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In a bit of synchronicity, my step son bought me a nice father's day present, a lordship of Sealand, so I am now Lord Darren Jones - although I'm not sure how far I can abuse this title... The document looks highly official though!

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I was looking at those "buy one square foot of Scotland so you can be a lord" scams when I stumbled across the Sealand lordships, then immediately bought one for a friend.

Given the options of a fake title in a real country or a real title in an iffy country, the choice was clear.

I bought a ranch on Mercury about 30 years ago!

The seller was the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and I was glad to support their educational program by purchasing my ranch.

https://astrosociety.org/

I got a nice glossy photo of my ranch and a quitclaim deed. I wish I still had them - they seem to have been lost in a move long ago.

Maybe some squatters will move in now, but honestly they are welcome to it. My ranch is on the hot side of the planet, and I don't really like warm weather.

If the squatters send me some photos I will consider that adequate compensation.

There's a good writeup in this book:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/GllWkewypw4C?hl=en&gb...

(Scroll up one page to see one of the quitclaim deeds.)

Greetings fellow Lord of Sealand. I recently received my certificate also. It's a nice touch that the certificate is mailed using a postage stamp created by Sealand itself!

Next step ordained church of the subgenius minister!

Or the 'Universal Life Church,' you just need to fill out a form on their page to get your diploma. You'll be an ordained minister with great powers; sign up today. 10/10 would next -> next -> next again. It's really that easy.

Wow, I never thought I'd see you here of all places but it makes sense. Fellow catholic minister from the ULC living in Canada.

Recently celebrated my sixth year: https://i.imgur.com/QkKV0Kc.jpg

Definitely worth it.

Interesting but I got eternal salvation or double my money back plus more hedonism with the subgenius’.

You can skip all that and just become a P.O.E.E Pope, just print out the card, easy.

Which reminds me of the guy who created The Kingdom of North Sudan as a birthday present for his daughter. Which I was going to link to the story of, but along the way found this more interesting write-up[1] about the disputed region that became the Kingdom.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the...

If you fly on British Airways, their passenger identity page has a menu that includes titles: Lord, Lady, Dame, etc. Of course, you must use this power for good ...

I (jokinglyl selected Sir for a ferry crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo. Months later, forgetting all about it, my family and I are welcomed aboard by the second in command. He looked puzzled. I realized the reason for the welcome a few days later.

Years ago I chuckled to myself when I selected Admiral from a dropdown when buying tickets for a gig.

Tickets arrived fine, went to gig, etc.

But the events company must have sold my data in a big way, because for years later my parents continued to get all sorts of junk mail to the admiral of the house.

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