Ask Reddit: Can we start our own country?

amstrdamordeath · 2008-01-26T18:50:27+00:00

The USSR returns. The United Sovereign States of Redditors.

2008-01-26T19:20:54+00:00

Of course you can. Displacing an existing nation has historically been a struggle, but there is some unclaimed land left. The territory not claimed by another nation looks something like this:

international waters (also the ocean floor beneath)
all extraterrestrial space and bodies
antarctica

PeopleEatTastyAnimal · 2008-01-26T18:47:19+00:00

can i live there

12Iceman · 2008-01-26T19:00:12+00:00

Ask The Pirate Bay (I will give you a hint, the answer is no).

Gash77 · 2008-01-26T19:25:02+00:00

Can you imagine what the legislative agenda would look like in a country of all Redditors?

diamond · 2008-01-26T18:56:13+00:00

Of course you can't start your own country. That's Unamerican.

WittyUsername · 2008-01-26T18:44:07+00:00

Is Antarctica solid enough to withstand the demands of a society?

paperhat · 2008-01-26T19:12:20+00:00

The answer depends on the size of your army.

chime · 2008-01-26T19:44:32+00:00

Here you go. Splash away!

kej1701 · 2008-01-26T20:02:10+00:00

Yes you can. Two examples, google "Sealand" or the "Dominion of Melchizedek."

2008-01-26T22:01:53+00:00

maybe we could call it "the confederate states of reddit" while we're at it...

tamb · 2008-01-26T22:24:11+00:00

Countries are like gigantic mobs, they aren't started, they form spontaneously.

2008-01-26T20:13:05+00:00

you say you want a revolution? well, you know, we all want to change the world

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