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Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertarian Sea Nations

Behind the Bastards

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Tonga's Government Is Not Afraid to Drop Random Supplies

The head of state of tonga sent them a letter basically being like, we're not going to let you set up an empire on our doorstep. So the first thing tonga does they start air dropping just random boxes of aid supplies on to the reef in order to establish ownership. This did not succeed in dissuading the libertarians. And so in june of 19 71, the king of tonga used his military to officially seize the land which again, had nobody on it. The dream of the republic of minerva died, but the grift did not die, because grifts are eternal. Michael oliver started minting coins for his country after it was taken back by the tong

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