Introducing: Escape From Zaqistan
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🗓️ 8 December 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Deep in the Utah desert is a tiny, tiny, tiny nation: The Republic of Zaqistan. Guarded by robots, Zaqistan nonetheless welcomed new citizens for more than 15 years - until it fell into ruins. Now the eponymous founder wants to rebuild. Join hosts Ryan Murdock, Gabbie Watts and Zaron Burnett on a journey to uncharted territory … to the nation of Zaqistan…and the upside-down world of micronations.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2005, Zach Landsberg bought a piece of desert land on eBay and started his own country. |
| 0:07.0 | I took the flagpole and just planted the flag and just kind of looked out of like, this is my, this dirt and this desert brush. |
| 0:14.0 | Like, I own this. |
| 0:15.0 | It wasn't quite so simple though. |
| 0:17.0 | In our country, this would be against the law. This would be treason. |
| 0:19.0 | This is where government and the American dream kind of clashed. |
| 0:22.2 | We ought to find you and run you out of the country for starting your own nation. |
| 0:26.2 | Zach persisted. |
| 0:28.1 | You know, and they're just like, you can't have these. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm like, well, man, are you seizing every Disneyland passport that comes by? |
| 0:34.3 | And they're like, that's different. |
| 0:35.8 | It's like, how? And they're like, |
| 0:42.9 | we know where Disneyland is. We don't know where Zagistan is. It turns out, |
| 0:48.4 | Zach's not alone. I am King Ernest Immanuel. I am the queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I the first, King of Capraberg. I am the supreme leader of the Grand Republic of Muntonia. All over the U.S., people are starting their own micronations. |
| 0:56.3 | Please don't stand in the troops. |
| 0:57.8 | We are a peace-loving nation, and we wish to cooperate with the United States in almost every way, |
| 1:02.6 | except for the taxes and laws. |
| 1:04.5 | And now, with America on the brink of whatever comes next, |
| 1:08.6 | Zach's looking to open up his borders. |
| 1:10.7 | What will be the procedure to get nationality of the Kazakhstan? |
| 1:14.6 | Kindly please send me the detail. |
| 1:16.4 | And make his nation stronger. |
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