Liberland<\/strong>, officially the Free Republic of Liberland<\/strong>, is a micronation claiming an uninhabited parcel of disputed land on the western bank of the Danube, between Croatia and Serbia. It\u2019s a 2.7 square mile piece of land referred to as \u201cGornja Siga.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Proclaimed on April 13, 2015 by the Czech right-libertarian politician and activist V\u00edt Jedli\u010dka (who is also its founder and head of state), it is a constitutional republic with elements of direct democracy. The state has two Vice Presidents and 5 Ministers; the language is English; the Liberland \u2018merit\u2019 is the official cryptocurrency; and the country’s motto is: To live and let live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Jedli\u010dka, the ongoing Croatia-Serbia border dispute resulted in a plot of land west of the Danube that wasn\u2019t claimed by either side, though it has been administered by Croatia since 1995. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Liberland does not have diplomatic recognition from any nation, but a few other micronations have expressed support for the concept, the goal of which (as stated on its website) is to create “a society where righteous people can prosper with minimal state regulations and taxes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, back in London, the structures that brought the late Zaha Hadid\u2019s architecture and design firm (ZHA) enormous fame have always seemed to be ahead of their time, something out of the future. Now, its visionaries (led by principal architect Patrik Schumacher and Mytaverse\u2019s Kenneth Landau and Jaime Lopez) are designing a virtual self-governed city in the metaverse. (Mytaverse powers the immersive, VR interaction and communication technology in the Liberland Metaverse venture. Zaha Hadid Architects\u2019 design is deployed within Mytaverse, an enterprise 3D immersive platform being used by Liberland to bring the city to life.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will have a city hall, collaborative working spaces, and even galleries selling non-fungible tokens\u2014very much a nod to Liberland. (About the virtual development, Schumacher explains, \u201cThe time is ripe, technologically, economically, and socially, for shifting more and more of our productive lives into the metaverse. The metaverse is just starting to show its potential to empower true global collaboration with global borderless participation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is hoping his virtual metropolis will inspire the development of the real micronation that inspired the metaverse counterpart. That idea is obviously enticing to the 700,000 people that (according to Jedli\u010dka) have submitted citizenship applications to Liberland. For now, however, Liberland will exist online in a highly developed virtual reality where visitors\u2019 avatars will network and collaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Places like Liberland\u2014countries with libertarian governments that brag about having few rules and regulations\u2014resonate with the metaverse because it\u2019s built using blockchain technology\u2014 decentralized and autonomous. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/crestnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Map.webp\")
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