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  • We did it! TestTube News has finally hit half a million subscribers, and it is entirely

  • thanks to all of you watching and sharing and liking and subscribing. So in honor of

  • this massive milestone, we wanted to give back. As you know, we love suggestions for

  • new videos, so for this one we decided to take a look at patch of land on the western

  • bank of the Danube river. A small new country bordering Croatia and Serbia. TestTube News

  • viewers, we wanted to knowHow Powerful is Liberland?

  • We made it! Against all odds, Test Tube News has been around for a full year! In honor

  • of this massive milestone, we wanted to give back to our loyal viewers. We decided to take

  • a look at patch of land on the western bank of the Danube river. A small, new country

  • bordering Croatia and Serbia. TestTube News viewers, we wanted to knowHow Powerful

  • is Liberland?

  • We did it! TestTube News has finally hit half a million subscribers, and it is entirely

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  • How Powerful is Liberland?

  • Well, the micronation of Liberland was founded in April 2015 as a tax-less, unregulated,

  • libertarian utopia on a small piece of disputed territory. So far, their assets consist entirely

  • of a dilapidated house left over from the 80s, a number of self-issued stamps, and a

  • massive worldwide internet presence.

  • Although Liberland is small, it’s only the 3rd smallest country in the world. It is roughly

  • 16 times the size of the Vatican, and 2 and a half times the size of Monaco. Liberland’s

  • 2.7 square miles could potentially hold 400 Walmart Supercenters, 115 Louvre Museums,

  • or replace New York’s largest landfill.

  • Now, although Liberland has received literally hundreds of thousands of applications for

  • citizenship, few people actually populate the country. As a matter of a fact, their

  • President was arrested twice while trying to enter Liberland, making its current permanent

  • population zero. Still, as a free country, it stands to reason that most, if not all

  • of the 360,000 applicants will be allowed in, making Liberland the most densely populated

  • country in history. At 133,000 residents per square mile, that’s more than two and a

  • half times the density of the current frontrunner. Look out, China’s Autonomous Region of Macau

  • (MA-cow).

  • But can Liberland's economy support such a significant potential population? Although

  • no GDP figures are yet available, their President has informed us that theyve received about

  • $40,000 dollars in donations so far. This makes Liberland the most severely impoverished

  • country on earth. Please write to the UN and petition your local government to send humanitarian

  • aid to Liberland. And don’t worry, they do take Bitcoin.

  • Of course, a nation is only as powerful as its diplomatic ties. Without them, there’s

  • nobody to come to your aid when a disaster strikes, an invading army shows up, or a gust

  • of wind knocks down your parliamentary building. Luckily, theyre not all alone out there.

  • The one and only country to recognize their sovereignty and establish diplomatic relations

  • is the Kingdom of North Sudan. However, it might be worth noting that the Kingdom of

  • North Sudan is actually another micronation, which is ruled by the iron fist of a seven-year-old

  • American girl from Virginia. Powerful allies, indeed.

  • Finally, considering that Liberland’s head of state was stopped from entering the country

  • by a few Croatian police officers, it’s unlikely Liberland has an effective defense

  • force. In fact, they state that their only military weapon is quotediplomacy”.

  • That ranks them somewhere around 200th in the world. Still, theyre tied with about

  • 15 other defenseless countries, including Liechtenstein the world’s largest producer

  • of false teeth.

  • So all in all, how powerful is Liberland? Well, it is the third smallest, most impoverished,

  • unprotected, tax-free land of drugs and guns. But their political premise, which guarantees

  • personal liberty, secularism, and a lack of Nazi or Communists, makes Liberlandthe

  • single most ideologically powerful nation on Earth since the Ancient Roman Empire. Live

  • and let live.

  • Want to learn more about how to create your own country? Check out our video here. And

  • to those of you that have been with us for a long while now, thanks so much for all your

  • support. Next up, 1 Million Subscribers!

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