Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place.
It will be something different every week, but it will always be about something worth seeing, hearing or watching, or a place worth visiting or a food worth tasting.
This week, an intriguing read by Maggie Downs at BBC Travel about “The Republic of Slowjamastan, the world’s youngest micronation”.
“As a child, I liked to do creative things, whether creative writing or drawing or making pictures or class projects. So this seemed like the ultimate one,” the Sultan told me during a tour of the consulate (his office at the radio station), where he keeps a collection of propaganda from actual dictatorships around the world. “I could funnel all my creative energy into it.”
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