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Want to be king? Here is your chance to buy a small country, even if it’s just a floating piece of concrete. Hey, it’s got a colorful history too; what more can you ask for?

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Updated: 10:39 a.m. CT Jan 9, 2007
Principality of Sealand stands on WWII anti-aircraft platform in North Sea
Reuters

LONDON - For sale: The world’s smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports.

Built in World War II as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army Maj. Paddy Roy Bates, who went to live there with his family.

He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain’s territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.

The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins.

The family staved off an attempt by Britain’s Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force.

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