A Country is Born?

Welcome Liberland to the world and to my spell check. This possible new nation, near Croatia, and Servia is not recognized - yet.  The small, uninhabited patch of land left unclaimed after the breakup of Yugoslavia is the location of the want-to-be country according to Vit Jedlicka, a Czech politician.

But for it to be a nation, some country will have to take it serious. "Wow, I thought someone was making up a story about this," says Ana Juric, 18, from Batina, Croatia, just upriver from Liberland.
"Can they really do that?" Ruza Lukis, 33, store owner from across the Danube.

If recognized it would become the smallest country in the world, being a 3-square-mile state. The formers of this new country are using the "homestead" principle. (The 13 colonies that formed the U.S.A used this principle.)

So far, 300,000 people have applied to become citizens of Liberland.

All sounds interesting. We'll have to wait to see if a baby nation is born. (Hasn't happened since 1948 when Israel was recognized as a nation by President Truman.)