[UA] But that was in another country, and besides....

[Nick Wedig]

>>Interesting story at Yahoo, about a man arrested for selling passports to
>an
>>imaginary country -- "Sealand".
>    This sounds an awful lot like an idea Ken Hite had in his Suppressed
>Transmission column on Sir John de Mandeville.  Life imitates High
>Weirdness, I guess.

It also resembles a story from The Onion: "U.S. Ambassador  to Bulungi Suspected of Making Country Up".  The capital is Yabba-Dabba, and it's south of the Ivory Coast, if you were wondering. http://www.theonion.com/onion3307/ambassadorbulungi.html 

Mr. Teapot
wants to be an ambassador

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