There was a Les Hemingway project to create a New Atlantis near Bahamas in the late 1940s. It is written up in Filthy Pierre, er, I mean, Erwin Strauss's book _How to Start Your Own Country_ available from Loompanics (who I've asked to accept e-gold a few times). Hemingway's project became a sort of Hong Kong junk community - boats docked to each other to form a continuous platform. Eventually the Bahamas government banned the thing and boats which weren't pulled out were destroyed - possibly by weather.
There was another New Atlantis project in the 1960s which centered around a motel in New York where an entrepreneur gathered a bunch of his enthusiasts. Spencer MacCallum interviewed these guys, and recently gave me a silver piece from that project. I think it is a tenth of an ounce of silver and was called something like a Deka. That project eventually built a concrete boat which was poorly designed and sank. Yes, it was near the Florida Keys that they wanted to build their new country.
More recently, Richard Morris - the Florida architect and not the Phoenix lawyer - was working with me to persuade Eric Klien and Chuck Geshlider to use his Seacell technology to build Oceania near Panama - the 1992-1994 Atlantis Project. Klien, in my view, absconded with the funds from this project and it died in 1994, although Klien subsequently put my business plan for Morris's Sea Structures on his oceania.org web site.
The Phoenix lawyer named Richard Morris is involved in what I believe to be a scam country called New Utopia. You can read more about it at http://www.scamdog.com/
I certainly won't buy any documents the State Dept. issues. If they post the stuff to their web site, let me know.
The Knights of Malta are certainly a country, but they are also ephemeral. While they used to have considerable territory, they are now situated in their pre-existing embassy in Vatican City. It is sort of interesting that their country went away, but their embassy remains - says something about the extent to which treaties outlast countries.
I think the accusation that those in the USA Department of State need to read some history and otherwise catch a clue is well founded.
Regards,
Jim http://www.awdal.com/
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