Well, I registered and applied. As a WELL armed sheep, with more skills than I can count, Let's see if I can gain dual citizenship.

No chance for viability. The territory is "disputed", which means both Croatia and Serbia have laid claim to the area in question. Any attempt at infrastructure creation would immediately fall prey to one or the other (most likely Serbia), or both countries might agree to "dual sovereignty", meaning both could collect taxes and enforce claims against the "new nation."

The only real possibility for a new independent state on existing land is if an existing government wanted to strike a deal with an entity with enough money to buy the land. Even then, there would probably have to be agreements regarding revenue sharing, law enforcement jurisdiction, etc, etc.

Another way to develop a new state is to create an artificial structure outside the limits of any other state's jurisdiction. One effort, called "New Utopia" was intended to be built on a shoal in the Gulf of Mexico, but when it was discovered that the shoal fell within the 200 mile economic control of Nicaragua, that deal collapsed.

There are privately owned islands (the late actor, Raymond Burr, who played Perry Mason, owned one in the Pacific) that while technically outside the jurisdiction of existing nations, usually have jurisdiction claims by sometimes more than one nearby nation supported in international courts. There might be a possibility to work out a deal for sovereignty (Mason did, with Fiji) for one of those islands.

Conclusion: it isn't going to be easy to establish a really independent state, and even then you may have to work out alliances with bigger states for self protection. Who knows? That might be one of Elon Musk's new projects.

They need a Midas Mulligan.
If anything will get the UN to step in and force an agreement over that 3 square miles (other than rich natural resources) then this is it.

I don't know about viability. They said they're only accepting 5,000 to 10,000 immigrants and it's what, 4 mi sq. I think Luxembourg and Monte Christo are both bigger than that.

I wish them well, but I won't consider them a real nation until they have a working legal system and some sort of police or security.

I would love to think that this can easily succeed. I think its going to be more difficult than that however. Something special would have to be relied upon until it was strong enough to defend itself somehow. Maybe offer virtual citizenship to all comers until a LOT of people could be shown to be behind the project. Lets say 1 million like minded people stood behind it and willing to put money into a bank started there, backed by gold. Initially those people would be scattered around the world, united by some sort of social media connection, and trading with each other preferentially. Might be enough economic power to permit a new country to be left alone. Socialist leaning powerful countries are only going to want to take over its riches, so that eliminates it being inside the USA . Maybe a good target location would be a really failed state somewhere. It will be difficult to be sure

I clicked your link and read that article and am thinking "GREAT"! Because I am personally setting out on my mission to accomplish the same within my own area. If anybody cares, I'll be pleased to post articles on the ways and wherefores of that to the Gulch.

On another side-note, I consider myself to be a Libertarian Objectivist. I see darn little difference, and would really like to see some explanation of your views on this matter.

very. I'm kinda skeptical, though. I'd like to see the geography. in more detail. and bank secrecy-which has eroded in Switzerland

Here's a note we sent to Liberland's Prez yesterday:

"Thank you for your great intentions in attempting to create a more free country! You are wise and courageous people & we admire you.

While we eagerly await reading the English version of the Constitution of Liberland & the Laws of Liberland, a brief scanning of the website http://liberland.org/en/about/ & forum posts is not particularly encouraging for many reasons:

1—The creator of Liberland has proclaimed himself to be President, which is, as far as we know, a force-based political position.

2—Constitutions and laws are political constructs which generally CONSTITUTE the “legal” ways in which the newly created State can impose its will on it subjects (aka “citizens”).

3—It appears that Liberland is simply another small State whose rulers have already accepted the win-lose paradigm of rulers, politicians, laws, etc., with the noble intent of attempting to limit the powers of their newly created State, just as the founders of the USA did in creating what has become the most dangerous terrorist organization on the planet, the out-of-control US “government”.

4—The folks in your forum are already debating which freedoms will be confiscated by the new Liberland State. They mostly seem to be stuck in the European Win-Lose Paradigm & do not yet understand the concept of the Win-Win Free-Market Stateless Voluntary Society.

5--This note dated today on your website is not particularly positive for the project. Have you any comments?:

“Croatian police blocked the road that goes to Liberland. You can see the video and read the article here http://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/drustvo/liberle... (written in Serbian; but you can use Google Translate in order to translate to your native language).; Liberland flag is removed (although it's not specified who did it).; Croatia does not have sovereignty over the Liberland territory; but it has soverignty over the road that takes to the Liberland.; Unless the Liberland president posseses a teleportation device; access to Liberland will not be possible.”"

Should this be in "Going Galt"?

My opinion is the only way a true Gulch will work is if it is secret and hidden to only a few from the outside world. Anything less would cause a massive Liberal Apocalypse.

"self appointed president" hmmm.....

If one of the new "citizens" opens a casino, who knows where this could go. However, no matter how Libertarian they are, they will need a police force. (A necessary evil?)

Isn't there any no mans land in North America Just waiting to be claimed?

You can bet that the Liberals would be trying this too. It would fail real fast as soon as they realize they don't have enough workers paying the taxes to support the entitlements.

The author says the territory is terra nullius, or literally no man's land. A pocket of land that somehow fell through the "crack" between the borders of two established nation-states. So he just went in and occupied it.

I wish him well, but, like the author of the article, I wonder whether he has what it takes.

I hope to see many of these spring up. Manhattan has 70,000 people per sq mile. So Liberland has room for the 30,000 who have applied, with room left over for very limited agricultural and light-industrial areas.