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Essentially all land is owned. If you want to start a new country you’ll need to either buy up a territory or take it by conquest (frowned upon these days).
by dinkleberg 6y ago
Essentially all land is owned. If you want to start a new country you’ll need to either buy up a territory or take it by conquest (frowned upon these days).
- rozab 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil Although I'm pretty sure both countries agree that it isn't owned by Jeff from Slough.
- JabavuAdams 6y agoBir Tawil is the traditional land of the Ababda tribe. They've used it for centuries and now do gold-mining there. It annoys me that in 2020 we have people exercising a colonial script where just because there's no piece of paper saying this land is claimed we don't recognize the traditional and de-facto claim of the people who actually are there. That said ... I'm tempted ...