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Originally Posted by Daigoro
It depends on how sovereign you want to be.
Prince Leonard was a wheat farmer with no training in Finance, Law, Politics or Propaganda, and no military power of any sort, yet Hutt River Principality has been arguably sovereign for 49 years, not having paid any taxes to the Australian government in that time.
On the other hand, Taiwan has all the skills, military power and national alliances mentioned above, yet is not sovereign by various metrics. |
That sounds like some of the cases in Canada where everyone knows that a certain rural community organized around a church practices polygamy, but as long as everyone is of age the government does not want the hassle of seriously enforcing the law and being accused of persecuting a religion. Or Sealand: the British crown is not landing the SAS on the platform, but nobody important recognizes Sealand passports.
"Sovergnity" is a term politicians use to make people excited, but in practice it is always limited. Medium-sized countries find that if they start to move in a direction which the USA/China/Russia/EU does not approve of, there is a strong and immediate response, while the big powerful countries are too big to have and act upon a single will.