Principality of New Utopia
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| Principality of New Utopia |
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| Official languages | English | |
| Government | Constitutional Monarchy | |
| • | Founder | Lazarus I (Howard Turney) |
| Declared nation | ||
| • | Declaration of Sovereignty | 13 April 1999 |
The Principality of New Utopia is a self-declared state that was founded on 13 April 1999 by Lazarus Long, a.k.a. Howard Turney (1931-2012), or Prince Lazarus I. The principality claims sovereignty over the Misteriosa Bank, an undersea rise of land in the Caribbean Sea off the Cayman Islands, some 115 miles (185 km) from Georgetown, which Long had planned to raise above the sea level through the placement of concrete pilings, on which a city-state would be constructed.
Resources
- The Principality of New Utopia, new-utopia.com, https://web.archive.org/web/20220201184128/https://www.new-utopia.com/
Reading
- Tillman, Robert (2002), "New Utopia", Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry, Boston: Northeastern University Press, p. 118-119, https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m040cw298?datastream_id=content
Press Coverage
- Hulse, Tim (6 June 1998), "The Man Who Would Be Prince", Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, BC): D1, D2, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/496063532
- Fineman, Mark (2 Mar. 2001), "One Man's Utopia Is Sometimes an Enforcement Official's Fraud", Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA): A5, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/188013650/, "GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands— Lazarus Long calls it the Principality of New Utopia, a tax-free, trouble-free, enlightened and libertarian land that will rise out of the Caribbean on concrete pilings about 115 miles west of here."