Are you also bored while living in your country? So now you can also get your country. However, conditions are applicable in this. Where earlier it was possible to buy a private island only and only for wealthy people. Now you too can make your own country by buying an island for yourself.
Two people named Gareth Johnson and Marshall Meyer founded an organization called Lets by an Island in the year 2018 to turn this fantasy into reality. This project is setting an example for those looking to buy their own island. The two launched a crowdfunding campaign and were able to raise £250,000 (Rs 2,50,21,974) through investors to buy an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. Which they want to develop for tourism. He wants to share the benefits of this with everyone and allow everyone to live out their ‘private island’ fantasy.
Speaking to CNN, Johnson said, “Who hasn’t dreamed of building their own country? Especially in a post-Trump, post-Brexit, post-Covid world. If a group of regular people can do it, maybe it can.” It could be possible.
As of December 2019, they had raised enough money to buy Coffee Caye, a 1.2-acre island off the coast of Belize, which was redefined as the ‘Principality of Iceland’. The micronation is not officially recognized, but it benefits from many of the characteristics of an autonomous country – it has its own national flag, anthem and government. “We are as close to a nation as you can get without an army and a navy,” Johnson said.
Johnson, who co-founded a company called Young Pioneers Tours, which specializes in extreme tourism to destinations such as North Korea and Syria and unrecognized states such as Transnistria, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh, initially about 15 years ago Came up with this idea. In this regard, Meyer said that when Johnson told him about the idea, at first he considered it impossible, but after that when he told all the details of it, then he also started getting interested in it.
Each lion of this island will be found for $3250 (about Rs 248330). People can buy as many lions as they want, although they will get the right to vote only one. Both investors currently have 100 lions on the island and investors from 25 different countries have shown interest.