This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 26, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Ok, name that country: It's planted opposite Europe, sitting proudly on the other side of the North Sea. It's a monarchy that features its own currency, postage stamps, constitution, national anthem, love of tea, and a pair of handsome princes, born two years apart. We speak of… Sealand. A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of… one. It has a land mass the size of…. roughly two tennis courts. Its leading export might be… the national mythology, a history of piracy, coups, countercoups, rogues, and off-shore Internet schemes. It may make tiny Lichtenstein look like China by comparison. But as we first told you in 2023, by rights, Sealand is a sovereign nation. Join us, as we compile some notes from a truly small island.Prince Michael: We can see Sealand over there, by the way, now. You see that?Jon Wertheim: Oh, there she is. Prince Michael: Yeah, yeah. On the starboard bow.Behold, the world's smallest state… It's a micronation in the extreme, a principality which sits—or stands—only seven miles off the coast of England… Its self-described reigning monarch is this guy, Prince Michael Bates.