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With its black-red-and-white flag flying, Sealand has a piratical air as it continues to assert its independence...with zero COVID-19 cases.

It is a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the British government for the past 54 years, but even on Sealand, about 11km off southeast England, visitors have to show a negative COVID-19 test before being winched up onto the deck. “We have zero COVID cases,” Liam Bates, one of the self-declared “princes” of Sealand, said proudly. “At the moment I think we’re one of the only countries in the world that can actually say that,” he said. Sealand, a former anti-aircraft platform built atop two hollow concr...

SEALAND - It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the UK government for the last 54 years.

It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the UK government for the last 54

Former fortification has survived an attempted ‘coup’ and a catastrophic fire