Located in the middle of Rome, the capital of Italy, is what many people believe to be the smallest country in the world, Vatican City.

However, Vatican City isn't like other countries, at all.

It's different in almost every respect to any other country,

so much so that it's reasonable to ask why the country even exists. Learn more

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To say that Vatican City is unlike any other country in the world is really a massive understatement.

It's extremely small obviously.

It's an absolute monarchy, but the monarch is elected. Everyone in the

country was born somewhere else and has citizenship somewhere else, including

the leader of the country. In several episodes I I've touched upon the papacy and many of those stories will have some origin in the Roman Empire.

However, the story of Vatican City really starts in the 19th century.

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