All hail Suyash Dixit, first king of the Kingdom of Dixit

[underpants]

'No Joke, I Own a Country Now'

The Times of India reports 24-year-old Dixit, CEO of an Indian tech firm, was traveling to Egypt for a software developers' conference earlier this month when he read about Bir Tawil. The 800-square-mile Bir Tawil is located between Egypt and Sudan but has been claimed by neither country and is uninhabited.

As the Telegraph puts it, Bir Tawil is "the only place on Earth where humans can live and survive that is not part of any state or country." Dixit decided to do something about that. In a Facebook post, he says he drove six hours and braved the Egyptian military, which has "'shoot at sight' orders" due to terrorists in the area, to establish his new kingdom.

https://1140wrva.iheart.com/content/2017-11-14-no-joke-i-own-a-country-now/



“I am the king! This is no joke, I own a country now! Time to write an email to UN.”

King Dixit is not the first person to claim the land. In 2014 an American father travelled to the desert land with the aim of making his daughter a princess of the Kingdom of North Sudan’

However, under international law, only a state can assert sovereignty over territory, law expert Anthony Arend previously told the Washington Post.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/14/explorer-declares-king-unclaimed-no-mans-land/

[n2doc]

1. Let him claim it

But he has to live there full time in order to do so, and fight off the other denizens of the area. He wouldn't last a month.

[AJT]

2. I take it that Bir Tawil is the most prosperous, advanced place on earth

since there is no government.

[dembotoz]

3. put in an air strip, pretty close to mecca, right on the water...if nobody kills you...

perhaps not the next cancun but trump has ruskie money....build the new trump tower where he can live in exile.

might not be the stupidest thing i will read today

all it takes is cash and some luck...perhaps lots to luck...

[Codeine]

4. Im surprised nobody has asked him the most pressing question;