Despite spanning roughly 125 acres, making it the world’s second-smallest country after Vatican City, Verdis maintains two embassies, one in Dover and another in Novi Sad, Serbia, and counts 400 official citizens.
The micronation now boasts its own passports, flag, coat of arms, a full cabinet, and a body of law, with English, Croatian, and Serbian as official languages and the euro as currency.
Its online presence has attracted enormous interest, generating more than 1,000 emails each month from people seeking citizenship, although its tiny size means it must carefully ration applications.
Seven years after its founding, the self-declared head of state has received an award at a UN gala in New York for aid work his fledgling nation has undertaken in the Ivory Coast.
