Nine Questions About Liberland, The World's Newest (Possibly Fake) Country

The Verge
Apr. 22, 2015

Is this a joke?

Maybe! Jedlička has a history of outspoken anti-EU activism, so a lot of Europeans have assumed this is an unusually committed stunt. A simpler objection is that Liberland simply isn't a country — it's just a website that Jedlička made. At this point, it's very difficult to tell the difference. Earlier this week, Wikipedia had a vicious disagreement over whether the country merited its own page. (The page was built, but is currently flagged for deletion.)

A group of Czech journalists visited the actual territory last week, but they couldn't get inside. The Liberland flag was raised over the territory after the founding, but the journalists reported it had since been taken down. Otherwise, the results were inconclusive.

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