1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ RDN's Lucifer (nerthos) http://rainbowdash.net/nerthos http://rainbowdash.net/notice/4646445 @<span class="vcard"><a href="https://social.heldscal.la/sim" class="url" title="sim"><span class="fn nickname mention">sim</span></a></span> I heard about this at some point I think.<br />We had a somewhat similar case in my country in the late 1800s/early 1900s: a frontier town in the border with Chile, against the Andes, was not really governed or recognized by either country despite the inhabitants wanting a government to do what governments do and bring cops and infrastructure to the area since being that far removed they had to sometimes deal with bandits and trade was slow. There was a german immigrant there that loved beer, and had built his state on a mountainside, and built vats inside for fermenting beer. Twice a year he'd raise a white flag to show the town the beer was ready and everyone would gather at his state for the celebration, and drink until the beer ran out. In one of these meetings, everyone being drunk and annoyed at the lack of attention from the government, they decided that they'd become independant. Since they were now a country they needed a president, and named the German guy as such, (cont)