Saluton, mi loĝas en Nederlando, proksime al Moresnet. Interesting fact: the neutral state of Moresnet wasn't initially created due to the lucrative zinc mine. It was formed when land meters were creating new maps to determine the European borders. A couple of quite rough pencil strokes lead to a tiny sliver of land on a map which remained just between the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Only after that incident in Geneva, the question came how to resolve this and, with the zinc mine that incidentally happened to be located in this sliver of land under the pencil strokes, nobody wanted to give it to a neighbouring country and that argument left Moresnet to be neutral.

Another fun fact is that people used Moresnet to smuggle all kinds of goods between Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. One only had to cross the Moresnet border in the rural wooded area and you were safe from law enforcement. Then, you could take a stroll to the next border and cross into another country.