Off the coast of England, suspended between the grey sky and the North Sea, roughly 12 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, stands a giant of iron.
What at first glance appears to be nothing more than a desolate, abandoned military platform actually conceals the story of the world’s smallest nation: the Principality of Sealand.
Founded in 1967 by Paddy Roy Bates, a former British Army major, this platform declared itself an independent state, re…
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