For sale: World's smallest country with sea view

Ever get tired of the polotics and religious beliefs in your country?
Ever just wanna get away?
Well if so,heres your chance to own your very own country...sorta.

(Reuters)-LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - For sale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports.

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Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.

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Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family.

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He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.

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The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins.

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Roy, 85, now lives in Spain and his son Michael told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients "who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy."

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He suggested Sealand, which has eight rooms in each tower, could be a base for online gambling or offshore banking.

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Asked to describe the delights of living on what he described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: "The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view."

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What? No price tag. Man I gotta tell ya, this 50 mil is just burnin a hole in my a$$ pocket

if you have to ask, you can't afford it. Me on the othr hand.....