I Could Make a Country

The founders of the republic of minerva, after they they get their flag up and everything, hire an australian boat to dump sand on these shallow reefs until there's land. They wanted to get it to about eight feet above sea level. And they figured that if they could create 15 acres of actual land, that would be enough to convince investors that they were legitimate. "It just always seems like they're going to accidentally invent government every time, right? Like funy"