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A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House
With Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun as its prime minister, Liberland hopes to make strides in international diplomacy and finally settle the parcel of forestland it claims to own.
During my 2023 visit, I found myself participating in a slow-motion police chase while sailing down the Danube toward the territory; Croatian officers tailed our boat for almost its entire two-hour journey from Serbia, and patrolmen waited to intercept anybody who might try to make landfall. “As you know, I personally invest $30 million into the Trump crypto project World Liberty Financial,” Sun said in January, as he outlined plans for a second term as Liberland prime minister. But the dissonance between Liberland’s problems in settling its earthly territory and its lofty space ambitions doesn't trouble Jedlička, who sees myth-building as an important part of legitimizing the micronation.
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