If you've ever been told to "love it or leave it," now you may have a new opportunity for leaving it — it being American citizenship, that is. A libertarian politician from the Czech Republic has staked his claim on a small piece of no-man's land on the border of Croatia and Serbia. The 2.7 square mile area is dubbed "Liberland," and even without official recognition as a sovereign nation, it has already attracted some 250,000 applications for citizenship.
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