This Is Technically A Country… I Explored It 

Hi Zac plz reply and I'll be there Edit:wow I'm first to reply

Me

count me in

I'm in!

Definitely me!

*Olympics

There’s already plans for it in 2026

They have a team… and shirts. I tried to buy one.

They should

@@Andi_Frost_XPR0PR18world cup not olympics

There are international laws

think*

@@parkadeigogaming9792 no, Sealand is not part of the UN so things like Geneva convention don’t apply to them

@@kokotree9226 that means it just a Geneva suggestion?

@@saberz7027 pretty much

Much rather have Sealandi citizenship then whatever _Unestablished Titles_ was offering.

BASED

@@downscale F

It doesn't count because Established Titles is fake.

@@downscale they do⬅️

Boy*

Max annoyed he didn’t find out about this place first

You should fill jay's missing spot 👀👀

@@harryblock_3826 idk if the zac and max show rolls off the tongue as well

Up for a collab mad fish? Got some noice video ideas for my upcoming RU-vid channel

when i first read this i thought u meant a door knob,, boy was i wrong

@@mercolour same

@@mercolour yup

what knobb boris

They have more years of history than kosovo

sure but its still very vague and constantly changing. got a bad wind one day? your boirders just shrank. new and improved cannons? boom, huge increase in border size

but didnt they have bomber planes that could fly out way further than a cannon?

@@mysterystainontherug6290 Maybe the boundary for international waters was determined before bomber planes could fly.

@@mysterystainontherug6290 USA claims the world now.

Makes perfect sense as a metric to me when it was established. Modern people especially the younger generations tend to look at history pretty myopically. Increasingly so.

@David I wonder what the sealand hospital is like

@@citizenkyouma probably just a stretcher bed and a first aid kit

why do that when u can just go into some rich persons house and pay the law to look away. bonus trafficking too

There used to be a place like sealand which had this exact idea implemented. It was located near Italy and was later destroyed by the Italian navy. There's a movie about it aswell

@@thrguywiththecoins9726 im just envisioning a destroyer opening fire on a small little structure in the middle of the ocean and it just gets absolutely obliterated

And in all its glory

Leaving my mark here

yesss

Did you know sealand is 0.01 times bigger than vatican

amazing

Yes. It's bit complex, as you have to be recognized, but there are a lot of cruise ships that basically do that. You gotta have the money of small country to pull it off tho. Also people can just invade and take your stuff, so most just sign up under one of the tax heavens and leave it at that.

Yes if it's not in territorial waters but it's more complicated

You can, but then again, if you do that, anyone with a gun can invade it and no one will help you because it's outside of anyone's jurisdiction.

That's why you don't do it alone...@@garrukthewildspeaker262

We have people in my country that have declared independence and created their own kingdom out of their garden, some who refuse to accept that the German empire has fallen and claim to be it's citizens and so on. As long as you act mental enough you can get away with declaring your own country anywhere

*BREAKING NEWS* Sealand joins the UN!

Sadly in 50 to 100 years in the future it will become a forgotten country think about it nobody is gonna remember this when they are dead

You can become a Lord, or any other title, and obtain an ID card as a citizen, just go to their page

it already is officially declared as a country. There is not institution that grants countyhood. I think what you mean is you want it to be internationally recognized. Which is a different thing.

@@amymiskiman5086 Time is a corrosional force in the North sea, it will of had an anticipated 'lifetime' upon construction. I wonder how long it has left?

They don’t mess around

Considering it’s Tiny aswell

It would be an alright place to put Anti-air, long range artillery ect

They are people who dont need a government and can conduct themselves as freemen.

More like metal

I've had the privilege to speak to two ww2 vets at length and they really do have some of the most surreal stories. I don't believe they used much if any embellishment. Just a very wild thing to experience that hopefully nobody else ever has to on that scale.

Share some of his stories plssss!!

Can you share a story that was really traumatizing to him. If you cant its okay

@@yurix6072 I'm sorry to say that Bill passed away in December 2021, aged 96. One of my favourite stories of his was that of his time evacuating women and children from Javanese islands in the Dutch East Indies prior to Japanese invasion. There were two boats that took part in the evacuation of these particular islands, and two people who were on Bill's were a mother and daughter. Fast forward 60 years and Bill was on holiday in Holland, where he popped into a cafe for some ice cream. He was sitting when the cafe owner came over and asked if he had been in the navy during WW2 (Bill always wore his navy cap every day). It turned out that the cafe owner's mother was one of the children rescued by Bill's boat, and so he closed the cafe for the rest of the day, took Bill to his home to meet his mother, and showed him around the town. They stayed in contact until his death. I just love how it always reminds me of how small a world we live in, and how with Bill's attitude towards people , talking (and singing) to literally anyone and everyone, it makes it a hell of a lot smaller still. He was also a recipient of the Arctic Star, awarded to veterans who served on convoys to provide aid to Northern Russia, where there were enormous casualty rates, and horrific weather conditions. Bill would tell about having to constantly be chiselling ice off the boat to relieve the extra weight so that the boat wouldn't become unstable, and that when submarines sank the convoys ships people would be dead within minutes. It's interesting to think that he received the medal from President Putin - he died before the invasion of Ukraine, I would have been very interested to hear his thoughts on the situation.

@@dunnomynameso746 He would often say that there were many things that he would never talk about as they were too horrible or painful to remember. He was involved in evacuating allied soldiers from Japanese prisoner of war camps after the war, which is one such time that he would never talk about. As I mentioned in the comment above, his time in the arctic was incredibly perilous. A huge number of boats were lost in those convoys, and he said that there was no chance of rescuing anyone as once people were in the water they'd be dead within a couple of minutes due to the extreme cold. I can't imaging the terror of being in such an environment, in your teens no less, and being attacked from below by invisible enemies such as u-boats, or from above by bombers. It's important these people's memory never fade.

Code Name Kids Next Door: UK edition

It's engrained into humans to do so. Kids building forts is to adults building countries.

bro kids literally watch dream smp and go “i wanna start l’manberg!!”

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Me: the smallest country is an atom

@@GuitarPlayingFeline that’s a country?? You learn something new every day

The smallest country is quarter of antom

@@GuitarPlayingFeline the smallest country is your pp

@@Top10CLICKBAITPLANES the smallest country is your pp

Lol. There were a few times where I thought they were actually saying 'Zealand'.

I live in new ZEALAND not New sealand tho :(

@@PennyGraham *whoosh*

@@scoobysam5466 r/Whoosh

@UCZ8rIILKl9vEDYLxT5G9LUg shut up

@Vegan Pete is that actually a thing?

That would be a great idea, but from how they were talking they don't seem super financially stable enough to hire a company to do it safe enough. Also I wish dude would have asked if they've actually done any repairs or upkeep of the legs bellow the water. If they haven't I doubt that place will last more then another 100 years if even.

@@zero3711 dont think thats just gonna crumble tbh mate

@@bradleywhite7285 Over a long time the metal will rust through. Idk how long specifically, but it will adventually.

I thought i heard the tube walls are (only) 300mm thick

Waterworld is the way, they could make underwater pods as well as floating islands

Music also is wonderful

When

@@Elliott185 skrapz

Are you the editor ?

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Yeah, it's that green roofing, im pretty sure.

Recognizethem as an independant state then

It's usually underwater though 🙄

It's actually water football team

Lol

I figured it wouldn't really hold for long

It's located in UK waters, I don't think anyone powerful really recognises Sealand as an independent country. It if made too much of a nuisance of itself it seems likely that the UK would invade and take control - or claim jurisdiction and use it to prosecute those involved after they leave the fort.

@@superfluidity Hey, they said it's seven miles offshore, which is outside the border defined who knows how long ago by how far a cannon could fire.

@@markmandel6738 You know, Falkland isalnds are pretty far away as well I reckon

@@markmandel6738 unfortunately, uk waters now extend to 12 miles

RIP your bro.

huh@@LandersWorkshop

Hmm yes I took over an country with bare hands.

@@SPHYNX_F1 hmm, i can walk across the country in 3 seconds

@@tyranoxis7386 hmm i can blow up an whole country with an brahmos

hmm, by crashing my boat into poles, i put an entire country in total anarchy

@@juniperye4914 hmm by sniping 4-5 ppl i can take over the whole country

A giant swing with no backup safety harness. If that shit breaks you just fall lmao.

"We take health & safety pretty seriously" he says before ushering the poor bastard onto a swing made of wood and old rope with one rope behind (too low to stop you falling out backwards) none in front (to stop you falling out forwards), no safety line to clip on and giving him a hard-hat with no chinstrap to keep it on. Awesome 😳

We like our irony.@@brians132

Yes, but we can shoot cannons across many bodies of water

Back in the day it did. Obviously, by the end of WW2, the world had moved on and there was a clear need for a new system. it took decades, but UNCLOS was the end result, which also - in the real world - made the Sealand question redundant. As a result of UNCLOS, the UK's territorial waters were extended from 3nmi to 12nmi, bringing Sealand within UK waters (and even if it were more than 12nmi, it wouldn't have helped as Sealand sits on the seafloor, which would fall within the UKs much larger EEZ - indeed, the entire North Sea falls within the EEZ of one of the basin countries, as no point lies more than 200nmi from coastline or another.

what makes it a pretty bad system is the fact that your borders would 100% depend on what kind of cannons you had installed. If you ever downgraded them to save money, your territory shrinks. Not only that, but as technology advanced cannons were able to shoot further and further. This means that international boundaries changed every time a better cannon was invented somewhere as now cannons can reach out to that new distance.

Thanks sir!

And jay?

@@mattiabinotto2734 he can swear moore?

How many people even live there how can they field a team

@@d4rk678 they have 20 some people living on the “island” but around 120 some have been granted citizensip

here he is

@@LiamBedford Lord Liam Bedford? LLB?

And you're also friends with the king of Italy

Exactly what I was thinking. "Well, I'm actually a prince. I manage my own country." Dude is super good looking too ngl

@@maxfern5701 plot twist he ends up being gay and his brother too xD that be the funniest part

They're looking at colonizing space; building private space stations

@THE GREAT CORNHOLIO As long you don't plant to coup in long term, because Sealand was suffering for once. It was attacked by mercenaries hired by insider, hijacking the place.

It was built as a boat that can withstand gunfire and cannon fire from aircraft cannons. That's significantly more durability than needed for just being a habitable sunken boat..

If they expanded in any concerning way they would be dealt with quickly, they only exist because no one cares about some on piece of metal in the sea but if you start occupying a large amount of territory or threatening to interfere with British naval operations they are done.

So u think a peice of shit out there is a treasure , wearing rose colored glasses

oh and taiwan!

And Isra- bam bam bam

@@yko_7313 and Istria

Filk, i think it is italy, but staying in croatia would be wise

KOSOVO JE SERBIA I'm just joking I'm Hungarian.

do this person just mansplain a video that already had all of the relevant details nah

@@jessicaaitken8858 did you just mansplained the fact that he was mansplaining what was already mansplained in the video?? Smh smh frl

Ya he didn’t say that in the video 😐

@@locakovvonloczkov7147 DID YOU JUST ASSUME EVERYONES GENDER 😱😰

@@jessicaaitken8858 oh what a poor little sexist you must be to use the word mansplain. You must be singing that song “I’m a single lady” all day long because you’ll never have a man when you’re sexist agaisnt men

Do not look up "italo-ethiopian war"

Own language? They just spoke italian or did I missed that point?

@@Avarage.Joe-David The official language was Esperanto

Yeah and isola delle Rose was built 3 years before this one.....

Ye

slay

interesting theory

@@ZacAlsop this reply hints he’s a prisoner even more

He's not just part of the fixtures and fittings, fact ☺

@@ZacAlsop Seeing as how there was an episode of Danger Man made at the forts.

I can see the appeal, but you've got to also think about the sustainability and bad weather of that place. Honesty there are far 'better' places in the pitch black to stargaze IMO. Then if a storm rolls in, you can shelter in a proper brick built home!

There is a movie on Netflix: Rose Island. That is about an 'illegal' island on the coast of Italy.

you need a lot of rules in a world of morons

The point is, they live by _their_ own rules, not by someone else's.

I'd like to visit there as well.

I'd like to visit there as well.

I‘d like to visit there as well.

I‘d like to visit there as well.

That's about how I learned about it, as well. That little kiddo country and this big ol' thing don't really match in my head. The kiddo's more fun

@@remen_emperor Are you kidding me?! This is WAY more fun! It's an actual place that's its own country. Sealand is incredible & unique! Hetalia is just another Anime. That's booooring in comparison.

I was kinda hoping the prince would mention that, I wonder if he’s even aware

Imagine if fans would realize they can buy lordship. Money will rain for that kid, lol But seriously now, i'm curious about they would react about the country's depiction in the anime.

same 🤣

read Wikipedia on Neal Stephenson's novel Snowcrash. it even has Suckerberg's Metaverse in it.

As mad as that was, it probably worked out for the best.

Just as 99% of the population on the planet would choose to do, as well.

I’m a Barron of sealand ,know your place lloyd 😂

Haha! Awesome man! 😀

@@MayhemTV607 yet you can't spell Baron.🤔

It's over-engineered, it's good for a few hundred years.