases it's more to have a stable currency than for practical reason).

Full of plastic people who look at you like they just stood in something..prices sky high to keep the plebs out.

Please visit Portmerion

Yes, where The Prisoner was filmed!

so the government built a casino? i need more info

@@GetSmartGaming son, can you read? He's playing with hypothesis and metafors.

Straya!

There's actually ongoing construction to build another small neighborhood

@@qp667 Yes, the La Portier ward.

They can't really expand using the sea. The Alpes Maritimes départment surrounding Monaco has strict rules.

@@antoinemozart243 They have expanded using the sea.

@@Andrew-df1dr they can't. Their zone is ultra limited.

They also did Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Vatican and Fiume City State (a micronation in Croatia which lasted a year and a half)

lmao the rich aren't affected by covid just the lower and middle class

@@scooterdogg7580 Not at all. Sure, rich powerful people can get better treatments and get them earlier joe-schmo. But wealthy, powerful people are almost by definition HIGHLY socially active and travel widely. They have gotten sick and - like everyone else - died from COVID19. The more people cry "elite conspiracy theory situation" falsely, the less effective and listened to true whistle-blower and investigators are in getting at ACTUAL elite corruption. Like crying wolf.

@@scooterdogg7580 Alot of Monacos economy is about tourism, so obviously Covid has affected it. Also rich people's money dosen't grow on trees, of course it affects them.

Simon's head is that keen looking because he does use the Dollar Shave Club products. Take a look at the really old videos of him, his dome did not gleam like it does now.

Same! Lmao

@Patricia Palmer if you turn him upside down he looks just like one of the Beatles

I mean, what isn't?

@@rufust.firefly2474 😂😂😂

Even in English. At least when it comes to the American version.

Uhm there is already an Antarctica episode. Enjoy!