Almost 10,000 Syrians have registered citizenship with a tiny libertarian country in Europe that may or may not exist

Earlier this year, a young Czech politician named Vít Jedlička staked his claim to a small piece of no-man's land on the border of Croatia and Serbia. He dubbed the 2.7-square-mile area "Liberland," and announced it as a new sovereign nation organized on libertarian principles.

Serbia and Croatia don't exactly agree with Jedlička as to whether or not his country exists, but that hasn't stopped nearly 10,000 Syrians looking to escape their war-torn country from applying for citizenship in Liberland. Residents of other troubled nations, like Libya, have also been over-represented among Liberland's 378,000 citizenship applications to date.

Unfortunately for Syrian applicants, only about 600 out of 10,000 have qualified so far — and the Croatian government isn't letting any would-be Liberlanders occupy their new country as of this time.

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